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Comment Amazon rainforest (Score 1) 118

If Bolsonaro2 gets elected you can kiss the Amazon rainforest goodbye as he'll finish the job Bolsonaro1 started. Once the rainforest rain cycle goes it does not come back. And who really wants him elected? Trump who is meddling in Brazil elections (in fact meddling in all South America elections): Brazil attorney general says meddling ‘cannot be tolerated’ after Trump funding plans revealed https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

Comment late capitalism (Score 1) 161

If this pisses you off you can choose not to go to there OR you can choose another economic system - or at least *threaten* to choose one, the one that absolutely scares them the most: The Future Has to Be Made: A Masterclass On Marxism, Anarchism, and Revolution w/ Garrett Halas https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
This video answers all the most common objections to Marxism, e.g. doesn't it always fail?

Comment geopolitics trumps climate (Score 0, Troll) 98

The US seizing of Venezuela oil and a failed attempt to seize Iran oil is because the US petrodollar must be maintained to fund deficit spending, the rising treasury yields indicate that the easy money days are coming to an end. On the flip side China, the worlds largest greenhouse gas emitter, has enormous incentive to become petro independent. China's green transition has insulated them from the oil shock and provided even more motivation to continue the transition, which also benefits the whole planet as their low-cost technology can be resold elsewhere.

Comment Re:Just the way the hawks like it (Score 1) 104

Something not making sense given

The report, according to one of the sources, was “entirely false.” But it also “almost started a war,” the source said. Any US operation against a Chinese vessel could have risked spiraling into an armed conflict between the two nations.

Then even if a human analyst concluded it was nuclear materials why would you risk it? You'd carefully watch the ship unload with spy satellites.

Comment What a time to be alive! (Score 1) 128

The mainstream press, from NBC, NPR and even Fox News, running with in depth stories that AI could kill us all, yes, just like in Terminator or The 100 https://www.youtube.com/watch?... We should all pause and stop to reflect that we are living in a SciFi future... ooops don't pause too long, the boss might catch you... OK pause over, get back to work!

Comment Are you gig drivers voting DSA? (Score -1, Troll) 122

This union victory will be short-lived. I hope you see the writing on the wall - your jobs are being automated away. You no doubt see the self driving taxis while you drive around. A lot of you became drivers after failing to find work in another preferred field. Vote Democratic Socialist now, after you lose your job is too late.

Comment Re:None of the studies matter (Score 1) 170

Geopolitics is a bigger factor; the US petrodollar must be maintained to fund deficit spending, the rising treasury yields indicate that the easy money days are coming to an end. On the flip side China, the worlds largest greenhouse gas emitter, has enormous incentive to become petro independent. The US seizing of Venezuela oil and failed attempt on Iran oil a case in point. China's green transition has insulated them from the oil shock and provided even more motivation to continue the transition, which also benefits the whole planet as their technology can be resold elsewhere.

Comment How the US can compete again (Score 5, Insightful) 504

China did not jump into Capitalism, it set up testing areas called Special Economic Zones like Shenzhen. The US could also set up some zones free from federal /state laws just to see what happens:
1) Republican zone - let the Republicans go wild in this zone just require that Fox news broadcasters live in this zone.
2) Democrat zone - let the Democrats have free reign here.
3) Bernie Sanders zone - follows everything Bernie says.
4) Libertarian zone - full libertarian ideology.
5) Tech Bro zone - tech bros in control here, maybe restrict them to an island like part of Puerto Rico.
6) Free Trade zone - no tariffs or restrictions on trade period, including trade with Cuba, NK, Iran, Russia.

Comment Good News! (Score 2) 34

At least if you believe in the Bank of England rumor:

According to this image, Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan, Libya, Cuba, North Korea, Iran, Syria, and Venezuela were the only countries without a central bank controlled by the family's [Rothschild ] well-known financial and banking groups that year.

but it is a false rumor: https://factcheck.afp.com/doc....

Submission + - Xylitol Linked to Strokes and Heart Attacks, Study Finds (theguardian.com)

An anonymous reader writes: A common sweetener used in products such as chewing gum, toothpaste, jam, yoghurts and ice-cream has been linked to an increased risk of strokes, heart attacks and death. Xylitol is a sugar alcohol present in some natural foods in very low amounts. It is also added – often in amounts 1,000 times higher – to artificially sweeten foods, beverages and oral care products. Despite its growing use, the long-term health impacts of xylitol have never been widely studied.

In the largest study of its kind, researchers found high blood levels of xylitol were associated with an increased risk of major adverse cardiovascular events. The findings were presented in Munich at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) annual congress, the world’s largest heart conference. Researchers looked at 17,710 people and compared the 25% with the highest levels of xylitol in their blood against the 25% with the lowest. Those who had the highest amount were 57% more likely to die or suffer a heart attack or stroke, than those with the least, within six years. Even after 30 years, they were still 18% more likely to have suffered one of these cardiac events.

Taken with data from the middle quartiles, the results from both cohorts suggested a dose-dependent relationship: the higher the xylitol blood levels, the higher the cardiovascular event rate. Furthermore, the researchers showed that there was consistent increase in cardiovascular events with xylitol irrespective of baseline characteristics, such as age and sex. The researchers also highlighted that the association was independent of underlying factors such as body mass index, hypertension, diabetes and lipid levels, which might predispose people to low-calorie products.

Submission + - President Trump signs order to create US Space Academy (space.com) 1

An anonymous reader writes:

President Donald Trump today signed an executive order creating the U.S. Space Academy, an institution of higher learning that will train students for a career studying, exploring, exploiting or helping to protect the final frontier.

"It'll serve both the United States Space Force as well as NASA and the civilian spaceflight industry, and it'll attract, train and graduate the very very best of our nation," Trump said today during a ceremony at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, at which he awarded the Artemis II moon astronauts the nation's highest space honor.

Within the next 120 days, the commission will submit a report "with recommendations on governance framework, service obligations for graduates, physical location of the academy, legislative requirements and more," NASA officials wrote in today's statement.

It's a shame the name Starfleet Academy is sullied.

Submission + - By 2028, One in Four Job Applicants Will Be Fake (nbcnews.com) 1

An anonymous reader writes: Hiring pipelines are drowning in applicants who do not exist. Generative AI has made it trivial to mass-produce tailored resumes, fabricate work histories, and even run deepfake video interviews, and the research firm Gartner projects that by 2028, one in four job candidate profiles worldwide will be fake. Cybersecurity and crypto firms hiring for remote roles report surges of fraudulent applicants, some traced to state-linked schemes. Detection is an arms race the generation side keeps winning: one study found 63 percent of AI-using applicants still clear initial screening. LinkedIn rolled out real-time AI-detection for applications in March 2026. Employers now average around 180 applications per hire, pushing some back toward manual candidate vetting to confirm a candidate is even real.

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