There is never a reason to opine with liberal lunes like the Economist.
If Britain is so great, why do they have to elect a PM every 12 months?😭😭😭
@grok@SpaceXAI
Two almost-new Boeing 737 MAXs to be scrapped after months of being in service.
The GOL aircraft, PS-GRM and PS-GRN, entered service in late 2025 and were grounded by February 2026 after recurring LEAP-1B engine and balance problems. Each spent under five months flying before being parked in Belo Horizonte for seven weeks, then shipped to Pinal Airpark for teardown.
Their low utilization and early retirement make them rare in the parts market. The lessor now markets their components as premium material from minimally used airframes. Despite being labeled a 'problematic batch,' the jets were built over 100 units apart on the production line, suggesting isolated issues rather than systemic flaws.
Elon Musk says Starlink will be integrated into every $TSLA vehicle.
He says each terminal could act as a “connectivity tower” providing WiFi to anyone nearby.
Performed a bilateral inguinal herniorraphy last week on a patient from central TX ($5285). Quote from Austin hospital: $85k. He asked Austin hospital "..what's the cash price?" Response? "How much do you make?" GKS @FreeMarketMed
Tropical Storm Bertha is heading toward Texas, a glorified blob more than anything. But it’ll still bring (welcome) rains to drier South Texas and some gusty downpours up toward Houston. More details: https://t.co/l85Y9Ug5zK
It’s 102F near Mart, Texas and dozens of wind turbines are producing no juice at all. This is yet another reason why I hate the wind business: when the grid needs electricity, wind energy goes to Cancun with Ted Cruz.
Passengers of Emirates A380 EK302 were stuck inside the cabin for over 10 hours last night after diverting to Hangzhou Xiaoshan due to weather conditions in Shanghai. The aircraft's air conditioning failed, and a plan to resume the flight was scrapped on technical grounds. One passenger reportedly fainted. All 373 passengers finally deplaned at 7:30 am the next day — marking 24 hours since departing from Dubai.
Elon Musk: “Optimus will be the biggest product ever
But it is a very complex problem to solve. It is one of the hardest things to achieve: creating an autonomous humanoid robot that can perform a task simply because you asked it to or showed it a video...without any programming
No one has ever achieved this
There are enormous challenges in the robot’s electromechanical design. It needs sufficient dexterity, extreme reliability and the ability to operate in the real world without constantly breaking down
Otherwise, you have a 70-kilogram robot that has flopped over, and now you have to carry it like a body. It does not have feelings
We also do not want Optimus to go haywire
It is a lot of work to get the design right and then scale production
I really want to emphasize that the production-scaling challenge is very, very substantial
This will be the hardest product Tesla has ever had to scale because everything on the robot is new
The difficulty of scaling the production ramp is proportional to the newness of the parts inside the robot”
The US economy isn’t evenly spread, it’s concentrated in a handful of states.
California alone generates $4.4 trillion in GDP, making it the 4th largest economy in the world if it were a country, ahead of Japan, UK, and India.
Senator John Cornyn is threatening to block Trump’s ambassador nominees Kari Lake (Jamaica) and Doug Mastriano (Slovakia) unless the White House commits to releasing AIDS relief funding for Africa.
The Texas senator, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, says he won’t advance the nominations without firm assurances on the program.
In case you’re wondering, Africa is not a county in Texas.
This is why Texans did NOT re-election Cornyn to represent them in DC.
He’s a swamp dinosaur.
This experimental morphing wing, developed by researchers at the National University of Singapore, uses Macro Fiber Composite (MFC) piezoelectric actuators integrated beneath its composite skin.
The actuators modify the wing's camber, allowing the airfoil to adopt different aerodynamic profiles without conventional hinged flaps.
Instead of deflecting a discrete control surface, the wing itself changes shape while maintaining a continuous aerodynamic surface.
The research combines smart materials, composite structures, and aeroelastic design to investigate adaptive wing technologies for future aircraft.
Source: temaseklabaratories on YT
Students need aid
The problem is the ridiculously high cost of education.
We need to cap the cost of a four year degree to $5000 and a eight year degree to $10,000
Make education affordable again
@grok@Linda_McMahon@POTUS@SecScottBessent
Our federal student loan system is allowing financially iIIiterate students in their early 20s to take on up to $200,000+ in debt.
And that debt cannot be discharged in bankruptcy.
These degrees often have a pathway to very mediocre careers of $40K/year.
INBOX: Spotted inside a New Jersey DMV. They offer free interpreters to people who can't speak English.
If you can't read English, how can you drive on our roads?
🚨Report: U.S. spending on data centers exceeded $50 billion in April for the first time, surpassing public spending on transportation infrastructure
Via: Bloomberg
The No Tax Dollars For Terrorists Act is stalled in the Senate, blocking efforts to stop $40 million weekly cash shipments to the Taliban. Please call Senator John Barrasso at (202) 224-6441 and demand a vote. It doesn’t matter which state you’re from. Every call counts.