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If these old galaxies are so dense, could that help explain why their black hole is disproportionately large? With so many stars so close together, maybe they’re gravitationally interacting with each other far more, causing a lot more instability. So you have a bunch of stars knocking each other around and as a byproduct more of them get flung close enough to the center to get captured by the black hole?
The unions declared an indefinite general strike
https://x.com/redstreamnet/status/1806068831984783583
And as I write this it seems like they’re outnumbered in the plaza
Wouldn't the most relevant measure, at least as far as emissions go, be the ratio of energy coming from renewables / solar vs. total energy consumption? Or something similar?
edit: spelling
Multiple people have posted these articles today, most instances of which were flagged. The HN thread I linked above, in fact, has toggled between flagged and not-flagged at least twice already.
This alone is an extremely noteworthy revelation. The ICC has a principle of “complementarity” where it will defer to local prosecutors, if they’re robust and vigorous in prosecuting crimes. This severly undermines the Israeli narrative that they have such a system.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/ben-gvir-says-h...
Israel has no ethical response because there is no ethical means by which one can maintain apartheid. History did not start on Oct 7, 2023. It’s like pondering where the line is between legitimate and illegitimate responses to the Warsaw ghetto uprising, or to Haitian revolution.
Without getting into too much detail, this is a road I’ve been down too, tho not with either meth or AA. I think the biggest thing is, sobriety is usually about rearranging your entire life. For most addicts, a huge part, usually a majority, of your life and mental space is ensuring you’ll get your next drink/hit/whatever. Then when you try and quit you suddenly have this void where all the time you spent feeding your addiction, you just have nothing. It’s why so many programs like AA and rehab spend so much time giving alternative structures, until you can stand on your own and organize your own life. That’s why the guy saying that $11 each week kept him going rang really true to me.
As for cost, like every study ever conducted shows the costs of diversion is vastly less than the material and social costs of incarceration. Think about it, for an entire year of peeing clean, the state gives this person $600-ish. Googling tells me that’s about the cost of 2 days incarceration in CA.
edit: there’s some other points I didn’t really address. You can’t really stop someone from falling off the wagon and going on a very dangerous bender, short of actual incarceration (your old tolerance is lower now but you have the same habits so you can easily OD; sadly it’s not uncommon). But that’s not really the most helpful way to think about it. For the people who are trying to use this program to get clean, being treated like an adult and having the ability to structure payments how it works best for you is a good thing. It’s baby steps into self-management and planning.
If you mean how Uber famously had like 8000 microservices, more than 1 for each engineer, then sure. But it’s mixing up cause and effect. Aligning deployment boundaries with domain boundaries is, all things equal, a good idea. ZIRP-gorged unicorns would have found makework one way or another.
https://www.coxautoinc.com/market-insights/kbb-atp-february-...
This is an extremely apt description of Israel and the US though?
Nonproliferation is pretty much failed though. Iran complied with some of the most onerous and invasive inspections of its nuclear program for years, and the US still unilaterally withdrew from the agreements and demonized them. So what is the benefit of complying at all?
Yes Oct 7 is definitely the most recent, relevant event before Iran’s strikes on Israel.
And don’t forget Iran also captured an Israeli-owned ship, reinforcing that they indeed can project power in the Strait of Hormuz. Overall seems like, if anything, a strategic defeat revealing how exposed Israel is.
You did much better than me by actually providing some references!
I truly wish these companies were genuinely private, but they are not. They are de facto state actors. More precisely, they all work hand-in-glove and which is the hand and which is the glove is no longer clear.
Epoch Times guy is really onto something here. It's crazy that there's no existing body of literature that explores how the ways in which a society's productive forces and relations (its "base", if you will) interacts with its other institutions like government, media, etc. (its "superstructure", if you will). But here we are. He's the lone Cassandra, his desperate cries falling upon deaf ears.