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From what I heard anecdotally, Canadian officers are trained to “interrogate” everyone believing the added duress will cause people to slip up and reveal they are really a terrorist or some such.

It's called racial profiling.

I saw the title and thought they were looking for a real Homer Simpson.

These two are now playing against each other in the World Cup final.

The "meta" problem is that political in-fighting usually results in local optimization everywhere. Various departments throw each other under the bus to steal budget/people/resources. When leadership finally decides to right the bus, they hire an outside consultant; this is an important signal to the departments to stop the nonsense and tell the consultant what everyone knows but doesn't want to talk about. Serious problems require serious solutions. It is much easier to say if Y department would give us X, then line go up forever.

Uhh. I actively and vocally avoid all things Microsoft. I see Microsoft and I immediately think buggy software with zero security.

They will ask tax payers for a bailout?

I believe the current administration is a ploy to dismantle and destroy the government from within. There was no serious plan to address any of our problems. They are ideologues waving their little MAGA books and threatening anyone perceived as reactionary by weaponizing the Justice Department. Their only answer to any issue is that we simply didn’t believe in the Leader hard enough.

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“It feels like a war on consumers,” said Sally Greenberg, the executive director of the National Consumers League, a 125-year-old consumer advocacy group. Households are being hit by “a tsunami of fees and hidden charges and tricks and traps”, she said.

American consumers face a paradox – they have more choices and higher expectations than ever before, thanks to innovations like delivery-on-demand and streaming services, said Peter Fader, a Wharton School marketing professor. “But not only does service just suck,” Fader said, consumers “are starting to realize that a lot of the cool data and technology is being used against them”.

”Visual discomfort or visual stress is an uncomfortable subjective experience that occurs in response to specific visual stimuli. It affects a large proportion of the population to various degrees, disproportionately impacting those with heightened sensory sensitivities, particularly neurodivergent individuals. We argue that this might stem from a mismatch between the statistical properties of visual stimuli in human-made environments and those in natural environments”

I wish the author would go into detail about the sea peoples. From what I read, one theory is that they were subject allies of the Hittites; once the Hittites collapsed they went in search of better farmland with their entire families.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbC2cD1Mxjc https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260601-ukraine-kamikaze...

A human is not piloting the drone. It patrols even if it lost communication due to jamming. It does need communication to ask the human for authorization to strike.

The most common truck used by the US army has no armor. The author is saying they need to be up-armmored despite the additional weight and fuel consumption; that is the "A2".

https://oshkoshdefense.com/vehicles/medium-tactical-vehicles...

Ukraine is deploying AI enabled drones that require no fiber optic wires and no electronic tethering. They patrol autonomously and identify targets; a human authorizes the strike and they take out targets by themselves. This is the holy grail of modern warfare; destroy the enemy’s rear staging and logistics. If they don’t have fuel or ammo, they are a defenseless sitting target.

It was written by a major trying to convince both those in charge of military doctrine (army leadership) and military budget (civilian leadership). Both of which can be obstinate and counterproductive. Army brass sometimes prioritize their careers over everything else. Civilian leadership sometimes prioritize their careers over everything else.

So an innocent couple were surrounded by police with guns drawn due to shitware and shitty AI. Flock cameras are essential SWATTING the entire country.

”The New Jersey plates that were allegedly stolen from the LA dealer were 34 03 DTM, not 34 10 DTM. But when the police report was created and the plate was entered into Flock’s system, it was just recorded as 34 DTM. Just the five large characters, no little number in the middle. And Flock’s AI tech wasn’t registering that non-standard little number when it began picking up the Range Rover around town. It just saw 34 DTM in large type and started alerting the local police.”

In years past, when corporations saw the writing on the wall, they would actually get together and propose a set of regulations that could live with and satisfy the public. Because we are well past that point, yes, the wrong things and the rights things will get shoved into whatever regulation is coming.

Social should and will get the tobacco treatment. Social media is detrimental to public health and will get regulated/taxed to the point the industry will become unprofitable.

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”Still, the analysts said, AI investors are taking risks so significant that much of the financial system now rests upon AI meeting expectations for productivity gains and profitability.”

God bless America. I believe we are blessed to live in a nation founded by the people and for the people. Despite the rough seas and false prophets of our times I believe in America’s ideals and that we will overcome.

Not the person you are replying to. I live near a Costco and it offers good value for money. I go there multiple times per week. I use their pharmacy which is very reasonable even without insurance. I buy fresh produce and eggs and milk and salmon. I get my tires rotated and balanced there. I also get my eyeglasses made there. Their food court is also something I can’t pass up.

In the U.S. federal system, states often act as policy test sites. A state may try a new law. Other states may copy it. Sometimes Congress later turns a state model into federal law. Eg, unemployment insurance started as Wisconsin program.

The answer to your question I believe is that politics are no longer local. Instead politicians are punished if they don’t mimic the daily talking points from the national committee. That is politics is no longer about solving real problems but is about who swears unswerving loyalty to the party ideology.

The full title and abstract are as follows:

Dietary Patterns and Indicators of Cognitive Function.

Question Are healthy dietary patterns associated with lower risk of subjective cognitive decline and better objectively measured cognitive function?

Findings In this cohort study performing a systematic evaluation of 6 dietary patterns among 159 347 participants, greater adherence to a healthy diet, exemplified by the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet, was associated with lower risk of subjective cognitive decline and better objectively measured cognitive function. The associations were most pronounced when the diet was followed during midadulthood (ages 45-54 years).

Meaning Results suggest that a healthy diet, such as the DASH diet, was associated with early indicators of cognitive aging, which underscores the importance of a healthy diet for maintaining long-term cognitive health.

Abstract Importance Healthier diets are generally believed to benefit cognitive health; however, the evidence remains inconsistent, and a systematic examination of multiple healthy dietary patterns within the same context is lacking.

Objective To evaluate the associations of 6 healthy patterns with subjective cognitive decline (SCD) and objective cognitive function.

Design, Setting, and Participants This was a prospective cohort study based on the Nurses’ Health Study (NHS, 1986-2014), NHSII (1991-2017), and the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study (HPFS, 1986-2012). Included were adults with available data on diet and cognitive function. Data analyses were performed from September 2024 to November 2025.

Exposures Six dietary pattern scores, including the Alternate Healthy Eating Index 2010 (AHEI-2010), the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet score, the Healthful Plant-Based Diet Index (hPDI), the Planetary Health Diet Index (PHDI), and the reversed empirical dietary indices for hyperinsulinemia (rEDIH) and inflammatory pattern (rEDIP).

Main Outcomes and Measures SCD was assessed using 7 questions on perceived cognitive changes. Cognitive function was objectively measured via telephone in the NHS.

Results A total of 159 347 individuals (mean [SD] age, 44.3 [9.3] years; 131 560 female [82.6%]) were included in this analysis. Among the study participants, higher adherence to all 6 dietary patterns was associated with a lower SCD risk. The DASH diet showed the strongest magnitude (risk ratio [RR] comparing 90th vs 10th percentile of adherence: 0.59; 95% CI, 0.57-0.62), followed by the hPDI (RR, 0.76; 95% CI, 0.65-0.85), rEDIH (RR, 0.76; 95% CI, 0.73-0.80), PHDI (RR, 0.80; 95% CI, 0.75-0.86), AHEI-2010 (RR, 0.84; 95% CI, 0.80-0.89), and rEDIP (RR, 0.89; 95% CI, 0.85-0.93). Higher DASH diet score at ages 45 to 54 years showed the strongest association with SCD. Higher adherence to the DASH diet also showed the strongest association with a higher objectively measured global cognition (mean z score difference comparing 90th vs 10th percentile: 0.05; 95% CI, 0.02-0.09). Key food groups associated with better cognitive function included higher vegetable and fish intake and lower red and processed meats intake.

Conclusions and Relevance Results reveal that healthy diets, exemplified by the DASH diet for blood pressure control and diets with lower hyperinsulinemia and inflammation potentials, were associated with a lower SCD risk and better cognitive function. These findings underscore the importance of a healthy diet for maintaining long-term cognitive health.

Well now it’s “AI AI and AI”.

Supposedly investors are leveraging/borrowing money to buy into AI stocks right now...

Those businesses need their software; Windows is an unfortunate side effect. Well those businesses are in a world of hurt as Microsoft forces them to upgrade to Windows 11. e.g., many ATM machines still run on windows XP because the big banks can shoulder any financial loss but small businesses can't. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250516-the-people-stuck...

I don't believe businesses "need" Microsoft. Microsoft is entrenched in corporations for a variety of reasons and none of them because Microsoft is technically any good.

The BIS report actually compares the AI boom to the dot Com bubble and earlier manias.

"Historical episodes of investment booms offer instructive parallels (Graph 11.C). The canal mania of the 1830s, the British railway mania in the 1840s, the electrification exuberance of the late 1920s (roaring 20s) and the dotcom boom of the late 90s all shared one common trait: a genuine technological breakthrough that attracted capital in excess of what commercial returns could ultimately justify. These episodes ended with an eventual reversal in investment, inducing economy-wide recessions. The scale and pace of the current AI investment boom accompanied by expectations of large productivity payoffs bear resemblance to these precedents, highlighting potential downside risks in the near term."