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Do you agree? byteseu.com/943736/ #SlovakRepublic #Slovakia #SlovenskáRepublika #Slovensko


I'll write a longer post on this later. But here's some back-of-the-napkin math on 500K homes per year, based on a Substack post I wrote a few months ago:

missingmiddleinitiative.ca/p/c…



Why aren't rich, greedy (and smart) Republicans SCREAMING BLOODY MURDER?
The Dow industrials fell 970 points, the dollar hit fresh multiyear lows against the euro and yen, and gold reached a new record wsj.com/finance/stocks/global-…
in reply to Jeff Jarvis

because they're making out like bandits. BTC, VIX, Berkshire hathaway shares, gold, precious metals, Real Estate, hedge funds, private equity, are all doing fine. The wealthy were busy "rebalancing portfolios" and hedging before and after the election. It's only us peasants that were caught flatfooted. Same thing happened during COVID. poor got poorer. rich doubled their fuck-you-all money.


Building plots prices 2019-2023 byteseu.com/943734/ #Austria #Österreich #RepublicOfAustria #RepublikÖsterreich





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You can ignore climate change. But it doesn’t ignore you. These insurance spikes were not only foreseeable, but foreseen. States didn’t act, and now the cost is being borne by the most vulnerable. It will get much worse. washingtonpost.com/climate-env…

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This whole report is worth reading, and note that it was released under the prior Trump administration. It should be the work plan for every financial regulator. But most of its recommendations remain in the TBD pile, 5 years later. cftc.gov/sites/default/files/2…


Sleeps with a medal: Who is Aria Dinat, the hero of the Croatian badminton? byteseu.com/943728/ #Croatia #Hrvatska #RepublicOfCroatia #RepublikaHrvatska


mastodon.social/@camelliakyoto… camelliakyoto@mastodon.social - Having helped Prince Naka no Ōe destroy the rival Soga clan (蘇我氏) and ascend the throne as Emperor Tenji (天智天皇 d.672), Nakatomi-no-Kamatari (中臣/藤原鎌足 614-69) was given the honorary name 'Fujiwara' (藤原 'Wisteria Arbor').

It is said the pair hatched their plan to seize control in one such arbor.



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There are reports that Amazon has joined Microsoft in slowing down its data center build out.

While I assume this is related to the economy, it’s notable that a recession isn’t being seen by big tech as the best time to make the case for AI replacing expensive human workers.

cnbc.com/amp/2025/04/21/amazon…

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A recession makes labor cheaper, it's generally the worst time to make the case for automation.
in reply to Dare Obasanjo

A recession is generally a bad time to automate workers. Recessions lead to high unemployment, which drives down wages. It's during boom times, when workers are scarce, that automation makes the most sense.



Okay, today I learned that part of the traditional Japanese method of growing Shiitake mushrooms is hitting logs with hammers. Apparently they whack the logs infused with the mushrooms to "trigger" the growth of the mushrooms (apparently the theory is that the mushrooms appear when the tree falls over). I have no idea if there is any actual science behind it, but...

They even sell special Shiitake mushroom hammers. 🤯

th.misumi-ec.com/en/vona2/deta…

#mushrooms #shiitake #gardening

in reply to AI6YR Ben

Sora News: "Strange as it may sound, the technique has been a bit of folk wisdom for some time, and the Oita Prefectural Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries Research Guidance Center recently confirmed that hammer time really does help lead to mushroom time.

Last month, the organization conducted an experiment, comparing the effects of hitting a log with a hammer versus leaving it un-smacked, and found that the wood that had been hammered subsequently produced more than twice as much shiitake (by weight). "

soranews24.com/2022/02/08/viol…

#mushrooms #hammers #weird #gardening

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