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  • Wording related to the release of all the hostages was added, hence why the US didn't veto:

    https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/03/1147931

    The UN Security Council on Monday passed a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire for the month of Ramadan, the immediate and unconditional release of hostages and "the urgent need to expand the flow" of aid into Gaza.

    Emphasis mine.

  • Looks like a "super automatic" espresso machine.

    It grinds the whole beans and typically they also have a doser (measures the weight or quantity of the ground up coffee beans), then it tamps the grounds, brews the coffee (which is some at a specific temperature and pressure), then ejects the used up coffee puck in a bin in the bottom of the machine.

    The mechanism for the automatic tamping, brewing (with pressure valve) and ejection is one very complicated piece as well as the controls for the motor that operates it. Then there's the temperature and pressure controls for both the brewing of the coffee and the milk frother the machine likely has.

    Edit: Video with partial teardown and which shows how the internals operate

    https://youtu.be/cknj9CKHJcY

  • Your quote above is the tl;dr of the article.

    Trump only offered 100m on the 450 million due on the NY fraud case, the court rejected the offer (yesterday Feb 28), ergo Trump is broke.

    Article Author

    No new information past that.

    It will be interesting to see what NY does next.

    March 25th is the next date of interest:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/28/nyregion/trump-bond-civil-fraud.html

    The attorney general, Letitia James, is expected to provide Mr. Trump a 30-day grace period, which will expire on March 25, at which point she could move swiftly to seize Mr. Trump’s bank accounts and perhaps take control of his New York properties.

  • Reminds me of the £350 million a week the UK was supposedly sending the EU in the Brexit campaign.

    The claim was inflated, but also they never intended to spend that on the NHS as was insinuated in the ad.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/vote-leave-brexit-lies-eu-pay-money-remain-poll-boris-johnson-a8603646.html

    The sustained belief also comes despite the government having shown no sign of spending the supposed £350m extra a week on the NHS, as the advertisements controversially suggested.

  • Get more pissed:

    About 1 in 5 unvaccinated people in the U.S. who get measles is hospitalized.

    Encephalitis. About 1 child out of every 1,000 who get measles will develop encephalitis (swelling of the brain) that can lead to convulsions and can leave the child deaf or with intellectual disability.

    Death. Nearly 1 to 3 of every 1,000 children who become infected with measles will die from respiratory and neurologic complications.

    And there's more!

    https://www.cdc.gov/measles/symptoms/complications.html

  • This is also meant to compete with LTO tapes. To my knowledge, the current best is LTO9 with a max uncompressed storage of 18TB per tape.

    100-200 TB on a disc would be huge as they could replace 5-11 tapes with one disc and have better random seek times.

    Hopefully this does not end up like HVD which was promising but ended up dying due to the initial cost:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc

  • To supplement your point:

    https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-property/

    Russian elite invested nearly $100 million in Trump buildings

    ...

    The tally of investors from Russia may be conservative. The analysis found that at least 703 – or about one-third – of the owners of the 2044 units in the seven Trump buildings are limited liability companies, or LLCs, which have the ability to hide the identity of a property’s true owner. And the nationality of many buyers could not be determined. Russian-Americans who did not use a Russian address or passport in their purchases were not included in the tally.

    And

    https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/05/eric-trump-russia-investment-golf-course

    “So when I got in the cart with Eric,” Dodson says, “as we were setting off, I said, ‘Eric, who’s funding? I know no banks—because of the recession, the Great Recession—have touched a golf course. You know, no one’s funding any kind of golf construction. It’s dead in the water the last four or five years.’ And this is what he said. He said, ‘Well, we don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.

    AND

    https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a43329318/russian-investment-trump-media/

    Towards the end of last year, federal prosecutors started examining two loans totaling $8m wired to Trump Media, through the Caribbean, from two obscure entities that both appear to be controlled in part by the relation of an ally of Russian president Vladimir Putin, the sources said.

    AND

    https://www.axios.com/2023/02/18/gop-operative-sentenced-scheme-russian-money-trump-campaign

    A Republican strategist was sentenced Friday to 18 months in prison for his role in helping funnel illegal foreign campaign contributions from a Russian national into former President Trump's 2016 campaign, per the Department of Justice.

    AND

    https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/trumpinc/episodes/trump-inc-trump-deutsche-bank-its-complicated

    The New York Times reported that anti-money-laundering specialists at Deutsche Bank internally flagged multiple transactions by Trump companies as suspicious. (A spokesperson for the Trump Organization called the article “absolute nonsense.”)

    The remarkably troubled recent history of Deutsche Bank, its past money-laundering woes — and the bank’s striking relationship with Trump — are the subjects of this week’s episode. The German bank loaned a cumulative total of around $2.5 billion to Trump projects over the past two decades, and the bank continued writing him nine-figure checks even after he defaulted on a $640 million obligation and sued the bank, blaming it for his failure to pay back the debt.

    All from just 5 minutes on Google!

    Also this:

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2022/07/29/donald-trumps-great-escape-how-the-former-president-solved-his-debt-crisis/

  • Johnson! Why the hell is your report the most unintelligible thing I've read since nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hеll in a cell, and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcer's table.

  • If they complain about food prices, just show them what happened to wheat prices right after the Feb 2022 invasion:

    https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/wheat

    Switch the chart to 5 year chart for a full picture.

    The price has somewhat stabilized only through the sacrifice of Ukrainians who are still doing everything possible to get their crops out to the world despite Russia's best attempts.