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Especially our government. Spending. Salaries. It all needs to be public.
1) https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/564727/why-is-a-...
This is why we have smoke detectors...
60% of US electricity is generated from fossil fuels (1). 40% of that is from Natural Gas. 20% from Coal which produces almost twice the carbon as Natural Gas.
60% of that energy is lost in conversion (2). So, converting from natural gas to electricity would actually increase carbon emissions in many parts of the US.
So, where should we start? I'm not an expert, but just this quick analysis says decreasing the amount of fossil fuels used for US generation would be a much better choice.
They then put out a "BOLO" with the innocent man's name, had him arrested, figured out they have the wrong guy, do nothing about it and had him arrested again.
When Bah appeared in court to answer charges and Apple was asked to present the video that would have cleared Bah, Apple claimed that the video had been deleted. The video was later found by Bah's attorney during discovery. This happened more than once. A warrant was issued for Bah’s arrest and contained the photo of the imposter. Bah was arrested even though the he doesn't resemble the imposter, other than being Black. Prosecution against Bah continued in multiple states through June 2019.
Hmmm, seems like a lot of people involved in this case should be fired, including the Apple Employees, SIS Employees and Police officers, reguardless of whatever other outcomes there are.
This article says it was almost 1000 last year. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/polic...
A few years ago police shot a man neareby when they mistook a water hose nozzle he was holding for a handgun.
OK. So what I'm getting is that he wasn't working "mainly" for the Americans and even if he was, they wouldn't countenance running sex trafficking rings for minors on American soil, for years.
Given that, it doesn't make sense for "someone" to tell him Epstein "'belonged to intelligence’ and to leave it alone”.
As ylermenezes mentioned cooking accounts for less than half a percent of total natural gas. So, no, we don't need to start somewhere. We need to start where it makes a difference.
60% of US electricity is generated from fossil fuels (1). 40% of that is from Natural Gas. 20% from Coal which produces almost twice the carbon as Natural Gas.
And (2) says 60% of that energy is lost in conversion. So, converting from natural gas to electricity would actually increase carbon emissions in many parts of the US.
So, where should we start? I'm not an expert, but just this quick analysis says decreasing the amount of fossil fuels used for US generation would be a much better choice.
1. https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427 2. https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=44436
And get your ass in gear and require companies implement a positive ID system that makes call spoofing impossible.
Robinhood did not halt trading or shut off trading.
Robinhood prevented _buying_ Gamestop and only allowed selling.
That’s entirely different. It can only do one thing - drive the price down which is market manipulation. It’s supposed to be illegal.
No, Robinhood did not halt trading. They prevented _buying_ Gamestop and only allowed selling which can only do one thing - drive the price down.
That’s entirely different.
There’s a word for it: manipulation
It’s illegal.
As a child, I noticed a high-pitched sound during a particularly windy night in Wisconsin. Over the next few days it got louder and louder to the point it was quite frightening. Obviously, I had tinnitus, but unfortunately lacked the words to describe it to my parents (or they just wanted me to go to sleep haha).
Eventually I figured out that it was a cycle. The more I focused on the sound, the louder it got. As I worked to focus on on other things, it gradually subsided over a few days.
Now, as an adult, it is with me all the time. It gets much louder some days. This can be caused by a bad night of sleep. Or random things I can't figure out. Doctors have variously mentioned salt, tomatoes, trying antihistamines, etc.
But one thing I know makes it worse is noise - especially higher frequencies. As a result, I really dislike many of the newer (pre-covid) restaurants with the hard surfaces and tinny speakers playing harsh music all the time.
My kids got me iPod Pro's for Christmas and it has been wonderful. We went to NYC and by wearing them, I was able to enjoy loud restaurants, deal with the subway, etc.
I also notice that by wearing them for even a few hours, my tinnitus is often significantly improved. My theory is that it improved by decreasing the amount of stimulation.
For those who experienced the opposite, I wonder the quiet they experience allows them to hear the tinnitus clearly for the first time? Then they begin to focus on it which increases it's apparent volume as I did when I was young.
Well, it's very sad to see how badly reefs are fairing. Almost everywhere we go they look terrible. The bleaching is incredible - wreaking havoc on entire reef systems.
Most recently, we went to the Bahamas, a gorgeous place that should be teaming with fish. Very few people fishing - and so few fish we couldn't help but wonder if they'd long since been fished out.
And what are the local fishermen thinking? The same pattern seems to repeat all over the world. They just keep going until the fisheries collapse and they are left with nothing.
Unfortunately, most people can't see the problem. If more could, there might be more support to do something about it.
Unfortunately, hospitals have a complex and expensive job ahead. I wonder if anyone has developed a blueprint for how to proceed?
Hard to believe Youtube hasn't pulled the video given she's a doctor giving out medical advice that's completely false.
Her claims include:
12:15 "Hydrogel is nanotechnology, microscopic little robots"
12:42 "It has the ability to connect with artificial intelligence. So, this means that a human can now connect directly, gather information directly from our bodies, and gather it and connect with your smart phone, with the cloud, with some other smart device.
- The papers "Discussion" section concludes with: "MIS-C is rare but the potential long-term sequelae from this disease are currently unknown."
Also, the fact that it says:
- ”Children might have no symptoms, no one knew they had the disease, and a few weeks later, they may develop this exaggerated inflammation in the body.“ and then a few sentences later - "...100% had fever, 73.7% had abdominal pain or diarrhea, and 68.3% suffered vomiting."
Seems contradictory.
https://www.burning-glass.com/u-s-job-postings-increase-four...
Looks like all job postings "collapsed during the pandemic"
Censorship can be conducted by private institutions, governments and other controlling bodies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship
Maybe its time to look at getting rid of public employee unions altogether.
Why has this become so common? I remember the first time I read something similar thinking “Interesting, but that’s weird, it doesn’t match up with my life experience. I must live in a perfect little butterfly bubble of some kind.” Then I read an article which explained the statistics in more detail. Ahh.
So, why did this author write this article? Do they not know the statistics? Maybe they read some of the many earlier articles which make the same bad assumption and decided to build on that bad assumption - but without looking at the actual data?
Statistics don't lie but liars use statistics. Is that what happened here? Maybe. Maybe the author was just lazy. Who knows. But it does seem like a huge number of stories begin with a title and brief introduction, then 3 or 4 conservative or liberal platitudes sprinkled in, each of which are so general they misrepresent reality and hide useful and actionable facts.
Maybe its more a house of cards.
1) “Most people don’t just think the world should be run meritocratically, they think it is meritocratic.“
2) “Although widely held, the belief that merit rather than luck determines success or failure in the world is demonstrably false.”
Wait, what? The first “the world should be run” is one hell of a thing. But how did the author get to the rest? So, not only should the world be run, but it can be run and in such a controlled manner that and all luck is squeezed out of it and most people believe this.
Reminds me of my teanage self thinking about the world after a progressive teacher introduced the subject in class - the reasoning is so simplistic and pedantic. But here it is, published in the Princeton press!?!
Some of the notable quotes include:
* Starting roughly in the late '50s, Rob says, state governments began allowing police officers to collectively bargain - in other words, to join unions. This is where we found a really remarkable and really horrible result....after officers gained access to collective bargaining rights ... there was a substantial increase in killings of civilians ...about 60 to 70 per year ... killed by the police in an era historically where there are a lot fewer police shootings. So that's a humongous increase.
* One possible reason why police unions might want more ways to protect officers from being prosecuted is the safety of the officers. If an officer is worried about being prosecuted, then that officer might hesitate to shoot in a dangerous situation. [but the number of] Officers killed in the line of duty .... doesn't change after bargaining rights are granted.
* ...someone who lives in the U.S. was almost 60x as likely to be killed by police as someone in the United Kingdom. ...A black American... is about 3x as likely to be killed by police as a white person.
I'm excited about the move to the new processor. Also super glad my 2013 MBP has had a good run. It's still totally adequate. 'Course that's a problem isn't it?
It'll be interesting to see how the year turns out for Apple - seems like you'd be nuts to buy an Intel Mac now, right?
The 4th sentence says: "Detectives zoomed in on the grainy footage..."