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Written by whoosh on 2025-01-24 at 20:25

"Continued fealty to economies based on competition for manufactured scarcity, rather than cooperation around natural abundance, is now causing us to face the danger of producing real scarcity ... genuine scarcity, for which the market has no remedy."

-Robin Wall Kimmerer,

"The Serviceberry"

Scribner 2024

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Written by whoosh on 2025-01-24 at 15:57

"There's no way on Earth that anybody would want to bring a boat into the Bay of Biscay under these conditions" (forecast for three days from now; 8m waves pouring into the bay up onto the continental shelf)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEn8oqkUAa0

[#]VendeeGlobe

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Written by whoosh on 2025-01-15 at 20:33

RedFlag criteria stations

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Written by whoosh on 2025-01-15 at 20:29

Wind gusts >30; Temp >60; Rel. Humidity <20.

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Written by whoosh on 2025-01-12 at 16:31

"In the last decade a whole body of knowledge has emerged about the brain’s drainage system—glymphatics— and the accompanying key components of the system that efficiently rids us of unwanted molecular waste every day. The dramatic impact of non-REM sleep, particularly stage 3 slow-wave deep sleep, cannot be emphasized enough.

Ironically, Ambien, a commonly used drug to help people sleep, backfires and actually suppresses waste disposal."

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Written by whoosh on 2025-01-12 at 16:15

In 2012, Maiken Nedergaard and her colleagues at the University of Rochester discovered the brain glymphatic pathway, the brain’s plumbing system similar to lymphatics in the body (but without lymph nodes), which consists of a network of fluid-filled and water channels ...

alongside (para) blood vessels to drain chemical waste, and facilitate movement of cerebrospinal fluid.

https://erictopol.substack.com/p/our-sleep-brain-aging-and-waste-clearance

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Written by whoosh on 2025-01-08 at 18:53

I'll just rename the planets after my children.

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Written by whoosh on 2025-01-08 at 18:52

don't.feed.the.TRoll.

(seems the reminder is long overdue)

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Written by whoosh on 2025-01-03 at 18:17

Chicago keeps its New Year’s resolution: All city buildings now use 100% clean power

https://grist.org/cities/chicago-renewable-energy-black-diamond-solar/

[#]solar #renewable #energy

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Written by whoosh on 2024-12-27 at 21:03

@meltedcheese ... >The Edge: There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

The Edge ... is still Out there. Or maybe it's In. The association of motorcycles with LSD is no accident of publicity. They are both a means to an end, to the place of definitions.

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Written by whoosh on 2024-12-13 at 15:06

"Medicare Advantage" IS a scam; all of them/it.

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Written by whoosh on 2024-12-13 at 15:06

"AARP is basically an insurance marketing scheme masquerading as an advocacy group for the elderly.

For 27 years, #UnitedHealth has been the co-branded choice of #AARP."

Just in case you aren't informed of this, stay away from 'Medicare Advantage' scams.

https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2024-12-11-how-aarp-shills-for-unitedhealthcare/

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Written by whoosh on 2024-11-21 at 20:18

One more exciting drama to braid into the weave of the next several months ... #credible

"Cyber-Security Experts Warn Election Was Hacked"

https://www.planetcritical.com/p/cyber-security-experts-warn-election-hacked

calling for a recount in just a handful of precincts in the seven swing states,

based upon a highly anomalous percentage of bullet ballots

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Written by whoosh on 2024-11-20 at 13:42

Yoann Richomme (PAPREC ARKÉA) has broken the record for the longest distance sailed solo in 24 hours on a monohull with 551.84 nautical miles.

The previous record was set by Nicolas Lunven just a week ago (546.64 nautical miles).

[#]vendeeglobe #VG2024 #sailing

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Written by whoosh on 2024-11-19 at 01:55

[#]sailing with xkcd ...

https://xkcd.com/3013/

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Written by whoosh on 2024-10-03 at 11:59

Where Olive Trees Weep

I was introduced to this by a current Chris Hedges (podcast, youtube) interview. It merits more exposure ...

https://whereolivetreesweep.com

[#]Palestine #Palestinians

[#]BidenLegacy

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Written by whoosh on 2024-09-26 at 12:00

[#]Hurricane watchers with desktop monitors who might be interested in the fascinating visual representations of data being analyzed should find satisfaction for #Helene at

https://rammb-data.cira.colostate.edu/tc_realtime/storm.asp?storm_identifier=al092024

[#]wx

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