Each page yesterday took him just a little more than a minute, so this will take >30 mins.
Between that & the testimony readbacks, also expected to take >30 mins, there will likely be >1 hour this morning w/the jury in the courtroom, not actively deliberating.
@GottaLaff All the best for the future and let's hope King President Trump the Smelly doesn't attempt to annex Canada because it refused to acknowledge his "stabell jeanious" 😉😁
While touring #Andalusia in #Spain, I spotted a gleaming tower. Intrigued, I looked it up and found out it was the #Gemasolar Thermosolar Plant which can supply power to 27,500 homes and uses molten salt heat storage technology to keep generating power when there's no sun. More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemasolar_Thermosolar_Plant - Perhaps #Italy could do with a few similar plants. #energy
@marcusjenkins Interesting. Didn't know about the rooftop solar panel situation. Will hunt for solar energy stats. Comparing Italy and Spain (and a few other Mediterranean nations) would be interesting. #solarenergy#impuestoalsol
Our nearby small market town used to have 3 banks; they're all closed (taking their cash machines with them), and this week one of the two remaining cash machines was removed from the supermarket where it was located.
So, we're down to a single cash machine in an area with a radius (I'm guessing) of around 20 miles.
The cashless society doesn't represent consumer choice, its pace is being forced by financial institutions keen to charge fees on transactions!
@ChrisMayLA6 In theory, cashless payments already save banks quite a bit of, er, cash, so fees should be coming down or, at the very least, staying the same. Cashless payments enable banks to save a fortune on physical cash management which is expensive - I know having been given figures by people who work in banks.
President #Biden is traveling to Racine County, Wisconsin today to unveil a $3.3 billion investment by Microsoft to build an AI data center in the state.
This is the same location where, seven years ago, #Trump touted a $10 billion Foxconn facility as the "eighth wonder of the world."
That facility never fully materialized.
@GottaLaff Yet you've got idiots like Dan Bongino yelling that Biden is the worst president in US history, and, even worse, more idiots who believe him! Talk about dumb and dumber! #farright
If you've heard/read analysis that tips its hat to Karl Polanyi & his idea of the 'double movement' but have not been sure what is being alluded to, here (marking 80 years since his death) is a concise introduction to his life & thought.
Its only an introduction (there's a lot more to Polanyi that discussed here) but if you're interested in finding out more about this staple of critical political economy, this is a good a place to start as any.
@ChrisMayLA6 Ah ha, from the article: "Polanyi already associated markets with chaos and suffering" - seems to be what neoliberalism policies cause (Something I've recently concluded myself) - will read on.
@ChrisMayLA6 Thanks for the tip. Found it on Amazon (ironically). Sounds as if it should be on the reading list of anyone thinking of entering politics. I wonder how many of today's politicos have read it. Maybe you could come up with a reading list for aspiring politicans? One toot at a time, maybe 🙂
@ChrisMayLA6 Your expert input would no doubt enable the levelling up of legions of knowledge thirsty Mastadonians 🙂 Might even make the world a slightly better place too.