Just interesting news to me.
I like the way this article is comparing things. Generally, we do not have the proper information.
One good way to know if you are getting the correct information is to count the number of times you get surprised. There are no surprises when you are properly informed.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A record 621 people died of drug overdoses in San Francisco so far this year, a staggering number that far outpaces the 173 deaths from COVID-19 the city has seen thus far.
Linux is pretty amazing in that regard. It will boot just about anything and faster than Windows. If you own an old computer that refuses to work, get yourself a copy of a “live” Linux (google it), and revive your old computer for anything you want it to perform like holding photos, use it as a router, use it as a security camera, etc.
You might have to do a little research into booting from a CD/DVD or USB stick, but it is worth the trouble. Every computer is different in that way.
My laptop runs on Linux Lite, one of several open-source operating systems specially designed to work on old computers. The use of a Linux operating system is not a mere suggestion. There’s no way you’re going to revive an old laptop if you stick to Microsoft Windows or Apple OS because the machine would freeze instantly.
solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/12/how-and-why-i-stopped-buying-new-laptops.html
We better find something else to do.
This is the latest of a long string of projects that has shown how new large-format extrusion systems—either based on cartesian or multi-axis robotic architectures—are making the process of 3D printing boats a fairly standardized (or, at least, standardizable) practice.
www.3dprintingmedia.network/3d-printing-boats-is-becoming-standard-practice/
How come this very important event is not covered live by our dear mass media? Maybe they already have all the stuff they need to scare us.
The mass broke from the Antarctic peninsula’s Larsen C ice shelf in July 2017 and headed slowly for the open ocean, sliding through the water for over two years until it hit the powerful Antarctic Circumpolar Current circling the southernmost continent.
Yes, some famous people are asking a lot of questions about crypto currencies. This wave is stirring a lot of ideas and thinking in some people.
Tesla and Spacex CEO Elon Musk made a series of tweets about bitcoin on Sunday. One of them concerns whether it is possible to buy bitcoin in “large transactions,” particularly for Tesla to convert its U.S. dollar reserves into bitcoin. Microstrategy’s CEO told Musk that this move would be “a $100 billion favor” to Tesla’s shareholders that would grow into a “$1 trillion favor.”
news.bitcoin.com/elon-musk-tesla-billions-bitcoin-large-transactions/
The control of mythology is the key to power. Back a few hundred years, that control was more decentralized. Today, my guess is, that the main control lies in the hands of a few entities.
Here, suffice to say that Darwinian materialism’s impoverishing effect on literature is so much of a problem that my alma mater, a Christian university in Texas, published an anthology of literary works that are not nihilistic and materialistic, just to provide balance for the typical literary anthologies assigned to students in freshman and sophomore English.
It’s called Shadow and Light: Literature and the Life of Faith. It includes short stories and poems from various great authors who maintained faith in a cosmos that is more than matter — John Milton, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Flannery O’Connor, Isaac Bashevis Singer, John Updike, and various others. I highly recommend the book. It’s one of many efforts not only to recognize the threat that materialism poses to our culture, but also to do something about it.
www.sott.net/article/446045-Darwinism-storytelling-and-the-futurist-ET-myth
For me, the difference between a human and an animal has more to do with some structure of thinking. Animals can think but they do not “know” that they think. We do. More than that, we also “know-2” that we “know-1”. We may look at the whole thing, as we are thinking at one dimension higher than animals.
To explain what sets human apart from their ape relatives, researchers have long hypothesized that it is not so much the DNA sequence, but rather the regulation of the genes (i.e. when, where and how strongly the gene is expressed), t * Human brains 99% similar to chimpanzees, what’s in the other 1%?
www.sott.net/article/446082-Human-brains-99-similar-to-chimpanzees-whats-in-the-other-1