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Social Security will face a decrease by 2032 if Congress does not take action

The claim that Social Security faces cuts by 2032 gets the year wrong and overstates the danger. Current official projections put the trust fund shortfall around 2033–2035, not 2032 — and even then, benefits wouldn't disappear but would be automatically reduced by roughly 17–23% unless Congress acts. The 2024 Social Security Trustees Report is the clearest source: it projects the combined trust funds last until 2035.

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Data centers caused the rise in US electricity bills

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A person can walk on water using futuristic floating shoes powered by hidden buoyant tech and magnetic stabilization

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Shoes designed with ultra-light materials and air pockets can keep a person on the water's surface without sinking

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Precision Strike Missiles each spray over 180,000 tungsten pellets

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Dark-energy-driven cosmic acceleration began roughly five billion years ago

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When both errors in the South Korean study are corrected, the evidence for cosmic acceleration returns clearly and consistently

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The South Korean researchers' study failed to apply a standard correction accounting for host galaxy mass

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The South Korean researchers' study incorrectly assumed the age of an exploding star matched the age of its host galaxy

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A late-2024 paper by South Korean researchers argued that Type Ia supernova data indicated dark energy was weakening and cosmic expansion was decelerating

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The Haradhat Damt volcanic crater is 120 metres tall

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Two interceptor missiles successfully engaged targets in both endo-atmospheric and exo-atmospheric regions during the tests.

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India has entered an elite group of nations with ICBM-range interception capability.

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Only a handful of nations — including the US, Russia, and Israel — currently possess comparable comprehensive BMD architectures.

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The Oreshnik is a modified version of the Rubezh surface-to-surface missile

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The Oreshnik missile is capable of deploying up to six nuclear-capable reentry vehicles carrying as many as 36 warheads

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Current Earth system models may systematically overestimate how much carbon forests will sequester in the future

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Many Earth system models equate photosynthesis rates with wood growth

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Carbon absorbed by trees after growth stops tends to flow toward shorter-lived uses such as foliage and internal metabolic processes rather than being locked into wood for decades or centuries

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Wood growth in trees is constrained to periods of low heat and low aridity

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At California sites, approximately 26% of annual carbon uptake occurred after tree growth had already halted

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At eastern US sites, roughly 36% of annual carbon uptake occurred after tree growth had already halted

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Trees cease growing well before photosynthesis stops each year

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General relativity treats time as a dynamic dimension warped by mass and energy, while quantum physics treats it as a fixed external parameter

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The Wheeler-DeWitt equation, first proposed in 1967, contained no time variable

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