And of the three generals, one (Maj. Gen. William Green Jr.) was Chief of Chaplains so not related to decisions to putting boots on the ground. Not sure about the other two.
The chaplain changes were announced a week ago: pic.twitter.com/nlv9KLAVpo
These satellite images show ship-to-ship (STS) transfers of Iranian oil in Malaysian EEZ waters, and they have been going on for years now. These waters are situated halfway between Iran and China and they help cut down the delivery time of the oil, but also allows further obfuscation because the oil can enter China as “Malaysian” instead of Iranian, at least on paper.
https://xcancel.com/TankerTrackers/status/2039478355964080514#m
+1 for GrapheneOS. Every time it comes up here people suggest buying a Chinese phone or running a Linux phone OS but never say what’s actually more secure about those options. A Chinese phone just swaps Google’s data collection for the manufacturer’s own closed source stack. PostmarketOS can’t make phone calls on most of its supported devices. The “firmware tracking” concern about Pixels applies to every phone with a cellular modem, and GrapheneOS does more to isolate that closed firmware than stock Android or any other ROM does. And it’s a real daily driver now, sandboxed Google Play gets you RCS (group chats), most banking apps, even Android Auto.
I do wonder how long Google will keep making it easy to run alternative OSes on Pixels, but the Motorola partnership is a good sign there.
We’re able to quickly and safely ship the latest Linux kernel LTS point releases on devices with GKI (Generic Kernel Image) support including the 6th and 7th generation Pixel phones. At the time of writing on 2023-11-06, GrapheneOS is using the latest Linux 5.10 GKI LTS release (5.10.199) for 6th and 7th generation Pixel phones. The stock Pixel OS is on Linux 5.10.157 from 2022-12-02 with a small number of additional patches backported. This means GrapheneOS provides hundreds of relevant kernel patches including many security patches not yet included in the stock OS. It’s possible for us to stay several months ahead due to their approach of moving to new LTS releases only in quarterly releases after a long freeze and testing process.
From: https://grapheneos.org/features#more-complete-patching
Edit: GrapheneOS ships kernel 6.12.73 (two minor versions behind but it’s an LTS branch that gets constant backported security fixes) as of this month and gets LTS point releases out faster than stock Pixel OS. They’re also the only Android OS shipping full security preview patches, months before public disclosure. “Not the latest mainline kernel” and “less secure” are different things.
China has more solar capacity than the rest of the world combined. Someone posted a photo essay of it a few days ago: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/china-renewable-photo-essay
I’ve watched lithium battery prices drop 90% in a decade. That’s Chinese manufacturing.
The US just bombed Caracas and kidnapped Maduro. Trump said the US will “run” Venezuela and maintain “a presence in Venezuela as it pertains to oil”. One country builds solar panels. The other invades countries for oil.
China is showing what it looks like to build your way out of the climate crisis. I respect that. The US is showing what it looks like to keep killing for the old economy.
Might want to look up “leverage decay” before holding SPXL long-term. Since it rebalances daily, after a drop your gains compound on a smaller base, so a 30% loss followed by a 30% gain doesn’t get you back to even, it leaves you down 9%. That effect gets amplified in choppy markets.
Banks get overnight Fed liquidity at 3.75% using their assets as collateral. Regular people facing cash crunches get payday lenders at 400% APR or have to sell their stuff at a loss. That’s an unfair deal, and banks are smart to take advantage of it. But it’s not really a good indicator of collapse. The 2019 repo spike looked scary at the time, rates shot up, the Fed stepped in, and nothing collapsed. This could be something similar. Could be wrong though.
Can you help me understand this more? I’d mainly heard of the veil of ignorance stuff and thought it was mainly about designing institutions to benefit the worst-off person, which seems reasonable to me.
https://www.medical-and-lab-supplies.com/
They sell name brand BD needles and might be another option.
https://xcancel.com/ripplebrain/status/2040175856753000813#m https://xcancel.com/ripplebrain/status/2040177371920150725#m
He makes a compelling case for that A10 being a MQ-9 reaper or Hermes drone.