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> (I'm sure the old timers ...

Something along the lines of "we fought tooth and nail to save LA from development"?


Those are the few countries that France needs to worry about.

Doesn't matter whether Estonia, Honduras, Laos, and Luxembourg can track their carrier, or not.

EDIT: In confined waters (like the Mediterranean), many more countries could track the carrier if they cared to. Even back in the 1950's, the Soviets got quite adept at loading "fishing boats" with electronic equipment, then trailing behind US Navy carrier groups.


If you're referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_a_Velvet_Cloak - note that it was written a couple decades after the prior books of the series, for a different publisher, to a different length. Those would be yellow flags with almost any author.

Rome once ruled the greatest empire on earth. Vs. look at the last few centuries of Italian history. Regression to mediocrity seems an inescapable part of human endeavor.

tl;dr; -

> This initial robot is a low TRL prototype, made to demonstrate how a robot can harness wind power to move. The next step will be to increase the maneuverability, giving WANDER-bot the ability to change directions and tackle more challenging terrain.

The "robot" looks cool - but a real-life tumbleweed would be more capable, cheaper, and much more resilient.


It feels like this should have been obvious a century or few ago. Marsh gas and sewer gas have been things for millennia.

Mesopotamian Marshes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamian_Marshes :

> 4th millennium BCE

> Biome: flooded grasslands and savannas

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Modern agricultural irrigation is draining aquifers.

Aeroponics is a form of hydroponics that uses less water.

Aeroponics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroponics


How extensive were hydrological agricultural practices in the ancient Americas?

"Prehistoric Maize in Southeastern Virginia" (1965) https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.150.3698.881 ; in a marsh

"Archaeological evidence of intensive indigenous farming in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, USA" (2025) Science https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ads1643 ; LIDAR identified architectural ridges in forests which would have captured silt when flooded ... citations of: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=1678025822686787882...

"Satellite thermal data applied to landscape archaeology: Mounds in Michigan (1200–1600 CE)" (2026) PNAS https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2528379123

Modern day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45822936 :

- Instream River Training

- LNC Liquid Natural Clay (flood silt in bags)

- River engineering; which beavers used to handle


You don't get too far up the career ladder if you don't understand "Nobody ever got fired for buying X".

Sounds way too short and glib to establish any useful causality.

And once a belief that drinking red wine is good for you has been around for a while, that habit will correlate with many healthy behaviors.


The article fortunately links to something less ad-filled and editorialised: https://www.acc.org/About-ACC/Press-Releases/2026/03/18/20/2...

340,000 adults and 13 years doesn't sound "way too short and glib" to me?

But there is an important missing word: "grape".

Like, what if you only drink non-alcoholic grape juice? Which also has "polyphenols and antioxidants". And of course, such research has in fact been done, and says that yes, grape juice has an effect: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26633488/


Point on the issue with grape juice, or other sources of such nutrients.

"short and glib" was a description of the Nautilus article.

In the ACC article you linked - notice all the disclaimers in the 5th-to-last paragraph. Plus, if the "lifestyle factors" were self-reported - people who are more health-conscious often assess their own lifestyles by harsher metrics than less health-conscious people. The authors have very good reasons to recommend high-quality randomized trials.


Low-functioning politicians and bureaucrats keep their jobs by doing things that sound good.

Do they understand the futility? I suspect most do. But trying to be high-functioning, in a low-functioning system, is also a good way to lose your job.


I'd figure they need training data for their AI-detecting AI.

Or - I've heard anecdotes of audience disengagement, which the departed or cut-back users explain in terms of content quality falling off an AI-generated cliff. If that's a real trend, YouTube management might be feeling some existential dread.


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