đ Articles: Sunday 26.May.2024
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NYT: Trump Tells Libertarians to Nominate Him, and Mocks Them When They Boo
Early in his speech at the Libertarian Partyâs national convention on Saturday, Donald J. Trump told the partyâs delegates bluntly that they should nominate him as its candidate for president. He was vigorously booed.
When the jeers died down, Mr. Trump, visibly frustrated with the rowdy reception he had received ever since taking the stage, dug in and went a step further, seeming to insult the very group that had invited him.
âOnly do that if you want to win,â he said of nominating him. âIf you want to lose, donât do that. Keep getting your three percent every four years.â
The boos began anew, only louder.
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“He’s going to make himself sound Libertarian,” Ms. Welch said. “But he’s the ultimate authoritarian.”
NYT: Hillary Clinton Has Some Tough Words for Democrats, and for Women
Hillary Clinton criticized her fellow Democrats over what she described as a decades-in-the-making failure to protect abortion rights, saying in her first extended interview about the fall of Roe v. Wade that her party underestimated the growing strength of anti-abortion forces until many Democrats were improbably âtaken by surpriseâ by the landmark Dobbs decision in 2022.
In wide-ranging and unusually frank comments, Mrs. Clinton said Democrats had spent decades in a state of denial that a right enshrined in American life for generations could fall â that faith in the courts and legal precedent had made politicians, voters and officials unable to see clearly how the anti-abortion movement was chipping away at abortion rights, restricting access to the procedure and transforming the Supreme Court, until it was too late.
âWe didnât take it seriously, and we didnât understand the threat,â Mrs. Clinton said. âMost Democrats, most Americans, did not realize we are in an existential struggle for the future of this country.â
Well, yeah.
CleanTechnica: Publishing On Cement Decarbonization Brings Challenges, Corrections And More Approaches
We make about 4.1 billion tons of cement annually, which turns into perhaps 40 billion tons of concrete. The carbon dioxide is about one for one with cement, so that’s about 4.1 billion tons of carbon dioxide, or 8% to 10% of all carbon dioxide we emit annually in the world. It’s a big climate problem.
Sublime Systems’ solution â full article with all the nerdy details, some of which I got wrong, here â is electrochemistry, the same class of chemistry that is used in all of our batteries, to make aluminum and to make the chemical that bleaches paper, among a lot of other things. The basics of electrochemistry are that if you have a positively and negatively charged electrode in a medium and you adjust the pH balance, you can do stuff that sometimes seems like alchemy.
Guardian: Charles Leclerc wins Monaco F1 GP for Ferrari to delight of home crowd
This is Leclercâs sixth attempt to win the race and now that the 26âyearâold has done so he can consider his Monaco curse truly lifted, Âbecoming the first Monegasque to win here since the Formula One world championship began in 1950 by beating McLarenâs Oscar Piastri into second and his ÂFerrari teammate Carlos Sainz into third.
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Yet the race he won was a turgid affair to watch. Dictated by tyre management at a torturously slow pace and with passing impossible, the cars circled round in an endless procession, Âoffering neither interest nor any sense of jeopardy, nor indeed barely a sniff of actual racing.
With the top 10 finishing in exactly their grid order, there was nary even an attempt at an overtake among them â Monaco, the so-called jewel in the Formula One crown, proving once more as patently unfit for purpose in the modern era.
The Verge: Bambu P1P vs. Creality K1C: an âeasyâ 3D printer showdown
If you asked me to recommend an “easy” consumer 3D printer, I’d warn you first: despite countless innovations, you still can’t quite hit a button to reliably photocopy a 3D model. Buying a 3D printer is buying an entire hobby, one where â if you’re a lazy bum like me â many attempts will turn into worthless gobs of plastic.
But if you persisted, I’d tell you my one clear choice for lazy bums: the Bambu P1P.
What, a printer from the company that recalled its newest model and whose earlier ones once went rogue? Yep â because not only did Bambu handle those incidents with rapid apologies, investigations, transparency, and even refunds, the $599 Bambu P1P is also absolutely the easiest, most reliable 3D printer I’ve used.
Last Updated: 26.May.2024 23:52 EDT