Hey, I’ve had this as my desktop background for almost a decade now! Easily my favorite picture of anything “space”.

As for your question, it looks like Pluto has an atmosphere in the picture because, well, it does. Although it’s very thin, Pluto’s atmosphere is primarily nitrogen, so if you stood in the surface during daytime the sky would appear a very familiar blue color.

Here’s another shot taken by New Horizons where you can see it much more clearly: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/Blue_hazes_over_backlit_Pluto.jpg

Hey, if you wanna feel really old, look up how long it’s been since Pluto was demoted from being a planet.

spoiler alert: its been 18 freaking years

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This has the added benefit of being literally true.

Reinvesting in education is really the only way America is ever going to solve the foundational issues with its democracy. Unfortunately, education is now one of the most highly-politicized topics in American culture, so… yeah, not looking great.

I don’t think it’s fair to just dump all the blame on corporate media. The news media landscape hasn’t meaningfully changed since Trump was first elected, but despite having 8 years to formulate a sound media strategy the DNC is still campaigning like it’s 2015.

Like, sure, the Democrats are running with a handicap in the current media landscape, but that isn’t new, and it’s the responsibility of the DNC to figure out how to overcome that disadvantage — a task that the current leadership has proven itself woefully incompetent at.

I don’t think this would have the effect that you want in practice. One of the biggest obstacles Democrats face is getting their own voters to care enough to vote. Republicans, despite being less popular as a percentage of Americans, don’t struggle nearly as much getting their supporters to the polls.

Adding additional barriers to voting will decrease voter turnout across the board, and this will absolutely hurt Democrats more than it will hurt Republicans.

That’s not a choice any of us have.

Not voting is a choice.

Like it or not, this is what America chose. The only thing left to do is work to mitigate the damage and figure how to make more Americans take that choice seriously in the future.

Unfortunately “highly engaged voters” aren’t a large segment of the population. If you want to win elections, you have to cater to the voters who only hear the occasional sound bite and then just make a decision based on vibes and/or what their friends and chosen media propaganda factory tell them.

No, it’s not an ideal world, but it’s the world we live in, and it’s been that way for a long time — more than long enough that the DNC should have gotten it’s act together by now. And yet… here we are again…

I’m not so sure that’s going to matter this time around.

Again! Again!

What changed?

Probably the looming possibility of an American gulag for Trump’s political enemies.

Rad. Do Microsoft next.

“Blue collar capitalism”

¿Por qué no los dos?

It absolutely is, which is why MAGA lawmakers are gonna keep pushing it relentlessly.

This myth is probably prevalent because corporations have spent the last 40 years squeezing every cheat and every advantage they can out of the system — to the point where anything that even smells like a “good gesture” is rightfully met with suspicion and contempt from the people they’ve been so blissfully exploring.

It’s a marketing thing. Stuff like this creates the illusion that they’re good corporate citizens.

Of course, they could donate a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of their own profits and make a much bigger impact, but that would set a bad precedent! Giving away your money is only for the working class!

Kentucky tried to do something similar via a constitutional amendment this election cycle, but the voters soundly rejected it — in one of the most conservative (and religious) states in the country.

Nobody wants this, except for the conservative policy makers attempting to create the next generation of brainwashed youth.