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Your reminder that Bechtel will need $2.7 billion and until 2029 to make a launch tower that can’t catch rockets with chopsticks<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The League of Women Voters and the DOJ are able to produce no citizens who were negatively impacted by the removal<\/a> of these records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Starship matters. It\u2019s not just a really big rocket, like any other rocket on steroids. It\u2019s a continuing and dedicated attempt to achieve the \u201cHoly Grail\u201d of rocketry, a fully and rapidly reusable orbital class rocket that can be mass manufactured<\/a>. It is intended to enable a conveyor belt logistical capacity to Low Earth Orbit (LEO) comparable to the Berlin Airlift<\/a>. That is, Starship is a powerful logistical system that puts launch below the API.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is filmed in 8x slowmo and it reveals so many tiny little flight adjustments needed to maintain the bird\u2019s position in the sky<\/a> while at the same time dodging all other birds who come flying by at an incredible speed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Truthfully, I believe my father (who supported Reagan), would very much approve of saving America<\/a>, indeed the world, from the highly destructive Globalist forces threatening to take over this planet. And if that footage from FMJ helps Trump make the point that the US military needs properly trained, super tough, focused, dedicated warriors, and not introduce the demoralizing effects of woke-ism, and attracting people to join up simply to have their sexual reassignments paid for, then Trump has my blessing<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, gangs did take control of our apartment complexes in Aurora, Colorado, and the government did nothing. That is the real story<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michelin is pleased to present the very first MICHELIN Key<\/a> selection for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Awarding 271 properties offering the most outstanding stays throughout Germany, Austria and Switzerland, this inaugural selection presents 17 hotels with Three MICHELIN Keys, 85 with Two MICHELIN Keys and 169 with One MICHELIN Key.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This changes everything. Since airships<\/a> are, after all, competitive with 747s on delivery time, you can earn the full revenue associated with air freight, not just the lower trucking rates I had assumed. Cargo airship margins, therefore, can be much higher than I had realized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A music map<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

VW CEO Oliver Blume : “The pie has gotten smaller<\/a>, and we have more guests at the table”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2021 the UK government\u2019s Geospatial Commission prepared a briefing paper for some discussions about address data<\/a>. It has been released to the journalist James O\u2019Malley<\/a> after a freedom of information request.  The paper was prepared in response to the long-running campaign asking the government to deliver on political<\/a> commitments<\/a> to make the list of UK addresses \u2013 and other non-personal geospatial data<\/a> \u2013 freely available. People could then use the data to<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a DoD Directive that was re-issued September 27, 2024. It governs the Department of Defense intelligence activities, and now includes provisions authorizing lethal force in certain circumstances<\/a>, and it supplants the 2016 version which did not mention that.\u201d The DoD Directive is 5240.01, for those who want to read it themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Silicon Valley has lost<\/a> its moral compass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wojcicki has blamed 23andMe\u2019s struggles<\/a> on a broader downturn across the biotechnology industry. But several people who spoke to the FT, including investors and current and former employees, point to a series of strategic mis-steps?that have precipitated a corporate crisis that threatens its future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema piled up another pricey quarter for travel \u2014 including bills for visits to France, Japan and the United Kingdom<\/a> paid by her campaign. Sinema, I-Ariz., who announced she wouldn\u2019t seek a second term in March, billed about $216,000 for travel between July and September, her latest campaign finance report showed. Her campaign also paid $152,000 for her security-related expenses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We praise canonical authors for their boundless imagination. Then why do all their plots<\/a> feel the same? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wait for the second attack<\/a>!! Angry birds IRL. Ospreys rarely attempt to steal from each other but when they do it\u2019s alway very interesting!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

meaning Musk already has an incredible 35 MW of power available on site<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

USN (US Navy) has 100% failed at FONOPs in the Red Sea vs guys in sandals<\/a> who have no advanced missiles. This was entirely predictable and cost US taxpayers billions of dollars. But our leaders are signaling to dumb people instead of pursuing effective action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of the European military community<\/a> has no experience in planning or commanding large-scale combined-force operations involving several nations. It\u2019s made up of separate national armies that, for the purposes of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, lean on America for leadership and coordination. NATO nations have cut back<\/a> on troops and military hardware since the Cold War. But Europe has cut far deeper than the US. Defense budgets have become a pot that could be raided to fund more pressing priorities, such as treating and caring for aging populations. As a result, much of Europe\u2019s military has become, in the view of some US defense experts, a \u201cPotemkin army\u201d that is ill-prepared to wage and win a prolonged war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

this timeline<\/a> (we believe) represents the most exhaustive one to date showing the requests and denials related to the deployment of the D.C. National Guard before and on January 6, 2021. Events have been curated from a number of resources including congressional testimony, internal agency investigations, media coverage, videos, and book excerpts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Applicants seeking taxpayer support for expansion must meet permitting and environmental requirements, as well as exclusive hiring preferences for union and \u201cunderrepresented\u201d labor groups<\/a> and for felons and others with criminal backgrounds. Program designers decided that only broadband fiber would be considered, excluding satellite and wireless companies from the bidding, even though in many places those alternatives would be less expensive for the consumer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The complaint cites long-standing FCC precedent that broadcasters cannot engage in intentional falsification or suppression of news<\/a> and seeks an order compelling CBS to release the full unedited transcript of the interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some hospitals have increased coding intensity<\/a> by upwards of 20%, Mr. Rex told investors. UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson said the trend was driven by a few large systems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

DHL, the international express delivery company, started its business by offering free plane tickets to people on the street<\/a>. For the trouble of giving up their baggage allowances, passengers were handed a free round trip plane ticket to Hawaii. More<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Life in India is a series of bilateral negotiations <\/a>conducted a thousand times a day. And that drives the character of life here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are government boondoggles, and then there\u2019s NASA\u2019s Artemis program<\/a>. More than a half century after Neil Armstrong\u2019s giant leap for mankind, Artemis was intended to land astronauts back on the moon. It has so far spent nearly $100 billion without anyone getting off the ground, yet its complexity and outrageous waste are still spiraling upward. The next US president should rethink the program in its entirety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Houthis\u2019 elevation to a top-tier member of the \u2018Axis of Resistance\u2019<\/a> presents other opportunities to the whole Iran-led bloc. Under the Houthis, Yemen has become a place from which the Iran threat network can undertake attacks on Israel that Iran itself does not dare to mount\u2014already including ballistic missile and drone attacks on Tel Aviv.144<\/a><\/sup>Yemen might also be used by the axis as a way to mount attacks on other targets\u2014such as U.S. forces\u2014in a way that may not draw retaliation on more pain-sensitive parts of the axis\u2014for instance, Iran. At present, the Houthis have used the boogey-man reputation of hypersonic weapons as an attention-grabber, but in the future, Yemen could be an ideal site for such weapons considering its geographic placement and its proven ability to conceal launch sites in its rugged interior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using Hetzner and Azure, we trust that our unencrypted in-memory data and business logic are housed in professional data centers with strong physical security measures<\/a>. However, Cloudflare has built its Workers and serverless offerings on top of its Cache\/CDN and anti-DDoS infrastructure, which operates out of questionable ISP and IXP colocation facilities in various jurisdictions with dubious standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mental strain of having to look at oneself over hours of Zoom meetings results in what Stanford University psychologists call \u201cmirror anxiety,\u201d<\/a> while \u201cZoom dysmorphia\u201d describes a user\u2019s anxiety about dark circles, wrinkles, or bad hair. From a sample of 10,322 subjects, 14 percent of women felt \u201cvery\u201d or \u201cextremely\u201d fatigued after Zoom calls, compared to only 6 percent of men. The researchers devised a Zoom and Exhaustion Fatigue scale to assess how serious the problem felt across five dimensions of fatigue: general, social, emotional, visual, and motivational (readers can test how susceptible they are at bit.ly\/332zRaS). In addition to mirror anxiety, more women than men felt trapped: they took fewer breaks and felt obligated to hover within the camera\u2019s frame. Established research tells us that looking in a mirror raises self-consciousness and self-criticism about one\u2019s appearance. In what sounds like a good idea, researchers suggest making some meetings audio-only as a way to \u201creduce the psychological costs, especially given that these costs are born unequally across society.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We will discuss why there is progress<\/a> for land transport and lack of progress in the air, what projects we see will contribute to changes in how we provide energy for air transport, and when this will affect curves like those in Figure 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We need new, young blood entering the serious photography (and video)<\/a> markets. For the camera makers to continue to succeed, they need to cater to a group that grew up with a smartphone in their pocket and the accompanying sharing apps. Right now it’s a pretty big leap from 9:16 1080P-sized capture to the 3:2 8K-sized capture the camera companies really want to sell. Not just in price, but also in “usability” from the standpoint of that younger crowd. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet like Ms. Harris\u2019s scripted reversals on fracking, immigration and Medicare, her push to build more single-family homes contradicts<\/a> her past positions. As California\u2019s attorney general, she wielded the state\u2019s environmental laws against new residential developments, exacerbating the affordability crisis that her campaign plan aims to address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In theory, betting markets<\/a> may offer a more accurate forecast of election results than polls and models, though fee structures, market sizes and other limitations can cloud those results. Polymarket competitor PredictIt infamously gave Hillary Clinton roughly 80 per cent odds of victory in 2016 before her loss. PredictIt traders also continued to give Trump a 10 per cent chance of winning the state of Wisconsin weeks after the race had been called in the media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jamie Fleet, then-Democratic staffer for Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and the Committee on House Administration (chaired, at the time, by Rep. Zoe Lofgren, who was later appointed to Pelosi\u2019s January 6 Select Committee) had a team of counselors working in anticipation of coming debates and objections from states\u2014including Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Georgia<\/a>\u2014about the certification of the electoral college vote. Knowing that objections would likely be raised on January 6, Fleet\u2019s team began contingency planning<\/a> to prepare for the possibility that the proceedings would “not [be] traditional.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In The Unaccountability Machine,<\/em> Dan Davies argues that organizations form \u201caccountability sinks<\/a>,\u201d structures that absorb or obscure the consequences of a decision such that no one can be held directly accountable for it. Here\u2019s an example: a higher up at a hospitality company decides to reduce the size of its cleaning staff, because it improves the numbers on a balance sheet somewhere. Later, you are trying to check into a room, but it\u2019s not ready and the clerk can\u2019t tell you when it will be; they can offer a voucher, but what you need is a room. There\u2019s no one to call to complain, no way to communicate back to that distant leader that they\u2019ve scotched your plans. The accountability is swallowed up into a void, lost forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NYT seems to be saying: Please be encouraged about Harris, though there’s nothing positive that she’s said or done that we can elaborate for you today<\/a>. Leave the Harris door shut, and look at Trump. Isn’t he terrible in the same way we’ve considered him terrible for an entire decade… or, uh, no, at some new\u00a0more worrisome<\/em>\u00a0and ever\u00a0lower level<\/em>\u00a0of descent into hell?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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