I’m no longer posting pics of my kid online, but maybe posting descriptions will work.
A toddler stares dispassionately into the camera, an entire whole waffle scrunched in his left hand, an immaculately cut waffle with blueberries on his plate in front of him, his bib speckled with maple syrup, his long hair hair sticky; his belly, though he does not care to admit it, is full. A tiny fork is cast aside, unused and unnecessary.
The kind of professor I’m trying to be at university:
EDIT: just to clarify, this is a screenshot found offline, not from one of my student. I’m more direct as I tell my students that "piracy is sharing knowledge and sharing knowledge is ethical and what I’m paid to do so please use libgen.rs and sci-hub"
On the potential for green H2 cost reductions through experience:
"electrolyzers account for only around one third of the cost of green hydrogen. The rest is driven either by the cost of green electricity – already far down its own experience curve – or by the cost of heavy engineering components – stuff like compressors, tanks, valves, pipes, power supplies and site infrastructure, which are not about to fall off a cliff."
I’ll let you in on a secret: I love sporadically updated weblogs. I subscribe to over 1200 feeds and most of them are sporadic or even technically “inactive”. Months often pass between updates
It means that every post published was important to the writer
Back in the days of snail mail, letters that began with “It’s been a while since I last wrote to you” were the ones people cherished the most
You don’t need to post every day or even every week to have a blog that matters
For anyone with an interest in monetary policy/MMT.
MMT accurately describes monetary systems for sovereign currency nations (eg US and UK). It refutes the talking points of debt scolds and the idea that taxes pay for anything.
Anyone concerned with federal budget or economy, should at least understand the concepts, because it blows a hole in political talking points.
Be informed, so you can judge poltical gaslighting
@GhostOnTheHalfShell Taxes do pay for everything. When govs do not tax they are in debt, look to US, the interest of the debt is abt to blow a hole in the budget.
@GhostOnTheHalfShell MMT is a cop-out, it lulls the left into thinking if they do not have to bang on about taxes and that is just ok wit the rich. Do not get fooled.
Just over a week ago, Premier Tim Houston told reporters in Halifax that he would not be in the legislature on March 18 when it reopened after March break because he would be in Hamburg, Germany, to attend a hydrogen conference.
Houston said "They" would both be accompanying Wilkinson to Hamburg, noting that hydrogen development could “change our entire economy in this province.”
Some good news to celebrate: EU fossil fuel CO2 emissions hit 60-year low.
“The 8% reduction in emissions should be celebrated, but more must be done to wean the EU off fossil fuels, reduce reliance on petrostates such as Russia, whilst also leaving the world a better place for the next generation.” https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/24/eu-fossil-fuel-co2-emissions-hit-60-year-low
Arno Penzias, Nobel Prize winner (discoverer of big bang's residual radiation), my old boss and the reason my CV mentions a silver medal in archery, has died, aged 90. Although he did much more important things, for me his signature achievement was defending me not being fired from Bell Labs after Labscam.
"The scenarios sketched out in this hotel room in Potsdam all essentially boil down to one thing: people in Germany should be forcibly extradited if they have the wrong skin colour, the wrong parents, or aren’t sufficiently “assimilated” into German culture according to the standards of people like Sellner. Even if they have German citizenship."
@sarajw The Syrian influx did not receive an ok from the parliament AFAIK, it was Merkel that let it happen. And now AfD votes are increasing - the 2015 influx always had a legitimacy problem.
German Politics has become a shadowboxing match with aggressive culture war slogans. It is no longer primarily about solving real issues.
Instead, the Conservative opposition focuses mostly on dividing society with emotionally charged topics like refugee policies, hoping to set traps for the government.
This makes any rational discourse on the state of the nation very difficult.
I'm seeing a lot of people missing what seems to me to be the really important point to take away from the whole college presidents failing to repudiate calls for genocide of Jews before Congress thing.
The thing those college presidents failed to do, before the cameras in front of an international audience?
They failed in a way I've seen people fail thousands of times.
They failed in way I see people fail all the damn time.
@siderea Speech wasnt policed when Richard Perle called the Moslem mind "pathalogical" indicating they are fit for bombing. Guy is still free, out and about and received no punishment or limitations.
OK, a serious and burning question: why do we have sex scenes in so many films to begin with?
Like, I came here to see a sci-fi film about time-traveling murderbots. Why is there 30 seconds of moaning and bad softcore erotica in the middle of my cybernetic murder spree? I'm sitting there awkwardly and thinking to myself: Mr. or Mrs. filmmaker, what exactly do you want me to do?!
I know it's a part of life, but we don't show the protagonist picking their nose or taking a dump. Why not just stick to wholesome murderbots?
This article is a masterclass in how reporters can write in elaborate circles to avoid saying clearly what they know to be true.
What they WANT to say is:
Trump regrets all the times lawyers made him obey the law. He wants lawyers so fanatical that they will flout the laws and let him do whatever he wants.
What do we call such lawyers? “More aggressive.” “Ideologically and temperamentally suited.”
The reporters sincerely hope you will decode their euphemisms.
@JamesGleick Trump is the symptom of decades long Democrat centrist pro-business rightward shift. Business was crowned king wooed by Dems of all stripes and finally one day you ended up with a part-crooked businessman as president. It is the fault of the Democrats.
Hydrogen is a clean-burning fuel, and when combined with oxygen in a fuel cell — like a battery — it produces heat and electricity with water vapor as its only byproduct.