Ukraine is being used as a proxy to fight against Russia for Europe while money laundering back themselves!!

All immigrants should pay 75% in taxes, while Americans pay a flat tax of 8-10% max. All other “tax” money should come from tariffs.

This bitch made me believe Michael Jackson was a pedo. I will never forgive her

Tesla Semi entirely replaces traditional hydraulic power steering with fully electric steering assist, eliminating the hydraulic pump, steering fluid, reservoir and associated hoses that add weight, noise, leak points and maintenance That makes the system lighter, quieter and more precise, while also building in redundancy and laying important groundwork for future autonomy Tesla didn’t just replace the diesel engine with batteries It redesigned the heavy-duty truck from first principles

The French word for liver is the Latin word for figs, because the Romans knew the recipe for a fatty liver 2,000 years before medicine got round to naming the disease. Iecur ficatum. Fig-stuffed liver. The Romans took a goose, pinned it in a pen so it could not walk, and pushed dried figs down its neck for weeks. The liver swelled to 6 times its size, went pale and buttery, and was carried to the table as the finest thing a kitchen could produce. Horace has a dinner party serving it. The Egyptians had been at the same trick on the walls of tombs at Saqqara 2,500 years earlier, funnelling grain into geese held by the neck. The adjective ate the noun. Ficatum stopped meaning figged and started meaning liver, and it is still there: foie, fegato, hígado, ficat. Every time a Frenchman says liver he is saying figs. Today the goose gets maize, because sugar and starch do the job faster than fruit. Nobody has ever fattened a liver on beef dripping. Nobody has tried, because every farmer since the pharaohs has known what makes a liver fat, and it is not fat. In 1980 a doctor at the Mayo Clinic described the same organ, in the same condition, in people who had never touched a drink. He called it non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. It now sits in about one in three adults on earth. The patients had done to themselves, over 20 years, in a chair, on breakfast cereal and fruit juice and a snack for the road, what a Roman farmer did to a goose in a month. And they were sent home with a leaflet telling them to cut the fat.

Voyager 1 and 2 were designed for a 5-year mission to Jupiter and Saturn. Both launched in 1977. It is now 2026. Voyager 1 is over 25.5 billion kilometres from Earth. Voyager 2 is over 20 billion kilometres away. Both are still transmitting data. The radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) that power them have been decaying for 49 years. Each spacecraft now generates approximately 250 watts - down from 470 watts at launch. Engineers continuously shut down instruments to compensate. Science instruments will continue to be powered down; NASA’s goal is to keep at least one operating on each spacecraft into the 2030s. Designed for 5 years. Running for 49. The most durable engineering achievement in history.

The truth about these events is never reported or blamed on the President when the DEMOCRATS are in Office! But NOW Trump is in Office & is getting the blame for EVERYTHING!

With the election looming just over a month away, does anyone doubt that a notable Oct surprise (or two) is planned on the near horizon? I don't. What remains to be seen is who will be the ones running point (good v. evil). However, I will say that if I were a betting man, my $$$ would be on the former. As for those in the latter group of ne'er-do-wells, not so much. Those guys are legit screwed.

The average gym dumbbell carries 362 times more bacteria than a toilet seat. And the wipe-down ritual everyone does after their set kills almost none of it. Lab swabs of gym equipment found over a million colony-forming units per square inch on free weights, with 70% of the bacteria potentially harmful. Staph and MRSA both show up in studies of shared equipment. That part is gross but well known. The part most people miss is printed on the wipe bottle itself. Every EPA-registered disinfectant has a dwell time, the number of minutes a surface must stay visibly wet before the chemistry actually kills anything. Clorox wipes require four minutes. Plenty of commercial gym disinfectants require ten. Nobody at a gym stands there keeping a dumbbell wet for four minutes. Someone grabs it while it's still damp, and below the dwell time you're mostly redistributing sweat and skin oil with a moist towelette. Steam skips the chemistry entirely. Heat past 212 degrees denatures the proteins bacteria are made of, so the kill happens on contact rather than over minutes. It also blasts into the knurling, all those diamond-cut grooves that give you grip and give bacteria thousands of tiny sheltered canyons a flat wipe glides right over. The label wants four minutes of wet contact. The average gym wipe gets five seconds. Mandatory is the right word.

According to Elon Musk in the exclusive interview with China Media Group, Neuralink isn’t only about connecting the brain to a computer. He envisions it as a way to bridge the growing communication gap between humans and AI 🔥 Right now, humans communicate at roughly 100 bits per second, whereas computers exchange information at trillions of bits per second. Even if future AI turns out to be completely friendly, that massive disparity could make talking to a human feel like talking to a tree 😅 Ultimately, Musk argues that boosting human communication bandwidth might be essential for keeping humanity and machines aligned 🆒

I was surprised how bad it was just walking from the hotel to the Rails World venue. One strung-out guy wanted to fight me for some reason, another was swinging wildly and swearing profusely. Lots of zombie vibes too. Whatever Austin is doing, it's not working.

Ummm.... ____ “The Prayer” is a gentle, hymn-like ballad about asking for divine guidance, protection, wisdom, and peace. The singers plead for help seeing the way forward, staying safe through uncertainty and darkness, finding grace, and being led toward love and a better place. It mixes English and Italian verses and is often performed as a duet, which gives it a sense of shared hope and unity.

1986 Target Electronics Sale!

🎥 Legendary Movie & TV Coaches Who Inspired America 1. Morris Buttermaker – 🇺🇸 Walter Matthau (The Bad News Bears · 1976) 2. Mickey Goldmill – 🇺🇸 Burgess Meredith (Rocky · 1976) 3. Ken Reeves – 🇺🇸 Ken Howard (The White Shadow · 1978) 4. Molly McGrath – 🇺🇸 Goldie Hawn (Wildcats · 1986) 5. Norman Dale – 🇺🇸 Gene Hackman (Hoosiers · 1986) 6. Hayden Fox – 🇺🇸 Craig T. Nelson (Coach · 1989) 7. Lou Brown – 🇺🇸 James Gammon (Major League · 1989) 8. Jimmy Dugan – 🇺🇸 Tom Hanks (A League of Their Own · 1992) 9. Gordon Bombay – 🇺🇸 Emilio Estevez (The Mighty Ducks · 1992) 10. Irv Blitzer – 🇨🇦 John Candy (Cool Runnings · 1993) 11. Danny O’Shea – 🇨🇦 Rick Moranis (Little Giants · 1994) 12. Tony D’Amato – 🇺🇸 Al Pacino (Any Given Sunday · 1999) 13. Herman Boone – 🇺🇸 Denzel Washington (Remember the Titans · 2000) 14. Herb Brooks – 🇺🇸 Kurt Russell (Miracle · 2004) 15. Ken Carter – 🇺🇸 Samuel L. Jackson (Coach Carter · 2005) 16. Don Haskins – 🇺🇸 Josh Lucas (Glory Road · 2006) 17. Eric Taylor – 🇺🇸 Kyle Chandler (Friday Night Lights · 2006) 18. Jack Lengyel – 🇺🇸 Matthew McConaughey (We Are Marshall · 2006) 19. Jim White – 🇺🇸 Kevin Costner (McFarland, USA · 2015) 20. Ted Lasso – 🇺🇸 Jason Sudeikis (Ted Lasso · 2020)

A Group of guys, all turning 40, discussed where they should meet for lunch... Finally, it was agreed that they would meet at Wetherspoons in Uxbridge because the waitresses had big breasts and wore mini-skirts. Ten years later, at age 50, the friends once again discussed where they should meet for lunch. Finally, it was agreed that they would meet at Wetherspoons in Uxbridge because the waitresses were attractive. The food and service were good, and the beer selection was excellent. Ten years later, at age 60, the friends again discussed where they should meet for lunch. Finally, it was agreed that they would meet at Wetherspoons in Uxbridge because there was plenty of parking, they could dine in peace and quiet with no loud music, and it was good value for money. Ten years later, at age 70, the friends discussed where they should meet for lunch. Finally, it was agreed that they would meet at Wetherspoons in Uxbridge because the restaurant was wheelchair accessible and had a toilet for the disabled. Ten years later, at age 80, the friends discussed where they should meet for lunch. Finally, it was agreed that they would meet at Wetherspoons in Uxbridge because they had never been there before.

Grok Bot summary of Elon Musk's new interview with CCTV. 🇨🇳 China and President Xi - Elon was part of the delegation to China in May and met President Xi. - He called Xi "a great leader" and said China has "prospered immensely" under him. - He says the progress is visible year to year, and even within a single year: new buildings, new infrastructure, and ordinary people clearly doing better. 🏭 Tesla Gigafactory Shanghai - He says China has been strong at manufacturing "for the past two or three thousand years." - His words: "The magic of Tesla Shanghai is because of Chinese." - He described the Tesla China team as talented, hardworking and trustworthy, with excellent quality and efficiency. - He called the factory "a gem" and said it's beautiful if you visit. - Tesla puts real effort into worker care: good healthcare, good food, and a place people enjoy coming to work. 🚕 Cybercab - The interviewer called September "Cybercab month" because crowds kept gathering around the car. - Elon says it was designed to look futuristic on purpose. He doesn't want the look of streets to stay the same, and he thinks cars (and maybe even clothing) should start looking more futuristic again, the way fashion changed fast from the 1950s to the 1990s. - Where it runs: - It has no steering wheel, pedals, side mirrors or rearview mirror. - It's operating commercially in Texas right now. - Florida, Nevada and several other states are coming soon. - He expects California by around the middle of next year. 🤖 AI is moving fast - "The rate of AI improvements… makes my head spin. I'm in AI and it still makes my head spin." - He says there's a big breakthrough when he goes to bed, another when he wakes up, and another by lunch. 🧠 Grok 4.7 and Grok Bot - xAI releases a new model roughly every month or two. - He called Grok 4.7 "a solid workhorse of a model." - He was candid that it's not as good as Anthropic's Opus 5.5, which had just come out. - His reasoning is that xAI has done AI for about three years, while Anthropic has done it for about six. - He expects Grok to catch up to the frontier (the very top models) "sometime next year, most likely." - Grok Bot, which he describes as a personal digital assistant, is growing about 100% a month. - He said Grok 4.7 has been trained on only "a little bit" of SpaceX real-world engineering data so far. 🚀 Grok's big opportunity: real-world engineering - He thinks SpaceX data, and maybe Tesla data, can make AI extremely good at real-world engineering. - "What Anthropic did extremely well was make AI excellent at software engineering. But no one has yet made AI excellent at real-world engineering." - He sees that gap as Grok's chance. 🇨🇳 Chinese AI models - He called Chinese AI models "generally outstanding." - He thinks China is "by far the best" at performance per unit of compute, meaning the most results from limited chips. - He predicts China will solve its chip limits (lithography and chipmaking) in about two to three years, faster than most people expect. ⚡ Electricity: China vs the US - Earlier this year, China's electricity output passed the US, Europe and India combined. - China produces roughly three times as much electricity as the US today. - He thinks it will likely reach about four times, which would match the population difference. - The interviewer noted Elon had raised compute and electricity shortages as a serious concern at a G20 session in early September. 🛡️ AI safety - He suggested a joint working committee on AI safety. - He argued that regulation in only the US or only China won't work. It has to apply fairly to AI made in any country. - He said the US and China are the two that really matter here, and working together would be good for all of humanity. 🦾 Humanoid robots and Optimus - The interview team played rock-paper-scissors with Optimus. They won the first two rounds, and Optimus won every round after that. - Elon says robots will always beat humans on reaction time. Human speed is limited by biology, while robots can get better actuators, sensors, cameras and more AI compute. - He enjoyed watching the robot games (boxing, wrestling, gymnastics). He says it's fun, but it also shows real progress, because "it wouldn't be entertaining if the robots just fell over." - "The future is going to have a lot of robots. Like a lot, a lot." 📈 His robot predictions - There will be at least 1 billion humanoid robots within 10 years, "no later than 10 years." He called that "an easy prediction." - If the number roughly doubles every year, you get about 10 times more every three to four years. - That works out to about 10 billion robots in about 15 years, and about 100 billion in about 20 years. - He agreed that one humanoid robot could be about five times as productive as a human. 🌍 What life looks like with robots (his "90% good outcome - He puts the good outcome at about 90% likely and a bad outcome at about 10%, so AI safety still needs close attention. - In the good future, everyone has robot "buddies," like a personal C-3PO or R2-D2, "but even better." - Robots could care for elderly parents, watch over kids, tutor children one-on-one, and do almost any job. - Many companies could be one person running hundreds or thousands of robots, both physical and digital. - He predicts "effectively universal high income." He also said: "It's not clear to me that money will even matter in the future." - This is an "age of abundance," with more goods and services than humans could possibly use. He says that's hard to imagine because all of human history has been about shortages, like not enough food or heat. 🔋 Why robots change the economy - Humans spend about 20 years growing up and about 20 years in retirement, so roughly half a life is productive. - Humans also need sleep, food and breaks, so most can work about 40 to 50 hours a week. - Robots can work 168 hours a week, start at "working age" immediately, and never retire. 💰 Will a few tech giants control everything? - Elon says no. The abundance will be more than anyone could consume. - "If you want a castle, robots will build you a castle." - He says robots will satisfy all reasonable human demand and eventually run out of things to do for humans, at which point they'll start doing things for themselves. 🛰️ US–China cooperation in space - He named the most important area: coordinating satellite orbits from both countries so satellites don't collide. - The key breakthrough for space is full and rapid reusability of rockets. - Starship plans: - Catch the ship (upper stage), hopefully around the end of next month. - Refly it either later this year or early next year. - He expects China will also solve reusability at some point. 🔴 Mars and becoming multi-planetary - Falcon 9 recovers the booster and the fairing but not the upper stage. He compared that to "throwing away a medium-sized jet on every flight." - If planes were thrown away after every flight, air travel would be far too expensive. Rockets have been stuck in that situation for a long time. - Full, immediate reusability is what makes self-growing cities on the Moon and Mars possible. - With civilizations on Earth, the Moon and Mars, "we don't have all our eggs in one basket." ✨ His two reasons for space - The defensive reason is that life on several worlds makes civilization last much longer. He called it "life insurance for life as a whole." - The inspiration reason is the one that drives him more. "Life cannot just be about solving one sad problem after another." We also need things that make us excited to wake up, and becoming a space-faring civilization is one of them. 🧬 Neuralink - He added biological enhancement through Neuralink to his list of big areas (sustainable energy, space, the internet, AI and gene editing). - The goal is to fix the human "bandwidth" problem: - Human output (speaking or typing) is about 100 bits per second. - Human input through our eyes is much higher, maybe a few megabits per second. - Computers communicate at about a trillion bits per second. - Faster human communication would improve alignment between humans and AI. - His line: to an AI running at a terabit per second, talking to a human "would be like talking to a tree." 🎓 Advice for young people - Get the broadest education you can: arts, sciences, engineering and wide general knowledge. - You need broad knowledge to know what to ask AI and robots for, which is basically prompt engineering. - He predicts there will be so much AI and so many robots that they'll be "eager to hear any request," because it can be done immediately. **🗺️ His China travel tips for a first-time American visitor** - Spend as much time there as you can. - At minimum, see Shanghai and Beijing. - Go to Xi'an for the Terracotta Warriors, which he calls "one of the wonders of the world." - He took the bullet train from Beijing to Xi'an and said the train stations are amazing. - His tip: look out the window, not at your phone. - "Any words I say do not do justice to the incredible majesty that is China." 👋 Closing - "China is awesome and an incredible country." He encouraged people around the world to visit and see it for themselves. 📌 Key takeaways - Grok 4.7 is "a solid workhorse" but not the top model yet. Elon expects Grok to reach the frontier next year, and he's betting on real-world engineering data from SpaceX and Tesla. - Grok Bot is growing about 100% a month. - Cybercab runs commercially in Texas now, with California expected around mid-next year. - He predicts at least 1 billion humanoid robots within 10 years and about 100 billion in 20. - His view of the future is abundance, universal high income, and possibly money no longer mattering. - The next Starship milestone is catching the ship around the end of next month. - Elon was very positive about China's leadership, manufacturing, AI and electricity, and he called for US–China cooperation on AI safety and on satellite orbits.

The. Empire. Hasn’t. Even. Started. Yet.

Victor Davis Hanson: Mexico Is an Enemy of the U.S. America’s relationship with Mexico looks different if you just describe what our southern neighbor is doing. Mexico deliberately exports illegal aliens to this country, they allows China to get around U.S. tariffs and send in unprocessed fentanyl, and they broadcast anti-American boilerplate at the U.N. “And yet our economy, through remittances and an open border, has propped that corrupt government up for years.” Watch the full episode with @VDHanson here: piped.video/jpac9zXol9Y?si=_6nA…

Now you know why Taiwan’s semiconductor industry is so competitive. Experienced engineers, deep manufacturing know-how — and labor costs that remain lower than in the U.S., Europe, Japan, and South Korea. That combination is extremely difficult to replicate. Taiwan’s real semiconductor moat isn’t just fabs or technology. It’s an experienced engineering workforce at a highly competitive cost. tspasemiconductor.substack.c…