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    Capitalism: Musicians and exploitation mess
    • Platforms like Spotify don't pay for individual streams. They are initially aimed at calculating the remuneration depending on the share of the number of listening to music of one author or another in the "common pot" of streams of all content released on the site. With this approach, there is nothing surprising in the fact that performers from the ten most famous performers earn several times more than slightly less popular musicians. Independent and aspiring creators who are not among the leaders are simply swept the crumbs off the table, even if they gain hundreds of thousands of plays.

      Other streaming services that use a similar billing model pay even less, by the way - Pandora and YouTube average $ 0.00203 and $ 0.00154 per stream. It turns out that the problem is of a systemic nature, and if the bulk of the venues continue to adhere to the chosen course, ordinary musicians will get less and less. And at some point, they may completely lose interest in working with such services.

      Most people ignore that huge corporations dropped the value of music, video and writing work and they make huge - hundreds of billions a year profits on this. As themselves they are doing nothing, except very questionable quality services and aggregation. But in capitalism it is no real solution for all this.

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    COVID: Instant cure mentioned during 2020 fall returns
    • In its current release, the Federal Biomedical Agency of Russia revealed the details of the developed antidote for coronavirus. Called "World 19" entiotropic agent as an active component uses small interfering RNAs (miRNAs), which specifically destroy a specific region of the viral genome, which is responsible for its replication.

      Experiments on animals have shown that the concentration of the virus is reduced by 10 thousand times, the drug does not affect the human genome and is absolutely safe for humans. In addition, the regions of the virus genome, selected as a target for the drug's action, are highly conservative, practically do not undergo mutations, and therefore remain relevant for any of the known lines of coronavirus, including the British and Indian ones, said the head of the Agency Veronika Skvortsova.

      The pronounced antiviral effect of the drug, confirmed in the experiment, made it possible to assume its maximum effectiveness in the earliest period after human infection - in the first 2-3 days, in the so-called viral phase.

      Permission for the first phase of clinical trials was received on December 30, 2020. Taking into account that MIR 19 is a new molecule that is first used in humans, the first phase of clinical trials was carried out especially carefully and was completed on March 27, 2021.The first phase demonstrated good tolerability of the drug and its complete safety with single and repeated use in wide dose range.

      04/14/2021 official permission was obtained to conduct phase II clinical trials and from 26.04.2021 they began in the clinical centers of the FMBA of Russia in Moscow and the Moscow region, as well as in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region.

      The end of the II phase of clinical trials is planned by mid-August 2021. and in case of confirmation of the effectiveness of the drug in patients with a new coronavirus infection, the drug will be submitted for registration.

      As I understand, it is final warning.

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    War: Hydrogen and monopolies
    • Hydrogen is extremely bad as fuel. It even has issue with lot of nitrogen oxides if you try to burn it as usual fuel using normal air (hence very good platinum catalyst is always a must).

      But best feature for monopolies - you can't store or transport hydrogen. It is very inefficient to store it in liquid form, due to density and necessary temperature. You can also can't store it in any container for long as it goes through walls and in same time likes to damage any metals.

      Also from 20 to 80% of all energy is used to actually make hydrogen from something (water, air) and convert to compressed liquid or similar form.

      This is main reason why we have extreme attack on gasoline and diesel fuel. As both of them are perfectly fit for private cars and long uncontrolled travel. You also can store them for long periods of time, trade without control and get with you for very long trips. This is very bad features.

      In contrast, both electric and hydrogen cars will be 100% rented soon, aimed for short travel and you will be refueling them at the totally controlled manner, using QR codes to cross each zone and to be able to access any refueling station.

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    China: Big issue with metals
    • China will sell 100 thousand tons of copper, aluminum and zinc from state reserves as part of measures to curb the rise in raw materials prices and support the market. This was reported by the National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration.

      In mid-June, China announced its intention to start selling key industrial metals from government stocks to curb higher commodity prices and ease pressure on producers from rising costs. The metals will be sold to Chinese converters and producers through public auctions.

      Copper futures contracts on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) have grown by more than 20% since the beginning of this year, and almost 1.5 times over the past year.

      China now is in situation that is worse that Germany had been in 1941 - already past coal peak (Germany had one in 1943), already past most metals peak (Germany had been many years before this).

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    Capitalism: Support for left ideas rises
    • A new poll conducted June 11-25 by Momentive on behalf of Axios found that those 18-34 now are evenly split on negative and positive views of capitalism. (46% vs. 49%). The dislike for capitalism rises further at younger age groups. For those 18 to 24, the negative views outweighing positive views by a margin of 54% to 42%.

      A new poll by the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) shows younger people growing opposing to capitalism and support for socialism. The paper includes a Forefront Market Research poll of people aged between 16 and 34 in the UK. An astonishing 67 per cent say they would like to live in a socialist economic system.

      COVID had been clearly on time.

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