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Facing one obstacle after another, the operators of NASA’s Voyager 1 probe continue to find creative solutions to keep the farthest manmade object from Earth transmitting radio communications. Launched in 1977, it is currently 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from Earth, and is now well beyond the heliosphere, the bubble of particles emitted by […] The post Aging Voyager 1 Restarts a Radio it Hasn’t Used Since 1981–Prompted from 15 Billion Miles Away appeared first on Good News Network.

The Biggest Loser? After Tuesday, it’s not just the title of the long-running reality-TV weight-loss show anymore. The biggest loser of the Nov. 5 elections, undeniably, was Vice President Kamala Harris. Despite raising and spending a staggering $1 billion in campaign cash and having the sycophantic support of the Hollywood glitterati, the now-lame duck vice president was decisively defeated in her bid for promotion to the presidency. Voters ensured she wouldn’t become the latest example of 1970s bestselling author Lawrence Peter’s “Peter Principle” theorem that people get promoted in a hierarchy until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent. Voters on Tuesday apparently concluded Harris had reached that point four years ago and resoundingly voted not to make that mistake again. Harris demonstrated “Peter Principle”-level incompetence with her very first independent executive decision; namely, the choice of loopy leftist Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her vice presidential running mate. Walz, a self-described “knucklehead,” brought to the Democratic ticket the frumpiness of George Constanza combined with the charisma of Elmer Fudd. But while Harris and Walz were the biggest losers, they were far from the only big losers Tuesday night. In no particular order, here are some of the many others who lost bigly: Sen. Chuck Schumer: Voters demoted the New York Democrat from Senate majority leader to minority leader by kicking (at least) three longtime liberal Democratic senators—in Montana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania—to the curb. Suddenly, but not surprisingly, abolishing the Senate filibuster is no longer a Democratic talking point. Talk of also abolishing the Electoral College has likewise gone away, after the once and future President Donald Trump also won the popular vote in a nearly 5-million vote landslide. The “Blue Wall”: Even Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin couldn’t save Harris’ train wreck of a campaign. The Left’s exploitation of the gender gap: Harris had a much larger gender gap among men than Trump had among women. Liz Cheney: The Trump-hating former Republican congresswoman—resoundingly repudiated by Wyoming voters in 2022 after she cast her lot with Democrats on the kangaroo court Jan. 6 committee—campaigned extensively for Harris. Cheney’s dream of being tapped as defense secretary in a Harris administration is now kaput. Political lawfare: Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith; New York state Attorney General Letitia James; Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis; and Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg will now have to find someone not named Trump to prosecute. Hollywood: Cher and Barbra Streisand, Alec Baldwin and Robert De Niro, Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar, et al., your flight to Canada is now boarding at Gate 3. Make it a one-way ticket, please. MSNBC: Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, Joy Reid and Rachel Maddow, Eugene Robinson and Jonathan Capehart, et al., see: Hollywood (above). TV’s late-night “comics”: Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, and Seth Meyers have replaced comedy monologues with leftist political rants. In the process, they’ve lost large swaths of their audiences. Johnny Carson, who poked good-natured fun at both sides, is rolling over in his grave. “60 Minutes”: With its unapologetically dishonest editing of its interview with Harris to make her look more coherent than she really is, the long-running CBS newsmagazine show shredded what was left of its credibility. Ditto, ABC’s David Muir and Linsey Davis and CBS’ Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan for their biased, one-sided “fact-checking” during the presidential and vice presidential debates. The Lincoln Project: How much longer will these money-grubbing, nominally Republican grifters be able to perpetuate their multimillion-dollar anti-Trump con? Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferers: Do they not realize (or care) just how non compos mentis they appear in their hysterical anti-Trump TikTok video rants? (Libs of TikTok founder Chaya Raichik surely hopes not.) Hitler: Democrats’ quadrennial vilification of their GOP presidential opponents with the “Hitler” epithet—which dates back 60 years to Barry Goldwater in 1964—has lost whatever impact it may have once had. Think “the boy who cried wolf.” No one other than the aforementioned Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferers believes it anymore. The post Harris Was the Biggest Loser Tuesday, But Far From the Only One appeared first on The Daily Signal.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. Tom Corbett – once a Republican Governor of Pennsylvania, for the last four years one of the anti-disinformation firebrands – gave an interview on US election day, revealing his thoughts on “dis/misinformation,” and what to do about it. Corbett left his government job in 2015 and now works for Keep Our Republic – a non profit that focuses on the swing states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. (Corbett may or may not have been disappointed, but President Trump ended up winning in all three). Keep Our Republic consists of former officials from both Republican and Democratic parties, but its specific interest in the three states, along the language it uses to describe its purpose – countering “the threats facing our elections,” and declaring, “we are most tightly focused on election integrity” – is pretty telling. Corbett reinforced this impression with his statements about “dangerous online disinformation” since 2020, along with the obligatory mention of “foreign governments trying to divide the country” – where plurality of political opinion and choices is once again treated as something negative, “a polarization,” instead of what it really is – a democracy. Corbett’s other statements made during the interview also revealed his political stance, for example when he went for the “shouting fire in a crowded theater” analogy while bashing the role of social media, and touching on the issue of subjecting these platforms to more regulation. “What is stated on social media today and is being repeated over and over again is very dangerous. You can’t go into a movie theater and yell ‘fire!’ There’s a great panic,” he said. The “shouting fire in theater” analogy is used with the goal of declaring that a certain kind of speech is not protected by the First Amendment. In reality, this interpretation stems from a judge’s opinion issued in a ruling during the First World War that has since been overturned (Brandenburg v. Ohio). As for what the future may hold, the former Pennsylvania governor expressed his “concerns.” He singled out “violence” (around elections) as one of those concerns, which, according to him, only became a real issue in the last 8 to 10 years (i.e. – since Trump was first elected president in 2016, and in the campaign leading up to that). And Corbett thinks that “a lot of that” has to do with people getting informed “in the various news outlets that they follow.” Finally, the former governor did a little “plug-in” for the organization he now works for, saying it was neither red or blue, but “the truth team.” “I think people have to be very careful in anything that they look at online and ask ‘give me evidence that this happened’,” Corbett said. He did not, however, advise the same type of caution when trusting whatever traditional broadcasters and other legacy media are saying. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post PA Ex-Governor Tom Corbett Spreads False First Amendment Claim While Decrying Online “Disinformation” appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

Once upon a time, so very many years ago, laundry day could almost literally be an all-day affair. Things were once very different when it came to washing and drying our clothes. There wasn’t a long list of scented detergents, nor were there settings on washing machines. Heck, at one time we were the washing machines, and the air and sun took care of the drying. Laundry Day: It Just Keeps Getting Shorter At one time, clothes were washed down in the river. It was relatively common to see washerwomen along the banks of the river with their homemade washboards, bats, and rocks. The laundry was sometimes soaked in lye back at their homes and then later brought to the river for a good washing. Laundry went on in this fashion until about the 19th century. In some countries like France, there were actual washrooms where you could find people gathered together airing their dirty laundry. Laundry In The 19th Century It wasn’t until the 19th century that people began laundering their wash in a different way. At this time, many people had a wash tub which consisted of a wooden or metal tub that was used just for washing clothes. Not all homes had a wash tub but many did. The tubs would be filled with water that was heated over an open fire or right on top of their wood stoves. The water was poured into the tub along with the laundry, and likely lye or some sort of bar soap was used for scrubbing. More often than not, there was some sort of washboard used to help wash the clothes. However, washboards weren’t factory made until the late 19th century. Before that, the laundry would soak in the water and wooden paddles, also known as bats, were used to agitate the clothes. Once they were done, the clothes would be wrung out by hand and hung up to dry. In different regions, though the wash tubs were different, the way people washed their clothes was pretty similar. For the most part, Dolly tubs, also known as Peggy or Maidens, were used. These tubs were a bit taller and instead of using paddles or bats, there was a wooden plunger called a Dolly Stick, with a long handle that was used to agitate, as well as wring out the clothes after the washing. Late 19th Century & Early 20th Century Then there came a day when someone finally invented a hand-powered wringer. This helped laundry day move a little faster. The wet clothes would be placed between the rollers of the wringer, and you would use the crank to roll them through. A couple of passes through, and the laundry was ready to be hung out on the line. Sometimes it took two people to operate the wringer, one to hold the clothing and the other to operate the machine. It wasn’t until the late 1850’s that steam-powered washing machines came to be. They used steam rather than electricity, because at this time not many people had access to electricity. 1930’s to Now Finally, there came the day that you could purchase a washing machine and plug it in. It was called the wringer/mangler washing machine. When my mother was a child, she tried to be helpful and wash my grandfather’s clothing. The wringer/mangler sucked her arm right into the wringer and hurt her arm, hence the title the mangler. The wringer was operated by electricity, and it would pull the clothing through on its own while you held it. Laundry day just kept getting shorter and shorter from here on out.   mttje1999 shows a video of how doing laundry was done in the 1900's: By the 40’s and 50’s washing machines became more of what they are today — minus the digital buttons and water saving options. This trip back in time shows us the hard work and dedication it took to air the family’s dirty laundry. What was once back-breaking labor has become a 10-minute task with little to no effort needed. I hope you’ve enjoyed this edition of Throwback Thursday on the Homestead. Next time you think doing laundry is a chore remember those who laundered before! Happy wash day! Have you ever tried washing the old way or have experienced someone doing so? Please share in the comments below! Read on how to dry laundry using a drying rack or clothesline for homestead living! Follow us on facebook, instagram, pinterest, and twitter!

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