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Attilatheblond's JournalOld failed Soviet satellite probe intended for Venus exploration is expected to re enter Earth's atmosphere any day now
Sure. Why not. Seems about right for how things are going this year.
Mega Soviet satellite Kosmos 482 is coming down.
https://earthsky.org/space/kosmos-482-soviet-spacecraft-to-fall-to-earth-may-2025/]
From linked article:
There are many other unknowns at this time, too. We don’t know where it will land. We don’t know if some will see it streak across the sky as a fireball. As we get closer to the date and experts continue to monitor the spacecraft’s orbital height, they’ll be able to estimate a more precise reentry date.
One factor in the craft’s reentry date is the sun’s activity. Why? Because when our sun is active, our planet’s upper atmosphere gets hotter and expands. That, in turn, causes more atmospheric drag on low-orbiting objects, slowing the orbital speed and thus causing the reentry to occur sooner.
Oh goody, a chunk of metal and electronics built to withstand Venus' nasty atmosphere, and not burn up, is coming home... somewhere, sometime.
Two radically different views, one border. I can see Mexico from home and it's been peaceful. Force is not necessary.
Naco, AZ and Naco, Mexico One town, one people, one really ugly boondoggle separating families.
https://www.myheraldreview.com/news/border/concerts-without-borders-gears-up-for-its-annual-music-event/article_d7c2431e-6a49-11ef-901f-738af55911cf.html]
From linked article:
Despite the ongoing contention about undocumented immigrants, Naco’s annual Concerts Without Borders event shines as a beacon of goodwill.
Concerts Without Borders is much more than a musical event. It’s a chance for two great nations to show solidarity with each other. For one evening, at least, there are no barriers. The power of music dissolves obstacles, allowing people to concentrate on their shared humanity, rather than their individual differences.
Splendid idea and many people who worked to prove there is love, friendship, family, music, and joy the haters cannot destroy
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But some people who have never laid eyes on the area, and some pols who only come here for photo ops in their attempt to push the myths of invasions with magas and racists who have never been within 1000 miles of this border, think military bluster is a better way. So our border is now under military occupation because some willfully ignorant people fall for GOP dog and pony shows. Pretty expensive use of DOD resources to help GOP candidates keep voters paranoid and blinded to our real problems.
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Apartments above stores? Not a new idea, but one that may need to be re-implemented in cities
Saw this, but I'm a 'show-me' kind of girl, so I checked. Seems to be in the works. Again, thank you, COSTCO for remembering we are not all extremely wealthy.
Remember apartments above stores? They're coming back.
At a time when real estate prices in cities price too many out of housing, this is an idea worth exploring.
https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/hundreds-of-apartments-are-being-built-on-top-of-a-costco/485190]
The complex includes 184 apartments for low-income households, with the rest of the units offered as a mix of unsubsidized, affordable, and workforce housing. It will also have a rooftop pool and fitness center.
The Costco downstairs will have 185,000 square feet of space and two levels of underground parking. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the average size of a Costco in the U.S. is 146,000 square feet, placing this Costco above average.
Real estate developer Thrive Living is preparing to start constructing the apartment-Costco property in early 2025, according to a report published earlier this month by the Wall Street Journal. When constructed, the complex will be the first residential development in the country with a Costco right downstairs.
United Airlines Cancels Newark Flights Over FAA Staffing
https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/united-airlines-cancels-newark-flights-after-faa-staff-walks-out-e794b071?mod=Searchresults_pos1&page=1]Edited cuz I'm an idiot and forgot to add some quotes.
Chief Executive Scott Kirby said Friday the decision came after Federal Aviation Administration controllers who oversee airspace surrounding Newark Liberty International Airport left their posts Monday after problems with their radar and radios. Several controllers took trauma-related leave after a similar outage last fall.
“Newark airport cannot handle the number of planes that are scheduled to operate there in the weeks and months ahead,” Kirby said in a message posted on United’s website.
Technology that controllers rely on to manage traffic has failed several times in the past few days. That resulted in dozens of diverted flights, hundreds of delays and cancellations, and thousands of customers with disrupted travel plans.
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The cancellations come after some airlines reported demand for air travel was falling toward the end of the first quarter. United offered two financial outlooks for the year, one that was the same as its prior guidance, and a lower one that accounted for a possible recession.
Tesla denies contacting headhunters to replace Musk
I dunno if I am convinced. What did it take to get a narcissist like Elon to recognize he has to step away from the political limelight and get back to his regular job? Elon is one of the biggest spreaders of horse shi.... err, false information. Who to believe? Who to believe?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr4n94klqg9o]
It said this was because of frustration around Mr Musk's focus on his job in US President Donald Trump's administration and Tesla's sinking share price.
However, in statement on Thursday, Tesla said the report was "absolutely false" while Mr Musk wrote on his social media platform X that the paper was "a discredit to journalism".
Tesla chair Robyn Denholm wrote on X: "There was a media report erroneously claiming that the Tesla Board had contacted recruitment firms to initiate a CEO search at the company."
"This is absolutely false (and this was communicated to the media before the report was published)."
She added: "The CEO of Tesla is Elon Musk and the board is highly confident in his ability to continue executing on the exciting growth plan ahead."
Cluster Headaches might be helped after all
Of course, finding a physician who knows they exist and won't treat you for migraine might be difficult.
Had them while growing up and thought it was normal, that everybody had them. Kept having attack episodes well into my early 40s. They are not fun and if you get them, you understand why many other sufferers suicide. Almost as bad as the pain, which is now recognized as worst pain there possible, is the dread when the pain lets up but you know it will be back, likely worse than the first attack.
Headaches seem to frustrate most doctors who sometimes show feelings of hostility to sufferers when their preferred prescription does nothing to help. Government regulations about what can or can't be used in medical trials does not help sufferers or the doctors who recognize the condition is real. In short, the whole situation is hell.
Found an interesting read this morning. https://www.theguardian.com/science/ng-interactive/2025/apr/23/cluster-headaches-magic-mushrooms-psilocybin]
CH is a rare headache disorder that affects up to 0.1% of the global population. More men are diagnosed with CH than women, though women might be more likely to be misdiagnosed with migraine due to their reports of severe pain not being taken seriously. People with CH have rated the pain at 9.7 out of 10 – worse than childbirth at 7.2, a gunshot wound at 6 and a migraine at 5.4. Right now, much of the limited research on CH is happening in the US. Cluster headache patients are 20 times more likely to take their own lives than the US average. More than half of American cluster headache patients have considered killing themselves, and almost 20% have lost a job due to their debilitating condition.
Still, episodes are often dismissed as “just headaches” by family, employers and doctors. Patients see neurologists who aren’t aware that CH exists, and even headache disorder experts still don’t understand how CH operates in the brain – or how to make it stop.
Instead of trying to tolerate a level of chronic agony that doesn’t feel survivable, patients with CH have taken to experimenting with their own pain, their own bodies and psychedelic drugs.
US to impose tariffs of up to 3,521% on south-east Asia solar panels
Source: The Guardian
US trade officials are preparing to impose tariffs of up to 3,521% on imports of solar panels from four south-east Asian countries, while the International Energy Agency has said lessons from the energy crisis following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine had not been fully learned.
The US commerce department has announced the new tariffs, targeting companies in Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam, after an investigation begun a year ago when American manufacturers of solar panels accused Chinese companies of flooding the market with subsidised, cheap goods.
Products from Cambodia would face the highest tariffs, of 3,521%, because its companies did not cooperate with the US investigation, while products made in Malaysia by the Chinese manufacturer Jinko Solar face duties of just over 41%; rival Trina Solar’s products from Thailand will incur tariffs of 375%.
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However, critics, including the Solar Energy Industries Association trade group, have said tariffs would harm US solar producers because they would raise prices on the imported cells that are assembled into panels at American factories.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/22/us-huge-tariffs-south-east-asian-solar-panels-energy-summit
He who thinks he is king once again not looking at how things are connected. But he really does tip his hand as to who he serves, and it ain't human beings.
Does Trump or Stephen Miller love tariffs because their hero Hitler used them?
Monkey see/monkey do? In many ways it all sounds familiar with today, starting with this:
Feel free to insert any minority Trump loves to deport in place of Hitler and German Jews. The story still plays all too similarly.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/nazi-germany-tariffs-trade/682521/]
Even though Hitler’s own foreign minister, Konstantin von Neurath, was concerned that the strategy would spark a trade war, and could drive up the price of imported eggs by 600 percent, Feder’s tariffs fit into Hitler’s larger vision for “liberating” the German people from the shackles of a globalized world order.
Again insert any ethnic group Trump likes to use to rile up his magas in place of the ethnic groups Hitler didn't want in Germany.
Yep, Trump wants taxation, especially for the wealthiest, abandoned. Wants deregulation and destruction of watchdog agencies that keep an eye on large corporations. Obviously he is all for allowing retail monopolies.
Those who refuse to learn from history....
One more question just because there was mention of Barron/Harvard in some morning reports: Is Trump going hard against Harvard due to Barron not getting into that august institution? Did admissions bruise his ego?
Harvard is available to us, in a somewhat limited online form, for free
Oh, the things one can find online.
Looking for a way to give Harvard a little love? This is a keeper, for sure. Other unies also offer some free courses online. I know you all don't have enough to keep you busy already 
so, put on your glasses and study!
https://mashable.com/article/free-harvard-courses-april-2025]
We have checked out everything on offer and lined up a standout selection of online courses to get you started. These are the best free online courses from Harvard University this month:
American Government: Constitutional Foundations
Ancient Masterpieces of World Literature
Applications of TinyML
Building Personal Resilience: Managing Anxiety and Mental Health
Calculus Applied
Cell Biology: Mitochondria
Child Protection: Children's Rights in Theory and Practice
CitiesX: The Past, Present and Future of Urban Life
Contract Law: From Trust to Promise to Contract
CS50's Computer Science for Business Professionals
CS50's Computer Science for Lawyers
CS50's Introduction to Artificial Intelligence with Python
CS50's Introduction to Computer Science
CS50's Introduction to Cybersecurity
CS50's Introduction to Game Development
CS50's Introduction to Programming with Python
CS50's Introduction to Programming with R
CS50's Introduction to Programming with Scratch
CS50's Understanding Technology
CS50's Web Programming with Python and JavaScript
Data Science: Capstone
Data Science: Inference and Modelling
Data Science: Machine Learning
Data Science: Probability
Data Science: Productivity Tools
Data Science: R Basics
Data Science: Visualization
Deploying TinyML
Early Childhood Development: Global Strategies for Implementation
Electrochemistry
Energy and Thermodynamics
Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies
Exercising Leadership: Foundational Principles
Fat Chance: Probability from the Ground Up
Fundamentals of Neuroscience Part 1
Fundamentals of Neuroscience, Part 2: Neurons and Networks
Fundamentals of Neuroscience, Part 3: The Brain
Fundamentals of TinyML
High-Dimensional Data Analysis
Human Anatomy: Musculoskeletal Cases
Humanitarian Response to Conflict and Disaster
Improving Your Business Through a Culture of Health
Introduction to Data Science with Python
Introduction to Digital Humanities
Introduction to Probability
Islam Through Its Scriptures
Justice
Justice Today: Money, Markets, and Morals
Leadership: Creating Public Value
Leaders of Learning
Machine Learning and AI with Python
Managing Happiness
Masterpieces of World Literature
MLOps for Scaling TinyML
Modern Masterpieces of World Literature
PredictionX: Lost Without Longitude
Principles of Biochemistry
Pyramids of Giza: Ancient Egyptian Art and Archaeology
Remote Work Revolution for Everyone
Rhetoric: The Art of Persuasive Writing and Public Speaking
Shakespeare's Life and Work
Statistics and R
Structure and Function of Argument: Introduction to Critical Thinking
Super-Earths and Life
Technology Entrepreneurship: Lab to Market
The Architectural Imagination
The Path to Happiness: What Chinese Philosophy Teaches us about the Good Life
Using Python for Research
The catch with these free courses is that they don't include certificate of completion or graded assignments and exams. But you can still enroll at any time and start learning at your own pace.
The neglected constitutional argument that could blunt Trump's vendettas
Yeah, I know, WaPo, but my subscription is still active and this opinion piece brings up a facet lawyers and courts seem to be forgetting in regards to Trumps 'retribution' actions. This is a tool that should be used against all the damage he is doing just because someone pissed him off. A good starting place would be his decision that parents in Maine MUST bring newborns to an SSA office in order to get them SS #s. Newborns and young infants are not vaccinated and thus this requirement puts them at risk of serious illness, all because the governor and some people of Maine won't kowtow to Trump's ego.
https://wapo.st/4iehZxP]
"In many of those cases, I suspect that the new administration’s actions could be successfully shown to rest on no more than caprice or ill will. Of course, federal lawyers will gin up reasons to shield what in fact are arbitrary decisions. Rare are instances in which an official so candidly admits that he endangered newborn infants because he was “ticked” about a governor’s manners. The government may persuade the court that some of its actions have some rational basis, which is the relevant test. Trump’s tariffs, for example, may well be economically irrational, but they are unlikely to be struck down on that ground simply because judges aren’t comfortable second-guessing equations. But, in many other cases, based on the abundant evidence of these past 11 weeks, I suspect the government’s proffered reasons can convincingly be shown to be a sham.
"Yet the lawyers driving the anti-Trump litigation seem to have missed this equal protection claim. Why? It could be that many were brought up in the left-liberal traditions of the ACLU and the NAACP, while challenges to the arbitrariness of administrative action have long been a staple of the libertarian right. And decisions such as Olech, challenging local property assessments, are seldom discussed in such circles because they advance property owners’ interests rather than those of vulnerable minorities. Cases such as Olech are oddities, not canon."
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