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NFL华盛顿指挥官队前老板丹·斯奈德，花4800万美元在马里兰州买下一座紧挨着波托马克河的豪华庄园，唯一让他看着不顺眼的，是庄园与河岸之间隔着一片受联邦法律保护的国家公园原始林地，挡住了他在阳台上看河的视线。
2004年斯奈德动用人脉绕过环保听证，直接雇了一支伐木队开进国家公园领地，操起电锯一口气砍光了130棵百年原生大树，给自家后院清出了一片无遮挡的河景视野。
国家公园首席巡逻员罗伯特·丹诺发现整片山坡被砍秃后依法上报追查，没想到斯奈德靠着高层关系，最后只交了一笔微不足道的小额罚款就轻松过关了；
反倒是坚持追查到底的巡逻员丹诺遭到了内部疯狂报复，不仅被无故收缴警徽和配枪，还被发配去管郊区小卖部，甚至连家里都被联邦法警持枪破门搜查。
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Am I correct in thinking the two-month lag between election and assuming office is because 250 years ago it took a couple months to get to DC on a horse? If so, maybe time to retire that nonsense?
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BREAKING: Leaked audio captures a call between Vivek and his campaign staff discussing the election results
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Welcome to the "Redneck Waterpark" where the only 2 rules are don't sue him & don't land on the boards.
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Most launchpads give you a name and a ticker.
Synthra Launch V2 gives you the controls.
→ Creator fee: 2% to 5%, split your way between you, buyback & burn and holder rewards
→ Buyback & burn: up to 100% of it. Steady, or BOMB: let the pot build, then one big buy
→ Holder rewards: paid on every trade in the pair asset, or in your token
→ Pairs: USDC · EURC · cirBTC · WETH · POLL · XAUM
→ Ticker lock: your symbol can't be launched again
→ Free to launch. Dev buy in the same tx, capped at 5%: the first block isn't the bots'
At graduation the LP is locked forever, and 30% of the pool fees keep feeding your buyback, your holders and you.
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Here are some quotes from Ben Rich, formally CEO of Lockhead Martin Skunkworks, about the tech that's so obviously being hidden from us at this point.
1. “The Air Force has just given us a contract to take ET back home” (source: 1993 WPAFB slide presentation)
2. “We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects and it would take an act of GOD to ever get them out to benefit humanity” (source: statement made after UCLA presentation to three Disclosure Project witnesses)
3. “Jim, we have things out in the desert that are fifty (50) years beyond what you could possibly comprehend. If you have seen it on Star Wars or Star Trek, we’ve been there done that, or decided it was not worth the effort” (Source: direct comments by Ben Rich to Jim Goodall via telephone call at the USC medical center approximately one week before Ben passed away on January 5th 1995)
4. “We have some new things. We are not stagnating. What we are doing is updating ourselves, without advertising. There are some new programs, and there are certain things-some of them 20 or 30 years old-that are still break-throughs and appropriate to keep quiet about. Other people don’t have them yet. (source: statement made by Ben Rich to Stuart F. Brown in an interview published in Popular Science October 1994)
5. “I wish I could tell you about the projects we are currently working on. They are both fascinating and fantastic. They call for technologies once only dreamed of by science fiction writers”. (source: AIAA lecture Atlanta, Ga. September 7-9 1988)
Credit - blit_blit99 on reddit.
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We’ve always assumed we were the first advanced civilisation on Earth.
But proving that is harder than you might think.
In 2018, two scientists, Gavin Schmidt and Adam Frank, published a paper called “The Silurian Hypothesis: Would it be possible to detect an industrial civilization in the geological record?”
They were exploring how we might find intelligent life on other worlds.
But that raised a disturbing question about our own.
If an industrial civilisation existed here millions of years before us… would we even know?
Their answer? We’d be very unlikely to find anything.
Cities. Machines. The remains of their world.
Over millions of years, erosion, burial and the recycling of Earth’s crust could erase those recognisable signs.
What might survive is something much harder to interpret: Unusual chemicals in the rocks. A sudden shift in carbon. Traces of a planet being transformed.
But natural catastrophes can leave similar fingerprints.
Now they weren’t saying an earlier civilisation existed.
They were asking whether we could recognise one if it had.
Because before we search other planets for vanished civilisations…
How certain are we that we’d spot one on our own?
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5 years into the Congolese war, and the UN Group of Experts has never published a single thing about Western mercenaries killing Congolese civilians with their drones.
That's all you need to know regarding the credibility of their reports.
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Every billionaire "started in a garage" story conveniently leaves out the parental loans, elite university connections, and safety nets. Bezos got $300k from his parents. Gates' mom was on IBM's board. Musk's family owned an emerald mine. The garage is aesthetics. The capital is inherited. Stop calling it self-made when it's generationally funded.
