Harvard and GW Space Policy Alumnus. Tampa native living in LA. Gold Star of Excellence: Founded Aug 18, 2009
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Today’s Gold Star of Excellence goes to Juan Atkins, credited as one of the co-founders of the techno music genre, who died at 64.
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Guy from Palau who smugly calls Micronesians "Federated Statesian" because "we are Micronesian too o algo"
In Spanish is Estadounidense
In French is États-unien
In Portuguese is estadunidense
In Italian is Statunitense
In Catalan is estatunidenc
In Galician is estadounidense
In English, meanwhile, is "american"
What a fucking narcisists
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Misleading. French "États-Unien" exists but "is much less widespread than "'American'".
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Similarly "Americano" far more common than "Statunitense" in Italian.
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As noted list is cherry-picked; in most other non-Iberian languages demonym is derived from "American"
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Today’s Gold Star of Excellence goes to Gregory F. Funston et al., for discovering Infernogallus, a relative of oviraptor from late Cretaceous North America, the first known non-avian dinosaur specialized for eating fruit.
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all the shrimp suffering reduced by effective altruists is being cancelled out by Shrimp Shredder Georg, a Blue Whale who lives in the Southern ocean & consumes over 40 million shrimp a day and digests very slowly due to a defect in his second stomach
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Fun fact: the country with the most affordable groceries is the country with the most rocket launches and the most billionaires.
Today’s Gold Star of Excellence goes to lifestyle magazine impresario Marvin R. Shanken, known for founding Cigar Aficionado and turning Wine Spectator into a global institution, who died at 83.
Today’s Gold Star of Excellence goes to legendary actor Sir Patrick Stewart, known for bringing Shakespearean theater gravitas to roles like Star Trek’s Captain Picard, Professor Xavier in X-Men, and comedic roles like Deputy Director Bullock in American Dad!, who died at 86.
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We at American Dad! have so much gratitude and love for Patrick Stewart. He said how happy he was to do American Dad! because he was so rarely asked to do comedy, which is insane, as his ability to get the laugh was uncanny. Thank you, Sir, for sharing your joyful spirit, inspiring voice, and willingness to be ridiculous. You turned Avery Bullock, Deputy Director of the CIA, into someone the world loved and couldn't get enough of. We will miss you.
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When Sir Patrick Stewart was cast as Jean-Luc Picard in 1987, his Royal Shakespeare Company peers warned him that doing American sci-fi television would ruin his classical theater career.
He proceeded to spend the next 40 years bringing Shakespearean gravitas to spaceship bridges and mutant academies, single-handedly forcing Hollywood to take pop culture cinema seriously
RIP Sir Patrick Stewart 🕊️
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In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to:
Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Fund
alzresearch.org/giving/
Alzheimer’s Foundation of America Caregiver Resources
alzfdn.org/donate/
Photo Credit: Tommy Garcia
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Today, Venezuela’s interim president Delcy Rodríguez announced in a televised address that she has ordered security forces to halt arbitrary detentions made without court orders, with exceptions for flagrant crimes. She has also ordered a national review of criminal justice reform, including a referendum inquiry, with the aim of moving toward a more transparent and impartial system.
Furthermore, Rodríguez reiterated in the same address that elections will be held, though she did not announce a date. She outlined plans for electoral reform, including a renewed National Electoral Council (CNE) accepted by all political sides, alongside guarantees for political participation.
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A 2016 Obama-era investigation found some evidence that Rep. Ilhan Omar married a man suspected of being her brother to help him get a green card, current and former officials tell the NYT. The case stalled largely because prosecutors concluded the alleged felony fell outside the statute of limitations. The Trump administration is now investigating the marriage as part of a broader probe of her family’s immigration history.
Today’s Gold Star of Excellence goes to Lipin Diao et al., for discovering the 237 million year old Gerrothorax maritimus, the first fully marine amphibian ever identified in the fossil record. Some frogs can briefly tolerate salt water but no amphibians are marine today.
Today’s Gold Star of Excellence goes to Matthew Holman and the Vera Rubin Solar System Operations team, for using the Vera Rubin observatory to discover ED138, the first likely dwarf planet discovered by the survey telescope.
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Meet our Solar System's newest dwarf planet candidate: 2026 ED138!
Orbiting past Pluto, scientists found it in NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory data from earlier in 2026. Early analysis suggests it's 600–1500 km across, one of the largest found past Neptune!
🔗 rubinobservatory.org/news/ru…
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Virgin American voters: waaah it’s to inconvenient to drive my air conditioned SUV ten minutes to the Millard Filmore High polling place on any of the thirty days of early voting
Chad Arab Israelis: habibi get the democracy camel
Today’s Gold Star of Excellence goes to actor Walter Koenig, best known for his role as Ensign Pavel Chekov in Star Trek, who died at 90.
