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And the climate lobby eats itself with runaway propoganda. But more interesting, the polar opposites of the climate drama seem to agree on a lot of things.

Fascinating that the Doomers and Denialists both seem to agree that it is not technoligaly/economicly/politically possible to INFLUENCE climate in a meaningful way through policy in the real world.

Or how about Doomers and Denialists agreeing that Society is going to collapse? One through action (costly climate initiatives), the other through inaction (eco collapse leading to societal collapse)

Does it just find "the best option"? Or does the AI spit out hundreds of combos that scientists still have to create and try?

Grift too.

This was the second largest bank failure in US history, yet, it doesn't make sense in one way or another.

"By raising the threshold from $50 billion in assets to $250 billion, medium-size banks were exempted from those regulations."

Is this just a medium sized bank failing? Everyone seems to think the sky is on fire.

Alcohol, China e-shop, and furniture were my ads.

But I got a video of the impact as well, maybe you missed?

Funny how you would never know from the flowery language and diversity and equity stuff that they are a massive government censorship operation aimed at Americans with dissenting opinions. [1]

[1]https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/June%2...

Are they really blaming melting glaciers on "heat waves" that reach -10c? Cause it almost sounds like they are trying to say the artic is melting due to freezing temperatures.

And how about the "experts" who describe weather events as impossible and inconceivable?

"At Dome C, the easterly apex of the sloping ice sheet, European researchers from the Concordia base staged a photo in swimwear under blow-up palm trees. The -10.1C (13.8F) temperature on March 18 was 38.5C (69.3F) higher than average, the biggest rise above normal observed by any weather station in history. Antarctica experts described the heat wave as "impossible", even "inconceivable".

Or not. Humans have gone from 320 to 420 ppm carbon dioxide in from 1960 to 2020. This useless model pulls out all the stops to justify its existence, including a 1500+ ppm increase in C02. Lmao! Clowns.

"Under this worst-case scenario, atmospheric CO2 concentrations increase to 1962 ppm by the year 2250"

Or how about their definition of "historical record"?

“This model simulates a carbon cycle in the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biosphere, along with the increasing oceanic carbon uptake in agreement with historical trends (Figure 1b)."

What might this figure 1b show?

That the historical trends they talk about go from 1850 to 2020, but really from 1960-2020 if you look at it. In other words, not historical.

But it gets worse. If you look at figure 1b, you can see that actual observations only cover the period from 1980-2020, and the fit line is clearly tortured. Sure, they modeled 170 years and claim it fits the historical record. But they only used 40 years of "historical record", and even that to a layman is highly suspect.

In 1980, there is far more uptake of C02 than the model suggests, and by 2020, there is less C02 uptake than the model suggests.

So yeah, garbage study using 40 years of data that clearly doesn't fit the model and using a ppm of almost 5x what we have now.

Also, ocean accounts for 30% of C02 uptake, and this says it may decrease 1/3rd under the worst circumstances. This means the earth could lose 10% overall (not really!) of its carbon uptake ability.

But that 10% could be offset by a 14% increase in land biomass C02 uptake.

Pop quiz: how much more carbon does earth's land sequester if the C02 in the atmosphere increases 450%??

These articles are fun. Just don't take them too serious. On the one hand, the place is on fire, on the other, some newb can do the job of 20 people.

"Twitter's layoffs have resulted in an extensive reorganization of remaining workers, the engineer told the BBC. He said that one "totally new" staff member without expertise was now doing a job that used to be done by more than 20 people. The New York Times previously reported that some junior employees have been left in charge of areas they haven't worked on before."

America wasn't waging covert war against Russian infrastructure in 2015.

Timeline is not relevent to current political war situation.

Squirrel damage is limited to a short out.

Human damage can break many many obscure parts with a single bomb.

Not even remotely close comparison in terms of damage.

This guy lefts thousands without power for days. Squirrels don't do that.

So he is a "Russian Sleeper", and he got caught. The war is real, and it is here. Covert operations in Russia and in USA are covered up, as shown here.

Terrorists don't get credit. They get downplayed.

And yet it is. But not the way you think. It's all about elite groupthink. They have drinks and talk stuff over and turn their noses up at each other until they are on the same page as to what is desirable and then judge each other based on these elitist social goals and who can achieve them and cement their names immortal.

And anyone that gets in the way.... Fired, defunded, shunned, labeled conspiracy theorist etc.

And just you wait. The money isn't flowing yet, but it will. For a city of a million people, maybe buying 8-10 councillors for $100,000 each will accomplish any goal. And noone cares enough about city politics to stop that kind of thing.

And what if governments are always spouting nonsense and implementing it because they have nothing better to do?

I don't know these as 15 minute cities, I know these as anti-urban sprawl, pro-environment, anti-car neighborhoods. And the push has been on for over a decade to make this happen.

Now that it's here, it's worse than thought. It's not just planning these things and letting people live and work close to home or not. It's more of a forcing function where the entire system is built as a turn-key totalitarian physical prison.

Only a fool would buy into this. And yet the places where these decisions are made (city council), nobody cares about and big money will pour in.

It only takes 6 figures in a 5 figure race to buy a couple seats and implement radical environmental anti-human policy.

Was wondering more about the laws the courts have passed that have brought the country to this point.

As for the still raging war of 1948, this chapter is just more typical Israeli-Palestinian conflict. One side kills, the other side kills. Israel wins because Palestine is a nothing state that doesn't understand they lost the war 70 years ago, and Israel has had the upper hand ever since. Palestinian kills someone, Jews kill back. Problem is it can never be proportional. Only Jewish woman can have Jewish babies. Muslim men and woman can have Muslim children.

This showdown between non-expansionist and hyper expansionist birthing means Israel will never play 1 for 1. Otherwise, it just takes 20 million dead Muslims for 20 million dead Jews and the game is over.

Funny. I usually appreciate the Israeli way of thinking, talking, communicating and arguing.

Not here. This is a full TDS style op-ed very light on substance and high on pure vitriol and attack. Doesn't even begin to lay out the framework of what's going on.

In case you missed it, the courts have a dual prerogative. Law, Justice and the rest. But also considering what's best for Israel.

The courts have been accused of using this clause to consider groups of Israelis best interests as in the interests of Israel.

Basically back door socialism, where group rights supercede individual rights is what I gather.

Bibi has led Israel through many tough times. He orchestrated the change from more socialist to more capitalist in the early 2000s, with great results in the complete and absolute domination of cutting edge tech including everything hacking, warfighting, intel related.

Now he is doing what he considers needs done to save the country, and the people are behind him (assuming if he is still leader) and the barrage of media against him is astonishing. Its even spilling over into the English language world.

What's the Jewish equivalent of calling someone a Nazi? Because I'm sure that's what he will be called next.

If anyone else has anymore English reading on the subject, I would be interested in some links. I find the media coverage on the issue to be vapid and pedantic. Very odd considering Israel usually has some of the best discourse and explanations available about these issues.

And yet the chances of some do good scientists opening more labs and refining crispr and playing saviour to stop the next pandemic means that the odds of another lab leak is increasing much faster than natural spillover.

In natural spillover, the disease gets a single shot at infecting and then transmitting.

In a lab leak, the disease has been kept alive and cultured with human cells for hundred of generations. Then undergone various genetic tweaks to see where if might attack and take hold in humans. If it can escape the lab, it has astronomically better odds of surviving in humans and transmitting to other humans.

I'm doubtful we see more than 2 or 3 natural spillover events in the next 50 years. I'm expecting a dozen lab leaks in that time the way technology and collection efforts are going.

The 2030s are going to be a shit show. The crispr tools available.... OmG

(Humor, 100% true) My friend informs me that they took this Havana syndrome to Garry Nolan and:

"Garry Nolan has like 60 patents lol. Literally one of the smartest people in the US. The government tried to use him to explain away ufos but it blew up in there face when he admitted he's an abductee lol"

"If you follow ufology you would know the mainstream theory is that abductees are just ETs who reincarnated as humans, for a purpose. Jesus being the most famous. Garry is likely hyper intelligent and now the face of Disclosure for that purpose. Very unlikely it was all a coincidence."

This headline is brought to you by brand new on site in less than 24 hours genetic sequencing.

More interesting to me is how often, when tested, does this happen?

I'm impressed they kept the doom and gloom and BS to a minimum. Let's be clear: this is a nothing burger.

If humans do NOTHING, the melting of artic and Iceland ice sheets will provide an average of 7.7mm of sea level rise over the next 130 years.

1m is nothing compared to the 120m sea level has risen from 19000bc to 6000bc [1]

That's 13000 years at an average of 9.23mm per year.

We are currently expected to rise 300-1000mm over the next 80 years.

That equals 3.75-12.5mm per year. [2] And it's all in the future, magically it's never here.

[1]https://noc.ac.uk/news/global-sea-level-rise-end-last-ice-ag...

[2]https://ocean.si.edu/through-time/ancient-seas/sea-level-ris...

"The two values, however, irrespective of how numerically close they are, share no intrinsic relationship whatsoever."

How do we know this statement is true? Is there a way to prove it mathematically? Or is it just an assumption that becomes fact unless someone can prove otherwise?

This is the fundemental problem with science as a self correcting and advancing entity.

It's often wrong, but we pretend it's right.

I remember as a child being told that evolution can't be true because X. Also, that scientists have no idea how the universe came to be.

Of course it's easier to point out flaws that to come up with corrections, but that's not the point.

The point was, science is hubristic and makes untrue claims all the time. They only appear true because we see or hear about them in a small time period where they represent the "most correct" version of reality as we know it, even if we know it's a total crock of shit, like the big bang.

They didn't. There were a series of patents filed, tangentially related I'm assuming, and the Covid version of the patent came after covid came.

"NOTE: The priority date for patent application US-2020279585-A1 (and the corresponding grant US-11024339-B2) that Google has supplied is based on a series of separate-but-related patent applications dating back to 2015. Of those various applications, only US-2020279585-A1 mentions COVID-19, and it was filed on May 17, 2020. "

An important thing to remember is that these will be mostly worthless and out of date in 30 months. Off the shelf parts will be better than these machines produce. And these fav machines are so complex, coming from so many places so many pieces. Having the blueprints and building one are not the same.

Kind of a silly article. What's more reasonable?

A: spend 2 minutes paying the $150 fee because a kid is kidnapped

B: waste time and expect every company everywhere to give you free stuff on demand in minutes with any sob story, regardless of proof?

You underestimate what happens without oil. First, every tree in the world will be cut down, except perhaps the Amazon. Then billions will starve as there is no fertilizer or transportation. The cities collapse, sending hoards of refugees seeking food to raid farms.

In short, everyone becomes a killer or dies. And gun toting small scale agriculture becomes the norm.

Around this time the world's wood will be exhausted, and only the middle latitudes will be habitable.

No mining will take place. No chemicals for purification. No new green energy. No new batteries.

Etc etc. Etc.

Covid doesn't help people. Oil and gas can be thanked for everything in the modern world including medicine, infrastructure, GDP, etc etc etc.

Billions would die if oil and gas all of a sudden stopped coming out of the ground.

That someone would write such a vapid headline is disheartening. That there is a target audience for this is disheartening.

The world truly is getting dumber, and it's time to just splinter into future haves and future have nots.

Can you imagine a world map split ideologically based on capitalism VS socialism rather than ethnic lines?

Thoughts? I know this is a BIG election in Africa, but I don't know the second thing about it. I see a lot of things that I as a westerner consider silly on twitter following a couple accounts, like mocking politicians for having "nice" sandals and being out of touch, along with a religious bent to everything it seems.

But as for the politics of the situation, I'm a complete dummy. I do feel the young populism thing going on there though.

I will say, this guy is one of the less shady characters. Hasn't even seen a ufo in real life, even though many of his peers did. I enjoyed his KONCRETE Podcast.

His description of UFOs isn't anything out of this world either. They can do Mach 1, almost from standstill, with no visible means of propulsion (no heat byproduct for Flir).

But same playbook as every other ufo tard. Release the top secret sensor data and blow trillions of dollars in tech advantage. So he will get to blow hard for a long time. He is leader of a UFO council of industry that seek to understand and exploit these crafts for tech benefit.

I have a pretty good feeling he knows the UFO craze is BS. He speaks very couched on the subject. This article is really about as far as this guy goes. I'm very surprised he even ruled out balloons, as he usually sticks to facts, and the facts in most of these cases isn't so exciting when you realize everything is just forward looking infrared radar. And pilots use the word "saw" interchangeably for things their eyes see and things FLIR and other instruments see.

This crowd is way more than willing to consider infrared radar instrument created images and videos as just as real as light. Problematic.

Incorrect. Lab leak is de facto default from now on in the world we live in. Even if you disagree, it will be in 5 years. The tech, the databases, the labs, the money. It's all increasing. Every single year the risk of a lab leak goes up, to the point where we are expecting a covid per decade out of the labs. But hopefully the rest of the world is more ethical than the chinese and their new and novel virus creation strategy and we get relatively harmless versions of the flu etc. Rather than pathogens with zero prior human cohabitation.

Funny how all the datapoints, including new and novel to humans get ignored.......