tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
@kevinrothrock
Are these both published the same day?
@aliide
Geopolitics has always been central to western interest in the war, you can ask the people of Myanmar or Tigray how well they have been served by their suffering being the only cause for western interest.
@kevinrothrock @kallekn
@PaulGrahamRaven
As far as I know PostNord stocks are owned only by the Swedish and Danish states, so I think this is more the case of a neoliberal project that didn't reach all the way to the "enrich the private capital lobby" and just sort of stalled in a weird transition phase.
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Banks pumped more than $150bn in to companies running ‘carbon bomb’ projects in 2022
Exclusive: Projects that risk 1.5C heating target operated by companies receiving financing from European, Chinese and US banks https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/31/banks-pumped-more-than-150bn-in-to-companies-running-carbon-bomb-projects-in-2022
tobychev
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@kevinrothrock It's a good article, and it has already been extensively discussed in Ukraine. Ukrainska Pravda has a complete translation, NV.ua has a summary. Some of the sources have been questioned, however, especially when it comes to "commanders refusing direct presidential orders". People in the know especially question the assertion that there would have been an order to "retake Horlivka".
@stevenjgibbons
Very cool, clearly you need to get out more to find more examples!
I once saw a slope by a road where a few bits of gravel launched from the passing cars had hit the slope in such a way they picked up snow and had formed disks standing on their edge after rolling some distance down the slope!
Sadly my phone did not have a camera at the time...
@franco_vazza
I'm confused, are you saying optical telescopes observe the CMB? Or do you mean things like COBE and Plank when you say ~ m**2 areas?
@briankoberlein
Do they explain how they know the jet precession follows the motion of the BH rotation axis?
tobychev
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"Let's Do the Twist"
Fifty-five million light-years away, in the galaxy known as M87, lies a supermassive black hole. The radio image captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) provides direct confirmation that the black hole rotates.
A new study published in "Nature" has given us more rotational evidence, but also questions what exactly causes the black hole to precess.
Read more at: https://briankoberlein.com/blog/lets-do-the-twist/
#astrophysics #astronomy #science #cosmology #blackhole #nature #physics
tobychev
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Context for those arguments that Ukraine should have kept the Soviet nuclear weapons.
https://nucleardiner.wordpress.com/2023/10/30/revising-the-history-of-the-1990s/
tobychev
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10 of the 14 African leaders who have evaded term limits have come to power via military coup, civil conflict, or military support.
In other words, leaders who gained power through extraconstitutional means, subsequently tend to violate legal constraints on their time in power.
https://africacenter.org/spotlight/term-limit-evasions-coups-africa-same-coin/
@Mabande
Googla gav inga snabba svar, eller ens tydliga ledtrådar. Det är en bra fråga, men generellt är krim oftast mycket mer komplicerat än vad en hoppas på när en slås av en fråga... föreslår att du mailar någon av dessa på SU: https://www.su.se/forskning/forsknings%C3%A4mnen/kriminologi/f%C3%A4ngelse-och-andra-slutna-institutioner
ŋozze @Mabande
Min instans (qoto) har en speciell funktion för att smygfölja (följa utan att de blir notifierade) folk som tydligen skapades just för att låta utsatta grupper kunna spana på troll.
I take med att masto växer i räckvidd kommer delar av de mekanismer som skapade trollindustrin på twitter även påverka masto, så att en del troll skulle komma hit är oundvikligt. Den stora frågan är var en trollkologiska jämnvikten hamnar...
tobychev
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https://nitter.cz/search?q=%23ImageOfTheDay
On 25 October,
https://nitter.cz/search?q=%23Mexico
🇲🇽 was severely affected by
https://nitter.cz/search?q=%23HurricaneOtis
⬇️
https://nitter.cz/CopernicusEMS
has mapped the damage in
https://nitter.cz/search?q=%23Acapulco
(
https://nitter.cz/search?q=%23EMSR703
), identifying more than 6,200 hectares of affected built-up🏚️
More at 🔗
http://emergency.copernicus.eu/EMSR703
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/CopernicusEU/status/1718911884345143679#m
[2023-10-30 08:45 UTC]
tobychev
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I (en icke bindande) omröstning i FN:s generalförsamling om en humanitär vapenvila i Gaza röstade 120 länder för. Däribland EU-länder som Frankrike och Spanien.
14 röstade emot, däribland USA och Israel.
45 lade ned sina röster, däribland Sverige.
#FN #UN #Gaza #Israel #Palestine
tobychev
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I was absolutely convinced that "the British Navy is firing all its Chinese laundrymen because it's afraid they might be PRC spies and instead of not having any racialized subaltern class doing their laundry, decided to replace them with Nepalese laundrymen" had to be fake news because I was convinced that was too racist even for the British but no, it seems to be real
tobychev
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#HurricaneOtis has made landfall near Acapulco as a category 5 storm after having intensified from a tropical storm to a major hurricane within just 12 hours, as measured by a wind speed increase of ~130 km/h. Nothing comparable has been observed so far in this part of the world.
tobychev
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The Swedish Academy's historical dictionary of modern Swedish has finally been completed after 140 years!
https://www.dn.se/kultur/svenska-akademiens-ordbok-ar-klar-efter-140-ar/
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
