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Basically, what the US has announced, rather unambiguously, is that the only way its actions can regulated is through superior military might.
This is a very dangerous thing to announce in a world when you are one of approximately 200 countries. Regardless of whether you currently have the most lethal military of not.
Anyone know what happens to that one asshole at a game of Monopoly if the rest of the players decide to team up against him?
Not saying it will happen. But re…

Unimpressed with the Verizon FiOS service in the new house so far.
My highest download this week has been 92.67 Mbps and my highest upload 34.73.
This is _after_ Verizon rebooted the router and said it all be better.

There have been numerous disgustingly fake 'nightscape' composites flooding the web where someone had merely pasted a deep astronomical image of comet C/2026 A6 #Lemmon into some landscape, making it look like it was a giant rivalling Ikeya-Seki oder West - oh, how I hated that. And what a relief that NOIRLab has now posted - https://noirlab.edu/public/images/iotw2549a/ - this beautiful and apparently unmanipulated picture of Lemmon over Mauna Kea on 12 November. Yes, it reached 3 point something mag. and had nice tails in the end but it was not a great comet by any means: just look how small and faint it appears next to the southern Milky Way!

"The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming" by David Wallace-Wells
is a stark, scientifically grounded "travelogue of the near future"
detailing the catastrophic, cascading effects of climate change beyond just rising seas and temperatures,
including widespread famine, refugee crises, disease, and extreme weather,
while also exploring how these changes will transform politics, culture, and technology,
serving as an urgent call for immediate…

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
Book — Non-fiction. By David Wallace-Wells. 2019. 320 pages. This book raises the alarm over the Earth's climate crisis and demands radical action to save human civilization as we know it.

US applications for jobless benefits fell below 200,000 last week with layoffs historically low (Matt Ott/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/unemployment-benefits-jobless-claims-layoffs-labor-5e0ab36c477fdb0e4924c3851b852725
http://www.memeorandum.com/251231/p32#a251231p32

from my link log —
Saving Skylab.
https://www.airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/saving-skylab
saved 2025-11-30 https://

Saving Skylab
During launch, the micrometeoroid shield surrounding the Skylab Workshop ripped loose. Designed to protect the workshop from tiny space particles and the sun's scorching heat, its loss caused sunlight to raise internal temperatures to over 130° F, making the station uninhabitable and threatening foods, medicines, films, and experiments that were onboard. Astronaut Rusty Schweickart was responsible for testing a parasol on Earth and developing procedures for deploying it in space in an effort …

This interview from 4 years ago mentions Konate's father being ill.
"Hamadi has never been to see him play, because of illness, but watches his matches on TV and Konaté calls him every day."
My uninformed speculation: his father's health took a turn for the worse this season and the strain of worry and concern affected Ibou deeply. It would explain a lot. He is a fairy private person, so we likely won't know, but if that's right and he's carried thi…

Ibrahima Konaté: I asked Jürgen Klopp, ‘If I was your son, what would you advise?’
Everyone who has coached and played with Ibrahima Konaté says the same, that he’s a young man with an old soul, and for all the outsized physical and technical

I think I got uninvited to be a guest on a podcast run by an expat in #Japan because she didn't like a post where I called convenience store #food #unhealthy & the same as eating fast food.

Americans with four-year college degrees now comprise a record 25% of total unemployment,
underscoring a sharp slowdown in white-collar hiring this year.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/22/us-degree-holders-unemployment-rate/

Americans with four-year college degrees now comprise a record 25% of total unemployment,
underscoring a sharp slowdown in white-collar hiring this year.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/22/us-degree-holders-unemployment-rate/