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Panic in global metals markets as China rare earth export bans close brokerage hubs (Disclaimer: I'm unfamiliar with this author, I just came across their video version of this article through the youtube algo)

The Chinese bans are pushing metals prices violently higher, and causing panic across defense sectors where these materials are vital for aerospace, ballistics, and munitions.

US miners are reluctant to invest in new production, arguing that China could simply relax restrictions in the future and prices would fall below their cost of production. But industry insiders admit that any production in North America and Europe would fall far short of demand, and would take years to come online.

Gotta love when one hand of capital can't cooperate with the other hand because it might negatively impact their profit margins in the short-term. Nevermind that the military arsenal the west uses to maintain the current world order - bullying other nations into selling us their resources and labor for violently-low prices - is itself still heavily reliant on those nations exporting materials to us. I'm sure that contradiction won't blow up in 's face at all.

Meanwhile China stays winning

It's actually a fantastic system if you want to build a social media site where you can serially abuse women and then completely erase them from the timelines of anyone who follows your banlists whenever they speak up about the abuse. Which, given the usual crowd that builds these platforms, that was almost certainly the intent from the beginning. Hell, that's literally what zuck originally made Facebook for

Yeah, Bluesky blocklists are ripe for abuse. Anyone can make them and promote them for whatever reason, and hundreds/thousands of users blindly subscribe to several when they first sign up.

Consider this a PSA for anyone using Bluesky: avoid using blocklists unless you know and trust whoever is running the list. I know at least one of the big "anti-right winger" blocklists floating around is run by a real piece of shit named brainnotonyet.bsky.social who uses his list specifically to abuse women on the platform - him and his friends stalk and harass leftist women on the platform (while feigning being leftists/radlibs themselves), and then when any of the women speak up, they get added to a blocklist alongside a bunch of 4chan nazis, and then everyone subscribed to the list just stop seeing the victim's posts, even if they follow them.

It's extremely unlikely they'd find usable fingerprints that are also certain/likely to belong to the suspect from such heavily-trafficked areas. Anyways, most forensic "science" is pseudoscience and copganda, so I don't expect much to come from this.

If they find him, it will be because he fucked up and left some digital trace somewhere. Let's hope he didn't have a cellphone on him.

JIRA is fine as a organizational tool, the problem how it's applied and abused by management. The second you get some project manager sharing their screen with the entire dev team to go over "burndown" and talk about "velocity" you can safely zone out, unless there is a serious effort by management to couple metrics like "JIRA ticket points completed" to individual (or even team) performance.

Especially if that last point becomes true, consider this a good opportunity to apply this handy guide. Bouncing back requests with "please create a ticket" or "please make sure this ticket is assigned to the right epic" or whatever hairs you can split is a great way to get nothing done while also giving the appearance that you're somehow actually doing work. Most managers are already just pushing virtual papers around, so they are often completely blind to devs doing the same with systems like JIRA.

Nah, you can dunk on him as much as you'd like

Rathbone recently went on InfoWars and then him and his partner started a gross mud-slinging campaign against a few other content creators that rightfully called him out for it. Him, his partner (comradebaddie), and any creator friends still in his circle (buddyhead) are not comrades and we should not be making space for them.

Also, the fact that this went down so suddenly (although I didn't follow him much, so I idk if there were more signs) is a good lesson in why we should be much more critical of content creators, especially when they are not explicitly and demonstrably principled Marxist/dialectical materialists and are growing to a size where they are strongly financially incentivized to pivot to reactionary politics.

Things in the southeast are very bleak

CW: Death, Trauma

One of GamsSpot's editors is coincidentally named Max Blumenthal. Let's just say I was very confused when the Echoes of Wisdom review credits listed him as the editor/gameplay for the video.

If the kitchen has a gas stove then you should install a ventilation hood that vents to the outside, that's probably the biggest air quality win you could make. (Edit: Well, aside from switching to induction, if that's in your budget)

I dunno about filters that can fit in wall cavities, but for general filtration: "The Best Air Purifier Is A $150 DIY Option". I suppose you can DIY something that saves some space by tucking into a wall cavity, but I don't know if it's worth sacrificing the insulation, unless you're also building ventilation to the outside using the same wall. I would poke around DIY/workshop youtube channels, a quick searched turned up this build that utilizes ceiling space. (At least with the walls down, you can more easily install ceiling outlets.

I use an older AirGradient to track particulates and CO2, it's been great for knowing when the room I'm sitting in is spiking in CO2, so I can crack a window or something.

Beware if you have any pets, especially cats, minoxidil is extremely toxic to them

The youtube algo blessed me with a 3-hour video on the relationship between astronomy and settler colonialism and I have never clicked on a new channel suggestion so fast before. Starting it now, but I might make separate post for it once I finish it