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In-Depth Travel Review| New Orleans (Nola)| Episode7|BlackWomanVibes

#Nola #NewOrleans #Travelvlog In-Depth Travel Review| New Orleans (Nola) Review| Episode7|BlackWomanVibes The footage from this 7-episode series is from my New Orleans (Nola) travel vacation from Nov 23 2023 to Nov 28 2023. The commentary and opinions from these videos are my own. 

Episode seven is the bitter sweet end. Watch me chase down a few last minute Nola items JUST to find out nothing in Nola is typical so OF COURSE the tourist attraction stores are closed on a Tuesday like a DAMN HAIR SALON‼️ Needless to say, ordering online is my next go to. Definitely get you some Leah’s pecan brittle‼️😍 While you’re at it get you some decadent hot sauce from Pepper Palace. 🤤 If you’re a HOT 🥵 Girl like me with even HOTTER taste buds, you will not be disappointed. 🌶️ Outside of me comparing and contrasting Black metrics between Boston and New Orleans, I really am at that big grown age where I DO NOT want to tolerate shit I cannot change, *especially in 2024.* I also wanna live in my Black Anarchist Communal Libratory politics. This includes my housing security AND my “rootedness” which is more or less the same. I want to be anchored in a community where I feel seen and can be my most authentic self and that’s not CRACKASS *CLASSIST* BOSTON. LAWD lolol‼️ Thank you for making it to the end of this series‼️ I appreciate your viewership. Like this video and the entire 7-video series, share these videos on your socials and subscribe. Leave a comment of support in the comment section. 

P.S. Please check out all these artists whose songs are featured in these episodes. They are deadass the soundtrack to my life! 

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Jubilee Deep-Sea Fishing, Panama City Beach

We caught fish! Lots and lots of fish!

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A trip to Canterbury 5/3/2023

I had been planning to visit Canterbury purely for the bookshop that is famous there; Catching Lives is a charity supporting those who are homeless, and its bookshop is famous for its wonky door which is an unusual experience to walk through. Inside offers a comfy and cozy atmosphere, with an aroma of well-loved books, wooden floors, and a spiral staircase. I purchased two of their surprise books, I just love the idea of picking something at random based on a tidbit of information about the book.

Afterward, I visited The Beany House of Art and Knowledge; a quiet museum and gallery paying homage to Canterbury's finest. Followed by a walk around the cathedral, which is quite spectacular.

Canterbury offers a lot of cute coffee shops but I settled on visiting Eleto Chocolate Cafe after taking a look at their menu, it was hard to resist trying Rose flower tea with Dark Chocolate dipped strawberries.

All in all, Canterbury makes for a nice trip if you want to visit somewhere new for a couple of days!

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What To Witness When You Visit Auckland?

When you plan to visit Auckland, find a travel buddy on www.cogofly.com with whom you can explore some hidden places and enjoy bets times there!

Below are few things you can do in Auckland!

Natural landscapes are a treat in Auckland

Wildlife doesn’t mean Zoo

The coastlines are amazing there

Find some of the country's best restaurants

Discover something artistic always

Get amazed by panoramic views 

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Luxury Milton Keynes getaway - Hotel La Tour

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Virgin Voyages Fire and Sunset Soirées Cruise Review

The Roadtrip Girl's review of Virgin Voyages Fire and Sunset Soirées cruise to Key West and Bimini #virginvoyages #cruisereview #travelblog

Back in January of 2022, we signed up for Virgin Voyages’ Mediterranean cruise on the Resilient Lady to Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal. However, by June we received an email that they had to delay their inaugural sailing so we had to pivot our travel plans. At first we thought we’d abandon our cruise plan altogether but by late summer, we were eager to travel again so we decided to go…

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db Seabank Resort + Spa in Malta

My partner and I took Belle on her first holiday when she was just three months old. I’m not going to lie, I was gagging to get back on the holiday circuit, if it were up to me I’d be permanently on travel adventures! Worry number one for me was how would Belle handle the 3+ hour Easy Jet flight? I needn’t have worried, she travelled so smoothly, other passengers even came up post flight to remark how well behaved she was! The best tip I was given was to feed Belle milk for the departure and landing so they’re regularly swallowing to stop their ears from popping. After a short private transfer (definitely the preferred option when doing any long car/coach journey with little ones) we arrived at db Seabank Resort + Spa.

Our room was huge, with a gorgeous balcony facing onto the pool. I say pool, but they had several including a huge outdoor one with a poolside bar, a kids pirate ship pool, an adult infinity pool and a heated indoor pool. The all inclusive option at the hotel offered a main buffet but also several restaurants you could book into including one themed around sharing stories, a  Brazilian, a Pan Asian, an American jungle cafe and even a late night  entertainment from show auditorium and sports bar with bowling! Located just opposite a quiet stretch of beach, with a local bar perfect for a beachside bevvy and a handy Starbucks, perfect for the coffee lovers and sleep deprived mothers. Malta had lovely hot weather even in Winter, It really was the best way to reintroduce myself to going away.

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Safari Reviews to Inspire You!

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What travel blog is this for?

The places covered in this blog we have visited and experienced fun and memorable memories. We want to share it with you so that you can have an idea in case you can't find a good place that you want to go to.

1.Monesterio De Tarlac

The Monasterio de Tarlac is a Latin Rite Catholic monastery on top of Mount Resurrection, part of the Zambales Mountain Range on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. It is part of the Mount Resurrection Eco Park in Barangay Lubigan, San José, Tarlac.

2. Baguio City

If you’re looking for an outdoor escape that’s both picturesque and relaxing, look no further than the Botanical Garden Baguio City. Nestled in the heart of the Philippines’ Cordillera region, this sprawling garden is home to a variety of indigenous plants and flowers.

3. Mt. Samat Bataan

Mount Samat National Shrine or Dambana ng Kagitingan is a historical shrine located near the summit of Mount Samat in the town of Pilar, Province of Bataan, in the Republic of the Philippines.

4. Lakeshore Mexico Pampanga

Christmas is just two months around the corner and we can’t wait a bit longer.

The yuletide season is one of the particular times of the year when everyone is looking forward to celebrating with the entire family or even friends.

One of the best parts of celebrating Christmas in the Philippines is reliving and experiencing the spirit of Filipino Christmas. And one of the best places to experience this is at the Lakeshore Mexico Pampanga.

The terrific way to describe the festive season is probably unforgettable, as most people would often recount what gone through during the period of Christmas. However, you don’t need to wait for December just to experience the spirit of Christmas. 

The advantage of having the longest Christmas celebration in the entire world as September begins was that we get to experience the atmosphere of Christmas earlier than most people on the other side of the world. 

Especially in Pampanga, dubbed as the “Christmas Capital of the Philippines,” expect that there will be a lot of events and attractions regarding Christmas. The dark road that was usually been overlooked by fast-driven cars is being lightened by some Christmas decorations in the area. 

If you like to feel the festive season of Christmas as early as October, you might want to consider visiting the Lakeshore Mexico Pampanga with your family and loved ones. It’s also one of the best places here in Pampanga where you can have a family gathering. 

4. Floridablanca Palakol River

Palakol River, is located on the northeastern part of Floridablanca. This is 8 kms away from the town proper passing through the Basa Airbase. It is also known as Gumain River and called by the locals as the summer place.

Access road to the river lies under the towering SCTEX Gumain Bridge. The downstream which is under the bridge is filled with rocks and boulders.

i hope this blog will serve as a way and an eye opener to inspire our reader audience that happiness may have different perspective and ways of achieving it one of the possible ways was travelling

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In-Depth Travel Review| New Orleans (Nola) Review| Episode6|BlackWomanVibes 

#Nola #NewOrleans #Travelvlog In-Depth Travel Review| New Orleans (Nola) Review| Episode6|BlackWomanVibeThe footage from this 7-episode series is from my New Orleans (Nola) travel vacation from Nov 23 2023 to Nov 28 2023. The commentary and opinions from these videos are my own. 

Episode six I take y’all to the comedy stage to listen to what the best New Orleans has got. A couple of times comedians had me and the audience GAG’D especially when a white sheet came out from the back and my racial trauma under white hegemony went straight KKK. There were sets that I could have done without (racial humor is so clockable, uncreative, and dated [2005]). 😒 I ended the night early knowing that the next day I had to catch my flight back to CRACKASS BOSTON. LAWD lolol‼️ Outside of me comparing and contrasting Black metrics between Boston and New Orleans, I really am at that big grown age where I DO NOT want to tolerate shit I cannot change, especially in 2024. I also wanna live in my Black Anarchist Communal Libratory politics. This includes my housing security AND my “rootedness” which is more or less the same. I want to be anchored in a community where I feel seen and can be my most authentic self and that’s not CRACKASS CLASSIST BOSTON. LAWD lolol‼️ Comeback for episode 7 next week and complete the 7-episode series!  

P.S. Please check out all these artists whose songs are featured in these episodes. They are deadass the soundtrack to my life! 

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Travel Bags - 3 Reviews & Thoughts

Hear me rant about a $35 Glossier bag. I moderately like glossier but why the hell was that $35. why.

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All You Ever Need to Know about Dallas

The temperature is always 102 but looks like it may rain at any given time.

There is construction everywhere and some of the freeway exits aren’t marked. On a good day, it will take you over 90 minutes to travel 20 miles. There are no good days.

A plethora of billboards are apparently sponsored by Christian groups. A particular favorite is one that is white text over a black background, and simply reads, ‘I am the real Supreme Court. —God’

An even larger plethora… or perhaps even, myriad of garish billboards advertise local strip clubs.

Gigantic churches which must be enough for thousands of worshippers are more prevalent than coffee shops. There appears to be a contest for the tallest church steeple. Several of them look like aviation hazards.

The George Bush Highway is a toll road. Thanks, Georgie! Now you really have that lasting legacy we’ll all enjoy forever.

The best Italian restaurant is technically in Addison, TX. It’s called Andiamo. It puts anything you can get from the North End of Boston to test.

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Kelly and Zach Weinersmith’s “A City On Mars”

In A City On Mars, biologist Kelly Weinersmith and cartoonist Zach Weinersmith set out to investigate the governance challenges of the impending space settlements they were told were just over the horizon. Instead, they discovered that humans aren't going to be settling space for a very long time, and so they wrote a book about that instead:

https://www.acityonmars.com/

The Weinersmiths make the (convincing) case that ever aspect of space settlement is vastly beyond our current or reasonably foreseeable technical capability. What's more, every argument in favor of pursuing space settlement is errant nonsense. And finally: all the energy we are putting into space settlement actually holds back real space science, which offers numerous benefits to our species and planet (and is just darned cool).

Every place we might settle in space – giant rotating rings, the Moon, Mars – is vastly more hostile than Earth. Not just more hostile than Earth as it stands today – the most degraded, climate-wracked, nuke-blasted Earth you can imagine is a paradise of habitability compared to anything else. Mars is covered in poison and the sky disappears under planet-sized storms that go on and on. The Moon is covered in black-lung-causing, razor-sharp, electrostatically charged dust. Everything is radioactive. There's virtually no water. There are temperature swings of hundreds of degrees every couple of hours or weeks. You're completely out of range of resupply, emergency help, or, you know, air.

There's Helium 3 on the Moon, but not much of it, and there is no universe in which is it cheaper to mine for Helium 3 on the Moon than it is to mine for it on Earth. That's generally true of anything we might bring back from space, up to and including continent-sized chunks of asteroid platinum.

Going to space doesn't end war. The countries that have gone to space are among the most militarily belligerent in human history. The people who've been to space have come back perfectly prepared to wage war.

Going to space won't save us from the climate emergency. The unimaginably vast trove of material and the energy and advanced technology needed to lift it off Earth and get it to Mars is orders of magnitude more material and energy than we would need to resolve the actual climate emergency here.

We aren't anywhere near being a "multiplanetary species." The number of humans you need in a colony to establish a new population is hard to estimate, but it's very large. Larger than we can foreseeably establish on the Moon, on Mars, or on a space-station. But even if we could establish such a colony, there's little evidence that it could sustain itself – not only are we a very, very long way off from such a population being able to satisfy its material needs off-planet, but we have little reason to believe that children could gestate, be born, and grow to adulthood off-planet.

To top it all off, there's space law – the inciting subject matter for this excellent book. There's a lot of space law, and while there are some areas of ambiguity, the claims of would-be space entrepreneurs about how their plans are permissible under the settled parts of space law don't hold up. But those claims are robust compared to claims that space law will simply sublimate into its constituent molecules when exposed to the reality of space travel, space settlement, and (most importantly) space extraction.

Space law doesn't exist in a vacuum (rimshot). It is parallel to – and shares history with – laws regarding Antarctica, the ocean's surface, and the ocean's floor. These laws relate to territories that are both vastly easier to access and far more densely populated by valuable natural resources. The fact that they remain operative in the face of economic imperatives demands that space settlement advocates offer a more convincing account than "money talks, bullshit walks, space law is toast the minute we land on a $14 quadrillion platinum asteroid."

The Weinersmiths have such an account in defense of space law: namely, that space law, and its terrestrial analogs, constitute a durable means of resolving conflicts that would otherwise give rise to outcomes that are far worse for science, entrepreneurship, human thriving or nation-building than the impediments these laws represent.

What's more, space law is enforceable. Not only would any space settlement be terribly, urgently dependent on support from Earth for the long-foreseeable future, but every asteroid miner, Lunar He3 exporter and Martian potato-farmer hoping to monetize their products would have an enforcement nexus with a terrestrial nation and thus the courts of that nation.

But the Weinersmiths aren't anti-space. They aren't even anti-space-settlement. Rather, they argue that the path to space-based scientific breakthroughs, exploration of our solar system, and a deeper understanding of our moral standing in a vast universe cannot start with space settlements.

Landing people on the Moon or Mars any time soon is a stunt – a very, very expensive stunt. These boondoggles aren't just terribly risky (though they are – people who attempt space settlement are very likely to die horribly and after not very long), they come with price-tags that would pay for meaningful space science. For the price of a crewed return trip to Mars, you could put multiple robots onto every significant object in our solar system, and pilot an appreciable fleet of these robot explorers back to Earth with samples.

For the cost of a tiny, fraught, lethal Moon-base, we could create hundreds of experiments in creating efficient, long-term, closed biospheres for human life.

That's the crux of the Weinersmiths' argument: if you want to establish space settlements, you need to do a bunch of other stuff first, like figure out life-support, learn more about our celestial neighbors, and vastly improve our robotics. If you want to create stable space-settlements, you'll need to create robust governance systems – space law that you can count on, rather than space law that you plan on shoving out the airlock. If you want humans to reproduce in space – a necessary precondition for a space settlement that lasts more than a single human lifespan – then we need to do things like breed multiple generations of rodents and other animals, on space stations.

Space is amazing. Space science is amazing. Crewed scientific space missions are amazing. But space isn't amazing because it offers a "Plan B" for an Earth that is imperiled by humanity's recklessness. Space isn't amazing because it offers unparalleled material wealth, or unlimited energy, or a chance to live without laws or governance. It's not amazing because it will end war by mixing the sensawunda of the "Pale Blue Dot" with the lebensraum of an infinite universe.

A science-driven approach to space offers many dividends for our species and planet. If we can figure out how to extract resources as dispersed as Lunar He3 or asteroid ice, we'll have solved problems like extracting tons of gold from the ocean or conflict minerals from landfill sites, these being several orders of magnitude more resource-dense than space. If we can figure out how to create self-sustaining terraria for large human populations in the radiation-, heat- and cold-blasted environs of space, we will have learned vital things about our own planet's ecosystems. If we can build the robots that are necessary for supporting a space society, we will have learned how to build robots that take up the most dangerous and unpleasant tasks that human workers perform on Earth today.

In other words, it's not just that we should solve Earth's problems before attempting space settlement – it's that we can't settle space until we figure out the solutions to Earth's problems. Earth's problems are far simpler than the problems of space settlement.

As I read the Weinersmiths' critique of space settlement, I kept thinking of the pointless AI debates I keep getting dragged into. Arguments for space settlement that turn on existential risks (like humanity being wiped out by comets, sunspots, nuclear armageddon or climate collapse) sound an awful lot like the arguments about "AI safety" – the "risk" that the plausible sentence generator is on the verge of becoming conscious and turning us all into paperclips.

Both arguments are part of a sales-pitch for investment in commercial ventures that have no plausible commercial case, but whose backers are hoping to get rich anyway, and are (often) sincerely besotted with their own fantasies:

https://locusmag.com/2023/12/commentary-cory-doctorow-what-kind-of-bubble-is-ai/

Both AI and space settlement pass over the real risks, such as the climate consequences of their deployment, or the labor conditions associated with their production. After all, when you're heading off existential risk, you don't stop to worry about some carbon emissions or wage theft.

And critically, both ignore the useful (but resolutely noncommercial) ways that AI or space science can benefit our species. AI radiology analysis might be useful as an adjunct to human radiological analysis, but that is more expensive, not less. Space science might help us learn to use our materials more efficiently on Earth, and that will come long before anyone makes rendezvous with a $14 quadrillion platinum asteroid.

There are beneficial uses for LLMs. When the Human Rights Data Analysis Group uses an LLM to help the Innocence Project New Orleans extract and categorize officer information from wrongful conviction records, they are doing something valuable and important:

https://hrdag.org/tech-notes/large-language-models-IPNO.html

It's socially important work, a form of automation that is an unalloyed good, but you won't hear about it from LLM advocates. No one is gonna get rich on improving the efficiency of overturning wrongful convictions with natural language processing. You can't inflate a stock bubble with the Innocence Project.

By the same token, learning about improving gestational health by breeding multigenerational mouse families in geosynchronous orbit is no way to get a billionaire tech baron to commit $250 billion to space science. But that's not an argument against emphasizing real science that really benefits our whole species. It's an argument for taking away capital allocation authority from tech billionaires.

I'm a science fiction writer. I love stories about space. But I can distinguish fantasy from reality and thought experiments from suggestions. Kim Stanley Robinson's 2015 novel Aurora – about failed space settlement – is every bit as fascinating and inspirational as "golden age" sf:

https://memex.craphound.com/2015/11/02/kim-stanley-robinsons-aurora-space-is-bigger-than-you-think/

But still, it inspired howls of outrage from would-be space colonists. So much so that Stan wrote a brilliant essay explaining what we were all missing about space settlement, which I published:

https://boingboing.net/2015/11/16/our-generation-ships-will-sink.html

With City on Mars, the Weinersmiths aren't making the case for giving up on space, nor are they trying to strip space of its romance and excitement. They're trying to get us to focus on the beneficial, exciting, serious space science we can do right now, not just because it's attainable and useful – but because it is a necessary precondition for any actual space settlement in the distant future.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/09/astrobezzle/#send-robots-instead

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