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Woman loses thousands of dollars to romance scammer posing as astronaut in distress (www.cbsnews.com)

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[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

The US astronaut begging the communist countries "help we're not unionized. We have to drink our pee and our air is reaching unsafe levels of co2. Please can you wire us funds?"

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

We have to drink our pee

Technically true. In fact, if you feel like it, you can track the current level of unrecycled piss on the ISS live on https://bsky.app/profile/iss-piss-tracker.bsky.social

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

Technically we all drink our own pee and the pee of our ancestors since water goes through a "lifecycle."