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A naked eye comet for Christmas 2021? #CometLeonard via @TheSkyLive
Between January 2014 and January 2100, the closest approach of Comet Leonard (C/2021 A1) to Earth happens on Mon Dec 13 2021 at a distance of 0.233947 Astronomical Units, or 34,997,915 kilometers: https://theskylive.com/cometleonard-info Via: The Sky Live
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![Cheney told Fox… “The president…could launch a kind of devastating attack the world’s never seen. He doesn’t have to check with anybody. He doesn’t have to call the Congress [or] check with the courts. He has that authority because of the nature of the world we live in.” @Slate in 2011](https://alecmuffett.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Screenshot-2021-01-09-at-11.37.58.png)
Cheney told Fox… “The president…could launch a kind of devastating attack the world’s never seen. He doesn’t have to check with anybody. He doesn’t have to call the Congress [or] check with the courts. He has that authority because of the nature of the world we live in.” @Slate in 2011
Good read: https://slate.com/human-interest/2011/02/nuclear-weapons-how-cold-war-major-harold-hering-asked-a-forbidden-question-that-cost-him-his-career.html
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If you’re new to #FreedomOfSpeech debates, here is the classical, non-extremist, non-glib #FreeSpeech way to resolve the #Trump vs: #Twitter issue…
This is off-the-cuff, so might be a bit flaky, however people have asked: It is generally wrong for the government to censor general forms of speech purely upon the grounds of the speech occurring, or its form, or its content; this goes double if and when they ignore context such as “artistic expression” It is…
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Making Coffee in a Moka Pot
I just wrote this on Reddit, and it’s basically an instant blogpost: […] I have a lot of success with a Pezzetti “6 cup” moka pot (which takes about 30g of coffee and produces about 220ml) and a Alessi 3-cup which produces about half that. Occasionally I have something go wrong like you describe, but…
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Over Christmas I finally got to see #Ratatouille in its entirety, and it instantly became my Pixar favourite*; the best part being that the Journalist, at the end, writes the story that is *right*, and not the story that is *easy*
*and not only because I used to work in the same building as Jan Pinkava in Aberystwyth. Well told, Jan, even if it was complicated.