Payton Alexander
@AlexanderPayton
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Space lawyer. Trying to make the future happen. @corbinmadisonr 🤵♂️🤵♂️ @Harvard_Law ‘21 @EdinburghUni ‘14. Personal account, views expressed are my own.
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When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, The moon and the stars, which you have set in place, What is man that you are mindful of him, And the son of man that you care for him?
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No, it isn’t. Gorsuch is raising that possibility as a reductio ad absurdum. He’s saying the argument being made here has no limiting principle, and could be used to ban therapy affirming homosexuality, the implication being that this goes too far. Basic reading comprehension.
The Supreme Court appears ready to side with Trump in bringing back “gay conversion therapy.” This practice involves physically abusing teenagers to try to turn them heterosexual, including with electric shocks and chemically-induced nausea.
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Dispersing a violent riot with nonlethal crowd suppression rounds is a very reasonable and humane response.
The video of this incident is just as bad as it sounds. The priest is standing there, not doing anything remotely illegal, and without warning a masked DHS agent on the roof shoots him in the top of his head with a pepper ball.
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Spanberger’s running mate openly fantasizes about shooting Republicans and murdering their children, and you’re mad at voters for noticing.
And this is the quintessential issue with Winsome Sears’s campaign: Sears continues to pump out these outrage baiting ads that try to link Abigail Spanberger to these violent acts that don’t link. And then offers no alternative to what she will do to help Virginians. Because
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For the millionth time, AI doesn’t “consume” water the way you consume gas or electricity. Cold water goes into datacenters and warm water goes out, right back where it came from. It’s just changing the temperature of the water.
Generative AI is the problem. You didn’t see data centers sucking up all the water in the Hudson River for fucking Siri and Cortana. That’s the difference.
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The Newberry volcano in Central Oregon remains a geothermal research hotbed (no pun intended). Mazama Energy is drilling two miles into the volcano to build a closed-loop "Superhot Rock" enhanced geothermal facility. The pilot project is succeeding! https://t.co/jXcV8X78ng
While FORGE was ultimately sited in Utah, one of the five proposed locations was the Newberry Volcano in Central Oregon through a partnership between the PNNL, AltaEnergy, and Oregon State University. Maybe a second FORGE could be established? https://t.co/jwUvCPmIUi
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This is an active celebration of the rape, murder, and maiming of Jews on the two year anniversary of October 7. It is morally equal to a Nazi march considering that the anniversary they’re commemorating in this way was the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. If anyone
And the Within Our Lifetime protest is on the move — we’ll see whether any splinter groups break off from here to stage so-called “autonomous actions.” "Resistance is justified, when people are occupied."
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Your running mate said he wants to shoot political opponents in the head, and also kill their children. And you have decided to remain running mates with that person.
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One of the ladies who approved these grants told me the Mars airplane project I was on "was overly white." It was one of 4 finalists, but wasn't selected and got defunded for more global warming satellites. Why I left science and entered politics.
For the record, I am against NASA cuts *in general* but it is impossible to ignore how completely deranged and ideologically captured NASA became in the past 5 years with race quota grants & race/gender obsessed comms (rather than science). It is no surprise it has to take its
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The water goes right back into the lake. It’s a loop. It’s literally used for cooling.
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Gerard O’Neill expressed succinctly the motivations of space colonists, which if anything are more relevant to us today than they were in his lifetime: ��When we look back in history to the earlier waves of colonisation that have occurred, the thing that’s impressive about them
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From lawyers to business professionals, nilGPT offers a solution for everyone.
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My views on gun control are based on empirical evidence and my policy goals. My views would be completely unchanged if someone I knew was the victim of violent crime, because my views are aimed at reducing violent crime.
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The reason Virginia Democrats haven’t called on him to drop out is that they view his comments as in some way normal or understandable. It’s how a lot of people in their orbit speak privately. They don’t understand how conservatives think, so they imagine they must just be
Good morning to everyone except the guy who still hasn't dropped out after wishing death upon children over politics.
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This is why I’m so bullish on the future prospects of even a small independent city-state on Mars. The fact that this tiny archipelago of 55,000 people is able to build networks of undersea tunnels connecting their islands, publish hundreds of books a year, and build a world
Read a few interesting posts on the Faroe Islands recently. My trip report from a very brief visit a few months ago. -- The landscape is improbably three-dimensional and rough-hewn: rugged, jutted, serrated, cragged. In being fully denuded – the peaty soil, the Atlantic winds,
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The Kapshitter family were heading home from 5 yo Ethan’s birthday camping trip when they were intercepted by Hamas and forced out of their car. Hamas executed Ethan first, making sure the parents witnessed their son’s murder. Parents Dina and Evgeny were executed next to
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"I kissed Shiri, Kfir and Ariel. If I knew it was the last time, I would have kissed them again. Kissed more" Yarden Bibas writes : If life is a race, Shiri and the children were my finish line. They were my victory in the world. They were the fulfillment of my dream, to be a
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I actually can’t handle the amount of aura this photo of Chicago is putting out
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Your AG said he wants to kill us. I couldn’t possibly care about anything else.
Under the Trump-@winwithwinsome economy, Virginia has suffered — we even lost our rank as CNBC’s “Top State for Business.” I’m prepared to invest in and grow our economy. As Governor, I’ll work to lower costs, create jobs, and reclaim our #1 spot.
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Hanoi Jane has spent literally her entire career defending authoritarian regimes.
Jane Fonda on the Trump regime: “Authoritarians take about 18-22 months to consolidate power. This administration is moving fast which means we have to move fast. We have to do everything we can to stop what’s happening before it becomes the norm”
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This is a great example of what I’m talking about. What do you mean “dehumanizing” or “calling them illegal?” You really mean you would be totally fine with mass deportations as long as we didn’t use mean words? Be serious. This is a completely disingenuous response.
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If you go to a vaguely German themed bar, that counts as kind of hitting Oktoberfest, right? W/ @AlexanderPayton and @corbinmadisonr
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