Juan Manuel Jácome

Siempre explorando la interacción entre los sentidos y la realidad.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Bill Maher’s audience audibly gasps when he reads what the Democratic Socialists of America are actually saying out loud:

MAHER: “Trump has told 1 trillion lies, but when he says the DSA are actually COMMUNISTS, that’s not one of them.”

“And it’s not hard to prove it just by quoting the DSA and their candidates.”

“J.D. Vance was on the show, and I told him that if the Democratic Party keeps going in the direction of the DSA, my vote was in play. And all I heard all vacation was, ‘Oh, my God, you’re a Republican now.’ No, that's not what I said. I said in play, and here’s why.”

“Because not a week goes by where I don’t read about some newly chosen, exciting new face in the Democratic Party. And then when that face opens its mouth, the Communist Manifesto or some other crazy shit comes out! Again.”

“Let’s just read the quotes. The DSA platform says: ‘You work as much as you are able and no more than needed.’ If that was any closer to Karl Marx’s dictum, from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs, they’d be sued for plagiarism.”

“New York Mayor Mamdani once tweeted, Karl Marx’s words exactly. They’re not trying to hide it. Their most popular influencer, Hasan Piker, thinks communism is so groovy, he laments the fall of two of the most murderous regimes in history, the Soviet Union and Chairman Mao's China.”

“Mamdani's aide, his top aide, Cea Weaver, said, ‘If you don't believe in the government's sacred right to seize property, it's over.’ And ‘impoverish the white middle class.’ What? That's a goal? You know you're supposed to scare people into voting for you, right?”

“One of the new, soon-to-be Democratic congresspeople, Darlesia Chavalier, supports seizing all properties from landlords and said, ‘Seize the means of production.’ Mamdani has said ‘The end goal is seizing the means of production.’ I think they want to seize the means of production.”

“Now, maybe you missed that in school or missed school altogether, but THAT'S COMMUNISM.”

“Now the coalition within the DSA called the Marxist Unity Group is in ascendance. And I must take them at their word. When their words include, ‘Our commitment is to the long-term struggle for a fully liberated classless society. In a word, communism.’”

“What do they have to do, tweet out ‘Elect more communists’? Oh, yeah, Cea Weaver did that.”

[Shows tweet, audience audibly gasps]

“Yes, [she really did that]! ... People gotta realize this is going on.”

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Eat a mouthful of grass and you get nothing. It goes in green and comes out green.

Eat straw and you get nothing. Your gut cannot touch cellulose.

Eat acorns and you get tannins, and a very bad afternoon.

Eat bracken and you get a carcinogen.

Eat nettles, thistles, brambles, rushes and moorland heather and you get a mouth full of blood and no calories.

Eat the beet pulp, the oat husks and the spent brewer's grain and you get the waste the factory couldn't sell.

Now feed the lot of it to a cow.

She turns every one of them into steak, butter, cream, milk and a hide, on land that will never grow a vegetable, using four stomachs and a fermentation vat you do not have.

The grass she eats grew on rain and sunlight, for free, on a hillside nobody can plough.

She is the only creature on earth that can take a field of inedible fibre and hand you back the most nutrient-dense food there is.

The cow is not competing with you for food. She eats the ninety percent you cannot.

Best plant-based diet ever invented. It just has a cow in the middle doing the hard part.

[Colibrí Morales @Quitenamona]

💙💚 UN DÓLAR PUEDE SALVAR UNA VIDA 💚💙
Hoy somos miles de personas que conocemos la historia de David, el hombre que pasó más de 10 años ayudando a niños enfermos a recibir tratamientos médicos. Pero hoy, necesitamos ser muchos más.

[Juan Manuel Jácome @bolochoTM]

Go Money!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Karl’s Dad was cool

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

Richard Dawkins has long said that teaching kids they’ll burn in hell is a form of psychological child abuse, that the mental terror can do more lasting damage than some physical abuse.
He calls it indoctrination.

Yet a lot of the same people who nod along to that have zero problem scaring children with a secular version of the exact same thing, climate apocalypse.

We grew up being told the ozone hole, acid rain, and greenhouse effect were going to end life on Earth. Now it’s climate change.
Plants, animals, us, all doomed unless we changed our ways.

It was environmental sin and environmental hell, complete with literal burning. Kids were handed the burden of saving the planet. But what child is equipped to carry that?

The arguments against religious indoctrination didn’t disappear. They just got swapped for a new set of sacred fears. Attack one form of doomsday teaching and another rushes in to fill the vacuum. Same dread, same guilt, same demand for obedience, just with different priests.

[Dr Manhattva @Manhattva]

Do yourself a favor and watch this video in its entirety.

It’s a White Pill.

[Juan Manuel Jácome @bolochoTM]

Así tal cual

[TercerMundo @lostercermundo]

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[Juan Manuel Jácome @bolochoTM]

Todas.

[Juan Manuel Jácome @bolochoTM]

Qué tal muerto de hambre éste!

[Math Files @Math_files]

In 1949, the mathematician D. R. Kaprekar from Devlali, India, devised a process now known as Kaprekar's operation.

First, choose a four-digit number in which not all digits are the same (that is, not 1111, 2222, etc.).

Then rearrange the digits to form the largest and smallest numbers possible.

Finally, subtract the smallest number from the largest to obtain a new number, and repeat the operation with this result.

It is a simple procedure, but Kaprekar discovered that it leads to a surprising result.

Let’s try it, starting with the number 2005. The largest number that can be formed is 5200, and the smallest is 0025 (or simply 25). If one or more digits are zero, they must be placed on the left-hand side of the smallest number.

The steps are as follows:
5200 − 0025 = 5175
7551 − 1557 = 5994
9954 − 4599 = 5355
5553 − 3555 = 1998
9981 − 1899 = 8082
8820 − 0288 = 8532
8532 − 2358 = 6174
7641 − 1467 = 6174

Once we reach 6174, the process repeats itself, always returning 6174. This number is called a kernel of the operation. Not only is 6174 a kernel for Kaprekar’s operation, but it is also the only one—and it has another remarkable property.

Let’s try a different starting number, say 1789:
9871 − 1789 = 8082
8820 − 0288 = 8532
8532 − 2358 = 6174
Once again, we arrive at 6174.

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

Few of the hundreds of thousands of wind turbines already built will make it past 17 years in full working order.

The several billions of solar panels might make it to 20 years before they too also succumb to the laws of physics, nature and unavoidable decay. This is only a hint of the staggering mountains of recyclable waste lying ahead as exploding production just carries on regardless of the ultimate landfill pileup quagmire.

Colossal artificial forests of legacy turbines and solar panels will ultimately stop working and need costly replacements. Rusting and decaying offshore turbines in harsh marine environments are a perfect example of this cycle of decay.

What will the world do with the 7-8 billion solar panels already in environmental decay? What about the 1.3 million strong global turbine gridlock—so far? The world already faces an estimate of 43 million tons of decommissioned wind turbine blades alone—by the headlong rush of Net Zero in 2050. This small portion of the emerging e-waste catastrophe is the equivalent in weight to 215,000 locomotives.

Super-strength turbine blades the size of 747 airliners are made from almost indestructible high-strength composites designed to survive decades of brutal weather and notoriously difficult to recycle. They were built to last, but not to disappear.

They were meant to last 20 to 24 years before wearing out. But the 150,000 to 200,000 turbines built between 1990 and 2010 are already at the end of their working lives. Each lofty structure weighs 200 to 400 metric tonnes on average, of steel, concrete and composite plastics, metals and rare earths. Who will foot the bill to put these carcasses to rest forever in scattered graveyards?

Burying dead blades is the only solution, even in regions with abundant space like the US. Several European nations, such as Germany and the Netherlands, have actively banned this practice.

Renewables or bust? Ironic, isn't it.

[Juan Manuel Jácome @bolochoTM]

Whoa!

[Midjourney @midjourney]

Announcing a new division of Midjourney called "Midjourney Medical"

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

Any return to ice age conditions could trigger a crisis unmatched in all human history.

Earth is still technically in an ice age and average global temperatures of around 15°C degrees are still much lower than the long-term global average of 16°C to 18°C A global warming scare has been running for 40 years, yet 10% of the world's total land area is still covered by glacial ice.

From a human perspective, the combined land area of every town and city on earth is still only 3% of the total.

Ice covers an area of 15 million square kilometers (5.8 million square miles), roughly a third of its full extent during the peak of the Last Glacial Maximum (26,000 to 19,000 years ago). This was the most recent time in Earth's history when global ice sheets were at their greatest extent.

The Antarctic ice sheet is still the largest and thickest ice formation on Earth by far, reaching up to 4.8 kilometres (about 3 miles) in depth. It holds 90% of the world's ice by volume & accounts for around 85% of total global glacial ice cover. Antarctica spans roughly 14 million square kilometers (5.4 million square miles) and covers about 8.3% of the total land surface.

Land area is only 28% of earth's surface. The oceans cover 72% to an average depth of 2.3 miles, forests cover 31% and deserts 33%. The oceans contain 86% of the global carbon reservoir and 91% of all retained heat energy; by contrast, the atmosphere holds a mere 1 to 2% of each.

The past 40 years has featured a global warming campaign raising fears of an impending climate crisis, chiefly based on forecasts of soaring temperatures and a global climate crisis. However, the fact remains that the Earth is still technically in an ice age, with ice cover at both poles all year round. We still live in the Quaternary Glaciation, which has lasted 2.58 million years.

The Quaternary Glaciation is a more severely cold extension of the Late Cenozoic Ice Age, which has lasted for 34 million years, since the time of the original glaciation of Antarctica. The chief causes were due to orbital anomalies (the Milankovitch cycles), the isolation of the Antarctic continent when Australia and South America shifted northward, as part of global tectonic changes.

The last great ice age that was similar to today was the Karoo Ice Age (also known as the Late Paleozoic Icehouse), spanning approximately 360 to 260 million years. This is one of the five major ice ages in Earth's history.

All modern human societies and every meaningful invention has occurred during the current Holocene warm interglacial period, beginning 11,700 years ago. The previous warm interglacial was the Eemian (130,000 to 115,000 years ago). Temperatures in the Eemian were also 2°C warmer than today and African megafauna and crocodiles lived in the Thames valley.

The generally accepted average extent of ice age interglacials is around 15,000 years.

So perhaps we should be considering our next move if the next glaciation comes early.

[Juan Manuel Jácome @bolochoTM]

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[Juan Manuel Jácome @bolochoTM]

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[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

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[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

These come from court transcripts

[Owen Lewis @is_OwenLewis]

Okay folks, this qualifies as BREAKING NEWS!

Harold “Sonny” White, the warp drive pioneer behind NASA’s EagleWorks Lab, just stepped out of stealth with Casimir Inc. to unveil MicroSPARC: the first battery free chip to harvest continuous electrical power straight from the quantum vacuum via the Casimir force.

The 5 mm × 5 mm device uses millions of custom microscale Casimir cavities fabricated on a substrate. Inside each cavity, two fixed conductive walls create a region of negative vacuum pressure (the well known Casimir effect). Stationary micropillars anchored in the middle act as antennas. Electrons from the cavity walls then quantum tunnel to the pillars because the interior is a lower energy “quieter” zone — and the probability of tunneling back is orders of magnitude lower. This one way “quantum ratchet” flow generates a measurable DC current with no external power source or moving parts.

Prototypes already fabricated at university nanofab facilities (Texas A&M AggieFab, MIT.nano) have been tested in RF-shielded, low noise chambers for weeks. The team reports outputs ranging from millivolts to volts at picoamp to microamp levels using precision electrometers and Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy. Target performance for the first commercial chip: ~1.5 V at 25 µA (≈40 µW continuous). Stacking and scaling could reach milliwatts or even watts per device.

Initial applications are ultra low power: always on IoT sensors, wearables, and medical implants. Longer term roadmap includes trickle charging phones, powering small electronics, and eventually grid independent homes or EVs. Commercialization is targeted for 2028, starting at ~$100/W before dropping toward $10/W.

White ties the work directly to his earlier theoretical paper on emergent quantization from a dynamic vacuum and sees it as a practical power source for the deep-space missions he’s long championed.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and independent scientists have so far declined public comment. But if the engineering scales as hoped, MicroSPARC would represent a genuine paradigm shift: continuous, maintenance free power drawn from the fabric of spacetime itself.

A bold leap from warp-drive theory into real hardware. Progress (and vacuum-powered chips) marches on.

Photo: MicroSPARC | Casimir Inc.

Source: https://t.co/11tlwNSf71

[Juan Manuel Jácome @bolochoTM]

I remember a few

[SophieZX @Z_XSophie]

Remember how they lost their shit when Elon did this?
Now it’s suddenly “my heart goes out to you” and everyone’s totally fine 😂
The rules change depending on who’s waving.
Classic selective outrage.