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Newsweek Opinion: "[T]he United States' formal position on the [RU/UA] conflict has changed markedly little. That overly simplified and Manichaean position, in short, is one of Ukrainian maximalism: Putin is evil, Volodymyr Zelensky is noble, and—here is the big logical leap—the United States will thus support the Ukrainian effort to retake every square inch of territory in the Donbas and Crimea from its nuclear-armed adversary, seemingly no matter the cost to the U.S. taxpayer...

At this stage in the war, virtually all of this pablum is asinine and counterproductive to the actual U.S. national interest in these contested areas. Our national interest in the Ukrainian theater is not coterminous with Zelensky's absolutist stance; our interest is for de-escalation, detente"

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Al Jazeera: "US aims to hobble China’s chip industry with sweeping new rules.. The host of measures could amount to the biggest shift in US policy on shipping technology to China since the 1990s"

I check out, drift off entire minutes while watching, then I realize it is still on? I try to focus... What a drag #Fundor

Or.. it's like Office Space being filmed inside Empire Strikes Back. There is a Luke and Vader fight going on which we don't see, this is the cut to an imperial office somewhere inside Death Star where a buttoned up office guy yelling 'why is this printer not working!! [nervously presses the buttons]', 'f--k this printer!'. Then his boss walks over and asks him about the TPS report and dude just starts kicking the printer.

Andor feels like an SNL sketch in a Star Wars backdrop.

WION: "Amazon shutting down tests of home delivery robot 'Scout' amid slowing sales"

Arab News: "Japan recognizes ‘right of Palestine to establish an independent state’"

Al Monitor: "The London-based natural gas exploration company Energean announced a new discovery off the coast of Israel today. Energean has identified seven to 15 billion cubic meters of natural gas in the Hermes exploration well.. Hermes is located southeast of Israel’s Karish gas field, meaning it does not lie within the disputed area with Lebanon"

"Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra"

"Shaka, when the walls fell"

"@ValaAfshar

This is how to properly cut a pomegranate"

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Ukraine too, "liberated" in 2014, they'd have to know RU would get pulled into that situation, just like they knew Iran would be involved in Iraq after 2003 "liberation".

Even a child with little intl rel knows invading Iraq would have pulled Iran into that country, creating chaos.

Basically when PH enabled the device he recognized the self-noise was about 2.6 Kelvin leaving no room for noise from the sky, the so-called cosmic microwave background, implying there can be no Big Bang.

You know what else Herouni found? No Big Bang.

Paris Herouni built the first (and still the only) radio-telescope in Armenia (operational 1987 – 1990). Within moments of turning it on it detected the explosion of a red giant star (Etta star in Gemini constellation).

Heritage has little effect in defining culture. Behaviour is mostly shaped by subconcious codes received through osmosis from the larger society around, burned into psyche before teenage. The process is automatic, does not need education, stories, or stupid shit being mumbled in rote, in robes, or funky hats.

US bizarre distant heritage worship is likely part of a psyop.. If your citizens think of themselves as near-peer to citizens in other countries, such population would be more open to persuasion for intervention in those other countries. It's easy to sell deep state meddling in Italy, Poland, if you have bunch 2nd, 3rd generation fools as citizens who still think they are intimately connected to people there.

🤣 🤣 🤣

Insider: "3 people describe the shock of discovering through at-home DNA tests that they were a different race than they'd thought.. 'A match had come up on Ancestry.com. My biological father was a Jewish man named Rick Estrin... Accepting the fact that I'm not Mexican has been challenging. My Mexican/Hispanic heritage is tightly intertwined into my sense of self. The culture is paramount to who I am. I'd cofounded an activism website called Latino Rebels to bring attention to issues affecting Latinos'"

"@vxunderground

Insert commas into your password so when your credentials are dumped into a CSV it breaks it"

H2 View: "China could install 100GW of renewable hydrogen capacity by 2030, report [by RMI] predicts"

H2 View: "Air Products unveil $500m plans for liquid green hydrogen plant in New York, US"

#Breturn

The Guardian: "After Criticizing the EU for Years, Britain’s Conservatives Extend an Olive Branch.. On Thursday, Ms. Truss is attending the inaugural meeting of the European Political Community in Prague"

Wind is not a great source of clean energy - I'd sooner do nuclear, especially those spiffy new HTGRs than a single site of wind

CNBC: "GE is laying off 20% of its workforce devoted to onshore wind power"

SCMP: "[8/2022] As Sino-US tensions rise, China’s military ties with Thailand.. are progressing steadily, with joint exercises and arms sales. The Chinese and Thai air forces kicked off the 11-day Falcon Strike 2022 exercise at Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base in northern Thailand on Sunday. That followed last week’s revival of a US$380 million deal to supply a Chinese-made S26T Yuan-class submarine to the Royal Thai Navy"

Foreign Policy: "[6/2022] Washington Worries China Is Winning Over Thailand"

WSJ: "At Least 36 Dead in Thailand Child-Care Center Shooting"

Mustache is like, the Iraq War, that old chesnut.. I'm so over that

Link

Aw slam

Let's not forget it was Nixon who ended the war in Vietnam, not JFK.

That's interesting take on guerilla wars.

Nixon: "[First Press Conf, 1969, answering the question 'do you consider it possible to have a cease-fire in Vietnam so long as the Vietcong still occupy Vietnamese territory?]'

I think that it is not helpful in discussing Vietnam to use such terms as 'cease-fire' because cease-fire is a term of art that really has no relevance, in my opinion, to a guerrilla war. When you are talking about a conventional war, then a cease-fire agreed upon by two parties means that the shooting stops. When you have a guerrilla war, in which one side may not even be able to control many of those who are responsible for the violence in the area, the cease-fire may be meaningless"

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Gasworld: "Danish Power-to-x Partnership, Topsoe, Skovgaard Energy, and Vestas, Breaks Ground on First of its Kind Green Ammonia Project"

Concept of lift makes sense from Newton's third law viewpoint. Coanda effect can be useful for explaining why flow sticks to airfoil in certain parts, but in context of helping downward deflection, not as some magical invisible lift force on its own. And that Bernoulli stuff is just pure bullshit.

Integrated Kinetic Energy

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"Despite similar landfall locations, [hurricanes] Ian and Charley were different in a couple of notable ways. First, Ian exhibited a much larger wind field and radius of maximum winds. Consequently, Ian’s maximum integrated kinetic energy (IKE) – a metric designed to convey the destructive potential of a windstorm – was more than four times that of Charley (46 terajoules - TJ to 10 TJ)... Second, Ian tracked much more slowly across Florida after landfall compared to Charley, amplifying the effects of wind and water"

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Those levels 3,4,5 are not a good indicator of destructive strength. IKE is better.

"What was Hurricane Ian's category?"

Jane's Defense: "Russia's Pacific Fleet receives newest nuclear-powered submarines"

H2 Central: "[Vice Minister] Al-Mudaifer stressed that Saudi Arabia is on the way to becoming a global supplier of hydrogen"

H2 Central: "PowerCell has signed the world’s first contract [potentially worth up to $139 million] ever covering the serial delivery of hydrogen fuel-cell stacks to the aviation industry. The client is the groundbreaking zero-emission aviation company ZeroAvia. The pioneering ZeroAvia focuses on.. aviation solutions and aims to launch a 19-seat aircraft with 300-mile range by 2025"

WION: "Amid prolonged refinery strike, France taps into strategic fuel reserves"

H2 Central: "Ohmium and Amp Energy India Collaborate on 400MW of Green Hydrogen"

It's same baker from the earlier court case

WION: "Colorado baker fights ruling over gender transition cake"

CNBC: "OPEC+ to cut oil production by 2 million barrels per day to shore up prices, defying U.S. pressure"

Arab News: "Philippines’ Marcos Jr. open to buying Russian fuel.. bucking pressure from Western allies for countries to shun Moscow"

H2 View: "Fortescue Future Industries and Tree Energy Solutions partner to develop world leading green hydrogen energy import facility in Germany [for US$127 million]"

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Study: "In a cost-optimal world, around 50% of trade uses pipelines, while synthetic fuels, ammonia and sponge iron, transported on ships, account for approximately 45%. Europe and countries in the Far East will rely on imports, while North America and China are mostly self-reliant"

H2 Central: "Hydrogen Sector Calls for all Boilers to be ‘Hydrogen Ready’ by 2026 – UK"

H2 Central: "Global energy and commodity price reporting agency Argus has launched a suite of new hydrogen cost indicators which shed light on the economics of hydrogen production in the context of carbon capture. The new indicators mean that Argus now publishes over 400 hydrogen costs and prices for key locations around the world"

H2 View: "Nel ASA: Receives $5,6M In Funding from US Department of Defense, for Accelerating Advanced PEM Electrolyser Stack Development"

Al Jazeera: "Vietnam eyes China’s tech crown as firms tire of ‘zero COVID’.. Apple, Google, and Samsung are among the tech giants expanding operations [there]"

"@business

Russian gas flows to Italy via Austria are resuming, Gazprom says"

That's even worse. At least as centrist I know X is a cuck. If pragmatist, X is cuck, sometimes not a cuck.. A bi-cuck? What is going on here? It's confusing..

"Person X is actually a pragmatist not a centrist"

TASS: "Hungary manages to exclude pipeline oil from price cap"

H2 Fuel News: "Chemours Announces $200 Million Investment to Expand Capacity and Technology in Response to Growing Global Demand for Hydrogen Solutions.. [the investment is] to increase capacity and advance technology for its industry-leading Nafion™ ion exchange materials to support the Hydrogen Economy. Accelerated climate ambitions and energy challenges have fast-tracked demand for hydrogen power and fuel cell technology"

H2 Central: "The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act was signed by President Biden in November of 2021, which provided significant investment into a range of hydrogen and fuel cell initiatives. The centerpiece of these efforts was the creation of a new 8 billion dollar program for the development of Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs... This program is intended to demonstrate the large-scale production, processing, delivery, storage, and end-use of clean hydrogen, through the deployment of at least 4 hubs across the United States. The Hubs program is driving significant interest both in the public and private sectors.. [DOE recently] released the Funding Opportunity Announcement for the initial $7 billion award of funding"

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"BrainDrip, LLC to Introduce Their SG Technologies for the Conversion of Pipelines to Hydrogen and the Localized Storage of Hydrogen.. The SG Liner is suitable for pipelines with diameters from 4 inch to 36 inch and dependent on diameter, production rates of up to 20 feet per minute, installation lengths of over 30 miles from a single ingress and more importantly pressure ratings of approximately 500 bar"

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Euronews: "Algeria's vision: Green hydrogen with pipelines to Europe"

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"@HyEconomy

Algeria wants to build 15,000 MW of solar PV until 2035 and has the vision to export green #hydrogen to Europe via pipeline - they have signed a #hydrogen partnership with Germany"

Ever heard gas pipelines requiring this much repair after every major weather event?

"FEMA: cost of repairing Puerto Rico power grid [after Ian] will reach billions"

"[2018] Puerto Rico grid 'teetering' despite $3.8 billion repair job"

Asia Minor e-grocer site has 1 kg of mackarel for 5 USD. Not bad homie..

H2 Fuel News: "Quantron has a hydrogen fuel cell truck with a massive range of 930 miles... The company unveiled several long-range H2-powered vehicles at the IAA Transportation show.

Quantron has been working with Ballard Power Systems as a part of a strategic partnership. Through it, the company has been able to develop a hydrogen fuel cell truck that will be able to travel considerable distances before needing to refuel.

This is a considerable achievement as it helps to further support the viability of H2 as a fuel for the long-haul trucking industry, particularly compared to the range available from battery electric vehicles, which must also carry heavy batteries to stay powered and that require notably longer recharging times...

The Quantron QHM FCEV (fuel cell electric vehicle) is equipped with an FCmove-XD 120 kW fuel cell that is among Ballard’s latest developments"

Forget about TSMC it's all about ASML?

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AMLO, Modi are doing very well..

Oh yeaaa

import re, urllib.request as r

url = "https://morningconsult.com/global-leader-approval"
c = r.urlopen(url).read().decode('utf-8')
regex = 'span class="bar__name">(.*?)</span>.*?NET(.*?)</span>'
res = re.findall(regex,c,re.DOTALL)
[[x[0].replace("<span>",""),x[1].replace("&plus;","+")] for x in res]

Out[1]: 
[['Narendra Modi (India)', ' +58'],
 ['Andrés Manuel López Obrador (Mexico)', ' +46'],
 ['Anthony Albanese (Australia)', ' +29'],
 ['Ignazio Cassis (Switzerland)', ' +23'],
 ['Mario Draghi (Italy)', ' +15'],
 ['Magdalena Andersson (Sweden)', ' +9'],
 ['Micheál Martin (Ireland)', ' -7'],
 ['Justin Trudeau (Canada)', ' -7'],
 ['Joe Biden (United States)', ' -8'],
 ['Jair Bolsonaro (Brazil)', ' -11'],
 ['Alexander De Croo (Belgium)', ' -16'],
 ['Pedro Sánchez (Spain)', ' -20'],
 ['Liz Truss (United Kingdom)', ' -25'],
 ['Emmanuel Macron (France)', ' -29'],
 ['Fumio Kishida (Japan)', ' -33'],
 ['Jonas Gahr Støre (Norway)', ' -38'],
 ['Olaf Scholz (Germany)', ' -38'],
 ['Mateusz Morawiecki (Poland)', ' -40'],
 ['Karl Nehammer (Austria)', ' -43'],
 ['Petr Fiala (Czech Republic)', ' -45'],
 ['Mark Rutte (Netherlands)', ' -50'],
 ['Yoon Seok-youl (South Korea)', ' -55']]

Global leader approvals.. Morning Consult has a page on it.

Let's scrape dat...

@internetofshit

"@GaelMarquis

A friend of mine needed to get optical fiber installed at her new home to have her 360 autonomous vacuum cleaner functional"

"@ow once this rolls out everyone’s just gonna complain editing is locked when they notice typos after 30 minutes and 1 seconds"

"@ow did i pay for twitter blue just so i could edit this tweet? yes"

Politico: "'Lots of heavy fighting ahead': U.S. officials urge caution after Ukrainian gains"

WION: "Planned Parenthood to launch mobile abortion clinic: A 37-foot RV"

H2 Fuel News: "KBR Wins Contract for Blue Ammonia Project in the US.. Under the terms of the contract, KBR will supply the technology license, basic engineering design, proprietary equipment and catalyst for the 1.1 million ton per annum blue ammonia plant"

OpIndia: "While India is taking the side of Armenia in the ongoing conflict, Azerbaijan is supported by [TR, ISR]. Armenia is generally supported by Russia but due to Russia’s preoccupation in Ukraine, they are getting only limited assistance. In such a scenario, the defence deal with India can prove crucial for Armenia"

WION: "India to export Pinaka rocket launchers, ammunition to Armenia in $250m deal"

Al Monitor: "OPEC+ tipped to make big cut in oil output"

It's bizarre. But if they burn the shit might as well make use of it. CCUS would be nice.

ISS: "Gas flaring is the burning of unwanted natural gas in oil wells. Globally, the practice has persisted since oil production started over 160 years ago. Nigeria is a leading offender, despite gas flaring being illegal since 2005. The toxic fumes cause many environmental and health problems"

Do they have to flare?

"Nigeria has said its plan to commercialise gas burned [flaring] from its oilfields"

Countries bring up WWII reperations whenever DE does something they don't like... Are the Germans about to do something the Poles will not like? Something on Russia?

Al Jazeera: "Poland demands nearly $1.3 trillion in WWII damages from Germany"

H2 Fuel News: "EasyJet pours 'multi-million' dollar investment into hydrogen planes.. The European airline is betting on Rolls Royce H2 jet engine development to meet its 2050 targets"

Could EPC serve as a backdoor Bremain (or Breturn) for Brits? For candidate countries it could be a half-way house EU.. France always wants to do something on its own.. what happened to the Mediterrenian Union? But EPC could be a good thing..

Reuters: "UK Prime Minister Liz Truss's decision to join the inaugural summit of [France's European Political Community] this week has given a boost to the initiative.. A key aim for Macron is to embrace EU candidate countries that are losing patience waiting for membership of the bloc.. 'One of the points is to be able to tell Kosovo and Albania we can do things with them, and they don't have to rely only on Russia and China for investment,' a French official said"

"@Pontifex

After seven months of hostilities in #Ukraine, let us use all diplomatic means, even those that have not been used so far, to bring an end to this terrible tragedy. War is an error and a horror! #Russia #Peace"

"@culturaltutor

Do you ever feel that some cities are just more alive than others? It's probably because they're 'mixed-use'. An area of a city (or town) is mixed-use when you've got residential, commercial, and cultural buildings all together"

H2 View: 'Elogen electrolyser gigafactory to receive up to €86m French subsidy'

H2 View: "Petronas and Japan Bank explore hydrogen, ammonia and CCUS opportunities"

The market must have been spooked by econ possibly heating up due to lower taxes causing more inflation (risk for bondholders). Keeping things calm, talking about balanced budgets (not that it directly effects inflation) could also be conservative.. Sunak was actually taking that line during the leadership race, but could not sell it. As long Tories follow the "right" way not some centrist cuck way, it's fine.

Reuters: "Truss forced into U-turn on tax after week of market turmoil.. reversing a cut to the highest rate of income tax"

Conflicting reports. Will revisit map.

TASS: "Ukrainian troops attempted to break through Kherson Region defenses from three directions but their attempts.. were thwarted"

Some advances on UA side.. Lyman is retaken (at what cost?), an advance in Kherson even (pt #3, old frontline is gray). Losing #1 will be a huge problem and that is likely. For Ukraine it's too early to celebrate, RU just announced its reinforcements. 

# lyman, bakhmut, ukrainka
geo = [[48.5852939679, 37.996352954],[48.96282484, 37.8282576],[47.31878, 33.7634814]]
u.sm_plot_ukr2('ukrdata/alt1-1002.csv', 'ukrdata/alt1-0913.csv',geo)

The Independent: "Brazil election: Jair Bolsonaro trails left-wing former president Lula in first round.. Lula and Bolsonaro will head to a run-off on 30 October"

TASS: "NATO Secretary Jens Stoltenberg once again avoided giving an unambiguous answer if the accelerated admission procedure for Ukraine is possible and if the alliance is ready to accept Ukraine as its member"

Math can deal with infinities but particles aren't infinite. There's just a lot of them. Dealing with infinitesimals help with certain stuff but they are by no means the true reflection of the underlying mechanics. It's all an approximation in the end. God does not need math.

"Math and physics work bcz both are based on the many small particles"

"@quant_phys

Everything in the future is a wave, everything in the past is a particle.

— Lawrence Bragg"

The nepotism charge is warranted; the familial relation puts you further ahead among advisers, they're supposed to be equals but the relative becomes more equal among equals. Not useful IMO.

BTW Bannon says Kush was in the pro-China camp, along with Cohn, Tillerson, Buttafuoco

Rubin, Summers got burned

"During the 1992 presidential campaign, Democratic candidate Bill Clinton had talked tough on China—at one point accusing George H. W. Bush, then president, of cozying up to 'the butchers of Beijing.' In his confirmation hearings Warren Christopher, Clinton’s choice for secretary of state, served notice that he would take a tough line with China. So, in a move that the Chinese later dubbed 'the Clinton coup,' China’s top diplomats developed warm relations with two of Clinton’s top economic advisers, Robert Rubin and Larry Summers, who were more sympathetic to China, and worked through them to persuade Clinton to dial back his antagonism. The Chinese had used the same tactic during the Bush and Obama administrations, and they had largely succeeded" #Kush

Environment issues aren't just theoretical for many countries

"When we arrived in Beijing [2017 visit], the city glistened in the reflection of the pure blue sky. At the command of the Chinese Communist Party, the coal-burning power plants and factories had been shut down for the three weeks leading up to our visit to allow the smog and soot to dissipate" #Kush

The book should've been titled "Finally Taking My Revenge Against Bannon"

Kush wrote a book? U wrote a book Kuusshhhhhhh?

H2 Fuel News: "Is hydrogen fuel the future of California trains? Upon the announcement of an order of up to 29 H2-powered trainsets, many wonder if the future is here... The intention is to use the trainsets to replace the existing state-funded Amtrac California diesel-powered locomotives that operate push-pull sets... They will be manufactured in Utah at Stadler’s Salt Lake City factory. The hydrogen fuel cells will be supplied by Canadian company Ballard. The H2-powered trains will have a 497-mile operating range"

Trees are either on public parks or private property - there'd be laws protecting both.. Imagine ppl being jailed bcz they need heating, triggering unrest.. Can communism arrive bcz of people trying to get firewood?

"Rangers fear Swiss forests could be targeted for firewood amid energy crisis"

Foraging for heating.. Wow

"Poland encourages people to collect firewood in forests amid soaring energy costs"

An ethnic minority becoming victim in a country "the Anglos" do not like.. First IRN now AFG.. Is there a pattern here?

"Suicide Blast at Kabul School Kills 19.. Male and female students were among the victims of the attack in a minority Hazara Shiite area of the city"

Dead for a Dollar - average Western but okay.. Want to see a duel between W. Dafoe and Ch Waltz? Then this is your movie.

#Israel #Apartheid

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"Jewish Journalist Fired by The Hill After Defending Rep. Tlaib’s ‘Apartheid Israel’ Claim'

Grim: "Host Katie Halper recorded a segment defending Tlaib’s accurate portrayal of Israel’s government, but Hill TV’s owners refused to run it."

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"@ReutersScience

Nord Stream rupture may mark biggest single methane release ever recorded, U.N. says"

Beto did ok on gov debate; but staying away from culture war would be better, circling back everything to econ. Sounded soft immigration (can be tied to econ) - the line should've been "Abbott is sending one bus to NE, I will send 10!".

Expl wouldn't have to register to be effective. The carrier Ford stress test was 18 tons of TNT equivalent, registered as 3.9 mag Richter. A lot of Beumb.

Recent seismic data from around the Baltic region. No activity around Sep 26th when the Nordstream sabotage happened.

u.eq_at2(54.9701674206043, 14.933270115918607, radius=500, ago=300).tail(4)

Out[1]: 
                     mag      lat      lon
date                                      
2022-04-07 19:58:46  4.7  51.4991  16.0769
2022-04-27 21:53:26  4.4  51.4957  16.1715
2022-05-03 18:24:01  4.1  51.4647  16.1444
2022-09-14 08:47:20  4.3  51.5993  16.2008

Before the NS sabotage there was talk in Germany to just turn on NS2 damn the consequences - clearly "some people" didn't want this issue even discussed as an option. But IMO the perps overplayed their hand.. now a lot of govs around the world are going WTF?

Washington Examiner: "'Irregular presence' of nuclear-capable Russian bombers detected [in Russian Olenya air base] near Finland"

Haha Spox Ned at State now says 'Pak F-16 refurb isn't terrorism related' bcz the T-word bothered India.

The magic.. I see

"The magic seems to be in the algorithm. Unlike other networks, TikTok shows you more content based on what's popular and what you're most interested in, downplaying the accounts you follow. Networks like Facebook or Instagram show you content based on the accounts you follow"

Same for 2022 by Platform, from May

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Avg Monthly Hours Spent Per User Per Soc Media

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CNBC: "Facebook scrambles to escape stock's death spiral as users flee, sales drop"