{"id":17207,"date":"2026-06-21T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=17207"},"modified":"2026-06-20T17:33:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T23:33:27","slug":"6-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=17207","title":{"rendered":"6.21"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Too late. I had accepted three baskets. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/japan_nobunaga\/status\/2065362475172892886?s=12\">Honor<\/a> demanded each one be finished \u2014 an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hello! <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/omanair\/status\/2066077191700640053?s=46\">Kindly<\/a> note that we don&#8217;t have access to reservation systems on social media. We urge you to contact your nearest Oman Air office so our reservation agents can assist you further. You can find their contact information here <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omanair.com\/en_om\/contact-us\">omanair.com\/en_om\/contact-\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the days of film there was a special \u201clag\u201d we didn\u2019t talk about much: the time before you pressed the shutter release while you <a href=\"https:\/\/bythom.com\/newsviews\/imitation-is-the-sincerest.html\">considered whether it was economically wise to press the button<\/a>. That\u2019s both because every photo cost you money (film and developing, maybe printing), but also because we had a limited number of frames (24 or 36, typically) before we had to take the camera out of commission for a period of time while we rewound the film, pulled it from the camera and put it somewhere safe (and maybe labeled it), put in another roll, and started the process of it being loaded for use. 90% chance that pressing the shutter release doesn\u2019t net a useful photo? Then you probably didn\u2019t press the button. 90% change that it would be a useful photo? You almost certainly pressed the button. But there was always a short lag before you did because your brain needed to calculate the odds.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The camera industry built itself <a href=\"https:\/\/bythom.com\/newsviews\/slow-weeks.html\">for well over a 100 million camera units a year<\/a>. Reality these days is more like 7 million units, plus another 10+ million if you include action and small sensor vlogging cameras, though those are now dominated by DJI, Insta360, and the covert-DJI company Xtra. The general approach in Japan in recent years was to take the remaining volume upscale (e.g. many more dollars per unit sold), which kept everyone&#8217;s coffers full for a time, but the industry is now faced with two critical questions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But then again, there\u2019s a valid lesson in this train wreck called \u201cLuce\u201d for the rest of the industry as well. And the True Believers in Design, Engineering and Product Development engaged in this business around the world understand this implicitly. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoextremist.com\/current\/2026\/6\/14\/devoid-of-passion-this-industry-is-doomed.html\">If you don\u2019t care enough about what you\u2019re doing, you\u2019re doomed to fail.<\/a> Having the fundamental passion for what they do propels these people forward each and every day. There is no such thing as \u201cphoning it in\u201d or \u201cgoing through the motions\u201d with these True Believers; in fact, it\u2019s anathema to their very existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt seems like everybody is working hard to meet the company\u2019s goals and Jeff just hasn\u2019t <a href=\"https:\/\/giftarticle.ft.com\/giftarticle\/actions\/redeem\/b54d2779-c90b-470f-ae47-d6291a2e2e85\">delivered<\/a> for us,\u201d said one Blue Origin employee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The core problem is that our clinical trial and drug approval system is <a href=\"https:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2026\/06\/montanas-sb535-and-a-potential-biotech-renaissance-in-america.html\">slow and expensive<\/a>. Getting a new drug to market in the US takes billions of dollars and a decade or more of clinical trials \u2014 and all of that before a company earns a single dollar. The consequence is drug lag and drug loss and also learning loss. Innovation is a dynamic process.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2016\/06\/68611.html\">You must build to build better.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe they&#8217;re investigating you because your finances don&#8217;t add up? Or because your wife&#8217;s LLC received the deed to a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jenvanlaar\/status\/2066602188278010218?s=12\">$9.1 million home<\/a> a week before the LLC was even created &#8211; while you still had your Fair Oaks home? How was that LLC capitalized?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which Quebec hospital recently implemented software from Verona, WI based epic? Include french and english news sources in your response. &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/grok.com\/share\/bGVnYWN5_192d6a99-980a-4229-bf84-7ba63811800e\">via Grok<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-hospital-prices-healthcare-affordability-313817c2ba73f1a3f4055ecde27b82be\">administration<\/a> has warned more than 500 hospitals that they are failing to provide the public with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/donald-trump-politics-kayleigh-mcenany-courts-f0700210fe86004255f68f15d12e9932\">basic pricing information<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 arguing that the lack of disclosure is keeping&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/health-care-costs\">healthcare costs<\/a>&nbsp;higher than they should be. The Associated Press obtained exclusively the list of hospitals that since April have either received letters of warning or, in more severe cases, requests to submit plans to provide transparent pricing. Failing to comply with the warnings comes with penalties as high as $2 million annually for each recipient that doesn\u2019t create a plan to post clear pricing data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He&#8217;s 66 and she&#8217;s 64, and they&#8217;ve raised six children.&nbsp; &#8220;We&#8217;re just ready,&#8221; Janet Thongnuam said. &#8220;Our bodies get old. It&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/madison.com\/life-entertainment\/local\/food-drink\/article_d5409284-d4e8-4950-901e-dd275a834f72.html#tracking-source=home-top-story\">hard work<\/a>, it&#8217;s hard physical work.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nowhere does the article&nbsp;mention&nbsp;how&nbsp;Democrats fell in line with Gov. Tony Evers\u2019 fanciful carbon-free by 2050 agenda. Nowhere does it mention how that support led to the closure of&nbsp;coal plants that were still&nbsp;viable, and that we still pay for. Nowhere does it mention how Democrats enabled the Public Service Commission&nbsp;(PSC)&nbsp;in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/heartlandpost.com\/media-fails-to-ask-dems-the-hard-questions-on-energy\/\">$2 billion&nbsp;in rate hikes<\/a> the state&nbsp;has seen since 2019.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interesting focus group with 13 Wisconsin Biden to Trump voters. By Rich Thau who does great focus groups of <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/pollsandvotes\/status\/2068183337630310663?s=46\">swing voters<\/a> around the country. Includes Iran deal and Social Security shortfall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Axios didn&#8217;t mention that Humans First was <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/datarepublican\/status\/2068353229738369127?s=46\">incubated<\/a> by the Center for AI Safety, an organization funded with millions from Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz. Or that its original staff included a Sunrise Movement organizer who sat in at Pelosi&#8217;s office with AOC and a DSA member who organized for Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cooking of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/a7f52d58-91b0-4d74-895e-bd24a8babe01?shareType=nongift\">Panarea<\/a> is the cuisine of a small island that has been fishing the same waters for 3,000 years and has learned, in the process, that the less one does to what the sea provides, the better. Dinner at the waterfront restaurants meant plates of swordfish carpaccio, sliced almost translucent and dressed with nothing but a thread of local oil and a scattering of salted capers. It meant grilled amberjack, spaghetti alle vongole of a piercing, briny intensity, and, most memorably, bottarga \u2014 the pressed and dried roe of the grey mullet \u2014 shaved over linguine with a rasp of lemon zest. Puddings tended to revolve around granitas of almond and lemon that recalled, in a single freezing mouthful, the Arab centuries embedded in the foundations of Aeolian culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI try to remind myself <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/media\/toy-story-5-saved-pixar-78e29161?st=2WxX3J&amp;reflink=article_copyURL_share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">regularly that there are a lot of ways to respond to stressful circumstances<\/a>,\u201d she told me, \u201cand hysteria is never going to be a productive way of dealing with things.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished \u2014 an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man. Hello! Kindly note that we don&#8217;t have access to reservation systems on social media. 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