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Higher ed comms and advancement. Misplaced Southerner surviving the Midwest. Fads they come, and fads they go, and God, I love that rock and roll. Thoughts my own.

  1. The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed.

    Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.

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  2. [noise from pocket]: "I have more of a comment than a question"

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  3. I wont live to to see us visit them, but the very nearest star system has planets, some in the "habitable zone".

    We're going to watch, and wonder, and scheme. However many centuries, "there they are" will be irresistible.

    www.scientificamerican.com/article/jwst...

    In some of its most ambitious work yet, the James Webb Space Telescope looked to spot a planet in a potentially habitable orbit around Alpha Centauri A, the nearest sunlike star to our solar system

    Astronomers Are Enthralled by This Potential Planet around Alpha Centauri

    In some of its most ambitious work yet, the James Webb Space Telescope looked to spot a planet in a potentially habitable orbit around Alpha Centauri A, the nearest sunlike star to our solar system

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