Tea According to Modern Marvels at https://youtu.be/az5lkJD_MMA
Adapted from the Modern Marvels TV show, season 12, episode 52 "The History of Tea"
"Difficult Times Will Come" 2 Timothy 2:14 Chapter Section 3 Amplified Holy Bible Zondervan Pages 1608-9
Idolatry, narcism, greed & glorification of evil as good. The following biblical selection speaks to the state of the world today!
"BUT UNDERSTAND this, that in the last days danger times (of great stress and trouble) will come (difficult days that will be hard to bear)."
"For people will be lovers of self (narcissistic, self-focused) lovers of money [impelled by greed] boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy & profane (and they will be) unloving [devoid of natural human affection, calloused and inhumane] irreconcilable, malicious gossips, devoid of self-control [intemperate, immoral] brutal, haters of good, traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of [sensual] pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form pf [outward] godliness (religion) although they have denied its power [for their conduct nullifies their claim of faith] Avoid such people and keep far away from them."
"For among them are those who worm their way into homes and captivate morally weak and spiritually dwarfed women weighed down by [the burden of their] sins, easily swayed by various impulse, always learning and listening to anybody who will teach them, but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Just as Jannes and Jambres [the court magicians of Egypt] opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, unqualified and worthless [as teachers] in regard to the faith. But they will not get very far, for their meaningless nonsense and ignorance will become obvious to everyone, as was that of Jannes and Jambres."
"Now you have diligently follow [my example, that is] my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness, persecutions, and sufferings-- such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra; what persecutions I endured, but the Lord rescued me from them all! Indeed, all who delight in pursuing righteousness and are determined to live godly lives in Christ Jesus will be hunted and persecution (because of their Faith)."
"But evil men and imposters will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. But as for you, continue in the things that you have learned and of which year are convinced [holding tightly to the truths] knowing from whom you learned them, and how from childhood you have known the sacred Hebrew Scriptures which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus [surrendering your entire self to Him and having absolute confidence in His wisdom, power and goodness]"
"All Scripture is God-breathed [given by divine inspiration] and is profitable for instruction, for conviction [of sin] for correction [of error and restoration to obedience] for training in righteousness [learning to live in conformity to God's will, both publicly and privately- behaving honorably with personal integrity & moral courage]. so that the man of God may be complete and proficient, outfitted and thoroughly equipped for every good work."
American Watch Industry Destroyed by Globalization
What follows is a computer generated transcript edited from linked Video (click blue text to watch) -> YouTube video about wrist watch repair & the history of wrist watch manufacturing worldwide!
"You know what it's absolutely criminal, what happened to the American watch industry, so come on in and let's investigate what happened. Lets describe the sad tale of the once flourishing American watch industry."
"The American watch industry had desire to make timekeeping affordable for its people back in the 1800s. Elgin and Waltham watch game was so strong it impressed the Swiss such that Swiss companies started making fakes to imitate American watches, known as the Swiss fakes from the 1960's. Not only were the Swiss impressed, they were also perplexed by the manufacturing techniques of the American watch makers."
"Sadly, reckless decisions made by the American government started a steady decline in this once great time keeping industry. The Swiss wanted to break into the American market and the American government gave very favorable tax relief to the Swiss Watch companies to import in their products. World war 1 & then 2, the American government ordered companies such as Elgin to stop producing watches and help with the war effort by producing military equipment."
"The Swiss stayed neutral in WWII & extended their stranglehold in the American wrist watch market further. In 1854 a man named Aaron Dennison started the Waltham watch company based in Waltham Massachusetts, which itself was a hub during the industrial revolution. Genius of people like Denison and other companies based in Waltham had developed some of the most advanced tooling and machines which took the American watch manufacturing game to a level where they had huge amounts of knowledge in mass production from the firearms industry and then later from Henry Ford which was applied to the watch industry, while the Swiss industry had nothing of the sort at that time, they were still producing handmade items in small quantities."
"Even back then companies such as Elgin were flag bearers for the right to repair and were strong advocates for the need for wearers of their watches to be able to easily repair them with easy access and availability to exchangeable spare parts. The Waltham watch company was bankrupt by 1949 and totally defunct in by 1957 so who licensed this once great name in watchmaking, another Swiss fake trying to capitalize on a great name watch game in high street fashion, most of which license their names out and are produced with Japanese movements, while every other part of the watch made in China."
"Waltham and Elgin shared a similar ethos, the desire to make watches affordable and repairable by your average Joe with the right tools & basic watch repair knowledge. Notice similarities in simplicity of design of the American watch functions sharing parts & having no unnecessary complications, the lack of posts and other elements in the designs to avoid or to eliminate the need to replace major parts such as the main plate or even the whole movement if for example there was some accidental water ingress. It's cheaper to replace a rusty screw acting as a post rather than a whole main plate."
"There isn't much information about the Universal Time Corporation but it may have been set up to enter the American market and the name "Universal Time Cooperation" may have sounded a lot more friendly in those days than Seiko. Just as American companies were ordered by their government to help with the war effort, Seiko was also ordered by the Japanese government to help with their war effort by producing military gear. After the war in the 1950s seiko started selling its products in the United States & Waltham moved some of its operations to Switzerland via a subsidiary company in the 1950s so this watch probably can claim to be represented by three cultures. America, Asia and Europe."
"Pretty awesome considering all the cultural & political friction nations had with each other back then. Interesting stories about time pieces of historical significance about any horological subject can be left in the comments below, if you would be so kind."
"The American watch brands with Japanese movements and Chinese cases, all put together from an office in Switzerland and then serviced by someone in England with a strap made in Italy, using tools and equipment made in Germany. An example to collaborate and embrace all these amazing cultures around you without fear that often grows into paranoia, uncertainty, doubt, bigotry, racism or worse."
Remember we are all in this life on Earth & need to treat the planet & other people around the world with dignity & respect. Try not to be a crazy lunatic or whacked out foolish hater, show other people love & kindness & be forgiving, thankful & appreciative to God for your life! Peace love & blessings, warm regards, God bless & Godspeed. Praise be to God!
Accepting ALL people with inclusivity & treating others with dignity & respect!
Being kind & nice & using positive wording & edifying & honorable discourse, its possible to be an uplifting, loving, respectful, kind & honorable person. My faith in Christ Jesus & loving relationship with God & my wife Meg, these uplift my spirt, soul, mind, & body, causing healing renewing forgiveness inward & outwardly.
Apple M1 Silicon M1 Chipsets made by TSMC using ASLM latest Deep EUV lithography node processing for integrated circuit manufacturing
Apple M1 chips offer up to 3X better power efficiency
Vertical integration of software & hardware
Similar performance as Intel's best chips
Better battery life in mobile devices
Think excimer laser scanning on first surface highly precise computer controlled actuation scanning mirror optics without lens, giving spectral feature precision down to chipset features of 3nm- approaching the electron gate leakage field of silicon semiconductor materials & required GaN or gallium nitride based semiconductors or similar high K (dielectric strength or insulating superiority materials) with better electrical insulating properties that typical silicon based materials used in traditional & current integrate circuits made in large chip fabs by TSMC using ASML hardware, on equipment made by Nikon & Cannon & Intel - using designs from fabless companies that develop their own chipset designs & architectures like Apple with the existing M1 lineup & upcoming M2 & M3 & M4 & M5 silicon // designs already in the works - during the ongoing chipset shortage happening right now - the same things that caused the graphics card shortage to form during the early days of COVID19
Apple AirPods & True Wireless Earbuds (Audio signal analytics) on ~40mAh of LiPo battery energy over Bluetooth 5.3 etc
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| Apple AirPod Pro |
The main information processing difference between a $17 chinese wireless earbud set & the $249 AirPod Pro, that Apple working with TSMC using ASML latest mirror bounce deep UV lithography able to produce chipsets that are more power efficient to perform more kinds of microphone transparency mode & active noise canceling & voice call clarity improvement modulation- so on the same ~40 mAh of stored chemical energy it the tiny LiPo batteries common in these kinds of devices, the AirPod's can do more computational real time signal processing & produce better functions & more features. Bose noise canceling & Jawbone earbuds have similar amazing signal processing performance!
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$10 billions USD James Webb Space Telescope
42 grams of gold coated as a super thin IR reflecting tarnish resistant front surface of a 6.5 m mirror made of 18 precision machined hexagonal beryllium segments with active position & focus adjustment motors. As of early June 2022 the JWST being calibrated to get all the mirrors lined up with the other optics & tune the system so that it can pick up just a single photon per second of weak IR radiation from the earliest moments of the universe formation, some 13.8 billion years ago.
European Energy Prices vs Sanctions in Russia
Most of Europes fossil energy, especially naturally gas, imported from Russian pipelines, funneling vast streams of cash back into the Russian economy. The sanctions placed on Russian for invading the Ukraine are accelerating decarbonization programs across Europe & helping the whole world to reconsider our insane carbon burning practices!
Truly Wireless Earbuds
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| Aaron Schwarz (June 2022) Author of this Blog |
My last foray into wireless battery powered bluetooth headphones was back when BT 2.1 was common. Recently (2021-2022) I was a school bus driver (resigned now) & someone gave me these S20 TWS wireless earbuds. They sat, in their charging case, under my drawer (improvised desk area: I live out of a bedroom) for about a month. I was fooling around organizing & rediscovered them * plugged in a USB type C charging cable to the charging case & fully charged the case & the ear-buds.
Hopped into the bluetooth control settings on my iPhone SE2 & clicked S20 to pair them & its been an Audio fantasy ever since. I shared the experience with Meg & she loved it, so I did some online market segment analytics or product research & found the Soundcore Life P2 by ANKER (the exceptional cell phone charging adapter brand) on Amazon.com - check out the non-affiliate hyperlink bellow!
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08GG2WYWN/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&th=1
They are not the best of anything, but for $44.03 shipped after the 20% off coupon was clipped, what a value. We are talking about 3X less expensive than the Apple EarPods that I was considering to pair with Meg's iPhone 12 mini / I really enjoyed getting Meg a super nice set since my free set sound great, her set will sound even better! She enjoyed the ability to make or take phone calls through the wireless earbuds, & ability to turn them down & still talk to others & hear whats going on around you while music playing softly in the background!
I did a quick market snapshot for the product category by searching www.google.com for "Best Wireless Earbuds 2022" & found this article // click hyperlink -> "blue text below"
They did a lot of product testing & have many recommendations based on your budget & what you want / like so many other aspects in life, it seems there is something for everyone! A free set for me was a special bonus especially now that I am between jobs without active income other than some ad revenue from this blog (tiny) & random X mining on my 3GPU gaming rig 24/7 lol - to say I have been enjoying the summer break so far, not so much.
I have been really sick with a viral pathogen that attacked my upper airway & made it really hard to sleep, constantly coughing & choking up thick yellow mucus with white blood cells. After about 7 days of that I developed a bacterial sinus infection & have been taking Doxycycline antibiotics 2x daily for 5 days to clear that up & have 2 more days to go & finally sleep & breathe better. I am about 80% back to normal, based on fitness testing. I went from 168lbs to 151 lbs from being sick. It was really hard to stay hydrated. I went through so many tissues that my nostrils became tender & sore from blowing my nose so much (several boxes of Puff's) My throat & bronchial network have been very irritated & painful nearly the entire time until starting to become less tender & painful 2 days ago as the infection reduced from the antibiotics treatment.
My pee been really darker orange & very hard to drink enough water to get to any lighter shades of yellow. Normally when healthy & hydrated my pee a very pail light straw color. I started doing color analytics on my urine by peeing in clear plastic bottles of the same shape & capacity, so I can make relative snap evaluations of how hydrated I am based on the color. I can also see the "B-vitamin" dump after I take my morning medication & vitamins - it makes the light yellow color take on an other worldly green hue // its just the way photons in the light are interacting with the atomic electrical structure of the metabolites in my urine, excess water soluble B vitamin metabolites have a lime green / yellow color -- I even did a college level biorhythm project based on the color & volume of urine produced over several weeks of 24 hrs per day collection & data recording, translated into abstract color visualization graphs & analytics & descriptive statistics. I found that my body hydration & urine color were strongly influenced by my activity & fitness levels & how much water I was drinking & when I was eating & what I was eating, especially the smell of the urine. Beer & asparagus & garlic & coffee all seemed to bring special urine smells post consumption //
This might seem kinda random, but have you ever seen the inside of an Apple iPhone 13 Pro Max ? Take a look! The camera sensors are really what make this overpriced flagship phone shine // sensor shift stabilization 5000 per second give the primary camera remarkable image stabilizing capabilities only previously available on high end DSLR cameras! I am holding out for the iPhone 14 & the future model of Apple Watch that has optical glucose tracking! I just think its fun to learn about how tech improving. I was amazed at how far wireless earbuds have come since I last tried them 10+ years ago!
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Optical Continuous Blood Glucose Technology in Apple Watch 8 or 9 ?
Giving diabetic people a wearable like the Apple Watch or Samsung Gear Watch, an optical sensing technology for measuring blood glucose levels, this would revolutionize how patients make informed food & medication choices by giving more people CGM or continuous glucose monitoring functionality in a platform they are already likely to wear as a fitness tracking + other function pairing to their existing smartphone platform. My goal here not to summarize the emergent research on optical blood glucose monitoring, more over to discuss the idea & the "killer app" "Blood Glucose" that would sell even more people a smartwatch! Health tracking the killer app & Apple poised to sell even more Apple Watches as they keep adding key health tracking functionality to new models!
Guns / Read what I read online & Think About It!
Given the global importance of guns (Guns / Firearms) in war, military forces, police, self protection, sport & hunting & especially given all of the handgun accidents that result in the death of so many children each year, school shootings & other mass shootings, lets take a look at the history of firearms.
Industrial metals, pathogens & death machines, from accidents to catastrophes & tragedies, when a person misuses chemicals or devices or methods to harm other people- they can cause great harm, death of many others & worse. Look at how nuclear weapons came about & their horrific use during war times of past & ongoing threat of worldwide nuclear war - mutually assured destruction - a way of keeping peace worldwide with the thread of weapons so powerful they can end human life on Earth if we use them foolishly.
Consider also the more recent use of directed energy weapons shooting laser light or concentrated MASER microwave laser beams or neutron beams & jets of plasma or rail gun output approaching the speed of light / going into FTL or faster than light travel with exotic classified physics & stuff that I cannot even mention - you can find it on the dark web if you want to try using the onion & beware- once you see whats on the dark web, you cannot unsee it - it can stain your mind & consciousness with images you will wish you never looked at! You can literally buy anything you can think of, anything, as long as you pay with bitcoin to protect the identity of the buyer & seller //
I never condone or endorse violence or harming or hurting other people & go out of my way to help others with random acts of kindness, sharing edifying words about health & nutrition information I have learned by failing as an American with mixed metabolic confusion diet patterns. Pollution kills more people with preventable diseases than guns have in the entire history of gun availability! Microbes & pathogens have kills hundreds of millions or billions of people. If you add climate change & its impact on food prices & agriculture, soil degradation, fresh water pollution, water scarcity & water security + the negative health impacts of the general public breathing coal power emissions & tailpipe fumes & soot. While advances like 3 way catalytic converters helped to clean automobile tailpipe emissions, electrical power generated by burning carbon a very dirty & toxic air pollution generating activity on a grand scale worldwide. Swimming pools are also dangerous to small children, not just handguns to those untrained in basic gun safety.
You might claim that mixing all of those topics together in an article about guns & gun issues, an example of rhetoric or verbal manipulation, but my intent to show there exists many risks & hazards in the world, including natural disasters, that harm & hurt & kill many more people annually than accidental or intentional deaths caused by the use of guns. Automobile & motorcycle & motorcycle & bicycle & walking fatalities because of a mistake or human error executed by a poorly skilled driver of an automobile - who fails to pay adequate attention to driving safety while navigating their ~3000lb iron intensive wheeled vehicle on roadways near other people!
Sure, guns were designed to kill people, but they are often just used for sport, for self protection, for hunting in nature, for competition shooting & even in Olympic Sport Shooting // shooting guns not just about causing harm, sometimes a gun in the right hands of a sane balance person, like an upstanding honorable honest citizen- acts to give this person force multiplication that they, like law enforcement, can use as a visual threat to stop a crime, to hold a criminal until the police show up, to impose a non-fatal injury to a "bad" person- to stop personal harm from coming to the person carrying a handgun for EDC self protection -like I do - in one of several GLOCK flavors 9mm - I will never give up my weapons - to take mine someone will have to kill me & pry it out of my warm dying hands! I am a protector of myself & others near me & will never let harm come to anyone near me through either action or inaction. With God on my side as a believer & doer of the Holy Word & through excellence in all ways by embracing Christ Jesus as my Lord & Savior - I will always be a natural helper & do my best to help other people at all times & to honor God & my country (America)!
What follows is wikipedia context copies & pasted & very lightly edited! Enjoy reading the worlds biggest & best online encyclopedia!
American Gun Culture vs Rights
Gun crimes are a mental illness epidemic problems from a lack of affordable access to mental health services & healthcare for mental wellness & wellbeing, counseling or psychology or psychiatry. I believe school shootings & mass murders are committed by psychopath sicko's who should have been red flagged as off kilter or insane or unstable or whacked out / years ago!
People kill people, not guns. Family of the inventor of the AR15 said that he would be "horrified to see that his creation was being used in mass shootings & school shooting tragedies by deranged sicko's whacked out & in desperate need of incarceration & or mental health services!