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Satellites destroying our ozone layer?
Not feeling real
Elon Musk
Podcast recommendation
[Answer: Ukraine is actually in a STRONGER negotiating position than in the spring - because it ALMOST HALTED the Russian advance in Donbas with some counteroffensives - FIRST VISIT of Kushner and Witkoff to Kyiv - Putin agrees to a 3 day pause on attacks on Kyiv - and strong US focus on sanctions on Russian economy - all moderately promising for peace - to post:] ◀ Witkoff and Kushner meet with Putin about ending Ukraine war
Sexism, Right wing christians want to remove 19th amendment and remove women from positions of power, men in power hold the same vier, Lindsay Clancy trial
Music Talk
[Answer: Just a story that Netflix MIGHT offer money to creators to release their material on YouTube first before Netflix - not decided - NOTHING to do with Marxist ideas of late stage capitalism - mainstream idea: capitalism needs to be harnessed so it is used for good - so far no proven better system to change to - IPBES and IPCC show how we can have transformative change WITHIN any or our many political or economic systems to protect climate and biodiversity - in direction of growth in everything we value - to post:] ◀ Youtube v Netflix
Books
Germany's once-mighty car industry is in crisis. What will it take to fix it?
Le Pen wants to end military and financial support for Ukraine
How likely is another Carrington event?
[Answer: AfD will be largest party for Saxony Anhalt local elections - but not yet clear they can get into government - not voted in for right wing views - votes are for populist mistaken claim that Ukrainian immigrants harm the economy - voters will want them to improve the economy, not easy to do - to post:] ◀ Far-right AfD wins vote in Germany’s Saxony-Anhalt state: Exit polls
Web page tool to help understand and visualize exponential growth of renewables e.g. solar power
Vance says Iran conflict isn’t a ‘war,’ even as he refuses to say when it will end
[Answer: Yes we do need to mine new materials for the renewables revolution this century and next - recycling can't provide everything - but know how to do it - with climate smart mining and net zero inititives e.g. for copper and nickel - Some recycled indefinitely like water, wood, cotton, salt - some almost inexhaustible - and over timescales of many centuries to millennia some may need to be substituted for others - challenges ARE similar to what nature faces - when it uses solar energy to concentrate resources for a tree or plant to use to grow - to post:] ◀ Limits to recycling
[Answer: Arches like this are not unusual - very smilar to Paris's Arc de Triomphe - legal challenges and controversies are about whether a president can do this without approval from Congress - doesn't seem likely to be done to attract voters for the mid terms - more to do with getting excavation started before the Dems take the House if they do - but would take 2-3 years to build - to post:] ◀ [Answer: - to post:] ◀ Trump Arch.
Fixed a bug with loading older chats in the forum - new buttons "load earlier messages" (okay) and "load earlier conversations" (buggy) mid edit
Israel ‘organised and prepared’ to remove Gaza population if US gives green light, Katz says
Trump says US may hit Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain soon

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