As far as I know, Belka and Strelka got to live nice lives afterwards as celebrated space pups. I’d think they’d have gotten far more radiation up in space than Pushinka would have gotten from a couple exams, so I’d think she was fine. The wiki page says at least up to 2015, her descendants were still around being good puppos.

We had a great time there.

I scrolled through my pics quick looking what other whacky stuff there was and the best I got is:

Satellite Drop / Ariel Recovery Film Container

Fake Nutsack Radio 😆

Since the story of The Great Seal has already been shared in the article and the comments here, I just recently read a book on the Soviet space dogs.

Strelka’s puppy, Pushinka, was given to Caroline Kennedy, but only after a thoughrough exam!

Pushinka (Russian: Пушинка, lit. ‘Fluffy’) was a dog given by the Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to the President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, in 1961. Pushinka was the daughter of Strelka, who had travelled into space aboard Korabl-Sputnik 2.

Pushinka arrived at the Kennedy White House after Jacqueline Kennedy had spoken to Khrushchev about Strelka at a state dinner in Vienna. Mrs. Kennedy asked about Strelka’s puppies, and one was subsequently sent by Khrushchev to the White House. Pushinka was examined by the Central Intelligence Agency at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center over fears that she might be concealing an implanted listening device. Pushinka was x-rayed, screened with a magnetometer, and inspected by sonogram. She was found to be free of subversive devices.

The White House electrician and kennel manager, Traphes Bryant, trained Pushinka with peanuts to climb up a ladder to Caroline Kennedy’s playhouse and slide down the other side.

Came to share this too, as it was one of my favorite things from the museum. Their website says it’s a replica though.

I’m glad that was helpful!

It looked great and I really wanted to stick with the dev on it once they originally announced they were going to make a Lemmy version, but even after a couple months going between it and some other apps, while it looked much the same as Boost for Reddit, it just didn’t feel the same.

Boost still looked nice, but the posting UI was terrible for me. I couldn’t figure out how to do half the things I wanted to do, and since I became a regular poster using a ton of media and formatting, it was just a no-go.

The dev has done a lot to help with my specific use cases, and I haven’t started since. I gave everything a look around the end of the year to make sure I wasn’t missing out on anything, but at this point I don’t feel I’m missing a thing from the experience.

I like the apps are all independent in that we can try one or all and hop between them at will without losing anything.

I’ve test driven a majority of the apps at this point, and I think the variety of apps we have to choose from is impressive. They all feel pretty different too, so everyone should be able to find what works for them.

I think it was Connect I kept installed longest other than Summit and the discontinued Liftoff. I was a huge Boost fan on Reddit, but never jelled with the Lenny implementation.

I have a hard time believing Summit Dev has time for a day job! 😂

I feel every bug is patched same/next day and they keep constantly adding to the feature set. There have been a ton of upgrades this year, and it was perfect to me once they added custom user tags, so now everything is just a bonus.

I like all their decisions and they take feedback in what works for us, and at this point you can turn almost anything on/off so you get what you want.

Summit is peak Lemmy!

Awesome app, awesomer dev. If it doesn’t do what you want, talk to them and they’ll probably do it.

Not FOSS, but free and no ads.

Would not be enjoying Lemmy near as much without it thanks to all the great features like multi-community support and endless customization.

Rosie came up yesterday with the Irish PM. MTG’s boyfriend, the guy that heckled Zelensky about not wearing a suit, asked why they let Rosie move there and Trump laughed and said good question. The PM had no clue what they were talking about and it got awkward.

A US reporter questioned the Taoiseach about Ms O’Donnell’s departure from America.

“Why in the world would you let Rosie O’Donnell move to Ireland? I think she’s going to lower your happiness levels”, the reporter enquired.

Micheál Martin laughed nervously as President Trump told the reporter “Thank you, I like that question”.

Yes, but do you trust this administration to give a fair deal to Ukraine without exploitation? Turning Ukraine into another Haiti isn’t a great deal.

Also at the same time he’s promising Ukraine the deal of a lifetime, he’s making threats and economically bullying all America’s other allies while still trying to be buddies with Putin, Orban, and a bunch of other racists, authoritarians, and plutocrats. None of that screams trustworthy to me.

Ugh, I can’t stand the thought of them signing this deal! I get so frustrated every time he entertains it. I don’t want to see them get screwed over while the US still benefits.

The only thing potentially positive is if signing actually gets real help sent there, and the US somehow gets sane people back in power that will repeal the deal or at least amend it more favorably because it was made through coercion.

The lack of a promise to actually send military aid though, plus the profiteering that usually happens when the US “helps” someone makes me really want Europe and friends to come through before he makes a deal with the US.

Any stew type thing is generally easy to scale up and usually follows the “better the next day” character. Goulash, curries, thick soups (beef barley is my favorite), and chillis.

There’s no change in texture from reheating, which I think is key to good leftovers. Anything baked is going to dry out yet not be crisp, and anything fried is going to be soft and sad. Applying these principles to other things, and you come across things like lasagna as well.

For stuff that is baked, grilled, or pan fried, if it’s something you can cook a bunch of, but pull most of it when it’s 80% done, you can sometimes reheat that ok. We’ll make 4 burgers out of a pound of meat, and either cook up 2 and just leave the other 2 for tomorrow, or say, pull 2 off when they’re pretty rare, and cook the ones we’re eating to medium. Then the next day, by the time the patties are heated through, they’re to the right doneness.

Republican judges have shut down Trump before and will hopefully continue to do so at least some of the time.

Republicans have a slim Senate majority, and if any Rs decide to become their party’s Manchin or Sinema, things can still be blocked. There’s also bound to be infighting among Rs after conflicting things.

The ACLU and other groups are filing lawsuits. If they win or not will be seen, but they will keep trying.

One thing I feel I don’t see talked about enough on here though, is what we can do as individuals. Are you getting involved anywhere? If not, why?

Every community has groups looking out for the poor/homeless, discriminated groups, the environment, immigrants, labor unions, etc. If you don’t trust your leaders to solve things, that leaves us all to step up to fill those holes.

I’ve already applied for one volunteer service, and am looking into others depending how the first one goes. We can’t just sit and wait to see what happens. We need to get involved and take personal responsibility.

I have met so few actually interested in our own politics, let alone what is going on half a world away. It is very disappointing.

I’m not one to promote fighting, but Russia coming into Ukraine and being 100% in the wrong was a chance for us to do right and actually support the right side of a conflict and really strengthen relations with our allies and deal a blow to a long-time antagonist. It seemed like a thing we could do with no way of coming out of it badly. I wasn’t keen on sending things like cluster munitions that have bad downstream effects, but otherwise it seemed we were sending you things we had but no longer needed, but you all were in crucial need of. The media framed it in dollar figures of aid being sent, which I feel did a disservice with people’s lack of understanding here. It was money that had been spent decades ago, but people felt like it was coming out of their pockets now instead of it being bad economic policy in the present.

Now though, we seem to be taking shots at our allies and preparing to buddy up to our longtime rival so the president can finally get his Moscow apartments built and twist resources out of a beaten up ally for what his fans we feel that you guys “owe” for us helping you out and ignoring you to make peace with your invader. I don’t think we could have made a better new friend than a restored Ukraine, and it would have put us in a good light with the rest of Europe, as if Ukraine compromises in this whole affair, I think that extends more danger to most of Europe, especially other former Soviet states.

If we end up screwing you guys over, I think this will go down as a huge blunder in history, and I don’t think it will take long for the US to feel repercussions, as I don’t see us getting much useful from an unofficial alliance with Russia, and it will ruin our trust with every nation, especially throughout Europe, unless they keep going hard to the right as well, in which case, I don’t look forward to those alliances either. This all seems negative for us now here, and I feel terrible that your country is being treated like this by our government. I felt our nations were really on a great path until the election.

I and everyone I associate with still want you all to succeed. I think what is going on between you and Russia is going to have a huge influence on the whole world in the near future, and I’d rather you get back what was taken from you and end this war successfully than for my country to reap any benefit from the aid we lent you. It should have all been to do the right thing for our friends. If it wasn’t, we deserve the treatment we get from the rest of the world. It will be bad for us, but there has to be a price for stranding an ally.

Good point. I tend to forget about sanctions because they’re not something really visible. I’d say dropping those would be very bad optics for both the government and whichever businesses start selling to Russia again, but that seems to be a very low concern given what we’re doing to our own country at the moment. It just would look like blatantly stabbing Ukraine in the back though. The US seems to be hell bent on making enemies out of everyone and I hate it so much.

While the US could easily veto them joining NATO, there’s nothing making Ukraine accept any deal struck between Russia and the US, who, last I checked, was not an active participant in this war. I don’t know why Ukrainians would just throw in the towel after losing so much. I don’t know if Europe can sustain things at the level of support Ukraine has been getting with US aid, but all the talk I hear makes it sound like the EU will do what it can.

Especially if Trump expects mineral rights or whatever he is going on about. I don’t know why Ukraine would give up such tremendous value to a party that just volunteers them to surrender. Losing more territory to Russia is a possibility if they can’t maintain troop/supply levels, but it hardly seems worth it for them to give up at this moment. It’s been my understanding keeping the pressure on Russia constantly and not letting them recover has been crucial to Ukraine’s success.

It just feels like Trump trying to put himself at the center of attention when he really has nothing to do with this anymore if he’s choosing to stop US aid to Ukraine.

Thank you!

No one was posting in communities I cared about and many posts anywhere had 0 or 1 comments, so I started posting at least 1 thing every day and looking for threads with no comments where I could start the conversation. I couldn’t wait forever for someone else to do it.

Now I have a ton of posts and comments, and I feel I have some good Lemmy pals and people tell me all the time they look forward to my posts, and it’s just become something natural for me to do now.

Article 2: Impeachment from the House, conviction by 2/3 of the Senate and the Chief Justice.

14th Amendment: Removal for insurrection or rebellion against the Constitution. As it stands so far, would only prevent someone from running again. If someone has the means to have that tried now since he was convicted before the election, that’d be uncharted territory.

25th Amendment: VP and top 15 cabinet members declare the president unable to serve.

Other options of hand would be a coup by the military or citizens, a takeover from another country, censored from natural causes or otherwise, states could leave the union. I’m sure there’s other things I’m missing.

If any of those options are possible or better than what we have now, I can’t say. I feel things aren’t bad enough yet for any of the less civil options to come off as the morally right option. Until he starts getting some more cases brought against him to see what type of laws do or don’t apply to him, civil methods of resistance are still probably the best. If either side goes non-civil, it’s going to make things way worse for everyone long before it makes it better, should the side you fall on be victorious. Lose, and it will probably be much, much worse.

Not publicly advocating any of these things, but I’m a hypothetical scenario, these would be my thoughts. 😇