[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

Will any of the debris reach the planet

Not in a solid form. There may be some undesirable effects though at greater numbers, we don't really have good data. Here's a blog post by the European Space Agency talking about a couple studies on the effects of satellite reentry. Note that the satellites they simulated were significantly larger than the Starlink satellites.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

In any case, a catastrophic multi-sat collision would only result in a meteor shower

Previous collisions have resulted in debris that intersected with higher orbits. While those debris themselves will decay, if they collide with something in a higher orbit, a significant portion of the resulting debris will be there for a very long time.

Look at the apogees resulting from a major collision in 2009 in fig 3 on page 2

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago

Why wouldn't you just take the squirrels where they want to go?

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

The KGB hasn't existed for over 30 years.

But no, the KGB was nowhere near as evil as the CIA. Here's one instance of what happens when the CIA is sucessful.

You can find similar atrocities in every single country in South America. Also Afghanistan and much of Africa.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"I wish America could build some effective passenger rail and free housing"

monkey's paw curls

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I like having an enemy that actually denies an area until you have higher-level weapons or are willing to be creative. Every other enemy is trivial to avoid and mostly kill.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

Historically, union workers were assured dem voters. This changed as the dems left organized labor out to dry.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago

What's the political situation in Hungary? If Orban is ousted, how likely is the next guy to be less fascist?

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'm sure 99.99% of Russian immigrants aren't spies. Bringing in Russians genuinely damages Russia's ability to carry out the war though; they're down to a 2.6% unemployment rate and real wages are up like 40%.

They're taking significant measures to get soldiers and labor, and the more Russians flee, the more they have to do to get labor and troops.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 days ago

Hezbollah is the only thing stopping Israel from conquering Lebanon, if they need Iran's help to stop Israel from invading and ethnically cleansing their land like they're doing in Palestine, so be it.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 days ago

It's Yeonmi Park, who fled North Korea and now makes money telling outlandish stories to overly credulous libs.

Such as that North Koreans have to pull trains from town to town, and that she saw children eating rats and rats eating children.

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Looks like it's having a measurable effect.

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Among other changes to immigration law, the measure would make it more difficult to gain asylum in the United States and increase detentions and deportations of those crossing into the country without authorization. It would also effectively close the border altogether if the average number of migrants encountered by immigration officials exceeded a certain threshold — an average of 5,000 over the course of a week or 8,500 on any given day. The bill also would give the president power to close the border unilaterally if migrant encounters reach an average of 4,000 per day over a week.

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