tingilinde

states college students should avoid

 

 

the beginnings of a climate migration in the us?

Extreme events in the West are causing some to relocate.

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No comprehensive data exists on the scale of America’s climate migration, but there is growing local evidence that it is gathering pace. In Vermont, a recent survey of about 30 people who moved to the state from many parts of the United States since the start of the pandemic found that at least a third included climate in their decisions to relocate.

“In some cases, it was people saying, ‘The wildfire smoke is too much. There’s a scarcity of water. It’s only getting worse. The heat is too great,’” said Cheryl Morse, a professor of geography at the University of Vermont, who conducted the survey in mid-2021. “They were experiencing those things firsthand where they lived, and they were imagining Vermont would be cooler, and have more seasonality, and have more water available to them, and not have wildfire smoke.”

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it's almost that time of year

and one line inspired the name of a band

 

a model of authoritarian control

The BITE Model

behavior, information, thought, and emotions

It's usually applied to religions and extreme authoritarian states and cults like Qanon.   Many components are seen in the current Republican Party.

 

 

 

biocrusts

A thin microbial mat on sci that keeps dust in place..  It's one of the reasons the Earth isn't a dustier place.  How will it change in the future?

 

more russian intelligence and planning

A fascinating read.

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We can infer that Russian intelligence services supported Putin’s view of Ukraine as a state ready to be absorbed. Bellingcat’s Christo Grozev suggests that in early April, Putin sacked more than 150 Russian intelligence officers, including the Federal Security Service’s Fifth Service chief, Gen. Sergei Beseda, “for reporting unreliable, overly optimistic information concerning Ukraine,” which suggests a military and political culture of providing inaccurate or outright deceptive intelligence upwards. This move, if true, underlines the hypothesis that Putin believed a false picture of the kind of war he was getting into.

Evidence of this culture was broadcast on television during the pre-invasion meeting of the Russian National Security Council. Putin publicly humiliated the director of the Russian foreign espionage service, Sergey Naryshkin, into agreeing that it was a good idea for Russia to formally recognize the two breakaway Donbas republics and so begin the path to war. We see an intelligence leadership that was not at all intellectually honest with itself or its principal customer. It was widely understood that honesty would be rewarded with humiliation, imprisonment, or death. As David Gioe and Huw Dylan argued in The Washington Post, “either [Putin] ignored the advice of his national security and intelligence advisers; or, as with so many authoritarian leaders before him, he set the conditions under which his subordinates only told him what he wanted to hear.” Neither speaks well of his capacity as a wartime leader.

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a tip of the hat to Jim

 

 

big steal appologists

Their lying is breathtaking ..  it's not surprising where the map they used is from.

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A group of Internet sleuths tracked it down. Simply flip the image …

... and it becomes clear. That’s not Atlanta; it’s a stock photo of a different capital.
Moscow.

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They really seem to have this affair with Russia

 

 

 

 

a clue to long covid?

Sukie points to some very interesting work that could explain some types of long covid.

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“We can see that the spike protein, when affected by our own immune system, can produce amyloid structures, and that this can potentially affect our blood coagulation. We believe that this discovery is significant for many fields of research, and we hope that other researchers will examine the questions that it raises”, says Sofie Nyström, who is an associate professor at IFM and the other author on the study.

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And mask up .. you really don't want long covid.  A surefire technique is to avoid covid.

 

 

russian vehicle maintenance

Maintenance and corruption in the Russian military

a tip of the hat to Horace

 

 

the level of republican lies