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I've heard Jordan Peterson...kinda like him. I wish he could be a little bit lighter at times. Kinda too serious.

PUNTA DEL ESTE, URUGUAY

Steps toward a deal on global plastic pollution

More than 2,000 experts wrapped up a week of negotiations on plastic pollution Friday, at one of the largest global gatherings ever to address what even industry leaders in plastics say is a crisis.

It was the first meeting of a United Nations committee set up to draft what is intended to be a landmark treaty to bring an end to plastic pollution globally.

It is the first meeting of five planned over the next two years. Some countries pressed for top-down global mandates, some for national solutions and others for both. If an agreement is eventually adopted, it would be the first legally-binding global treaty to combat plastic pollution.

Carnegie and the Chautauqua history is interesting. successor to the Lyceum movement

Jordan Peterson - Wikipedia >>>>>media personality, clinical psychologist, author
Reinhold Niebuhr - Wikipedia >>>>>'reformed theologian, ethicist>>> professor at Union Theological Seminary
Dale Carnegie - Wikipedia >>>>>>>writer and lecturer>>>self 'improvement'>>>>LOT OF; 'good' HE DID!! Fine mess you've gotten us into this time Ollie!>>> lifelong dream of becoming a Chautauqua lecturer

author of How to Win Friends and Influence People >>>>James 4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

This excerpt from wiki concerning the US President JFK is interesting regarding 'theologians' views.

Peale led a group opposing the election of John F. Kennedy for president, saying, "Faced with the election of a Catholic, our culture is at stake."[2] Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr responded that Peale was motivated by "blind prejudice,"[2] and facing intense public criticism, Peale retracted his statement.[citation needed] He also opposed Adlai Stevenson's candidacy for president because he was divorced, which led Stevenson to famously quip "I find Saint Paul appealing and Saint Peale appalling."[3]

Norman Vincent Peale - Wikipedia

Reinhold Niebuhr - Wikipedia

And someone I heard of at AA>>>.Og Mandino - Wikipedia

Would you rather use a bidet or toilet paper?

gluten free play dough....it exists!

A quasiperiodic crystal, or, in short, quasicrystal, is a structure that is ordered but not periodic. A quasicrystalline pattern can continuously fill all available space, but it lacks translational symmetry.[25] "Aperiodic mosaics, such as those found in the medieval Islamic mosaics of the Alhambra palace in Spain and the Darb-i Imam shrine in Iran, have helped scientists understand what quasicrystals look like at the atomic level. In those mosaics, as in quasicrystals, the patterns are regular – they follow mathematical rules – but they never repeat themselves."[15]"An intriguing feature of such patterns, [which are] also found in Arab mosaics, is that the mathematical constant known as the Greek letter tau [sic], or the "golden ratio", occurs over and over again. Underlying it is a sequence worked out by Fibonacci in the 13th century, where each number is the sum of the preceding two."[15]

Quasicrystalline materials could be[needs update] used in a large number of applications, including the formation of durable steel used for fine instrumentation, and non-stick insulation for electrical wires and cooking equipment.,[26][27] but presently have no technological applications.

Are we eating it now?

What are they doing with them?

If it's a young woman or child could be human trafficking.

Never mention 'exporting', but may also happen. 1.4 billion people probably lack resources to track all. For 1.4 billion to be like US, should economy be 4 times US economy? 120 trillion? US we also have many 'missing'. China 'missing' as percentage is less than 0.1%?
News from years ago showed places in US and island 'nations' of South Pacific labor camps.

Economies by country post #1952 for worldometer

It's 1% of the population of China...each year. That means food, clothing shelter or you will have a lot of dead people.

You can't just take 1 million people a year and not have it show up somewhere with mass Graves or concentration camps or something. Then there's the food and water and clothing....truckloads or train loads every day of rice and beans. Water needs processing as well as latrines or else again you will have sick people and mass Graves. Then, since we are talking prisoners....guards with guns, fences and etc.

Just saying...something isn't exactly right.

I am no mathematician but 0.1% is more likely correct and is 1.4 million so even a bit less than 0.1% but who's counting. As to all necessities as you state, seems the video claims some 40% are destined for rural 'brides'. Old west USA did that too. Necessities would be 'grooms' responsibility.

Organ harvesting was 'documented' years ago with prison inmates as 'donors', so now they snatch 'donors'. Forced labor is likely big business and possibly entire communities set up for this, like USA days of slavery. Uyghurs and that region may play big role. Uyghurs - Wikipedia Amongst 1.4 billion population, 1 million easily go missing?

Have any interest in chemistry not related to baking see this link. I saw some mention of energy released by reactions comparable to fission and possibly fusion 'reactions'. Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride | Science | AAAS

If you linked on science, you may have seen this>>>The sulfur chemistry of FOOF remains unexplored, so if you feel like whipping up a batch of Satan's kimchi, go right ahead.

OOPS!...corrrection..
Update: note that this is 433 kcal per mole, not per molecule (which would be impossible for even nuclear fission and fusion reaction (see here for the figures). Chemists almost always think in energetics in terms of moles, thus the confusion. It's still a ridiculous amount of energy to shed, and you don't want to be around when it happens. post: 4976107, member: 318449"]some mention of energy released by reactions comparable to fission[/QUOTE]

Ever hear of Justin Rhodes? He makes some nice videos about raising animals. Years ago there is one on composting. Don't have record of it but was possibly shot in New England area.

Building a Homestead in 100 Days - Day 48 - YouTube

Jean-Marie Valheur
political aficionado & former journalist2y
Who is the most famous pharaoh?
Everyone knows Tutankhamun, it seems, simply because his tomb was discovered a hundred years ago and found mostly undisturbed. He was just a boy when he was King and died young and unaccomplished. Cleopatra is also famous — primarily for her famous lovers, and for being the last Pharaoh. But the most famous in his day and age? The greatest? The one who ‘made Egypt great again’? Ramesses II

Ramesses II was a badass to the max. He reigned for 66 years, dying at the ripe old age of 91. He was already fighting wars in Syria at the age of 14 back when he was his father Seti’s crown prince. He also fathered 200(!) children, built countless monuments and expanded his empire enormously. Under his reign, one of his sons built the world’s first library, safeguarding knowledge for future generations. The Greeks knew Ramesses as “Ozymandias”. His face is the only one of all the characters in the Bible who we have seen. This is the face of a guy who’d known Moses. But also a man so powerful that to him, Moses would have been little more than a flea.

When they found the remains of Ramesses, he was found to still possess some of his original hair, which was curly and reddish in color as well as most of his teeth. He appeared to be in remarkably good shape for a man his age. I remember being amazed as a boy to read of how long he had lived, all those thousands of years ago. Long before Christ, the Romans, Alexander the Great. Back in the days when somewhere far away in a remote corner of Siberia the final mammoths were slowly dying out, there was a leader in Egypt so powerful, ruling so long, that few of his subjects had any recollection of life before his ascension to power.

He died, as all men do. His numerous descendants now encompass most of current Egypt and the Middle East. When they found his mummified remains and flew them abroad to preserve them, the Egyptian government issued the great Pharaoh, ancestor of all of Egypt, a passport.

Hazel Lockey
History Enthusiast3y
What are some examples of things that sound right but are actually wrong?
English astronomer Sir Patrick Moore pulled one of the biggest April Fools’ hoaxes of all time which fooled the country into thinking they could float.

On April 1 1976, he made an announcement on BBC Radio 2 stating that, at exactly 9:47 a.m., Pluto would pass directly behind Jupiter in relation to the Earth. This would create a noticeable reduction in gravity on Earth itself.
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He said that, if people jumped at this exact time, they would be overcome by a ‘strange floating sensation’.
This was known as the ‘Jovian-Plutonian effect’.
I’m no physicist, but in hindsight this is obviously rubbish—yet the public bought the whole thing—and I’m talking hook, line and sinker.
For a lot of people, this sounded completely right and reasonable, despite just how ridiculous it was. And fair enough—it came from a pretty reliable source.
The BBC reported getting a hell of a lot of calls from people all over the country telling them they were having bizarre gravitational experiences.
One woman claimed that she and her friends were sitting and had ‘wafted from their chairs and gently orbited around the room.’
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Another woman said that she and her eleven friends were sitting at a table—and soon enough, everyone (and the table) began to ascend.
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(Kind of Harry Potter-esque in that scene with the inflation of Marjorie Dursley.)

The reason that Moore performed this hoax was really just to raise awareness of the fact that the whole idea of ‘planetary alignment’ and its effects on Earth are nonsensical.
It’s strange how so many people thought it sounded right—but when it actual fact, it was completely wrong.
I guess a lot of it has to do with the mind—although the phenomenon wasn’t real, in a way people believed in it and so it felt real.
But a clever hoax on the part of Sir Patrick Moore nevertheless.
Footnotes
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Jovian–Plutonian gravitational effect - Wikipedia
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Martin Wainwright on some of the silliest April Fool tricks
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Planetary Alignment Decreases Gravity