Jesus. Y’know, I like some of the policies but the fatigue is just awful.

Bill Gates completely missed the importance of both the internet and smart phones until some time after others had picked up on them, and I suspect he's wrong this time as well.

Ha, sorry... trade secrets my son. Link to video

haha that made me chuckle

I've heard he's a great dude, a terrific musician, and yeah.... what a talent, makes me want to go back and watch Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (first "grown up" film I remember watching) and so many of his other comedy classics. Great Oscars host, too.

@LuFins-Dad said in Why HHS Pivots Away from mRNA Vaccines: DeSantis really should have wiped the floor with Trump, but he was too weak. He didn’t go in hard enough to beat him, nor soft enough to stay close enough for a cabinet position. But who knows, maybe it’ll serve him well in 28. Especially if some of trumps’s policies and up hurting people (I’m looking at you, tariffs) and those close to Trump get tainted by it.

I don't think so. He doesn't generally veil what he means in sarcasm.

@Mik During our Minnesota winters when the snow is deep, I can look out the windows and see deer enjoying the use of the cleared sidewalks. They get tired of walking through the deep snow. They're so darn spoiled. They'll walk down the plowed sidewalks to a plowed driveway, then cross the street from there to the next plowed sidewalk. They finally go into a yard when they spot a favorite plant to eat. I love my new fences.

Interesting bits that didn't know before: Basically, when plants are growing, photosynthesis is happening in their cells. And that photosynthesis gives off a very specific wavelength of light. The OCO instruments in space measure that light all over the planet. "NASA and others have turned this happy accident into an incredibly valuable set of maps of plant photosynthesis around the world," explains Scott Denning, a longtime climate scientist at Colorado State University who worked on the OCO missions and is now retired. "Lo and behold, we also get these lovely, high resolution maps of plant growth," he says. "And that's useful to farmers, useful to rangeland and grazing and drought monitoring and forest mapping and all kinds of things, in addition to the CO2 measurements."

Interesting article.

Plumbing school FTW!

Wait, he's saying clouds shift? I like how he said "I don't care how many people say this is normal. It is not."

@jon-nyc said in We’re now in the business of shipping advanced AI chips to China: It’s not so much the tax it that we now have a financial stake in Chinese AI infrastructure buildout. Seems ….. misguided. Heard a podcast about it the other day.... the short version is China would eventually build chips as good as Nvidia, so might as well let a US company (Nvidia) control the market supply for as long as possible thereby letting our country control China's AI abilities, indirectly.

We need an update.

Wow! That's got to be about the limit when there's all the pressure of the opposing team running you down. In rugby the record for a penalty is 81 yards; and it was at an angle, 5yards in from the touchline.

That GT63 is a midlife crisis car. A real finger-up to government car tax crap, and climate crisis whining

I’m glad it helped. It does help to have a plan. This is where I got it. https://www.muscleandstrength.com/articles/reverse-pyramid-training

In the late 60s and early 70s snap on bubble visors covering the face were common among small displacement motorcyclists and moto-crossers. A friend of mine who had a street version Kawasaki 90 sported one until one day a yellow jacket wasp managed to get in underneath while he was riding. All ended well, but from then on he dispensed with the visor and wore goggles. The bubble visor ended up behind him on the road or someone’s front lawn. He never bothered to check or look for the wasp. Glad it worked well for you also, jon.