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"Michael Cohen Hearings Cold Open - SNL" (Watch on YouTube)

About them dragons

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-03/spacex-crew-dragon-docks-with-international-space-station

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon unmanned craft successfully docked with the International Space Station on Sunday, a key milestone for chief executive officer Elon Musk, his team and the American space agency.

It would be an interesting problem to calculate the rate of innovation and capital required to build a human habitat on Mars for 1,000 people by 2120.

A snapshot

Mr. Trump’s approval rating has been remarkably static since taking office in January 2017. The Journal/NBC News poll has found between 43% and 47% of Americans approving of the president’s job handing in every poll since last June.
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attributed Mr. Trump’s improved rating to an uptick [from 43-54 to 46-52] in support from white men without a college degree.
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Mr. Trump leads a generic Democratic opponent, 46% to 40%, in five Midwestern states he carried in 2016: Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. But he trails a generic Democrat, 50% to 39%, in five Sun Belt states Democrats aim to flip in 2020: Arizona, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and Texas.
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Mr. Trump’s effort to declare a national emergency to fund a wall on parts of the Southern border with Mexico is opposed by 60% of those polled, compared with 39% who approve.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-job-approval-rating-ticks-up-along-with-warning-signs-11551621720

Obama and Clinton had similar numbers in just out recession economies, in early 1995 and 2011 respectively.

SNL was great yesterday

"What's That Name - SNL" (Watch on YouTube)

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But Epic’s real genius is in how it markets to the game’s young audience: Fortnite is, above everything else, a place to hang out with your friends. That’s why it isn’t weird that Weezer is playing unreleased songs on an in-game island, and nobody bats an eye when the DJ and producer Marshmello plays a concert in a virtual park.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/3/18246868/attention-economy-fortnite-advertising-user-engagement

In 2018, Fortnite has accomplished what Second Life wanted to become.

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Luther's translation used the variant of German spoken at the Saxon chancellery, intelligible to both northern and southern Germans. He intended his vigorous, direct language to make the Bible accessible to everyday Germans, "for we are removing impediments and difficulties so that other people may read it without hindrance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther

Luther's work fundamentally changed the salvation industry. It obliterated huge swaths of intangible capital that the Catholic Church invested in its organization, including learning Greek and Latin for the sake of understanding the Word of God. It established a new logic of salvation.

Unless I am convinced by the testimony of the Scriptures or by clear reason (for I do not trust either in the pope or in councils alone, since it is well known that they have often erred and contradicted themselves), I am bound by the Scriptures I have quoted and my conscience is captive to the Word of God.