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Evening Shade---Resistance Rising---Sunday [1]
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Date: 2025-03-02
(Or NOT As the CASE MAY BE)
YOU WILL FIND in the DIARIES a LOT of POLITICS
THE PERSON who MAKES the FIRST COMMENT WILL GET TWO CRITTERS
EVERY PERSON WHO COMMENTS WILL GET A CRITTER
RULES IN THE DIARY
WHEN YOU FIND SOMETHING in the DIARY that you LIKE
YOU CAN REPOST IT AS COMMENT in the DIARY
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After Trump’s shameful performance with President Zelenskyy, the world responded with support for Ukraine. Then there’s this.
x After yesterday's events in the White House, Haltbakk Bunkers, one of Norway's largest marine fuel companies, appears to have announced that it will no longer refuel American Navy vessels. Haltbakk has called on other European companies to refuse service to American forces. — OSINTtechnical (@osinttechnical.bsky.social) 2025-03-01T18:27:18.198Z
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With the Trump/Zelenskyy mess all over the front pages, the orders to cease protections against Russian cyber incursions got mere back page mention. The Trump administration has quietly unlocked our back door as if Russia is our friend now.
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Macron sets us straight.
x Macron: “But we must not forget one point—if anyone is playing the Third World War, it is Vladimir Putin. He was the one who started the war three years ago, and he brought 10,000 North Korean soldiers to European soil.”
[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) March 2, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Lost your federal job? Russia and China are recruiting.
x Russia and China, have ramped up recruitment efforts targeting US federal employees—particularly those recently fired or at risk of termination. These efforts are unfolding aggressively on LinkedIn, where adversaries are reaching out under the guise of job opportunities, networking, and consulting. — Alt National Park Service (@altnps.bsky.social) March 1, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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If you’re nagging your congressmen by phone, keep asking for a town hall. Town halls are blowing up so badly that the GOP is advising members to avoid them.
x Wow. Another GOP in a solidly red district ventures out of the GOP DC bubble to the real world where everyone hates DOGE. He immediately switches to lying about BILL Clinton doing his own DOGE. Smoked
[image or embed] — Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) March 1, 2025 at 6:37 PM
x Diana Harshbarger did have some supporters at her townhall but overall mostly jeering and she actually had to have one constituent arrested www.wjhl.com/video/1-remo...
[image or embed] — Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) March 2, 2025 at 7:59 AM
(Kudos on kraigo’s great diary on the security event at a town hall in Coeur d'Alene!)
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Sunday Science
As solar and wind energy production grow, so does natural gas.
A decade ago, coal generated almost 40 percent of U.S. power generation while wind and solar accounted for less than 5 percent. In 2024, wind and solar nudged out coal, accounting for 15.5 percent of utility power generation to 15.2 percent for coal. The tipping point followed a surge in solar installations last year. The 30 GW of new solar capacity installed in 2024 smashed the previous record of 19 GW set in 2023. Wind installed another 5 GW, the sector’s lowest installation total since 2014. Even so, the combination was enough to push power generation from the two industries past coal, which saw 4.5 GW of capacity shut down last year. The challenge from a climate perspective is that gas generation has grown at an even faster clip than renewables over the last decade. Gas generation is up 66 percent, or 738 TWh, between 2014 and 2024, according to EIA figures. Wind and solar are up 240 percent over that time but have added less in absolute terms: 471 TWh. (Scientific American)
Widening highways doesn’t reduce congestion. Congestion pricing does.
It sounds logical and intuitive: if you have a limited supply of something in high demand, such as the ability to drive on a particular stretch of road, increasing the supply by adding new lanes should make that experience available to more people. But increasing the supply of something also drops its cost—which can encourage more people to take advantage of it... Congestion pricing programs cost far less to implement than highway widening projects, and they generate revenue that can be invested in other types of transportation, including mass transit. Because drivers experience these pricing programs’ costs directly, they can sometimes be a hard sell. But once people observe congestion pricing programs start to work, “you almost always see the approval rating head upward,” Burris says. (Scientific American)
Mushroom robots??
Mishra’s team grew mycelia directly into electrodes attached to two robots. The fungi communicated with the robots through electrical signals called action potentials. These zaps are similar to those produced by heart and nerve cells. Mycelia produce spontaneous action potentials, which triggered the biobots to walk and roll around. When flashed with ultraviolet light, the mycelia produced stronger zaps, which changed the robots’ gait and showed that the bots could respond to the environment, Mishra’s team reported in 2024 in Science Robotics. (Science News)
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It’s March 2, Dr. Suess’s birthday! He didn’t exactly write this.
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It’s Finisher’s Medal Day, celebrating everyone who trains for a race and completes it.
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