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What David Brooks Missed
Via: Nerm_L • News Viners • 1 Comments • 1 Like • last year
“But what Brooks is not bold enough to tell his readers is that this isn’t just a class thing; it’s an ideological thing.”
So, David Brooks' dead horse has to be shot again? The culture wars are over. DOGE and the TEA Party killed these political horses. And the Republican Party can't cover the butts of rich slackers by continuing to shoot these dead horses. The Democratic Party is becoming more QAnon than QAnon....
Voyager 2 Mission Launches on This Day, 20 August 1977
Via: Nerm_L • News Viners • 1 Comments • 3 Likes • last year
The preceding Pioneer missions were the pathfinders to the outer planets. But it was the Voyager program that overcame shifting national priorities following the end of the Apollo program and solidified NASA's role in space exploration.
11 Old-School Pasta Dishes Hardly Anyone Eats Anymore
Via: Nerm_L • News Viners • 6 Comments • 4 Likes • last year
“From macaroni loaf and noodle ring to American goulash and spaghetti subs, hardly anyone eats these vintage pasta dishes now, often with good reason.”
Some I've never heard of. Some I've heard of and never wanted to try. And there are a couple I still make from time to time. Some food, like fashion, shouldn't come back into style.
Vatican solar farm will make it the world's first carbon-neutral state
Via: Nerm_L • News Viners • 1 Comments • 1 Like • last year
“Italy has agreed to a Vatican plan to turn a 430-hectare (1,000-acre) plot of land north of Rome into a vast solar farm that will generate enough...”
Whaddaya know ... Religion gets religion. How about that.
Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation
Via: Nerm_L • News Viners • 2 Comments • 1 Like • last year
“Electricity prices are rising more than twice as fast as overall inflation. That's especially costly during the dog days of summer when air...”
Too bad we didn't wait to sunset coal fired generators until we had reliable replacements attached to the grid. The politics created an artificial shortage that allowed market manipulation.
Europe's Leaders Headed Off Giveaway to Putin, but Emerged Without a Clear Path
Via: Nerm_L • News Viners • 1 Comments • 1 Like • last year
“The leaders dropped everything to travel to Washington to ensure President Trump didn't force a bad deal on Ukraine. A road map for peace remains...”
The only thing the European leaders hoped to head off was being sidelined. If the peace talks become trilateral between Zelensky, Putin, and Trump then Europe and NATO won't be at the table. Europe wants a multilateral process including the 'coalition of the willing'. The European leaders are...
Is the AI Winter Finally Upon Us?
Via: Nerm_L • News Viners • 2 Comments • 1 Like • last year
“The tepid reception of GPT-5 and the selloff of CoreWeave could be an inflection point — or a bump in the road.”
Are we on the verge of another biotech bust? The problem with biotech was over hyped expectations feeding a get-rich-quick frenzy. Biotech has certainly delivered a number of game changing innovations. But biotech didn't live up to disruptive promises of financial hype.
Why Photography Could Be the Mental Health Boost You Never Knew You Needed
Via: Nerm_L • News Viners • 2 Comments • 1 Like • last year
“Photography's power to improve mental health lies not in its technical complexity or artistic sophistication, but in its fundamental capacity to...”
If you feel the need to shoot something, use a camera. It's cheaper, safer, and just as permanent. We're well aware that mental health issues are approaching crisis proportions. The seed is long but contains a lot of info to think about when trying to address our near-crisis mental health...