TomK32

I'd be nice to have a group chat on the game so I can share a channel code and solve it with friends and the odd stranger.

Darwin barely mentioned the whole human species in his Origin of Species but it still inspired his cousin Francis Galton to develop Eugenics[1]: Whether you selectively bread humans to improve the species or dumb it down, who's to tell the difference? Darwin himself had less luck with his person contribution to the evolution of the species, his youngest being described as "backward in walking & talking, but intelligent and observant", which was surely due to him having married his cousin: "We are a wretched family & ought to be exterminated."[2]

The problem of a) people ruining their health and b) not having enough donor organs can be solved much easier by encouraging active transport over the personal 2t metal box, reducing sugar, salt and others in our processed foods and of course legislation to make organ donations possible even without the deceased having agreed before. The opt-out in countries like Austria and Spain raises the level of awareness but of course still needs excellent communication.

[1] https://rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1740-... [2] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2009/jan/19/charles-darw...

Unless is a very small company you won't be the only one with this problem and management should do something about if it drains your energy which long-term will cause you health problems.

To help me with my ADHD (diagnosed at 42) I put on some Jungle[A], listen to the repetitive Mountain[B] or even a modern classic like Phillip Glass or Terry Riley[C]. I know it sounds mad, but it gets some body part whipping and just overwhelms any distracting thought I could possibly have.

[A] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7boqBRRiQw [B] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGyVgm6uiSk [C] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRaa34E8tXQ

The article has both, but then we could also look at percentage change in a time span longer than a day or shorter. Those lists are arbitrary but Trump has added to this list two days in a row.

Wikipedia has a list for this, point-wise today was #3 pushing yesterday down to #6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_daily_changes_...

The best invention against climate change is the bicycle. Few resources to produce (often 10% of the weight of the user, a car easily weighs 2000% of it's 1.3 average passengers), low requirements for infrastructure and with a folding bike you can take it with you anywhere. Personal transport is the segment that fails to do its bit against climate change and electric cars are still cars that need wide road, parking, electric infrastructure etc.

Stealing? Don't start a war against neighbours or other neighbours might get angry.

I don't see much movement into other currencies, just the usual fluctuation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_currency#Global_curren...

"Other currencies" gained two percent point, I guess that's the Rupees the Ruzzians sold their oil for.

Besides the sanctions, the G7+EU hold something around 300 billion $ of funds so far owned by the Ruzzian central bank. Not enough to rebuild Ukraine, but it will be a decent start. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confiscation_of_Russian_centra...

How about a higher income tax or 1% wealth tax?

There's nothing about fairness in trade and trade deficits/surplus. Trade is a competition after all. Free trade was what gave the German States an enormous boost and the Zollverein was a key element towards unification even though that was not the intention[0].

Have I missed the news cycle where Trump complained about the CCP committing genocide on the Tibetans and Uyghurs? How they force them into slave labor. Btw, the reading through the Wikipedia article on Penal labor in the United States make me wonder whether where the USA stands...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zollverein [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_Stat...

Well, January was indeed special, at least in Canada where four Tesla showrooms sold 8600 cars in just three days. https://fortune.com/2025/03/26/elon-musk-tesla-under-investi...

You haven't read the article, or the part I quoted from it referring to the manual, which I would consider as "going by the book". Two of the three boards looking into the mishap "concluded that most highly experienced pilots with similar levels of experience in an F-35 would have punched out of the plane".

He had no vision to aim the jet at an unpopulated area, not bailing out might have just killed +1 person and leave an even greater mystery about the plane's technical condition and the pilots state of mind.

Even if he would have trusted the alternative controls the jet has, he was in clouds over a densely populated area going 350mph just 750 feet above the ground, far below the 6000 feet the article quotes from the manual.

"In fact, the F-35B’s flight manual said, “the aircraft is considered to be in out of controlled flight (OCF) when it fails to respond properly to pilot inputs,” adding, “if out of control below 6,000 feet AGL (above ground level): EJECT.”"

Just a reminder for the younger generation: Andrew Wakefield cooked up this whole mess in 1998 with study on a claimed link between MMR vaccination and autism. The study proved to be fraudulent and was retracted by the Lancet in 2010 and he was struck off the medical register. Nota bene: He wasn't against vaccination in general but suggested that the MMR should be split up into three separate jabs and he actually had a patent on separate jabs. Wikipedia is a good starting point to read up on the whole topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMR_vaccine_and_autism

Didn't the USA basically use German tech to launch their first space rockets?

Musk is a huge step back, just compare him with Werner von Siemens: inventor, engineer, pioneer in the application of electricity and a leading industrialist soon. Siemens realized that a successful business needed happy workers: He reduced work hours from the then standard 72 hrs/week to just 54 (on six days a week), gave boni not just to management but also to workers. In 1872, decades before a nation-wide social-security, his company introduced a pension, widower and orphan fund. No one force Siemens to do those things, Musk on the other hand actively fights against his companies' workers.

Shouldn't be too hard to find who added Goldberg. It's on the first screenshot provided by Goldberg in the Atlantic and Michael Waltz has already taken "full responsibility", whatever that means. What the F is Leavitt talking about Musk solving this mystery?

I had Austria on top of the list of countries with sloppy security around secrets, not anymore...

Losing their jobs would be the least.

How is Telsa carbon credit calculated in the EU and elsewhere? Sales or production? If that gets adjusted downwards we have a nice domino effect.

In normal times this might even be something Congress should be interested in. But instead I wouldn't be surprised if the journalist will get prosecuted on grounds that he didn't leave the group as soon as he noticed the mistake.

Isn't there some new agency offering tech support? Can't they focus on helping the Pentagon to sort out some internal secure messaging with strict ACL?

LeagleEagle has a video on this with a focus on Perkins & Coie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfsNe0HdahU

The situation reminds me of the Nazis banning Jewish lawyers with the "Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service" (Gesetz zur Wiederherstellung des Berufsbeamtentums) just weeks after their Machtergreifung. Even the naming isn't far off Trump's executive orders like "Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court"[1] or "Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness".

Tax consultants were the Nazis next target, in case you wonder who Trump might look out for. Banning actors from screen and stage will happen next year...

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/prev...

> can and eventually will be used against you

That's the nasty thing, you might say something that actually would help you but they can just not use it later. Even a "Hail Trump" won't help me if they decide that I ought to be convicted.

Is there a newsletter for the games you release?

We've seen a musician being detained and deported for reasons the immigration officer wouldn't share. https://dorseteye.com/im-so-proud-to-be-deported-from-the-us...

Is the company you have to travel for affected by the tariffs or retaliatory tariffs, or is a company with the same or very similar name in such a position?

And from the reports, a lack of rights for detainees to reach out faster to their relative, lawyer or just a translator. Due process is out the window, what the King says is law. It sounds cynic, but with many detentions centers run by private operators, and expanding[1], there's just no interest for those companies to get rid of their guests quickly. Why won't they get every detained person before a judge within 24 hours, especially if they are move to another state? Is paying corporations for more beds really the preferred solution over appointing more immigration judges?

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/us/politics/private-priso...

It's all about sending a message: Civil protest will ruin even the best known and most established organizations. Dire times for all who disagree with the corporate fascism taking over the USA.

Watch out and make sure your rocket doesn't explode to early.