Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@qoto.org

@tayfonay

Studs Terkel interviewed an old guy who was a child when WWI broke out. He recalled that a mob broke into the local school, and burned all the German language textbooks.

Also all the French textbooks Because they couldn't tell the difference.

Finnish police confiscated the Russian shadow fleet's Eagle S tanker suspected to have been responsible – it has now been successfully transferred to Svartbeck anchorage, Porvoo.
This is the only way to deal with Russia.

https://poliisi.fi/-/eagle-s-sailioalus-siirrettiin-onnistuneesti-porvooseen

#Porvoo #EagleS #Finland #Estonia #Russia #RussiaUkraineWar #nato #shadowfleet

THIS

"Dire shortage": Elon Musk sparks MAGA backlash after calling for more immigrant workers | Salon.com

The Muskrat wants more cheap foreign workers.

https://www.salon.com/2024/12/26/dire-shortage-elon-musk-sparks-maga-backlash-after-calling-for-more-workers/?in_brief=true

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@jesusmargar @michael_w_busch @johncarlosbaez I could add that the phenomenon of 'multiple surfaces' is not limited to the Sun. Looking at the Earth from space, under a cloudless sky the visual surface would be the land or sea surface. In the thermal infrared, at a wavelength of 11 μm, you would also look at the land or sea surface, as the atmosphere is transparent there. But at 15 μm, the center of the carbon dioxide absorption band, the atmosphere is opaque and you are looking at a level where the temperature (see the dashed Planck curves) is only 220 K, -53 C, some ten to twenty km up at the tropopause. So the Earth is some 10-20 km bigger for someone with 15 μm infrared eyes...

https://climatemodels.uchicago.edu/modtran/modtran_iris.jpg

Remember, when Barcelona eliminated 3 lanes of vehicle traffic & converted this street into a 4.7km green pedestrian corridor in the heart of the Eixample grid, businesses sued. They actually won. But by decision-time, the businesses had decided they actually like it. citylabbcn.org/the-legal-at...

#books

Prosecutors find workers in 'slavery like' conditions at Chinese car company site in Brazil

https://www.voanews.com/a/prosecutors-find-workers-in-slavery-like-conditions-at-chinese-car-company-site-in-brazil/7913328.html

https://www.europesays.com/1714834/ A Ukrainian soldier in Kursk with the call sign “Koval” shot and disabled a russian T-90M tank with a rocket launcher, stopping it from harassing him. For his courage and heroism, the soldier was awarded the honorary badge of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Golden Cross. #Ukraine #UkraineWar #UkraineWarVideoReport