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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

My question is: How did they come up with the idea?

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In the wake of the Christchurch mosque massacres, gun confiscation fizzles as Kiwis ignore new law.

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Composite metal foam—or CMF, for short—is a material made from hollow metallic spheres that are surrounded by a matrix that can be made from various types of metals, including titanium or even alloys. If you’ve ever had to clean up those tiny white balls of styrofoam after unboxing a gadget, then you already have a good understanding of what this material is. The researchers behind this study made their CMF exclusively from steel, to maximize its strength and stopping power.

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Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani—two brash New Yorkers as New York as New York can get—are planning to become residents of Florida.

The president and the former mayor both have homes in the Sunshine State and already spend much of the year down south.

Sources tell me the two are planning to give up their New York State residency because it is clear the state faces huge budget problems and will continue raising taxes, though New York is already the highest-taxed state in the nation.

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We have spoken on many occasions about the new wave of investments in automation could stimulate the economy after the next economic reset.

And we have also offered many sobering reminders that robots will likely displace 20% to 25% of current jobs (40 million jobs) by 2030. So, in our search for robots that will take jobs of the bottom 90% of Americans, this week, we have stumbled upon the world’s first raspberry-picking robot.

According to The Guardian, the new robot can pick upwards of 25,000 raspberries per day, outpacing human workers that pick around 15,000 in an eight-hour shift.

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In November 2016, Jonathan Aladin, a black student at Oberlin College, was caught shoplifting at Gibson’s Bakery near the campus of the elite private school, and two other black Oberlin students, Endia Lawrence and Cecelia Whettstone, were charged with attacking one of the bakery owners who tried to apprehend the thief.

People of Color behaving badly — what are the odds?

Activists with the #BlackLivesMatter movement at Oberlin accused the bakery owners of racism, and college officials promoted this false accusation. The three students pleaded guilty and, in November 2017, Gibson’s sued Oberlin, accusing the college of “libel, slander, interference with business relationships, interference with contracts, deceptive trade practices, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligent hiring, and trespass.”

One of the deleterious effects of the ‘black people are all victims’ narrative is that it encourages teenage  black thugs to steal from white people whenever they feel like it because, hey, they’re entitled to ‘reparations’.

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But you have to bear in mind that Trump has accomplished ABSOLUTELY NOTHING during his term in office.

Just remember that.

Absolutely nothing.

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just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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NuScale has brought on another legacy nuclear power firm to help it design and build its small modular nuclear reactor. Late last month, the Oregon-based company announced a memorandum of understanding with Sargent & Lundy to help it develop its reactor design and to provide additional architect engineer support. Sargent & Lundy will also become an investor in NuScale, majority owned by Fluor.

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Though the tire has conventional treads, the middle layer is made of composite rubber and resin-embedded fiberglass spokes. The spokes provide support for the treads and remove the need for air.

I have seen a number of proposals for this sort of technology — basically, the tire rim is supported by a series of springs — but this appears to be close to production. The key will be how well it deals with stress not orthogonal to the treat surface, e.g. in cornering or side-skids.

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The ‘migrant’ arguing with the federal officer in the picture looks African to me.

Say what you will about Trump, his methods work.

UPDATE: Border Patrol Reports A Surge Of Africans Trying To Illegally Cross The Border

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Progress.

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Of course, if major companies boycott Georgia over the ‘heartbeat’ law, there won’t be any warehouse jobs there for robots to take.

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I suppose it depends on what one thinks millennials are full of.

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Known as the delta-32 mutation after the allele it resides in, the mutation is quite famous, according to study author Rasmus Nielsen, an evolutionary biologist at UC Berkeley. One reason, he says, is the evidence its geographic distribution provides of historic diseases in Europe; another is the fact that it makes those who have it either completely or partially immune to infection with the HIV virus; and the last, of course, is the fact that it was the mutation He Jiankui chose to tweak in Nana and Lulu.

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

(My favorite artist is Rembrandt, but unfortunately it couldn’t cope. Ah, well.)

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

(There’s an app for that! Knots 3D)

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As Scott Adams never hesitates to point out, new technology nuclear power is about the only viable option for ‘clean’ energy.

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A professor at American University who has correctly predicted the last nine presidential elections says that Trump will win in 2020 unless Congressional Democrats “grow a spine.”

Well. There it is.

They’ve got plenty of spine. What they need is a brain.

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About. God. Damned Time.

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Digital voice assistants such as Siri and Alexa are tools of oppression used by the patriarchy to keep women down, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) along with the German government and the EQUALS Skills Coalition, according to the Wall Street Journal editorial board.

I guess you can blame all of those right-wing sexists who run Google and Apple. The swine.

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Good news! Think about it: Do we really want more of those guys?

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Could there possibly be a better name for a blues singer than Leon Redbone?

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Really, these ‘heartbeat’ abortion laws are turning into the garlic-and-holy-water tool against the Left. Pass a law, and proglodytes self-deport.

Now, if we could just find an equivalent for illegal Turd World immigrants….

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Quickly, before the mob of angry proglodytes comes to burn it down.

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I like it. Most states containing huge urban conurbations find that they are (a) hotbeds of political corruption, (b) sinkholes of welfare spending, and (c) storehouses of Democrat underclass voters that wag the dog of the rest of the state.

All of the states on the Left Coast and the Other Left Coast ought to be pushing similar initiatives.

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The blockbuster discovery last year of superconductivity in a material called twisted bilayer graphene caught theorists off guard. In all their published ruminations, none of them had even speculated about the phenomenon that showed up in Pablo Jarillo-Herrero’s lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: a sudden loss of electrical resistance when two sheets of graphene — honeycomb lattices of carbon atoms — were stacked and twisted at a relative angle of 1.1 degrees. But theorists are making up for that lapse now, publishing a steady stream of explanations for this “magic angle.”

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Heads are exploding all over.

Trump is probably the least racist president in my lifetime, despite proglodyte efforts to paint him as one.

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Leveraging artificial intelligence techniques, researchers have demonstrated that mutations in so-called ‘junk’ DNA can cause autism. The study, published May 27 in Nature Genetics, is the first to functionally link such mutations to the neurodevelopmental condition.

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A non-profit organization established to privately fund President Trump’s southern border wall has completed nearly a mile-long section on private land near El Paso, Texas.

We Build The Wall – a nonprofit founded by triple amputee veteran Brian Kolfage, boasts former White House Chief Strategist and former Breitbart executive Steve Bannon as its director, while former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is the effort’s general counsel.

According to Kolfage, the segment took just three days to complete.

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Appearing tentative, the world’s first raspberry-picking robot is harvesting a fruit. After assessing its age, the robot plucks the fruit with its “holding arm” and cautiously deposits it into a waiting basket. The entire process takes about one minute for a single berry. It has been joyfully nicknamed “Robocrop” by British journalists, an homage to Alex Murphy aka RoboCop.

Automation may eventually solve our immigration problem for us.

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Construction began over Memorial Day weekend on a privately-funded border wall between the U.S. and Mexico, the first project of its kind.

We Build The Wall, a viral online campaign calling on everyday Americans to fund a U.S.-Mexico wall, broke ground over the weekend, the organizers revealed on Monday. About a mile of 18-foot steel bollard wall was built along the southern border between El, Paso Texas and Sunland Park, New Mexico.

The wall is similar to the design used by U.S. Border Patrol, but the organizers claim their wall can be built faster and cheaper. The project was led by construction mogul Tommy Fisher, CEO of Fisher Industries.

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

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It seems like all parts of the once “too good to be true” Tesla narrative are – well, turning out to be too good to be true.

Anyone who buys or rides in a Tesla is a moron.

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Well. There it is.

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Yoga is not, apparently, a survival skill.  Good to know.

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Three weeks ago, a CNN executive suggested that talk of impending layoffs were nothing more than a “crazy rumor.” Last week, the network laid off nearly all of the Atlanta-based staff that cover health care, according to Fox News and confirmed by TVNewser – a media watchdog site founded by CNN’s Brian Stelter.

Help us, Obi-wan Kenobi. You are our only hope.

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Boiled in hydrogen peroxide and compressed, the wood can passively manage heat.

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I left my fart
In San Francisco….

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But you have to bear in mind that Trump has accomplished ABSOLUTELY NOTHING during his term in office.

Just remember that.

Absolutely nothing.

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The prophylactic effect of the ‘heartbeat’ abortion law seems to be very robust.

Apparently, nothing works better to keep proglodyte ‘celebrities’ out of your state.

Can’t wait until Texas gets one — perhaps it will keep the Californicators away.

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Using advanced technology at UChicago-affiliated Argonne National Laboratory, the team studied a class of materials in which they observed superconductivity at temperatures of about minus 23 degrees Celsius (minus 9 degrees Fahrenheit, 250 K)—a jump of about 50 degrees compared to the previous confirmed record.

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The Earth is unique in our solar system: It is the only terrestrial planet with a large amount of water and a relatively large moon, which stabilizes the Earth’s axis. Both were essential for Earth to develop life. Planetologists at the University of Münster (Germany) have now been able to show, for the first time, that water came to Earth with the formation of the Moon some 4.4 billion years ago. The Moon was formed when Earth was hit by a body about the size of Mars, also called Theia. Until now, scientists had assumed that Theia originated in the inner solar system near the Earth. However, researchers from Münster can now show that Theia comes from the outer solar system, and it delivered large quantities of water to Earth. The results are published in the current issue of Nature Astronomy.

And the odds of alien life just plummeted.

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Markets work.

Ace of Spades is pretty cynical.

I imagine that he’s been reassured by certain factions that he will get corporate support if he runs for president, and that he’ll get corporate gigs after he loses. So I don’t think he really cares about elective politics anymore anyway.

The Ruling Class protects its pawns. (To some extent, at least.)

Don’t think of it as selling out; think of it as buying in.

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They take out the THC so that it can’t be used to get high.

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Notice how AlGore is looking more and more like a Soviet apparatchik..

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While Washington pols and pundits angrily debate who counts as a spy, and whether any such exotic creatures have ever been employed by the FBI, new evidence is emerging that the FBI not only uses spies, but has done so extensively, including in the Trump-Russia investigation.

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Two studies published in Lancet Respiratory Medicine andLancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology show that for patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and colorectal cancer, one whole-body MRI (WB-MRI) scan can work just as well as multiple scans, offering a quicker, cheaper alternative, preferred by patients and involving less exposure to radiation.

The average cost of a WB-MRI scan for NSCLC patients was £317, half the £620 cost for multiple scans and the cost of a WB-MRI scan for colorectal patients was £216, compared with £285 for multiple scans.