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• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  violent movements succeeded 26% of the time, while nonviolent movements succeeded 52% of the time. Which reminds me of the three Jewish revolts against Rome, 68 - 135 CE. They didn't work out well, at least for the next...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  customary requirement that the head be covered. This seems to have carried over to Christianity, mostly (AFAIK) for women, but not exclusively. Is there any explanation for why it's customary?...
• Commented on On mistaking a transient state for a permanent one
  For some reason the discussion here reminds me of this: https://spp.fas.org/military/program/asat/haleos.pdf When KJU or facsimile thereof has rockets capable of reaching LEO/MEO altitudes and nukes -- which he and others do -- the possibility of blackmail should be kept in...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/05/01/1091934/inside-the-quest-to-map-the-universe-with-mysterious-bursts-of-radio-energy/ A few years ago fast radio bursts (FRBs) were a curiosity of uncertain reality. They're evolving into a major probe of intergalactic matter and spurring some technology developments that probably will have several uses. Interesting (at least to me)...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  He was a flipping doctor, of all things. Observation, reading and a small amount of experience has persuaded me that the medical biz is best avoided without concrete reason to engage it. The model of having a competent, sane, trusted...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  Couldn't possibly be related to this Can't exclude it, but they've been flying 4-5 flights weekly since the war started. And, since the US & friends have been hauling massively more stuff openly to Ukraine via Rzeszow during the same...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  It's NOT clandestine, and it's not all going to Ukraine. In fact, I'd guess MOST of it is not going to Ukraine. Those are interesting points. No, it's not really clandestine because the LM-100J aircraft fly with their ADS-B transmitters...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  Maybe they just had the right planes at the right price and signed a long term contract. Or a continuously renewable one. I think it could well be something like that. Pallas seems to have been created as a CIA...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  how about hydrogen? Making it from American natural gas AFAIK, that's "blue hydrogen". CH4 is split into 2H2 + C. And where does that C end up? Again AFAIK, as CO2. Maybe there are reactions that would sequester the...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  I should have said five Eastern European airfields, but one receives only infrequent flights and I tend to overlook it. Actual number of flights to date: Nowe Miasto 233 Sliač 88 Lielvārde 84 Boboc 84 Šiauliai 11 Nowe Miasto nad...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  I think something more or less like clandestine support of opposed local factions would be more like our style. Which I will use as a hook to note that today marks the 500th flight of four LM-100J aircraft(1) from Ramstein...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  Toyota battery plant in Liberty NC Battery plants in the American South seem to be a thing these days. Not far from here BMW is building one (Chinese owned, Japanese/American managed). Turns out that the BMW X-series are mostly made...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  It's just that nobody is mad enough to put a nuclear reactor on a train Oh, but they dreamed about it. https://books.google.com/books?id=bVMEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA78&ots=oNcGmhCvuD&dq=x-12%20locomotive&pg=PA78#v=onepage&q=x-12%20locomotive&f=false...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  And they tend to have large families. (see quiver full in the US.) "Outbreed the infidel" seems to be a somewhat common policy. Haredi, quiver fullers, Catholics, etc. How often has it worked as an explicit or implict way to...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  invading Spanish slugs I'm not sure I want to know what those are....
• Commented on Announcement time!
  That’s why I like Bible Gateway: there’s a word by word translation of the New Testament in there, so you can see how divergent various other versions are. Seconded on that. Bible Gateway not only gives a ton of English...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  They’d do really well in shallow littorals, like the Baltic, Mediterranean, South China Sea and surroundings Like the Taiwan Strait and the Persian Gulf....
• Commented on Announcement time!
  WHO DECIDES what is or is not scripture? There were huge dogfights about that during the first few centuries CE and the question hasn't been totally resolved to this day. Look up Marcion of Sinope and Irenaeus. The Septuagint...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  Oddly enough, when challenged to provide chapter & verse, no one has ever actually shown me WHERE the Bible says that. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 kind of says that if viewed at a certain angle. Of course, the likelihood is that...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  Pre-300, for which profound apologies are offered, but the notion of "industrial-scale grave robbing" seemed worth passing on as a possible plot element. https://www.science.org/content/article/now-we-know-where-dead-went-did-grave-robbers-plunder-battlefields Bones went to fertilizer and sugar processing, book argues...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  it is impossible by design to reset the Laundry as an American agency. (Hint: their main antagonists are American!) I can tell you've never worked in an American agency......
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  At least one large bridge of recent construction in the US was designed with wayward ships in mind, the Ravenel Bridge in Charleston, SC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Ravenel_Jr._Bridge The Ravenel Bridge is a cable-stayed design with two diamond-shaped towers, each 575 feet (175...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  So, a few excerpts from the NYT. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/03/26/us/baltimore-bridge-collapse Initially, officials feared that drivers were submerged in their cars in the Patapsco River. But the warning from the Dali, a Singapore-flagged vessel, gave officials enough time to stop traffic at both...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  Annotated video; usual caveats apply. https://twitter.com/ChaudharyParvez/status/1772538539495809075...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  I am surprised the cats played along Hard to say. Sol y Luna like to play under the dried laundry in the morning, but at night sleep on top of the bed until it gets cooler at dawn. Then...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  Am I wrong to suspect it's a "False Flag" event? We'll have to see how the Kremlin plays out the event. Right now, it could be any of a number of things....
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  And what does it mean / portend if he gets the bond from the Saudi's or Russia? If Trump shows up in court with a bag containing $460e6 in cash, would there be any requirement for him to disclose where...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  https://lite.cnn.com/2024/03/18/politics/trump-464-million-dollar-bond/index.html ,/i> From which I excerpt, interestingly, An insurance broker, Gary Giulietti, who testified for Trump during the civil fraud trial, signed an affidavit stating that securing a bond in the full amount “is a practical impossibility.” Potential underwriters...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  For those who remain interested in the "Havana Syndrome", a lengthy study of those affected was published in JAMA today. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2816533 Clinical, Biomarker, and Research Tests Among US Government Personnel and Their Family Members Involved in Anomalous Health Incidents Key...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  Surely a fabulously successful businessman as fabulously wealthy as Mr. Trump has claimed to be could post the bond himself, no?...