@taiwan_girl said in Mildly interesting: Only one person has won both an Olympic medal and a Nobel Peace Prize Philip Noel-Baker from UK 1920 Olympic - silver medal in 1500m race 1959 - Nobel Peace Prize for his work on disarmament Words from the spiritual media are that Noel-Baker are trying to give both to Donald Trump.

Most of the Olympic events do not truly require contestants to congregate to compete. (E.g., runners can be clocked running in different places at different times than compare results later to determine who wins; ditto swimmers, track-and-fielders, weightlifters, etc.). Building all these large scale infrastructures and flying athletes around the world are mostly unnecessary and contribute to climate change. Just let the Olympics die. It's not necessary for humanity.

https://www.wired.com/story/ice-pretends-its-a-military-force-its-tactics-would-get-real-soldiers-killed/ The article talks about the lack of training and lack of training tactics that ICE is using. Tactically, the way ICE performs its missions has little to do with “enemy” posture or the mission. One, there is no “enemy:” There are persons who may or may not have violated civil law. These people have not declared an intent to resist violently and with deadly force. Yet ICE shows up with maximum force and intimidation—often roping in people on the sidelines and increasing the media impact of their actions. GENERALLY, ICE AGENTS move with zero military sense. They bunch up and cluster around their target or in doorways; in a combat zone, soldiers clustering up like this could be annihilated by a single grenade or burst from an automatic weapon. It also demonstrates that ICE agents often have very little clue what their mission is. Soldiers are taught to disperse and always move with a head on a swivel for situational awareness. As a soldier, you are taught to point your weapon only at something you intend to shoot. ICE agents have brandished their weapons. Soldiers train to reserve deadly force for identified enemies and to preserve life where possible. ICE and federal agents have publicly killed two unarmed American citizens.

[little red riding hood wolf voice] "The better to survey all the private property I will confiscate" [/little red riding hood wolf voice]

More extortionist rhetoric from the WH: "Based on the fact that Canada has wrongfully, illegally and steadfastly refused to certify the Gulfstream 500, 600, 700 and 800 Jets, one of the greatest, most technologically advanced airplanes ever made, we are hereby decertifying their Bombardier Global Expresses, and all Aircraft made in Canada, until such time as Gulfstream, a Great American Company, is fully certified," the president wrote. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-tariffs-decertify-canadian-planes-9.7067498

Minnesota Man may overtake Florida man.

Yeah just a V shaped day. After close, Apple reported nice earnings. Should reassure the market.

Jon wouldn’t like llamas. They spit.

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@jon-nyc said in Trumpenomics: Gold $5500 Down to 5200 now.

I'm guessing they were both into pi.

@taiwan_girl said in The Never-ending Grift: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/28/melania-trump-documentary-amazon-release Re: Melania documentary But no one paid $40m to acquire Am I Racist? – or an additional $35m to market it. That’s how much Amazon has poured into Melania – remarkably, the most the deep-pocketed company has ever paid to secure distribution of a single film. This is seemingly the result of a post-election bidding war when corporate panic over matching a seeming rightward turn in the populace was at its peak. Technically, paying the president-elect’s wife this much money – Melania reportedly pocketed nearly $30m of Amazon’s initial $40m outlay – was legal, because the first lady isn’t part of the government. She’s just a private citizen who happens to be married to the president and happened to receive a multimillion-dollar check from a company with many government contracts through its web services and other divisions. Apparently Melania has been nominated for a FIFA film award.

Looks like the ground was prepped in advance for the truth-seeking to begin. https://x.com/etuckerap/status/2016599535267479938?s=46

I like turbulence. The rocking puts me to sleep.

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@taiwan_girl The spring on that clock was wound then immediately seized up last May when Trump’s Special Dummkopf arrived at the Kremlin without a US vetted interpreter to meet with Putin.

Maybe you guys should get this https://www.freep.com/story/tech/2026/01/27/homeowner-clears-snowy-driveway-with-robot-viral-video/88381454007/ https://x.com/tommolog/status/2015422666849529957?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^2015422666849529957|twgr^11ac9e35d8f48b48765e4d0f8282f3d480d2735a|twcon^s1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fstory%2Ftech%2F2026%2F01%2F27%2Fhomeowner-clears-snowy-driveway-with-robot-viral-video%2F88381454007%2F