Week 39
"@jasonhickel
On this day in 1967, the United States collaborated in a coup that deposed Sukarno, the first leader of independent Indonesia, and replaced him with a right-wing dictatorship. US officials conspired with the dictatorship to massacre 500,000 left-wing [Indonesians]"
Some words get thrown around too easily. Superpower? This is a country which has a long agrarian-empire past -a negative-, did not explore as the West did, in fact, failed to map even the mid-size landmasses near it, missed the boat on most major tech innovations of the last 300 years.. You dont come back from that e-z.
One addition here; CH is not a rising superpower.
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"Lithuania vs. China: A Baltic Minnow Defies a Rising Superpower.. Lithuania has enraged China by advising officials to scrap Chinese phones that it says contain censorship software, while cozying up to Taiwan and quitting a Chinese-led regional forum"
Now we start to see the creation of a lowflation world was a policy choice. Creditors were happy. Businesses were happy, they could get depressed wages through outsourcing or immigration. Through competition the single-party employer-state kept citizens on their toes, didn't have to give them any benefits, in reverse, lack of benefits helped them to import new citizens easier.
But there was trouble in paradise.. More and more money was chasing freak investments.
The listed mistakes dont sound too bad. NSW vax rates were going up and they were preparing to open up.. Pity..
The Mandarin: "Gladys Berejiklian ā a glittering career undone by two disastrous misjudgments"
The watchdog ICAC has some pull, eh?
There doesnt seem to be an underhanded motive behind the investigation, or premier failure at the job. She looked like an able public servant.. Sad.
"[Oz state Premier] Gladys Berejiklian resigns as NSW premier as ICAC investigates"
The problem is also due to Reps not being in government. If they were, the overall message cld differ, the public cld be led differently.. Governance carries some responsibility, noone in gov wants to be hemmed in to a corner by inane arguments. Trump was actually keeping the culture war contained on less deadly dumb-ass shit, like masks. The followers were being fed a culture war on that, but not on vaccines. With that "guidance" gone, retards are running around in random directions, "free-range", causing chaos.
Stash of collected ed code became so massive it started getting pull request. Dude just converted one Matlab script into š
Back to a working pdflatex. Phew
Oh yea.. disk mount point changed, due to automount, now jury-rigged TeX craps out. Where were my symlinks at? Bring it on!
No green tech comes close to renewable fuels' versatility. Between green ammonia and green H2, they can handle all cases. Ammonia can handle refigration. H2 can power rockets (see the latest Blue Origin launch), even serve as a battery, see Lavo.
"HDF Energy Breaks Ground On Worldās Largest Green Hydrogen Power Project. @HDF_Energy will supply 100% renewable, stable & dispatchable power to 10,000 households at lower cost than diesel power plant with zero-missions"
"@nytimes
A new generation has become engrossed by The Sopranos, the early 2000s hit. Its creator, David Chase, told @willystaley about how it captured a country in decline ā where things had become so selfish and narcissistic, that even the mob couldnāt take it"
DL basist says learned some chops from Marcus Miller, slap bass expert
Dirty Loops & Cory Wong - Thriller #music
Dried beans are extremely energy inefficient. Rehydrating, cooking them takes too much energy, and when hydrated they become too heavy (with all that water).
"Certain products require longer cooking periods thus energy consumption is higher. For example, cooking beans takes around eight times longer and can require more than 200 MJ per kg food"
New PM's opponent was pro-renewables, we'll see how this guy turns out. Oppo was more popular but he didn't get the nod. Japan cld benefit from another strong party. They need ideological division.
Lowflation is not a good place to be.. Investment starts going after bizarre companies, debtors get in trouble, ppl dont have incentive to spend.
Ew but young people, old people, etc.. How many ppl does it take to invent a f-ing Walkman? You can get stuff done, with the same amt of ppl and the right structure.
Abenomics tried and tried and failed to increase inflation. It should not be too surprising, Japan's labor pool was decreasing. Inflation requires workers who are earning salary and spending it. One choice cld be giving existing ppl more money to spend - direct cash. Abe did bunch of supply-side band-aid ("cutting red tape"), and failed.
Not bad..
BBC: "[Kishida] promised to spend billions of dollars to help the world's third-biggest economy recover from Covid restrictions.
Unlike another rival .. he has been more critical of the economic policy of former prime minister Shinzo Abe, known as Abenomics, saying that only the rich got richer.
With China also high on the agenda for the leadership election, Mr Kishida has accused Beijing of wanting to export 'its authoritarian system'"
"Japan: Ruling party votes for Fumio Kishida [as PM]"
Right needs to act right, left needs to act left. Else there are gaping holes in the pol palette others will fill (as Nazis did in Germany). Post-ideology, TINA world is over. We are now in a post-post-ideology world.
NYT: "German Election Leaves Merkelās Conservatives in Disarray"
A catastrophic failure of US journalism and politics is that something like Biden's 10-year, $3.5 trillion infrastructure bill is not called a $350 billion annual bill...but the Pentagon's budget, which will exceed $7.5 trillion over a decade, is called a $750 billion annual bill
— Dr. Steven W. Thrasher (@thrasherxy) September 30, 2021
Need to be careful with overt anti-politician anti-electoral politics types.. If politics is delegitimized, what are you left with? With the other source of power running amok: Money.
"New Waste-to-Hydrogen Agreement ... Positions the Island of Martinique as a Blueprint for the Caribbean"
Why not show official CDC statements on each vid rather than outright banning?
DW: "YouTube to block all anti-vaccine content"
NYT: "[Report] estimates that Britain is facing a shortfall of 100,000 drivers. About 20 percent of those are drivers who left Britain after it voted to leave the European Union"
Brit woman crying bcz of fuel shortage.. Seriously... Your once PM Tony caused more mishap than that in Iraq.
Triage, rationing, how wonderful..
Palin's death panels are here probably not the way she expected them
#ABCPlanetAmerica
"As the spread of the delta variant continues unabated in much of the U.S., public health leaders have approved health care rationing in Idaho and parts of Alaska and Montana... But determining who gets what is no easy feat...
States may use a combination of factors to come up with patient 'priority scores.' Idahoās and Montanaās system both consider how well a patientās major organ systems are functioning.
The final tie-breaker is a lottery system"
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The Independent: "Anger in Brazil after Bolsonaroās wife gets vaccine on New York UN trip despite his anti-vax rhetoric"
Big tech apparently went along with some freaky shit but if they didnt they'd probably be facing a ban themselves.
NYT: "[Russian parliamentary elections] Over the weekend, videos of ballot stuffing and other apparent instances of fraud circulated widely on social media... Apparently fearing a rebuke at the ballot box, the authorities barred just about all well-known opposition figures from running for Parliament, while forcing many dissidents into exile and declaring popular independent media outlets to be 'foreign agents.'"
Nazis.. Need to drop that deluded quest for batteries too
DW: "EU demands Volkswagen pay all EU consumers affected by 'Dieselgate'.. The EU's Justice Commissioner called on Volkswagen to pay out to all EU consumers affected by Dieselgate. The EU also accused Volkswagen of being unwilling to work with consumer groups"
"Oman and Belgium Agree to Cooperate on Green Hydrogen"
"@karishma4va
WOW. Berliners just decisively voted to expropriate ~240,000 apartments currently owned by āmega-landlordsā (private real estate companies/developers) and turn them into socialized public housing"
On a pickled veg exploration phase.. pickled garlic? Dam
The Blue Origin rocket that went to space used liquid H2 as fuel. Good. But many others, even the next B Origin hardware plan to use kerosene. Not clean. This stuff needs to be regulated, a ban on fossil fuels for space?
BBC: "More people feeling forced into private healthcare.. they were told [patient] would need urgent surgery - but that because of the backlog caused by the pandemic, he would have to wait more than two years"
BJ down in the polls again? Slide started mid May.. What was the trigger? #UK
Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band - Sing Sang Sung #music
2020 data for CO2 emissions. China is still the top polluter.
We used to have CD players in our notebooks.. Holy pimp
Nazis (AFD) took a big chunk of your shit. The point of your party was not to let that happen.
AFP: "Merkel's CDU party secretary calls German exit poll results 'bitter'"
"[House Budget Committee] Panel OKs Dems' $3.5T bill, crunch time for Biden agenda"
WSJ: "Covid-19 Vaccine Gap Between Rich and Poor Nations Keeps Widening"
Such tech could be used in negative ways, of course, but factory automation has been killing people for centuries now. Any tool can have adverse effects. A spoon could kill you. If you fall on it certain way, it is standing pointing up, on the ground.. That's not what the phuckers are talking about. Phuckers are all about strong AI, singularity. That is the big delusion.
Cld say around topics which under weak AI category (speech recog, computer vision -basic pattern recognition-) some milesones were reached, sure.
In the last TV debate DE parties were already discussing how to form coalition. No posturing, kinda good
When you are hiring from among the best and brightest, you can let these ppl roam free. Most of the world cannot replicate that. Then quality needs to be delivered in a different way -- electronically.
"In Finland teachers decide how to teach the curriculum"
We need decouple learning from certificaton, introduce async concepts at each level of ed. Learn from the best through prerecorded videos, and ask to be certified at your own pace, by expert certifiers.
DW: "India: Why medical students are taking their own lives.. Some students who have taken the NEET medical entrance exam have killed themselves, alarming authorities in the southern state of Tamil Nadu. Entrants say the pressure is immense"
"[Oz businessman, former CEO of Fortescue Metals Group] Andrew Forrest launched a green hydrogen [org], in a push to speed up development of the clean fuel to help curb global warming"
"Buffalo mayor-to-be India Walton a āvery proudā democratic socialist.. 'We will bail out Wall Street and banks and give a billion dollars in tax incentives to one of the richest people in the world to build an empty Tesla factory in South Buffalo, and when it comes to providing the resources that working families need to thrive, socialism becomes scary at that point. So, Iām very proud to be a democratic socialist. I am proud to have the support of Buffalo DSA and national DSA (Democratic Socialists of America)"
Apache Junction, a story on journalism really, albeit in a Wild West context.. Watchable.
UCDP/PRIO conflict stats update. Fall in Mozambique, Afghanistan (obviously). Egypt is always up there.. the place is never settling down. Somalia, Nigeria, in turmoil as before. Increase of deaths in Pakistan, Yemen. The latter looks pretty bad actually.
Reynolds Averaged equations? Yes.. invented by Osborne Reynolds. Irish mfker -from Ireland-.
Where are our American friends? Center of research, noone stepping up? Europe did its part. Euler, Navier, Stokes, Laplace gave you the proper model (the cat's cradle), but now noone can work the model and get answers, centuries later? That SciAm article has the Who Is Who of the field, they are all scratching their heads.. F-ing McLean produces literature, but I've never in my life read a book explaning what something isn't rather than what it is, in its entirety.
We cant explain lift.. weird. The math model for aerodynamics is known. Compsci can compute all flow around a wing using it, and can show the pressure gradients. Today. That model could be interrogated symbolically for certain patterns of shapes, mathematically.. Why isn't this done?
Tom Middleton - Starq #music
That was a good read #Amur
The Daily Beast: "My Trip Along the Most Mysterious River on Earth"
Reminds me of this Hintjens commentary..
Politico: "President Joe Biden's decision to nominate Cornell law professor Saule Omarova to regulate the nation's banks is triggering intense anxiety among the lenders and their Washington lobbyists and threatens to set off a bruising battle in Congress.
Omarova is more than just a finance industry critic ā she has proposed essentially ending the banking industry as we know it by letting the Federal Reserve take on the deposit accounts of all Americans"