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The Army is too top-heavy
Via: Nerm_L • News Viners • 3 Comments • 3 Likes • one month ago
“Surplus generals, swollen staffs, and excess headquarters drain headcount and resources from warfighting units.”
Modern military planning expends a lot of time covering it's brass. The amount of deadwood has proliferated across all uniformed branches of service except, possibly, the Coast Guard.
The brewing battle over water fluoridation
Via: Nerm_L • News Viners • 2 Comments • 1 Like • one month ago
“The HHS makes recommendations about fluoride, but that's all”
A local story (Austin, TX) that will become national as RFK Jr. appointment the head HHS nears. Yes, fluoridating water has been the practice since 1945. But in 1945 other products weren't being adulterated with fluoride compounds and there weren't concerns with PFAS contamination from...
Telescope with world’s largest digital camera will be a ‘game-changer’ for astronomy
Via: Nerm_L • News Viners • 2 Comments • 2 Likes • one month ago
“In 10 years, we’re going to be talking about new fields of science, new classes of objects, new types of discoveries that I can’t even tell you...”
A literal shot in the dark.
"Wild idea:" Could zeppelins really be used to air-ship huge wind turbine parts?
Via: Nerm_L • News Viners • 1 Comments • 1 Like • one month ago
“Zeppelins could have an advantage over road transport for wind and solar projects. It's an intriguing vision, but it comes with some big unanswered...”
Gotta love enviro-geeks. When it's pointed out that wind farms tend to be windy, the problem is simply dismissed with future tech miracles. Notice the deflection about aerodynamics of wind turbine blades? Apparently the developers haven't heard of packaging. You know, just wrapping a tarp...
Opinion: Photographers, it's time to boycott Adobe
Via: Nerm_L • News Viners • 10 Comments • 1 Like • one month ago
“The company's AI push shows its naked contempt for the photographers who made it what it is. They won't stop, so we must stop enabling them.”
Has everyone noticed a shift in the language praising the advent of artificial intelligence? Not long ago artificial intelligence was being touted as a tool available to scientists, engineers, and experts to expand human knowledge and usher in a new future. But now the big tech companies have...
More Data Needed to Understand Contrails, their Climate Effect & Develop Mitigation
Via: Nerm_L • News Viners • 10 Comments • 2 Likes • one month ago
“IATA called for urgent action to deepen the understanding on the formation and climate impact of aviation contrails to develop effective mitigation...”
For those who have derided, ridiculed, mocked, and otherwise poked fun at the grassroots 'chemtrails' warnings from the common folks in flyover country. This is their 'we told ya so' moment. Now sweep aviation under the rug again and tell us how gas kitchen ranges are the culprits for climate...
The Warning
Via: Nerm_L • News Viners • 4 Comments • 2 Likes • one month ago
“History has shown that wherever there’s a potential for financial or strategic advantage — on land, in the air or at sea — it’s accompanied by the...”
Here is a bit of entertaining Red Scare propaganda. It's really worth clicking the seed link to experience the graphics (which can't be captured here). As with most well produced propaganda, the entertainment value is used to highlight desired points and gloss over some inconvenient realities....
Syrian prime minister says government is still functioning but foreign and domestic challenges loom
Via: Nerm_L • News Viners • 9 Comments • 3 Likes • one month ago
“We are working so that the transitional period is quick and smooth”
Just like that, refugee status for Syrians disappeared. Syrians don't need to hide from anything now. When do we send them back? Assad is gone. Russia has left Syria. Iran is out. This is the result Pres. Obama, VP Biden, and Sec. State Clinton wanted when they went all in for Arab Spring...
US senators vow action after briefing on Chinese Salt Typhoon telecom hacking
Via: Nerm_L • News Viners • 2 Comments • 3 Likes • 2 months ago
“They have not told us why they didn't catch it; what they could have done to prevent it.”
So, the government can force people to buy electric appliances, install solar panels on new construction, buy insurance of all types, censor our language, force participation in DEI cultural celebrations, and micro-manage what we can buy. But government cannot force telecoms to adopt the simple...