Doctor investigated after smuggling his pet cat into hospital for CAT scan Independent
New Indo-European genetic evidence Language Log
Climate
The world has probably passed “peak air pollution” Our World in Data
How huge parts of the U.S. could become uninhabitable within decades — even so-called ‘climate havens’ Independent
Microplastics Build Up in Human Organs, Especially the Brain The Scienstist
Wind propulsion now a force to be reckoned with Seatrade Maritime. The deck: “Wind power should now be considered as an option for regulatory compliance and cost savings says classification society DNV.”
Water
Why the water Trump ordered released in California won’t help Los Angeles firefighting CBS
Syndemics
Could the Bird Flu Become Airborne? NYT
Differential protection against SARS-CoV-2 reinfection pre- and post-Omicron Nature. From the Abstract: “Before Omicron, natural infection provided strong and durable protection against reinfection, with minimal waning over time. However, during the Omicron era, protection was robust only for those recently infected, declining rapidly over time and diminishing within a year.”
China?
How China’s government is supercharging the rise of humanoid robots South China Morning Post
Chinese-Style Modernization: Revolution and the Worker-Peasant Alliance Monthly Review
China can detect US Seawolf-class submarine with magnetic wake tracking: study South China Morning Post
Myanmar
Casinos, high-rises and fraud: The BBC visits a bizarre city built on scams BBC
Syraqistan
No guarantees for Netanyahu during Trump meeting: Israeli media Al Mayadeen
Trump’s Real Estate Envoy to the Middle East Foreign Policy. Steve Witkoff.
Egypt lobbies against Trump plan to empty Gaza of Palestinians as Israel prepares for it AP. Commentary:
— Egypt MFA Spokesperson (@MfaEgypt) February 6, 2025
Netanyahu dismisses Palestinian state, suggests Saudis should take Palestinians instead Anadolu Agency
Dear Old Blighty
Britain’s Machiavellian Answer for Trump Foreign Policy
New Not-So-Cold War
Poll in Russia shows high public support for war against Ukraine, ISW reports Ukrainska Pravda
Poll shows Ukrainians mostly feel hope and pride when thinking about Ukraine Ukrainska Pravda
Smuggled Grand Pianos Show Trump’s Challenge in Pressuring Putin Bloomberg
Will Fico and Orbán’s blackmail succeed in restoring Russian gas transit? European Pravda
Baltic nations end electricity ties to Russia through Soviet-era grid and tighten EU bond EuroNews
Wagner’s Business Model in Syria and Africa: Profit and Patronage RUSI
Trump Administration
Judge halts Trump buyouts ahead of deadline The Hill
‘Fork in the Road’ buyout offer reaches space and national security agencies despite exemptions Space News
* * Senate confirms Project 2025 architect Russell Vought to lead powerful White House budget office AP
Trump’s gut-it-all plan for D.C.’s “Deep State” Axios
* * Donald Trump seeks to close tax loophole enjoyed by private equity groups FT
Trump sanctions ‘illegitimate’ International Criminal Court Al Jazeera
A Late-Night Call Between Trump and Bannon The Bulwark
Immigration
Entitled residents of East Coast hamlet hold panicked meeting to keep nannies from being deported Daily Mail
DOGE
Bessent’s Goals Won’t Work Unless DOGE Does, Too John Authers, Bloomberg. The deck: “It’s becoming clear how much the Trump economic plan needs significant federal spending cuts.” Important!
Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew ProPublica
* * Lawsuits Related to Trump Admin Executive Orders Court Watch. Current as of 2/6/2025 at 3:40PM EST.
13 states to sue Trump administration over Musk’s access to federal payment data Anadolu Agency
* * The US Treasury Claimed DOGE Technologist Didn’t Have ‘Write Access’ When He Actually Did Wired. Treasury will want to be checking its systems for whatever back doors these guys built in.
* * Donald Trump’s administration plans to retain fewer than 300 USAID staff FT
Trump admin halts NOAA-sponsored studies as DOGE work speeds up E&E News
Read: Trump sued by unions over “illegal” move to dismantle USAID Axios
Representative Val Hoyle Statement on Leaving the DOGE Caucus Congressman (press release) Val Hoyle, OR-04
The Bezzle
Donald Trump Jr Says Crypto Is the ‘Future of American Hegemony’ CoinDesk
Digital Watch
Man jailed over police AI program, then freed 17 months after victim raised doubts ABC27
Supply Chain
US farmers ‘prepare for the worst’ in new Trump trade war FT
Zeitgeist Watch
You’re Being Alienated From Your Own Attention The Atlantic
Class Warfare
MLMs are the mirror-world version of community organizing Cory Doctorow, Pluralistic
Devoted nap-takers explain the benefits of sleeping on the job AP
Antidote du jour (John Mackenzie Burke):
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
>Trump’s gut-it-all plan for D.C.’s “Deep State” Axios
Trump promised during his campaign to root out the “Deep State” — generally framed as institutional resistance in D.C. that impedes his agenda. But the speed and tactics of Trump’s vengeance-fueled cost-cutting efforts have been surprising.
So Axios thinks the Deep State (no need to put in quotes) is “institutional resistance” (quotes definitely necessary) that Trump doesn’t like or whose policies he disagrees with, wanting to get his pound of flesh. No, I don’t think this is the Deep State. Trump is part and parcel of the Deep State. I think a better, operational definition can be found in the works of Peter Dale Scott.
A second order government, behind the constitutional state that is growing stronger. Party institutionalisation in non-accountable agencies like the CIA and NSA, in Booz Hamilton – where 70% of intelligence budgets go. And behind these firms are Wall Street and big oil” (Dale-Scott, 2015).
https://warontherocks.com/2019/02/how-the-deep-state-came-to-america-a-history/
Crossing the Rubicon (CIA pdf review)
I find it ironic that the linked War on the Rocks piece traces the concept of a Deep State to ~1990s Turkey, completely overlooking MI6’s efforts to subvert the Ottoman Empire in quest of oil in the runup to the Great War. As if, perhaps, the concept must be restricted to domestic affairs?
In fairness, I think the author is tracing the contemporary usage of the term itself in the context of US politics, rather than the political or institutional phenomena described by this concept. He sees this usage as influenced by Peter Dale Scott’s work who, in turn, took the term from historical work on Turkey. Also, I’m sure the author’s own institutional affiliation and academic expertise influenced his efforts:
“Ryan Gingeras is an associate professor in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School and is an expert on Turkish, Balkan and Middle East history.”
Given this background, I think it is not a bad overview.
I don’t think this is the Deep State either, but I do think that this might be how Trump himself perceives it – as a massive internal partisan “resistance” to Trump himself. To the extent that his administration and its Republican allies keep portraying it as a nest of “bleeding heart liberals” or “wokeness” radicals or friends of “dictatorships in Cuba and Iran,” they will only contribute to this public obfuscation. As long as the “Deep State” machinery supports *their* material or ideological interests and allies, they’ll probably be fine with it.
” ‘Fork in the Road’ buyout offer reaches space and national security agencies despite exemptions ”
I guess Musk is taking the opportunity to gut any space-connected government body so that they will not be able to compete with him when he slips back into the private sector. But I wonder about all those government workers leaving government service as they are taking away all their expertise and experience. A twenty-something year old still studying in college may not be able to cut it to replace them, probable to the surprise of those tech bros. Looks like those government workers are not the only ones to be getting “forked” then.
Elon no doubt plans to offer those redundants who genuflect with form and grace jobs as consultants to train those twenty-somethings who genuflect with form and grace.
I place the odds of those government workers who take the offer will be one in one hundred of ever getting back to a gainful employment. They should look at how their retirement benefits will be affected upon taking the offer and, the many other myriad implications to their earnings going forward.
The idea “A twenty-something year old still studying in college may not be able to cut it to replace them” is certainly not a problem because they don’t care if expertise and experience dwindles as they are trying to drop wages and payroll while assuming control or power to impose debt peonage on the population to save cash for themselves — the 1% the FIRE sector
Here is the archive link for the NYT article on bird flu.
Note the use of “droplet” and “small droplet”. “Aerosol” is forbidden I guess.
https://archive.ph/fZQ0a
They’ve lost their minds. This is supposed to an influenza that is not airborne?
Re Poll in Russia shows high public support for war against Ukraine, ISW reports
Intro: “Despite mounting economic hardship and military setbacks, a Russian state poll claims that most of the population supports the war against Ukraine. However, analysts at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) question the reliability of these findings.”
Maybe instead, the ISW ought to question the reliability of the claims that Russia is suffering mounting economic hardship and military setbacks. Neither is apparent according to most reporting not based on Ukraine propaganda.
There is a pretty serious ongoing increase in inflation. It is so far from creating a revolutionary situation that it almost isn’t funny, but it is a hardship, especially for the lower income brackets. As for setbacks, I suppose they must mean the fact that Ukraine hasn’t crumbled completely yet. As setbacks go, that’s pretty weak, but it is something to point at.
Regarding increases in inflation and surprise that its not fueling revolution…you’re referring to the US, right?
In theory a Soviet Ruble was worth worth a buck fifty before the curtain came down on Communism, and then it took 1,000 to equal a lone greenback, followed by the currency shock in the latter 90’s.
We don’t really know inflation in the USA, the crippling kind, and yeah i’m just as guilty grousing about it. Went grocery shopping at WinCo the other day, and it came to $142, and without prompting the cashier said to me…
‘Geeze, it doesn’t seem like much for $142’
I was in Mexico during their long hyperinflation in the 80’s, and it was especially difficult on retail merchants, as the price of things had to be changed often with it only going up. I remember seeing a can of food with at least 20 price stickers on top of one another.
In the end when the New Peso replaced the old Peso @ a rate of 1,000 old for 1 new, the old Peso was worth 1/264th of its value against the Yanqui Dollar when I was a teenager.
We ain’t seen anything like that, and one of the tells would be real estate going gangbusters again, as people were desperate to get rid of Dollars, and what could you really spend it on in a physical vein?
there is a cottage industry of youtube videos of grocery shopping in Russia.
See what 10 Euros-equivalent can buy in Russia…. (even without PPP adjustment, it seems, by far, a lot more in than in the EU or USA)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr_VNlAH31s&pp
Those Russian ladies look so white and European!
“Netanyahu dismisses Palestinian state, suggests Saudis should take Palestinians instead”
Maybe the Saudis should call Bibi’s bluff and ask him how much he is willing to pay for Saudi Arabia to take each Palestinian. Point out that as Trump has promised them a beautiful home, that Israel would also have to pay for the costs of building a house for each Palestinian family along with the cost of hooking up utilities. Medical treatment for each injured Palestinian as well. Oh, and an annual payment for each Palestinian until they are integrated into Saudi society. Bibi won’t go for it of course because I have noticed that with every grand Israeli plan has to deal with the Palestinians, that Israel always expects some other country or countries to pay for it. It’s always baked into the cake.
It’s hard to see this going anywhere (Trump’s plan to create a modern Trail of Tears.)
Trump already walked back part of it – no US money to rebuild Gaza, and no boots on the ground.
Of course, he can always change his mind but Congress would need to authorize both. The trial balloon caught a bunch of lead after someone yelled “Pull!”
Trump doing a back-flip about US boots on the ground was the deal breaker. That means that it will be up to the IDF to clear the Palestinians out of Gaza but as Hamas is still fighting them after a year and a half, how is all that supposed to work? Trump lost big time pumping what appears to be Jared Kushner’s ideas. It gives ammo to his opponents that reckon that he is not acting like a President but just a real estate huckster. Or maybe this came from Bibi. A small story.
Back in the 90s the FBI were trying to work out the table of organization of the mob families in New York but nobody was talking for some mysterious reason. So the FBI was reduced to watching who was opening up car doors for who. If a car full of mobsters pulls up and Joey opens the door for Antonio, then likely Antonio is senior to Joe. So I ask you, who is senior here-
https://x.com/jakeshieldsajj/status/1886931086946574418?mx=2
Those are some “bad optics” as they like to say in D.C.
There is also the issue of the Muslim vote. Trump made a big mistake in signing up with Team Genocide. He may not care about those voters, such as those in Dearborn, who helped him send Kamala out to pasture. But, the GOP may care … he hurt Vance or whomever is the GOP nominee in 2028. Plus, the 2026 House elections are coming and he probably knows he’s going to lose the House because of this.
I dropped this Alastair Crooke link (from yesterday) in last night’s cooler but perhaps worth a repeat.
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/02/06/the-greatest-geo-political-showmans-inside-out-political-solution/
Crooke the insider has said some interesting things including that Netanyahu is in poor health and just had a pacemaker implanted. He thinks that Netanyahu and his future are now totally dependent on Trump and the Gaza plan–serious or unserious–was meant to tie Netanyahu’s hands and prevent the planned breaking of the ceasefire and resumption of bombing. He also says that Trump’s new gestures toward Iran and statement that we will not bomb them is totally opposite to Netanyahu’s longstanding desire to start a war between the US and Iran.
So while nobody knows for sure there is a theory going around that Trump truly wants to disengage from Europe and the Middle East and get himself a Peace Prize to match his rival Obama’s very underserved one. In other words Trump the egotist is not so much out for revenge as for respect which would be the ultimate revenge given Dem and deep state hysteria.
It’s worth a look.
My personal opinion is Trump has an eye on “legacy”. How that translates is tricky. He appears weak in the “nuance” and “unintended consequences” departments. IDK, stay tuned I guess.
Trump’s in his late seventies and when you get to be that age legacy is what you think about (unless you are Biden apparently). Crooke, Larry Johnson and others are just making hopeful guesses but they are plausible guesses and a lot more plausible than those who cling to the Trump/Hitler nonsense. Hitler was in his fifties with decades ahead if he hadn’t shot himself in the mouth.
I think these speculations are interesting if nothing else.
The Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize committee ruefully admitted apropos Obama, that there is no mechanism for withdrawing an award. When it comes to potential US recipients, I suspect it is once bitten twice shy for the Norwegian committee. Plus Trump has already signed off more bombing in Africa since his inauguration.
All it got Benedict Donald was a Trail of Jeers, not that in any way did that affect him.
I’m thinking that we may have passed peak schlock & jawbone, as Trump’s assault on government appears to have been slowed down by the judiciary. He may become a lame duck faster than many think.
A fortnight in and the sniveling Donkey Show has been throwing up Chuck to counter Trump’s thrusts-with his gambit being to throw uncooked spaghetti against the wall and hoping something sticks, while his minions are running roughshod as quick as possible through the works like so many spanners, before the court can have its say.
This obviously is not going to end well, but at least Donald has a lot of experience with bankrupting companies and stiffing those associated in many ways with said companies, so he’s accomplished, with a steady hand on the tiller.
Wait, I thought a “spined democrat” was sighted in Cali just yesterday….
Yes, at the boneless left wing chicken ranch on the outskirts of Pixley.
It is really bad when Jon Stewart points out how useless and ineffective the Democratic response consisting of putting Chuck on the News and social media with his reading glasses halfway down his nose reading some half baked statement is.
“that Israel always expects some other country or countries to pay for it. It’s always baked into the cake”
The gangsta way.
Israel is the world’s woman. “You pick up the check, dear.”
I give every president a honeymoon period when they start. Even W. Even T at the start of his second non-consecutive term. Welp, that honeymoon period is over, didn’t even last a month. Between the idea of expelling the Gazans from Gaza and banking on crypto to revive the US finances instead of something like increased manufacturing . . . I’m done. I hope he does close the border, stops the Ukr war, dismantles USaid. Those things aren’t nothing. If the plan is to reduce the size of the administrative state by replacing civil servants with private contractors the possible corruption in such patronage contracts is enormous. If only there was an opposition party.
Donald Trump Jr Says Crypto Is the ‘Future of American Hegemony’ CoinDesk
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When Latin American countries were going through their financial death throes in the 80’s & 90’s, they all pretty much decided the way out was to get rid of their national currency which had been around for 150 years, and rename their currencies, kind of similar to what the First Son is proposing, albeit in a different guise.
We already have the glaring differences between the have everything types and have nothing homeless living not too far away from one another in our ad hoc camping out favelas that resemble those in Latin America, why not do something similar with our National currency!
Here’s how it went down:
Argentina Peso Ley from 1970 to 1983, replaced by Peso Argentina 1983 to 1985 (you needed 10,000 Peso Ley to equal 1 Peso Argentina, replaced by Astral 1985 to 1991 (you needed 1,000 Peso Argentina to equal 1 Astral) replaced by Peso Convertible (you needed 10,000 Austral to equal 1 Peso Convertible)
Bolivia Peso Boliviano from 1963 to 1986 was replaced by the Second Boliviano from 1987 onwards (1,000,000 Boliviano equal 1 Second Boliviano)
Brazil Cruzeiro from 1970 to 1986, replaced by Cruzado 1986 to 1989 (you needed 1,000 Cruzeiros to equal 1 Cruzado) replaced by Cruzado Novo (you needed 1,000 Cruzados to equal 1 Cruzado Novo) replaced by Cruzeiro Real from 1993 to 1994 (you needed 1,000 Cruzado Novo to equal 1 Cruzeiro Real) and replaced from 1994 onwards by the Real (you needed 2,750 Cruzeiro Real to equal 1 Real)
Ecuador Sucre from 1884 to 2000, replaced by the US Dollar (you needed 25,000 Sucres to equal 1 US Dollar)
Peru Sol from 1863 to 1985 replaced by the Inti from 1985 to 1991 (1,000 Soles equaled 1 Inti) replaced by the Sol Nuevo 1991 to present (1,000,000 Intis equaled 1 Sol Nuevo)
Venezuela Bolivar from 1879 to 2008 replaced by the Bolivar Fuerte from 2008 onwards (1,000 Bolivars equal 1 Bolivar Fuerte) replaced by the Bolivar Soberano from 2018 onwards (100,000 Bolivar Fuerte equals 1 Bolivar Soberano)
When I did retail physical foreign exchange in the 1980’s and 90’s in LA, there was essentially no market for these currencies-you didn’t want any position in any of them, and the wholesalers felt the same way, they were like cash orphans where something useful-blank pieces of paper had been rendered useless by printing on both sides.
Gibson is sounding quite right…the future is here and all….btw, Don Jr is basically telling the world this is the new and improved digital version of Billy Beer ?!?
They meaning the crypto bros want regulation* and on the other hand….more regulations means it is much less or perhaps unlikely to be so secretive ( more the case in say 2014, compared to today ) and speculative….I still tend towards Dutch tulip bulbs as opposed to an Edison and the incandescent light bulb…however I suggest Bitcoin may prove more a long term investment, prospectively so, since I can’t know the future and all
And on CNBC this week I caught parts of a live interview with one of these crypto brethren, didn’t recognize him at all but he said in basic terms the following, I’ll paraphrase. ” Regulators aren’t permitted to hold or own Bitcoin or cryptocurrency, so they can’t understand that market…”. Oh that’s very enlightened, tell us more (!)
Those rather lopsided rates of exchange for the emperors new money in Latin America back in the day would jive nicely with the current spot price for Bitcoin @ $98,823.04.
Turn in your million bucks in long green, cold cash, greenback dollars, semollians and or sawbucks and get a little over 10 Bitcoins. (this offer void after a week, whereupon the Dollar will be rendered null and void)
Coincidentally, any debts domestic and/or foreign in old money are now considered also null and void.
Waiting until you can pay your taxes with Bitcoin. That is one way of confirming that a currency is real or not – whether you can use it to pay your taxes with.
The state of Colorado accepts Bitcoin for state tax payments.
Is bitcoin to become Mr. Lee’s “Kongbuck”?
To be fair, nationalistic currencies are a quaint relic of the past, and back in the day were a way to familiarize the populace with the king or queen’s portrait on them, a practice started by the ancient Romans, and still going on to this day in the UK, NZ, Australia, Denmark, Norway and Sweden on coins of the realm.
1 currency for the whole world isn’t that big of a leap from the Euro replacing national currencies, but Bitcoin being the usurper to the crown?
Does that mean that Colorado is building up their own Bitcoin stockpile?
I don’t know. I’m wondering if it means Colorado is queued up to join an emerging “Mr Lee’s Greater Hong Kong”.
Which leads me to wonder if there’s a play here to crush state level resistance. Say the dollar is tanked. What of the difference between states that have a bitcoin stockpile and those that don’t?
My sole retail experience was a store called U-Wash-Doggie in Mammoth.Ca. about 6 years ago that had in the store window a small sign that read:
‘We accept Bitcoin for payment’
That’s it, the only retail establishment i’ve seen in that regard.
Again, you always talk about countries and never talk about that those were countries with debts denominated in foreign currencies.
It’s the kind of omissions the crypto bros have relied on..
Yup, no matter what else happens in the short-term, simple things like this crypto obsession are what make me 99% certain Trump 2: The Trumpening will include the US economy crashing into the ground.
All those countries had debts denominated in a foreign currency.
Which brings to mind the question “What of the dollar?” Does it adopt some foreign currency features if the debt issuer starts working with a parallel currency?
I would expect Trump to explore ways to eliminate US Debt on the cheap. Does he see a plausible scenario here? I’m on record opining he’s weak in recognizing unintended consequences.
The USA’s problem is the priorities and the ideologies.
It can’t think it’s way out of asset bubble solutions.
Early in my career I had deep involvement working in a Fortune 100 Industrial, yes we had industrial companies in days past. One of my responsibilities was managing the capital planning process for the Board, which included IT, both business and process. The process of building and maintaining systems was carefully thought through. A big reason, if one now steps back and thinks about it is where the liability (albeit implicit) lay. It lay with our IT department.
Today, we have insulted tech companies, and almost any other player, from liability. My banking systems stinks and was hacked. So sorry. Oh, your credit card, X account, etc., was hacked go read the fine print. It’s your problem. We can’t be bothered to invest and design products that work properly, if we even know how they work, maintain them, etc.
Take that mentality into complex, critical government systems (payment systems, FAA, NOAA, DoE, etc, and things will collapse. I know that is what our tech oligarchs want, but really?
“Donald Trump Jr Says Crypto Is the ‘Future of American Hegemony”
Donald Trump Jr: ‘China’s industrial powerhouse and Russia continent size of natural resources is no match for America’s ones and zeroes!’
re. plastics in brain…
this tidbit from the study, begging for a study for confirmation—-autopsy samples suggest that the amount of microplastics in the brain equals a plastic spoon!!??!!
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-03453-1
I’d also add…..polyester air pollution. I put a cotton cheesecloth bag over the dryer vent. It’s unbelievable how much lint that it catches over a couple of weeks. The dryer’s actual lint filter (likely geared for cotton lint) catches nothing compared to the amount of lint caught via the cheesecloth.
So if you ever walk past a laundromat or past your home dryer vent in action—-hold your breath!
I put a cotton cheesecloth bag over the dryer vent., ha, I do this as well. We’ve weeded out most of the synthetic fiber from our launderable (that’s a word in mrsyk’s world, spellcheck) goods as well.
In the whole article, the word “sails” appears zero times.
Just stumbled across some good news. At the age of 96, Sheila Jordan is releasing a new album.
For those not familiar with her, Sheila’s Blues is a good introduction.
“China can detect US Seawolf-class submarine with magnetic wake tracking: study”
If this is true, then maybe the age of torpedo-firing submarines is coming to a close and what will replace it will be ballistic missiles fired from a distance. This article did not mention the range of such detectors but I would guess that they would not be great.
Why the water Trump ordered released in California won’t help Los Angeles firefighting CBS
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It was kind of a signature Trump move, blurt out something stupid bordering on nonsensical at a press conference in Pacific Palisades, and back it up with water from Potemkin pillage.
No guarantees for Netanyahu during Trump meeting: Israeli media – Al Mayadeen
By that account, he probably should get rid of the golden pager.
It probably has a bug in it so the Mossad can listen it. Though I’m sure they’ve installed deep listening spyware on his phones.
That article finished with the following-
‘An Israeli source told the Israeli news website that the second phase of the deal would proceed only if Hamas agreed to give up control of Gaza.’
So how does that work out? Who fills the vacuum of leadership? Israel wants locals to step up and become leaders but what makes the Israelis think that they would be any better? And which Gazan wants to be that sort of leader when the Israelis will likely bomb them if they don’t sell out their fellow Gazans. Trying to bring in people from the Palestinian Authority to rule over them is only a quick way for them to get killed. Will the Israelis go for direct rule? Kinda risky at the moment.
To be fair, if Israel wants Hamas to give up control of Gaza then Israel’s ruling coalition should give up control of Israel.
“Doctor investigated after smuggling his pet cat into hospital for CAT scan”, His cat took a six story fall. After the scan and assessment, Taking her to a free operating table, he drained the liquid from her lungs – allowing her to breathe and saving her life.
Mission accomplished, so sue me.
It’s a CAT* scan. What’s the problem?
*But not in Italian: tomografia computerizzata (TC).
Power napping and I will include power walking, as valid options. During early to middle February there are some days like this week* for example, as the sun dares to shine longer than just one week ago and temps start to tempt every inner teen to skip out on class or in this case…another group call or meeting on MS Teams.
Temps for the coming weekend may touch low 70s hereabouts in South Carolina…too good to last however. Come the national holiday this Monday, the Sick Day After Super Bowl night, those temps slide backwards again. Mark it down, millions are gonna be “suddenly sick” by 9am eastern this coming Monday.
“How huge parts of the U.S. could become uninhabitable within decades — even so-called ‘climate havens’’
Keep on saying it but in places like Arizona, they will start to have to move their towns and homes underground. Other places have done it. Yes, it can be expensive but when the only other option is to abandon those heat zones, what choice is there? And by the sounds of that article, there will be fewer places that you can move to and certainly the wealthy would buy it all up first.
The cat in the scan – at least he got a really good pun out of it.
https://www.youtube.com/user/punderdome
From COBOL to chaos: Elon Musk, DOGE, and the Evil Housekeeper Problem
As DOGE throws out the rule book for government tech, it’s time we plan for the worst—and look to each other for courage and support.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/07/1111283/elon-musk-doge-and-the-evil-housekeeper-problem-government-technology/