221102 18:03 – ISS history
It was on this day, Nov. 2, in the year 2000 that the International Space Station received its very first crew.
They were: Russian cosmonauts Sergey Krikalev and Yuri Gidzenko and American astronaut William Shepherd, who flew up in a Soyuz spacecraft.
The project, which began as an American effort, was long delayed by funding and technical problems. Originally called Freedom in the 1980s by U.S. Pres. Ronald Reagan, who authorized the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to build it within 10 years, it was redesigned in the 1990s to reduce costs and expand international involvement, at which time it was renamed. In 1993 the United States and Russia agreed to merge their separate space station plans into a single facility, integrating their respective modules and incorporating contributions from the European Space Agency (ESA) and Japan.
Did you know? More than 200 astronauts from 20 different countries have visited the ISS. Astronauts typically stay on the ISS for about six months.
Thank you for reading today's post. Have an InterStellar Day! ~PrP
Y*/2 an electrical discharge in the absence of an external load placed upon your device will still occur. We advise you seek a different device as the one you are using poses a threat to all who approach it in it’s low level activity during its stored state.
MARKET News;
What first moved the markets was the bit of the Fed’s monetary policy statement — released at 2pm ET — that hinted the bank may want to pause and assess how hard this year’s series of fast, steep rate increases hit the economy, before carrying on.
Context: The housing market, in particular, has been hard hit by the shock of 7% mortgage rates and has been weighing on economic growth.
💰Adobe’s $20 billion acquisition of Figma draws antitrust DOJ scrutiny. (Bloomberg)
🐦 Twitter plans to order workers back to the office after layoffs.
⬇️ Morgan Stanley to start layoffs as dealmaking slows. (Reuters)
As the supply side problems have resolved themselves, we would have expected goods inflation to come down by now — long since by now. They haven’t because of the monopolies established by the billionaires. They are cooperating to keep the prices that ran up because of a supply shortage in effect. Greed and the ability to maintain that greed in spite of governments knowing that they are gouging their citizens is what is feeding inflation today.
Supply and demand
The biggest problem facing the economy right now is that prices are rising much too quickly. That dynamic stems partly from the lingering effects of the pandemic, which continue to disrupt international supply chains, and global forces, like the war in Ukraine, which has pushed up the price of food and energy. Most economists agree that rapid inflation is also at least partly the result of excessive demand: American consumers want more cars, airline tickets and restaurant meals than companies can produce, pushing up prices.
The Fed is trying to tamp down demand by raising interest rates, which makes borrowing money more expensive for consumers and businesses. Yesterday, the central bank announced it would raise rates by three-quarters of a point for the fourth time since June.
That move was widely expected. But experts are less in agreement about what the Fed will do in the months ahead. Some economists argue it should hold off on further rate increases and see whether inflation begins to ease. Others say the Fed should keep going until its efforts clearly have an effect.
Which path policymakers choose depends in part on how Jerome Powell, the Fed chair, and his colleagues view the labor market. If companies keep adding jobs and raising pay, inflation is likely to remain high, and the Fed is likely to remain aggressive in its fight to tame it. If job growth stalls and unemployment rises, the Fed could pause sooner to avoid causing a recession.
So far, the Fed seems firmly on the side of those who see the job market as too hot. Powell said yesterday that any talk of a pause in rate increases is “premature.”
i can say that whole foods has not had frozen broccoli on the shelf for about a month now
Wanna know how difficult it is for women to report sexual misconduct on men in Hollywood: Read the full story of one about Moonves. How the LAPD had Moonves’ back
https://www.axios.com/2022/11/03/lapd-corporate-sexual-misconduct-new-york-ag-report?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosmarkets&stream=business
CVS and Walgreens agreed to pay about $5 billion each to settle thousands of lawsuits over the opioid crisis.
Les Moonves, the former chief of CBS, and the network’s parent company agreed to pay $9.75 million to settle a case related to sexual misconduct claims against him.
Flawed pulse oximeters may have contributed to Covid deaths, doctors warned.
Why would anyone use TikTok?
TikTok says staff in China can access UK and EU user data
BBC News · By Annabelle Liang
Chinese video-sharing platform TikTok has told users that some of its workers in China have access to the data of accounts in the UK and European Union….
Consumers are spending less on everything from video streaming to food shopping as the cost of living rises, but it appears many are not ready to cut back on dating just yet.
Tinder: More pay for dating app despite cost-of-living crisis.
——-“I’m horrible to live with, I don’t clean. My clothes end up wherever I take them off.”——-
Be warned, it’s about to get graphic,
Megan Fox, international sex symbol, doesn’t flush the loo, ——“Friend tells me, ‘you totally pinched a loaf in my toilet & didn’t flush’”.——-
Ms. Fox admitted that herself in an interview with the U.K. publication “For Him Magazine”.
Make what you will out of that one.
If its brown flush it down, if its yellow let it mellow.
LOL
I really am DONE. But no one is listening to me. Maybe when I am no longer here then you will hear me. I cant and dont want to do this anymore. This is not the life I want.
Patience sometimes means you have something to do but it is not just yet.
University of California San Diego professor and former CIA analyst Barbara F. Walter told PBS that white Christian men are geared up to start war in the US
Walter said civil wars tend to start by ethnic and religious groups which were once in power but begin to see their position decline
Walter is the author of the 2022 book How Civil War Starts, which argues that the US is becoming increasingly unstable and headed for war
As a white man who isn’t buying their racist, misogynist bullshit, I say to those white men who want a “Civil War” bring it on. We will kick you asses and this time you WILL be held accountable for your crimes. You will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. You’ll get no statutes, streets named after you, you will be shot on sight and those of you that survive will be imprisoned for every crime that you commit. Bank on it assholes.
I agree what makes them think they speak for all white men. Like we did in the last Civil War, we will spank their ass.
I don’t think that would ever happen. Unless they are armed with AR-15s murdering unarmed children, those white men are cowards.
All it really takes is enough white women to grab a bag of common sense before they vote Nov8.
I would not count on that happening. And news oout today is that tRump is going to declare soon to be running again. Those same white women will push him into office I fear.
I’m not counting on that either. Too many of them still walk lockstep behind their men. Too many give them deference over OTW men, just b/c of the color of their skin. A change in demographics are the only thing that will make this country take the right way. White men know that which is why we’re in environment that we’re in. They will stop at nothing to keep the country white.
K[5, L]6, I[7, in response to B.Bella, someone just told me that your rationale of the turn around time to the two major hubs is flawed. (they used a different word.) Half of the load won’t even be HBs.
We stand corrected.
As nations across the globe face a plethora of ongoing crises, the Collins English Dictionary Tuesday revealed its 2022 word of the year to be “permacrisis,” a term to describe such events.
“Permacrisis” is a noun defined by the U.K.-based publisher HarperCollins as “an extended period of instability and insecurity, especially one resulting from a series of catastrophic events.”
What Does “Ratioed” Mean?
On social media, “ratio” refers to the number of replies or comments as compared to likes. A post being referred to as “ratioed” means that it has more replies than likes and is likely divisive, unpopular, or generally controversial.
Not all ratios are created equal. Some ratios may have replies that are about the same number as the likes, which implies that reception is mixed. However, in other cases, replies can outnumber likes by a wide margin, which shows that a post is wildly unpopular.
Makes sense to me.
Steak is better than that guy or girl who said they would die for you.
Steak actually did die for you. Steak’s love is real.
OK what the fuck does that mean see that because I don’t want to know who I
LOL, funny!
This is a test for a friend of mine, and I hope he will be excepted
excepted, or accepted? There’s a difference
Excepted
JOKE;
A woman playing Golf hit a man nearby… 🏌️♀️
He put his hands together between his legs, fell on the ground & rolled around in pain.
She rushed to him & offered to relieve his pain as she was a doctor.
Reluctantly he agreed.
She gently took his hands away, unzipped his pants & put her hands inside.
She massaged him tenderly for a few minutes & asked:
“How does it feel?”
He replied:
“Feels great but I still think my thumb is broken”.
“Years ago, anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture. The student expected Mead to talk about fishhooks or clay pots or grinding stones.
But no. Mead said that the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture was a femur (thighbone) that had been broken and then healed. Mead explained that in the animal kingdom, if you break your leg, you die. You cannot run from danger, get to the river for a drink or hunt for food. You are meat for prowling beasts. No animal survives a broken leg long enough for the bone to heal.
A broken femur that has healed is evidence that someone has taken time to stay with the one who fell, has bound up the wound, has carried the person to safety and has tended the person through recovery. Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts, Mead said.
We are at our best when we serve others.”
“People are all alike, no matter their clothing or hair or language. All worried about the same things, all doing their best to not have to worry.”
The earth’s Crows and other corvids are close to my worlds ruling beings. They are extremely intelligent. They can use tools to get what they want. They mourn their dead. We consider them forerunners of our ancestors. Earth Corvids have the ability to think through a problem and work out an answer because they possess a high number of brain cells that process information. We want them brought up with the humans.
The “neural correlates of consciousness” date back to at least the last time birds and mammals on earth shared that brain section:
To reconcile sensory consciousness in birds and mammals, one scenario would postulate that birds and mammals inherited the trait of consciousness from their last-common ancestor. If true, this would date the evolution of consciousness back to at least 320 million years when reptiles and birds on the one hand, and mammals on the other hand, evolved from the last common stem-amniotic ancestor. Are you trying to suggest that some of your ancestors visited earth 320 million years ago?
Where are you from ?
Where are you from ?
B*\4 where are you from