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Steaganography made simple

https://www.makeuseof.com/hide-zip-within-image-windows/

The solution to mass killers

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/motivation-mass-shooters-decide-to-kill-out-of-a-quest-for-significance/   explains the mental illness which leads to mass shooting incidents.  Which is why the Some Asshole Theory (AKA Media Responsibility Theory) needs acceptance and use.   Here's a brief explanation , from the very liberal The Daily Kos. Dr. Dean Ing, a media studies academic and adventure novelist, explains it in better detail on page 110 in his superb SOFT TARGETS , also available on Inter Library Loan . (Just ask your local librarian). "It boils down to two points: We turn every act of terrorism into a joke at the terrorist's expense;  and we absolutely must refuse, ever again, to do a straight report on their motives in connection with an act of terrorism." "The medium can give coverage to the event, sympathetic to the victims, but we must deride the (murderers) as a bunch of (witless fools)"  With more guns in America than people, do you really ...

THE COUNTRY WITH 40% OF THE WORLD’S FIREARMS COMMITS LESS THAN 4% OF THE WORLD’S HOMICIDES

THE COUNTRY WITH 40% OF THE WORLD’S FIREARMS COMMITS LESS THAN 4% OF THE WORLD’S HOMICIDES by Kevin Ryan When a new study came out finding that America is home to 40% of the world’s firearms, the media had a field day. “America has 40% of the world’s guns, despite having just 4% of the world’s population!” blared headlines across to country. What the media left out, however, is that, despite having so many firearms, Americans commit just 3.7% of the world’s homicides. The data (2014): World Population: 7,298,453,033 U.S. Population: 318,857,056 (4.4% of world total) World Homicides: 384,553 U.S. Homicides: 14,249 (3.7% of world total) In other words, Americans commit just 3.7% of the world’s murders, despite having 4.4% of the world’s population and 40% of the world’s firearms — further evidence that other factors, NOT gun ownership, are responsible for homicide rates. But that headline doesn’t play into the media’s gun control narrative, which is why you didn’t see it. SOURCES: ht...

Instacamper

This $320 pop-up cabin attaches to your car | Mashable

11 feet deep

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Vikings left Greenland because of an 11' rise in sea level, under six centuries ago. https://www.livescience.com/agu-floods-drove-vikings-from-greenland And, sea level is rising again. https://www.france24.com/en/video/20230420-arctic-amplification-climate-change-diminishing-sea-ice-raising-temperatures-at-alarming-rate https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/ice-sheets-in-greenland-antarctica-melting-faster-than-previously-thought-research-shows What will that do to Naples? Just one meter drowns Four Corners, the water treatment plant, and the airport, making the town uneconomical:               The hospital is partially underwater at two meters (6.5') sea level rise.   At 11', goodbye Port Royal, Royal Harbor, Naples High, and most of the Moorings.

SSD failure tracking

New data tracks failure rates of 13 SSD models, going back up to 4 years | Ars Technica

Donate cash, not leftovers

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/mar/13/the-big-idea-in-a-disaster-bad-help-can-be-worse-than-no-help-at-all

Stay off Forest Service roads in winter!

Stranded Motorist Effects Own Rescue Using A Drone And A Cell Phone | Hackaday       He was *very* lucky. Travel on Forest Service roads in winter has *killed* people in Oregon before. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kim#Snowbound

THE HEALTHY (Reader's Digest) medical tips

Reader's Digest has a health-focused site, THE HEALTHY , w/ medical tips collected here: 47 Secrets Hospitals Don’t Want to Tell You (But Every Patient Should Know) 45 Secrets Your Doctor Won't Tell You 25 Heart-Health Secrets Cardiologists Want You to Know 17 Everyday Medication Mistakes That Could Make You Sick 14 Risky Medical Procedures That Don’t Always Work Improve Your Hospital Stay: 12 Insider Tips 11 Things Every Patient Should Try to Lower Their Hospital Costs 10 Medical Tests and Procedures Doctors Never Waste Money On When You Can’t Get to a Doctor: 10 Medical Procedures You Can Do at Home 9 Surprising Health Risks Men Need to Watch Out For 7 Times You Should Hire a Patient Advocate  (and When It’s Unnecessary) Doctors and Nurses Reveal the Medical Facts Everyone Should Know How to Find the Best Doctors, According to Doctors    What Your Doctor's Really Thinking  

My robot voice is YOUR password

Here's a demonstration that voice verification is no longer reliable  How I Broke Into a Bank Account With an AI-Generated Voice (vice.com)

Meteorite strike in the Channel

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  Asteroid Sar2667 aka meteorite 2023 CX1 impact was projected to hit 3 km off Cap Fagnet on the Normandy coast where sea bed is 18m deep, actually hit 4 km offshore at 2:59 London time today.  Was only the 7th such object in history to be detected prior to impact. Energy before atmo entry: 100 tons TNT estimated.  Size before entry: About 1 meter diameter. Noise from impact predicted to be 59db on the beach, 9 secs after strike. 'Splash crater' 24m wide.  Average interval between impacts of this size somewhere on Earth is 1/10 year. First projection was for a North American impact later in the day, but more data refined the splashdown point & time.  Ten years and four days ago, the much larger Cheylabinsk meteor was estimated at around 400-500 kilotons, over three orders of magnitude larger. https://twitter.com/tw__astro/status/1624908400902504451 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/feb/13/asteroid-lights-up-sky-over-channel-as-scienti...

A compilation of nuclear weapon facts

Credible nuclear weapons capabilities and effects for real world peace: peace through tested, proved and practical declassified deterrence and countermeasures against collateral damage. Credible deterrence through simple, effective protection against concentrated and dispersed invasions and aerial attacks. Debunking inaccurate, misleading CND "disarm or be annihilated" left political anti-nuclear deterrence dogma. Hiroshima and Nagasaki anti-nuclear propaganda debunked by solid evidence. (archive.org)