🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@freemo I don't know how they got the numbers they did. I see some things that suggest they underestimated the foreign support the Taliban had been receiving, and so the strength of the advance was significantly higher that the assessments would have suggested.

> In a stunning rout, the Taliban seized nearly all of Afghanistan in over a week, despite the hundreds of billions of dollars spent by the U.S. and NATO over nearly two decades to build up Afghan security forces. Just days earlier, *an American military assessment estimated it would be a month* before the capital would come under insurgent pressure.

https://cbc.ca/1.6141568

@freemo

In fairness to Biden, the plan was never for civilians and equipment to go first, last, or in between. They'd simply stay and carry on under the Ghani regime, so the military was the *only* group supposed to exit.

So much for the plan.

@freemo Those things have been designed for mineral exploration. BTW you’ll also need a stationary base station which will provide a reference measurement. The difference of the two will be your final magnetic anomaly map, which will be able to display certain ferromagnetic minerals such as pyrrhotite and magnetite. If you’re looking for gold necklaces in the beach, this method might not be what you’re looking for.

@freemo @abloo waiiiiit hol up hol up thats wack

What did you get kicked from?

@freemo @Science
Publisher, usually reprinted older, shorter books on a huge variety of mathematical topics. Great for an intro or a guide for further study.
Check em out, pic is probably less than $100

@voltar13 nothign so official. But I will likely post about it and my impressions when i get it. Happy to answer questions when i have it in hand or show off anything you might want to see

@freemo
I've just checked it out and it looks pretty cool. Are you planning on doing a mini-review?

I love little tidbits like this. Francis Bellamy was also a socialist. While he was hired to help sell flags to schools, which might seem hypocritical based on his politics, he seems to have also genuinely believed the Pledge would help unite working people of the time under a single banner rather than continuing to divide us based on race or nation of origin.