In a world where compassion often seems in short supply, stories of selfless acts toward animals can be a source of profound inspiration. The video titled “Woman uses her bare hands to save the starving whale” is one such story. This heartwarming tale, part of the “We Love Animals” series, demonstrates the profound impact kindness... The post Fearless woman uses her bare hands to save starving whale appeared first on Animal Channel.

Passage PublishingCategory: PublishingFounder: Jonathan Keeperman (aka Lomez)See also Align's interview with Keeperman.Founded: 2022Location: https://passage.press/Representative products: "Noticing: An Essential Reader by Steve Sailer" (Patrician Edition), "The Storm of Steel: Original 1929 Translation by Ernst Jünger" (Translated by Basil Creighton), "Passage Prize Volume II: Rewilding" (Paperback Edition)At a glance:The company takes its name from Ernst Jünger’s "Forest Passage," which (to quote Keeperman) imagines resistance to totalizing culture and politics as "the wild, undomesticated forest where men — 'forest rebels' in Jünger's parlance — can gather the imaginative and moral courage to find their way to something new."Grew out of the Passage Prize, a literary contest Keeperman (as Lomez) first announced on Twitter in 2022. Submissions for the third Passage Prize closed in March 2024. A May 2024 Guardian article doxxing Keeperman revealed that he earned an MFA from the University of California, Irvine, where he subsequently worked as a well-regarded lecturer in the English department. In his own words (Keeperman):We are starting from the premise that people’s mental models for the world are broken or at least woefully incomplete. Their understanding of history has been purposefully constrained and intended to nudge people toward very particular conclusions about how we are supposed to think and act in the current year. People are carrying around these narratives without even realizing it. We want to disrupt that. We want to jar those closed-off spaces open and allow for a fuller picture of the world to come through.[Ernst] Jünger is one of the most brilliant and complex writers of the 20th century. "Storm of Steel" is perhaps the most profound firsthand account of the experience of war that has ever been written. Jünger’s writing on art, religion, philosophy, and the totalizing tendencies of modernity transcend the petty ideological games these people demand we play. No wonder they hate him. Anybody with a soul will take great comfort in Jünger’s writing and be elevated by him. Truthfully, it breaks my heart that people who presume to be our intellectual betters have failed so spectacularly and stooped to such bottom-feeding invective. They are unworthy of uttering Jünger’s name.The things that keep me up at night are the little things. I know of about a dozen typos and formatting errors throughout our books that I failed to catch during editing. This drives me crazy. But I’ve come to learn that the vast majority of consumers don’t see these things and trust that when we do make mistakes, we’ll fix them for the next time (and we will).

Politico recently quoted a Biden official (who insisted on anonymity) about how the present administration may have moved too far to the left. Joe Biden and his staff should admit that “well-meaning ideas have gone too far and we need a sensible approach.” One can’t blame Biden’s people for noticing the obvious about his failed policies. Our president is certainly not getting high grades in polls for his handling of the economy, surging crime, coddling left-wing rioters, or creating dangerously open borders. Biden’s catastrophic border policy has filled American cities with more than 10 million (and still counting) illegal aliens and flooded the country with fentanyl and other noxious drugs. Biden’s decision to tack left has extended his political career, even when he’s no longer capable of exercising his office. Despite these problems, Biden’s rush to the woke left may be the cleverest thing he’s done as president. It’s kept him competitive in a presidential race in which he’s being outmatched in just about every way by a more vigorous and less demented opponent. Unlike Trump, Biden cannot draw 100,000 cheering spectators to a speaking event. But then one can’t blame those who have no interest in hearing Biden mumble canned speeches over his teleprompter before stumbling down the steps of the podium. Still, things are not turning out as one might have expected, given these disparities. In a race against an adversary who was a much more successful president than his doddering successor, Biden is actually ahead by two percentage points in some reliable polls. How can that be? Has Trump’s rude behavior and his tendency to shoot from the hip kept him from opening up a lead? Why is Biden better liked than his behavior would warrant? He’s certainly made nasty remarks about Republicans, the white race, and journalists who ask him unscheduled questions. But his tactlessness and rants have done little to reduce his likeability among voters or his reputation for defending “democracy.” That brings us to the ways in which the corporate press has depicted the two candidates. Only an impassioned Democratic partisan could not have noticed how much more sympathetically the media have treated Biden than his rival. They’ve moved mountains to make Biden seem far more likeable than the Bad Orange Man. Although Joe has never been a principled or intelligent statesman, he has been a pliable party politician. He’s always done what his party has required, whether that meant palling around with Southern segregationists, voting for a crime bill that incarcerated lots of young black men, or scolding Republican judicial nominees for not endorsing abortion rights and affirmative action. In 2020, Biden’s handlers arranged for his benefit a well-designed campaign. The Democratic National Committee and its lapdog media depicted their guy as a unifier and moderate, but at the same time Biden called for open borders and a socially left-wing agenda. While the appeals to unity during the campaign and in Biden’s inaugural address were aimed at independent voters, his more radical statements were intended for the Democrats’ leftist base. That base includes all influential groups on the left, like the media, Hollywood, academia, and public administration. Biden as president has done exactly what those groups want. He pays homage to all the alphabet people and never deviates in his policy and rhetoric from the cultural left. This direction may have hurt this country socially, morally, and materially, but it has provided Biden with powerful defenders and filthy-rich donors. While Biden and his weaponized Justice Department, corrupt Democratic judges, and utterly subservient district attorneys practice the most blatant lawfare imaginable against Trump and his supporters, the legacy media have dutifully covered for them. Media loyalists both defend the administration and blacken the reputations of Biden’s opponents. They’ve also covered for Joe’s debauched criminal son, whose malodorous deals the elder Biden may well have promoted. If Biden has nominated some genuinely weird wokesters to high posts, those moves have not hurt him politically. They’ve just made him more appealing to his base. Biden’s decision to tack left has extended his political career, even when he’s no longer capable of exercising his office. He never disappoints leftist elites, who look after Biden’s public relations and fill his campaign coffers with hundreds of millions of dollars. It’s possible that some of these well-heeled and influential supporters would be assisting Biden in any case because of their hatred for Trump and his MAGA base. But Biden’s predictably leftist politics have undoubtedly sweetened this relationship. His repeated affirmation of a leftist agenda must sound like music to this base. And they’d be fools to think that Joe is about to take away their fortunes, no matter what he says about raising taxes on the rich. Biden’s administration has done all it could to reward wealthy donors with Green New Deal patronage and generous tax breaks for electronic media handmaidens. If Biden does raise corporate tax rates, his plutocratic buds won’t be inconvenienced. They’ll take that added cost out of their workers’ salaries or else pass it on to consumers. That’s how woke capitalism works.

I don’t believe that exposure to technology is tantamount to child abuse as some uber-crunchy trads might insist. That said, they're reacting to a culture that pushes tablets and phones on the very young, despite fairly convincing evidence suggesting that too much screen time may harm kids’ cognitive, linguistic, and social-emotional growth. 'Prolonged exposure to high-stimulation shows, even those with virtuously 'educational' packaging such as 'Baby Einstein,' primes children for inattention.'Is it possible to stake out a reasonable middle ground? In my view, yes — provided you have a clear-eyed understanding of just what pitfalls to avoid. Sheer quantity is obvious enough. Consuming six hours straight of uninterrupted screen time is the dopamine-overdose equivalent of binging a family-sized bag of Reese’s cups: pretty clearly a bad habit to indulge. Of course, most "content" today is designed for passive binging, putting the onus on the parent to keep time. You don't want to forget your child in front of "Bluey" any more than you'd want to forget your roast in the oven.Then, you have to consider the ideology (trans, critical race theory, etc.) smuggled into the average children’s television programming these days. What makes it particularly insidious is the difficulty of knowing where exactly it comes from. Vaclav Havel foretold this in his essay “The Power of the Powerless,” in which he describes life under communism through the story of a greengrocer. The greengrocer put a communist slogan in his shop window, not because he particularly liked its content, not because the content was true, not in the hope that someone might be persuaded by it,but to contribute, along with thousands of other slogans, to the panorama that everyone is very much aware of. This panorama, of course, has a subliminal meaning as well: it reminds people where they are living and what is expected of them. It tells them what everyone else is doing, and indicates to them what they must do as well, if they don't want to be excluded, to fall into isolation, alienate themselves from society, break the rules of the game, and risk the loss of their peace and tranquility and security.That is to say, it is an utterly gratuitous form of psychological torture. What a good reason to cancel the show, and the network, for good measure.But quality doesn’t begin and end with the message itself. Canadian philosopher and father of media theory Marshall McLuhan coined the phrase “the medium is the message,” the idea that the manner of communication can often say more about the culture, and the messages that culture communicates, than the explicit messages themselves. Illustrating his point, wokeness as a form of political manipulation and psychological terrorism entered its heyday in tandem with high-stimulation special-effect media. Dr. Dimitri Christakis says that the pace of the media has a significant impact on its quality, at least in terms of a child’s neural development. His research indicates that prolonged exposure to high-stimulation shows, even those with virtuously "educational" packaging such as “Baby Einstein,” primes children for inattention. The type of input that the mind learns to crave is not available in the real world, so the child becomes addicted to the constant, unchallenged emotional gratification of the screen.Suppose, however, that parents enforce strict time limits and vet all shows for messaging. Is the occasional hour or two of curated screen time fine?The study I linked to at the beginning suggests that it is, especially if we balance it our with “green time."Here, I’ve curated some of my favorite high-quality, low-stimulation, and actually child-appropriate shows that my kids watch when they’re sick or I need to get something done. This list is not exhaustive, so please share in the comments: What morally and aesthetically wholesome shows have you found that get the sort of crunchy, Christian mom stamp of approval?Little BearAdventures from the Book of VirtuesHeidi, and most things with Shirley TempleMister Roger’s NeighborhoodMy Neighbor Totoro, and most things by Hayao MiyazakiClassical Ballet via Marquee TV or YoutubeZoboomafoo with the Kratt BrothersMadeleinePrince of Egypt

Joe Biden can’t be faulted for his audacity. After obliterating the value of the U.S. dollar by sending prices 19.3% higher than when Donald Trump left office, he put the economy on course for the hardest “soft landing” you can imagine. Now, Bidenomics is making a bold move to offshore even more of America’s manufacturing jobs — to China, no less.One of Biden’s signature policies, massive tax credits to buy electric vehicles, features a China-shaped loophole. Though Congress wrote the law with the intention of having these credits go only to U.S.-made EVs, in adherence to the pseudo-religion of climate alarmism, Biden had other plans.For Democrats, stopping climate change tomorrow is simply more important than ensuring American prosperity today.The Biden administration is handing out tax credits for EVs. Even though many of their key parts — notably batteries and rare minerals — come directly from China. Even worse, if you lease rather than buy an EV, there are virtually no restrictions on where any of the parts can be imported from.As you might imagine, the proportion of EVs rolling off the lot that are leased has jumped from 10% to 30% to take full advantage of this pro-Chinese Communist Party loophole. Exporting our jobs, not our products, is a classic case of Bidenomics hard at work.Some Democrats recognize the danger in Biden’s overreach. Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.), just a few weeks ago, attacked this executive rule-making from Biden. Their aim is to fulfill the original intent of the law and block these Chinese imports. The pressure seems to be working, at least a little. The administration has tried to tighten the loophole on Chinese imports of EV parts, but unfortunately Biden is still dangerously committed to disastrous energy policies.America’s energy industry is the foundation of our country’s prosperity, especially our gas-powered cars. So, this latest round of attacks on the foundation of our way of life shouldn’t come as a surprise. Indeed, it is part and parcel of the Biden administration’s longstanding goal of transforming our economy.Consider, for example, that President Biden has approved more than $1 trillion in subsidies to buy EV cars over the next 10 years. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. This administration has also made numerous aggressive attempts to halt the production of conventional energy resources and to block the production and sale of technologies that afford us the convenience of modern-day life: such as gas-powered cars, natural-gas stoves, and many other appliances.These subsidies alone will steal more than $7,500 from each American household, adding to the inflation fire and sending mortgage and small-business loan rates even higher.For Democrats, stopping climate change tomorrow is simply more important than ensuring American prosperity today. Never mind that the government’s own climate models show that if the United States could, overnight, achieve net-zero emission of greenhouse gases, global temperatures 76 years from now would be virtually unchanged.This latest decision to sign these subsidies into law shows more clearly than ever that promoting the well-being of American households isn’t a priority for the Biden administration. These subsidies are funded by American families’ hard-earned money and are funneled to companies that prioritize catering to unelected bureaucrats and the Chinese Communist Party over making good products.If the Biden administration continues down this course, it may face a tough choice between the false religion of climate alarmism or the integrity of its own political coalition. Audacity only gets you so far.

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With several rumors about bigger battery life for the iPhone 16 Pro, we could only hope Apple will improve battery performance after two years of not-so-great experience. According to the latest leaks, Cupertino is making a thinner MagSafe module to ensure it has even more space for its physical battery. Leaker Kosutami, who posted several other details about the upcoming iPhone 16, says Apple is making the iPhone 16 Pro MagSafe module thinner to give more space for the metal shell battery module. While the leaker said they haven't got more information for now, they will share more details soon. Previously, they said Apple would improve battery life on the next generation of iPhones by adding a graphene thermal system to improve cooling. They wrote on X: “Apple is actively working on the graphene thermal system of iPhone 16 Series to solve the existing heating problem. And the batter of Pro series would change to a metal shell for the same reason.” Image source: José Adorno for BGR Besides that, we can also expect the A18 Pro chip to handle heating better, as it will use the second-generation 3nm manufacturing process. I have already noticed how the M4 iPad Pro can handle heavier tasks without instantly overheating. Besides that, a leak shared by X user Majin Bu, who has a mixed track of correct reports, says they were able to get the battery size of the iPhone 16, 16 Plus, and 16 Pro Max. According to them, the iPhone 16 Pro Max could be equipped with a 4,676 mAh battery that is no longer L-shaped “due to the redesign of the internal structure.” With that, Apple would jump from the 4,422 mAh battery of the iPhone 15 Pro Max. A similar jump could be expected for the regular iPhone 16, as it’s rumored to feature a 3,561mAh battery, while the iPhone 15 has a 3,349mAh battery. Unfortunately, those looking for the iPhone 16 Plus should be aware that its battery life might decrease from a capacity of 4,383mAh for the iPhone 15 Plus to 4,006mAh for the upcoming model. Another Weibo leaker also corroborated this rumor while revealing the battery of the iPhone 16 Pro. That said, these are the expected battery capacities for all new models: 16: 3,561mAh 16 Plus: 4,006mAh 16 Pro: 3,355mAh 16 Pro Max: 4,676mAh BGR will keep reporting on the latest leaks and reports about the iPhone 16 Pro, which is expected to launch in three months. Don't Miss: iPhone 16: Rumors, release date, A18, AI, Capture button, and more The post iPhone 16 Pro leak teases bigger battery and thinner MagSafe module appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Today’s deals: Amazon Father’s Day sale, $714 Apple Watch Ultra 2, $23 Fire TV Stick 4K, more Best deals: Tech, laptops, TVs, and more sales Amazon gift card deals, offers & coupons 2024: Get $355+ free Today’s deals: $249 iPad, Sonos speakers from $199, $495 Apple Watch Ultra, $14 charging station, more