Interesting. ECMO has been around for a while, I know people who were kept alive by it waiting for transplant. This seems to be a new version of it. I need to learn more. ECMO reminds me of Rumsfeld’s brilliant observation “if a problem seems like it has no solution, enlarge the problem’. Is the problem that the lungs failed and there are no new lungs to give the patient right now? Nope, enlarge it. The problem is we can’t get oxygen into the patient’s blood and carbon dioxide removed from it. Ok, that maybe we can solve.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/nancy-mace-is-not-okay.html She has faded from the spotlight pretty fast. Though I dont know personally, Probably some truth to the article. South Carolina Representative Nancy Mace used to make her staffers go on late-night booze runs, clean her house, and boost her on forums discussing the “hottest women in Congress”—and that was all before things got really bad. and Former staffers said Mace treated them like maids after she arrived in Congress in January 2021, ordering them to clean the multiple properties she was renting out on Airbnb, including her Washington townhouse. Ahead of election night in 2022, Mace instructed her staffers to spiff up her $3.9 million home in Isle of Palms, South Carolina, for a watch party, a former staffer with direct knowledge told New York magazine. Mace also started dispatching staffers on late-night runs for alcohol to keep parties going at her home. “Look, when I worked for her, our poor scheduler was getting calls at two o’clock in the morning to come bring her bottles of tequila,” one former staffer told New York magazine. Members of Congress are explicitly barred from instructing their staffers to run personal errands, and they are not permitted to purchase alcohol for their boss’s personal consumption. One staffer alleged Mace’s excessive drinking and marijuana use became an issue. “She would definitely do it excessively,” the staffer said of the congresswoman’s drinking and marijuana usage. “And again, not to say that most members don’t or most staff don’t, but it got to the point where it was an issue.”

Thanks for sharing. I just recorded the Discovery Channel documentary about what happened but haven't watched it yet. I am looking forward to hearing some details and insights not already known. Living in that area for a while, I would watch the planes and helicopters daily. The routes were...well, routine. Of course in hindsight, a route that crosses the landing path for airplanes (at night) should've been treated with so much more risk appreciation than "do you see that jet out there?" and "yeah I see it" (wrong jet, most likely).

https://www.asiaone.com/asia/cambodian-scam-compound-yields-trove-fraud-evidence-thai-military-says The Thai military said on Monday (Feb 2) it had recovered a trove of evidence of transnational fraud from a Cambodian scam compound seized during clashes last year between the two countries along their disputed border. Briefing reporters and foreign delegates in Surin province, senior Thai military officials said the O'Smach complex had housed thousands of people, many of them victims of human trafficking who were forced to scam strangers or face punishment. Soldiers later showed reporters around one of several buildings in the complex that were bombed and occupied by the Thai military late last year. The six‑storey building was strewn with documents, including long lists of what appeared to be potential targets and their contact details, as well as scripts for scam dialogues. But wait!!!!! https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/cambodia-raids-scam-compound-crackdown-china-pressure-5900121 Cambodia has carried out a massive raid on scammer gangs, detaining more than 2,000 people amid pressure from China to crack down on its online fraud industry. Nearly 1,800 Chinese nationals were among those held, according to the Cambodian interior ministry. A ministry statement said that Cambodian police had conducted a large-scale enforcement operation on Saturday (Jan 31) morning at an online fraud compound in Bavet, the largest city in the southeastern province of Svay Rieng, which borders Vietnam. A total of 2,044 foreigners were detained, of whom 1,792 were from mainland China, five from Taiwan, and 177 from Vietnam. Cambodia has been getting a lot of pressure from China on this issue. The above raid (I think) is only for publicity and after things die down, it will be back to normal. The Chinese gangs make some huge payoffs to Cambodian government officials to be allowed to operate.

Drinks are on Jon!!!!

Not related to the Super Bowl, but to the Grammy's. Saw a slide show of the various outfits. Someone asked kids what they thought "Its like Halloween, but for naked people" I thought most of the outfits I saw were pretty

Sad. Very pretty girl. Looks like she has teeth problems which (I think) is probably due to drug use.

Article is interesting, but I think that @89th makes some good (and funny) points.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5719536-bill-hillary-clinton-testify-house-oversight-epstein/ Former President Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have agreed to testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee as part of the panel’s investigation into the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The news marks a stunning about-face that came after months of negotiations and as the House Rules Committee was preparing to tee up floor votes on potentially holding the two in contempt of Congress. The House Oversight Committee voted last month to advance the contempt resolutions.

Hey @mik, here's another good one! https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/trump-republicans-nationalize-elections-rcna257098 President Donald Trump on Monday said Republicans should nationalize elections and take them over from the states as he repeated his disproven claims of voter fraud. “The Republicans should say, 'We want to take over. We should take over the voting in at least — many, 15 places.' The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting,” Trump said during an appearance on former Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino’s podcast.

Normally I doubt there would much appetite for a Western megapower but nowadays…who knows? Perhaps certain a region like Chukotka for purely strategic reasons but nothing much else. Russian far east though is definitely a desirable backyard sandbox for the Chinese.

@Axtremus said in The Iran Nuclear Program thread: @Mik said in The Iran Nuclear Program thread: It worked a lot longer than we thought it would. Did that ever worry you? Classy.

Trump threatens to sue Trevor Noah about an Epstein joke I thought Trump had the greatest sense of humour of any President?

Linked the paywalled article, and cut out the juiciest bit that confirms his biases most.

That's been well understood by many for a while now. The ICE protests are mostly higher status whites screaming at lower status minorities, trying to do their job.

Mark makes a very valid point about how AI doesn't do everything for you. GIGO. You have to know something about the subject matter and the technology involved, what questions to ask, parameters to provide to get a decent product.

60 minutes piece (Bill Whitaker is a favorite of mine) Link to video

@89th said in Cincinnati chili has snowflakes too.: Also, that dude in the video is probably someone who would start talking about the merits of the tour de france while I'm trying to watch a ballgame. You say that like it's a bad thing.