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So the US hit a Venezuelan drugs vessel and killed 11 people aboard. This way of operating against a ship is so illegal it hurts. No judge, no procedure, just killing...
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/02/politics/us-military-strike-caribbean

US military kills 11 in strike on alleged drug boat tied to Venezuelan cartel, Trump says
The United States conducted a deadly military strike against an alleged drug boat tied to the cartel Tren de Aragua, President Donald Trump said Tuesday.

🧋 Study: There is less room to store carbon dioxide, driver of climate change, than previously thought
#co2

Study: There is less room to store carbon dioxide, driver of climate change, than previously thought
The world has far fewer places to securely store carbon dioxide deep underground than previously thought, steeply lowering its potential to help stem global warming, according to a new study that challenges long-held industry claims about the practice.

En daar daan we weer. De zoveelste maatregel om de klimaatntkenning te ondersteunen: Trump administration takes aim at satellite that measures carbon dioxide and crops : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/04/nx-s1-5453731/nasa-carbon-dioxide-satelli…

The large-scale buildup of U.S. military forces and assets in the Caribbean suggests that the Trump administration may be preparing
the first U.S. strikes on Venezuela.

U.S. forces in the Caribbean include eight Navy warships,
a special operations vessel
and a nuclear-powered attack submarine.
When the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford arrives in the Caribbean next week, it will bring with it three more warships and more than 4,000 additional troops

These are the U.S. ships and aircraft massing off Venezuela
The large-scale buildup of U.S. military forces and assets in the Caribbean suggests that the Trump administration is preparing to expand operations.

(Not a #30DayMapChallenge map)
I was so busy the past couple of days that I missed the news that there’s a category-1 typhoon (#Kalmaegi / #TinoPH) that’s about to make landfall in a few hours in th…

US military kills 11 in strike on alleged drug boat tied to Venezuelan cartel, Trump says (Jennifer Hansler/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/02/politics/us-military-strike-caribbean
http://www.memeorandum.com/250902/p132#a250902p132

Addiction (Speculatve)
Kind of a fucked-up metaphor, but I was thinking yesterday that parenting is a lot like addiction. If you separate me from my child, I'll take completely irrational and desperate actions to get them back, driven by a deep instinct that goes well beyond "love." I'll also make self-disadvantageous long-term decisions like forgoing sleep, working an extra job, or quitting a job to do some combination of providing for and/or being present with my child.
Even in parenting situations where love is absent, and beyond, I think, the possessiveness that sometimes festers in those situations, there's often (although not always) a craving for simple presence of the child.
In a healthy relationship, there's a whole lot more than this, but it's interesting to me that the same obsessive craving and absolute priority that we think of as diseased and/or monstrous in someone addicted to a hard drug can be healthy in the right context (that is, when it doesn't contribute to abusive or twisted parental relationships but instead exists alongside a healthy amount of love and respect).
Makes me wonder if there are ways to have a truly healthy drug addiction, although I recognize the answer might well be "no" and that even if it's "technically/theoretically yes" it might still be harmful to hype up or even merely discuss that possibility since it might help addicted people in harmful addictions more easily justify inaction. At minimum I think any "yes" answer here involves assuming utopian-level differences from our current society.
#Parenting #Addiction

Challenge: "Name 20 female authors you admire, 1 per day"
Day 10:
Pippa Goldschmidt
Both an astronomer and a very gifted writer. She writes the cleanest, most exact prose I have ever encountered.
She used to live in Edinburgh, but I think she lives in Germany now?
#FemmeÉcrivain

The US is set to raise the number of military vessels deployed near Venezuela to eight this week,
which Maduro described as
“the greatest threat that has been seen on our continent in the last 100 years.”
Following an authorization by Trump to use military force against Latin American drug cartels,
the Associated Press and CBS News report that “the US Navy now has two Aegis guided-missile destroyers — the USS Gravelyand the USS Jason Dunham — in the Caribbean,
a…

Maduro Says US Pointing '1,200 Missiles' at Venezuela After Trump Sends More Warships | Common Dreams
In a press conference on Monday, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said the US has "1,200 missiles" pointed at the country after Trump sent more warships. One US defense official said Trump is gearing up for "Noriega part two," suggesting regime change.

🌡️ Breakthrough carbon nanotube material sets new thermal insulation record
#materials

Breakthrough carbon nanotube material sets new thermal insulation record
Chinese researchers have developed a new carbon nanotube insulator that can withstand high temperatures up to 2,600°C, outperforming all other materials used for extreme-temperature applications. This breakthrough could be used for heat shields on hypersonic vehicles and spacecraft during re-entry into the atmosphere and in other high-temperature environments.