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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom" id="contents">Contents</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Heartbreak of Going Back to School in Uvalde</strong> - The summer after the mass shooting was fraught, fragile—and rife with fear for fall. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-southwest/the-heartbreak-of-back-to-school-in-uvalde">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Could Coal Waste Be Used to Make Sustainable Batteries?</strong> - Acid mine drainage has long been a scourge in Appalachia. Recent research suggests that we may be able to simultaneously clean up the pollution and extract the minerals and elements needed to power green technologies. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/us-journal/could-coal-waste-be-used-to-make-sustainable-batteries">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>When Private Equity Takes Over a Nursing Home</strong> - After an investment firm bought St. Joseph’s Home for the Aged, in Richmond, Virginia, the company reduced staff, removed amenities, and set the stage for a deadly outbreak of COVID-19. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/when-private-equity-takes-over-a-nursing-home">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Ben Lerner Reads “Café Loup”</strong> - The author reads his story from the September 5, 2022, issue of the magazine. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-writers-voice/ben-lerner-reads-cafe-loup">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Censorship Machine Erasing China’s Feminist Movement</strong> - This summer, a viral video of a group of women being viciously attacked in a restaurant sparked national outrage. The response has been quashed. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-censorship-machine-erasing-chinas-feminist-movement">link</a></p></li>
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Let’s talk about “anchor problems” and “gravity problems.”
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If you spend a lot of time online, you have probably felt, at some point or another, the irresistible urge to undertake a side hustle.
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By a side hustle, I mean a project that you start with the fairly explicit intention of getting paid or amassing some kind of public acclaim, recognition, or clout. Maybe you’ve thought about launching a podcast, a newsletter, a YouTube channel, or an Etsy shop. Why wouldn’t you? We live in a <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22939754/how-to-become-a-content-creator-economy">content economy</a>, in a culture that deifies entrepreneurship, and as ads from Squarespace and Wix will remind you, it’s so easy to build a professional-looking website for any fledgling business.
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For those who go through with starting a side hustle, there’s a solid chance that after a while, something about it begins to feel burdensome. It could be that you feel like you can’t sustain a certain level of output, or that you professionalized a hobby to the point that it’s not fun anymore. For whatever reason, it feels like a chore.
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What do you do when your side hustle has become a drag? You could let it languish, making vague gestures at “getting back to it” and feeling guilty about pushing it off into infinity. (Have I done that? Am I doing that right now with a particular project? Who can say!) You could also address it directly, asking yourself some expert-approved questions to help guide you toward a more sustainable approach.
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Let’s go with the latter.
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Ask yourself why you started your side hustle
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When I was interviewing experts for this story, I wanted to know what questions people might ask themselves when their side hustle starts to feel like a drain, in order to figure out how to move forward. Across the board, they immediately came back to me with the same one: “Why did you start this side hustle in the first place?”
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Maybe you got into your side hustle to make money. Maybe you did it because you wanted to exercise your creativity or because you were passionate about a cause. Maybe you did it because all of your friends had an extracurricular project going on, and you thought you should, too. By taking a step back and revisiting your original objective, you can figure out what’s really going on and begin finding solutions.
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If your initial reason for starting your side hustle still resonates with you, you can then look at reframing the problem. Bill Burnett, co-founder and executive director of the <a href="http://lifedesignlab.stanford.edu">Stanford Life Design Lab</a> and co-author of the book <a href="https://designingyour.life/the-book/"><em>Designing Your Life</em></a>, suggests thinking through your challenge in terms of “anchor problems” and “gravity problems.” Say you’ve got a weekly newsletter dedicated to tracking new restaurant openings in your city because you love trying new spots and want to share that knowledge with others. An anchor problem might be the fixed notion that it has to be a weekly newsletter — or even a newsletter at all.
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“Once you’ve decided that there’s only one solution, you’re kind of locked in,” Burnett says. As an exercise, try letting go of the anchors you’ve attached to your side hustle and then brainstorm other ways of meeting your central goal. What if you sent your restaurant newsletter every month instead of every week? What if it took a form that was more exciting to you, like a TikTok or an Instagram account?
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<q>“I don’t think we do enough of putting down our projects and moving onto something else”</q>
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Gravity problems, on the other hand, can’t be changed. “It’s just a law of nature, in which case we say that it’s not a problem, it’s just a circumstance,” says Burnett. A gravity problem can also exist in a situation where you could make a change but aren’t willing to do so. For instance, you could stock up on cold brew and send that restaurant newsletter every weekend on top of your regular job — but maybe you didn’t realize at the outset how much effort and energy the newsletter would require, and you don’t want to sacrifice all of your free time for it. (<a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/21473579/millennials-great-recession-burnout-anne-helen-petersen">Burnout is real</a>.) That’s a reasonable position to take. When you’re brainstorming solutions, you just need to work within that constraint.
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By asking yourself why you initially started your side hustle, you might also realize that your answer guides you toward shutting it down. This can particularly be true when you started a project because your friends were doing it, or because you felt some sort of peer pressure to do so. “You’ve just got to be honest with yourself,” says Burnett. “Maybe instead of opening my Etsy site, I need therapy. Why do I care what my friends think, and why is this a measure of my success in the world?”
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If the project doesn’t feel aligned with who you are and what you want to bring to the world anymore, that’s a good reason to set it aside, says <a href="https://www.saranoblecoaching.com">Sara Noble</a>, a life coach who works with creatives. With clients who are undertaking a new project, she likes to help them set “conditions for satisfaction,” which include ground rules for when to abandon that project. “Especially as creative people, I don’t think we do enough of putting down our projects and moving onto something else,” Noble says.
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Dismiss the self-judgment, perfectionism, and “should”s
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When you start reframing your side hustle, a little voice might pipe up in the back of your head, saying, “Sure, you could take your weekly newsletter down to a monthly pace, but you shouldn’t.” The little voice offers all sorts of reasons for that. You will have failed at the project! You told your subscribers you’d send it every week, and you aren’t keeping your word! Your more successful peers have high-profile jobs and<em> </em>operate weekly newsletters, so you should too!
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This is very normal, so don’t fall into a spiral of judging yourself for judging yourself. “I think the biggest thing when people start a side hustle and then hit a wall is that there’s a lot of self-judgment and ‘what’s wrong with me?’” says <a href="https://www.astridbaumgardner.com">Astrid Baumgardner</a>, a career coach for arts leaders and creatives and the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Creative-Success-Now-Creatives-Century-ebook/dp/B083QQPDYC/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Creative+Success+Now%3A+How+Creatives+Can+Thrive+in+the+21st+Century&qid=1660605751&sr=8-1"><em>Creative Success Now: How Creatives Can Thrive in the 21st Century</em></a>.
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Self-judgment gets in the way of finding a sustainable solution for your side hustle. “Design only works in reality, right now, where we are today,” says Burnett. Instead of fixating on the most aspirational version of your side hustle, which doesn’t exist, accept your reality: You tried one version of it, it didn’t quite work, and you now have some valuable information to guide you forward.
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Sometimes we heap the word “should” on ourselves, but sometimes it’s coming from the people in our lives, including well-intentioned loved ones. Instead of taking someone else’s “should” statement at face value, Baumgardner suggests treating it as a flag. “When you hear that word, ask yourself the question: ‘You might think so, but do I?’” she says.
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If a friend says that you should monetize your sewing hobby, for instance, think seriously about whether that’s actually something you want, because while external encouragement may motivate you to start a project, it probably won’t sustain you in the long term. “If it’s not your goal, it’s not going to happen,” says Baumgardner.
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Speaking of external validation, a major reason for feeling locked into a side hustle — even one that’s clearly not working for you anymore — is the fear of disappointing your audience or clients. After all, these are the people who have given you their time, attention, and money — who have, effectively, made the side hustle what it is. That’s real. But, says Baumgardner, “You have to let it go.”
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It’s worth remembering that your audience is not an authority figure in your life, says Noble. (They’re not your parents. Repeat that again.) “If they’re really aligned with who you are and the work you’re doing, then they’ll be aligned with whatever path you take or whatever direction you decide to take it in,” she says.
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Treat your side hustle as an experiment
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After identifying your motivations for having a side hustle and reframing the challenges you’re experiencing with it, you can enter experimentation mode, where you test out changes to the project and see how they feel. Baumgardner advises adopting a spirit of open-mindedness during this process. “Maybe you had some idea about it initially, but allow yourself the freedom to see what this is like,” she says. “Constantly take in information: How do I like this? How am I using my strengths? How much fun is this? How difficult is this? And what am I learning?”
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Depending on the nature of your side hustle, you can consider changing up the cadence, length, subject matter, or format of your product. If you’re struggling with a technical aspect of it, zero in on that challenge and seek out help from someone (or a YouTube video) who can teach you. You may also think about modifying other aspects of your life to suit your side hustle. If your side hustle is a big priority — as a source of income, a passion project, or a career advancement tool — then perhaps you’d be served by giving up your TikTok or TV-watching time to fit it into your schedule.
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If it makes sense for your side hustle, you can even pilot a revamped version of it privately. Before Baumgardner launched a blog, which eventually became the foundation of her book, she gave it a six-month test run to see how she took to blogging, stockpiling posts without publishing a single word. Prototyping behind the scenes can also give you the opportunity to get feedback from friends and family before putting your product out in the world.
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<q>“You can go around and around in your brain for 100 years before you put anything down. Let it be shitty.”</q>
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There’s no one length of time that’s ideal for running this kind of experiment, but you’ll want to give yourself enough time to really get into the flow of the changes you’ve made. That could be eight weeks or even several months, though if you’re testing out a new product privately, be wary of giving yourself too much time to gestate. “I think if it’s going on for more than a year, that’s an excuse,” says Baumgardner.
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Indeed, while there’s a lot of value in analyzing your motivations around your side hustle and thoughtfully brainstorming other versions of it, this kind of experimentation also requires a healthy dose of not thinking too hard — that lack of open-mindedness and lack of rigidity that Baumgardner described. “Just do it,” says Sara Campbell, a writer and life coach based in Los Angeles. “You can go around and around in your brain for 100 years before you put anything down. Let it be shitty.”
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In Burnett’s experience, once you enter experimentation mode, the terrible feeling of having failed on your first try tends to dissipate. He knows something about prototyping, since he is also an adjunct professor of mechanical engineering at Stanford and previously worked in product design at Apple. “Of course you did it wrong. You’re going to do everything wrong for the first five, 10, 15 prototypes,” he says. “When I was at Apple, we invented the first laptop. There were like 300 prototypes before we figured out, oh, the keyboard should be in the back and the trackball should be in the front.”
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Your goal is to evolve the project and learn, and evolve the project until it works for you. “Don’t come up with two ways to do it, come up with 10 ways,” Burnett says. “Once you’re in that mode of thinking, the guilt goes away, the ‘should’ goes away, the comparing yourself with others goes away. Because curiosity about ‘what’s the possibility of the future of me?’ is so powerful and exciting and fun.”
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A side hustle is likely going to change many times throughout its lifespan, as your goals, needs, caregiving commitments, work, and lifestyle evolve. Campbell has experienced this firsthand with her own newsletter, which she started after winding down a startup concept, itself a side hustle. “I think in the evolution of my newsletter, I’ve hit the wall multiple times,” she says.
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When Campbell’s startup folded, she became deeply depressed, and her newsletter, called <a href="https://tinyrevolutions.substack.com">Tiny Revolutions</a>, became a way to talk about those feelings. “The first six months were me just writing about that topic, healing myself, what you go through. It was something I needed to do, and it came from a very raw place,” she says. As she started feeling better, that project didn’t resonate as much as before, and for a while, the newsletter became much more sporadic. When Covid-19 hit, Campbell dialed her frequency back up, writing once a week on topics like mental health and Zen Buddhism, which she practices. More recently, she’s brought it back down to a monthly-ish cadence.
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Campbell believes that after four years of writing the newsletter, her readers trust that she’ll show up in their inboxes, if not always on a rigidly defined schedule. And her readership has more than doubled since she stopped writing weekly.
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When it comes to side hustles, Campbell says, there’s some degree of seasonality that we have to learn to tolerate in ourselves — a certain ebb and flow that we have to accept. “When it starts to feel like a chore, to me, that’s when it becomes problematic, and that’s when I know I have to figure out a way forward,” she says. “I reframe it to be a journey of curiosity and exploration and not like, ‘I must publish this content on Friday at 8 am.’”
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A new NASA rocket is about to take off on a historic mission to the moon. The Artemis I mission won’t land on the lunar surface, but the trip itself will be the farthest <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/around-the-moon-with-nasa-s-first-launch-of-sls-with-orion">a vehicle designed for human astronauts</a> has ever traveled into space.
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There won’t be any humans on NASA’s big trip, but there will be three astronauts: Helga, Zohar, and <a href="https://www.space.com/nasa-moonikin-artemis-1-mannequin-on-orion-capsule">Moonikin Campos</a>. They’re high-tech manikins — that’s the term for human models <a href="https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/opinion/story/2021-01-12/a-word-please-the-word-manakin-crosses-this-editors-eyes">used in scientific research</a> — filled with sensors that will test how the human body responds to space travel. Helga and Zohar are designed to measure the effects of radiation on women’s bodies in space, and Moonikin Campos will sit in the commander’s seat to track just how bumpy a voyage to the moon might be for future human crewmembers. While these manikins might not look particularly impressive on their own, they will play a critical role in NASA’s ambitions to build a new pathway to the moon and, eventually, send astronauts to Mars. They’re also just one of several science experiments aboard the mission meant to better our understanding of space travel.
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The Artemis I mission will begin at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday morning. NASA is currently targeting a takeoff window between 8:33 and 10:33 am ET. At that point, the Space Launch System (SLS), the <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nasa-moon-rocket-artemis-mission/">most powerful rocket</a> NASA has ever built, will lift off, carrying the Orion spacecraft on its nose. Once the vehicle leaves orbit, Orion will travel past the moon, and then <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/around-the-moon-with-nasa-s-first-launch-of-sls-with-orion">thousands of miles beyond it</a>, before turning around and heading back to Earth — a 1.3 million-mile journey that will last 42 days. You can watch the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMLD0Lp0JBg">launch here</a>, starting on Monday at 6:30 am ET.
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“This is a good demonstration that the rocket works the way it’s supposed to,” Wendy Whitman Cobb, a professor at the US Air Force’s School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, told Recode. “It will give NASA a little bit more confidence for crewed missions coming up in the next couple of years.”
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Artemis is the next generation of moon missions. It’s part of NASA’s broader ambitions for lunar exploration, which include astronaut treks across the moon’s surface, a lunar human <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-outlines-lunar-surface-sustainability-concept">habitat</a>, and a new space station called <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/gateway">Gateway</a>. Artemis I also sets the groundwork for the next two missions in the Artemis program: Artemis 2 is scheduled to send humans on a similar trip around the moon in 2024, and Artemis 3 will make history by landing the first woman and the first person of color on the lunar surface sometime in 2025, at the earliest. All of the research happening on Artemis I — including Helga, Zohar, and Moonikin Campos — is meant to prepare for those later missions.
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NASA’s ride to the moon, the SLS, was designed to carry an extremely heavy payload. The rocket is just a few meters taller than <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/stories/nasa-knows/what-is-the-space-launch-system-k4.html">the Statue of Liberty</a>, and it can generate <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/index.html">8.8 million pounds of thrust</a>. Like other launch systems, the SLS is made up of several different stages, each of which plays a role in overcoming Earth’s gravity, breaking through the atmosphere, and reaching outer space. To make that happen, the SLS includes <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/to-the-moon.html">twin solid rocket boosters</a>, as well as a <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/multimedia/infographics/corestage101.html">212-foot tall core stage</a> filled with <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/fs/sls.html">more than 700,000 gallons</a> of liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen. It’s <a href="https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/tag/core-stage/">the largest core stage</a> NASA has ever made.
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After takeoff, the boosters will fire for <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/fired-up-engines-and-motors-put-artemis-mission-in-motion.html">about 2 minutes</a> before separating from the vehicle, falling back toward the ground, and landing in the Atlantic Ocean. Eight minutes in, the core stage will do the same. At that point, the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage (ICPS) will take over and circle the Earth once. About 90 minutes into the flight, the ICPS will give Orion the <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/around-the-moon-with-nasa-s-first-launch-of-sls-with-orion">“big push”</a> it needs to start flying in the direction of the moon, and then fall away.
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While technically new, the SLS is based on older technology. Several of its components, including <a href="https://www.space.com/artemis-1-space-shuttle-hardware">its main engines</a>, are either from or based on systems used by the NASA Space Shuttle program, which ended in 2011. And while other space launches have started using reusable, or at least partially reusable, rocket boosters, the SLS launched on Monday will only fly once. This differentiates SLS from Starship, the super-heavy launch vehicle that SpaceX is designing for moon missions. SpaceX, which beat out Blue Origin for <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/16/science/spacex-moon-nasa.html#:~:text=Elon%20Musk's%20company%20bested%20Jeff,astronauts%20to%20the%20lunar%20surface.">a $2.9 billion contract</a> to build NASA’s lunar landing system, expects Starship’s first orbital test flight to take place sometime in <a href="https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-orbital-test-flight-launch-window#:~:text=The%20company%20is%20apparently%20targeting,1.&text=The%20first%20orbital%20test%20flight,window%20that%20opens%20on%20Sept.">the next six months</a>. Congress’s decision to fund SLS is an ongoing <a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/08/former-nasa-official-on-trying-to-stop-sls-there-was-just-such-visible-hostility/">sore spot</a> within the space industry because the project went <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/11/nasas-sls-moon-rocket-is-2-years-behind-and-billions-over-budget-internal-report-finds/">billions over budget</a> and was delayed several times, and because private companies are now developing less expensive alternatives.
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There is broad-based support for Orion, which NASA designed specifically for Artemis missions, as well as potential trips to nearby asteroids or <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/orion/about/index.html">Mars</a>. The spacecraft was built by Lockheed Martin and, from the outside, it looks like a giant turkey baster with wing-like panels coming out from its side. Orion is home to the Artemis crew module, which is where astronauts jettisoning to and from the moon will eventually spend their time. Once the spacecraft is vetted for human astronauts, the crew module is expected to offer various space travel amenities, including <a href="https://www.cnet.com/science/moon-bound-nasa-astronauts-get-nifty-sleeping-bags-for-snoozing-in-space/">sleeping bags</a>, an assortment of new NASA-recipe <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/space-food-bars-will-keep-orion-weight-off-and-crew-weight-on">space food bars</a>, and a revamped <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/boldly-go-nasa-s-new-space-toilet-offers-more-comfort-improved-efficiency-for-deep-space">space toilet</a> that’s designed for zero gravity and people of all genders.
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On this mission, the primary passengers will be a collection of science experiments. One test involves the NASA manikins Zohar and Helga, which are made of <a href="https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Orion/Radiation_for_dummies">38 slices of plastic</a> that are meant to imitate human tissue, as well as more than <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/artemis-i-space-radiation-research-to-help-moon-mars-explorers/">5,600 sensors and 34 radiation</a> detectors. There’s a <a href="https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/5/14/18306893/apollo-50-nasa-spaceflight-human-body-twin-study">high level of radiation in space</a>, which is a source of ongoing concern that future astronauts could face heightened cancer risk, especially as space trips become longer and more ambitious. Both of these manikins were designed with breasts and uteri because women tend to be more sensitive to radiation. Zohar will also wear a specialized protective vest called AstroRed, which engineers are evaluating as a potential way to protect astronauts from radiation, including during <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/orion-passengers-on-artemis-i-to-test-radiation-vest-for-deep-space-missions">solar flares</a>. Helga won’t receive a vest, and will allow NASA to study how much the AstroRed actually helped.
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Orion is also carrying <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02293-8">an experiment</a> that’s meant to test how yeast responds to radiation. Researchers plan to store freeze-dried yeast underneath one of the Orion crew seats, and then expose the yeast to fluid over the course of three days in space. Once Orion lands back on Earth, scientists will analyze the yeast’s DNA to study how it fared. The experiment could yield insight into how humans might stay healthy in space during future trips.
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A version of Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant, which has been downloaded onto an iPad, is hitching a ride, too. NASA is testing Callisto, a virtual AI that Amazon, Cisco, and Lockheed Martin designed <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/callisto-technology-demonstration-to-fly-aboard-orion-for-artemis-i">to communicate with astronauts</a>. While the tech might sound a little like HAL from <em>2001: A Space Odyssey</em>, the engineers say the system is meant to provide assistance and companionship.
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Other aspects of Artemis I’s payload are more sentimental. A plush doll version of the Shaun the Sheep character from the Wallace and Gromit franchise will travel on Orion. So will a <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/snoopy-to-fly-on-nasas-artemis-i-moon-mission/">Snoopy doll</a> outfitted in an astronaut costume, along with a pen nib that Charles M. Schultz used to draw the Peanuts series, wrapped in a comic strip. Momentos from the <a href="http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-080322a-artemis-1-official-flight-kit-ofk.html">Apollo 11 mission</a>, which landed the first humans on the lunar surface in the 1960s, are also going, including a tiny sample of moon dust and a piece of an engine.
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Some of Artemis I’s most important research projects won’t be returning to Earth. The mission includes plans to launch 10 miniature satellites, called CubeSats, into the moon’s orbit. These satellites will collect data that NASA, along with private companies, could eventually use to navigate on and around the moon.
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One satellite, <a href="https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=LUNIR">LunIR</a>, will study the safety of the lunar surface with infrared imaging, producing information that could influence where <a href="https://www.space.com/nasa-artemis-1-moon-mission-cubesats">astronauts will eventually travel</a>. One satellite, called <a href="https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=L-ICECUBE">the Lunar IceCube</a>, will attempt to detect lunar sources of water, which NASA could eventually use as a resource. Another satellite, <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/content/nea-scout">NEA Scout</a>, will head to a small, nearby asteroid, a side trip that could inform future crewed missions to other asteroids. The satellites will be launched by another component, called the Orion Stage Adapter, only after the spacecraft is <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/international-partners-provide-cubesats-for-sls-maiden-flight">a safe distance away</a>.
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These satellites are a reminder that NASA is interested in far more than just visiting the moon. The Artemis program is laying the groundwork for an unprecedented level of activity on the lunar surface, including a human base camp, a series of nuclear reactors, and a mineral mining operation. NASA has expressly said that it wants to develop a lunar economy, and the space agency has also established the Artemis Accords, a set of principles for exploring the moon that <a href="https://www.space.com/artemis-accords-moon-space-exploration-importance">more than 20 countries</a> have now joined.
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Eventually, NASA plans to turn the moon into a pit stop on a much more ambitious journey: a human mission to Mars. Right now, it seems like that could happen sometime in the late 2030s. But while many of these plans are still far out, it’s clear that the Artemis program is far more than a repeat of the Apollo program.
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“Apollo was a political act in the context of the Cold War to demonstrate US national power to the world. It was explicitly a race with the Soviet Union to be first to the moon. Once we were first to the moon, the reason for continuing went away,” explains John Logsdon, the founder of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University. “Artemis is intended as the first program in a long-term program of human exploration.”
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Of course, all of this hinges on the Artemis I mission running smoothly. NASA still needs to evaluate how well SLS and Orion work together during liftoff. The space agency also needs to study how well Orion survives its descent through the atmosphere, which we won’t know for quite some time. If all goes well, the Orion capsule, along with its motley payload of science experiments and galactic tchotchkes, will return to Earth and splash down in the Pacific Ocean on October 10.
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Serena Williams’s retirement announcement in Vogue contained a telling line about the motivation behind her playing career. She explains that, for her, turning negativity into winning has been a driving force.
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“I’ve built a career on channeling anger and negativity and turning it into something good,” <a href="https://www.vogue.com/article/serena-williams-retirement-in-her-own-words">Serena wrote</a>. “To me that’s kind of the essence of being Serena: expecting the best from myself and proving people wrong. There were so many matches I won because something made me angry or someone counted me out.”
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It’s easy to appreciate the greatness of Serena Williams: 23 grand slam singles titles, four Olympic gold medals, 14 grand slam doubles titles, and a “Serena Slam,” a non-calendar-year grand slam (winning the four major championships — Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, US Open — consecutively). That’s a galactic level of wins. But in order to grasp the full picture, it’s necessary to remember how poorly the sport treated Serena and her sister Venus — even if a lot of folks in the tennis world would like to forget.
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Serena, now 40, has said this is her last US Open and her chance to capture a record-tying 24 singles grand slam tournament wins. To do so, she’ll need to defy tennis logic one more time and win the whole damned thing. Essentially, she’ll need to be Serena Williams, just one last time.
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Remembering the parts of Serena Williams’s career we’d rather forget
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Throughout their careers, people constantly told Serena and her sister Venus that they weren’t allowed to do certain things. They were told that they had no business winning the most coveted tournaments in the game. Each time someone told Serena “no,” she went and proved them wrong beyond a shadow of a doubt.
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The most visceral example of this might be <a href="https://www.vox.com/22790093/king-richard-venus-serena-williams-sisters-racism">2001 Indian Wells</a>, perhaps the ugliest moment in recent tennis history. Serena won her first US Open in 1999, and Venus won both Wimbledon and the US Open in 2000. As they became more dominant, players and commentators had talked about how not only was their father Richard a bad influence, but also started circulating the unsubstantiated rumor that when the sisters played one another, they would decide in advance who would win. At Indian Wells, a major tournament, Venus was supposed to play Serena in the semifinals but pulled out at the last minute because of an injury. The audience, upset at the walkover and wound up by the rumors of match-fixing, booed at the Williams family in the stands, some calling them racist slurs.
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“They deny, but with less than the normal conviction, even anger, one would expect in the face of such serious issues. How about pounding on the table and saying it ain’t so? How about some tears, some anger?” LA Times columnist Bill Dwyre <a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-mar-16-sp-38428-story.html">wrote</a> at the time, explaining how he and the tennis community didn’t believe Venus’s injury was real and that the family was acting suspiciously.
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Because of the way they were treated and because of the racist attacks, Serena and Venus boycotted the tournament — despite its high payout and elite status — for more than a decade. At the time, tennis insiders and former players, including the great Martina Navratilova, continually dismissed the idea of racism against the sisters and insinuated that the backlash Serena and Venus received was their family’s fault.
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Not every attack against Serena and Venus erupted on such a grand scale. It often took the form of commentators critiquing <a href="https://www.vox.com/2015/3/11/8189679/serena-williams-indian-wells-racism">their bodies</a>, or the way they <a href="https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-2001-03-22-0103220316-story.html">behaved</a> and <a href="https://qz.com/451935/video-venus-williamss-father-schools-a-white-journalist-on-how-to-interview-a-14-year-old-black-girl/">how they were too</a> bold when they said they wanted to be the best. They were often described as being <a href="https://bleacherreport.com/articles/213700-jason-whitlock-thinks-serena-williams-is-a-slacker-its-easy-to-agree">fat and lazy</a> or <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/sports/sporting-scene/serena-williams-and-her-distractions">distracted</a> by things other than tennis.
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Serena Williams and her sister Venus were not just beating the best players in the world — they won multiple grand slams before their respective 22nd birthdays — they were also playing a sport in which so many wanted to see them fail or count them out. They carried that pressure into each tournament and won gracefully, to the point that commentators and journalists had to change their tune.
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“I remember, there was a point, and it was later than you’d think — it was somewhere around her having 16 or 17 Grand Slams — when tennis commentators kind of decided to start talking about Serena specifically as a legend and not so much the open criticism they had of her,” Caitlin Thompson, the publisher of <a href="https://racquetmag.com/">Racquet magazine</a>, told me late last year during the release of <a href="https://www.vox.com/22790093/king-richard-venus-serena-williams-sisters-racism"><em>King Richard</em></a>, the movie about Serena and Venus’s father.
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“There’s now this sort of retroactive narrative. They’ll say ‘I’ve always thought of Venus and Serena as being elegant, transcendent champions.’ And it’s like, really? Did you? It didn’t sound like that at the time,” she added.
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Fifteen years ago, those commentators basically wrote Serena out of the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/27/sports/27iht-web.0127tennis.4368100.html">2007 Australian Open</a>. At the time, Serena was coming off a slew of injuries and entered the tournament unseeded. Still, she intended to be No. 1 again, saying that it was only a matter of time before she returned to the top slot. Commentators and insiders called her “<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080821180813/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/tennis/article1292868.ece">deluded</a>” and out of shape; some <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/08/sports/ncaabasketball/08weight.html">speculated</a> that Serena, who had dominated tennis just a couple of years prior to her injuries, was over her listed 135 pounds and that the women’s top 10 had passed Serena by.
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Despite being unseeded and facing a tough draw full of talented players, Serena powered through the tournament, stunning her detractors in each round. When the dust settled, the only woman standing between Serena Williams and another grand slam was Maria Sharapova.
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Sharapova had asserted herself to be Williams’s biggest rival and successor. Before the Aussie Open final, the <a href="https://www.stevegtennis.com/head-to-head/women/Serena_Williams/Maria_Sharapova/">two played four times</a> and split the matches evenly. However, Sharapova was in better form, having won the 2006 US Open that summer. On paper, Sharapova was supposed to be the favorite.
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But on the court, where matches are won and lost, Serena was dominating.
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In the first point of the sixth game, Sharapova, reeling from the onslaught of Williams’s serves and backhands, aimed a smash directly at Serena’s body (usually a no-no in tennis since you could hurt someone). Serena glared. The crowd gasped.
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If you <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2Qea_uBBAU">watch the replay</a>, it’s not entirely clear what she’s more mad at: that Sharapova took a swing at her or that she lost the point. Maybe it was both. But in that pocket of time, Serena seemingly made up her mind to never lose to this woman again.
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Not only would she beat Sharapova 6-1, 6-2 in that match, Serena would also go on to beat her touted successor every single time they would play until Sharapova retired in 2020 — 18 times over 12 years, a 20-2 record. And Serena won 15 more grand slam singles titles after 2007, the year she was supposedly done for.
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After 2007, Serena Williams, left, never lost to Maria Sharapova again.
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The only way to explain why Serena would stick with tennis despite it all is that this is what love looks like. Serena’s love for tennis is the most relatable thing about this unrelatable superstar.
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It’s the unscientific reconciliation between human desire and human reality, wanting something so much despite the emotional and physical pain (Serena’s had so many injuries, even a life-threatening pulmonary <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/serena-williams-hospitalized-pulmonary-embolism/story?id=13036965">embolism</a> ) it will bring.
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Love is why Serena and her sister dared to change tennis history and accepted the spotlight in their wins and losses. Love is why she took great offense after being <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/9/10/17837598/serena-williams-us-open-umpire-carlos-ramos">called a cheater</a>. Love is why she’s giving herself one more chance, despite the physical limits of a 40-year-old body, to win the US Open instead of adhering to the old advice of how <a href="https://www.cbssports.com/nhl/news/best-athletes-to-retire-at-the-top-of-their-game/">athletes should leave the game</a> while they’re at the top of the sport.
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We’re lucky to bear witness to it.
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Not unlike what was said about Serena 15 years ago, the odds of Serena making the finals are slim. She hasn’t been in top form and isn’t match tough. She’s currently <a href="https://www.wtatennis.com/players/230234/serena-williams#overview">ranked 608</a> in singles and has won only one match all year. It would take a miracle for her to win this Grand Slam, an exponentially bigger feat than the one she pulled off in Australia in 2007. But I’ll be heartbroken if she doesn’t. Somehow, against all logic, I still believe Serena can do it.
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Hockey Bengal honours Gurbux and Vece</strong> -</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>BCCI secretary Jay Shah criticised for refusing to hold flag after India-Pakistan T20</strong> - After a video went viral of Jay Shah refusing to hold the Indian flag after India’s win over Pakistan, political opposition leaders shared the video, slamming Union Home Minister Amit Shah's son</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Vinesh headlines women’s squad for wrestling World championships</strong> -</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Rudrankksh Patil tops air rifle in style</strong> - Yash Vardhan, third in men’s section, tops juniors and youth</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Barcelona forward Aubameyang attacked by robbers at home</strong> - Barcelona’s Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang was hit and forced to open a safe at his home where him and his wife kept jewellery</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>KCR failed to fulfil promises to Mid-Manair oustees: Revanth</strong> -</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Chhattisgarh waterfall tragedy | Bodies of all three missing tourists found; death toll rises to six</strong> - All the deceased were part of a group of 15 members of an extended family from Madhya Pradesh, who had on August 28, gone for a picnic to Ramdaha waterfall, located more than 300KM from Raipur.</p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>TMNT Cowabunga Collection review: A ‘90s dream, a few months too late</strong> - 13-game compilation benefits from cool tweaks, rollback netcode. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1876454">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The final countdown begins for NASA’s hulking new rocket</strong> - “We are prepared for just about anything.” - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1876538">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The weekend’s best deals: Apple iPad, MacBook Pro, OLED TVs, and more</strong> - Dealmaster also has HyperX gaming headsets, the Google Chromecast, and the Xbox Series S. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1876456">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Review: HP’s 13.5-inch Spectre x360 is a top ultralight—with flair</strong> - Not the top performer, but the Spectre has other wins, like its 3:2 screen. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1871379">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The number of companies caught up in recent hacks keeps growing</strong> - 2FA provider Authy, password manager LastPass, and DoorDash all experienced breaches. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1876496">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>A couple made a deal that whoever died first would come back and inform the other if there was sex after death.</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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H : “That’s wonderful! What is it like in the afterlife? Is there sex?”<br> W: “Well, as soon as I get up in the morning, I have sex. After sex and breakfast it’s off to the these green pastures with an amazing crystal lake. Thereafter I bathe in the warm sun and have sex a couple more times. Then I have lunch, you’d be proud - lots of greens. After lunch, it’s back to the pastures again. Then it’s more sex until late at night. I catch some much needed sleep and then the next day it starts all over again.”
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<li><strong>I used to steal Mitch Hedberg jokes.</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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