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By Lambert Strether of Corrente.
Chook Track of the Day
American Robin, Audrey Carroll Audubon Sanctuary, Frederick, Maryland, United States. “Night tune with calls.”
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Politics
“So most of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are the truth is a rational administration of symbolic capital.” –Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles
2024
Time for the Countdown Clock!
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“President Biden shouldn’t run once more in 2024” [David Ignatius, WaPo]. The spook houseboy at WaPo speaks: “However I don’t suppose Biden and Vice President Harris ought to run for reelection…. Biden would carry two massive liabilities right into a 2024 marketing campaign. He can be 82 when he started a second time period. … [And] due to their issues about Biden’s age, voters would sensibly deal with his presumptive operating mate, Harris…. Politicians who know Biden nicely say that if he have been satisfied that Trump have been actually vanquished, he would really feel he had achieved his political mission. He’ll run once more if he believes in his intestine that Trump would be the GOP nominee and that he has one of the best probability to defeat Trump and save the nation from the nightmare of a revenge presidency.” Not clear how that can occur, nonetheless….. Time is operating out. In a month or so, this choice will likely be solid in stone. It will likely be too late for different Democrats, together with Harris, to check themselves in primaries and see whether or not they have the stuff of presidential management. Proper now, there’s no clear various to Biden — no screamingly apparent substitute ready within the wings. That is perhaps the decider for Biden, that there’s seemingly no one else. However perhaps he’ll belief in democracy to find new management, ‘within the enviornment.’” • Ignatius is appropriate that the Democrat bench is weak. Although presumably the spooks have anyone (“new management”) in thoughts (and still have extra tape of Biden than you may presumably think about); to them, “belief in [‘our’] democracy” would likely imply the ascendance of that anyone. Nevertheless, Ignatius isn’t appropriate when he writes “Time is operating out”; or relatively, is appropriate should you suppose the primaries are something apart from “norms.” From “If You Wish to Know What the Democratic Social gathering Is, Simply Ask Their Lawyer” (2017). That lawyer: “[W]right here you’ve a celebration that’s saying, We’re gonna, you already know, select our commonplace bearer, and we’re gonna comply with these common guidelines of the highway, which we’re voluntarily deciding, we might have — and we might have voluntarily determined that, Look, we’re gonna go into again rooms like they used to and smoke cigars and decide the candidate that manner.” If the Democrats need to nominate Michelle Obama primarily based on applause-meter outcomes from a seven-day “Meet the Candidates” TV particular, they will try this; and you may wager the Blue MAGA and the press would applaud every part vociferously, not simply the result however the course of (“It was an emergency.” I attempted to make sense of the bylaws of the Democratic Social gathering; they have been an extremely tangled mess, largely having to do with hiding the cash, but additionally with diffusing accountability.) It does make you ponder whether some variety soul, impressed by Ignatius’s evident sincerity, will take issues into their very own palms and physician the “juice” that anyone (Jill Biden?) carries round with them for Joe. “An actual sluggish scorching shot,” as William Gibson put it.
“Democrats want to comprehend that there isn’t any various to Biden – and buck up” [Sidney Blumenthal, Guardian]. “However it’s the Democrats who pull Biden underwater. They see his bodily faults and shudder at his political fall. He’s 80, his hair thinned, his gait slower and extra cautious. He isn’t eloquent. The slight hesitation of the stutter he overcame as a baby appears sometimes to return. He isn’t Mick Jagger strutting at 80. The depth of concern amongst Democrats about Biden is in direct proportion to their panic about Trump. They see in his fragility their very own predicament. He’s the display screen on which they mission their nervousness, insecurity and concern. They endure from a disaster of unhealthy nerves. The Democrats’ withholding creates a self-fulfilling prophesy. Spooked by the shadow of Trump, they react with disapproval of Biden, whose numbers are stagnant, flashing the signal that makes them extra frightened. They don’t censure Biden or dislike him. However they hope for a counter-factual state of affairs. There’s none. Requested to call a selected particular person they would favor to Biden, 18% of Democrats replied with a scattering of names. Bernie Sanders, 82, obtained the best help at 3%. Sanders, who has twice run for the nomination, this time has early endorsed Biden. It has taken the democratic socialist to remind that the proper shouldn’t be the enemy of the nice. If Biden have been to not run, the counter-factual dream of a Hollywood ending with Michael Douglas from The American President materializing would get replaced with a ferocious major of centrifugal drive exposing the occasion’s fractured divides and the survivor most probably at no higher ranking than Biden on the present fraught second. Biden’s presence leaves that bloodsport to a different day.” • Nicely, I do know which state of affairs the press would favor: Volatility.
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“The 2024 candidate-bots are right here” [Politico]. “On Wednesday, the [Chat2024] mission will formally unveil the AI-powered avatars of 17 main presidential candidates. Each is a chatbot educated on reams of information generated from at the least 100 sources, like candidates’ video appearances and writings.” 100 sources isn’t a lot. “The mission is a creation of Dara Ladjevardian, the co-founder of AI startup Delph, [and] quantities to a PR stunt for Delphi’s companies, after all, however Ladjevardian… thinks AI avatars have a outstanding function to play in the way forward for campaigning, governing and public opinion monitoring. He stated the mission was impressed by his [2020] expertise knocking on doorways within the Houston space to help a shedding congressional bid by his mom, Democrat Sima Ladjevardian… . He discovered that almost all voters discovered about candidates from snippets of tv protection, and argues that chatbots present a extra partaking, in-depth various. He hopes the presidential bots will appeal to the eye of campaigns up and down the poll and entice them to pay to host the avatars on their very own web sites. Along with offering campaigns with a brand new technique to exhibit their candidates, Ladjevardian stated he intends to promote them on the concept they will analyze the queries voters ship to chatbots to raised perceive public opinion.” • Hmm. Wait till we will dispense with the human solely….
“Pressing Suggestions in Legislation, Media, Politics, and Tech for Truthful and Respectable 2024 U.S. Elections” (PDF) [Ad Hoc Committee for 2024 Election Fairness and Legitimacy]. “In jurisdictions of over 1000 voters, paper ballots must be tabulated by optical-scan computer systems; ballots must be tabulated in smaller jurisdictions both by optical-scan computer systems or by hand counting. Submit-election audits must be performed by human inspection of the human-readable parts of the paper ballots.” So why not eradicate a layer of complexity and — comply with me intently right here — mark the paper ballots by hand? Additionally: “A wealth of scientific research have concluded that there isn’t any identified technique to ensure the safety of a voted poll returned by means of the web.” • So “web voting” is lifeless finally? I hope so!
2020 Submit Mortem
“Fox Sued by New York Metropolis Pension Funds Over Election Falsehoods” [New York Times]. “New York Metropolis’s pension funds sued the Fox Company and its board on Tuesday, accusing the corporate of neglecting its responsibility to shareholders by opening itself as much as defamation lawsuits from the persistent broadcasting of falsehoods concerning the 2020 presidential election. The lawsuit, filed within the Delaware Court docket of Chancery, is probably the most important shareholder motion since Fox settled a blockbuster defamation lawsuit introduced by Dominion Voting Programs in April for $787.5 million. Town’s 5 pension funds signify almost 800,000 present and retired employees and are price $253 billion. ‘We’re shareholders at an organization that, sadly, has a longstanding apply of permitting conspiracy theories that its executives and its board know are false to be repeated over and time and again, regardless of the very clear and current threat of defamation lawsuits eroding shareholder worth,’ stated Brad Lander, New York Metropolis’s comptroller, who oversees the pension funds. ‘And there was no effort to make governance reforms.’”• Hmm. I ponder who the skilled witnesses about CT will likely be.
Obama Legacy
“A Firm Household: The Untold Historical past of Obama and the CIA” [Covert Action Magazine (jsn)]. Re-upping this from Hyperlinks of August 31; one cease looking for Obama’s spook connections, and they’re quite a few. However see additionally the ultimate paragraph on the Pritzkers, the oligarchs within the different Democrat state. “Penny Pritzker of the Pritzker banking dynasty—ranked quantity 9 on the Forbes checklist with a fortune of $32.5 billion—gave $500,000 to Obama’s second inauguration—incomes her appointment as Obama’s Secretary of Commerce. The Pritzker household—which made its fortune by means of possession of Hyatt resorts—had lengthy ties to the CIA. They have been main depositors within the Bahamas-based Fortress Financial institution, a CIA outfit based by one of many CIA’s mob liaisons, Paul Helliwell, which specialised in off-shoring cash.[27] The Pritzkers have been additionally struggle profiteers. In 1953, household patriarchs Jay and Robert Pritzker based the Marmon Group, an industrial holding firm which incorporates the subsidiary Marmon Aerospace and Protection which manufactures wires and cables for aerospace, navy automobiles, fight methods, radar installations and naval shipboards. The Pritzkers—just like the Crowns—thus personally profited from Obama’s mammoth navy budgets, which outstripped these of President Bush by a mean of $18.7 billion per yr, Obama’s naval buildup within the South China Sea and his overseeing extra gross sales of navy weaponry than some other president—$60 billion greater than President Bush.[28]” • In the meantime, I’m persuaded, J. B. Pritzker waits for Biden to slide a cog….
Democrats en Déshabillé
Affected person readers, it appears that evidently individuals are really studying the back-dated put up! However I’ve not up to date it, and there are a lot of updates. So I should try this. –lambert
I’ve moved my standing remarks on the Democrat Social gathering (“the Democrat Social gathering is a rotting corpse that may’t bury itself”) to a separate, back-dated put up, to which I’ll periodically add materials, summarizing the addition right here in a “dwell” Water Cooler. (H opefully, some Bourdieu.) It seems that defining the Democrat Social gathering is, the truth is, a tough drawback. I do suppose the paragraph that follows is on level all the best way again to 2016, if not earlier than:
The Democrat Social gathering is the political expression of the category energy of PMC, their base (lucidly defined by Thomas Frank in Hear, Liberal!). It follows that the Democrat Social gathering is as “unreformable” because the PMC is unreformable; if the Democrat Social gathering didn’t exist, the PMC must invent it. If the Democrat Social gathering fails to manipulate, that’s as a result of the PMC lacks the aptitude to manipulate. (“PMC” modulo “class expatriates,” after all.) Second, all of the working components of the Social gathering reinforce one another. Go away apart characterizing the relationships between components of the Social gathering (ka-ching, however not solely) these components comprise a community — a Flex Web? An iron octagon? — of funders, distributors, apparatchiks, electeds, NGOs, and miscellaneous mercenaries, with property within the press and the intelligence neighborhood.
Word, after all, that the category energy of the PMC each expresses and is proscribed by different lessons; oligarchs and American gentry (see ‘industrial mannequin’ of Ferguson, Jorgensen, and Jie) and the working class spring to thoughts. Suck up, kick down.
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#COVID19
“I’m in earnest — I can’t equivocate — I can’t excuse — I can’t retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD.” –William Lloyd Garrison
Sources, United States (Nationwide): Transmission (CDC); Wastewater (CDC, Biobot; consists of many counties; Wastewater Scan, consists of drilldown by zip); Variants (CDC; Walgreens); “Iowa COVID-19 Tracker” (in IA, however nationwide information). “An infection Management, Emergency Administration, Security, and Normal Ideas” (particularly on hospitalization by metropolis).
Lambert right here: Readers, thanks for the collective effort. To replace any entry, do be at liberty to contact me on the handle given with the crops. Please put “COVID” within the topic line. Thanks!
Sources, United States (Native): AK (dashboard); AL (dashboard); AR (dashboard); AZ (dashboard); CA (dashboard; Marin, dashboard; Stanford, wastewater; Oakland, wastewater); CO (dashboard; wastewater); CT (dashboard); DE (dashboard); FL (wastewater); GA (wastewater); HI (dashboard); IA (wastewater studies); ID (dashboard, Boise; dashboard, wastewater, Central Idaho; wastewater, Coeur d’Alene; dashboard, Spokane County); IL (wastewater); IN (dashboard); KS (dashboard; wastewater, Lawrence); KY (dashboard, Louisville); LA (dashboard); MA (wastewater); MD (dashboard); ME (dashboard); MI (wastewater; wastewater); MN (dashboard); MO (wastewater); MS (dashboard); MT (dashboard); NC (dashboard); ND (dashboard; wastewater); NE (dashboard); NH (wastewater); NJ (dashboard); NM (dashboard); NV (dashboard; wastewater, Southern NV); NY (dashboard); OH (dashboard); OK (dashboard); OR (dashboard); PA (dashboard); RI (dashboard); SC (dashboard); SD (dashboard); TN (dashboard); TX (dashboard); UT (wastewater); VA (dashboard); VT (dashboard); WA (dashboard; dashboard); WI (wastewater); WV (wastewater); WY (wastewater).
Sources, Canada (Nationwide): Wastewater (Authorities of Canada).
Sources, Canada (Provincial): ON (wastewater); QC (les eaux usées); BC, Vancouver (wastewater).
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Covid is Airborne
“Addressing Schooling and Well being Inequity: Views from the North of England” (PDF) [Child of the North All-Party Parliamentary Group] “Classroom Air Cleansing Applied sciences (Class-ACT) – how built-in datasets can be utilized to handle elementary analysis questions The Covid-19 pandemic highlighted the significance of fine air flow within the prevention of airborne ailments [63, 64, 65]. Many school rooms are poorly ventilated, which will increase the danger of a kid or member of employees contracting an airborne sickness [66]. One attainable resolution to poorly ventilated school rooms is the supply of ‘air cleansing applied sciences’ that take away particles from the circulating air. These embody the Covid-19 virus and different pathogens, in addition to particles that may trigger bronchial asthma or hay fever. The linked well being and schooling information obtainable in Linked Bradford allowed the Class-ACT mission [67] to conduct a randomised trial to know the influence that air cleansing applied sciences had on youngsters’s attendance in class. By combining well being information with faculty absences, the research discovered that colleges that had these comparatively low-cost air cleansing applied sciences fitted confirmed considerably decrease absence charges. With out these related datasets it might solely be attainable to acquire a piecemeal image of the potential for illness transmission to be lowered by means of becoming air-cleaning applied sciences inside colleges.” • First air flow managed research I’m conscious of. Anyone inform HICPAC!
Vaccines
“First COVID-19 nasal spray vaccine being developed by Dartmouth Well being, the NIH and Exothera” [Healthcare Finance]. “The Nationwide Institutes of Well being, Belgium-based viral vector producer Exothera and researchers at Dartmouth Well being’s Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Middle and Dartmouth’s Geisel Faculty of Drugs are working to develop and convey to market the primary nasal COVID-19 vaccine. Scientific trials are deliberate for the USA and Africa. The nasal-spray vaccine is not going to require refrigeration and doesn’t must be administered by a medical skilled, making it a essential device within the combat towards COVID-19 in creating components of the world, based on Dartmouth Well being, the well being system for its flagship hospital, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Middle (DHMC), in Lebanon, New Hampshire…. ‘We’re happy to hitch this collaborative effort to develop and assess the protection, immunogenicity, and effectiveness of an adenovirus kind 4 primarily based vaccine expressing the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein as a novel strategy to the prevention of COVID-19,’ stated Wright, who can be a professor of pediatrics at Geisel. ‘Though distinctive within the COVID subject, the vaccine has precedent within the extremely profitable prevention of adenovirus respiratory illness in the USA navy.’” • Challenge NextGen goes unmentioned, so I assume it is a parallel effort. And if there’s the truth is a profitable “precedent” for nasal vaccines, that strikes the Biden Administration’s failure to maneuver ahead on them from the silly field to the evil field.
“One thing Terrible”
Lambert right here: I’m getting the sensation that the “One thing Terrible” is perhaps a sawtooth sample — variant after variant — that averages out to a completely excessive plateau. A number of exceptionally nasty sequelae, most probably deriving from immune dysregulation (says this layperson). To which we’d add mind injury, together with character modifications therefrom.
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Case Information
NOT UPDATED From BioBot wastewater information, September 11:
This time, it’s the South bringing down the curve
Regional information:
Curiously, the upswing begins earlier than July 4, which neither accelerates nor retards it.
Variants
NOT UPDATED From CDC, September 2:
Lambert right here: Prime of the leaderboard: EG.5 (“Eris“). No BA.2.86 right here, not even within the be aware, however see beneath at Positivity.
CDC: “As of Could 11, genomic surveillance information will likely be reported biweekly, primarily based on the provision of optimistic take a look at specimens.” “Biweeekly: 1. occurring each two weeks. 2. occurring twice per week; semiweekly.” Appears like CDC has chosen sense #1. In essence, they’re telling us variants are nothing to fret about. Time will inform.
Covid Emergency Room Visits
NOT UPDATED From CDC NCIRD Surveillance, September 2:
Lambert right here: One other Labor Day weekend drop, like Walgreens? Sometimes, three-day weekends don’t coincide with peak an infection!
Lambert right here: I modified this ER chart to a Covid-only chart damaged down by age. Word the highlighting.
NOTE “Charts and information offered by CDC, updates Wednesday by 8am. For the previous yr, utilizing a rolling 52-week interval.” So not all the pandemic, FFS (the implicit message right here being that Covid is “identical to the flu,” which is why the seasonal “rolling 52-week interval” is suitable for bothMR SUBLIMINAL I hate these individuals a lot. Discover additionally that this chart reveals, at the least for its time interval, that Covid isn’t seasonal, regardless that CDC is attempting to get us to consider that it’s, presumably to allow them to piggyback on the prevailing institutional equipment for injections.
Hospitalization
Bellwether New York Metropolis, information as of September 12:
Nonetheless climbing. I hate this metric as a result of the lag makes it misleading.
NOT UPDATED Right here’s a unique CDC visualization on hospitalization, nationwide, not by state, however with a date, at the least. September 2:
A minimum of now we now that hospitalization tracks positivity, which is good. Even when we don’t know what number of instances there are. And positivity as excessive because it’s been at any time, aside from Omicron.
Positivity
NOT UPDATED From Walgreens, September 11:
0.4% Nonetheless pondering the dip is Labor Day information. Or maybe individuals have been really testing for Labor Day, and stopped. Absolutely the numbers are nonetheless very small relative to June 2022, say. Curiously, these don’t correlate with the regional figures for wastewater. (It will be attention-grabbing to survey this inhabitants usually; these are individuals who, regardless of a tsunami of official propaganda and massive peer strain, went and bought examined anyhow.)
NOT UPDATED From CDC, traveler’s information, August 21:
A drop!
No BA.2.86 for 2 of the long-delayed assortment weeks.
Deaths
NOT UPDATED Iowa COVID-19 Tracker, September 6:
Lambert right here: The WHO information is nugatory, so I changed it with the Iowa Covid Information Tracker. Their technique: “These information have been sourced, by way of the API from the CDC: https://information.cdc.gov/NCHS/Circumstances-Contributing-to-COVID-19-Deaths-by-Stat/hk9y-quqm. This visualization updates on Wednesday evenings. Information are provisional and are adjusted weekly by the CDC.” I can’t appear to get a pop-up that reveals a complete of the three causes (high proper). Readers?
Complete: 1,174,691 – 1,174,631 = 60 (60 * 365 = 21,900 deaths per yr, at this time’s YouGenicist™ quantity for “residing with” Covid (fairly a bit greater than the minimizers would love, although they will discuss themselves into something. If the YouGenicist™ metric retains chugging alongside like this, I may must resolve that is what the powers-that-be contemplate “mission achieved” for this specific tranche of loss of life and illness).
Extra Deaths
The Economist, September 13:
Lambert right here: That is now being up to date every day once more. Odd. Based mostly on a machine-learning mannequin. (The CDC has an extra estimate too, however because it ran perpetually with an enormous typo within the Legend, I figured no one was actually taking a look at it, so I bought rid it. )
Stats Watch
Inflation: “United States Core Inflation Charge MoM” [Trading Economics]. “US core shopper costs, which exclude risky objects corresponding to meals and power, rose by 0.3% from the earlier month in August of 2023, above market expectations of a 0.2% improve and accelerating from 0.2% advances within the two earlier months.”
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The Bezzle: “Widespread nasal decongestant doesn’t really relieve congestion, FDA advisers say” [Associated Press]. “The main decongestant utilized by thousands and thousands of People in search of reduction from a stuffy nostril isn’t any higher than a dummy capsule, based on authorities consultants who reviewed the newest analysis on the long-questioned drug ingredient. Advisers to the Meals and Drug Administration voted unanimously on Tuesday towards the effectiveness of the important thing drug present in common variations of Sudafed, Dayquil and different medicines stocked on retailer cabinets. ‘Fashionable research, when nicely performed, should not displaying any enchancment in congestion with phenylephrine,’ stated Dr. Mark Dykewicz, an allergy specialist on the Saint Louis College Faculty of Drugs.”
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As we speak’s Worry & Greed Index: 54 Impartial (earlier shut: 51 Impartial) [CNN]. One week in the past: 53 (Impartial). (0 is Excessive Worry; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Sep 13 at 1:38:57 PM ET.
Zeitgeist Watch
“The Falling Man” [Esquire]. A 9/11 story, from 2021. “The Falling Man” is a photograph of one of many Twin Towers “jumpers,” and the story offers the origin, the publication historical past, and other people’s reactions, together with The Falling Man’s household. It’s transferring, not typical 9/11 schlock, and nicely price a learn. This caught my eye: “From the start, the spectacle of doomed individuals leaping from the higher flooring of the World Commerce Middle resisted redemption…. The trial that lots of endured within the constructing after which within the air grew to become its personal form of trial for the hundreds watching them from the bottom. Nobody ever bought used to it; nobody who noticed it wished to see it once more, though, after all, many noticed it once more. Every jumper, irrespective of what number of there have been, introduced recent horror, elicited shock, examined the spirit, struck an enduring blow. These tumbling by means of the air remained, by all accounts, eerily silent; these on the bottom screamed… And it was, finally, the sight of the jumpers that offered the corrective to those that insisted on saying that what they have been witnessing was ‘like a film,’ for this was an ending as unimaginable because it was insufferable: People responding to the worst terrorist assault within the historical past of the world with acts of heroism, with acts of sacrifice, with acts of generosity, with acts of martyrdom, and, by horrible necessity, with one extended act of—if these phrases might be utilized to mass homicide—mass suicide.: • Once I see Covid, and its airborne transmission, normalized, I really feel very very like I’m seeing an “unimaginable ending”; like I’m watching a mass suicide, albeit on a a lot bigger scale than the two,977 memorialized on the former WTC, and with the “jumpers” not “eerily silent” however chanting “lead your life,” as they’ve been taught, on the best way down. It’s not particularly “bearable.”
Class Warfare
Every part’s going based on plan:
This is the actually staggering graph.This is not the variety of individuals out of labor.That is the explanations individuals are leaving work.
That flame purple wedge is the CONSTANTLY INCREASING variety of individuals leaving the workforce resulting from long run illness.
MORE PEOPLE ARE LEAVING WORK NOW DUE… pic.twitter.com/5OyQ25DKeg
— tern (@1goodtern) September 13, 2023
Therefore bots, AI, and so forth.
Information of the Wired
“Why Roman concrete continues to be stronger than RAAC (and different fashionable concretes)” [Chemistry World]. “Whence this exceptional resilience of Roman concrete structure? It’s all all the way down to the chemistry. The important thing element of mortars and cements is lime: calcium oxide, made by heating a calcium carbonate mineral corresponding to limestone to drive off CO2. Add water and you’ve got slaked lime Ca(OH)2, which was sometimes combined as a paste with sand or rubble (combination) to make concrete. The hydroxide steadily absorbs CO2 from the air and reforms a tough binder of calcium carbonate. However Roman concrete was completely different. They combined lime with volcanic ash composed of glassy aluminosilicate minerals to make the cement that certain massive chunks of volcanic rock in a form of random three-dimensional mosaic. As a substitute of forming carbonate, the slaked lime reacted with parts of the ash to provide calcium aluminosilicate phases – mainly a form of rock itself, which units across the chunky combination in the same technique to how geological conglomerate rocks are made. Higher nonetheless, the concrete can go on reacting for years and even centuries.” • That is, nonetheless, a matter of controversy, and based on the writer, the MIT guys bought it mistaken!
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