🇨🇳China Lands First Stage Rocket For First Time - Only the 2nd Country to Do So After the US
▪️China's state enterprise, China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT) has successfully launched and recovered the first stage of its Long March 10B carrier rocket;
▪️The first stage successfully helped launch a functional satellite payload into orbit before guiding itself to a recovery ship at sea where it landed under its own power;
▪️Note how nasty the BBC is - "state media says," as if it might not actually be true - despite literal video footage of it doing so;
▪️China has surpassed the US by virtually every conceivable metric with few exceptions including space launch capabilities, AI, and several others - however today's success poises China to inevitably surpass the US in this realm as well- with all other gaps closing also;
▪️Imagine if US leadership (corporations/policymakers/politicians) weren't so obsessed with power and profit and infected with a false sense of superiority - what the US and China could achieve together?
▪️Unfortunately - while the world should cheer on these successes as collective achievements for humanity - the US will only see this success as impetus for increased aggression, confrontation, propaganda, and chaos...
@BenFRubinstein Llamar socialismo a lugares donde el modo productivo consiste en la instrumentalización del estado en beneficio del capital. Toda la sociedad organizada entorno al capitalismo. Pero aquí siguen hablando del socialismo.
@Keltazur@RobNPupP@AnibalGarzon Vietnam no opina lo mismo que tu. Pero es más fácil justificar la mediocridad de un líder que reconocer que no se merecen ese puesto.
@MadelnMDE Me preocupa que seas capaz de reflexionar con más criterio sobre lo que realmente esto significa. La lucha por un estado con una sociedad más digna se gana, cuando el beneficio particular se subordina al interés social. Y si este hombre está contento es porque otros sufren.
@IracundoIsidoro Con lo del "instinto de supervivencia para evitar el tema" deja entrever que no hay demasiado compromiso en la crítica a lo evidente.
Sí así se mueven para informarme entonces igual tengo que buscar otro referente de información.
@CarlosFGalan@Bogota Debería darle vergüenza, una verdadera administración pública genera las condiciones necesarias para que la basura sea depositada en contenedores distribuidos por las calles sin obligar a la ciudadanía a tener un horario. Eso ya se hace desde hace muchos años. No sea descarado.
Entrevista con William Andrés Gallego Orozco, el mercenario colombiano 🇨🇴 caído prisionero hace poco y del cual ya he hablado. Luchaba en el bando ucraniano 🇺🇦 contra las fuerzas rusas 🇷🇺
Cuenta sobre su vida e infancia, como lo reclutaron, cómo llegó a la situación en la que está y cuál es la realidad del frente y las fuerzas ucranianas. Con subtítulos en inglés.
Hoy San Isidro es un día extraño para cumplir años siendo Isidoro.
Llevo ya 3 años dando guerra con Reflexiones Iracundas, resistiendo y ayudando a otros a resistir en medio de esta locura informativa.
Si queréis felicitarme de verdad, la mejor forma es felicitar el esfuerzo que hacemos y darnos las herramientas para seguir dedicándole más tiempo y subir la calidad.
Un café, un apoyo mensual o simplemente compartir el episodio de esta semana ya es una gran ayuda.
Gracias de corazón a los que ya estáis ahí sosteniendo esto.→ https://t.co/LXav4yBooR
Rusia en 1917 era un país rural de analfabetos explotados bajo un régimen semi feudal mientras la realeza vivía en el lujo y la opulencia. En 1959 ya estaban mandando gente al espacio.
For 38 years, the US paid farmers NOT to grow too much corn. In 1971, one guy killed that rule. Within 13 years your Coke had corn syrup instead of sugar, food was the cheapest it had ever been, and Americans were getting heavier every year.
Since the Great Depression, US farm policy ran on simple supply and demand. If everyone planted everything, prices would crash and farmers would go broke. So the government paid farmers to leave a chunk of their land empty, and held big stockpiles of grain like an emergency fund.
Then Nixon picked Earl Butz to run the Department of Agriculture. Butz was a farm-economy professor from Indiana who also sat on the boards of giant food companies. He told farmers to "get big or get out" and to plant every inch of land they owned. In 1972, when the Soviet Union had a bad harvest and came shopping, Butz quietly sold them 30 million tons of grain in one deal. The US emergency stockpile was gone overnight. By 1976 he had killed the entire 38-year-old system.
By the late 1970s, the country was drowning in corn, and Washington kept guaranteeing the prices anyway. Corn became the cheapest ingredient in the American grocery store. The government still hands corn farmers about 3.2 billion dollars a year, more than any other crop.
That cheap corn went two places. The first was your soda. Scientists had recently figured out how to turn corn starch into a syrup that tasted almost like sugar. With corn this cheap, that syrup (high-fructose corn syrup, or HFCS) was way cheaper than cane sugar. Coca-Cola started swapping it in by 1980. By 1984, Coke and Pepsi had ditched cane sugar entirely in the US. The average American went from eating zero corn syrup in 1970 to almost 38 pounds of it a year by 1999.
The second place was everything else. That same cheap corn fed the cows, pigs, and chickens packed into industrial farms. It also became the base ingredient or sweetener in most processed food on the shelf. Americans went from spending 17 percent of their take-home pay on food in 1960 to under 10 percent by 2000, one of the lowest rates in the world. Daily calories per person climbed from about 2,054 in 1970 to over 2,500 by 2010. The extra 500 came mostly from added fats, refined grains, and corn syrup. When Butz took office in 1971, about 15 percent of American adults were obese; today the CDC says it's 40.3 percent. Severely obese, defined as way past overweight, used to be under 1 percent. Now it's nearly 1 in 10.
Butz's policy did exactly what it promised. Productivity, exports, and grocery prices all moved the way he said they would, year after year for three decades. The right photo is just what happens to the average American body after fifty years of policy designed to make calories as cheap as possible.
Nunca existió mejor nombre para un país que llamarse Unión de Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas, sin etnicismos, ni nacionalismos. Fue la mayor proeza de la humanidad desde el Neolítico.
@Bernardo_Mado@1stAJ El estilo en realidad no representa el realismo, es más arte abstracto, domina a la perfección el color insinuándo la figura sin dar claridad en los detalles, aunque técnicamente si conserva proporción, su enfoque está en un dominio de todos los tonos luces y sombras del color.
Billionaires: Hey those foreigners are taking your jobs.
Also billionaires: I'm moving my factories overseas to give your jobs to foreigners because you won't let me pay you basically nothing.
Also billionaires: Hey help us train our Ai systems so we can replace you with robots as well.
Also billionaires: Another year of record profits. Even though we are cost of living crisis
Me firmé una hipoteca de 180.000€.
30 años.
Cuota: 680€ al mes.
Me senté esa noche a hacer los números reales.
680€ × 12 meses × 30 años.
Total pagado: 244.800€.
Vale. 64.000€ de intereses. Asumible.
El banco me lo había explicado así.
El banco me lo había vendido así.
Firmé sin hacer más preguntas.
Tres años después un amigo contable me pregunta:
— ¿Sabes cuánto capital has amortizado ya?
— Calculo que unos 7.000€ ¿no?
Se ríe.
Me enseña el cuadro de amortización que el banco nunca me puso delante. 👇