Links 5/31/2023

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Why Gen Z prefer dogs to babies Unherd ‘You don’t want to pick up your trash, don’t come to the mountain,’ mountaineer Tenzi Sherpa said, as he shared visuals of trash left behind on Mount Everest pic.twitter.com/dYZxcN1j7r — Reuters (@Reuters) May…

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How Declining Population Growth Might Portend a Future of Increasing Resource Scarcity

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Yves here. Many, including many readers, have been keen about the idea that global population levels will stall out and hopefully decline, and with it, reduce resource demand. This article contends that the transition may result in even higher commodity consumption.…

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Links 5/30/2023

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Fat cat survives after falling from 6th floor, breaking car window Thaiger (furzy). This cat is lucky. Cats are most likely to die in falls of less than 8 stories. At greater heights, they have time to flip themselves over, and…

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Ukraine: Bleeding Out

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Even for well-reported 20th century wars, decades later, historians are still seeking to improve our understanding of them. With the Ukraine conflict, we’re in the midst of the unprecedented experience of being able to discern a remarkably high proportion of what…

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Links 5/27/2023

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Do Animals Get Drunk? Natilus (Micael T) Bear helps itself to 60 cupcakes from Connecticut bakery, scares employees Associated Press (resilc) The hidden mini statues of Budapest Budapest Flow (BC) France to launch bird flu vaccination programme after ‘satisfactory’ tests France24…

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Origins of Debt: Michael Hudson Reveals How Financial Oligarchies in Greece & Rome Shaped Our World

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Yves here. Get a cup of coffee. This is an in-depth discussion of Michael Hudson’s extensive work on the origins and effects of periodic debt jubilees versus the enshrinement of creditor rights. The latter produces oligarchs, the impoverishment of lower orders,…

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Capturing Carbon With Machines Is a Failure—So Why Are We Subsidizing It?

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Yves here. Predictably, policy-makers prefer the climate change version of wunderwaffen to traditional approaches with less NGO-busying and producer-enriching. And that before getting to the fact that lower tech works better.  And cutting energy use, as in radical conservation, works best!…

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Ice Melt In the Pipeline

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Yves here. The IPCC’s ideological prejudices have led to an unduly relaxed view of the speed of ice melt and rises in ocean levels. An arguably more realistic view includes “fast feedback” factors which point to rapid increases, which in turn…

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Links 5/24/2023

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A Magnificent 1,000 Day Mushroom Timelapse Laughing Squid (resilc) ‘I knew aliens were real’: Marine’s footage of mystery objects over military base sparks UFO talk Raw Story (furzy) Triangle-Wheeled Bike Gives New Meaning to ‘Tricycle’ Gizmodo Questioning physicians about health conditions…

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Cleaning Up After the North Sea Oil Industry Will Cost Billions – But Nobody Wants to Pay

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Yves here. “Nobody wants to” should not be an acceptable answer. But advanced economy governments are cowed by big business, even incumbents of a industry in decline. This North Sea tale no doubt is like many other environmental fiascoes, save it’s…

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Links 5/23/2023

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Time is an object aeon (Anthony L) Students are increasingly refusing to go to school. It’s becoming a mental health crisis. USA Today #COVID-19 Looking Back on the Sadism of the Covid-19 Shaming Campaign Matt Taibbi and Matt Orfalea, The Racket…

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Links 5/20/2023

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Does Your Dog Truly Love You? Science Has the Answer Newsweek Cops: Woman Defecated On Church Altar Smoking Gun (resilc) Americans’ Views of Childhood Vaccines Remain Largely Positive Pew Research Center. This is not consistent with what IM Doc is being…

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CalPERS Chief Investment Officer Musicco and Son in NBA Playoffs Courtside Seats Next to Billionaire Warriors Owner and Kleiner Perking Partner Joe Lacob. What Gives?

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CalPERS’ sense of privilege knows no bounds. The latest example is its Deputy Executive Officer, Communications & Stakeholder Relations Brad Pacheco unsuccessfully trying to ‘splain the very bad optics of Chief Investment Officer Nicole Musicco and her son getting NBA courtside…

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