LOL well put

@jon-nyc said in Books: Curious who reads proper books anymore as opposed to kindle or audible. I think I’ve only read one paper book in the last 5 or even 10 years, given to me by the author, a guy at Cleveland Clinic. I almost exclusively do audiobooks - except for the one I just mentioned, but I still do hardcopy as opposed to e-books.

https://gizmodo.com/fusion-reactor-called-norm-could-outperform-everything-weve-built-so-far-2000595322 A California-based fusion company thinks it’s cracked one of energy’s toughest problems: how to make fusion efficient, powerful, and not absurdly expensive. TAE Technologies, along with researchers from the University of California, says its reconfigured prototype—cheekily named Norm—could deliver 100 times the power of other fusion devices while running at half the cost of older designs. The team’s research, published in Nature Communications, focuses on improving something called a field-reversed configuration (FRC)—a setup that holds piping hot plasma in place without relying on the gigantic magnets seen in traditional fusion designs like tokamaks. According to a TAE release published this month, FRC-based machines can achieve 100 times the fusion output of typical tokamaks with similar magnetic field strengths and plasma volumes.

@LuFins-Dad said in Question for people who understand the MAHA mindset: I’m with Horace, here. The conclusion that you come to is that without this committee and their recommendations, states won’t implement these screenings and that their own public health departments won’t be coming to their own conclusions. Nope. In fact I know they do because we’ve lobbied states ourselves and have done pilots in NY and FL. Ultimately states make their own decisions and some go far beyond what the RUSP recommends. But pretty much all states implement what’s on the RUSP eventually (though it may take years). And smaller/poorer states especially find it convenient to follow HHS lead. Or that private groups such as the Mayo Clinic and Hopkins aren’t advocating for the same? Now you state that the officials aren’t compensated for their time, but if they are employees of the NIH, then they are. Unless you propose that these activities do not interfere with their regular responsibilities? The people they convene are from places such as Hopkins and Mayo. HHS probably flies them in two or three times a year or at least they did before COVID. At any rate disbanding a volunteer committee of experts with the idea that 50 states can each duplicate it doesn’t strike me as government efficiency.

[image: 1745955814391-3e8fca31-d4ee-40a4-830a-01fac6355664-image.png] Oops! DEI hire! (I don't know that for sure, just a guess. )

Aqua's fine too. he's been writing a lot of stories and poetry on Substack. It's very good stuff.

Oh yes I recall you mentioning that before!

Thai Airlines has/had some A380's. For me mostly, it seemed like a regular plane. They boarded/deboarded on two levels, so unless you went to the stairs on the plane and went up or down, just seemed like each floor was a regular plane. LOL re:747. Loved sitting in the upper cabin. Kind of like your own private plane. Probably my favorite.

https://www.thestar.com/business/hudsons-bay-is-liquidating-all-of-its-stores-heres-what-you-need-to-know/article_8b9a8028-7225-5ef5-9b79-ad205d149ec1.html Unfortunately, the company did not make it.

This seems grid related not source related.

Cool. Or tres' cool as they say up north.

Hahahahaa

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Nuther thing that is landing is that on Friday, the de minimus (items less than $800) is eliminated which means that a huge amount of trade that was excaping the tariffs will be affected - only about a gazillion pieces per year. It will affect a lot of businesses.

Bomb bomb bomb Bomb bomb Pyongyang

https://x.com/maniamakash/status/1916486190355689937?s=46

Yeah, I’ve been expecting this as well as vehicle GPS pings for identity…

I don't think it's a coincidence that the only person I've heard of on any of those is James Brown

Kentucky. No alcohol. Uh huh.