{"id":52339,"date":"2023-07-08T06:05:49","date_gmt":"2023-07-08T13:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=52339"},"modified":"2023-07-07T17:32:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T00:32:59","slug":"open-thread-july-8-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2023\/07\/08\/open-thread-july-8-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread July 8, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I received an e-mail with a little video of Jamie Raskin announcing that his cancer is in total remission. Now that&#8217;s something to break out a little bubbly for! I also received a note (email) from Pat advising me she has out-of-town family visiting, so will probably not be around this weekend (so don&#8217;t worry.) I also received a grocery order.\u00a0 Most of it was there, But there was one substitution, and it was a bad one (which common sense should have prevented.\u00a0 So I had to file a refund claim for that.\u00a0 I got it all in and the shulder was still better after doing so than it was the previous day, so that&#8217;s a win.\u00a0 It&#8217;s still a work in progress, but I;m liking the progress.<\/p>\n<p>Cartoon &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15575\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/0708Cartoon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/0708Cartoon.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/0708Cartoon-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Short Takes &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/07\/05\/biden-hydrogen-europe-00104024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politico &#8211; Biden\u2019s hydrogen bombshell leaves Europe in the dust<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; European leaders have devoted tens of billions of dollars toward encouraging production of hydrogen, a clean-burning fuel that advocates say will create jobs and help fight climate change. But now, many of those jobs will be going to the United States instead. The clean energy subsidies that undergird President Joe Biden\u2019s climate agenda have just prompted one Norwegian manufacturer to choose Michigan, not Europe, as the site of a nearly $500 million factory that will produce the equipment needed to extract hydrogen from water. And other European-based companies are being tempted to follow suit, people involved in the continent\u2019s hydrogen efforts say \u2014 making the universe\u2019s most abundant substance the latest focus of the transatlantic trade battle on green energy.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/07\/05\/biden-hydrogen-europe-00104024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for details.<\/a> I wish no ill to Europe, but I cannot help feeling that this is so cool.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/07\/03\/1185724026\/octopus-nursery-discovered-costa-rica\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Public Radio &#8211; Researchers found a rare octopus nursery off the coast of Costa Rica<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; Scientists working off the coast of Costa Rica say they&#8217;ve discovered the world&#8217;s third known octopus nursery&#8230;. According to a press release, researchers witnessed Muusoctopus eggs hatch. They said it demonstrated that the area, known as the Dorado Outcrop, was hospitable to young octopuses&#8230; Scientists said the discovery also indicated that some deep-sea octopus species brood their eggs in low-temperature hydrothermal vents, such as the one where the nursery was discovered, where fluid heated in the Earth&#8217;s crust is released on the seafloor \u2014 like hot springs.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/07\/03\/1185724026\/octopus-nursery-discovered-costa-rica\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for story.<\/a> I cannot bring myself to be surprised that octopuses have discoverd this and made use of it for child care &#8211; they are so <strong>doggoned<\/strong> smart! But I am charmed by it. The octopuses in this story are neither South Asian nor mimics, but I couldn&#8217;t resist the chart below.<\/p>\n<p>Food For Thought<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-52344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/mimic-octopus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"742\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/mimic-octopus.jpg 742w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/mimic-octopus-261x300.jpg 261w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/mimic-octopus-130x150.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 742px) 100vw, 742px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Steal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Steal.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Steal-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Steal-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Steal-768x536.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I received an e-mail with a little video of Jamie Raskin announcing that his cancer is in total remission. Now that&#8217;s something to break out a little bubbly for! I also received a note (email) from Pat advising me she has out-of-town family visiting, so will probably not be around this weekend (so don&#8217;t <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2023\/07\/08\/open-thread-july-8-2023\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":50381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[4355,3704,3723,4908,5497,3760,5496,4925,4104,4317],"class_list":["post-52339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-cartoon","tag-climate-change","tag-good-news","tag-hydrogen","tag-joe-biden","tag-non-fossil-fuels","tag-octopus","tag-science","tag-the-economy","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}