@joannekelly
But how is "preserving credibility" different from "saving face"? Or do you mean that the verbal red lines they put down are not what is backing them into a corner, violence against Hoithis-wise?
(sorry for the sloppy opening, but it's a good question: do you feel free to give your full opinion to the BBC?After all this is part of the Gaza war(
@WarInTheFuture
Intressant att anfallet verkar ha varit relativt omfattande, som nämnts har Biden annars varit väldigt blygsam i de vedergällningar han beordrat.
Den andra intressanta delen av texten är hur Houtis inträde i Gazakriget (hur de själva beskriver sitt agerande) beskrivs som ett försök att "utnyttja" konflikten. Vi får se om det blir terminologin den säkerhetspolitiska "klumpen" i Washington samlar sig kring detta, eller om någon annan term dyker upp för att avfärda Houthis ställningstagande som seriösa nog att faktiskt beakta.
Såvitt jag kan hitta syftar "exploit" på att Houthis har en stark hemmaopinion som krävt attacker mot Israel, och att böja sig för den kanske kan beskrivas som ett utnyttjande av konflikten om de samtidigt ignorerar andra krav. Personligen har jag svårt att tro att motivationen till att inträda i ett krig mot USA verkligen kan sammanfattas med "exploited".
Jag tror den här källan mest kan användas för att förstå hur de säkerhetspolitiska tyckarna i USA tänker, men inte utvecklingen i regionen.
@joannekelly
Purely to save face, or as some sort of long time solution?
Kenya's UBI trial data is in.
people dont stop working when they have a UBI.
lump sum UBI had the greatest economic benefit, creating a lot more entrepreneurs.
we have conclusively verified humans can be trusted to make excellent financial decisions.
now it is time to fix economic policies to connect people with money directly, not manage it for them out of mistrust.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3x329k32DXVjasx1zSqApH?si=RslQjGSeRYK0osae88yJig
@philipncohen
Does the behaviour change any if you plot married women per 100k women?
An astronomer team has observed some of the youngest planetary disks ever seen. Designated as Class 0 and Class 1, these are planetary systems younger than 300,000 years old. Even at this early stage of star formation, the protesters are surrounded by disks with rings and spiral structures that indicate where new planets could be forming. It was previously believed that planets couldn't form before the first million years, but there they are.
https://public.nrao.edu/news/early-evolution-of-planetary-disk-structures-seen-for-the-first-time/
@cakeisnotalie
The thing about shouting is that it is almost never persuasive, and frequently is is just harrasment. The definitions of probability being what they are, you can guess at where we are now.
@parismarx
I opened the first IPCC report, released in 1990, and copied their scenario graphs for CO2 and CH4 emissions.
I marked the latest data with a red dot. Methane emissions in 2022 were 580 Mt and carbon dioxide emissions in 2023 were 40.7 GtCO2 (= 11.09 GtC).
Whatever you think about the IPCC you must admit their business-as-usual calculations were pretty robust.
I often criticize Bill McKibben's newsletter "The Crucial Years", but this time I'm just going to quote large blocks of test from the Jan 9 2024 one because I agree with them. This is about US #LNG exports:
1. They produce an ungodly quantity of greenhouse gas emissions. Just the next proposed plant, CP2 in Louisiana, will produce 20 times more emissions than the controversial Willow oil complex over its lifetime. If the industry gets everything they’ve asked for, US LNG exports will produce more greenhouse gas emissions than…Europe. All of it. This is the biggest fossil fuel expansion project currently underway on planet earth.
2. It’s even dirtier than coal—you get carbon when you burn it, and methane when it leaks before you burn it. And since we now live in a world where solar and wind energy—which produce no greenhouse gas emissions—are the cheapest power, that’s almost criminally dumb.
3. We told the world in Dubai last month that the time had come to “transition” off fossil fuels. No possible definition of transition includes building giant terminals for the export of fossil fuels that are designed to last a half century."
(omitted 4-6 for length)
@cakeisnotalie
Why are you talking about settling? Nobody has used that word, nor even a related concept; my (attempt at a) discussion is if one can acknowledge that substack took a positive step by banning a few nazis or if that step is so small it cannot be measured.
@mrundkvist
Personally I would advocate the term "Dirham Coin Background", as it is much less likely to lead to panicked people calling Strålsäkerhetsmyndigheten with questions about how safe they are from the new Radiation they just read about.
@cakeisnotalie
What does that mean?
@parismarx
@parismarx
I get "the war is not won", but to say it's not "a" win is just weird: they bowed to pressure and actually removed users, that is concrete progress.
To outright deny this progress seems unproductive, what is your goal with that?
Are you thinking you can sustain the controversy after these bans and so wrangle much greater concessions from them? But will simply saying "wait, there is more!" really be enough to keep the story going?
@Anders_S
Jag rekommenderar Crisis Watch genomgång av konflikter att bevaka: https://www.crisisgroup.org/global/10-conflicts-watch-2024
@landetannien
Om du skriver om Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) finns det goda skäl att åka till La Palma ;) På Roque de Los Muchachos finnns även två svenska teleskop att klämma in besök till, och det svenska solteleskopet kan länkas till planerna om att bygga ett stort europeiskt solteleskop (även det på la palma tror jag).
CTA sysslar med väldigt högenergetiska gammastrålar, men tyvärr är det typ ingen som gör nått om det i Sverige längre, du får åka till Finland eller Danmark för att hitta aktiva i fältet.
@Mabande
Ibland skrivs det om att USA bombar någon som hämd för attacker på deras baser i Mellanöstern, ibland kanske det står att den attackerade basen ligger i Syrien? Oftast ges bara ortsnamn, och sen är det upp till läsaren att veta om det var i Iraq eller Syrien det hände...
The X-ray telescope XRISM just released two high-quality images taken at the end of its commissioning process (aka first light).
Launched on Sep 7, 2023, the X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM, pronounced "crism") is an X-ray space telescope mission developed by JAXA in partnership with NASA and participation from ESA and other international orgs. It is similar to but more sensitive than the aging 24-year Chandra X-ray space telescope.
https://global.jaxa.jp/press/2024/01/20240105-1_e.html
#XRISM
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Like in real life, also in extragalactic astronomy there are VIPs*. If you are into clusters of galaxies, the top of the VIP probably is the
Coma clusters of galaxies, aka Abel 1656.
Let's do a small #AstroPhysicsFactlet to see why
*=Very Important Potential (wells)
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