Guajito

Chemist

[Jonh mamón @Jonh_mamon]

Ojalá inventen algo que dé más sombra que los toldos, o estructuras metálicas, que baje la temperatura de las calles entre 5 y 10 grados en verano, que ayude a hacer el aire más respirable y que cree un ambiente más agradable y colirido para nuestras ciudades.

[Thomas Fazi @battleforeurope]

Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write.

This is the article: https://t.co/YkZrpqBWBQ

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

> be microplastics researcher 2015
> develop better detection method
> can see particles 10x smaller than before
> run samples
> counts 100x higher than previous estimates
> publish
> conclusion: "more research needed"
> funding expires

> be different researcher 2020
> even better detection
> same samples
> counts higher still
> publish
> grant rejected: "not novel"

> be researcher 2024
> can now detect nanoplastics
> counts astronomical
> particles in brain tissue, testes, placentas
> concentrations increasing decade over decade
> publish
> industry response: "correlation not causation"
> plastic production: up 4%

every improvement in measurement finds worse news. thats not uncertainty. thats the answer

[Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareem_carr]

The single most revolutionary idea in my economic education came from reading Harvard Professor Michael Porter and realizing that pure free-market competition is for absolute chumps.

If you are a business, free market competition is your sworn enemy. It is your imperative to subvert it at every turn.

Unconstrained competition is a corrosive acid, that left unchecked, relentlessly erodes profit.

Therefore, the duty of any business is to do at least one of five things:

- Become the dominant seller to its buyers

- Become the dominant buyer from its sellers

- Create a product with few, if any, substitutes

- Construct, or have constructed for it, persistent barriers to new entrants

- Minimize competition through market structure or tacit coordination

The patent system, which we treat as entirely natural, is just the third point: a state-granted exclusion right that suppresses the possibility of substitutes.

If a business has none of these advantages, excess returns do not persist.

They are competed away until they converge to the absolute floor of sustained profitability, which is the risk-adjusted return on passive investment.

Capitalists often sell it as if the businessman, and chief among them, the billionaire is the natural ally of the consumer. They are not.

It is their job to evade constraint, and it is our job to constrain them.

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

It’s now 12 midnight, and no one is sleeping in the tents… because sleeping is simply impossible.
The bedding is completely soaked, and the rain is pouring heavily over worn-out tents that can no longer hold up.
People have fled into the streets, to hospitals, to the remains of bombed-out buildings… to any place they think might protect them from the flooding and cold.
Most spent the night standing, with no shelter or cover only water, cold, and fear.

You can hear the coughing of children from far away, their voices heartbreaking… I saw them with my own eyes shivering from the cold, their lips blue, their summer clothes drenched, with nothing to warm their small bodies, and no one has anything left to offer.

This rain didn’t bring mercy it came to complete the pain the war began, as if death, displacement, and suffering weren’t enough.

And in the end, the whole world watches in silence.
A silence that is terrifying, painful like what we’re going through means nothing.
As if our children fall outside the bounds of humanity.
This kind of neglect is a betrayal that can never be forgiven.

[Juan Harguin @HarguinJuan]

"Muere". De un disparo en el pecho. Es decir ha sido asesinado. Por Israel.
Como han asesinado a futbolistas, a baloncestistas, etc, pero Israel sigue participando en todas las competiciones deportivas mundiales (y europeas).
Una infamia.

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

Killed fetching water. Killed in tents. Killed sheltering in hospitals. Killed queuing for aid. Killed in their homes.

For Israel, the biggest crime Palestinians have committed is simply existing.

[Jesús de Manuel Jerez 🔻🇵🇸💜 @JdMJerez]

El milagro andaluz de Moreno Bonilla es que una universidad privada que fue definida unánimemente por los rectores como chiringuito hace sólo un año se lleve un grado en IA que se niega nada menos que a la UGR, referente nacional en la materia. Y así todo

[Elon @real_eloncx]

No habría ni espacio para poner una noticia así por cada palestino asesinado por Israel, sin vergüenzas.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

@SkyNews It wasn't "diverted". It was seized and the occupants kidnapped.

[Sahil @sahilypatel]

I think about this HN comment a lot.

[Rania @umyaznemo]

The history of Gaza.

[David, Historian Martial Artist🥊 @DavidLeftyMA]

Kurt Vonnegut said “We’ll go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself because it wasn't cost effective” and damn if that isn't exactly how this is all playing out

[Tomás @TomasUser]

Lo que todos (cuatro personas contabilizadas) estábais esperando:

BALANCE ANUAL DE CONSUMO DE KEBAB POR PARTE DE MI MUY ILUSTRE PERSONA EN EL AÑO DE NUESTRO SEÑOR DEL DOS MIL VEINTICUATRO

[EFE Noticias @EFEnoticias]

#ÚLTIMAHORA | Un total de 10.457 personas murieron en 2024 en su intento de llegar a las costas españolas, lo que supone una media de casi 30 al día y un incremento del 58 por ciento respecto al año anterior.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Yes: https://t.co/ePET836KQn

[lalaugh @ladymykure]

@Wait_Man La esposa al escuchar la respuesta:

[frank zeppo @NoahPasternak]

From "Schulz and Peanuts" by David Michaelis, for those wanting a source. And yes, "Esnupi" actually does almost-sort of-kind of play into the story