It means a publisher ranked possibility of a positive return on investment for that book to be higher than the books they decided not to publish.
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Russia arrested anti-war protesters holding blank signs: https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-war-invasion-protest...
But apparently this a thing in many countries, and there's even a Wikipedia article about this form of protest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blank_piece_of_paper
Ah, to be in America:
>In 1970, Anna Halprin organised a "Blank Placard Dance" by members of her San Francisco Dancers' Workshop. They paraded, dressed in white, while holding blank placards. She explained, "...there were so many protests going on and this way each person watching us could just imagine whatever protest slogan they wanted on the placards."
It's nice to be able to protest with blank signs because you want to make a joke, and not because of fear of arrest.
The pure LK-99 crystals pictured in the article were obtained using more advanced technique: "Unlike previous synthesis attempts that relied on crucibles, the researchers used a technique called floating zone crystal growth that allowed them to avoid introducing sulfur into the reaction, eliminating the Cu2S impurities."
But I agree that if there's money to be made, it will be available world wide quickly.
Early Soviet Union was much more radical and utopian, with ideas almost like in Plato's republic with the goal to getting to the point where the state rather than the parents would be raising children.
This was later abolished in the 30's and 40's and more traditional family values were encouraged.