Cris Liepi

The longer I am on this site the more I realize that there is no one righteous, not one. God is right. Given the freedom of anonymity, and freedom from prosecution of evil speech, ppl will say what is in their hearts. This includes trolls; they are speaking lies to cause strife.

@TiagoNugent @Erdayastronaut I don’t know if you saw this?

Turns out the ISS did!

@DanielB02754426 @AJamesMcCarthy Can you imagine the cat videos with cats on the 🌙 moon?!? 😹

@AJamesMcCarthy Few want to admit this truth, if we put cats on the moon, every space program would be fully funded and moon bases would sprout like weeds.

After all my Artemis II coverage, including high resolution original imagery of the rocket in flight This was still by far my most popular post 😭

An independent review of 72 separate studies found that an average of 29% of men surveyed admitted to having committed sexual assault, and 6% admitted to having committed at least one rape. When they changed the wording from “have you committed rape” to “have you forced a woman to have sex with you,” that last number jumped up to 12%. And these were just the men who were willing to admit their crimes to total strangers. Women and girls live with the threat of rape and sexual assault hanging over our heads like the sword of Damocles from the moment we draw our first breath until our bodies are so decomposed that sexual violation is no longer physically possible. There is no such thing as a female human being who is so old, so young, so ugly, so fat, so dirty, so smelly, so physically or mentally disabled, so mentally ill, so comatose, or so dead that no man will rape her. Homeless women experience especially high levels of sexual violence — but no woman or girl is ever immune. The youngest victim of sexual assault of whom I am aware was abused on video even before her umbilical cord was cut. The youngest rape victim - and I do mean rape - that I’m aware of was two hours old. The oldest was 93. In my personal experience, I’ve worked with rape victims who were as young as 3 months old, and the oldest victim I’ve personally seen was 89. I didn’t work with her, though — she died of shock and blood loss on her own kitchen floor after her male assailant shoved two and a half feet of mop handle into her vagina three times, the last time so savagely that you could see the end of it protruding as a lump under her skin about two inches below her sternum. 25% of US women will report a rape at some point. 63% of rape goes unreported, and 90% of rape victims are women. You do the math. And that’s in the US, where women and girls aren’t legally able to be sold into marriage against our will. A girl forced into marriage may be raped tens of thousands of times over the course of her life, and none of it is ever reported, or included in the already horrific statistics on the sexual abuse of women and girls — the latter of whom make up 82% of abused children, even though preferential pedophiles (men who are only interested in children) usually go for boys. Girls are the favored target of opportunistic offenders, men who sexually abuse children simply because they can. In other words, the overwhelming majority of child predators are men who abuse little girls for no other reason than the fact that they are both female and vulnerable. They’re not abused specifically because they are children, but because they are girls. Now imagine what it’s like to grow up with this knowledge: to have to be constantly on your guard around half the population from childhood on. To live side by side with the beings most likely to violate and murder you — and who, when you try to discuss the subject, get angry, accuse you of either not trusting good men or being too trusting of the bad ones, and do everything in their power to pin the blame for their behavior squarely on you. Every woman knows multiple rape survivors, if she’s not one herself — and so does every man. More to the point, perhaps, is that every man also knows men who sexually assault women - whether or not he is aware of their behavior, or will admit to it if he is. Furthermore, I have never discussed sexual assault/male violence with a woman who didn’t turn out to have a story of her own. Not even once, not in 42 years. And you know what’s really gross? The fact that I can tell you these things, and your first concern is automatically whether or not I prefaced my statement with a disclaimer that allows you to tell yourself that it’s not your problem.

It causes serious cognitive dissonance. Atheists genuinely think they’re smarter than religious people, they think if you’re smart enough you’ll solve the riddle and see through the lies, and you’ll be like them. It’s all about ego. The problem is they don’t understand religion or atheism. They’re simply blind.

Inside baseball on Pluto's demotion, told to me contemporaneously by someone who was at the 2006 @IAU_org meeting when they voted on it. An American scientist at Caltech named Mike Brown had found a handful of icy planets similar to Pluto but further out in the solar system. The IAU vote was supposed to be to make those bodies official planets as well. However, the Europeans realized that bunch of new planets + Pluto would mean that the Americans had discovered more planets than the Europeans. That was unacceptable to them, so they all voted to demote Pluto from planet status by creating a scientifically non-sensical definition of "planet". The 2006 definition requires that a planet must have "cleared the neighborhood around its orbit". This definition of a planet excludes Earth (we have the Moon in the same orbit around the Sun) and the gas giants (which also have large moons.) Demoting Earth to a dwarf planet and the gas giants to "solar system bodies" would have caused an uproar, so they voted Mercury through Neptune back in as planets by non-scientific fiat. To those readers who thought "I'm The Science, and pointing out that my nonsensical dictates are nonsensible dictates is disinformation and violence" started with COVID, well, the Pluto incident was 14 years prior.

@learning_yohei I know you asked why we do it, and others stated how the greeting started because it showed you had no weapon in hand. But a common reason today is to informally close to a business deal. To “shake on it” is to show everyone agrees to the terms of a deal and end discussion.

日本からこんにちは🇯🇵👋 アメリカ人に質問があります🇺🇸 どうしてアメリカ人は人と会う時、よく握手をするのですか？🤝 日本では握手をするかわりに、よくお辞儀をします😄

@learning_yohei Not uncommon. Men shake hands more often than women, but in business situations both men and women are expected to shake hands. The handshake should be firm: not weak, like a limp fish; and not crushing, like you want to cause injury or prove your strength. Just confident. 2/2

@learning_yohei People usually shake hands when they are 1) meeting for the first time AND 2) meeting for business or important personal reasons (potential suitor meeting girlfriend’s father). They also shake hands after making a good business deal. It’s less common in casual situations but 1/2

@TheMcGloneCode @Courtneyscoffs …So you don’t want unsaved women to receive Christ at an altar call? Or do you not do those?

@Courtneyscoffs We do not care that women leave the church. Actually, we really don't want non Christian women in the church. What don't you get?

I am once again asking the church-going evangelicals if your pastors are denouncing this kind of rhetoric or if they support it. Either way, stop acting shocked women are leaving the church.

@consultnt_a That said, it is edible, but it just seems wrong.

@consultnt_a If that is what is called bacon shabu-shabu, then yes it is offensive. I’ve never seen it served in America, so I don’t think Americans know about it.

アメリカ人はパスタを半分に折ったりピザにパイナップル乗せてイタリア人を怒らせてるけど、逆にアメリカ料理の何をどうしたらアメリカ人はキレるんだろうな ベーコンのしゃぶしゃぶとか、マッケンチーズにケチャップかけるとかか？

@Soph_astro @esaspaceflight @Space_Station I love your hair with it tied back in the first photo! It looks like a fox tail or peacock tail 🦚.

Day 054, orbit 0835 – After the hunt for eggs, time to hunt down a few misconceptions! Here on the Station, because we’re in microgravity, things are not pulled downward like on Earth… and here’s a surprising fact: hair that naturally detaches doesn’t fall. 🧐 It stays with the rest of your hair. Other forces also come into play, such as the entanglement of hairs and even surface tension when the hair is wet! When I first arrived, I was wondering the same thing: would we see hair floating everywhere?! Well, as unexpected as it may sound: absolutely not! There isn’t even any in the hoodie I use as a pillow!!! Hair that sheds naturally only actually leaves the head when you brush it. I brush my hair twice a day, and I have never in my life collected so much hair on a brush. So don’t worry, there’s no hair floating all over the Station. And fun fact: hair isn’t the only thing that doesn’t fall… dust doesn’t either. It floats and gets trapped in the air‑duct filters until the weekly cleaning… and sometimes an astronaut’s long hair catches it before, like an improvised feather duster would catch it! The result? I’ve never had such dusty hair, and once again, it’s very obvious on the brush! Most of the time, I work with my hair tied back, as you can see in the timelapses and photos taken during working hours. But for communication activities, I like to let it loose to make microgravity visible. Watching the video playback always makes me laugh (sometimes even burst out laughing 🤣 when I discover my very own space hairstyle!) and I hope it brings a smile to your face too! 📷 @esa /@NASA #εpsilon

Every part of this claim falls apart the moment it touches reality. It is a greatest hits collection of Flat Earth talking points that have been debunked for decades. You say photos do not hold up to scrutiny. They do. They have been analyzed by space agencies, universities, observatories, and independent researchers all over the world. The only people who think they fail scrutiny are the ones who walk in already convinced they are fake. You say the video is grainy so it must be suspicious. It was transmitted by radio in the late 1960s. That is how television worked at the time. Ham radio operators picked up the Apollo transmissions independently of NASA. If you think live transmission was impossible, that is not a flaw in the mission. That is a flaw in your understanding of the technology. You say there is zero telemetry data because it was destroyed. That is false. The original magnetic tapes were overwritten decades later, but the telemetry itself still exists in multiple forms. Printed logs, transcripts, mission reports, and copies stored by tracking stations around the world. You do not lose data that was broadcast globally. You say the moon rocks were petrified trees. One single rock gifted to a museum by a politician turned out to be mislabeled. The actual Apollo samples have been studied by thousands of scientists worldwide. They contain solar wind particles, micro meteorite impacts, and isotopic signatures that cannot be faked on Earth. You say no other nation has done it in 50 years. That is not evidence of anything except how expensive and difficult it is. Nations are returning now because the funding and technology are finally lining up again. China, India, Japan, NASA, and private companies are all in the process of lunar missions. Every point you listed has been debunked for decades. None of it holds up. And the funniest part is that even if someone handed you the evidence you asked for, you would just call it fake. That is why nobody takes these claims seriously. They are not based on facts. They are based on rejecting anything that does not fit the script.

@elonmusk S^4?

Shining Stainless Steel Starships

@ManaByte Thank you for posting this. I have a friend who fell into the flat earth trap, and it is encouraging to be reminded just *how* wrong that theory is.

NASA is not the only group observing space. It is not the only group tracking spacecraft. It is not the only group analyzing lunar samples. It is not the only group measuring the Earth. Acting like NASA is the sole source of information is the kind of mistake you only make when you have never looked outside your own bubble. Every Apollo transmission was picked up by tracking stations in Spain, Australia, and the UK. None of those were run by NASA. Ham radio operators all over the world intercepted the signals independently. The Soviet Union tracked Apollo in real time. They had every reason to call it fake, and they didn’t. Lunar samples have been studied by scientists in dozens of countries. They match lunar geology, solar wind exposure, and micrometeorite impacts. You cannot fake that in a lab. You cannot fake it with a story. You cannot fake it with “NASA said so.” These samples were examined by people who do not work for NASA and never have. Orbital mechanics, satellite tracking, radio telemetry, and astronomical observations are done by universities, observatories, private companies, and amateurs worldwide. None of them rely on NASA’s word. They rely on physics and direct measurement. Saying “I don’t believe anything NASA says” does not magically erase the thousands of independent sources that confirm the same reality. It just shows you have decided to ignore anything that contradicts your suspicion. You do not get to dismiss evidence from the entire planet because one agency makes you uncomfortable. Reality does not shrink to fit your distrust.

@a_aron2_0 @kirawontmiss Less than California’s high speed train to nowhere.

@kirawontmiss How many tax dollars wrote it?

NASA astronaut dropped one of the hardest quotes ever😭🔥

@FeralHeather Like you just know there was a story behind every single warning and I wanted to know more

@FeralHeather 😂 My old company bought a small (pottery) kiln. Reading through the safety warnings was a hoot! Things like Don’t put objects on top of the kiln like papers where you forget them and they will 🔥, Don’t put the kiln in a garage near flammable chemicals the kiln will 🔥, etc.

laughed out loud at this item on the list of things you cannot bring into the courthouse. You just know this rule exists because of a very specific incident. I want to hear that story.

No, Christianity does not promote or require socialism. And it is not at odds with capitalism. The idea that socialism is a biblical model requires you to ignore the difference between willing generosity and forced redistribution. When the early church in Acts shared resources, it was voluntary; it wasn't mandated by the state. Peter acknowledged private property rights and so did the ten commandments. Stealing is only wrong if private property ownership is a given. Same with coveting. All virtues require freedom, including charity. Socialism removes the freedom and kills the virtue. If the state takes your wealth and gives it to someone else, you've been taxed. You haven't been "generous" because it had nothing to do with your heart. Capitalism creates wealth — so there's something to share — and respects our individual freedom to share it. The charity that results from the wealth that's created is real charity; it's actually an act of loving one's neighbor. And it isn't just theoretical or idealistic. Free markets paired with Christian values have produced the wealthiest, freest, and most generous societies in history.