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Once the dimwit boomer new generation who worked under Roddenberry aged enough they brought their repugnant economic right / social left Clintonesque attitudes into the show (this gen is mostly fucked in the brain), Deep Space Nine ushered in the Ferrengi into the mainstream, normalized them, now they were part of the show's "diversity" and money was mentioned, used frequently in episodes.. GR had died at this point, so the new gen had freer rein. Let's have no doubt, the most complained-about recent Trek fare is directly tied to that trend.

Gene Roddenberry designed Star Trek to be a post-capitalist universe, note their system had no use for money. There is a reason why the ultra-capitalist race in it, the Ferrengi look ugly, their heads literally made to look like ass. This is how Roddenberry wanted you to see ultra-capitalists.

Counterpunch: "Twelve U.S. Billionaires Now Have a Combined $2 Trillion"

Chemical Analyst: "South Korea to Build the World's Largest Hydrogen Fuel Cell Power Plant in Gyeongju"

Politico: "In Supreme Court battle over transgender rights, conservatives look to an unlikely ally: Europe.. 'Systematic reviews by national health authorities in Sweden, the United Kingdom, Finland, and Norway have all concluded that the harms associated with these interventions are significant, and the long-term benefits are unproven,' Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti wrote in defense of the state’s ban on transition-related medical care for minors"

"@CedarTea@social.coop

Everywhere I look:

Media, politicians, and police: 'This sort of criminal behaviour is a signifier of the deep rot at the heart of the civility of our politics and it must be cracked down on with law and order.'

Normal folks: 'Oh, so it's a crime to kill him but not for him to kill my aunt? Eat my entire ass'"

"@Laukidh@infosec.exchange

I miss when search engines looked for the words you typed"

Increased enterpreneurship doesn't spur growth. Entrepreneurship is 10 times more in US than in the EU, but growth in US is slightly more compared to Europe. Why? US is the center of finance, risk capital, and one of the most business-friendly places in the world. Why not 10 times the performance?

The more you dig into the details, the more you will be gobsmacked about how "limited" the earlier sci generation truly was. You will see their blunders (and there were many) surely along with their successes. There is no need to look at the era in grandiose terms and solidify, freeze, wrap their findings as-is in a cloud of mystery, wonderous mystic unknown only to be awed at and never be probed or understood. We cannot build more stupid conclusions on top of this mess.

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Barandes: "Remarkably, the right-hand side of [the formula above] gives the general mathematical formula for quantum interference, despite the absence of manifestly quantum-theoretic assumptions. One sees from this analysis that interference is a direct consequence of stochastic dynamics not generally being divisible. More precisely, interference is nothing more than a generic discrepancy between actual indivisible stochastic dynamics and hypothetically divisible stochastic dynamics. In particular, quantum-mechanical interference does not imply that matter has a physically wavelike nature, contrary to frequent claims in textbook treatments like [The Feynman Lecture on Physics] . Indeed, from the perspective of the present discussion, the notion that quantum-mechanical interference ever necessitated assigning matter a physically wavelike quality was merely an unfortunate accident of history, arising from the fact that many early empirical examples of interference in quantum systems happened to resemble the behavior of interfering waves propagating in three-dimensional physical space"

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The Anglo biz-terrorists only care about corp profits, sometimes that is access, their franchising, finance can enter a country, if not, chaos works too, in that case their weapons will. See Syria, Libya, Ukraine, Iraq as examples.

When the CEO of the United Fruit company wanted to arrange a coup in Honduras the Department of State told him not to do it. DOS even put a tail on him, he evaded the tail, hired bunch of ships, mercenaries and went to Honduras and overthrew the government there, installed a puppet president in 1912. This was a businessman.

Now biz owns government through their donor networks, corruption, kickbacks and revolving doors, the little amt of guardrails that existed have been completely eradicated in the good part of the last century, and this one.

US business culture is a merchantilist, a biz-terrorist culture, the Anglo hails from plutocracy, not an ordered militocracy, as in France, Russia, elsewhere (almost everywhere else). The Anglo exercises rabid expansionism, not in a way an empire does but more like in a franchising mentality, its expands its operations, virus-like, "diversifies" them to use a term from portfolio management. It will avoid killing if it can enslave (for cheap labor), or sometimes be content to cut the thumbs off of the weavers in India to destroy a competing local industry. Let's remember the East India Company performed that feat not the government itself.

H2 Central: "KfW is supporting the construction of a national hydrogen core network on behalf of the German Federal Government. This forward-looking project is a key component of the Federal Government’s national hydrogen strategy, as a result of which infrastructure with a total length of 9,040 km is to be created by 2032. By financing a new instrument – the amortisation account – KfW will be making a significant contribution to the implementation of this technology of the future. KfW is providing a loan for the amortisation account in the amount of EUR 24 billion. The loan agreement was signed yesterday evening"

"@evanprodromou@threads.net

Nobody owns the Fediverse. It's an permissionless connection between independent social networks. Anyone can join"

#FighterJet

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"[The oil depletion allowance] was first introduced in 1913 and allowed producers to use the depletion allowed to deduct just 5 per cent of their income and the deduction was limited to the original cost of their property. However, in 1926 the depletion allowance was increased to 27.5 per cent. As Robert Bryce pointed out in his book.. 'Numerous studies showed that the oilmen were getting a tax break that was unprecedented in American business. While other businessmen had to pay taxes on their income regardless of what they sold, the oilmen got special treatment'"

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That Texas oilmen had JFK killed apparently was an open secret in Texas business circles during the 60s..

Another likely culprit for JFK assasination is Texas oil interests. Yes, the beloved businessman, again.

Before the assasination JFK wanted to cut the "oil depletion allowance", a major moneymaker for oil companies. His VP LBJ was a former oilman, he apparently orchestrated the assasination in conjunction with Texans to stop the move, had JFK killed (note, while in Texas). The allowance remained untouched during LBJ's term who was sworn in after Kennedy.

See there is no need for the "deep state" explanation. It was the surface state, top-level politicians in the pay or in cahoots with moneyed interests, who truly run America.

Tariffs, keeping the dollar as reserve currency are diametrically opposed. The rest of the world needs dollars to function, US brings those dollars to them via its trade deficits, at the cost of turning US into a basket case, a non-country country. If US acts like a country normalizes its trade balance, the world could naturally want the dollar dominance to end. I hope it ends. A bancor system would work much better. It would not require deficits, in fact the system is designed to balance trade.

TASS: "Science financing in Russia may reach 2% of GDP even before 2030 — Putin.. Russia plans to educate one million engineers in the next three years, the president noted"

The movie spend went up to 400 million dollars after reshoots.. 

u.mov_profit(budget=400, gross=1000)

Out[1]: 0.0

It will need 1 billion at the box office just to break even. This is Wolverine & Deadpool territory. Looks unlikely

Since he played the Red Hulk in the new Cap Am and the movie is blatantly anti-Trump I wondered if Harrison Ford is a Dem shitlib, Team Blue, (social) left. And of course he was.. "I was raised Democrat.. my moral purpose was being a Democrat with the big D" he told a news source recently. He must have enthusiastically signed up to play the "Red" Hulk.

Feinman, Delay, Deny, Defend: "Almost everyone who has health insurance has a story about an arbitrary or incomprehensible denial of a claim. [NY DOL found that] the databases used by insurance companies to calculate the 'reasonable and customary' fees they would pay for out-of-network treatment were part of a scheme to defraud consumers by systematically lowballing the fees. UnitedHealth, Aetna, Guardian, and other companies agreed to stop using the faulty databases and contribute to the creation of a new independent database...

Insurance companies have influence with regulators for all of the usual reasons and some unusual ones. The usual ones include money. For nine of the ten most recent federal election cycles, the insurance industry has been among the top ten in campaign contributions... in the 2008 presidential campaign, for example.. Democrat Barack Obama received $2.2 million...

Industry influence is magnified by the unusual structure of insurance regulation. An industry dominated by huge national and sometimes multinational corporations is regulated in fifty state capitals..The multistate regulatory structure gives companies opportunities to whipsaw state regulators, threatening to support optional federal chartering of insurance companies or threatening to stop writing insurance in a state, as seems to happen regularly when regulators express any reluctance to allow companies to raise rates as they please"

NYT: "The shooting death of a UnitedHealthcare executive in Manhattan has unleashed Americans’ frustrations with an industry that often denies coverage and reimbursement for medical claims. 'Thoughts and deductibles to the family,' read one comment underneath a video of the shooting posted online by CNN. 'Unfortunately my condolences are out-of-network' [said another]"

H2 Fuel News: "Scientists Achieve 200x Boost in Hydrogen Efficiency with Quantum Crystals... Breakthrough in Water Splitting with Chiral Crystals: A Leap Toward Sustainable Energy.. A groundbreaking discovery in water splitting technology is paving the way for more efficient hydrogen production, addressing one of the major barriers to its widespread adoption. An international team of researchers has found that special “chiral” crystals—structures with a left- or right-handed atomic arrangement—can dramatically accelerate the oxygen evolution reaction, a crucial step in the water splitting process"

H2 Central: "The Ikal Solar company plans to develop the project 'Ikal H2 Photovoltaic Park for the Production of Green Hydrogen' which will mean a total investment of 2,572.7 million dollars (mdd) in the municipality of Mina, Nuevo LeĂłn.. [Mexico] in the next six years"

"In the EV transition"... There will be no EV transition..

Another battery-lover bites the dust..

Euronews: "Stellantis CEO Tavares quits: Why his EV bet sparked his departure.. Carlos Tavares has resigned as Stellantis CEO after nearly four years, amid plunging electric vehicle sales... His departure highlights the mounting challenges for legacy carmakers in the EV transition"

#Thorium #Whistler

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It all started with the Abe meeting, he was handcucked by Trump, Macron must've seen that and said "I won't let that happen to me!!", so he attacked pre-emptively when he met Trump. Now it's an ongoing war.

:) Neither wants to get handcucked so it must be a huge struggle for both

Politico: "Push & Pull: Trump, Macron's awkward handshake saga continues"

Politico: "Trump and his aides’ public and private exhortations that the wars involving Israel must come to an end have had some positive effects, especially in Lebanon. The U.S. official credited Trump’s meeting with Ron Dermer, a senior aide to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with helping push the Israelis to agree to a truce last month with Hezbollah militants in Lebanon"

Geoship Spox: "Everybody realizes that home construction is broken. It's actually worse than broken, this is an industry that's been moving backwards in the last 50 years. It costs four times as much to build a home and it takes twice as long"

Since the "developed" world also has an housing crisis thanks to unfettered immigration and the rich gobbling up homes as investments, if you can do anything on the supply side it can't be through business-as-usual methods. Radical new approaches are needed.

Producing housing should be no different than producing coke bottles. Factories spit out the latter in the billions, same can be done for housing components given we have the right infrastructure, and the right design. One of the stable designs is the geodesic approach, the shape is strong, will work in hurricane hit areas, can be built fast, insulation is easily achieved (there is outer shell, inner shell, the gap in between is filled with insulation material, eg wool). Assembly is done bottom up, component by component, the geometry of the structure is inherently sturdy and strong.

Bioceramics, chemically bonded ceramics are of a similar material that makes the human bone. They are strong, natural, do not burn or corrode. The research into the material was conducted by the government (of course -US National labs-) now some binnesses use them for home construction. Morgan Bierschenk, Geoship are noteworthy here, they can manufacture components off-site via injection molding, components are shipped to house site, and assembled by workers there in a matter of weeks. No complicated construction process needed.

Bioceramics are healthy, people who spend a few nights at one of those geodomes say they had the best sleep of their lives, they feel the health effects around them immediately. According to a spox "we have 800 toxic chemicals in common construction materials.. almost 50% of homes will test positive for black mold.. these things are leading to chronic disease.. your home that you spend the most time in is one of the things that is contributing to the rise of [construction material toxicity epidemic]".

Bioceramic based geodesic dome house construction.. It has future.

Russia was preoccupied but they might have been promised certain things, their base, navy port, and they had their issues with Assad so maybe they are okay with the change of the guard.. Did they follow the same pattern as in Armenia/Azerbaijan (for the longest time they sold weapons to both sides, and once Armenia made some pro-EU noises, they had the shit kicked out of them, lost major territory).

It appears recent events are tied to outgoing Dems again. With one last gasp they greenlit the op, Assad is finally gone. Israel must be happy. But they might not enjoy the chaos that can follow.

With the coup TR non-interventionism was reversed. They pushed the bitch, pushed the bitch, and the bitch got broken.

See my timeline of Syria events, TR incursion happened right after the coup attempt, and the attempt caused a major expulsion of officers who were against the incursion in Syria (some think pro-NATO officers were expelled, this is not true).

The following events took place just in 2016 BTW, I copy-pasted that block, without taking anything out, there was nothing notable happening in between them. Note there was a soon-outgoing Democrat administration, right before Trump. The Black Bill Clinton is in the WH at that point. Now Trump is about to step in, and Dems are on the way out. Do we notice a rhyme?

As can be noticed, anti-Kurd, pro-anti-Russia items are interspersed in there.. This has been the "new Turkey" of late.

Asia Minor for the longest time was non-interventionist. But bcz it is US' bitch it got pushed into many things.

Sure Syria and Iraq had phony governmental structures, in Iraq Sunni leader (Saddam) was running a Shite majority country, in Syria a Shite minority (Assads) were ruling over a Sunni majority. After Shites came to power in Iraq it would only make sense the same for Sunnis would happen in Syria.

But it was wrong to work towards that goal, as it created much carnage, Russia got involved, triggered a refugee crisis, it became a big hot mess. We'll see how future events shape up, if Syria becomes a better place to make the effort worth it. It doesn't look good at the moment.

Assad's precondition for any talk was the return of taken land by TR sponsored groups, TR wasn't too warm to the idea, so there wasn't much to this "thaw" in reality.

"There was a thaw between Syria and TR, why would the latter have organized the rebels against Assad?"

NDTV: "Assad Regime Falls, Rebels Declare 'New Era' In Syria"