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There are some great songs in the genre

"How country music is taking over the world.. Country music has undergone a facelift and is now attracting people from all walks of life"

"Japan's Next Leader Set to Intensify Hawkish China Stance"

Red Stick Ramblers - Bring It On Down to My House #music

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Fitty million dollars!!?

"Palantir bought $50 million in gold bars in August as cash"

Europeans were saved the adverse effects of empires by being hard to conquer in totality. This allowed a pluraslistic env to flourish.

Most people do not realize but agricultural empires are highly parasitic, the energy regime they construct are unstable because it is unnatural. Their collapse is the natural event not the other way around. See Rifkin

The further Rome is in your past, the better off you are.

"The areas controlled by the Ottomans for between three to four centuries do have lower incomes, lower educational attainments, lower levels of trust in institutions etc. than the areas that were part of the Habsburg Empire"

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That song sounded like an ABBA version of We Are The World. Retire bitches. Or stay retired.

"Mexico's President Revamps Welfare, Handing Out Cash to Millions"

The Independent: "Biden asks Justice Department to stop people from acting as ‘vigilantes’ in Texas abortion law"

😶 😶 😶

"South Korea proposes USD271 billion defence plan"

Al Jazeera: "S Korea developing missile as powerful as nuclear weapon.. 3-tonne missile designed to destroy underground facilities by penetrating tunnels to nullify nuclear launches"

"@ioangrillo

The ELN guerillas banned civilians with guns in a Venezuelan town they control. [.. T]hey want a monopoly on firearms in their turf.

'@Reuters

Guns, drugs, jobs. In these Venezuelan towns, Colombian rebels call the shots'"

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Produce H2 any way you can. CCS works. Once the econ adaps to a new fuel other parts can change around it.

"Oman, which is no longer an Opec member, is pursuing hydrogen as a potential low-carbon fuel for the future. UAE is also working on hydrogen, and boosting renewables, and recently inaugurated a new nuclear plant"

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Integrated Kinetic Energy.. Exactly what I was thinking.. If I had time, I'd dig into this..

Wired

WaPo

ISIS inspired NZ knife attack at a supermarket.. They had the guy under surveillance, press asked how come he did this shit? But when the guy goes berserk, even under surveil, he can do bunch of damage quickly until anyone can reach him. Response was under 60 sec but still..

BBC: "Japan's [PM] has said he will not run for re-election as party leader this month, signalling the end of his tenure... The shock announcement comes as Mr Suga's approval ratings dropped to an all-time low. Japan - which is still under a state of emergency - is now grappling with its worst ever Covid wave. The country, which has now seen more than 1.5 million virus cases, has also seen a slow vaccination roll out"

Combining video files? Gotta use moviepy my brother.. The easiest method on the command line.

"EU’s infectious disease agency: ‘No urgent need’ for coronavirus vaccine booster shots"

CNBC: "Vaccinated and unvaccinated travelers are going to different sets of Caribbean islands"

Good news

CNBC: "Google reportedly plans to put its own chips in Chromebook laptops from 2023"

CNBC: "Covid vaccines remain 'stunningly effective,' even as delta concerns grow"

"Trump promotes Covid vaccine at GOP donor event, report says.. It comes after the former president was booed by supporters for recommending vaccine"

Book is at its seventh edition, the last being in 2015. And no working code.. Bonkers.

Aww author gives pseudocode for the interpolation method.. How sweet.

With war, econ taken outside politics, sorry, made "bipartisan", people had to work with these crumbs to distinquish themselves in political terms. Trinkets, non-issue issues.

Freedom

"@ElieNYC

To recap: right now in Texas people CAN sue you for seeking abortion services, but the state CANNOT ask you if you have a gun"

Dems experience it, but the intra-party problem hit the Reps too. Being more hierarchical, they had pols walk in a single-file on ideology for a while, but now, they have a former President who said stuff against forever wars, and a lot of muckers who still want to invade countries, forever. How is there war and anti-war ideology in the same right-wing party?

In UK, Oz, and many other places, libs, and other major ideologies have their own party. Not so in US which IMO increase intra-party friction. Most of my related posts are US centric. Beware.

"Consumer prices in [DE] have been increasing for months, fueled by rising energy and food prices as well as the withdrawal of a temporary reduction in value-added tax (VAT), which was aimed at mitigating the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic last year by boosting domestic consumption"

They need to include this 'energy' in hurricane reporting, as in how much mass is moving when hurricane makes landfall. Kinetic energy is $1/2 m v^2$, increase mass increase energy. Would one rather get hit with baloon or a hammer at the same speed?

"Hurricane Katrina was a 'huge storm' with a 'very expansive' wind field compared to an average storm.. Hurricane Ida strengthened rapidly in the hours before it made landfall, whereas Katrina did the opposite, strengthening to a Category 5 over the Gulf of Mexico.. 'Hurricane Katrina.. was significantly larger, and had more energy associated with it'"

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Have some vegan schnitzel

"Berlin’s university canteens go almost meat-free"

:) Its good.. I like the title

Danielle Bregoli, Bhad Bhabie 'Hi Bich / Whachu Know'

"Japan's largest oil company has committed to a detailed study on the establishment of a hydrogen supply chain between Japan & Queensland"

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The Ike Dike in Texas.. The plan is to build a barrier "[s]eventy miles long and seventeen feet high, stretching west from Bolivar Peninsula along the entirety of Galveston Island".

[geek] Handling non-differentiability looks to be key.. both in simulation and for optimization. To this day I cannot find a better TV denoiser that will beat a subgradient based one. Discontinuous galerkin methods now rule all sorts of domains in simulation. Just came upon the Igel seismology book, he is also diggin the DG [/geek]

Politico: "Macron gambled on coronavirus immunity passport — and won.. The French president stuck his neck out, banking that the public would support his plan. And so far, it’s been a success"

"Ireland's vaccine program nears completion thanks to high uptake"

DW: "Philippines: Nurses threaten mass resignation amid COVID surge"

US is out of Afghanistan. End of an era.

"@NYDailyNews

Marc Bernier, a conservative Florida radio host who dubbed himself 'Mr. Anti-Vax,' died after a three-week battle with COVID-19. He was 65. His death was the third this month among conservative talk show hosts outspoken against the coronavirus vaccine'

That was a shot in the dark but.. dam. I have the full-blown CAD file for this thing.. F-ing score

Dave Patterson - Solid Funk #music

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Woha, fire whirl #ChaparralFire

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This new compsci approach can do seismology, stress/strain comp, waves, the whole 9!

"As long as the Islamic terrorists remain in Idlib, [ISIS] in the east and Iranians near the Israeli border, the Syrian civil war will not be over... Iran wants to repeat in Syria what it has been doing in Yemen for several years. In Yemen Iran perfected an effective way to attack Saudi Arabia by arming Shia rebels in Yemen with over a thousand ballistic missiles and UAVs... Iran is seeking to carry out a similar campaign against Israel using Iran backed militias in Syria"

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Lectures can be viewed at school just as easily as they are viewed at home. The key is content, and who delivers it.

If they want better education, they should ask for prerecorded lecture videos of the experts to teach their children rather than a parrot/doofus wildly gestulating (teacher)

"Children going to school" isn't preferred bcz it is better for their education. Parents need it because in a modern setting, school functions as a day-care center, somewhere they can drop their children off and go to work, whereever.

I'd seen J. Alexander before in a little show called Kyle XY.. She was great, with that statuesque look.. The only negative, a bit chubby in places.. But she made an excellent transition to her next phase, w demanding action, and looks quite fit. I'm impressed.

BTW the theory is not just lab-leak, it is engineered virus leaking from the lab.

"@fosgoodwood

BMW is pushing to introduce alternative fuels into their lineup. Evidence is the new iX5, a hydrogen-powered SUV!"

"@Jason_K_Dempsey

'In practice' this means the Taliban have a lot of stuff they can’t maintain and will be useless in 3-6 months. Best use would be a surge of propaganda pics and then put everything but artillery, small arms, NVDs, and pickups up for sale.

'@_Will_Brown A mind-blowing graphic in today's Times on what $85bn worth of lost equipment means in practice for the Taliban''

Katrina had wind speed at around 280 km/h. Sandy 160 k/h.

Ida

"As China-Taiwan Tensions Rise, Japan Begins Preparing for Possible Conflict"

"A study has provoked controversy in Germany because it shows that the country’s healthcare system has two tiers... The study.. has shown that patients who have statutory health insurance have to wait about three times longer for an appointment with a specialist than members of private health insurance schemes"

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New co-leader of Germany's left party Die Linke, talking about the country's two-tier healthcare. It's good.. DE needs more left. There are enough of those Washingon Consensus, centrist types..

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People might be spooked by it, then they can choose to leave condensed spaces, perhaps start living a more rural life.

At certain point one has to move on.. Society cannot keep having lockdowns.

NYT: "Britain is reporting more than 30,000 new coronavirus cases a day, but the public seems to have moved on. Experts say this could be a glimpse into the future for other countries... [A] professor.. 'It looks like we’re just accepting it now — that this is the price of freedom.'... 'It’s really difficult to ask people not to mix for a prolonged period, especially if there is no solution.'... [A] specialist... 'All our Covid cases are unvaccinated by choice'"

Handing over Iraq support to France? They do have a strategic interest there.. wanting to stop refugees. Also indirectly protecting Lebanon.. ? In reverse, they have a supply route open by sea, into Lebanon then into Iraq.

JFK increased military spending. While he did not trust the military at every level, he contributed to the growth of the complex.

"The military-industrial complex never liked JFK, they had him killed"

Westworld borrowed a lot from Vice clearly, the 2015 movie.

AFP: "Biden says China still withholding 'critical information' on Covid origin"

♪♬ Toss a coin to your witcher ♪♬

♪ O' Valley of Plenty ♬

♪♬ At the edge of the world ♪

I bet Soder didn't fight too hard for nomination, didn't want to get it this time..

They chose the wrong pol.. Its ok, CDU/CSU can come back with that Trekky guy

"A month before the general election, Germany's ruling conservatives have been slipping in opinion polls. Their gaffe-prone candidate for chancellor, Armin Laschet, is being blamed. And his supporters are turning away"

Imperial aversion to instability #zakaria

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"US-Based Ohmium Launches India's Green Hydrogen Electrolyzer Gigafactory. India's first green hydrogen electrolyzer gigafactory that will turn power from renewable sources into #carbonfree hydrogen"

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