The dissociation constant of pure water at RT is 1x10^-14. This is many magnitudes more than just one per avogadros number. The “trick” is that any given molecule of water basically has that 1x10^-14 chance of being split or otherwise whole at any given time.

Honestly, even then. 45 was always unhinged but 47 has really lowered the bar more than was ever thought possible.

Unfortunately, I can. 30% of Americans are actively antiscience/reality and they for sure enforce it on their kids. Another 40% honestly don’t give a fuck and again show that apathy to their kids. Leaves 30% who care but doesn’t exclude those who are limited by socioeconomics.

You talk to people and realize their parents never drove them out of the light pollution late at night to see a meteor shower or comet pass by never showed them any of the constellations, etc. Applies to all science really but astronomy is often put on the wayside even more than others because a lot of people really aren’t curious about space anymore. We’ve seen this with NASA funding since the end of the Apollo missions.

Thatchers, Kissingers, Limbaugh, Reagan, Indira Ghandhi, Churchill, pol pot, etc.

For a real challenge try Kim Sung il, or Jong il.

The irony is that these conservatives often can’t afford large families without welfare, the exact things Republicans are cutting. Those give a lot more than onetime 5k payments.

Technically speaking they still are because everyone is a relative.

Also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation

I mean anything more than like 60K is still technically making money. If they’re in a place where Childcare costs 40k it is likely they make at least 80k due to the high cost of living or they have more than one child. The poorer people in that area have to use family, friends, and less official care. Federally, parents only get 12wk of unpaid leave.

Yep, quite a lot too. Once baby is out they start getting separate billing too. No, you aren’t reading that wrong. Since we don’t have single payer healthcare the doctors, nurses, drugs, etc are all to be paid for by the patient. Therefore health insurance but insurance wants to make money which means they don’t want to pay so unless you give them more money they have a pretty high limit before they cover things.

This is after improvements by Obama but he compromised too much so not nearly enough has gotten better.

There are laws about it for military stuff, they actually can just be legally nationalized if a CEO is being a traitor. I’m not sure about the timeline for that to be done but trying to do it at all would have been better than continuing with no consequences.

There are limited alternatives to starlink in war zones with infrastructure at risk like Ukraine, not to mention the government contracts that were signed to pay and use them mean switching isn’t the easiest.

1. Shipping probably already started.

2. B2B deals will have fine print about when units will arrive and be “released”.

That’s been true since slow-walking advanced equipment and allowing Musk to remain free and not nationalizing Starlink after he fucked parts of the counteroffensive.

The secrets out

Even in baobab forest pictures they seem far enough apart for sunlight not to be an issue. I’d hazard either an environmental or animal caused adaptation (but I can’t seem to find anything about why).

I’d also say for forests in general “crown shyness” means if they get similar enough height they usually avoid one another rather than compete.

Looking at a couple publications from the lab funding appears to be from a couple different foundations but nothing commercial. Pharma barely puts anything into basic R+D unless they’re a startup. Established pharma R+D is largely clinical trials and/or process development. If her work is patented by the university then pharma may pay the university to use her work. University would then give a smaller kickback to the lab/scientists.

NCI (national cancer institute-part of NIH) was the largest cancer research funder in the US, about 7B worth and even then less than 10% of proposed projects were being funded. The ACS (American cancer society) funds about 100M.

Bad blood won’t get solved by doing nothing either. People need a common goal. Fighting against billionaires is one billions of people can get behind regardless of other demographics. It doesn’t solve the bad blood and it doesn’t erase identities it simply reminds us we can be allies against the larger issue first.

It is a catch-22 to solve the bad blood you mention before going after the billionaires because the billionaires will continue causing more bad blood and more division in the meantime. As showcased by Trump, decades of building torn down in 3mo. Doesn’t matter that he decreased taxes for the rich or openly manipulates the market for himself and other rich bastards he’s convinced 1/3 of America that its all worth it to hurt sexual and/or racial minorities. By the time you fix one divide he’s created another 5.

This is a relatively gentle “find out” from them too. If they decide to actually be mean we are super boned and 2/3 of the country will deserve it either for voting for it or for not voting against it. It’s only fucking April and we have to make it to January for the next congressional session…

If we don’t take these nazis out by the roots they’ll have all 9 soon enough. The liberal justices aren’t that young and the conservatives keep on doing whatever they feel in the moment logic be damned. Sure they’re against this right now but they also gave him sweeping immunity. I don’t trust any of the conservatives to stand against the emperor they’ve created for any real length of time.

So many different things need to happen for the country to get somewhere half decent much less actually good. The modern Republicans and “moderate” democrats are symptomatic of much greater issues.

Not works with the government, is regulated by said part of the government. It’s a pretty common sense regulation because of the conflict of interest when you could be both overseeing a company and working for it. Same reason presidents before the orange turd have historically placed their assets in a blind trust.

That’s where the constitutional crisis comes in because they aren’t listening to court orders. The ones who’d enforce a court order are the ones defying it. “Who watches the watchers?”

In the 5y since the pandemic started no proof of a lab leak has turned up. The existence of these covid viruses was already known in the nearby bat population and even zoonosed to humans a few times.

This is entirely contrary to your false claims that scientists couldn’t find a link between animals and covid. So yes, it is the point. Lableak was a theory at the start one I even hypothesized myself. However, the data has consistently shown otherwise so unless new data gives the hypothesis any credence it is only political propaganda to give any credibility to the leak theory.