I hate Putin but he is not behind the riots in France. Believe it or not but retarded low IQ criminals from some of the most broken countries on Earth are perfectly capable of performing nihilistic senseless violence without directions from Putin. The tragedy is that European elites should have responded to the real civilisational threat of Russia by shoring up the home front. They should have aimed for perfect domestic tranquility so that if Russia attacked they would have strong unified nations ready to respond. But instead they imported waves of zero compatibility third world criminals and jihadis who now represent permanent insurgency threat.

I like the fact that Ukrainians are nationalists who fight for their country. I like the fact that Israelis are nationalists who fight for their country. In the West most people hate themselves, their countries, their cultures

‼️NEW: LFG ALBERTA! --- Alberta Premier Danielle Smith calls for Immigration reform in Canada! Encourages ALL Albertans to vote for it during a referendum in just 2 days time! On Oct 17th Albertans will get to decide whether they want: -More provincial control to lower immigration to sustainable levels, prioritize economic migrants, and give Albertans first priority for jobs. -Limit provincial health, education, and social services mainly to citizens, permanent residents, and Alberta-approved statuses. -Require non-permanent residents to live in Alberta 12 months before qualifying for social supports. -Charge a reasonable fee/premium to non-permanent residents for health care and education. -Require proof of citizenship (passport, birth certificate, etc.) to vote in provincial elections.⁠ LFG ALBERTA!!!!

You can hate Israel, or you can come and learn why it’s the only nation on earth that manages to be rich without effectively sterilising itself. This, not climate change or AI, is going to be the world’s main problem for the rest of this century. Israel alone has the answer.

> …get rid of all these re-sellers. We need hardware wallet re-sellers for privacy. Without them central entities learn the postal addresses of every hardware wallet user. Which has already lead to kidnappings and deaths. Tamper evident packaging is the only way.

NEW: The INSANE number of foreign workers in Canada: Liberal Gen X and Boomer politicians will tell you "We NEED temporary labour for economy!" Well thats funny because THEY never had to compete against low wage labour. They are pulling up the ladder behind themselves.

He’s right that it’s a stunt, but wrong about fill time. Tesla’s engineering VP says filling all 600 liters takes 6 to 7 hours today, from an external nitrogen supply. A compressor in the car would need about 90 kWh: about 18 hours at 5 kW, the power of a large portable dive-air compressor. Only a compressor of about 0.5 kW would take a week. The Thrust version’s 200-liter tank gives about 5 to 6 seconds of thrust. If you want the car to fly, my first fix as a chemist would be a denser propellant. The 1961 Bell Rocket Belt flew on 90% hydrogen peroxide, broken down on a catalyst into steam and oxygen at about 740 °C. We started Solugen making peroxide. At 90%, it’s a strong oxidizer that can set clothing and oil on fire on contact. You wouldn’t put that in a car. The best use case for compressed gas and a few seconds of thrust is braking. Tesla says the thrusters push 4 to 5 times harder than the tires grip. Fired forward, that would cut the Roadster’s stop from 60 mph from about 95 feet to under 20, in under half a second. Tesla says the tank holds up to 10,000 psi. Cars already carry gas that compressed for years: some airbags inflate from sealed bottles of argon and helium filled to as much as 10,000 psi, built to work for more than 10 years. For a brake used once a year, the 6-to-7-hour refill doesn’t matter.

University of Chicago Students to Protest at Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Demand End to Federal Ban on Onion Futures Student-led group For Our Futures will rally Monday morning to call for repeal of the 1958 Onion Futures Act On Monday, October 19, at 8:30 a.m., members of For Our Futures, a student-led organization from @UChicago, will gather outside the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (@CMEGroup) headquarters to demand the repeal of the Onion Futures Act of 1958, a nearly 70-year-old federal law prohibiting futures trading in onions. The Onion Futures Act, enacted following allegations of market manipulation in the 1950s, singled out onions for a prohibition on futures contracts that remains in effect today. For Our Futures is calling on Congress to repeal the ban and restore the ability of onion growers, buyers, and traders to participate in a regulated futures market. Onions remain the only commodity banned from futures trading in the United States. The protest will feature a giant inflatable onion costume, protest signs, and dozens of students, and will take place outside the headquarters of CME Group, one of the world's largest derivatives marketplaces and the historic center of American onion futures trading. DM for details cc: @pointsnfigures1 @CharlesFLehman @matt_levine @nbcchicago @ABC7Chicago @cbsnewschicago @WGNNews @fox32news @WBEZ @Suntimes @BlockClubCHI @chalkbeatCHI @SeanCasten @mansourtarek_

Interesting post from Gregory Maxwell on Hackernews. He claims that about a month ago he (with a friend) burned a lot of credits on Anthropic trying to solve the exact questions Anthropic announced today in their blog regarding ECDSA seeds.

Of course the flying Tesla Roadster is a gimmick but that sort of misses the point, the tech flex behind it isn't. Tesla's bulk business is about advanced technology from EV to self drive, but decided to create the most ridiculous manual drive supercar. Supercars are a gimmick,almost by definition, based on how wild can you make them. The gimmick that can make the car literally fly, briefly, can make it corner like no other supercar and accelerate, literally like a dragster on a test track. It's got nothing to do with flying continuously, but having a car that will outperform every Lambo, Ferrari or McLaren with technology that they cannot replicate because it requires experience from space launches and computation that they don't have now nor will in future. So Porsche, Bugatti, Aston Martin just became legacy prestige brands, like Rolex, Richard Mille or Patek Philippe. These cars celebrate the bygone age and the baroque, physical complexity of the internal combustion engine just as mechanical watches do for non digital, complex time-keeping mechanisms. But hey won't be faster anymore than a mechanical watch keeps better time than a Casio. They are now, de facto, mobile jewelry and no longer supercars with superlative performance. And this affects their ability to market the bulk business of mainstream European internal combustion engine cars. It's the end of an era of industrial era manufacturing.

The bad guy in the Disney Pocahontas movie (purple Gov. Ratcliffe) was...in reality...incredibly and almost comedically kind to the Native tribes! And they repaid that by brutally torturing him to death after capturing him in a ruse that was basically Virginia's October 7th!