I think we got a preview during Covid of just how selfish and lazy people can be. Stay home and wear a mask outside was far too much to ask of the American people. People murdered people over masking. Little piece of fabric over your nose and mouth, and only when you're inside a store or public building. "No, I'd rather you be dead."
When the water runs out and the air is toxic and the grocery shelves are bare, it's going to be chaos.
We are going to avoid doing the hard things until the hard things are forced upon us. There's too much profit in keeping things status quo, so any attempt to make the world a better place is met with the unified forces of unfettered capitalism.
Also, kicking down the door leaves evidence and usually require some sort of justification or approval. If they have a key to a backdoor, they don't have to tell anyone they were inside, or ask for permission to use it.
I mean, maybe it's technically "darker" the literal sense, but any unfinished concrete is going to scatter light differently than glossy blue paint. And I don't have anything against cleaning and maintaining the pool. It's normal maintenance that has to happen every so often.
But if this doesn't look tacky as shit and make it harder to see the reflection, I'll eat a hat.
I mean, it's moderately encouraging to see Dems doing something to fight Trump, but Congress doesn't have the authority to utilize the mechanisms in the 25th amendment to remove Trump. They can issue articles of impeachment (again), but there are too many conservative senators and representatives protecting Trump for that to be viable, either.
This bill won't go anywhere, and even if it did pass, it wouldn't have any effect.
Considering we only know it's there because it slightly dims the light from its star as it crosses during its orbit, you would be correct. At that distance, we would never see light bouncing off the actual planet. Even the star is basically a single pixel. We can estimate its size and orbit based on how quickly it crosses in front of the star and how much the light dims, and using those two numbers we can estimate its distance from Kepler 452.
Yep, impeachment is a (slightly) more viable strategy, but impossible without major Dem gains in the midterms. Like I'm not even sure there are enough Senate seats up for reelection.
Despite some Republicans ostensibly trying to do the right thing, the effort failed because Fetterman is a piece of shit.