Play Deprivation Is A Major Cause of the Teen Mental Health Crisis
July 28th, 2023Via: After Babel:
The central idea of my forthcoming book, The Anxious Generation, is that we have overprotected children in the real world, where they need a lot of free play and autonomy,while underprotecting them online, where they are not developmentally ready for much of what happens to them.
California Lost More Than $300 Million in Tax Revenue from Wealthy Residents Moving
July 28th, 2023Via: KTLA:
For the third straight year, the state of California has experienced a decline in population, according to U.S. Census Bureau data, and many of those packing up and heading east are some of the state’s wealthiest.
A study of IRS Migration Data by an online real estate portal found that no state experienced a larger loss of tax income from migration than California.
The study, conducted by MyEListing.com, found that California lost more than $340 million in 2021 IRS tax revenue due to residents moving.
Worldcoin Isn’t as Bad as it Sounds: It’s Worse
July 28th, 2023One person is willing to sell their soul every 8 seconds for a shitcoin and a cattle tag. Extreme clown world alert. https://t.co/RZeJYANCAV
— Whitney Webb (@_whitneywebb) July 26, 2023
Via: Blockworks:
Worldcoin — a new financial system connected to sensitive biometric information, mostly harvested from poor people — sure sounds like a terrible idea.
“Terrible” doesn’t do it justice.
Worldcoin will need to assemble a vast database of iris data. But not everyone is eager to gaze into an Orb. In the bootstrapping phase, at least, you had to pay people to scan their eyes. And so Worldcoin turned to the global south — home to the cheapest eyeballs — and played a dark game of ‘what will people do for money?’
Incredibly, Worldcoin was unprepared for an obvious consequence of this rollout strategy: A black market for verified credentials. You can now seemingly buy a World ID for as little as $30. Anyone, then, with more than $30 on hand can command more than one digital identity (although Worldcoin is aware of this issue and has proposed solutions to resolve it). Connecting real people to digital identities is a thorny puzzle.
NASA Picks Lockheed Martin to Develop Nuclear Rocket
July 27th, 2023Via: PhysOrg:
NASA and the US military said Wednesday they had selected defense contractor Lockheed Martin to develop a nuclear powered rocket, with a view to using the technology for missions to Mars.
The Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) program may launch as soon as 2027, officials said on a call.
Nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) systems could cut journey times, increase fuel efficiency, and require less propellant, meaning future spacecraft could carry larger payloads than today’s best chemical rockets.
NTP works by pumping a liquid propellant, in DRACO’s case cryogenic hydrogen, through a reactor core, where uranium atoms split apart through fission.
DOJ Drops Campaign Finance Charge Against Sam Bankman-Fried
July 27th, 2023I’m shocked.
Via: Breitbart:
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) informed a federal judge late Wednesday it did “not intend to proceed” with a campaign finance charge against disgraced FTX founder and Democrat super donor Sam Bankman-Fried.
Consultation with the Bahamas on the campaign finance charges in Bankman-Fried’s original extradition document last year were behind the decision as part of an effort to adhere to the legal obligations therein, Forbes reports.
David Grusch in Sworn Testimony Before Congress: The U.S. Has Recovered Alien Spacecraft and Bodies and Has Run a Coverup for Decades
July 27th, 2023As expected, the hearing was a rehash of information that was already in the public domain.
My assessment of this remains the same as in the past, “The military establishment is never, ever going to reveal what it actually knows about the phenomenon.” What we’re seeing now is likely a continuation of the limited hangout operation that began with Tom DeLonge back in 2017.
Here’s a selection of other opinions on this:
Whitney Webb:
Wow aliens! Won't it be fun to watch people believe whatever some former intelligence agents say with no evidence and then panic and demand that all of humanity bands together to make a global govt just like in Star Trek and Mass Effect bc of "the aliens"? https://t.co/pYYquXug5g
— Whitney Webb (@_whitneywebb) July 26, 2023
Dark Journalist/Daniel Liszt:
Richard Dolan:
SIX MINUTE REACTION TO UAP HEARING ? https://t.co/psOMt2sog3 pic.twitter.com/OzHO9prOeM
— Richard Dolan Intelligent Disclosure (@I_D_Official) July 26, 2023
Ross Coulthart:
Via: The Warzone:
A decorated intelligence official and Air Force veteran turned UFO whistleblower on Wednesday provided the most pointed public testimony ever given to Congress about claims that ‘non-human intelligence’ has visited the Earth and left behind craft and bodies, and the government has covered it up for nearly a century.
David Grusch, who served with the now-shuttered Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) Task Force (UAPTF), testified under oath before a House Oversight Committee’s subcommittee that he has evidence there is a cabal of people inside and outside the government involved in ongoing programs dealing with non-human craft and lifeforms. Those beings have visited the Earth, he said, and the cover-up has been going on since the 1930s.
He testified that the U.S. government possesses multiple alien craft and the remains of their crew; that government contractors have “misappropriated” money to fund these ongoing programs and that there have been efforts to silence those who come forward that may have even included murder. In addition, Grusch said the U.S. was working to reverse-engineer alien technology and that people were hurt in the process of attempting to do so. He said he had a list of witnesses, both cooperative and hostile, for future hearings that could provide additional answers through firsthand accounts.
1 In 35: Myocardial Injury After COVID-19 mRNA-1273 Booster Vaccination
July 26th, 2023Via: Dr. John Campbell:
Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency
July 26th, 2023Via: House Committee On Oversight and Accountability:
South Korean Researchers Claim Room Temperature, Ambient Pressure Superconductor
July 26th, 2023—
I don’t know why there’s no news coverage of this. Maybe someone out there in Cryptogon land would we willing to submit a sanity check for us laypeople.
I remember reading about this in the 1980s. I asked my high school chemistry teacher when he thought it would happen.
“Probably not in my lifetime, but maybe in yours.”
I just checked and my chemistry teacher, Mr. C, is still alive.
Via: arXiv:
The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor
Sukbae Lee, Ji-Hoon Kim, Young-Wan Kwon
For the first time in the world, we succeeded in synthesizing the room-temperature superconductor (Tc?400 K, 127?C) working at ambient pressure with a modified lead-apatite (LK-99) structure. The superconductivity of LK-99 is proved with the Critical temperature (Tc), Zero-resistivity, Critical current (Ic), Critical magnetic field (Hc), and the Meissner effect. The superconductivity of LK-99 originates from minute structural distortion by a slight volume shrinkage (0.48 %), not by external factors such as temperature and pressure. The shrinkage is caused by Cu2+ substitution of Pb2+(2) ions in the insulating network of Pb(2)-phosphate and it generates the stress. It concurrently transfers to Pb(1) of the cylindrical column resulting in distortion of the cylindrical column interface, which creates superconducting quantum wells (SQWs) in the interface. The heat capacity results indicated that the new model is suitable for explaining the superconductivity of LK-99. The unique structure of LK-99 that allows the minute distorted structure to be maintained in the interfaces is the most important factor that LK-99 maintains and exhibits superconductivity at room temperatures and ambient pressure.
Los Angeles: Walking Around Skid Row at Night
July 26th, 2023Via: CharlieBo313:
