• Bromeliadventures@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    What’s really frustrating about Liz Truss is she is too stupid to understand how stupid she is. If she could wrap her head around that, she might just shut up and we’d never have to hear from her again.

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      let’s see you become britain’s second female prime minister.

      EDIT : OK, I guess

      1. The joke that she was already britain’s nth female prime minister didn’t go well
      2. Theresa May was britain’s second female prime minister, truss was the third
      3. to be clear, she achieved nothing and to hell with her.
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          the joke is "oh, you think you’re so much better than her? Let’s see you achieve the only achievement she has (becoming the third female british prime minister) when you can’t become the third of anything AGAIN.

          I guess it all got fumbled and was shit to begin with.

          • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
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            Probably US Defaultism didn’t help. heh. I watch panelshows so I know a little more news than the average, but it still whooshed me.

            I think it wasn’t so much poorly done as just didn’t land quite well AND once anything gets a downvote or two, it snowballs. heh.

            Thank you for explaining. I may not be falling down laughing, but I am quite amused. <3

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        My favourite joke was to refer to her as “Conservative party backbencher, Liz Truss” but after looking her up on Wikipedia, I see that she has since lost her seat, so even that doesn’t work.

  • Ann Archy@lemmy.world
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    Yeah living conditions on Earth would be so vile that we’d go to Mars and leave her behind.

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      Or send her to Mars, and leave her to figure out how to get herself back.

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          If you read the book that’s actually the reason why they put them in medical comas. They feared they’d get cabin fever and kill each other on the trip.

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            Fuckin A. That makes sense.

            I initially planned on reading it but I had already started The Captives War and I wasn’t about to stop.

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    Well, if the tories - and Truss particularly - had remained in power until then, I can imagine that a lot of people would be taking extreme measure to get away, so I can see her point.

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      They’d be sent up as indentured servants, as that would be many people’s only way of survival in perma-austerity. Those who got close to putting away enough company-store credits for the voyage back would find their oxygen bills algorithmically surge-priced upwards.

  • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
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    The PMs after David Cameron are only in it for the power to feed their own ego and not about governing, especially the Tory PMs. Kier Starmer was not a great Labour PM but he’s less egotistical than his Tory counterparts. Andy Burnham appears to be more down to earth but only time will tell.

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      surprisingly hard thing to do ,

      it turns out, aiming for the Sun without the rocket ultimately orbiting it is not easy at all

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          good point, but still :

          Parker will fly more than seven times closer to the Sun than any spacecraft. Over seven years, the spacecraft will complete 24 orbits around the Sun. At its closest approach, the spacecraft will come within about 3.9 million miles (6.2 million kilometers) of the Sun.

          so it still orbits it, and won’t get closer than 6 MILLION km

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        We choose these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

        The shooting Liz Truss to the sun initiative may be the only way for her to make a contribution to science.

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          That’s not what I meant, but it would be good enough, and cheaper than a shot at ol’ Sol.

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        We know, and yet that is the choice regardless.

        It suggests an as yet unseen level of dedication to ridding the universe of such a deeply offensive, absolute fucking cretin.

        As a wonderful side project, we can see just how many despicable bodies we can physically cram into probably a SpaceX capsule, like a Tokyo subway train carriage. Musk, Trump, Vance, Putin, Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir, Farage, and Milei can start the proceedings. I’m sure we can collectively suggest more.

    • heartSagan5@lemmy.zip
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      Usually, terraforming includes belching greenhouse gases to melt polar ice caps. Arrival with Charlie Sheen plays on this.

      We currently are with fossil fuels.

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          In the cold and thin atmosphere of mars, greenhouse gases would make it more habitable, on earth reducing them and reversing their effects would be the goal of terra forming.

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            And on Venus, its atmosphere full of greenhouse gases renders it uninhabitable.

            It’s all about the sweet spot.

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              Except Venus is also a whole orbit closer to the Sun. If Venus had Mars’s levels, it still might be a hellscape.

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        After terraforming Earth, we should begin the process of terraforming Mars by nuking the fuck out of its core to restore its magnetosphere. Doing this properly will take us thousands of years.

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          If we were sincere about terraforming Mars, we should push Deimos into Pheobes and maybe another asteroid to start a singular satellite. This’ll give it some tidal stress and start massaging it. Maybe nuking is an idea to explore in theory?