StringJunky

Yes, quite likely, I think, that insubordination is quite a thing. It appears he's ranted 200 times over Christmas, someone was saying. Coming out with vile and racist comments. If I was a doctor, I'd prescribe 13g of sodium pentothal to calm him down. He's quite desperate for the news cycle to forget about his Epstein connections. Sadly, like Netanyahu with his corruption cases, people are getting killed to try and help them evade their legal/criminal problems.

That makes sense. I remember a case where a man swirled his face in child abuse images with an art editor and the police found out they could reverse the swirl to reveal his face.

On Bluesky, some posters have found, with some of the redacted files, they could copy the redacted areas of some files and then paste it into a new document to reveal the text. Trump's name was mentioned 600 times in those. It turns out someone on the editing team didn't understand to use a secure redaction method.

Penny was slow to drop on that one.

Is USNO-calibrated time just for GPS and military stuff? I presume NIST-calibrated time is what word commerce and everything else runs on? Are the two systems usually in unison i.e. within nanoseconds/microseconds of each other?

Yes, neglected stuff is always going to cost more later on to remedy. DOGE just proved that its planners are fiscally incompetent. I find it interesting that hyped individuals, like Musk, inevitably fall off a credibility-cliff. They just don't know how far to push their luck and yet still maintain their public 'aura'.

Privatization of what should be public utilities is a major bugbear of mine. It just makes no sense. How can making a profit from them make it better for the domestic consumer? Since water/sewage, for example, was privatized in the UK, the infrastructure has become dilapidated and now needs BILLIONS spending on it to repair it. They are claiming poverty. Why haven't they put some of the profit aside for maintenance and upgrades over the last decades since privatization? Is privatisation just a gravy train, where they sap from it and, when it runs dry, expect the consumer to 'top it up' through continuously higher pricing? The future is even more ominous for the domestic consumer, with the massive data companies cutting shifty backdoor deals with utilities to reduce their ongoing energy, water and land use costs for their data centres. This can only mean that the consumer will bear the brunt of that increase. The main issue with faceless, investor-owned utilities is that there can be no personal accountability when big issues arise from bad or unethical decisions. They just get a new board of directors and pretend they've "learnt their lesson". Privatisation is a sibling of 'trickle down' economics. Privatisation was supposed to improve economic efficiency, but guess who gets the benefits of that efficiency?

I was mindful that AI might be involved. Time will tell. I suppose this is the first time I've had to hesitate, hence my asking. Thanks.

On Bluesky someone posted a picture purporting to show that the Bondi shooter is actually a Jewish person from Israel. I found a Daily Mail image of the shooter on the bridge, named as Naveed Akram and they seem to be the same person. What are your thoughts? The social media page of David Cohen has apparently vanished. I putthe two images together for comparison.

Courage is acting in the face of some adversity, contrary to ones usual behaviour because it may overcome a personal problem or aid another that is in distress.

I occasionally cut/prune trees down. Most people grossly underestimate the forces in a tree, its mass and gravity. Once a tree starts falling down, you have no recourse at all if it goes down in the wrong direction.

It might be a consequence of morphological changes due to things like hormonal changes, and the rest of the face getting smaller around it. It could be a non-functional byproduct of other processes. That's one hypothesis I've read about.

Yes, colonic cells feed off them.