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«RUD (rapid unscheduled disassembly) is a term of art in rocketry that usually signifies a catastrophic or explosive failure.»
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Can Starmer Save Britain? Why Labour’s Sweeping Victory May Not Reverse the Country’s Decline
Well… Even if the US goes down the toilet, maybe Britain can fix itself. The article seems more optimistic to me than the headline.
ProPublica: The Delusion of Advanced Plastic Recycling Using Pyrolysis — ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/delusion-advanced-chemical-plastic-recycling-pyrolysis
«The American Chemistry Council told me it’s impossible to know whether a particular ethylene molecule comes from pyrolysis naphtha or fossil fuel naphtha; the compounds produced are “fungible” and can be used for multiple products, like making rubber, solvents and paints that would reduce the amount of new fossil fuels needed. Its statement called mass balance a “well-known methodology” that’s been used by other industries including fair trade coffee, chocolate and renewable energy.»
Nooooo, not my fair trade coffee! You bastards!
«For all that it talked like an educated and articulate human being, Rupshe was no more than a few hundred million lines of code. Written into that code were steel-hard safeguards against any action that might endanger a human life.»
*snort*
No, seriously. You’re clearly not a software “engineer”. Nor do you know one. At least, not one who got to this point. Or you didn’t listen to him/her/hier.
«A super-saturated solution of sodium thiosulphate in unrefined petroleum turned out to provide the perfect medium.»
Oh, come on. I know you’re a NYT bestselling author, Hugo winner etc. etc., but…. sodium sulfur-sulfur? C’mon, we can do better.
Mercuro-sulfate? Ferrosulfate? Cyanosulfate? Some sort of anhydride? Cuprosulfate? Thiochromate? (That seems catchy. Colorful, even.) Thiobromate?
Good news, but…
Oh, neet! I like traaiiinnnzzz!
Wait, what?
Sinclair is doing “local news” sites now, in addition to TV?
Ten Commandments; 613 Mitzvot
Something something Ten Commandments in public schools. I’d include the 613 Mitzvot. At a minimum.
The Guardian: Russian soldier says army suffering heavy losses in Kharkiv offensive
«Moscow has purged some of the leading nationalist voices who had been allowed to criticise the country’s war efforts. It has jailed Igor Strelkov, a popular nationalist blogger and former FSB officer who had become a vocal critic of how the Kremlin has handled the invasion»
Oh, they got Strelkov. Did not know.
‘Cheapfake’ Biden videos enrapture right-wing media, but deeply mislead – The Washington Post
Re those “Biden wandered off” and “Biden freezes” headlines. Lies, basically, from right-wing media with axes to grind. Intentionally deceptive video cropping.
‘We’re in 1938 now’: Putin’s war in Ukraine and lessons from history
«Samir Saran, the head of the Indian thinktank the Observer Research Foundation, who described himself as an atheist in a room full of believers, nevertheless agreed that something bigger than Europe was at stake as he almost mocked the inability of the west’s $40tn economy to organise a battlefield defeat of Russia’s $2tn economy.
He argued: “There is one actor that has reorganised its strategic engagement to fight a war and the other has not. One side is not participating in the battle. You have hosted conferences supporting Ukraine and then do nothing more. But when it comes to action, Russia 2.0 is grinding forward.
“It tells countries like us that if something like this were to happen in the Indo-Pacific, you have no chance against China. If you cannot defeat a $2tn nation, don’t think you are deterring China. China is taking hope from your abysmal and dismal performance against a much smaller adversary.”»
«Flowers, not tomatoes, greeted the French prime minister Édouard Daladier, to his surprise, when he returned from Munich in 1938. Knowing full well the threat posed by Hitler, and that he and Chamberlain had betrayed Czechoslovakia, the only democratic country in central eastern Europe, he turned to his counsellor and said of the cheering crowds: “Bunch of fools.”»
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