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US admits 'unfortunate error' after mislabelling countries on map of Africa Heh, I see the administration has fully embraced AI; it aligns perfectly with El Jefe's near complete divorce from reality.

Love the guitar rip.

Earth's Greatest Catastrophes Seem to Follow a Mysterious 27-Million-Year Pulse Seems like this theory, or something like it, has been around for a while now. There was the one about the Nemesis star that had a 26 million year orbit around the Sun.

Hour and a half bridge replacement session at the dentist this morning. My jaw still aches. At least the weather is nice.

Watching Rand Paul go after Dr. Fauci shows how bankrupt the conspiracy theory right has become. But thanks for "saving us from science", Dr. Paul. 🙄

How my mind works sometimes: We all know how the universe works: it's like a machine endlessly and flawlessly repeating the same fixed set of algorithms. Everything we know has evolved out of the randomness of nature. In that case, why would there be a hell to threaten people into living right? That doesn't fit the algorithm. Then it occured to me: if there is an afterlife, wouldn't that constitute proof that we're living in a simulation? I mean, why would it evolve out of an ordinary universe? There you have it: if you go on to an afterlife, it's because we're living in a simulation. The universe programmers need to retrain their living LLMs for the next cycle.

Putin is about to receive 30K North Korean bullet sponges to help absorb the bloody mess. Is Summon Bullet Sponges a high level spell?

Miami-based City Labs achieves a first for commercial nuclear power in space Finally, a practical implementation of a betavoltaic battery technology in space. This uses Tritium, which has a half life of 12.3 years. The Russians have been experimenting with a Nickel-63 betavoltaic technology, which has a nice half life of 100 years. Russia Develops 50-Year Life Nuclear Batteries for Implants and Remote Systems

Doesn't it make you feel better? NIN

If I were cynical, I might suppose the latest tariff move is to distract from the oil situation. Then again, I might suppose the Iran move was to distract from the Epstein files. Maybe it's time to bring up those files again?

I believe that uranium enrichment and PUREX reprocessing are used in both civilian reactors and weapons production, so we'd be reliant on our intel to find out their intent. Plus their oil money and influence can skew the findings. Hence I'm heavily skeptical.

US announces nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia that could enable kingdom to enrich uranium – US politics live Because why wouldn't you sign a nuclear enrichment deal with the nation that gave us 9/11? Effing brilliant. 🤨

Not nearly as scary as those smoking forests in the Great White North, apparently. Yeah, TFG has been smoking something. Trump imposes 50% tariffs on Canadian goods, citing disputes over autos, alcohol and cheese

It has been a long time

That was a fair outcome. Spain dominated throughout, and the only surprise was that it wasn't a 4-0 thrashing. I thought the ref-ing was of good quality and fair, letting just enough of the physical stuff go to keep the game flowing. All told a very enjoyable World Cup. I do think they need to clean up the VAR so it doesn't intrude into the game as much. Adding more VAR calls just makes it worse. If they aren't careful, it'll wind up like American Football where it seems like every play goes to the review for legal interpretation.

Whomever wins... 😋 I don't think it will be as fun as the England-France match.

That was a Steve Martin kind of game: wild and crazy. It was a lot of fun too.

In primetime speech, Trump doesn't provide evidence for illegal voting Well, the guy fancies himself a clever fellow, but the foundations of his thinking are fundamentally flawed. He claims that their are security flaws in the election system, but if there are then he helped put them there. He has done nothing to address these "flaws", instead he is tearing down the institutions that helps keep it secure. An example is his dismissal of the election commission. His promotion of this idea of election insecurity may have the detrimental effect of causing Republican voters not to vote. All it does is protect his fragile ego against the idea that he actually lost. Putin must be loving it.

Well, I think you missed the point we were talking about that, and it wasn't about maintaining supposedly "normal" levels of testosterone.

Creating a genetically flawless child is not the same as creating a supersoldier. The latter is optimized for military operations, which may include limiting other capabilities.

I'm sure parents will be lining up to raise these little murder bots.

It was intentional, on the part of the Spanish player. I've seen that a few times during this World Cup, where the player intentionally places a body part in a position to get fouled. Very crafty. Some players make a living off that, gaming the system. While the called fouls follows the letter of the law, I'm not sure they follow the spirit.

France seems the more enjoyable watch, but it wouldn't surprise me if Spain won.