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I don’t know about vaporware, but it’s going to take a lot longer than 4 years before I expect to see anything groundbreaking out of it.

Funding QC research in the near term is going to be spent on things like materials science and engineering imo, which could have many use cases outside QC even if QC itself never pans out.

I think the MIC wants more money for aircraft research and that she’s trying to sell it as a non-militarized thing.

Yeah, it’s pretty common for me. I get all of the physical symptoms but almost none of the cognitive ones.

This survey does an awful job of separating out the motivations.

Financial freedom (43%) was equal to financial inability (43%), and a smaller group (31%) “attribute this to the social and political world their children would inherit.”

I would argue that increasing financial pressures are social and political realities, rather than something separate.

And there’s no mention of an option for “not wanting to bring children into this hell world based on aspects other than social or political realities” - like climate change or ecological destruction.

Regardless, it does look like there are multiple factors at play here, including a concern for the future that goes beyond personal finance.

So if corporations get human rights according to the US, why did they curtail TikTok’s freedom of expression with the threat of a ban?

(rhetorical question, of course)

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again (lol), Dems don’t have a foreign policy platform of their own. They just continue whatever Republicans were doing, sometimes with a few minor tweaks.

All of the FBI directors being Republican also says something about the them.

Dayrestan, Iran:

https://xcancel.com/US_Stormwatch/status/1828905915225125132

A heat index of 180°F (82.2°C) and a dew point of 97°F (36.1°C) were recorded in southern Iran today.

An air temperature of 102°F (38.9°C) and 85% relative humidity produced this brutal heat index.

Check out the data from the weather station here: https://www.weather.gov/wrh/timeseries?site=OIKQ&hours=72

However, I am a bit skeptical of the readings, as many other weather stations in the region reporting much lower dew points at the time of the reading, mostly in the upper 80s.

[Microclimates can cause this. I have no productive familiarity with the local patterns but these readings could be accurate despite their regional variance, generally speaking.]

However, a historic heatwave is occurring across much of the Middle East, and one weather station in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia—which currently holds the world record dew point of 95°F (35°C)—has recorded a dew point as high as 93°F (33.9°C) in recent days

The cute animals will surely be disappointed by the finite quantity of monocultured blackberries… but otherwise it sounds like a lovely yard!

As far as using your harvest: I would probably try making preserves, freezing them, and dehydrating them (individually or processed as fruit jerky) to prolong the shelf-life. Then I’d make some pies with the remaining fresh ones. After that I’d probably pawn the extras off on the local community, and/or feed them to the birds.

Also, root guards usually work well if you’re worried about them spreading more.

The cute animals are begging you for more blackberries!

You must heed their calls!

1.- “Okay. Good.”

2.- “Okay. Good.”

lmao

Plant even more of them!

Dems are already fascist imo. They are fascist-lite, sure, but they never offered anything different. They have no radical difference from the GOP, just a watered down version of the same.

I think it was inevitable that they would end up trying to out-radicalize their competition, so long as no other ideology took hold in the party. And the desperation to win just one more election at all costs, every election, meant that no such ideology could realistically take hold, unfortunately.

The ick factor can be prevented so long as there is an in-group and an out-group, and projection paints the out-group as champions of all things bad. This prevents any significant internal reflection or criticism. It also justifies chasing the more radical fascists because - in their perspective - recruiting those fascists to the party means they can no longer be fascist, because that’s the other party’s thing. As if a party is not inherently made of people. And once(/if) the majority of fascists join the Dems, that projection will continue despite the new reality.

I’m surprised it doesn’t mention that the country is literally going underwater with climate change.

Bangladesh has already been hit with significant effects from sea level rise and intensified storms for years now, and it is projected to continue to be one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change this century.

(The country experienced another significant flood just this week.)

A 10 on a 10-to-10 scale.

I think we’ve all missed this context on the bear forum and on twitter.

It’s been mostly overlooked (or at least unmentioned) here, but not entirely missed. For example: https://hexbear.net/comment/5275981

Yes, mpox = monkeypox.

I don’t really know anything about the virulence, etc.

As far as I’m aware, Dems are allergic to foreign policy and just continue with whatever the Reps have set in motion.

Which of course means that US voters don’t even have an alternative to vote for. I fully expect Harris to be more of exactly the same, and that protests and criticisms of her or Biden or whoever will continue to hold absolutely zero influence over policy.

This is what happens when business interests become “national security.”

I agree the empire will increasingly lash out (and also lash inward), especially with climate change factored in.

It appears to me that China is playing the long game - but I’m not convinced this is the best strategy given the circumstances of climate change and an ailing superpower. Still, they maintain what is in my opinion the most rational foreign policy of all major powers. And they have a lot of room to pivot their strategy, much more so than the US which is entirely beholden to its corporate interests.

mpox has spread to 13 countries in Africa now.

This Al Jazeera article claims a 160% increase of cases as compared to last year: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/13/africa-cdc-declares-mpox-a-public-health-emergency

Haudenosaunee (Confederacy). Iroquois is from French, supposedly derived from another tribe’s name for the group.

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