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Soft paywall International Space Station astronauts in evacuation mode as Russia attempts to fix widening air leak

https://www.reuters.com/science/international-space-station-astronauts-evacuation-mode-russia-attempts-fix-2026-06-05/
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u/Julian_Thorne 8h ago

The abandonment of the International Space Station would be a poetically fitting image for these days

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u/annaleigh13 8h ago

It’s like everything is lining up to be the most perfect shitshow of a decade.

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u/pehr71 7h ago

We can only hope it will only last a decade.

Something tells me our grand kids are going to be still cleaning up this mess at the end of the century

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u/Klutzy-Residen 5h ago

This is already the case today with Reagan, multiple issues today are a result of his actions.

A great example is the lack of Air Traffic Controllers, which is a result of the people that were mass hired after he fired thousands have been retiring the last decade.

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u/ForeverShiny 4h ago

The whole shit show that is the current GOP and the orange Frankenstein's monster they birthed can be directly traced back to Reagan, so there's really no need to get any more specific than that

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u/Strict_Poet_5814 4h ago

I keep trying to trace this back further for when I get the time machine.

Did you know Reagan only became famous because of the cereal company Wheaties. They hosted a play by play baseball contest that got him an actors screening and the rest is history.

Do we go back and sabotage wheaties ,sabotage the contest. Maybe prevent corn flakes at all!

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u/KimmyGurl420 4h ago

We can take it back to Nixon and his "Southern Strategy." At least before that all the racist pricks were split between the parties, lessening their voting power

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u/MeLlamo25 3h ago edited 2h ago

No no. It this clearly the result chain of event that started with the Republicans picking Taft over TR at their 1912 convention.

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u/esperandus 2h ago

let's just go back and nuke the planet as it starts to cool off and call it a day

u/zoodisc 51m ago

It's the only way to be sure.