John Deere is laying off 238 workers at three factories in Iowa. The company said Tariffs and lower commodity prices are to blame. “Tariff costs in the quarter were approximately $200 million, which brings us to roughly $300 million in tariff expense year to date,” said director

United States Air Force "Nuke Sniffer" Boeing WC-135R Constant Phoenix reg. 64-14829 spotted returning from a 7-hour Baltic Sea mission as #JAKE27. Northern Baltic at ~17,500 ft, southern Baltic at ~4,700 ft. Taking air samples to measure radiation? #NLspot

Precise laser tracking in space at 4000 km (2500 miles) distance while moving at ~25 times the speed of sound

If one immigrates to any given country, they must respect the laws and culture of that country and contribute to that country to the best of their ability, doing no harm. That applies to ALL countries.

Still wild that SpaceX can put a buoy with Starlink on it in the middle of the ocean and precisely land Starship next to it for the world to watch live 🚀

Hard to imagine anyone thinking this was ever a real Dem strategy. You can recall a few very clean campaigns, but the modern-era Dems called Mitt Romney (!) a racist, woman-hating dog abuser. This is actually one of the big things that led TO Trump.

I wanted to read Henry Kissinger’s 400 page undergraduate thesis (it has an incredible first page), but really didn’t feel like dealing with a scanned PDF that’s annoying to read on a phone without constantly zooming and panning. So I decided to convert it to a nice markdown

Handleit Grips Given that it is the SF Chronicle, I am gonna go with the entirety of the story being fabricated beyond the safety thing. Writing an op ed where you admit to several state level “violent” gun crimes just sounds like something that wouldn’t happen. As a nominally law abiding

I tracked my stolen phone across Vienna for 24 hours, skipped my flight to New York, and hired a Serbian bodyguard named Milovan to help me confront the thief. Here's how it went down: I went with friends to a public swimming pool in the mountains of one of Vienna's nicest

When I raised my first $100 million for Prelude Fertility in 2015, I said: “sex is great, but not to make babies.” The point was simple: more and more people need science to build families. Prelude started in Spain, but it had to move to the U.S. to find the visionary investors

It's perplexing how easy it is to manufacture fake hype on X.

Tues 2 Sept is Belgium’s biggest racing day of the year. The 10 race card at Waregem consists of 4 Trots, 2 Flat races (an International Arabian race & the Belgium St Leger for T’breds) & 4 Jump races including the €100K 4,600m Grand Steeplechase of Flanders. 7 runners go in it.

A very common bit of continental Eurosnobbery is an ironclad evidence-proof belief that their education system is better than the US. The US has higher PISA scores than almost every European country outside the Nordics, including France and Germany!

buccal fat removal is one of those weird things where when you tell a woman that almost all men find it very unattractive, most of them simply don’t know how to process this info it boggles their mind beyond belief

A lot of online hard right stuff ("We need to go IN to the Capitol!!!") is quite literally driven by active US feds and foreign agents. This isn't me being "controlled opposition," or some such horse-shit. I am a right-leaning Poli-Sci quant. People regularly, verbatim, repeat

If you’re scared of a can of Coke Zero, but you eat beef, eggs, and drink tomato juice... You’re not scared of chemicals. You’re scared of *labels*.

The Linehan arrest was such a mistake by the UK censorship state. They were picking on controversial US websites and UK citizens nobody in America has ever heard of. Then they went after an Irish-national, US resident, much-loved comedian who was just on Rogan. Error.

Zohran Mamdani’s education policy isn’t about supporting low-performing kids, it’s about eliminating high-performing kids.

yash All modern NAND is optimized for sequential writes...moving fat files around. Optane was wild because it was designed for small, random reads/writes. More like system RAM. It is *still* often 10x faster than the best SSDs you can currently buy.

A whole lot of BS political views basically amount to assuming that life in our hard won civilisations is just the way things are, and that you can simply remove the foundations. Only a society protected by vaccines produces anti-vaxxers. Only a society with a strong military