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On Greg Olear's Prevail podcast, Dahlia Lithwick talks about #SCOTUS - court packing, judicial mindsets, the Federalist Society, term limits, issues before the court, and more.
"No other constitutional democracy is in thrall to a court the way the United States is."

‎Prevail with Greg Olear: Feelingsball: The Leonard Leo Industrial Complex, SCOTUS Nihilism, and the Doctrine of Sad (with Dahlia Lithwick) on Apple Podcasts
‎Show Prevail with Greg Olear, Ep Feelingsball: The Leonard Leo Industrial Complex, SCOTUS Nihilism, and the Doctrine of Sad (with Dahlia Lithwick) - Mar 1, 2024

"At least two dozen countries worldwide have already made the sensible transition to some form of automatic tax filing, not necessarily just for low-income citizens, but in many cases for everyone. The UK, Japan, Australia, Denmark, Chile, and Portugal have implemented some version of an automated, digital tax system, and none of them have turned back."
How the tax industry is keeping automatic filing out of reach – Canadian Dimension

How the tax industry is keeping automatic filing out of reach
In the unfair fight for automatic tax filing, Canadians need to get behind the underdog. While many of us might welcome and benefit from this service, it’s our vulnerable friends and neighbours who need it the most. We must come together to join the chorus calling for this crucial tax reform—and be louder than those motivated by nothing more than greed.

Anybody know what the critical micelle concentration for common personal hygiene detergents (e.g. sodium dodecyl sulfate) is in relation to the actual concentrations achieved in a bubble bath?
Gut feeling is that baths don't actually clean oil based dirt all that well. Wiki is showing CMC for SDS as 0.0083 mol/L. If we assume 225L water volume for the tub that means you'd need 1.86 mol of SDS which is about 537 grams.
There's no way the average person puts half a kil…

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The Flying Lizards:
🎵 Money (That's What I Want)
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Lower numbers in Flensburg🇩🇪 are always desirable - whether it's points for German drivers (traffic fines) - or district heating temperatures. By reducing the need for 95°C heat from 10 > 1%, it's much easier to let heat pumps take over most of the heat supply. That's what the local utility will do.

Transformation in Flensburg: low temperatures for efficient heat pumps
As an innovative public utility company, Stadtwerke Flensburg is committed to decarbonisation and CO2 neutrality. To achieve this goal, the municipal utility company is working with Gradyent to reduce temperatures in the district heating system. As part of the partnership, the two companies have found a way to reduce the necessary annual heat share with a temperature above 95°C from around 10% to 1%. This means that heat pumps can be used to a higher extent and operated efficiently.

Gazprom reports nearly $6.9 billion in net losses in 2023: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/02/gazprom-reports-nearly.html

If you want to know why local papers are failing, this is a sign of the times.
The LA Times this morning had no ads. The A section had literally not a single ad, and the B section had a few obituaries and classified ads, but not a single display ad. Not one.
https://jabberwocking.co…

The LA Times was an ad-free newspaper today - Kevin Drum
I can't say this has never happened before, but I noticed something while reading the LA Times at breakfast this morning: it had no ads. The A section had literally not a single ad, and the B section had a few obituaries and classified ads, but not a single display ad. Not one. This is not to say there was nothing

"Ein tüchtiger Feind bringt uns weiter als ein Dutzend untüchtiger Freunde." (Gustaf Gründgens, 1899–1963, dt. Theater- und Filmschauspieler, Sänger und Regisseur)
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Gazprom reports nearly $6.9 billion in net losses in 2023: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/02/gazprom-reports-nearly.html

"Ein tüchtiger Feind bringt uns weiter als ein Dutzend untüchtiger Freunde." (Gustaf Gründgens, 1899–1963, dt. Theater- und Filmschauspieler, Sänger und Regisseur)
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