There's a typo in the title. If you go back to the original source (in french), they actually retain 79,5 % of their original efficiency, so even better than the article's title would have you believe.
There's a typo in the title. If you go back to the original source (in french), they actually retain 79,5 % of their original efficiency, so even better than the article's title would have you believe.
Donald wants everyone to pay for their own defence yet will also charge the taxpayer extra for this own protection (while not paying taxes himself).
What are they gonna do ? Finance far-right parties in all of Europe to sow discord ? Oh wait.
"McDaniel said it remained “a concern” for her that Pennsylvania could go from recording 260,000 mail-in ballots for Trump’s Oval Office victory in 2016 to 2.6m in 2020."
Gee, I wonder if something happened in 2020 that had people prefer not to gather in crowded areas. I guess we'll never know...
It's simple, really : if you have a built-in back door to prevent child porn circulation, then you can use it for anything else, and it WILL eventually be used in other ways.
What's even more stupid about return to office is that we know that commuting is a major contribution to greenhouse gas emissions. So working from home would not only be an improvement in work conditions, sparing millions of individuals hours of wasted commuting time each week, it would also be an easy way to reduce pollution and mitigate global warming.
Laws should be passed that mandate employees can work from home whenever it cannot be demonstrated by the company that being on site is absolutely necessary to do the job.
There's really not much hope for humanity. Everywhere people are falling again and again for slightly different flavors of populist conservative corrupt assholes with a dictatorial liking. Like it's ever done the world any good before.
The people clamoring against the inclusion of biological outliers are operating under the false -and frankly poorly thought out- idea that sports are fair and that it's only by training the hardest that you can and will achieve victory, shonen style.
Ultimately the only completely fair-ish competition is the one where you try to outdo your previous best performance and beat your own records. Otherwise, there are so many other variables you'd have to correct for to level the playing field (and testosterone levels is not a great pick for that anyway) that you might as well have single athlete categories.
That's -20°C at the peak of the heat wave when it should have been -55°C, for my metric brethren.
I think it mostly comes down to increasingly unfair distribution of wealth, which leaves people with no hope to better their standards of living.
Our civilization creates things with constantly increasing productivity, which should lead to better pay and less time spent working, and more time to live a fulfilling life. Instead, all this added wealth is funneled towards a few mindbogglingly rich individuals.
This happens with the help of a sizable fraction of the population, which has become convinced that their mediocre situation is in fact caused by even poorer and more miserable people, rather than the assholes siphoning everything and everyone from the top of their already obscene piles of riches. And there's no sign of this changing anytime soon. No wonder people are desperate.
I think it has to do with atmospheric diffusion of the sunlight. Even if the photons coming straight down at you are blocked by the moon, a lot of them bounce around in the atmosphere and end up reaching your eyes. Kinda like when it's not complete darkness at sunset even after the sun has gone over the horizon. Also explains why the sky is blue, since "blue photons" are better at bouncing around on the atmosphere molecules. See : diffuse sky radiation
Quoting form the Wikipedia article: Approximately 23% of direct incident radiation of total sunlight is removed from the direct solar beam by scattering into the atmosphere; of this amount (of incident radiation) about two-thirds ultimately reaches the earth as photon diffused skylight radiation.
Edit : probably mostly has to do with your eyes adapting to the luminosity and non linearity of light intensity perception by our eyes. See posts below about Weber-Fechner law of perception.
Edit Edit : This is an intersting read. The TLDR is it mostly has to do with our eyes slowly adapting to the amount of light they receive, and during totality, light bouncing from beyond the umbra comes into play.
"Drunk never excuse"
This guy could suddenly rupture a brain aneurysm and you wouldn't even be able to tell the difference.
From the NYT : "Shortly after J.D. Vance’s selection was announced, his hometown, Middletown, Ohio, was pounded by a strong storm with hail the size of golf balls that cleared parks and splash pads as people fled for cover. "
...following "a complaint made by a female member of the production crew after an incident following his performance in Thursday night’s Semi Final."
With Trump and the current GOP, the corruption is in plain sight anyway. At this stage, you could dig up a thousand more incriminating dossiers and it still wouldn't move the needle for the MAGhats.
So, the guy who will happily slender everyone and their dog doesn't like it when you attack his character?
According to the paper this article is based on, the family of viruses they study, called NCLDV (for NucleoCytoplasmic Large DNA Viruses), are about 1 μm in diameter, which would indeed put them up there with the largest viruses like Pandoravirus or Pithovirus, which are also around the micrometer mark, and I believe are also part of the NCLDV phylum.
Those viruses are about the size of a bacterium. In fact they are so large that they weren't immediately identified as viruses. Here's something to give you a sense of the size of common viruses :
However, I don't know how they come up with that 1500x factor (which doesn't appear in the source paper), since in size, it's more like 10x bigger than your average virus (~100nm). Even considering genome size, common viruses genomes are about 10 kb or so, wheras Pandoravirus is the biggest at 2.5Mb. So that would be closer to a 250x factor at best.
For reference, SARS-CoV2 (of COVID-19 fame) is about 100nm in diameter and has a genome size of 30kb.
This dumbass has made enough career ending faux-pas and declarations as to disgrace a dozen or so Congresses worth of politicians, and yet here we are. The desensitization is complete, he can just flatly announce his intention of ending democracy in the middle of an incoherent tirade, and people will cheer.
It really helps understanding how past autocrats got into power.
Jeebus ! The number of people commenting here who don't have any knowledge of the situation is annoying.
France vowed in the Noumea Accord of 1998 to gradually give more political power to New Caledonia. Since, under the agreement, New Caledonia has held three referendums over its ties with France, ALL rejecting independence. Now, the last referendum in 2021 had something like 94% people voting to stay French BUT the independentists had called for a boycott of the referendum, and so turnout was only about 44%. In 2018, New Caledonians rejected independence at 57%. In 2020 it was 53%. In both these votes, the turnout was 80+% .
So this is not a case of France imposing control on the local population, there seems to be at least a small majority of people who wish to stay French.
New Caledonians have French nationality, they vote in all french national elections (presidential, parliament, etc. ) and could absolutely vote in local elections if they moved to say Paris or Marseille.
The thing is, the electoral lists in New Caledonia were frozen in 1998, and so anyone who came to live there legally after that still can't vote in local elections. This is now being reversed, allowing citizens who have lived there for at least 10 years to vote, and that's why the independentist party is rioting. They fear the independentist vote would be diluted by these newcomers, which presumably would vote to stay French.
Edit : To add some context on the independentists, they are mostly of the Kanak people, the aboriginal population of the islands. Today, they represent about 41% of the ~300k people living in New Caledonia.They are usually poorer and benefit from a lesser level of education than Neocaledonians of European or mixed descent.
That there are such wild variations in price between countries shows how little that subscription is correlated to any actual costs.
At best subscribers in richest countries are subsidizing poorer ones, but most probably, Google is just trying to maximize the amount of money they can extract from everyone's pocket. The repeated seemingly random price hikes seem to confirm this hypothesis. It's just the MBAs enforcing terminal stage capitalism and ruining everything that is good.
I love that it implies that they also have illegitimate interests that they'll still try to weasel in because 🤷💩
If you look at who is quoted in the article doing the condemning, it's pretty much all repented trumpets or never-trumpers, who are a vanishing minority in the Republican party. I don't think this will have any negative impact on the MAGA Republicans' view of Noem.
The enshitification will continue until there isn't any cent left to transfer to the shareholders.
SmartTube is what the YouTube app should be. I've been using it for I think 2 years now and it works like a charm, is super stable, offers loads of customization options, and the interface is better and more complete than the official app. Truly a must have for any Android tv box.
This sequence actually codes for recQ-mediated genome instability protein 1 in Glycin max, for those curious. So Vivek is actually a soybean. It all checks out.
My day is ruined !
You realize that the court is not saying no one else is to blame right? This case was brought on by 2000 swiss women, they are suing their own country for failing to take action as a way to force the hands of their government.
What Macron has lately been calling "far-left" would have been considered middle of the road leftism only a couple years ago. Macron has pulled such a massive shift of the Overton window --what with calling himself a centrist when all of his policies are right-wing, and constantly calling anyone that's left of him "far-left"-- that it's no surprise right-wing extremism is totally normalized now. LFI is not far-left, and I wish the media would stop repeating and thus normalizing that idea.
Just imagining having to listen to Shapiro for that long makes me shudder.
According to the FTC, more than 99% of people who join an MLM end up losing money. It's pretty evident it's just a scam, where the only way you can end up making money is not by selling something, but by enrolling enough people in your downline, thereby defrauding them. I mean just read the Wikipedia article, or watch this episode of Last Week Tonight .
This has to be a portrayal of the last supper devised as a clever scheme to upset Christians. I know this because at no other point in history have people ever been gathered around a table.
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Noted epidemiologist Marjorie Taylor Green
And that's why we need fines proportional to an individual's actual net worth.
"Permission is Hereby Granted" always makes me sooo emotional
That's a common way of thinking in people with little to no ethics. They think everyone else is the same, and thus if you dig you're surely going to find something.
I guess this guy never heard about Popper and the paradox of tolerance :
If a society's practice of tolerance is inclusive of the intolerant, intolerance will ultimately dominate, eliminating the tolerant and the practice of tolerance with them.
It supposedly comes from originaly counting in base 20 ( a.k.a : vigesimal system) in some proto-european language. There are traces of it in breton, albanese, basque and danish for example. Even in english, there is a reminiscence of vigesimal, in the "score", see for example Lincoln's Gettysburg Address which famously starts with : "Fourscore and seven years ago...", meaning 87 years ago.
Oh yeah ? Well Trump had an uncle who was a professor at MIT, so I guess they're even. /s