Setting aside carbon dioxide emissions, air quality is getting pretty bad in India.
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https://codes.findlaw.com/ny/penal-law/pen-sect-165-35/
New York Consolidated Laws, Penal Law - PEN § 165.35 Fortune telling
Current as of January 01, 2024 | Updated by FindLaw Staff
A person is guilty of fortune telling when, for a fee or compensation which he directly or indirectly solicits or receives, he claims or pretends to tell fortunes, or holds himself out as being able, by claimed or pretended use of occult powers, to answer questions or give advice on personal matters or to exorcise, influence or affect evil spirits or curses; except that this section does not apply to a person who engages in the aforedescribed conduct as part of a show or exhibition solely for the purpose of entertainment or amusement.
Fortune telling is a class B misdemeanor.
https://codes.findlaw.com/pa/title-18-pacsa-crimes-and-offenses/pa-csa-sect-18-7104.html
Pennsylvania Statutes Title 18 Pa.C.S.A. Crimes and Offenses § 7104. Fortune telling
Current as of January 01, 2022 | Updated by FindLaw Staff
(a) Offense defined.--A person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree if he pretends for gain or lucre, to tell fortunes or predict future events, by cards, tokens, the inspection of the head or hands of any person, or by the age of anyone, or by consulting the movements of the heavenly bodies, or in any other manner, or for gain or lucre, pretends to effect any purpose by spells, charms, necromancy, or incantation, or advises the taking or administering of what are commonly called love powders or potions, or prepares the same to be taken or administered, or publishes by card, circular, sign, newspaper or other means that he can predict future events, or for gain or lucre, pretends to enable anyone to get or to recover stolen property, or to tell where lost property is, or to stop bad luck, or to give good luck, or to put bad luck on a person or animal, or to stop or injure the business or health of a person or shorten his life, or to give success in business, enterprise, speculation, and games of chance, or to win the affection of a person, or to make one person marry another, or to induce a person to make or alter a will, or to tell where money or other property is hidden, or to tell where to dig for treasure, or to make a person to dispose of property in favor of another.
(b) Advertising as evidence.--Any publication contrary to this section may be given in evidence to sustain the indictment.
(c) Competency of witnesses.--Any person whose fortune may have been told shall be a competent witness against the person charged with violating this section.
Looks like today it sits in misdemeanor territory.
In the past five years, India’s imports of rare earths from China have gone up 60 to 80 per cent, and the government is now trying to cut this reliance by increasing local production. In March it announced a liberalised scheme allowing private companies to explore minerals and rare earth elements and opened some 13 acreages up for auction. Under this policy, the government will also reimburse half the exploration costs in areas where no minerals are discovered.
I don't think that India needs extraction so much as processing, where China is really dominant.
It looks like there are superconducting computers.
As I recall from an earlier article, the reason that they did the (normally less desirable) sideways launch is because this facility normally works on smaller boats.
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Additionally, the new imagery reveals that dredging work has begun to deepen and widen the fairway at the harbor’s exit. Defense Express suggests that this could be in preparation to bring in heavy equipment, possibly a large barge with a crane.
However, the DPRK lacks sufficient barge-mounted cranes capable of lifting and repositioning the destroyer’s bow. Instead, inflatable balloons have been deployed. The most likely concern is that even if the destroyer is successfully rebalanced, it may not be able to exit the harbor and could run aground.
The draft of the Choe Hyon-class is unknown, but given its dimensions and displacement, it is likely around 5 meters.
Old satellite imagery shows that the fairway was artificially deepened in 2021. However, the general depth remains shallow, having been designed for fishing boats and barges — not warships of this size. It is therefore likely that the existing depth is either insufficient or marginal for the destroyer’s passage. To avoid another failure and further embarrassment, North Korea has apparently decided to deepen the fairway further.
l'd bet that they probably have about the minimum required to get the thing out to deeper water.
The guys who did the Evil Genius soundtrack already had to select music for it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DzXfZ5PIPc&list=PLt7SlVSjrlCXs-UpOnA4q0gkT1a5DOoTF
All the basic technologies ever invented by humans to feed and protect themselves depend on a relentless commitment to hard-nosed empiricism: you cannot assume that your arrowheads will pierce the hide of a bison or that your raft will float just because the omens are propitious and you have been given supernatural reassurance that they will. You have to be sure.
---Barbara Ehrenreich
I didn't run into "gopnik" or "chav" (or "tankie" or some other terms) much until I started hanging out on /r/Europe---they're really not used a whole lot here in the US, if that's where you are.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chav
"Chav" (/tʃæv/), also "charver", "scally" and "roadman" in parts of England, is a British term, usually used in a pejorative way. The term is used to describe an anti-social lower-class youth dressed in sportswear.
By 2005, the term had become widely used to refer to a type of anti-social, uncultured youth, portrayed as wearing excessive flashy jewellery, white athletic shoes, baseball caps, and sham designer clothes. Similarly, girls are portrayed as commonly wearing clothes which expose their midriffs.[9]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogan
Bogan (/ˈboʊɡən/ BOHG-ən[1]) is Australian and New Zealand slang to describe a person whose speech, clothing, behaviour, or attitudes are considered unrefined or unsophisticated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopnik
A gopnik[a] is a member of a delinquent subculture in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and in other former Soviet republics—a young man (or a woman, a gopnitsa) of urban working-class background.[2]
A stereotypical image of a gopnik is one of being conservative, aggressive, homophobic, nationalist and racist,[8] as well as holding strong anti-Western views.[2] Gopniks are also stereotyped as being prone to substance and alcohol abuse, crime and hooliganism
Think "bad boy".
Bad boy archetype, a male who behaves badly within societal norms yet is attractive to women.
The bad boy is a cultural archetype that is variously defined and often used synonymously with the historic terms rake or cad: a male who behaves badly, especially within societal norms.
Some of the ship never made it into the water during the launch, and the water it did go into was presumably shallow. It might be that a relatively small portion of the ship was actually immersed.
I assume that it's for domestic political purposes.
If I were Ukraine, I'd probably rather have those drones aimed at Kyiv rather than somewhere else (well, anywhere else with targets; open sea would be preferable), though. From what I've read in the past, Kyiv has been allocated a solid amount of air defense, even when there wasn't sufficient for other cities to be well-covered, and I'd guess that they probably have fairly heavy anti-drone and anti-missile defenses. Given that you'd rather have a drone run into anti-drone defenses than into something important, that's on the order of 400 drones and 40 missiles that weren't used in a concentrated attack on a potentially-important target that might have had less protection.
The Federal Reserve targets about a 2% inflation rate:
https://www.federalreserve.gov/economy-at-a-glance-inflation-pce.htm
...but that's not something unique to the dollar. Other countries will have central banks that will do the same thing.
For the euro, this is the European Central Bank:
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/mopo/strategy/pricestab/html/index.en.html
For the British pound, the Bank of England:
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation
Just part of keeping a functional economy.
I think what you're wanting to do is to decrease the money supply, which you wouldn't normally call "removing value from the economy".
You don't normally want to see deflation, as deflationary spirals create problems:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflation
But the Federal Reserve can and does create deflationary pressure, reduces the rate of inflation:
https://www.stlouisfed.org/in-plain-english/expansionary-and-contractionary-policy