2024-04-03
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Temporary Shipping Channel Reopens Near Baltimore Bridge Collapse For Small Vessels
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Owners of Cargo Ship Behind Baltimore Bridge Collapse: Don't Blame Us
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What makes housing so expensive? - by Brian Potter
We can divide the costs of a new home into roughly three buckets: “hard costs” (physically constructing the home), “soft costs” (design, administration, marketing, and other non-physical construction costs), and the costs of land. Per the NAHB, on average hard costs are about 56% of the total costs, soft costs (including builder profits) are about 25%, and land costs are about 18%.
We see that hard costs are roughly 50/50 split between materials and labor (and we saw something similar when we looked at how the cost of individual construction tasks has changed over time). This is yet another thing that makes reducing construction costs difficult. A large fraction of hard costs are due to the cost of materials, and there’s no obvious path for making these cheaper. Bulk building materials are already mass-produced in factories, and are among the cheapest materials civilization is capable of producing. As we’ve noted previously, modern buildings are fairly materially efficient, and there’s no obvious path for using substantially fewer materials that doesn’t come with significant tradeoffs.
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Eliminate the Chassis Requirement to Free Manufactured Home Development
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Some people may see more images per second than others
researchers found that if a light source flickers above the limit of how many images per second a person could perceive, the person will not perceive the light source as flickering at all. To discover the maximum number of images per second each study participant could perceive, scientists measured each person's “critical flicker fusion threshold.” Some people perceived a light to be completely still even when it flickered about 35 times per second, but other participants could still detect the rate of a light flickering even when it was flashing more than 60 times per second.
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some people see hummingbird wings in use. Some can see BB's and sling stones in flight. Centuries of human experience here was not the same as Science, however.
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Lifelong ‘Star Trek’ Fan Leaves Behind a Massive Trove of Memorabilia - The New York Times
The items took up two living rooms and a bedroom, all lined with bookshelves, according to Elena Hamel, one of the brothers’ nieces. The centers of the rooms were lined with additional bookshelves — all packed to the brim — to create aisles. There were jewelry cabinets serving as display cases. The shelves contained action figures. Dolls. Models of ships. Posters. Ornaments. Lunchboxes. Legos. Several toy phasers and tricorders. (For non-Trek fans, the phaser is a weapon, and a tricorder is, essentially, a fancy smartphone.) Multiple “Star Trek” lamps. (Yes, there are “Star Trek” lamps.) Trading cards. Comic books. Trek-themed Geeki Tikis (stylized tiki mugs). Life-size cutouts of famous characters. A life-size captain’s chair.
Horseshit
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Animal-free egg protein startup Onego Bio closer to cracking traditional market
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What Would Society Look Like if Extreme Wealth Were Impossible? - The Atlantic
Limitarianism questions the idea that individual wealth is ever individual.
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Opening of new hyperloop track rekindles hype over futuristic trains
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Big Problem for Marijuana Companies? What to Do with All That Cash
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Human Brains Have Gotten Astonishingly Bigger over the Last 75 Years
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Global glut turns solar panels into garden fencing option
Solar panels have become so cheap that they are being used to build garden fences in the Netherlands and Germany, as a boom in Chinese production saturates the global market. The panels capture less sunlight when used as fencing than they do on roofs, but the process saves on high labour and scaffolding costs, according to analysts and posts on social media by households that have installed them.
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Boss: The Life and Times of Richard J. Daley of Chicago - Part 1
What were Daley’s goals? First and foremost, to amass and maintain his personal political power. When it came to ideology, he had a sort of flinty conservatism: he liked authority and hated protestors. He was a devout Catholic, going to mass every day. He regarded the newspapers and reporters as the enemy, always criticizing, always asking questions. He believed in racial segregation and that people should pull themselves up by their bootstraps. But good politics came before ideology with Daley; his concern was always what would be best for him and the machine.
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Is Economic Deprivation the Real Cause of the Adolescent Mental Health Crisis?
Boeing
Electric / Self Driving cars
celebrity gossip
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
Musk
Trump / War against the Right / Jan6
Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp
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Health Alert: First Case of Novel Influenza a (H5N1) in Texas, March 2024
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U.S. dairy farm worker infected as bird flu spreads to cows in five states
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First human case of bird flu reported in Texas, following exposure to infected cattle.
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The WHO’s Power Grab | City Journal
With the support of the Biden administration, the World Health Organization (WHO) is seeking unprecedented powers to impose its policies on the United States and the rest of the world during the next pandemic. It was bad enough that America and other countries voluntarily followed WHO bureaucrats’ disastrous pandemic advice instead of heeding the scientists who had presciently warned, long before 2020, that lockdowns, school closures, and mandates for masks and vaccines would be futile, destructive, and unethical. It was bad enough that U.S. officials and the corporate media parroted the WHO’s false claims and ludicrous praise of China’s response. But now the WHO wants new authority to make its bureaucrats’ whims mandatory—and to censor those who disagree with their version of “the science.” The WHO hopes to begin this power grab in May at its annual assembly in Geneva, where members will vote on proposed changes in international health regulations and a new treaty governing pandemics. Pamela Hamamoto, the State Department official representing the U.S. in negotiations, has already declared that America is committed to signing a pandemic treaty that will “build a stronger global health architecture,” which is precisely what we don’t need.
Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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Google agrees to delete Incognito data despite prior claim that's "impossible"
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Jon Stewart says Apple asked him not to host FTC Chair Lina Khan
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Redis' license change and forking are a mess that everybody can feel bad about
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Why are younger generations embracing the retro game revival?
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Charter Lobbyists Sneak Language into NY Bill to Hamstring Community Broadband
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FCC to vote to restore net neutrality rules, reversing Trump
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Feds decide to do something about years-old SS7 spy holes phone networks
TechSuck / Geek Bait
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xz has shown how a dependence on unpaid volunteers can cause major problems
After politely requesting a support contract from Microsoft for long term maintenance, they offered a one-time payment of a few thousand dollars instead. This is unacceptable.
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
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Metal thought to be International Space Station trash rips through Florida home
Engineers for NASA are analyzing the cylindrical slab, which weighs about 2lb and tore through the home in Naples on the afternoon of 8 March. “It was a tremendous sound. It almost hit my son. He was two rooms over and heard it all,” the homeowner, Alejandro Otero, told WINK News. “Something ripped through the house and then made a big hole on the floor and on the ceiling.”
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White House directs NASA to create time standard for the moon
Crypto con games
Economicon / Business / Finance
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
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Blaming Russia For “Havana Syndrome” Pushes The Opposite Narrative Than Intended
CBS News, The Insider, and Der Spiegel released the findings of their joint investigation on Sunday blaming Russia for “Havana Syndrome”, which refers to the mysterious ear and head pain that over 1,500 US Government (USG) staffers across the world claim to have experienced since 2016. It appeared timed to coincide with Congress’ plans to vote on Ukraine aid sometime later this month, with the intent obviously being to scare lawmakers into approving more funds for America’s proxy war on Russia. It might have the opposite effect than intended, however, since those outlets’ dramatic claims paint a picture of deep Russian intelligence penetration of the US’ diplomatic and security services that can’t be remedied by simply sending more money to Ukraine. If what they wrote is true, then Russia has created a mobile directed energy weapon (DEW) that it’s already successfully used over 1,500 times, including against the US’ “top 5%, 10% performing officers across the Defense Intelligence Agency”.
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New evidence "Havana Syndrome" caused by GRU sabotage squad of Russian Military
World
Israel
Russia Bad / Ukraine War
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Ukrainian Drones Hit Russia’s Third-Largest Oil Refinery | OilPrice.com
The United States has repeatedly urged Ukraine to halt its drone attacks on Russian oil refineries due to Washington’s assessment that the strikes could lead to Russian retaliation and push up global oil prices, the Financial Times reported last month, citing sources familiar with the exchange.
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Russia's Sokol Crude Starts to Move to India Again via Traders
Health / Medicine
Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda
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US $6B plan aims to cut pollution from range of plants, from steel to food
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Scientists Discover Heightened Toxicity Risk for Children with Autism, ADHD
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'We've had enough': Protests over carbon price hike halt traffic across Canada
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Tone-deaf fossil gas growth in Europe is speeding climate crisis, say activists
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The Brazilian Special-Forces Unit Fighting to Save the Amazon