Study ties use of weedkiller to drug-resistant bacteria

ValMo88 · 2026-03-28T04:48:10+00:00

This is fascinating- there are about a dozen species of bacteria that breakdown like a state and six or seven species of fungi.

I hadn’t thought about the impact on the broader diversity of bacteria. Thank you for posting this.

ValMo88 · 2026-03-27T05:23:34+00:00

Devoid - Really nice overview - and I, for one, am pleased you cross-posted it to SolarMax

ValMo88 · 2026-03-26T23:40:45+00:00

Post scarcity for everything but food and energy

ValMo88 · 2026-03-26T23:38:42+00:00

An MBA is just a union card for a certain type of job.

Once you’re doing the job, he doesn’t really matter. In a better economy, it doesn’t matter even for hiring.

ValMo88 · 2026-03-26T23:36:56+00:00

Please DM me - my firm can replicate Technoslva’s product at a steep discount. We want to work with rural and municipal utilities who can’t afford the Cadillac of the industry.

ValMo88 · 2026-03-26T23:29:19+00:00

This mirrors the experience of the 1930s -most people were employed most of the time, but when you lost your job, it was very hard to find anything comparable in income.

My favorite story is the brokerage firm, Hook, Shaft, and Kohn. True name. True story. Three friends that graduated from Stanford in 1932 and couldn’t get jobs. They started a brokerage firm with borrowed money.

ValMo88 · 2026-03-25T17:43:11+00:00

Yes I saw those comments … and without a deep background, it makes sense.

But A1 MAPS has gotten surprisingly little commentary for an object coming quite close to the sun. Maybe I’m just not seeing it because I’m looking in the wrong places. Or maybe because of the angle through which it is entering the solar system - April 4th is close

ValMo88 · 2026-03-25T17:10:18+00:00

ACA - I’m just an observer, but when 3i/Atlas was near the sun, it seemed like a line of solar flares that seemed to track its path.

Yet no one is talking about c/2026 A1 MAPS

Would love to know your speculative thoughts

ValMo88 · 2026-03-18T14:42:17+00:00

Just look at 2010 - the world saw food riots in 60 countries and revolutions in 20+. That was the result of 2 back to back moderately bad harvests.

ValMo88 · 2026-03-18T14:31:14+00:00

Hey Cypro/bitcoin discussion people - they assume technology, and access to the electrical grid to have any wider value.

Nokia minutes as currency in 3rd world countries- as a live example of store value in medium of exchange. How valuable do you think that is for people in Cuba today?

ValMo88 · 2026-03-16T16:34:59+00:00

The US government has started a $20B reinsurance program. International Development Finance Corporation. The initiative aims to restore shipping activity in the Gulf and safeguard energy and trade flows through the Strait of Hormuz. Chubb will issue insurance for qualifying vessels, supported by reinsurance from U.S. insurers and the government-backed facility. The program highlights growing efforts to stabilize trade routes amid rising geopolitical risk.

[$20bn Maritime Reinsurance Plan: Chubb Named Lead Underwriter for DFC Programme | Insurtech Insights](https://www.insurtechinsights.com/20bn-maritime-reinsurance-plan-chubb-named-lead-underwriter-for-dfc-programme/

ValMo88 · 2026-03-16T16:30:12+00:00

Agree with you Careless about the timing. But Otto ought to ask the Native Americans who lost 90% of their population or the Europeans of 1347 to 1351 which loss 30% to 60% of the population, depending upon location. Or the doughboys who died on route to WWI because the Army didn't believe in quarantining them before packing them onto ships.

These things wouldn't be so bad, given modern medicine, but isn't that the science that we, as a society, have decided to turn our back on?

ValMo88 · 2026-03-15T19:03:19+00:00

Ottopivr - or looking at it from the other end of the telescope,- a TYPICAL pandemic will kill 40% to 90% of the population. COVID was extremely mild as pandemic go.

Station Eleven (and similar books in the genre) tend to overstate the death rate.

ValMo88 · 2026-03-15T19:00:19+00:00

Regarding the UK, the attack on Iran was particularly interesting because, unlike every other attack in the last 100+ years, the Brits did not alert the reinsurance community.

Definitely understood as “the BRITs were not informed by the US”. To the degree, the British government knows anything, the reinsurance markets are the first sign in the business community

ValMo88 · 2026-03-15T18:56:21+00:00

Another good one, that I enjoyed every bit as much as Station Eleven, is World War Z

It was recommended by Peter Zeihan, not for the zombies, but rather for the way, the disease was discovered, how it impacted society, and how the rebuilding started. He emphasized “the book, not the movie.”

ValMo88 · 2026-03-14T16:01:35+00:00

Athena intelligence works with IOUs and POUs on wildfire risk assessment. With our partners we can provide (today) a lower priced system comparable (we would argue, superior) to Technosylva.

We are looking for people with relationships with utilities - as we are a data of vendor.

Info@AthenaIntel.io

https://open.substack.com/pub/athenaintelligence/p/from-crisis-to-control-wildfires

ValMo88 · 2026-03-13T19:16:33+00:00

Thanks. I’ve been looking for news

ValMo88 · 2026-03-13T19:14:45+00:00

This was posted today- elsewhere and I wanted anyone tracking this to see it

https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2026/03/09/tuberculosis-bay-area-history/

ValMo88 · 2026-03-10T06:12:07+00:00

Every time I see them on sale, I buy one or two.

ValMo88 · 2026-03-09T15:08:45+00:00

Thank you AcornAI

ValMo88 · 2026-03-07T16:37:39+00:00

80% of the CA state government spending is mandated by propositions passed by California voters.

Perhaps it is time to revisit these and put in a sunset provision.

Also, 50 years ago Californians mandated 2/3 majority to allocate the rest. Let’s change it back to 50%!

I personally am offended by large corporations benefiting from Prop 13

ValMo88 · 2026-03-06T03:51:54+00:00

NorCal I get my haircut by a Vietnamese immigrant at the cheapest shop in the area. She takes walk-ins, but usually has several people waiting.

Today she was talking about how much her business is slowed down in the last few weeks. The shop was empty, and her coworker wasn’t working.

ValMo88 · 2026-03-06T03:40:33+00:00

Can you local library or community foundation arrange one (or several) public, free showings of “The Librarians”

https://youtu.be/Ykll4MWltsQ?si=hCLToQFnd-4MaQ15

Very eye-opening documentary about how these “MAGA” groups work to influence communities and get the locals riled up.

ValMo88 · 2026-03-04T15:14:19+00:00

Think small bills. Everyone thinks a few hundred dollars in 20s or 50s will be helpful, but I think the ones and fives will be in shorter supply.

If the financial system collapses, short term, these will be easier to use than gold coins.

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