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The FBI has had a presence at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, for more than 50 years. Today, more than 1,300 personnel are working there in various operational roles. For info about the FBI Huntsville facility:

https://www.fbi.gov/about/huntsville

"why are they floating tax breaks that will cost the country billions?"

Not billions: trillions!

"Trump Tax Priorities To Cost $5 to $11 Trillion over the next Ten Years"

https://www.crfb.org/blogs/trump-tax-priorities-total-5-11-t...

Nothing earlier than 1936? For example George Boole's boolean arithmetic or Charles Babbage's computers?

All police crime fighting activities wrack up real-world harm. For example I see an estimate that the police killed 1250 people in 2024. While most of the killings were unavoidable many were not.

So it's question of costs vs benefits for crime fighting methods like face recognition.

I think there is a lot to be said for public schools to be eliminated, for all schools to be private schools with the government providing vouchers. So you would have some students going to a strong STEM school, others to schools with strong vocational education, etc--instead of students going to an average generic local public school. There is a lot to be said for freedom of choice.

Nonsense. There are only about 200 U.S. military personnel in Greenland; if it was of strategic significance there would be thousands.

If urgent care doesn't fix the problem, you should then escalate--go to the hospital emergency department if nothing else.

Even though there is a lot of hard, unpleasant work I think you would find most of these inmate fire fighters appreciate being out in the great outdoors--vs being locked up in a cage (a prison).

China is no longer accepting plastics where they are shredded and put into a landfill.

I disagree with the article. DOGE is not about changing procurement regulations; it's about gutting environmental, safety, consumer protection regulations, drastically cutting the safety net and other programs popular with Democrats ranging from mass transit to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

It gives you clickable links to a half dozen or so sources. It's not clear which of the information comes from source 1 vs source 2, etc.

With anti-vaxers taking over the major health agencies, infectious diseases in children are going to explode.

The problem is that a significant number of moderate alcohol consumers become addicted and are now heavy alcohol consumers.

Expect lower prices?

Doesn't the author realize that they are all produced abroad--and Trump has promised massive tariffs.

Not really. At the end of the process with X Musk still wanted a working social media site; at the end of process of cutting $2 trillion from the budget Musk doesn't care if the government works or not.

I wonder about the definition of poor health. When you have a chronic disease it may be managed adequately so you don't have a poor quality of life. So it may be that the article is just talking about chronic diseases--and not poor quality of life.

Could someone clarify?

No, it doesn't have competition from Nyx; it's a potential competitor as it will be years before it can be a competitor--and could quite easily not be a competitor then (running out of funding like so many other rocket companies).

I think it is very likely there will be a massive amount of crypto scams during the Trump administration.

So was this a voluntary resignation or a forced one?

Time to split off Intel's foundry operations?

There has been a big change in what farmers do. Traditional farmers both raised crops (such as corn and soybeans) and raised animals (such as hogs, beef cattle, chickens, dairy cows). This is a year around operation. Nowadays there is much greater specialization. If you just raise crops you are busy in the spring (planting) and in the fall (harvesting) and do some work in the summer (controlling weeds) and very little in the winter. So this leaves a lot of time for a part time job. Raising animals has become both specialized (one type of animal) and these being mostly very large, fulltime operations.

Tracy Kidder.The Soul of a New Machine.

About the development of the Data General new minicomputer. Published 1982.

Really? I think it will get vastly larger--filled with AI generated garbage.

So what taxes are there that don't have problems with tax avoidance? For example the U.S.has a shadow economy of about 10% of GDP where people are not paying income, sales, social security taxes.

Set up Google Voice so all calls are forwarded to both phones.

https://voice.google.com/about

"“I think if we had another six months, another couple $100 million,” he said, “we probably would have made it.”"

No way. It would only have worked if sold as a more expensive service (higher food costs/delivery fees) than conventional supermarkets--like Instacart does.

Wrong. A substantial number of advertisers dropped X.com because it isn't brand safe (for example their ads are located next to racist or Nazi or pornographic content). A substantial number of the staff let go were involved in keeping the site brand safe.

Non-paywalled MSN repost:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/tech-jobs-have-dried...

Non-paywalled at:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/underfunded-aging-na...

Think about going off-roading in your new $100,000 vehicle [although something I wouldn't do if I had such a vehicle]. Suppose there is a big boulder or you want to cross some water: you need the height!