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Sunday, March 23 2025, 8PM CT (1AM Monday UTC)
IT'S #MONSTERDON
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Critters 2: The Main Course (1988)
"When voracious alien Critter eggs hatch, setting their sites on devouring the small farm town of Grover's Bend, Charlie McFadden and his bounty hunter friends return to Earth to destroy them."
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The RingConn Gen 2 may be a good subscription-free alternative to the Oura ring
A battery life of 10 to 12 days is pretty good (in reality it may only get 7 days), with a battery charging case providing an additional 150 days of power! But that is still longer than the Oura ring. Costing less than an Oura and also being subscription-free are more positives.
It does apparently sync data to Google Fit, but not to Strava. So I’d be sure to check properly what services it syncs to. Today, the ideal is to sync to the global Apple Health and Google Health Connect services.
I’d certainly not consider buying a ring with a monthly subscription payment, so next time around I’ll be comparing this ring with the Galaxy Ring and other similar contenders.
See zdnet.com/article/i-replaced-m…
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Trump’s weird obsession with the arts is part of the authoritarian playbook
His focus on the Kennedy Center fits a pattern. From Augustus to Stalin, strongmen have sought cultural control for their own ends, says the Guardian’s chief culture writer Charlotte HigginsCharlotte Higgins (The Guardian)
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'Free Speech' Platfrom X Suspends Opposition Party Accounts in Turkey
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'Free Speech' Platfrom X Suspends Opposition Party Accounts in Turkey
The bans follow demonstrations protesting the arrest of Erdoğan's main political rival.AJ Dellinger (Gizmodo)
One of the reasons Trump is the great uniter of the Republican Party is that he gets things done. He’s executed almost half of the Project 2025 agenda in two months.
Some of this stuff like dismantling USAID or the Department of Education seemed like conspiracy theories but are now done.
It really emphasizes the uselessness of Democrats.
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Sounds like you think Dems should also thumb their noses at the constitution, demonize judges who rule against them, appoint rich supporters as henchmen, and do all other kinds of shady and unethical stuff as long as it achieves their campaign promises. Your critique isn't helpful or useful at all.
Voice of America turmoil through the eyes of veteran VOA journalist Steve Herman
Voice of America (VOA), the U.S. government-funded international broadcaster, is facing an unprecedented crisis.Episode 276 of "E&P Reports" - A Vodcast series hosted by Mike Blinder (Editor and Publisher)
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Leveraging Sustainable Household Energy and Environment Resources Management with Time-Series
Since this dataset is essential for predictive analysis and the development of prediction models, the technical validation involves building machine learning models using the data from the records to assess their suitability.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
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Al Fatah, partito del presidente dell'Anp Abu #Mazen, invita #Hamas a lasciare il potere a #Gaza per preservare "la presenza dei palestinesi" nella Striscia, mentre Israele intensifica le operazioni militari, minacciando di sfollare la popolazione e annettere parti del territorio.
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The Grain to Green project was one of China’s most ambitious environmental endeavours – launched in 1999 to reverse the damage from grazing and farming across the Loess plateau. Offering cash and tax benefits to offset farming losses and widespread tree-planting employment programmes, by 2016 almost 30,000 km² of cropland had been restored to forest or grassland. The Guardian theguardian.com/environment/20…
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‘All the birds returned’: How a Chinese project led the way in water and soil conservation
The Loess plateau was considered the most eroded place on Earth until China took action and reversed decades of damage from grazing and farmingHelen Davidson (The Guardian)
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Ah - perhaps you're not in touch with many activists in this area - but if you're looking at the literature, for example on degrowth, it is fundamentally predicated on massive state intervention. In their survey of degrowth literature from 2005 to 2020, for example, Fitzpatrick et al[ found the 5 most frequently proposed policies were:
universal basic incomes,
work-time reductions,
job guarantees with a living wage,
maximum income caps,
declining caps on resource use and emissions.
Or if you look at Green Party policies across Europe, they are massively interventionist - for example they generally favour nationalisation, especially of utilities, transport, energy, education, health and social care, etc - and of course, gegrowth is not logically possible without nationalising banking and finance - though few highlight this.
But this is all very obvious - what timely alternative is there to state intervention to effect a green transition ?
@GeofCox @KimSJ Yeah, and how is state intervention incompatible with democracy as such?
The problem you are referring to seems to outsized influence of the wealthy, and for that democracies a couple of decades knew a solution too, ownership concentration caps for media and similar. Problem solved.
Now it's obvious that the wealthy will not allow themselves to be harnessed without protest, but there is trusted European solution for that too, a so called low neck shave, 1/3
the French even invented a machine to automate and speed up that shave.
My problem is actually, that our Western societies are actually so aged, that voter majorities (e.g. in Germany/Austria I checked) are currently all 50+ -> you don't sell to these electorates policies of invest 2-3% of capital today in a policy that will make your country much more competitive, say 20-30% in 2-3 decades.
And that's what practically all anti-climate change measures are: 2/3
- invest today
- so you profit immensely down the road
Formulated differently, not doing something has been prognosed to be multitudes more expensive in the long run, than correcting the behaviour now.
But how do you sell the majority of the voters such actions, of which they will only see the "negative side of the ledger", but not reap the "positive side of the investment"?
That's an even bigger issue than the wealthy that dislike democracy.
3/3
@KimSJ 🤷The numbers for AT/DE I mentioned was not actually active voters.
That were rather exact numbers of citizens available, by the relevant national statistic office. (I'd assume they'd get these number in AT/DE rather precisely, as we do have a mandatory registration of domicile, and at least in AT it's actually centralised for the whole country. And the registration includes the nationality.)
So even if the youth would vote 100%, it would also take the retirees not voting. 1/2
@peterbrown @GeofCox @KimSJ Yes.
But then again you are in the irritating problem with "long term investment", "(near) retiree voter majority".
So you want to stop fossil subsidies. So what does the fossil industry? Raise prices. Your voters suddenly find themselves in a situation where: 1/2
Generational differences in climate-related beliefs, risk perceptions and emotions in the UK - Communications Earth & Environment
Younger people in the UK are more likely than older individuals to feel emotional engagement with climate change-related risks, however, there is little difference in the belief in anthropogenic climate change, according to analyses of nationally rep…Nature
12-year-old US boy builds nuclear fusion reactor, gets visit from FBI
Those who have watched Young Sheldon will remember how the 10-year-old child prodigy made a nuclear reactor in his bedroom and got a visit from the FBI. Now, believe it or not, the story has actually come true in the city of Memphis, Tennessee, US.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
An Introduction to The Garden of Earthly Delights & Hieronymus Bosch’s Wildly Creative Vision
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An Introduction to The Garden of Earthly Delights & Hieronymus Bosch’s Wildly Creative Vision
Beth Harris puts it in the new Smarthistory video above. Throughout its fifteen minutes, she and her colleague Steven Zucker explain as much as possible of this jam-packed triptych — not that even a lifetime would be long enough to understand it full…Colin Marshall (Openculture.com)
South Korea To Sanction Crypto Exchanges Operating Illegally
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure South Korean financial authorities are considering sanctioning and blocking access to multiple overseas crypto exchanges, including BitMEX and KuCoin,…BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
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