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You're a Slow Thinker. Now what?
I’ve always thought that my slow processing time would end up putting me at a disadvantage - socially, in academia and in my career. I’ve had one interview where I had to do multiplications really quickly, whilst shouting my name, and doing such-and-such random thing every five minutes. I’ve also been in work social situations where I’ve lacked the wit to respond when a senior guy cracks some jokes. I guess if you take a long time to do something, people kind of forget that you're there. Surely being quick-witted gives you a leg up in the world!
Horseshit
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They still sell 'em in some truckstops? Childlike sex dolls being advertised on Facebook
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Quoting a 1992 book: The Obsolescence of Political Definitions
important problems, such as ecological problems or the problem of overpopulation, appearing on the horizon of a planet that has become constricted, cannot be grasped nor handled within the categories of conservatism, liberalism, and socialism. Survival has been a question of organization for a long time now; freedom in mass societies can easily lead to disintegration or explosions, while rigorous planning can bear ills that it cannot heal from. It would therefore be wishful thinking to suggest the inevitable dissolution of the traditional political definitions via the economization of the political would eliminate conflict between interest groups or even temper it. Without a doubt politics will be largely de-ideologized, that is, the influence of those ideologies that legitimized political acts since the French revolution will be diminished or rolled back. It is shortsighted to attribute the political struggle of the past two hundred years to ideological fanaticism and to ex contrario prophesize the end of conflict following the “end of ideology.” De-ideologized conflicts might be even more violent, should some particular goods prove to be in short supply, if overcoming the scarcity of goods is deemed to be of chief importance to humankind. De-ideologization and the economization of the political ultimately mean that material goods will be fought for without any important ideology as mediator. One must then recognize de-ideologization as a partial reversion to animality. Admittedly it remains a matter of taste whether it is beautiful and preferable that the farewell to utopia goes so far.
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New botnet large enough to disrupt all internet to countries
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Why grandma won't buy Betty Crocker cake mixes any more.
- Pixy:
Specifically, the boxes have shrunk from 18.25 oz to 15.25 oz and now to 13.25 oz. So if you follow an older recipe specifying a box of cake mix and specific amounts of wet ingredients, you're going to end up with slop rather than cookies.
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Cereal Box Records Sound Horrible. They Still Look Incredible
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Chimp and baby raised together in the same way to see what would happen
Obit
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Bobby Hart, the songwriter behind some of the The Monkees’ biggest hits, dead at 86.
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RIP Fred Kirschenmann - Food Politics by Marion Nestle
I first met him in the early 2000s when I went to Iowa State to give a lecture. The Dean of Agriculture, Cathy Wokeki, said I had to meet him. He was then directing the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State, which promoted organic, sustainable, regenerative farming methods right smack in the epicenter of U.S. industrial agriculture. When the Center—an explicit critic of industrial methods—was unsurprisingly defunded, Fred became a Distinguished Fellow of the Center. I got to know him better when we both served on the Pew Commission for Industrial Farm Animal Production from 2006-2009, where I got to witness his honesty, integrity, thoughtfulness, and humanity in action.
- He lived to see his goals exposed as a decorative tinsel worn by the Left, to be thrown away once RFK embraced Trump. Decades of work cannot be allowed to impede today's need for objects of Hate with which to energize the base.
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Patrick McGovern, the 'Indiana Jones of Ancient Alcohol,' Dies at 80
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
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When You’re No Longer One of Us - Gibberish and Stuff
When Elon Musk took over Twitter, the community split into four: Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, and X. Very few people actively participate in more than one of these spaces. Yes, cross-posting happens, but that’s not real participation. It’s more like treating other platforms as write-only, and people can tell the difference. Many indie developers fled to Mastodon. The problem is, Mastodon is small and niche. Even if your followers join you there, it’s still hard for them to use because there’s no discovery.
Musk
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Elon Musk buys nearly $1B in Tesla stock in push for more control
On Friday, Elon Musk spent about $1 billion to buy 2.57 million shares of stock in Tesla Inc., bringing his ownership of Tesla from 19.71% to 19.78%. The purchases were disclosed today, and the stock went up: The stock closed at $395.94 per share on Friday, and at noon today it was trading at about $419.54.
it seems fair to say that the stock went up more or less entirely because of Musk’s $1 billion purchase. And the stock-price increase makes Musk approximately $17 billion richer. So Musk spent $1 billion to make himself $17 billion richer. Nice work if you can get it! A 1,600% one-day return on his money.
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Then goes on to explain that the purpose is not profit but to regain the "World's Richest Man" title and troll Larry Ellison.
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Elon Musk sends Tesla's stock soaring on $1B purchase amid suspicious
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Meet the Hacker Who Helped Score a $243M Verdict Against Tesla
Electric / Self Driving cars
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
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Cornell Students Skin Bear in Communal Kitchen, No Charges Filed
Two Cornell students legally hunted a bear and processed the animal in a Ganędagǫ: Hall kitchen on Saturday, according to a University spokesperson. The University spokesperson wrote in an email to The Sun that the students had valid New York State hunting licenses used to hunt and bring a bear into Ganędagǫ: Hall over the weekend. “A police report was made when a complaint was filed late Sunday night, but no charges have been filed,” the spokesperson wrote.
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Stirring Bars are Superstition?
for the majority of reactions the yields are basically identical under stirred and not-stirred conditions. When they are different, it sure doesn’t seem to be by all that much, and it appears that the unstirred reactions are as likely to have slightly better yields as the stirred ones. If you were presented with these data without being told that stirring was the variable under consideration, you’d have to conclude that whatever it was, it wasn’t really that important, honestly.
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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Apache Foundation Unveils Its Branding Overhaul with New Logo and "The ASF" Name
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Hike, once a unicorn, shuts down as India cracks down on real-money gaming | TechCrunch
Hike, once one of India’s most valuable startups with unicorn status, has become the latest casualty of New Delhi’s recent real-money gaming ban, with the company — led by Kavin Bharti Mittal, son of Airtel founder Sunil Bharti Mittal — now shutting down.
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How Podcast-Obsessed Tech Investors Made a New Media Industry
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Apple has a private CSS property to add Liquid Glass effects to web content
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Western Digital Announces HDD Price Hikes Effective Immediately
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Hackers steal private data of Gucci, Balenciaga and McQueen customers
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Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link
The whole thing feels like it was cobbled together by a consortium of couch-cryptographers. But then again, it was the cheapest indoor camera on amazon, so what did I expect? And with all this said I did finally manage to figure out what the dog does when I am away. She sleeps. On the sofa. Sometimes even in her bed.
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NY could force TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram to roll out age verification
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One-Third of the Internet Is Bots Now
- "now?" we used to say there was only about 500 real people on the internet, thats we kept running into each other. I think that number peaked a decade ago or more and was never above 10k.
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Roblox and Discord sued after teen's suicide, joining wave of litigation
TechSuck / Geek Bait
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
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Nork snoops whip up fake South Korean military ID with help from ChatGPT
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AI agents are coming for your privacy, warns Meredith Whittaker
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Vibe coding is dead: Agentic swarm coding is the new enterprise moat
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Goldman Sachs says AI still not showing up in companies' bottom lines
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Car shoppers can get their own AI agent to help negotiate deal
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Larry Ellison's Grand Plan for Oracle to Win 'Multi-Trillion-Dollar' AI Markets
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
Economicon / Business / Finance
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Americans Crushed by Auto Loans as Defaults and Repossessions Surge
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Empty empires: A few Berkeley landlords are sitting on several vacant buildings
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Even fantasy money can buy a lot of power, just ask Larry Ellison
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They Went to Work for a Stock Exchange. Then the Scientology Ties Became Clear
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Robinhood plans to launch a startups fund open to all retail investors
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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US and China reach deal to transfer TikTok ownership, trade official says
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Whirlpool Tells U.S. Authorities Its Rivals Could Be Evading Tariffs
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NASA Kicks Chinese Workers Out as It Promises It's Not Losing the Next Moon Race
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California reached the unthinkable: A union deal with tech giants
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Congress close to missing ‘basic’ budget deadline for 29th year, watchdog group says.
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Failed municipalities that allow violent criminals to roam free, and which quickly release those who do get arrested, have proven themselves incapable of self-rule. They need to have their charters revoked and be dissolved by their respective states. The case of Iryna Zarutska, who was murdered on a Charlotte light rail train by a violent criminal with 14 previous arrests, including armed robbery, has outraged law abiding citizens nationwide. Charlotte’s mayor, Vi Lyles, meanwhile has sided with the murderer, making it clear that she thinks he’s the victim. Mayor Lyles is running for re-election, and she just prevailed in the Democrat primary a few days ago. A vote for Ms. Lyles is a vote for more random murders, but that is apparently what Democrats in Charlotte support. The state of North Carolina does not need to allow this to persist. There is also the problem of pro-crime judges who simply release arrested criminals back out onto the streets. Ms. Zarutska’s murderer had just recently been released on a no-cash bail by a magistrate judge in Mecklenburg County. This pro-crime judge, Teresa Stokes, was appointed by county officials. In an era in which foundations and NGOs are behaving like Bond villains endeavoring to disrupt civilization, it should come as no surprise that Mecklenburg County has taken millions of dollars from the radical left wing MacArthur foundation for the purpose of emptying its jails.
A county that embraces violent crime, supported by the MacArthur Foundation’s funding of decarceration, cannot be tolerated. If a municipality decided to allow re-segregation under Jim Crow-style law enforcement, that would be vulgar and unacceptable. If a municipality failed to prosecute KKK lynchings, that would be unacceptable. The countenance of violent crime by Charlotte and Mecklenburg County officials is no different. Those municipalities have forfeited the right to self-rule, just like a county welcoming the KKK and allowing a re-introduction of Jim Crow would forfeit its right to self-governance.
Trump
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Trump: Lot of People on the Left "Are Already Under Investigation"
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In Giant Deals, UAE Got Chips, and Trump Team Got Crypto Riches
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Vance Hosts Kirk’s Show, Discusses Impact of Fatherhood and Marriage.
Vance, who credits Kirk with helping further his own career and who transported Kirk’s body back in a casket on Air Force Two to Arizona, reflected on the “heartbreaking” but “amazing” meeting he had with Charlie’s widow.
Some of the highest-ranking officials in the federal government used Charlie Kirk’s podcast, guest-hosted by Vice President JD Vance, to lay out their plans.
Trump administration officials on Monday responded to the activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination by threatening to bring the weight of the federal government down on what they alleged was a left-wing network that funds and incites violence, seizing on the killing to make broad and unsubstantiated claims about their political opponents. Investigators were still working to identify a motive in Mr. Kirk’s killing, but the Republican governor of Utah, Spencer Cox, has said that the suspect had a “leftist ideology” and that he acted alone. The White House and President Trump’s allies suggested that he was part of a coordinated movement that was fomenting violence against conservatives — without presenting evidence that such a network existed. America has seen a wave of violence across the political spectrum, targeting Democrats and Republicans. On Monday, two senior administration officials, who spoke anonymously to describe the internal planning, said that cabinet secretaries and federal department heads were working to identify organizations that funded or supported violence against conservatives. The goal, they said, was to categorize left-wing activity that led to violence as domestic terrorism, an escalation that critics said could lay the groundwork for crushing anti-conservative dissent more broadly.
Left Angst
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Suspect in Charlie Kirk shooting appears to confess in Discord chat - The Washington Post
The 22-year-old suspect in Charlie Kirk’s killing appears to have confessed to friends in an online chat shortly before turning himself in to law enforcement, according to two people familiar with the chat and screenshots obtained by The Washington Post. “Hey guys, I have bad news for you all,” said a message from an account belonging to the suspect, Tyler Robinson, on the online platform Discord. “It was me at UVU yesterday. im sorry for all of this.” The message was sent Thursday night, about two hours before officials said Robinson was taken into custody.
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Tyler Robinson had rabid 'obsession' with Charlie Kirk: FBI
“He had a text message exchange with another individual in which he claimed that he had an opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk — and he was going to do it because of his hatred for what Charlie stood for,” Patel told “Fox & Friends.”
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Workers commenting on Kirk's death learn the limits of free speech
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Now the left has gone back to its usual games like they have every time before. We’ve all seen the drone dance. For those of us who’ve been paying attention it’s tiresome, predictable, cliches about how no matter how horrible they are, the left are always the victims. And no matter what evil they inflict on you, you are far more guilty of some imaginary crime against them. Only this week is different. They have been allowed to be assholes without consequence for so long that they truly believed there would never be any consequences. Only retard Icarus flew too close to the sun.
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Dem Mayor Orders Flags To Full Staff Post Charlie Kirk Assassination, Firefighters Say No.
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Yes, the Left Wants Us All Dead | Frontpage Mag
Social media is full of videos of various leftists, mostly schoolteachers and the like, gleefully celebrating the death of Kirk, but this is not just a matter of the indoctrinated rank and file demonstrating their murderous hatred. That hatred is clearly now in control at the very highest levels of the left, in the European Parliament and the U.S. House of Representatives. And so the message is clear: Charlie Kirk’s murder was, for the left, not the reprehensible act of one lone fanatic. It was a manifestation of the left’s guiding philosophy and deepest desires. It laid bare the true views that leftists have of those who are patriots, and those who oppose their deranged sexual obsessions and social engineering agenda. Every time the left has come to power, from the French Revolution to the Soviet Union to the People’s Republic of China to Democratic Kampuchea and all the rest, it has instituted a reign of terror, treating its foes with obscene violence in order to terrify the rest of the population into submission.
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The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
As a columnist, I used my voice to defend freedom and democracy, challenge power and reflect on culture and politics with honesty and conviction. Now, I am the one being silenced - for doing my job. On Bluesky, in the aftermath of the horrific shootings in Utah and Colorado, I condemned America’s acceptance of political violence and criticized its ritualized responses — the hollow, cliched calls for “thoughts and prayers” and “this is not who we are” that normalize gun violence and absolve white perpetrators especially, while nothing is done to curb deaths. My most widely shared thread was not even about activist Charlie Kirk, who was horribly murdered, but about the political assassinations of Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman, her husband and her dog. I pointed to the familiar pattern of America shrugging off gun deaths, and giving compassion for white men who commit and espouse political violence. I did my journalistic duty, reminding people that despite President Trump’s partisan rushes to judgement, no suspect or motive had been identified in the killing of Charlie Kirk — exercising restraint even as I condemned hatred and violence.
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Professional segregationists are not so much in demand now.
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Another One Bites the Dust: WaPo’s Karen Attiah Fired for ‘Unacceptable’ Kirk Posts.
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What Americans think about political violence
Just 6% of Americans say political violence is not much of a problem (5%) or not a problem (1%). 87% say it is a problem, with a majority (59% of U.S. adults) saying political violence is a very big problem and 28% calling it somewhat of a problem. Not everyone is worried about political violence to the same degree, however. Americans 65 and older are more likely to say political violence is a very big problem than are adults under 30 (69% vs. 50%). Republicans are more likely than Democrats to say political violence is a very big problem (67% vs. 58%). Even among groups where fewer people say political violence is a big problem, though, very few people say it's not a problem — those groups just have more people saying it's somewhat of a problem or who aren't sure.
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It Was a Failing Temple. Then It Started Offering God's Help in Getting a Visa
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US taxpayers to pay billions in fuel subsidies thanks to Big Beautiful Bill
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NASA workers plan 3rd protest at D.C. headquarters on Sept. 15 to decry cuts
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While the Trump media strategy may be working for now, it doesn’t repair the public trust. It also may have an expiration date. If economic prospects ever decline, what cuts through the flood of noise would be a simple self-assessment: “My life is worse off now.” But it goes beyond just politics. The zone will likely be flooded by even more “shit” that’s not even political, namely AI-generated slop. The strategy just as easily applies to the internet more broadly. Anything profitable online can and will be mass-produced. And if everything on the internet becomes suspect—not knowing what’s real or fake—communicating political “wins” will only become more difficult.
- Trump broke the Internet!
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RFK Jr.'s CDC may limit Covid shots to 75 and up, claim they killed kids
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And why is this any less, or more, credible than Biden's CDC claiming the shots were super safe and could not possibly hurt anyone? Remember when it was vital not to let the "trump vaccine" out before the election? then it was vital to give it to everyone after Biden was elected? Didn't that show that politics was the primary metric for judging?
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California says it can no longer trust Washington on Covid vaccines
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Why I'm taking MyPillow Guy Mike Lindell to the Supreme Court.
Earlier this summer, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit overturned my $5 million judgment against MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell for having won a challenge to prove that his claims of election fraud in 2020 were nonsense. This decision is not only bad for me, but bad for America. It upends the century-old Federal Arbitration Act and it diverts resources from legitimate investigations for improving our voting system to crazy conspiracies from wealthy plutocrats. I’m hoping the Supreme Court will reconsider this harmful ruling.
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US lawmakers introduce 'thought police' bill to strip citizens of passports over Israel criticism
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The Intercept exposed how immigration agents surveil wire transfers
- "enter your email to read for free" ... on an article about government surveillance. think about that.
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
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Possible Kirk-Related Bomb on Fox News Van Fizzled, But That's Not the Weird Part... – PJ Media
A bomb on a local FOX 13 news van in Salt Lake City fizzled out instead of blowing up on Friday, and police have two suspects in custody. The suspects' names are Adeeb Nasir, age 58, and Adil Justice Ahmed Nasir, age 31. The story slipped under the radar over the weekend, but investigators found that the bomb "had been lit but failed to function as designed," according to court documents revealed by CBS affiliate KUTV early Monday. On Sunday, the FBI served a search warrant in Salt Lake's Magna neighborhood west of downtown, but only after evacuating neighboring homes. It's a good thing, too, since the search found explosives, explosive-related components, firearms, illegal narcotics, and drug paraphernalia.
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The N.Y.P.D. Is Teaching America How to Track Everyone Every Day Forever
- I can't keep up: Is NY the city with no crime or the city that requires troops in the subways to keep the necro-rapists down to manageable levels?
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
World
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Boss of degrading sex-trade ring in Dubai's glamour districts unmasked by BBC
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UK and US line up string of deals to build modular nuclear reactors in Britain
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The world of Kenya's shadow scholars paid to write essays for UK students
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UK Lords take aim at Ofcom's 'child-protection' upgrades to Online Safety Act
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Denmark's Justice Minister calls encrypted messaging a false civil liberty
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Dozens of Canadian supermarkets busted for hiding ‘Made in USA’ labels amid tariff war.
Russia Bad / Ukraine War
China
Health / Medicine
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mish men’s longevity is compared with the white men of Ohio based on life tables published online by the Social Security Administration. Amish men live an average of five years longer than white men of Ohio, and Amish farmers outlive Amish non-farmers. When the findings are considered with published research on Amish work practices, we concluded that the remarkable longevity of Amish men might be attributed to their exceptional level of physical activity.
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Being too thin can be deadlier than being overweight, Danish study reveals
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Medications leave lasting mark on gut microbiome, even years after use
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Sam Altman's longevity startup is testing a pill for a younger brain
Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp
Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda
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Cheese cave fungi reveal how genetic mutations drive rapid evolutionary change
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Carbon emissions from oil giants directly linked to deadly heatwaves
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'You're going about your day and suddenly see a little Godzilla'
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Soil microbes may affect hormones tied to love, mental health and social bonds
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NASA satellites spot brand-new island in Alaska formed by melting glacier
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Major solar storms hitting Earth today set to cause widespread disruptions
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How big a solar battery do I need to store *all* my home’s electricity? – Terence Eden’s Blog
I have a modest set of solar panels on an entirely ordinary house in suburban London. On average they generate about 3,800kWh per year. We also use about 3,800kWh of electricity each year. Obviously, we can't use all the power produced over summer and we need to buy power in winter. So here's my question: How big a battery would we need in order to be completely self-sufficient?
The total is 1,068KWh - basically, a MegaWatt-hour of storage. even in this scenario there are a few days where we'd need to import energy from the grid. if I wanted my own MegaWatt-hour of battery storage, it would probably cost me between £100k and half-a-million quid. That doesn't include maintenance, the land, planning permission, and a hundred other things.