"A 6.4 magnitude earthquake jolted southern Puerto Rico on Tuesday morning, killing at least one man, damaging homes and businesses and cutting power to swaths of the island a day after a 5.8 magnitude quake shook the US territory, officials said." Apparently the quake yesterday was a pre-shock.
"NASA's planet-hunting mission TESS has found its first potentially habitable exoplanet the size of Earth orbiting a star about 100 light-years from Earth, according to the agency." One-hundred light-years is still out of reach.
"Astronomers have traced the signal of an enigmatic repeating fast radio burst for only the second time -- and it's in a spiral galaxy similar to our own, not so far away." And it's only :: checks notes :: half a billion light-years away.
"The American College of Physicians (ACP) has updated its guidelines on testosterone treatments for men, stating supplements can help men with sexual problems, but appear to do little for problems like low energy." You mean it's only a marketing scheme that attempts to exploit men's feelings of inadequacy and natural aging to take their money in exchange for pills which aren't regulated, may or may not have testosterone that could be processed and used by our bodies, and it won't increase the size of our penises? Shocked, shocked I am…
The Dyatlov Pass mystery. Ten Soviet students go for a pre-finals skiing trip to Mount Ortorten in 1959. Only one made it out alive, because he left early because of sciatica pain. (Grokked from Kelly Link)
"Amazon’s famous speed and technological innovation have driven the company’s massive global expansion and a valuation well over $800 billion. It’s also helped make Amazon the nation’s second-largest private employer behind Walmart, and its CEO, Jeff Bezos, one of the richest humans on Earth. Now an investigation by Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting has found that the company’s obsession with speed has turned its warehouses into injury mills." As Sallah said in the Raiders of the Lost Ark, "They hire only strong backs and they pay pennies for them. It's as if the pharaohs have returned." (Grokked from Chuck Wendig)
How's that "more guns make us safer" thing going on? "A manhunt is underway for a Milwaukee driver who allegedly shot two children after they threw snowballs at passing vehicles on Saturday." Apparently more guns do not make us a more polite society either.
"Mexicans seeking asylum in the United States could be sent to Guatemala under a bilateral agreement signed by the Central American nation last year, according to documents sent to U.S. asylum officers in recent days and seen by Reuters." I'm not an international law lawyer, but I'll bet the UN has something to say about that.
"A senior employee at a for-profit immigrant detention center in Nevada was active on the neo-Nazi site Iron March and aspired to establish a white nationalist chapter in his area… Travis Frey, 31, is currently employed as a captain at the Nevada Southern Detention Center, which is run by private prison behemoth CoreCivic and contracted with ICE." (Grokked from Steven Brust)
"The United States has no plans to pull its troops out of Iraq, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Monday, following reports by Reuters and other media of an American military letter informing Iraqi officials about repositioning troops in preparation for leaving the country." Oopsie.
"Former national security adviser John Bolton in a surprise announcement said Monday he'd be willing to testify in the Senate's impeachment trial of President Trump — if the Senate subpoenas him." That's a good thing to say, which you're pretty sure it won't happen.
Meanwhile, on Bullshit Mountain… "Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., insisted Sunday that if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi does not deliver articles of impeachment against President Trump to the Senate by the end of the week, the Senate should 'take matters in our own hands.'" Yeah, it doesn't work like that. "'We’ll use the Clinton model, where you take the record established in the House, let the House managers appointed by Pelosi make the argument, let the president make his argument why the two articles are flawed, and then we’ll decide whether we want witnesses. But this should be done in a couple of weeks,' he said." That first part, where you take the House record, and have the House managers argue the case, just how the fuck do you expect that to happen is Speaker Pelosi doesn't transmit the record and has not appointed managers? Or is this just an attempt to throw out the case because the House isn't there? (Yes, that's actually their plan) And then WTF do you do when Speaker Pelosi does hand over the House impeachment?
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