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S2 #640

When I was a teen my preference was delayed gratification for greater future reward.
Bitter life-long experience has taught me: get what you can first.

The headline says "They bought cabins". Did they get a deed? Or some other legal documentation of ownership?

This one's complicated because of international law.
This one's a stink-bomb.

"Cambodia"
Some people get the cam.
Other people get the shaft?

 

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Alabama ‘teacher of the month’ charged with child abuse after pouring hot sauce on student’s tongue as punishment for sticking it out​

An award-winning Alabama special needs teacher has been arrested and charged with child abuse after she allegedly poured hot sauce onto the tongue of a student. The act was meant as a form of punishment for the student for sticking their tongue out.

 

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FTC probes whether major US companies charge customers different prices using personal data​

Federal regulators ordered nine companies to reveal whether they use consumer data to charge different prices​

By Michael Sinkewicz FOXBusiness

FTC probes whether major US companies charge customers different prices using personal data

The FTC ordered nine major companies including Delta, Uber and Walmart to reveal whether they use personal data for surveillance pricing tactics.

www.foxbusiness.com

 

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NASA’s Simulated Mars Crew Marks One Year Inside Habitat​

Oct 19, 2026
The four crew members in NASA’s simulated Mars mission have spent the past year living and working in isolation in a confined habitat at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. For the past 365 days, the Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA) Mission 2 crew members have operated as though they were on the Red Planet, growing crops, managing limited resources, navigating communication delays, and conducting suited extravehicular activities on a simulated Martian surface.
Crew members include Ross Elder, mission commander; Ellen Ellis, medical officer; Matthew Montgomery, science officer; and James Spicer, flight engineer. They entered their 1,700 square foot 3D-printed habitat Oct. 19, 2025. Leading up to the one-year mark of their 378‑day mission, science teams at NASA prepared to process health and performance data collected on the crew. This critical data can help NASA balance priorities and develop methods that counter spaceflight risks during future long-duration missions on Mars.
“We are extremely proud of the crew for their commitment and achievements over the last year on such a fast-paced, highly demanding mission,” said Grace Douglas, CHAPEA principal investigator. “The entire CHAPEA team is excited to congratulate the crew in person.”
The crew will exit their habitat on Saturday, Oct. 31, to conclude their mission. They will have a chance to reconnect with their families, who they’ve only spoken with via email over the course of their mission with a Mars-like communication delay. The crew will then begin two weeks of post-mission evaluations and debriefs with NASA scientists.

NASA’s Simulated Mars Crew Marks One Year Inside Habitat - NASA

The four crew members in NASA’s simulated Mars mission have spent the past year living and working in isolation in a confined habitat at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

www.nasa.gov

Sending humans to Mars is a bad idea.

 

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"Christianity - Bullying people for 2000 years" #645

Some laymen may not understand as a matter of settled law via stare decisis / court precedent "freedom of the press" isn't
about a right to read newspapers, but a right to print them. Further,
it is therefore axiomatic that "Freedom of the press" applies to anyone that owns a printing press.

The intended purpose of CitizenVoice.us is as a forum for persons of good conscience to share their views, challenge assertions, impart constructive synergy to socio-political discourse.
That is not intended as an invitation to libel an enormous segment of Earth's population.

"The remedy for bad speech is good speech." U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis

There are problems with the anti-Christian meme in #645.
During the first year of Christianity, did its adherents bully people?
Not to deny the horror of the Inquisition.
Instead, to question how faithful those that perpetrated it were to Christ's teachings.

"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful." *

When meddlers invoke Christ's name to censor libraries, restrict women's reproductive rights, is their political / legal meddling genuinely consistent with principles Christ taught?

"Christianity - Bullying people for 2000 years" #645

Perhaps we can agree some of those claiming to be Christian have bullied.
Does that not mean these meddlers victimize Christianity?
In that case, does it make sense to blame the victim?

"Sun light is the best disinfectant" Louis D. Brandeis

I "sear" administer CitizenVoice.us
I'm not Christian, not Muslim, not Jewish, probably not religious by standard definition.
I seek truth, let the chips fall where they may.
I've attended church.
I've met many that also have.
As the Internet maxim reminds:
attending church for a few hours each Sunday doesn't render one a Christian any more than
loitering in the garage for a few hours renders one an Oldsmobile.

Beware the poseurs.

* "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful." sometimes attributed to Seneca the Younger(c.3 BCE - CE 65)
I know this quote is commonly attributed to Seneca, but it is mistakenly attributed to him. How do I know this? In Volume 1 of "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", written by Edward Gibbon,he writes, "“The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord." source: makingsense Administrator Rob W. Case https://makingsense.proboards.com/thread/720/young-boys-search-god