The weekend discussion had been percolating quietly inside the Shura Council (royal advisors) for several years, but when the King decided, it was only announced with about 10 days advance notice!

Now UAE has now moved to Saturday-Sunday weekend, but practically it is 2.5 days, starting at noon prayers on Friday.

But if you look at the last 2 years, this date is typically the minimum for the year. So it seems unlikely to hit zombie power pool this year.

https://mead.uslakes.info/Level/

Now we have a Super El Nino starting, which should bring higher than usual rainfall to the Colorado Basin in the fall and winter. So, in principle, next year might not be as bad as this year, and power pool limits are postponed for 2 or more years out.

Why the flames of Britain's wildfires have been fanned by the Green agenda as much as the weather

https://www.dailymail.com/debate/article-16017973/Britains-w...

Martin Shkreli Breaks Down the Collapse of Situational Awareness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJdgh9eEZvw

Nicolas Gisin: Time, Superdeterminism, & Quantum Gravity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcHzgy0I6gk

One of his mantras is Time is real; Real numbers are not. He conceives of real numbers resulting from processes (approximations, relaxations, computable calculations) that unfold over time. So there is a Heisenbergish uncertainty principle of observable precision and elapsed time.

Selected papers:

Indeterminism in Physics, Classical Chaos and Bohmian Mechanics. Are Real Numbers Really Real?

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.06824

Real Numbers are the Hidden Variables of Classical Mechanics

https://philarchive.org/rec/GISRNA

Time Really Passes, Science Can’t Deny That

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1602.01497v1

Popular articles:

Real numbers don’t cut it in the real world, this physicist argues

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/real-numbers-physics-fre...

National lotteries are generally trustworthy, but the mechanism for you to get a real ticket might not be (street hawkers, fake web sites).

The odds with a fair toss are obviously stacked to prefer taking the gamble, hence inducing all credulous rationalists to take the bet.

It is rare for anyone to give away £50k, and even rarer to give away £1m. There is no realistic scenario where such a bet would be offered ... Almost all of us have been to the fairground (yes, the analysis is very different when you have to pay to play).

Most people instinctively reason that the actual probability of a win is close to 0: exactly zero in a one shot game, but perhaps some epsilon in a repeated trial in the fairground, so as to advertise a verified previous winner.

[I am willing to bet that fairground stalls give a giant cuddly toy to an employee to walk around the ground, or perhaps throw a game to an employee in front of a crowd of onlookers, to suggest that there is an epsilon of hope, even when there is none in reality].

Everyone's prior instincts should be conditioned to take the smaller 'sure' reward, since that requires strictly fewer trustworthy steps to success (one payout, compared to both a non-zero toss and a payout).

The irony is that in a thought experiment, no game is actually played, so the expected return is always what the wise fair-goer assumed - precisely zero.

so the Earth's orbital velocity is 10^-4 c

Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future | Adam Neely

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dcFhF0Dlk

A detailed philosophical discussion of his point=of-view:

AI Music is Not Music - Adam Neely | Alex O'Connor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sbv0iX_EyLM

Consumption tax is sales/VAT tax excluding some necessities and capital goods. Yes, there are some awkward edge cases: in the UK the exclusions were food and children's clothes, which leads to battles over prepared cold food (e.g. sandwich), takeaway and restaurant dining.

Sin taxes are obviously things society might want to discourage, mainly for health reasons, like alcohol and smoking, but also gambling and externalities, like pollution. Some might stretch that to all carbon emissions to moderate climate change.

Don't tax things you want: working / income and investment / capital gains.

Inheritance tax is doubly wrong because the wealth is already taxed, and death is unavoidable (but emigration is possible, which might help in some countries).