Week 14

Reuters: "India plans to give green hydrogen fuel producers incentives worth at least 10% of their costs under a $2 billion scheme set to begin before the end of June, a top government official said. Reporting by Sarita Chaganti Singh; Editing by Alexander Smith and Christian Schmollinger "

TT News: "[The North American Council for Freight Efficiency] Says Trucking’s Future Is With Hydrogen.. Group Notes It's Best Option to Reach Long-Term Goals"

Nebraska Examiner: "Nebraska, two partner states bid to be ‘hydrogen hub’ that could bring $1 billion in federal funds"

Offshore Energy: "China’s first hydrogen fuel cell powered boat, Three Gorges Hydrogen Boat No. 1, was successfully launched in Guangdong in mid-March"

Buttafuoco went all in w crypto and got burned

Bloomberg: "SkyBridge Capital Was Spiraling, and Then Came FTX.. The hedge fund’s bad crypto bets—and a reputational hit from its partnership with Sam Bankman-Fried—have investors looking for the exit"

How it's going

Woody Allen: "Those who can't do, teach. And those who can't teach, teach gym"

How it started

Aristotle: "Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach."

The aim of the fraud is likely to qualify for tax credits that work on the basis of range

Reuters: "[01/2023] South Korea fines Tesla $2.2 mln for exaggerating driving range of EVs.. antitrust regulator said it would impose a.. fine on Tesla for failing to tell its customers about the shorter driving range of its electric vehicles (EVs) in low temperatures"

Russia Today: "West didn’t allow time for peace in Ukraine [said Lula].. The US and the EU should have given diplomacy a chance before rushing into war, the Brazilian president has claimed"

Ukrainska Pravda: "Brazilian president proposes Ukraine cede Crimea to Russia to stop the war"

H2 View: "European Commission approves €450m scheme to support Italian renewable hydrogen"

H2 Central: "Multi-Billion Dollar Clean Ammonia Manufacturing Investment Advancing in Southern WV"

G/E: The global de-dollarization campaign is gaining momentum, as countries around the world seek alternatives to the hegemony of the US dollar. China, Russia, Brazil, India, ASEAN nations, Kenya, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE are now using local currencies in trade..

China and Russia are trading in their own currencies.

Beijing and Brazil have also dropped the dollar in bilateral trade.

The UAE is selling China its gas in yuan, through a French company.

Southeast Asian nations in ASEAN are de-dollarizing their trade, promoting local payment systems.

Kenya is buying Persian Gulf oil with its own currency.

Even the Financial Times newspaper has acknowledged that a “multipolar currency world” is emerging"

"@EPPGroup@respublicae.eu

#RED3 agreement sets a new course for green #hydrogen in Europe.

Requirements have become more practical and the EU will focus on import strategies to meet the energy transition demands.

The EPP Group has reduced bureaucratic barriers!

A big step for clean energy"

"@EPPGroup@respublicae.eu

The future is looking brighter for #hydrogen production as Europe targets 42% #renewable hydrogen by 2030!"

H2 Central: "Yara Clean Ammonia.. and Enbridge Inc. announce the signing of a letter of intent to jointly develop and construct a world scale low-carbon blue ammonia production facility as equal partners. The proposed facility, which includes autothermal reforming with carbon capture, will be located.. near Corpus Christi, Texas...

Once operational, the production facility will be capable of supplying low-carbon ammonia to meet growing global demand, with an expected capacity of 1.2–1.4 million tons per annum. Approximately 95 percent of the carbon dioxide (CO2) generated from the production process is anticipated to be captured and transported to nearby permanent geologic storage"

Reuters: "TikTok faces €1.12 billion lawsuits in Portugal"

There is no "curse" - they are all --ing morons, likely due to this weird condition, whatever it is.

The Kennedy family - I think these people have a genetic condition, that compels them towards stupidity. One of them ran into a tree at full speed while skiing killing himself. Another flied a plane without much experience and died like his jackass father. The father himself died because of jackass entanglements with Cuba, likely bcz he tried to assasinate Castro but got assasinated himself.

Euractiv: "Czech coal mining regions want to be ‘hydrogen valleys’.. Three coal mining regions in the Czech Republic want to become Central European leaders in hydrogen technologies, the joint memorandum signed by the three regions’ governors in Prague on Tuesday reads"

First Post: "A Japanese military [Black Hawk] helicopter .. with 10 people on board disappeared from radar on Thursday near Miyakojima, part of its southwest Okinawa island chain, according to an army spokesperson and media reports"

😂 😂

AP News: "Anti-vaccine activist RFK Jr. challenging Biden in 2024"

Arab News: "Afghan Taliban raid kills 6 members of Daesh group"

F24: "Iran names envoy to UAE after nearly eight-year absence"

Fried chicken, or pan-fried chicken, is a traditional Southern meal, it's not "African".

If you are an Estonian immigrant your child born in US won't be 80%, 50% or even 10% Estonian - s/he will be 100% American. Majority local, regional culture rules all. Heritage means nothing.

Al Jazeera: "US progressives galvanised by victory in Chicago mayoral race.. Once seen as a long-shot candidate, the progressive Johnson advanced to a run-off election against Paul Vallas, a conservative Democrat who pushed an aggressive message on crime and touted the endorsement of law enforcement groups"

WSJ: "Progressives had a banner day in the Midwest Tuesday, with victories for Chicago mayor and a swing seat on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court"

"World's first liquid hydrogen-powered ferry gets operational.. The 82.4-meter-long MF Hydra, which was delivered in 2021, can carry up to 300 passengers and 80 vehicles. It will be able to travel at a speed of 9 knots thanks to its two 200 kW fuel cells, two 440 kW generators, and two Shottel thrusters"

Red Hulk? Why not Kluh (name is Hulk in reverse). That is the baddest Hulk.

IDW: "Ammonia is known to be a good hydrogen carrier. [Researchers] show that ammonia can not only be used to carry hydrogen but also for the direct reduction of iron"

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Sounds like rabid interventionism to me. What a jackass

JFK: "[1961] Let every nation know.. that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty"

Apparently SB and its Signet allowed the hyper growth of FTX, without it they would have remained much smaller. Crypto ppl talk big game about upending the system but they needed a connection to the backbone, to the existing system through a bank. They found a few gullable ones, used them, esp SB with its fast Signet along with money launderers, criminals.

Yahoo Finance: "A class-action lawsuit was filed against Signature Bank in February, alleging the bank knew about – and facilitated – the 'now infamous FTX fraud.' Specifically, the suit accuses Signature Bank of having knowledge of and permitting 'the commingling of [the FTX exchange's] customer funds within its proprietary, blockchain-based payments network, Signet'"

Artemis - Second Sight #music

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If a near-future version of Trek is done, I'd want an Android there called "Meme" instead of "Data". This character would be a clownish, overly creative twat, all he does, all day long is generating memes; just spouts one meme after another. TNG's Data was smart with human-like strong AI, strived to learn art.. Meme has art but is extremely dumb just like the modern "AI" algorithms today, but tries to become smart. Meme acquiring an iota of intelligence in each episode will be his character arc. At the end of 10 seasons he'll be able to read text, summarize it, and drive a car.

Barry Adamson - Cinematic Soul #music

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Emacs in Tron Legacy

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Reuters: "Saudi Arabia to invite Syrian president Assad for Arab leaders summit"

Yahoo News: "McCarthy vows to hold Bragg ‘and his unprecedented abuse of power to account’"

Politico: "With an ‘arraignment party,’ Trump jolts his campaign.. The ex-president chose a familiar defiance in his speech following his arrest. His fellow Republicans say it suits him well"

The comments on this topic keep getting better and better. Even Yann LeCun is up in arms.

"@Hypx@mastodon.social

Ford Is Getting Serious About Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology For Super Duty Trucks"

Reuters: "Japan is to revise its hydrogen strategy by the end of May with an ambitious target to boost annual supply to 12 million tonnes by 2040, the industry ministry said on Tuesday, as competition increases in the global market for the fuel"

Politico: "[I]n 1792, Congress passed the Post Office Act. Publishers would be charged 1 cent for most newspapers and 1.5 cents for those traveling more than 100 miles. This amounted to an enormous subsidy. Rates for regular letters ranged from 6 cents to 25 cents, depending on the distance. The postmaster in 1794 estimated that newspapers constituted 70 percent of the mail while kicking in about 4 percent of the revenue. Postage paid by publishers defrayed no more than 12-14 percent of costs, concluded Richard Kielbowicz in News in the Mail. Scholar Robert McChesney has estimated that 'if the U.S. government subsidized journalism today at the same level of GDP that it did in the 1840s, the government would have to spend in the neighborhood of $30-35 billion annually.' That’s about the size of NASA’s budget"

"@shreyan@mstdn.social

[Large Language Models] are not intelligent. They cannot make good decisions on their own. They are a tool which it is up to you to use properly"

CBC: "[Canada] B.C. to introduce house-flipping tax and expand secondary suites under new multi-billion dollar housing plan"

RU advance in the past two weeks

u.sm_plot_ukr1('ukrdata/fl-0404.csv','ukrdata/fl-0322.csv',["Bakhmut"],
               clat=48.6,clon=37.95,zoom=0.01)

Dr. Ekberg: "I don't see any reason to ever buy store-bought juice because it has to be pasteurized in order to be sold in a store and now you're destroying most of the benefits. Most of the enzymes.. the phyto-factors, polyphenols and whatever else might be in that juice you're destroying it with that pasteurization, so when you put a big red X on that because all you're really getting now is sugar water.

Yeah it's a little bit better than Coca-Cola, but not a whole lot. Orange juice is about 8% sugar. Apple juices about 10% sugar. So if you have a cup you're already getting about 25 grams of sugar. Absolutely not a good idea for any of these protocols no matter what your goal is for weight loss or reducing insulin resistance stay away from store-bought juice"

The Guardian: "[Australian] Labor agrees to absolute cap on emissions to secure Greens backing for safeguard mechanism climate bill"

F24: "Paris votes on banning self-service e-scooters.. Self-service e-scooters have become commonplace on the streets of Paris since they were first introduced five years ago, but irresponsible use and a rising accident toll have hardened city hall’s attitude towards the popular mode of transport"

#StarWars #Meme

via @Jimijamflimflam@mstdn.social

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They call asafoetida "Indian MSG"

BTW can enough carbon be captured from the air for all efuel needs? If they cut bunch of trees burn them to obtain "neutral carbon" (trees took it from the air, putting it back is sort of "neutral") then that's not a good path. Hopefully pure H2 usage is encouraged more.

Euractiv: "EU eyes CO2-hydrogen combination to make synthetic fuels"

Science: "[N]atural hydrogen is always being made afresh, when underground water reacts with iron minerals at elevated temperatures and pressures. In the decade since boreholes began to tap hydrogen in Mali, flows have not diminished, says [expert]"

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Backpedaled on the spot.. LOL

Politico: "A bipartisan Senate bill that would rein in the Chinese-owned app [Tiktok] is facing its first real headwinds... this week saw a significant backlash to RESTRICT... The furor soon reached Fox News — on Wednesday, host Jesse Watters called RESTRICT “garbage” and suggested it would curtail personal freedoms... Watters demanded an explanation from Sen. Lindsey Graham, a sponsor.. who had joined him on the program. But Graham said he was unaware that he had signed onto the bill — and suggested that if it was as bad as Watters said, he may need to retool"

I liked Creed III, sort of like Rocky III but stands on its own. Fine universe additional stories can still be told in it.

Recommending World's End, Blackhat.

Link

China speaka the language of geostrat just fine

China said fucka me fucka you

In US' backyard..

AP: "Honduras follows in the footsteps of Nicaragua, El Salvador, the Dominican Republic, Panama and Costa Rica in ditching Taiwan [and supporting China]"

Japan Times: "Long-range missiles highly likely to be deployed to Nansei [Ryuku] Islands"

Palestenian rocket firings by date and count, fired mostly from Gaza. Obviously WB is key in strat terms but to what lengths will ISR go to take it? Can anyone truly be safe from anything? Is Belgium safe from Luxemburg? It's "right there" after all..

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West Bank is indeed more mountainous compared to rest of Israel.

ps = [["West Bank",32.01211, 35.2883120],["Jerusalem",31.7737760, 35.206223]]
u.sm_plot_list1(32, 35, 0.3, ps, elev=[100,200,300,500,800])

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Oded Yinon: "Judea, Samaria and the Galilee are our sole guarantee for national existence, and if we do not become the majority in the mountain areas, we shall not rule in the country and we shall be like the Crusaders, who lost this country which was not theirs anyhow, and in which they were foreigners to begin with"

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"@johl@mastodon.xyz

I wish more people understood that 'I want the computer to generate a natural language text that sounds like a plausible answer to a question about x' and 'I want the computer to answer a question about x' are two very different problems"