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Duffy says he would shutter US airspace if he thought it was unsafe

Posted by twiddling on Monday November 03, 2025 @02:54PM
from the reuters.com dept.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/duffy-says-he-would-shutter-us-airspace-if-he-thought-it-was-unsafe-2025-11-03/

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Re:Curtis Yarvin's Plot Against America on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @03:13PM (#44184394)

a USENET troll in his final form

AI is a better teacher-but schools will still exist 'because you need childcare'

Posted by twiddling on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @07:46PM
from the fortune.com dept.

https://fortune.com/2025/05/20/duolingo-ai-teacher-schools-childcare/

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Re:The $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no... on Friday April 25, 2025 @05:48PM (#43798869)

All about the chicken

https://www.autoblog.com/news/why-the-chicken-tax-still-cont...

Re:The $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no... on Friday April 25, 2025 @05:44PM (#43798836)

I also see this truck appealing to city/college/corp. campus fleets.

Re:The $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no... on Friday April 25, 2025 @05:24PM (#43798681)

They don't want our chicken

https://www.autoblog.com/news/why-the-chicken-tax-still-cont...

Re:The School Car Pickup Line Is a National Embarrassment on Friday March 14, 2025 @02:56PM (#43365969)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-462091/How-children...

How children lost the right to roam in four generations

Re:The School Car Pickup Line Is a National Embarrassment on Friday March 14, 2025 @02:55PM (#43365958)

Had to dig around for this but it is quite illuminating: https://www.freerangekids.com/how-children-lost-the-right-to...

Re:The School Car Pickup Line Is a National Embarrassment on Friday March 14, 2025 @02:46PM (#43365858)

zoning and economies of scale in building out larger schools overall which from a bigger area. throw in pedestrian hostile suburban road design...voila

Re: on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @04:42PM (#43336807)

"The names lining up behind Elon Musk read like a who’s who of big money: BlackRock, Fidelity, venture-capital giant Sequoia.

And then there’s 1789 Capital.

The upstart investment firm scored a hot ticket recently with Musk, Donald Trump’s wealthiest backer: a rare chance to invest directly in his AI venture, xAI, and his roughly $350 billion startup, SpaceX.

Turns out, 1789 has a big attraction: Donald Trump Jr. — son of the US president, crown prince of MAGA and now frontman for what fans hail as a “parallel” US economy aimed at the Trump faithful."

Microplastics Are Messing with Photosynthesis in Plants

Posted by twiddling on Monday March 10, 2025 @07:45PM
from the scientificamerican.com dept.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/microplastic-pollution-is-messing-with-photosynthesis-in-plants/

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" Cybertruck Can Officially Be Considered a Flop"

Posted by twiddling on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @03:21PM
from the torquenews.com dept.

https://www.torquenews.com/1084/chief-analyst-says-remember-when-cybertruck-was-going-be-teslas-f-150-i-think-tesla-cybertruck

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Re:Dinner for One: British comedy Germans have been laughing at for ye... on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @12:52PM (#42560388)

Right up there with German fascination with David Hasselhoff

Re:Amazon workers to strike at multiple US warehouses during busy holi... on Thursday December 19, 2024 @12:09PM (#42463474)

Bring in the Pinkertons

Re:Obscene Prices, Declining Quality: Luxury Is in a Death Spiral on Thursday December 19, 2024 @12:01PM (#42463395)

https://archive.is/m9SAi

Obscene Prices, Declining Quality: Luxury Is in a Death Spiral

Posted by twiddling on Thursday December 19, 2024 @12:00PM
from the nytimes.com dept.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/19/opinion/vuitton-chanel-burberry-lvmh-hermes.html

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Panel warns against Vitamin D, calcium use to prevent falls in older adults

Posted by twiddling on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @05:29PM
from the seattletimes.com dept.

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/panel-warns-against-vitamin-d-calcium-use-to-prevent-falls-in-older-adults/

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MicroStrategy spends $5.4B buying another 55,000 bitcoins, shares slide

Posted by twiddling on Monday November 25, 2024 @12:11PM
from the finance.yahoo.com dept.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/microstrategy-spends-54-billion-buying-another-55000-bitcoins-shares-slide-165131332.html

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Re:MicroStrategy spends $5.4B buying another 55,000 bitcoins, shares s... on Monday November 25, 2024 @12:11PM (#42237971)

Should other companies just focus on crypto instead of products?

Re:Toddlers Shoot Three People Every Month in Texas on Friday November 22, 2024 @12:02PM (#42215483)

Sounds like a good topic for board book "Timmy and his trigger discipline" and "Susie don't fan your friends"

Re:Toddlers Shoot Three People Every Month in Texas on Friday November 22, 2024 @11:24AM (#42215111)

Sounds like we need toddler control laws, maybe parents need to have a background check.

Americans see their savings vanish in Synapse fintech crisis

Posted by twiddling on Friday November 22, 2024 @11:16AM
from the cnbc.com dept.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/22/synapse-bankruptcy-thousands-of-americans-see-their-savings-vanish.html

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Blackstone/ Vista Equity Partners to acquire software maker Smartsheet for $8.4B

Posted by twiddling on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @11:54AM
from the cnbc.com dept.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/24/blackstone-and-vista-equity-partners-to-acquire-software-maker-smartsheet.html

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Re:More Americans are searching online about moving to Canada. But wil... on Thursday July 18, 2024 @06:42PM (#41000418)

https://s.hdnux.com/photos/03/57/17/979934/4/ratio3x2_960.we...

Comes up everytime...

Re:Red Lobster was killed by private equity, not Endless Shrimp on Thursday May 23, 2024 @10:28AM (#40455173)

Some viewed the Wall Street movie as a tutorial

Re:Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing Supplier Spirit AeroSystems Has Died on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @07:27PM (#40230863)

Hmm. another Boeing-related whistleblower expired

Judge in Seattle sentences Changpeng Zhao, crypto mogul, to 4 months in prison

Posted by twiddling on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @07:26PM
from the seattletimes.com dept.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/judge-in-seattle-sentences-changpeng-zhao-crypto-mogul-to-4-months-in-prison/

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Re:Judge in Seattle sentences Changpeng Zhao, crypto mogul, to 4 month... on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @07:26PM (#40230862)

"Changpeng Zhao, the founder and former CEO of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency trading platform, was sentenced in Seattle on Tuesday to four months in prison for failing to prevent money laundering on the exchange."

Re:Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison on Thursday March 28, 2024 @05:55PM (#39857827)

remove real estate from that equation.

Re:Grade Inflation at UC Riverside, and Institutional Pressures for Ea... on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @07:24PM (#39377526)

<Interestingly, at this level community colleges are in some ways even -more- rigorous than "real" universities because classes are very cheap so the financial penalty of retaking is much lower, and at the institutional level there is no ranking pressure to get students to graduate in 4 years.

I have also seen local community colleges near me actually have Profs from the R1 Flagship school "moonlighting" teaching courses in the evening. They often are freer in how work with students and also try out new material for textbooks they are authoring.