Tag: State

I’m convinced we are going to see a politician die on TV — and not because of an assassination. Neither of our two likely presidential candidates can run up a flight of stairs without great risk. Even back in January 2021, the top three candidates (Trump, Biden, and Sanders)...

River In 1975, Hungarian-American psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi wrote a book called Beyond Boredom and Anxiety: Experiencing Flow in Work and Play. It was the birth of the modern term ‘flow’ for a specific psychological state that has popped up in writings throughout ...

I’m convinced we are going to see a politician die on TV — and not because of an assassination. Neither of our two likely presidential candidates can run up a flight of stairs without great risk. Even back in January 2021, the top three candidates (Trump, Biden, and Sanders)...

You can knock over the Empire State Building with 29 dominos. Each domino knocks over about 1-and-a-half times its mass. The last domino is as tall as the Empire State Building. Now here’s the real question: How big does the first domino have to be? About the size of a Tic Tac! Im...

This post has been a long time coming. Back in September, I teased about my first impressions of Infrastructure from Code (IfC). Around that time I began an experiment. I wanted to see how people were approaching the Infrastructure from code problems. Infrastructure from Code is...

This is Part 3 of the Comprehensive Guide to Terraform series. In Part 1, you learned why we picked Terraform as our IAC tool of choice and not Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Pulumi, or CloudFormation. In Part 2, you got started with the basic syntax and features of Terraform and used th...

The State Pattern is a behavioural design pattern that allows an object to alter its behaviour when its internal state changes. The pattern is particularly useful when an object needs to change its behaviour in response to state transitions while keeping the logic for each state separate and encapsu...

It is time to tax the ultra Rich and hold the city of Chicago accountable until they restore and repair the harm that was created long before the Migrant Crisis. It is clear that all Communities of color have had about enough. We are in solidarity about this, no doubt. This was a problem before t...

In March of 2023, Biffy Clyro frontman Simon Neil would team up with Biffy bandmate Mike Vennart and ex-Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo in a project titled EMPIRE STATE BASTARD, to blow the pants off of a packed Cathouse in Glasgow for their first ever live show. What started as ...

Green Builder Media has launched our annual State of the Industry report, which tracks trade and consumer perceptions, sentiment, and purchase drivers, along with key sustainability trends that are transforming the building sector. As I was analyzing the trends, a few interesting data points...

At the surface, the pairing of Ting and State Farm does make sense. If this device can reduce electrical fires by giving early warnings and prompting mitigation, then theoretically this should reduce the number of electrical fires, thus reducing the number of electrical fire claims that st...

Relocating can be complex, but with some preparation and planning, it can be easier than you think! Here are some tips to make your out-of-state move a breeze:  Establish your budget and consider expenses like moving trucks, movers, and unexpected fees. Assess the cost of living in your prosp...

I’ve been theorizing for a while now that the United States of America is never going to be united again. I feel that a name change and some logistics may be in order. The Divided States of America seems more accurate and realistic here in 2024. It’s sad to think of your country as be...

Justice Gordon McCloud, writing for a five justice majority, held that the statute “makes possession of a controlled substance a felony punishable by up to five years in prison, plus a hefty fine; leads to deprivation of numerous other rights and opportunities; and does all this without proof ...

Former President Donald Trump’s first major rally for the 2024 presidential race was held in Waco, Texas. It was a fitting stage for him to attack the evil deep state. Trump, always the shrewd marketer, knew the message he wanted in starting his presidential campaign: you cannot trust the g...

Both houses of the US Congress are each held by one of our two parties and only held by the slimmest of majorities. When no one has a clear majority, what used to be called a mandate, the only way things get done is to work with the other side in good faith. Bipartisanship, in other words. For th...

Party funding is the method a political party uses to raise money to spend on campaign and other political activity. Political parties in the UK today have various methods of funding, some examples: membership fees, donations and grants. Which they utilise in order to fund party activities like medi...

On Monday evening, George Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis police. Video surfaced of a white police officer holding his knee to Floyd’s neck for eight minutes while Floyd pleaded with police saying “I can’t breathe.” Floyd became unresponsive and died shortly after at Hennep...

In a world where controversy fuels the clicks, shares, and debates that drive our online conversations, the question of whether Israel can be labeled an apartheid state is the ultimate lightning rod. The mere mention of the term "apartheid" in the context of Israel sparks passionate debate...

Waterloo? The apocalypse? The Titanic? These are just some of the terms that journalists, political pundits, consultants and other assorted observers are employing as they describe the current state of the Republican party. Indeed, for many, there is a deep-seated sentiment that the party of Abraham...

Black activists and abolitionists are (and have been) felling Confederate flags and monuments, including in Mississippi. It’s time (again, still) to talk about the Minnesota state flag and seal (“The Great Seal of the State of Minnesota”). When I’m giving a workshop on w...

Crystal Lattices and Unit Cells:  Crystal lattice: A 3D network of points representing the positions of atoms/molecules.  Unit cell: The smallest repeating unit of a crystal lattice.  Bravais lattices: 14 fundamental types of unit cells based on symmetry. &n...

My daughter was born in 2015. It was a scary time. Our little girl came into a world that was going to be far different than the one we were living in before she existed. There was an election that changed everything just after she showed up. This was exactly what we were worried about. We’...

Itshapes our thoughts, emotions, and actions, ultimately determining the quality of our experiences. When we become aware of the impact of our mental state, we can transform our lives and create a fulfilling existence. Our mental state is not static but is influenced by dynamic forces that f...