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Outrage As Taliban Afghan Illegal Who Sexually Assaulted 7-Year-Old Gets Just 2.5 Years In Prison Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, An Afghan small boat migrant with admitted ties to the Taliban kidnapped and sexually assaulted a seven-year-old girl inside a taxpayer-funded hotel – and a UK court has handed him just two and a half years in prison. This is the direct result of open borders policies that continue to flood Britain with unvetted arrivals who bring incompatible cultural attitudes and a total disregard for the safety of local communities. The attack took place in September...

Did Scientists Just Solve The Biggest Mystery Holding Back Solid-State Batteries Authored by Alex Kimani via OilPrice.com, Scientists have identified the root causes of solid-state battery failures, discovering that internal pressure cracks the electrolyte while electrical imbalances trigger lithium growth that causes short circuits. The findings could accelerate commercialization by turning a long-standing scientific mystery into a solvable engineering challenge. Automakers including Toyota, Honda, Mercedes-Benz, and BMW are investing billions in solid-state batteries, with commercial EV deployments targeted for the second half of this decade Scientists now know why solid-state batteries have repeatedly failed....

Five Dynamics That Make Sense Of An Increasingly Chaotic World Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, These dynamics and the incentives they generate lead to systemic crisis and collapse. As I noted in What Once Explained Everything Now Explains Nothing, the simplicity of either-or ideologies appeal to us. Identifying with an ideology is like having a favorite sports team: yea for our team! Our team good, other team bad. The roots of this simplistic either-or are obvious: our tribe good, other tribe bad. The problems with this simplistic loyalty arise when we attempt to...