Week 10
Tokyo University of Science: "Breakthrough in Clean Energy: Palladium Nanosheets Pave Way for Affordable Hydrogen.. Scientists develop a low-cost palladium-based nanosheet catalyst that matches platinum's performance in hydrogen production"
Toxic - The Bosshoss #music
"@Hypx@mastodon.social
I suspect that BYD, as well as every other high-flying BEV focused company, is losing money. Such acts are a secret way to prop up the story"
SCMP: "BYD shares nosedive after US$5.6 billion placement announcement"
TASS: "Russian artillery crews wipe out Ukrainian stronghold near Chasov Yar"
The Hindu: "Tata Motors begins trials of hydrogen-powered heavy duty trucks for long haul transportation.. The trucks, equipped with Hydrogen Internal Combustion Engines and Fuel Cell technologies, will be tested on India's most prominent freight routes, including those around Mumbai, Pune, Delhi-NCR, Surat, Vadodara, Jamshedpur and Kalinganagar"
Why do people hold treasuries instead of being in cash, like Warren Buffett does even in hundreds of billions? Government bonds are low risk instruments, they produce some returns, but they are liquid which means they can be bought and sold at ease, there is always a market for them. Therefore they are as good as cash, little better actually, since they provide some interest.
TASS: "Three Palestinians wounded during Israel’s raids in West Bank"
Arab News: "Russia ‘categorically’ against deploying European troops to Ukraine, Russian senior diplomat says"
Firstpost: "At Chatham House, [Indian FM] Jaishankar says most of Kashmir issue is 'solved'"
It looks like RU sanctions are mostly in executive branch's control. What was done via exec action can be undone via exec action. Unless.. Congress passes veto-proof sanctions law.
"The President’s Extraordinary Sanctions Power.. In the United States, most sanctions are imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA)... The statute.. spoke in sweeping terms: the president may 'investigate…, regulate, direct and compel, nullify, void, prevent or prohibit, any acquisition, holding, withholding, use, transfer, withdrawal, transportation, importation or exportation' of property 'in which any foreign country or a national thereof has any interest.' All that’s required to unlock those extraordinary powers is a presidential declaration of a 'national emergency' based on an 'unusual and extraordinary threat' ato the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States"
Reuters: "White House seeks plan for possible Russia sanctions relief, sources say"
See how the graph shoots up after 70s.. that's f-ing neoliberalism right there... It needed access to compliant, cheap workers at home and abroad, and it got'em. Business interests trumped national interests.
The only time the percentage has fallen in decades is during DJT first term.
dfp = u.get_fred(2000,['POPTHM'])
dff = pd.read_csv('foreignb.csv',parse_dates=True,index_col='DATE')
df = dff.join(dfp, how='left').interpolate(method='bfill')
df['perc'] = (df.Count/10) / df.POPTHM
df.perc.plot(grid='on',title='Percentage of Foreign-Born in US')
plt.axvline('2017-01-01', color='y')
plt.axvline('2021-01-01', color='y')
NYT: "On Mexico’s Once-Packed Border, Few Migrants Remain"
Masse: "[Quantum action-at-a-distance] experiments performed using Bell’s test have generally used photons as the ‘particles’ and the polarization of photons as the discrete parameter. Photons are transverse waves, however, and not particles. Since the waves are split by the polarizer, the emerging waves are generally not photons. Their energy is no longer defined by their frequency. It is not clear that all factors influencing the results of Bell’s test have been fully understood as yet"
UK had a mineral deal too? The interesting quesion is, is US screwing them out of their mineral deal?
"[2025/01/16] The UK and Ukraine will sign a historic partnership, as the Prime Minister travels to the country to meet President Zelenskyy... Treaty will bolster military collaboration on maritime security through a new framework to strengthen Baltic Sea, Black Sea, and Azov Sea security and deter ongoing Russian aggression..
It also cements the UK as a preferred partner for Ukraine’s energy sector, critical minerals strategy and green steel production [emphasis mine] "
NBC News: "[2013] Pope Francis attacks 'tyranny' of unfettered capitalism, 'idolatry of money'"
I wish him well.. He was right on many things.
"Pope Francis back on ventilator amid health setback"
"@Hypx@mastodon.social
Recently, I've noticed that BEV puffery is all but dead. Almost no one in the car industry is still cheering on the 'inevitable' rise of BEVs. It's mostly just a sense of dread. It mirrors the path ethanol took, just before we abandoned it. Likely, the focus will shift towards hydrogen cars soon"
#Frontline #UA #RU 02/27 - 03/04
"@bert_hubert
So I didn't know, but Europe already has a backup of PubMed, the database of biomedical research publications. The US PubMed broke down over the weekend. And here is our alternative: https://europepmc.org "
The Druze are an interesting minority. There are some references to them in the fictional novel Op-Center: Acts of War, the series published under Tom Clancy brand. Clancy always had good IR material in his books.
Theories abound in the region right now.. Everyone has a scenerio, ranging from bad to apocalyptic.
"[A] proposed [Israeli] corridor would be a passage that begins in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights and extends through Syria to reach the Euphrates where Kurds, supported by the United States, control all areas in the east of the Euphrates, including all regions on the Syrian-Iraqi border. Although it is not clear where exactly Israel would build this corridor.. reports.. indicate that the proposed corridor would go in the south of Syria, close to the Jordanian borders, allowing Israel to control the land between the corridor and the Jordanian borders.. [the hope is making] Israel politically resilient to external military challenges emanating from neighbouring countries through providing Israel with the leverage of using minorities in Syria such as the Druze and Kurds as proxies"
"Fresh clashes south of Damascus between local Druze and government forces suggest the community may be laying groundwork for a semi-autonomous or fully independent non-Islamic statelet before Damascus manages to create a new government. Amid clashes in Jaramana and Israeli military positioning, the latest movements since the fall of the Assad regime in the area earlier in December could spell the first post-war challenge for the [new] in Damascus, which has so far attempted to avoid the topic of Israeli encroachment in its territory.
The Arab Druze, roughly 3% of Syria's population, have historically balanced loyalty to local powers with a commitment to self-preservation. The fall of Assad's regime in December 2024 created both opportunity and uncertainty, particularly for those in southern Syria. Now, with Israel vowing to "protect" them and reports of Druze militias clashing with Syrian Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) forces, a new political entity could emerge under Israel's influence"
F24: "Clashes between Syrian forces and Druze gunmen turn deadly.. One person was killed and nine others wounded in clashes near Damascus between forces affiliated to Syria's new rulers and gunmen from the minority Druze community on Saturday"
CNBC: "China ‘firmly rejects’ additional U.S. tariffs, says it will implement countermeasures"
Politico: "Trump halts military aid to Ukraine.. The minerals deal is still on the table. So are deals with Russia"
Masse, Quantum Mechanics: "Two Slits Open for a Single Photon.. In such an experiment, a single photon from the light source will still be incident on both slits in the aperture screen at the same time, and will produce two coherent sinusoidal wavelets that interfere constructively and destructively. Each of these sinusoidal wavelets will have less energy than a photon of the same frequency, and so the wavelets will not be photons. Moreover, the energy of the two sinusoidal wavelets will generally not be equal.
When the sinusoidal wavelets reach the image screen, the destructively interfering parts of the sinusoidal wavelets will have significantly less energy than a photon of the same frequency, and so will be unable to produce an observable photographic or photoelectric effect. Dark fringes will result. Only the constructively interfering parts of the sinusoidal wavelets will have sufficient energy (approximately the energy of a photon of the same frequency) to produce an observable photographic or photoelectric effect that will contribute to forming bright fringes on the image screen. Moreover, a constructively interfering part of the sinusoidal wavelet must strike an atom on the image screen just right to provide sufficient energy for the atom to change state and eject a single electron.
Out of hundreds of interfering parts of the two wavelets, only one pair will generally produce any observable effect. This effect will usually be isolated to a single atom on the image screen. Therefore, the constructively interfering wavelets will appear to be very localized (at a point) similar to a single particle striking the image screen. Nevertheless, the change occurring in an atom of the image screen in a low-intensity experiment is due to constructively interfering sinusoidal wavelets; not to a particle"
Masse says light is a wave, not wave and particle at the same time. People who keep looking for magical funkiness in QM forget basic facts about waves, they have to lose energy when they pass through the slits and split, the two new waves are syncronized but have different travel times towards the screen, therefore they can interfere with each other constructively or destructively. And since the two waves have less energy only perfect contructive interference will result in a bright image on the screen. In a single photon two-slit experiment that can give the impression of a "particle" traveling both slits. The explanation can really be that simple. You have to be dumber to look for something more complex and "magical".
RU's supposed involvement in that case is wholly debunked. But I bet some fools still believe it. You know the type, blue-no-matter-who shitlib economic-right-social-left dumb Clintonites.
We see another case of Russia Russia Russia, see the Hunter Biden laptop reference below.
BL and VW must be feeling the heat.
Variety: "Blake Lively has hired a PR crisis manager with deep government ties.. Nick Shapiro [was] the CIA’s former deputy chief of staff and senior advisor to former director John Brennan... Shapiro is not without controversy. He was one of a group of 51 former senior intelligence officials who signed the widely cited and subsequently criticized 2020 open letter stating that the Hunter Biden laptop 'has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation'"
News 12: "Hoboken passes new ordinance concerning lithium-ion battery storage.. These new rules directly target owners of e-bikes and scooters... but the batteries can also be a major fire hazard...[Official] explained this new ordinance pertains to the storage of batteries within a property housing three or more units. Starting March 11, it will be illegal to charge a lithium-ion battery in a common area. This includes no basements, lobbies or hallways... In New York City, the FDNY says lithium-ion batteries caused 277 fires in 2024"
Politico: "Andrew Cuomo launches comeback bid for New York City mayor"
"Hybrit’s pilot project for hydrogen gas storage has now been completed and reported to the Swedish Energy Agency. The results show that it is technically possible to store fossil-free hydrogen gas for producing fossil-free iron and steel on an industrial scale. This can also reduce the variable operating costs of hydrogen production by up to 40 per cent"
Kick Buttowski. An actual cartoon character.
The Hill: "71 percent of Trump voters oppose Medicaid cuts: Poll"
I never said there are no deep state structures in other countries. I said US doesn't have one.
I feel sorry for people whose homeworks were truly eaten by a dog. You can tell what happened but now noone would believe you.
😂 This deep state business is the new "the dog ate my homework".
The Independent: "[T]he [Epstein] files failed to yield major new findings and featured some information that was already public. [Loomer] wrote '1 week ago, @PamBondi said "the Epstein files are on my desk". Now she’s claiming the 'deep state' set her up"
I do not have knee-jerk reaction to all coins. I heard good things about Cardano.
A fast, minimal energy crypto with redistribution features built-in can be a useful future currency.
If US backs these coins, their liquidity will increase, helping them become international currencies on par with USD. The difference is said coins are not strictly controlled by US, so their promotion will help foreign countries to transact, bypassing US. Russia will benefit.
Crypto News: "XRP, ADA Skyrocket as Trump Says Strategic Reserve to Include Bitcoin, Ether, Solana, XRP and Cardano"
A rough timeline of West-Nato / Russia relations... The Western media is adept at making people ignore, forget the context on everything via a process called decontextualization. We need to look at only the last, or a single chosen "bad act" done by a "bad actor", so that actor can be properly villified. Such an angle helps their bottom line justifying all arms spending enriching the military-media private complex. Some of that hidden context is below. NATO keeps expanding, year after year, 1994, 1999, 2004, 2009, 2017, 2020, 2024 at the discomfort of Russia. A military alliance that insists on keeping you out encroaches on your border.