2024-05-10 20:05:39
by npub10c7…mtgr
Yes, digital infrastructure is critical, but you are confusing two separate things, @davidpgoldman. And now you have added another irrelevant topic, demography. All your points are important, but you have not addressed the matter at hand, the migration of factories from China.
2024-05-10 20:00:20
by npub15gu…krp6
Letitia Wright Talks Refugee Drama Aisha, Working With Josh O’Connor
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ComingSoon Editor-in-Chief Tyler Treese spoke to Aisha star Letitia Wright about the new drama, which is out today in select theaters and on VOD. Starring opposite Josh O’Connor, Wright plays a Nigerian woman who is dealing with Ireland’s immigration system and direct provision. The film is directed and written by Frank Berry. “Aisha charts the experiences of […]
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2024-05-10 20:00:17
by npub1zyg…m36h
Climate protestors clash with police outside Tesla’s German gigafactory
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Climate protestors in Germany broke through police barricades on Friday, amid clashes between activists and law enforcement. The protestors either made it onto (according to protestors) or near (according to local police) the grounds of a Tesla gigafactory in Grünheide, Germany, near Berlin. It’s part of a planned five-day demonstration ahead of a local government vote next week to determine whether Tesla’s plant can expand.
Wired flagged social media videos showing activists, many of whom have been camping out in treehouses in nearby forest encampments, running toward a Tesla building on the site. In addition, the German newspaper Welt said at least one person participating was injured. Police reportedly police used pepper spray and batons to try to thwart the crowd, and there were at least some arrests.
A spokesperson for one of the groups participating in the protests told Wired that they broke the police barriers and stormed the Tesla grounds. “Eight hundred people have entered the premises of the gigafactory,” Lucia Mende of Disrupt Tesla said. However, local police posted on X (Musk’s social media platform) that the activists only reached a field facing the site. “We have been able to prevent them from entering so far,” they posted.
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At least at first glance, it’s easy to wonder why activists are pouring so much energy into fighting Tesla. After all, despite Musk’s increasingly unhinged right-wing conspiracy-mongering and Nazi-catering on X, other automakers pushing gas-guzzling cars seem like more appropriate targets (not to mention the fossil fuel companies spending big bucks on anti-climate-reform disinformation). However, several factors make the issues at the heart of the protests less simplistic.
A (nonbinding) vote in February showed Grünheide residents opposed the expansion by almost a two-to-one ratio. If for no other reason, the local government having a chance to brush aside the overwhelming will of the voters in the name of capitalism is enough to raise the eyebrows of anyone who balks at minority rule.
Wired notes the area is also one of the most water-scarce in Germany, and residents worry the gigafactory will drain the resource, leaving much less for the humans who live there. The plant could also pollute local water supplies.
Those fears appear to have merit: The plant is licensed to use 1.4 million cubic meters of water annually, and a separate Wired report from Tuesday noted that’s enough to supply for a large town. As for the contamination fears, Tesla was fined in 2019 by the EPA for several hazardous waste violations at a California factory. The company paid a grand total of $31,000 to settle. (Tesla had a market cap of almost $76 billion in 2019.)
But some of the groups protesting have concerns that go much farther than those more immediate issues affecting the locals, instead taking issue with the entire electric vehicle movement. “Companies like Tesla are there to save the car industry, they’re not there to save the climate,” Esther Kamm, spokesperson for Turn Off the Tap on Tesla told Wired.
Another activist, who only gave Wired the name Mara, described the factory as the result of “green capitalism.” She views the EV movement as little more than a theatrical performance in the name of profit. “This has been completely thought up by such companies to have more growth, even in times of an environmental crisis,” she said.
I wouldn’t exactly say flipping the bird to the EV movement is a “workable” solution to the very real and pressing climate crisis. Regardless of your thoughts on the matter, the world needs to move quickly to fend off climate change’s most ravaging effects, and the scientific consensus is that the planned shift to EVs will need to play a central role.
Tesla reportedly told its employees at the factory to work from home on Friday, shutting down the plants for the planned protests. As for Friday’s protests, Welt reports that the situation had calmed by afternoon — at least for now.
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2024-05-10 20:00:13
by npub1h0h…y7l6
#BTC price is 60421.465 USD #FearAndGreedIndex: #Stocks Now: 47, Prev. Close: 44, Week Ago: 40, Month Ago: 52, Year Ago: 60, #Crypto Now: 66, Yesterday: 55, Last Week: 48, Last Month: 78, UTC time: Fri May 10 18:00:02 2024
2024-05-10 19:54:32
by npub1995…8vtf
The way of communication is important to work with each other, instead of against each other. And so, to reach each other.
It costs lots of patience and energy to listen, to understand, to support, to connect or to reconnect. That are many steps into the direction of each other. Instead of walking away.
It’s everyone’s own decision if they want to put energy into someone. But if we decide to, it can feel light, when both make the steps, it can feel heavy when we walk away.
Unconditional love will bring you peace, when you don’t decide to give up on it. Unconditional love means having courage to take the steps towards the other individual. Bloom the bridges. https://image.nostr.build/af98606d970c2c44484c32a8dbd17f15f41da2c99ec4974ac97380dd41b068fd.jpg
2024-05-10 19:52:21
by npub1pfy…8fxe
🚨🗳️❌ Rory McIlroy is now a part of the Transaction Subcommittee but doesn’t have a vote: “l've already had calls with that group, I had a really good hour and a half Zoom with those guys on Sunday, we went through a 150 page doc about the future product model and everything. Yeah, I'm not on the board, but l'm in some way involved in that transaction committee. I don't have a vote so I don't… you know, I don't have I guess a meaningful say in what happens in the future, but at least I can, I feel like I can be helpful on that committee, and that was sort of a compromise for I guess not getting a board seat.” @TrackingRory @TWlegion https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GNLunC5XkAELSNR.jpg
2024-05-10 19:45:13
by npub15gu…krp6
Sunny Deol, Ayushmann Khurrana’s Upcoming Movie Border 2 Release Date Revealed?
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After Sunny Deol‘s recent blockbuster comeback with Gadar 2, another iconic sequel is in the making. The eagerly anticipated Border 2 has been the subject of speculation among fans, keenly awaiting news of its development. Recent reports have shed light on the progress of this highly awaited project, including its release date, cast, and more. […]
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2024-05-10 19:43:21
by npub1muj…sjay
Former Pennsylvania Senator and Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum powerfully called for religious revival in America at CPAC Hungary 2024.
After World War II, America fell into the dangerous trap of naive contentment. Americans took for granted that they lived in the greatest and freest country on earth and forgot that freedom requires hard work to maintain. As such, they let their guard down and allowed Leftism to slowly creep into the country.
“Who needs an invading army when you can use the freedom in the West to systematically gain control of every lever of power, unions, schools, colleges, news media, entertainment, social media, big business, and increasingly the Church to indoctrinate masses to believe their lies? How did they do this? Well, the most benign answer is the axiom, ‘Evil triumphs when good men and women do nothing,’” explained Santorum.
They became lax in their faith and their family lives. They entrusted their children to schools and universities infected with the disease of Leftism and failed to pass on conservative values to them. As time went on, conservatives isolated themselves from the rest of the country rather than taking the conservative message out into the world and bringing more people into their ranks.
“We stopped participating in social groups, including churches, clubs, and institutions that shape society, but not on the Left. They joined, contributed, and they organized. We became self-sufficient, disconnected, and blissfully ignorant of the dramatic changes in our institutions and in our culture,” recalled Santorum.
Though the Left made great headway in overhauling American society and culture, it’s not too late to reverse course. But doing that requires conservatives to return to their roots. They need to place God at the center of their values and politics and return to a core Christian morality that respects life and defends the family. Hungary is a light in the darkness to Americans, demonstrating that a cultural revival is possible. To achieve that cultural revival in America, Americans need to start with themselves.
“Do the hard work of strengthening your faith, committing to your spouse, and forming your children in truth, and you and your country will triumph in more ways than one,” advised Santorum.
Revival starts with each person looking in the mirror and practicing what they preach. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GNO6BvkWsAAQqUc.jpg
2024-05-10 19:32:18
by npub1muj…sjay
Washington, D.C. has become corrupted with career, self-interested, and weak politicians. The Republican Party especially has been afflicted for years with disloyal, lukewarm conservatives. Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz lets those swamp creatures like Paul Ryan, Kevin McCarthy, and Mike Pence know that there days in Washington are numbered.
Gaetz and his staunch conservative colleagues are draining the swamp and challenging the status quo by caring about the priorities of average Americans and bringing common sense to Congress.
“I actually want orderly things like budgets that balance, single-subject spending bills, term limits, block grant Medicaid, drill for oil, export liquified natural gas to anyone willing to buy it in dollars, demand that, I don’t know, if the government wants to spy on Americans, they should have to get a warrant and we should secure the southern border,” stated Gaetz.
Republicans still have a lot of work to do. Many lukewarm representatives still need to be ousted and many others need to learn to take a stand for the principles on which they campaigned.
Watch all of Gaetz’s comments from the CPAC 2024 stage on Rumble @CPAC. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GNOslKsWwAAUyYh.jpg
2024-05-10 19:30:16
by npub15gu…krp6
The Wrong Roommate Streaming: Watch & Stream Online via Peacock
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The Wrong Roommate is a thriller mystery film directed by David DeCoteau and written by Matthew Jason Walsh. In the film, Laurie, a young college professor, moves in with her sister following a painful breakup. Upon moving in, she encounters Alan, her sister’s tenant. Alan’s behavior and demeanor raises Laurie’s suspicion. Here’s how you can […]
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2024-05-10 19:30:15
by npub1zyw…pp3a
iPhone 16 Pro Rumored to Feature 20% Brighter Display
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The iPhone 16 Pro may feature a display that is up to 20% brighter for typical SDR content, according to the Weibo leaker known as "Instant Digital."
In a recent post, the Weibo user claimed that the iPhone 16 Pro will feature up to 1,200 nits of typical SDR brightness – a 20% increase over the current models. Peak HDR brightness will apparently remain the same at 1,600 nits.
iPhone 14 Pro touted a significant increase in brightness over its predecessor, featuring up to 400 nits higher HDR brightness. However, the iPhone's typical SDR brightness has been the same at 1,000 nits since the introduction of the iPhone 13 Pro in 2021. The iPhone's typical SDR is used in the majority of situations, so a 20% increase in standard brightness would be a significant upgrade.
track record for Apple rumors, but has provided some strikingly accurate information, such as the imminent launch of 2023's Yellow iPhone 14, the frosted back glass of the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus, the Apple Watch Series 9 as a minor refresh, spatial video capture on the iPhone 15 Pro, the new iPad Air and iPad Pro's landscape front-facing camera, and the iPad Pro's new nano-texture display option.
iPhone 16 lineup is expected to launch as usual in the fall, with the Pro models featuring larger displays, an all-new "Capture" button, the A18 chip, and more.
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2024-05-10 19:30:13
by npub1zyg…m36h
The world’s largest direct carbon capture plant just went online
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Swiss start-up Climeworks has done it again. The company just opened the world’s largest carbon capture plant in Iceland, dwarfing its own record of how much CO2 it can pull from the air. The company’s previous record-holding carbon capture plant, Orca, sucks around 4,000 tons of CO2 from the atmosphere per year, but the new plant can handle nearly ten times that, as reported by The Washington Post.
The plant’s called Mammoth and boasts 72 industrial fans that can pull 36,000 tons of CO2 from the air each year. Just like with Orca, the CO2 isn’t recycled. It’s stored underground and eventually trapped in stone, permanently (within reason) removing it from the environment. The plant’s actually located on a dormant volcano, so it’ll make a great hideout for a James Bond villain should it ever cease operations.
The location was chosen for its proximity to the Hellisheidi geothermal energy plant, which is used to power the facility's fans and heat chemical filters to extract CO2 with water vapor. After extraction, the CO2 is separated from the steam, compressed and dissolved in water. Finally, it’s pumped 2,300 feet underground into volcanic basalt. This compound reacts with the magnesium, calcium and iron in the rock to form crystals, which become solid reservoirs of CO2. It’s pretty nifty technology.
However, it’s not the end-all solution to climate change. It’s barely a blip. For the world to achieve "carbon neutrality" by 2050, "we should be removing something like six to 16 billion tons of CO2 per year from the air," said Climeworks founder Jan Wurzbacher, according to reporting by CBS News.
Therein lies the problem. This facility, the largest of its kind by a wide margin, can capture up to 36,000 tons of CO2 from the air each year, but that’s just 0.0006 percent of what’s needed to meet the minimum annual removal threshold as indicated by Wurzbacher. There are other plants, of course, but all of them combined don’t make a serious dent in what’s required to pull us from the brink.
To that end, Wurzbacher has pleaded with other companies to take up the cause. He says that Climeworks has a goal of surpassing millions of tons captured per year by 2030 and a billion by 2050. The company’s chief technology officer, Carlos Haertel, told 60 Minutes that scaling up the process globally is possible, but requires political will to rally behind the initiative.
The Biden administration recently committed $4 billion to jumpstart the industry here in the states and earmarked $1.2 billion for a pair of large-scale projects. The US Department of Energy also started a program called Carbon Negative Shot, with a goal of fostering the development of budget-friendly carbon capture technology.
Today, we're officially launching a new portfolio offering to expand our carbon removal service beyond direct air capture and fast-track the industry's scale-up. We're thrilled to finally reveal Climeworks Solutions! https://t.co/0CDAQLObEU pic.twitter.com/f8ojbF3ZLo
— Climeworks (@Climeworks) April 17, 2024
The method of carbon capture deployed by Climeworks is just one of many approaches. These processes range from stacks of limestone blocks that absorb CO2 like a sponge to giant hot air balloons that freeze and trap the chemical compound. Restoring forests is another option, which is something companies like Apple and Goldman Sachs have experimented with. Which one is best? All of them together deployed at global scale. Whatever it takes. Climate change isn’t fooling around.
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2024-05-10 19:29:47
by npub1f48…lpgj
Make a good post on #twitter: lose $10 a month, in some cases your account and job, feed your geolocation, private message history, shopping habits, contact list, internet browsing history, all activity on other social platforms, private interests, bank information, health information, eye movements and facial expressions to a suite of AI algorithms that are explicitly designed to make you miserable and poor
Make a good post on #nostr: get $1.15 worth of #bitcoin lol 🤙
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2024-05-10 19:22:50
by npub1mt8…m7cz
"When told by a constituent that he would rather vote for the devil, Wilkes responded: "Naturally." He then added: "And if your friend decides against standing, can I count on your vote?"
–Arthur H. Cash, *John Wilkes: the scandalous Father of Civil Liberty* (Yale University Press, 2006), p. 211
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2024-05-10 19:15:14
by npub15gu…krp6
The Don’s Analyst Streaming: Watch & Stream Online via Amazon Prime Video
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The Don’s Analyst is a comedy film directed by David Jablin and written by David Hurwitz. The film revolves around Don Vito Leoni, the Godfather, who battles clinical depression and wants to legitimize his business. Concerned for their future, Don Vito’s family try to provide him with psychotherapy and maintain their comfortable lifestyle. Here’s how […]
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2024-05-10 19:01:26
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by npub17uu…v6qx
I thought a little bit about it last night. I believe that humans make choices and fall victim to entities that condemn us to misery.
Fortunately, our Creator has offered us a way to mitigate the consequences of those choices eternally. Jesus was the perfect and only sacrifice that could both showcase the evil of the world while simultaneously saving it. His teachings of humility, repentance, forgiveness, faithfulness, and relinquishing control tells us how to change our destiny.
I think when people are saying so and so is meant to be it’s actually a sign that they’ve relinquished control and what’s going to happen will… So I’m not actually sure if I believe in it or not?
2024-05-10 19:00:17
by npub1zyg…m36h
Apple's entire AirPods lineup is discounted, plus the rest of the week's best tech deals
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The new iPad Pro and iPad Air — and the internet's reaction to how they've been advertised — may have been the big Apple news of the week, but we're turning our attention to AirPods for our latest deals roundup. More specifically, all four models in Apple's wireless headphone lineup are currently on sale. The noise-canceling AirPods Pro and third-gen AirPods back down to lows of $180 and $140, respectively, while the entry-level earbuds and top-end AirPods Max are both cheaper than usual at $80 and $450. Beyond that, we've also found noteworthy discounts on Amazon's Kindle, LG's C3 OLED TV, Keychron's budget-friendly C3 Pro keyboard and annual Paramount+ with Showtime subscriptions, among others. Here are the best tech deals from this week that you can still get today.
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2024-05-10 18:59:35
by npub1m4n…c2jl
Yes, I know that my notes don't trend anymore, but y'all wanted to talk about something other than Nostr and Bitcoin and Neonazi stuff, and I don't post nudes, so you're going to have to dig my threads out of the depths of your conversation feed, if you want to read them.
Like in the olden days. Back to the roots!
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