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Here's how the tariffs table would look like if Russia was on it.

In 2024, the US imported $3B worth of goods from there while exporting $526M there. It's one of the largest negative trade definite, percentage-wise, across all countries the US does business with.
April 3, 2025 at 12:52 PM
This is one of the most interesting podcasts I listened to for a long time. Diving into the physics of the ocean
helenczerski.bsky.social Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · Feb 26
It was a pleasure to speak to Sean Carroll for his podcast Mindscape, to see if I could convince the hardcore physics crowd about the ocean. It's here:

www.preposterousuniv...

The snobs who think that classical physics is too old & easy to be "at the forefront" should consider ocean turbulence...
March 1, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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NOAA has published a FAQ addressing the notion of deploying a nuclear weapon against a hurricane. www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd-faq/#Stop
Full text at link. NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory U.S. Department of Commerce = During each hurricane season, someone always asks "why don't we destroy tropical cyclones by nuking them" or "can we use nuclear weapons to destroy a hurricane?" There always appear suggestions that one should simply nuke hurricanes to destroy the storms. Apart from the fact that this might not even alter the storm, this approach neglects the problem that the released radioactive fallout would fairly quickly move with the tradewinds to affect land areas and cause devastating • environmental problems. Needless to say, this is not a good idea. Now for a more rigorous scientific explanation of why this would not be an effective hurricane modification technique. The main difficulty with using explosives to modify hurricanes is the amount of energy required. A fully developed hurricane can release heat energy at a rate of 5 to 20x1013 watts and converts less than 10% of the heat into the mechanical energy of the wind. The heat release is equivalent to a 10-megaton nuclear bomb exploding every 20 minutes. According to the 1993 World Almanac, the entire human race used energy at a rate of 1013 watts in 1990, a rate less than 20% of the power of a hurricane. If we think about mechanical energy, the energy at humanity's disposal is closer to the storm's, but the task of focusing even half of the energy on a spot in the middle of a remote ocean would still be formidable. Brute force interference with hurricanes doesn't seem promising. In addition, an explosive, even a nuclear explosive, produces a shock wave, or pulse of high pressure, that propagates away from the site of the explosion somewhat faster than the speed of sound. Such an event doesn't raise the barometric pressure after the shock has passed because barometric pressure in the atmosphere reflects the weight of the air above the ground. For normal atmospheric pressure, there are about ten metric tons (1000 kilograms per ton) of air bearing down on each square meter of surface. In the strongest hurricanes there are nine. To change a Category 5 hurricane into a Category 2 hurricane you would have to add about a half ton of air for each square meter inside the eye, or a total of a bi
October 9, 2024 at 5:46 AM
Worth reading and internalizing:

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr
In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2024 at 9:39 PM
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Scoop: After 404 Media reported on a service and selling thousands of users' data last week, Discord has now shut down a mass of scraping accounts and says it is considering legal action.
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Discord Shuts Down ‘Spy Pet’ Bots That Scraped, Sold User Messages
After 404 Media reported on the service last week, Discord has now shut down a mass of scraping accounts and says it is considering legal action.
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April 26, 2024 at 3:27 PM