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Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse.
  • Even though those show up on their website, none of the 4K models are available on Amazon/Walmart or at best have very limited/erratic stock. I only see the 75” one in stock, and only on Walmart. Furthermore, they are just simply worse quality than a comparably priced smart TV. For the same price as their 55” 4K HDR TV you can get a TCL that’s also QLED and has local dimming, plus HDMI 2.1 and google TV do you can put it in a dumb mode anyways. So really there isn’t a great reason to get one of these.

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    Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse.
  • I have a google tv, and the “Basic Mode” when you set it up or the “Apps only mode” both are a lot better than the overstimulation nightmare that is most smart TVs (and a google TV with normal settings)

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    Companies describe studies to revise Mars Sample Return
  • I did some research and couldn’t find any evidence that it does. That could be a capability that the Space Force doesn’t want to be public though

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    Companies describe studies to revise Mars Sample Return
  • It looks like NASA has flown payloads onboard the X-37B before, so I think it is well within possibility that they could get some room on board for Mars samples during a return. They might not even need to "book" a whole flight as long as the mission has room/capacity for the samples aboard, and the sample container could probably hang out in a medium orbit for a while after getting back to Earth, awaiting an X-37B mission to come up at its own leisure since the orbiter could do all of the rendezvous maneuvering on its own

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    Companies describe studies to revise Mars Sample Return
  • Good point, actually the X-37B would make a lot of sense: it’s uncrewed, can obviously be up for a long period of time (years), and can go to pretty high orbits as well on a Falcon Heavy, plus it has an arm right? So it’d just be a question of getting the USSF on board

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    Companies describe studies to revise Mars Sample Return
  • If they’re going to “transfer to a space plane”, that to me sounds like a LEO rendezvous, so at that point why not just rendezvous with a crew/cargo dragon instead of designing a brand new spaceplane?

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    Kamala Harris to appear with running mate at rally in Philadelphia on Tuesday
  • What exactly is the bar a vice president needs to meet to be considered not a “nobody” for you? I feel like being a governor of an entire state or a senator is a pretty notable thing, especially if you’re a popular one there

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    Kamala Harris to appear with running mate at rally in Philadelphia on Tuesday
  • AZ senator, former astronaut and navy aviator, husband of Gabby Giffords (a congresswoman who survived an assassination attempt). He is coming up a lot in speculation about Harris’ running mate and was one of the people contacted by her campaign.

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    Kamala Harris to appear with running mate at rally in Philadelphia on Tuesday
  • If Mark Kelly was to become VP the governor of Arizona (a Democrat) would be able to replace him with someone else for the rest of his senate term

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    Biden unveils plan for Supreme Court changes, says US stands at “breach” as public confidence sinks
  • Meh. I think packing the court is a short term fix (if even possible with a republican house), and would set a new precedent. Then it’d become a competition to keep adding ${party_in_white_house} Supreme Court justices every time we have a new president.

    Actually amending the constitution would probably be the best move (not that it’ll ever happen) as they could permanently reign in the Supreme Court and help de-politicize it again.

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  • A picture of a frog floating due to diamagnetism. A red label says “NO RESISTANCE” and points to the frog’s brain. Another label says “LEVITATION” and points under the frog. At the bottom it reads “THIS IS A SUPERCONDUCTOR”.

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