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Democrats blame Maui fire on global warming, but residents sue the electric company for intentionally starting the fire. Democrats are so ridiculous they pull out Dr Death Fauci and his perv buddy John Podesta who are all of the sudden climate experts twitter.com...
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell froze up in front of reporters for the second time in as many months Wednesday, this time during an event in his home state of Kentucky.
McConnell (R-Ky.), 81, was in the middle of a back-and-forth about the prospect of running for another six-year term in 2026 when he became stone-faced in a manner eerily reminiscent of his July 27 episode on Capitol Hill.
“What are my thoughts about what?” McConnell asked.
“Running for re-election in 2026,” a reporter answered.
“Oh,” McConnell exclaimed before his eyes darted upward and he stared blankly into space.
Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), to make way for clean energy in the future. The device setup is a fusion reactor which ran successfully for almost 20 minutes at a stunning 70 million degrees Celsius in a recent test. The machine strives to utilise the power of nuclear fusion, a less explored way of harnessing nuclear energy. The setup mimics nuclear reactions taking place inside the sun, where hydrogen and deuterium gases are used as fuel. These experiments could bring scientists closer to “unlimited clean energy.”
Democrats can't be THAT STUPID...or can they?
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The sun will destroy Earth a lot sooner than you might think
And as the sun's core becomes saturated with this helium, it shrinks, causing nuclear fusion reactions to speed up — which means that the sun spits out more energy. In fact, for every billion years the sun spends burning hydrogen, it gets about 10% brighter.
A spokesperson for Ukraine’s GUR intelligence agency—likely responsible for the attack—claimed to Reuters that four Il-76s were “destroyed” or left in a condition “beyond repair,” with “several other aircraft” damaged.
Some rumors circulating on Russian social media claim a total of six aircraft, including a Tu-22M supersonic bomber were damaged, though that claim may be lumping in losses from an earlier drone attack on August 19 that destroyed one or possibly two Tu-22Ms on August 19.
The defense minister, Mariusz Błaszczak, has said that Poland intends to create "the largest land force in Europe." This includes doubling the military to 300,000 personnel. Poland currently has a mix of Western and Soviet-era equipment, including 650 tanks, 800 artillery pieces, 94 jet fighters, and 28 attack helicopters, according to the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Warsaw has signed $6 billion in deals to buy 350 M1 Abrams tanks from the US, and the US State Department just approved a $12 billion purchase of 96 AH-64E Apache attack helicopters armed with a variety of weapons, including Hellfire anti-tank missiles, Stinger air-to-air missiles, and the Joint Air-to-Ground Missile. The 96 helicopters would make Poland the largest Apache operator other than the US.
Poland is also spending $10 billion for 18 HIMARS launchers and reportedly plans to acquire up to 500 more launchers. The initial HIMARS systems are set to come with 45 Army Tactical Missile System long-range rockets that the US has so far declined to give Ukraine.
It does not specify exactly what it means by “biometric information”—but the term can refer to a range of biological characteristics like facial recognition, fingerprints, or voice recognition.
“Based on your consent, we may collect and use your biometric information for safety, security, and identification purposes,” the company says in its incoming privacy policy.
Under the new terms, the company will also be able to store data on users’ personal backgrounds, including where they went to school and their work experience.
One notable change in the new policy, however, includes plans to use user data to train artificial intelligence systems.
“We may use the information we collect and publicly available information to help train our machine learning or artificial intelligence models for the purposes outlined in this policy,” X says in its incoming privacy policy.
X, the Elon Musk-owned social media platform formerly called Twitter, has obtained payments licenses from several U.S. states in recent months, including a currency transmitter license in Rhode Island earlier this week.
Musk has said that he plans for X to expand beyond social media posts, to eventually become an 'everything app.' The money transmitter licenses obtained since June from Arizona, Maryland, Georgia, Michigan, Missouri and New Hampshire indicate the tech billionaire may have plans to support payment processing nationwide similar to Venmo or PayPal, a company he co-founded. The Rhode Island license, while essential for permitting payments, is also a requirement for offering crypto services.
Users of X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, will be able to make video and audio calls through the platform without having to share their phone number, owner Elon Musk said in a post Thursday, in the latest expansion of services as he seeks to create an “everything app.”
Musk wants X to become more like Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s WeChat, a messaging service turned super-app that offers everything from social media and video games to fintech. X Chief Executive Officer Linda Yaccarino has said X will include features such as payments and banking.
Recently released federal pricing analysis from the U.S. Department of Agriculture projects that food prices will continue to rise through 2024.
The USDA pointed to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index released earlier this month, which showed consumer prices overall rose 3.2% in the previous twelve months. Food prices, though rose more quickly at 4.9% during the same time.
Now, USDA says that increase will continue.
There's around $1 trillion of private debt that's headed for potential trouble, Bank of America warned.
Most of that debt has been created by below-investment grade companies through high yield loans or bonds.
Around $400 billion assets are considered to be in "pre-distress," while $150 billion assets are "deeply distressed."
There's a mountain of high-yield debt that could be at risk, according to Bank of America.
A storm of public and private debt is brewing in the US – and the troubles are already beginning to show on the surface as loans pile up and borrower confidence falters.
More Americans are falling behind on their car loan and credit card payments than at any time in more than a decade, a troubling signal of consumer stress as higher prices and rising borrowing costs are squeezing household budgets.
A commercial real estate apocalypse particularly in midsize cities could spiral into the broader economy
All across the country, downtowns, office spaces and shopping centers are at risk of becoming ground zero for a new economic hazard: the urban doom loop. The fear is that a commercial real estate apocalypse could spiral out and slow commerce, wrecking local tax revenue in the process. Ever since the pandemic drove a boom in remote work, hubs such as New York and San Francisco have drawn attention for their empty offices in previously bustling skyscrapers. But many economists are even more worried about midsize cities that have fewer ways to offset the blow when a major company slashes office space, the sale price of a building craters, or a downtown turns into a ghost town.