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Smaller movies could get a huge boost if they cost less to see than the big franchise releases, and the difference in filled vs empty seats would really add up.
Their channel: https://www.youtube.com/@BionicandtheWires
> We connect bionic arms to fungi and plants so they can play music and be creative. Our art explores new ways of thinking about the natural world.
>All life creates bio-electrical signals. Our equipment converts them into signals that control the bionic arms. Recent research suggests that fungi and plants exhibit surprising levels of intelligence, including decision-making, learning, memory and the ability to respond to sounds waves.
(Apologies if this was answered in the video, I'll watch it later tonight)
And will soon launch their own version of Hubble: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xuntian
Deeply embarrassing as a US citizen.
Where can I learn more about this type of union? Is there one for US IT workers?
>The worst thing regulators can do is allow the electric utilities to increase unavoidable costs for their short-term profits. This can backfire, as utilities will lose customers entirely in the long run. With solar and battery costs continuing to decline, this problem is only becoming more urgent.
Nationalize all the power companies, run them with low cost to consumer, zero carbon to the planet mandate.
Why do we even allow private utility companies to turn a profit off a natural monopoly?
Also plants often have many duplicate copies of their genome per cell.
0:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dishwasher_Pete
I read it a long time ago as a weird story. Might be time for a reread.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_and_Out_in_the_Magic_King...
My first thought was that working for such a company would be torture.
My second thought was that this basically describes Agile/Scrumm and has taken over the entire industry.
> It’s often remarked upon, in boosterish circles, that American society allows about forty thousand road fatalities a year but refuses to tolerate even one aviation death.
We shouldn't tolerate that either!
The CIA was caught selling weapons to Iran to illegally fund contras and death squads in Latin America.
There's also BCCI, their own international bank to fund who knows what. By going through shell companies and subsidiaries they escape congressional oversight and FOIA requests.
This quote from the article rings true to me:
>First, the lack of a standard library, a common resource in modern programming languages, makes mundane general-purpose programming tasks difficult. Second, building and distributing Fortran software has been relatively difficult, especially for newcomers to the language. Third, Fortran does not have a community maintained compiler like Python, Rust or Julia has, that can be used for prototyping new features and is used by the community as a basis for writing tools related to the language. Finally, Fortran has not had a prominent dedicated website – an essential element for new users to discover Fortran, learn about it, and get help from other Fortran programmers.
> Once-treelined street losing its shade. The flaming red leaves of the liquidambar displayed fall colors before the rest of the street's once orderly progression because it went unwatered. The tree is now diseased and should be taken out. The upshot for the house and street it once shaded will be far higher summer heat and cooling bills
The Wikipedia entry for liquidambar:
> Liquidambar, commonly called sweetgum (star gum in the UK), gum,redgum, satin-walnut, or American storax, is the only genus in the flowering plant family Altingiaceae and has 15 species. They were formerly often treated in Hamamelidaceae. They are native to Southeast and east Asia, the eastern Mediterranean and eastern North America.
Well there's your problem. They planted trees which are totally off for the local environment.
Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't has a video where he shows that many of the trees planted after the LA earthquake are stunted and dying because they came from an eastern US plant catalog. The locally native trees and shrubs he planted himself are doing great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvtqKMxZ95s