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My very first conspiracy theory: Space fuckery. I'll lay out the dots and you can connect them.

On the morning of March 19 or 20, I observed what I was certain at the time was my first meteor sighting. This was in the greater Dallas area.

Skip to Sunday I found a story about meteor sightings reported in Houston and other areas. The sightings were from the previous day, March 21.

Since last weekend there have been further meteor reports across the US.

On Thursday March 26 there was a visible missile launch from the Cape Canaveral Space Force station.

This is all in good fun for me. But with this administration and the blunders in Iran, it won't surprise me to learn later that they had something to do with it.

That democracy and democratic socialism are outliers and fated to be a footnote in the history books.

The unfortunate truth is that hate and violence almost always prevails over peace and love.

If the Trump administration doesn’t kill the ADA law changes regarding digital accessibility set to go into effect soon, Adobe is going to leverage the law to unseat the PDF format on the web in an effort to get people to pay for a subscription-based content management system.

Adobe doesn’t own the PDF standard. They gave it to the International Standards Organization in 2008. Acrobat’s accessibility checker has never been updated to newer standards, even as the federal government has moved to require compliance with WCAG 2.1 (a web standard). Their checker does partial WCAG 2.0 and PDF/UA, which was released in 2008. The ISO is working on PDF 2.0, which is not backwards compatible with PDF/UA, nor will files compliant with WCAG be able to meet the PDF 2.0 spec.
Which means that Acrobat (or InDesign) won’t be able to make files that can be legally shared online by many organizations. Adobe will leverage their near monopoly to steer designers into cloud products integrated into their publishing software as a means up fill the niche vacated by PDFs.

For context before I spout my hunch, within the past maybe month or so, someone who worked as a news hostess in the US had her mother kidnapped and hasn't been found and/or returned yet ( dead or alive ) with no arrests so far.

Given the general climit in the US right now, I wouldn't be surprised if the person who did it knew exactly who they were kidnapping and did it out of spite/hatred for this news hostess. Especially since, IIRC, this happened in Texas.

As to what has happened to the mother since, that's up for debate since there's basically not much evidence in the case besides a doorbell camera showing the man coming, mask on with a gun, and trying to block the camera with his hand. That's the latest I heard.

I am very online, and never seen this word before; care to explain?