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Post by mhbruin on Jan 18, 2023 9:34:37 GMT -8
I pulled a muscle digging for gold. Just a miner injury.
This is Definitely One of the Stranger Things I Have Read Today. It Sounds Like a Money Heist.
Netflix is hiring a flight attendant for one of its private jets - with the successful applicant being paid as much as $385,000 (£313,538) a year.
The streaming giant says it is looking for candidates with "independent judgement, discretion and outstanding customer service skills".
They should also be able to "operate with little direction and a lot of self-motivation."
Last year Netflix cut hundreds of jobs after a fall in subscriber numbers.
"The overall market range for this role is typically $60,000 - $385,000. This market range is based on total compensation (vs only base salary), which is in line with our compensation philosophy," Netflix said in a job listing on its website.
The average salary for flight attendants in the US is just over $62,000 a year, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Will She Be Expected to Offer Coffee, Tea, Or ??
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Post by mhbruin on Jan 18, 2023 9:38:40 GMT -8
The Current Stalemate in Ukraine Has Been Compared to WWI Trench Warfare. What Helped Break the Stalemate? Tanks.
Tanks have long been at the top of the list of Ukraine’s demands to Western governments.
Poland has pledged a dozen German-made Leopard 2 tanks, and the United Kingdom has offered up 14 of its own Challenger 2 main battle tanks.
Many other countries are considering Ukraine’s insistent requests for heavy armour.
In the age of long-range precision fire, drones, missiles and powerful anti-tank weapons, many observers have considered the tank to be obsolete.
Some countries have even started to phase them out completely, claiming the days of massed armoured assaults are over.
So why are they needed?
Predicting the demise of the tank is premature.
It is true that tanks have recently become vulnerable to high-precision fire and highly portable Western anti-tank weapons like the Javelin. Russia’s T-72 and T-80 tanks have come off worse in most battles in Ukraine.
Tanks are vulnerable and always have been, ever since they were invented in the closing years of World War I more than a century ago.
However, tanks have continuously evolved, along with the weapons designed to destroy them, and Ukraine is in need of hundreds if it wants to launch its counteroffensive to retake first the south, then the rest of the country.
Its own Russian-legacy tanks are worn and in need of replacement after months of industrial-level combat.
NATO countries are ideal candidates to donate some of their inventories, and for Ukraine, the tanks can’t arrive quickly enough.
Western tanks have been designed very much with the defeat of Russian tanks in mind. With reactive armour, powerful main guns and increasingly effective countermeasures, tanks are manufactured to stay in the fight and keep crews safe.
The latest-generation main battle tanks are vital for Ukraine if it wants to punch holes in Russian defensive lines and retake territory that Russian forces seized in the opening weeks of the invasion.
Southern Ukraine is flat and ideal tank territory. It is also where Russia has been building rows of trenches and fortified bunkers to stop a Ukrainian advance.
In a Ukrainian offensive, tanks along with troops protected by infantry fighting vehicles like the American Bradley, German Mardar and even the Russian-made BMP-2 would advance.
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Post by mhbruin on Jan 18, 2023 9:45:00 GMT -8
How Low Did Santos Go? Screwing a Disabled Veteran and Killing His Dog.
A disabled veteran has accused newly-elected Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) of fundraising for his service dog’s lifesaving surgery and then disappearing with the money, local news site Patch reported Tuesday.
Richard Osthoff, a U.S. Navy veteran, told Patch Santos conned him in 2016 while he was living in a tent on the side of a highway in Howell, New Jersey, with his beloved dog Sapphire. Sapphire was diagnosed with a life-threatening stomach tumor, and Osthoff was quoted $3,000 for the surgery to remove it.
According to Osthoff, a veterinary technician told him he knew a guy who could help: Anthony Devolder, who ran Friends of Pets United, a pet charity.
Anthony Devolder is one of the names that Santos, whose full name is George Anthony Devolder Santos, used among an array of aliases, including George Devolder and Anthony Zabrovsky.
In December, The New York Times reported that, among other discrepancies in the resume Santos pitched to voters, there was little evidence that his charity, Friends of Pets United, was a tax-exempt organization like he claimed. The Internal Revenue Service apparently had no records of a registered charity with that name.
Osthoff and another New Jersey veteran, retired police Sgt. Michael Boll, who was helping Osthoff as the situation evolved in 2016, told Patch that Santos set up a GoFundMe for Sapphire’s surgery.
They claimed that when it reached $3,000, he closed it and became increasingly difficult to contact.
In a July 2016 Facebook post, Osthoff thanked supporters for helping him reach his fundraising goal. He shared a link to a since-deleted GoFundMe page. The preview of the link shows that it was created “by Anthony Devolder.”
But, according to Osthoff, when he tried to schedule Sapphire’s procedure, Santos then insisted Osthoff take Sapphire to another vet clinic ― that he purportedly had a relationship with ― which said it couldn’t operate on the tumor. Santos then claimed he would take the money raised for Sapphire and use it for “other dogs,” Osthoff said.
In a November 2016 Facebook post, Osthoff told supporters that he had been “scammed by Anthony Devolder” and that Sapphire was facing euthanasia within months, according to a screenshot published by Patch.
Sapphire died the following year.
One of Santos’ former roommates, Gregory Morey-Parker, was interviewed several times on CNN this week about Santos, who he said he lived with for a few months in 2020.
Morey-Parker said he knew Santos by two names: Anthony Devolder and Anthony Zabrovsky and he had “never known him as George Santos.” According to Morey-Parker, Santos said he used the name Zabrovsky for his pet charity because he believed “the Jews will give more if you’re a Jew.”
Squeaker McCarthy Just Put This Piece of Excrement on Committees
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Post by mhbruin on Jan 18, 2023 9:51:45 GMT -8
People Are Saying "It's Mild." It's Not Mild.
Peter Hotez on new COVID XBB1.5 variant:
Q: Having had higher numbers of those dying, I think there’s a sense this is a return to normal.
A: I think people are saying this will be mild. It’s not mild. Do the math: With 400 or 500 deaths a day, that’s getting up to 150,000 to 200,000 a year, which is four- or five-times higher than the worst flu season. That’s not good. Even without 2,000 to 3,000 deaths a day, we’re still seeing a lot of hospitalizations, a lot of long COVID. The bottom line is that if you haven’t gotten your bivalent booster, there’s time, but you’ve got to get it soon or you’re at risk for hospitalization. With the new XBB1.5 subvariant, the goalposts have moved. That’s the reality of it.
Before you just had to be vaccinated, but that won’t cut it anymore. The antibodies to the original lineage don’t seem to offer much cross-protection against this new subvariant. If you get a breakthrough infection, there will be some help because you get some epitope broadening, as it’s called. This is a long way of saying, "Get your bivalent booster." That’s what is most important. The early data from November, pre-XBB1.5 from the CDC shows that people who get the bivalent booster have 18.6 times reduction of risk of being hospitalized. It’s not quite as good as that for XBB1.5, but it should have benefits there, too.
That's Losing the Population of Salt Lake City Every Year
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Post by mhbruin on Jan 18, 2023 9:52:19 GMT -8
Sorry Putin. You Lose Again.
These Soldiers Could Have Used Some of that Russian Gas
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Post by mhbruin on Jan 18, 2023 10:01:01 GMT -8
Maybe He Was Worried That Some of the Jobs Might Go to Trans People
Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s decision to halt plans for a $3.5 billion Ford Motor Co. battery plant over his concerns about Chinese influence cost one of the poorest areas of Virginia a reported 2,500 jobs with potential for more.
If Ford finalized the project, the plant would have gone in the Southern Virginia Mega Site at Berry Hill in Pittsylvania County. More than $200 million has been spent over 15 years to make Berry Hill a premier site and the largest publicly owned site in the Southeast. The plant would have built lithium iron phosphate batteries for Ford’s electric vehicles.
The location still has no tenant, however, after Youngkin intervened in late December to stop plans for the plant in Virginia because of its partnership with Chinese company Contemporary Amperex Technology. Youngkin first publicly discussed his decision after giving his State of the Commonwealth address on Wednesday.
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Post by mhbruin on Jan 18, 2023 10:02:18 GMT -8
Now MTG Can Protect Us From Jewish Space Lasers
GOP lawmakers have reinstated representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) to House committees nearly two years after Democrats stripped them of their assignments, multiple news outlets have confirmed.
On Tuesday, the House GOP Steering Committee, which delegates committee assignments, voted unanimously to assign Greene and Gosar to the Oversight and Accountability Committee, CNN reports. Greene also nabbed a seat on the Homeland Security Committee, and Gosar returned to a seat he’d occupied previously on the Natural Resources Committee.
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Post by mhbruin on Jan 18, 2023 10:05:27 GMT -8
Never Will I Ever
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Post by mhbruin on Jan 18, 2023 10:08:19 GMT -8
What Do You Wear to a Stop the Steal Rally? Something Old, Something New, Something Stolen, ...
CNN’s Anderson Cooper struggled to contain his surprise at an anecdote from a former roommate of serial liar Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.).
Gregory Morey-Parker alleged Santos stole a Burberry scarf that was gifted to him by his best friend on the anniversary of his grandfather’s death.
As Morey-Parker talked with Cooper about the alleged theft, the network aired video footage of Santos talking at Donald Trump’s pre-Capitol riot “Stop The Steal” rally in Washington in January 2021.
“I understand he was actually wearing something he took from you at a pre-Jan. 6th rally in Washington? Is that the scarf?” Cooper asked Morey-Parker in a video posted online by Mediaite.
“Yes. If you can believe this,” Morey-Parker responded. “A stolen scarf to a steal-the-election rally. You have to love the irony. And the audacity, quite frankly.”
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Post by mhbruin on Jan 18, 2023 10:11:45 GMT -8
The Price Tag For Climate Change Keeps Going Up
The storms that have been battering California offer a glimpse of the catastrophic floods that scientists warn will come in the future and that the state is unprepared to endure.
Giant floods like those that inundated the Central Valley in 1861 and 1862 are part of California’s natural cycle, but the latest science shows that the coming megafloods, intensified by climate change, will be much bigger and more destructive than anything the state or the country has ever seen.
A new state flood protection plan for the Central Valley presents a stark picture of the dangers. It says catastrophic flooding would threaten millions of Californians, putting many areas underwater and causing death and destruction on an unprecedented scale. The damage could total as much as $1 trillion.
The plan, approved last month, calls for $25 billion to $30 billion in investments over the next 30 years in the Central Valley, and outlines recommendations that include strengthening levees and restoring natural floodplains along rivers.
Flood protection efforts have been underfunded in California for years, and the plan says much more investment is urgently needed from state, federal and local agencies.
“We need to invest in what is necessary to improve life safety, protect vital infrastructure and improve our environment,” said Jane Dolan, president of the Central Valley Flood Protection Board. “The time to act is now.”
The plan calls for spending $3.2 billion on flood protection projects in the valley over the next five years, with the largest portion of the funding from the state.
“We know we need twice to three times what's being spent now,” Dolan said.
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Post by sagobob on Jan 18, 2023 14:13:40 GMT -8
The Price Tag For Climate Change Keeps Going UpThe storms that have been battering California offer a glimpse of the catastrophic floods that scientists warn will come in the future and that the state is unprepared to endure. Giant floods like those that inundated the Central Valley in 1861 and 1862 are part of California’s natural cycle, but the latest science shows that the coming megafloods, intensified by climate change, will be much bigger and more destructive than anything the state or the country has ever seen. A new state flood protection plan for the Central Valley presents a stark picture of the dangers. It says catastrophic flooding would threaten millions of Californians, putting many areas underwater and causing death and destruction on an unprecedented scale. The damage could total as much as $1 trillion. The plan, approved last month, calls for $25 billion to $30 billion in investments over the next 30 years in the Central Valley, and outlines recommendations that include strengthening levees and restoring natural floodplains along rivers. Flood protection efforts have been underfunded in California for years, and the plan says much more investment is urgently needed from state, federal and local agencies. “We need to invest in what is necessary to improve life safety, protect vital infrastructure and improve our environment,” said Jane Dolan, president of the Central Valley Flood Protection Board. “The time to act is now.” The plan calls for spending $3.2 billion on flood protection projects in the valley over the next five years, with the largest portion of the funding from the state. “We know we need twice to three times what's being spent now,” Dolan said. The good news is if the Valley flooded, the water could percolate into underlying aquifers and replenish them. Seriously, the article suggersted those areas subject to flood plains be identified and left undeveloped so if a river broke its banks, the water would be contained within then, and eventually replenish over drawn underground aquifers. Another article pointed out the existence of coarse material layers in the Valley, which might be ideal sites for basins or water injection. |
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Post by mhbruin on Jan 19, 2023 11:30:05 GMT -8
The good news is if the Valley flooded, the water could percolate into underlying aquifers and replenish them. Seriously, the article suggersted those areas subject to flood plains be identified and left undeveloped so if a river broke its banks, the water would be contained within then, and eventually replenish over drawn underground aquifers. Another article pointed out the existence of coarse material layers in the Valley, which might be ideal sites for basins or water injection. I have read that as the ground water under the valley has been pumped out, the ground level has sank, reducing the capacity of the aquifer. Replenishing ground water is great, but there may be limits on how much they can do. |
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Post by sagobob on Jan 19, 2023 14:10:09 GMT -8
In the second article the author said these aquifers were larger particles, like mixtures of small rocks, so were less likely to collapse due to over pumping.
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