Fed Governor Admits CBDCs Pose “Significant” Privacy Risks
Back from #Iran, and busy processing #photos. Working on #Kashan atm, struck by the elegance of the Agha Bozorg Masjid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agha_Bozorg_Mosque?wprov=sfla1
While parts of it date back 700 years, it was mostly constructed in the 1700s, and is noted for its bare domes and symmetry.
Yay, just came home to catch the end of the transmission from #saq The historic longwave transmitter located at Grimeton, transmitting on 17.2 kHz
https://medium.com/@domchang/jupiters-moons-and-the-speed-of-light-e86ee8b96d
There was a better article specific to the history of navigation, but I can't find it now. It was a horrible pain in the ass to do ESPECIALLY while at sea, and then it was discovered there was discrepancy related to distance which led to a better estimation of the speed of light. This was just about the time seaworthy time pieces came online.
BTW, I'm using a link to your photo for flerf discussion, among other such images. It boggles my mind how one can't just use a pair of binoculars to make observations that shut down flerf, but people are weird like that.
"Backed with US weapons and munitions, Israel has dropped over ten thousand bombs in Gaza in just a week, twice as many as the US dropped in Afghanistan in a year and, according to UN sources, the equivalent to a quarter of a nuclear bomb."
A quarter of a nuclear bomb worth of explosives in one week. Let that sink in.
https://jacobin.com/2023/10/israel-gaza-bombing-air-strikes-civilians
@freemo Yeah, as always, it's all about incentives.
Give people personal incentives to protect things like environmental status and they will tend to do so.
Socialism undermines those incentives, so it's not surprising when things like environmentalism get set aside for the things that are incentivized.
Except that socialism (the real kind, the near-communism kind, not the european kind which is still capitalist) has had an abysmal track record when it comes to the environment. Worse than capitalism in fact.
https://www.perc.org/2019/05/17/socialism-is-bad-for-the-environment/
This is a photo I took 13 years ago of Jupiter and 4 of its moons (top). As a reference the image below is the simulated position at that same time.
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