John-Jacob Jingleheimer Smith

Navy Veteran - Engineer - MBA

Christian ✝️ Dad of four &
Coffee Snob

[John-Jacob Jingleheimer Smith @Kihr____]

We could fix the fertility crisis pretty fast if we stopped acting like families are some exotic hobby.

Here’s what would actually move the needle:

• Pay parents real money.
$10k+ per kid.
If you give the country four new future taxpayers, you deserve something besides a pat on the back and a rising grocery bill.

• Free college or trade school at 35 for parents with 3–4 kids.
Have your kids when biology cooperates, get the degree later when the house isn’t in full toddler-chaos mode.
It’s not complicated — it’s the TIMELINE that’s broken, not the people.

• Make one income viable again.
A family shouldn’t need two full-time jobs, overtime, and a prayer just to stay afloat.
One solid income should be enough to start a household without risking bankruptcy.

• Rebuild the path for young men.
Trades, apprenticeships, actual wages — so guys can afford to start families before they’re collecting AARP mailers.
Stable men = stable families. Always has.

None of this is extreme.
It’s just basic common sense we somehow forgot:

Reward families → you get families.
Punish families → you get demographic collapse.

Right now, we’re choosing collapse and pretending it’s a mystery.

[John-Jacob Jingleheimer Smith @Kihr____]

@ChadC86505 @joelpollak @elonmusk Isn't it a little early to be drunk?

[Owen Gregorian @OwenGregorian]

Donut Lab's miracle battery found to be a fraud, investigation claims | Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering

Donut Lab used self-validated technology and promises of 10x returns to raise $25 million from over 1,300 mostly small, crowdfunding investors.

After months of investigation, more than 20 independent battery experts have found that the battery technology promoted by Finnish startup Donut Lab is not the breakthrough solid-state sodium-ion battery the company claimed. These findings raise serious questions about a technology that attracted about $25 million from over 1,300 investors and pushed the company’s value up to $1.25 billion.

The report, led by battery researcher Ziroth, looked at electrochemical tests, company records, and interviews with industry experts. All the evidence suggests the widely publicized battery is actually a regular lithium-ion cell rather than the revolutionary chemistry unveiled at CES 2026.

Experts say test results match lithium-ion chemistry

Questions surrounding Donut Lab’s claims began soon after the company announced a battery that could deliver 400 watt-hours per kilogram, last through 100,000 charge cycles, and recharge in just 5 minutes.

These numbers quickly caught the battery industry’s attention. Independent tests followed, but the main performance claims were not verified. Several tests by Finland’s VTT Technical Research Center could not confirm the advertised energy density or the long cycle life.

The latest investigation reviewed data from those tests and spoke with over 20 battery experts. The report says every expert agreed: the tested cell acts like a lithium-ion battery.

A key clue was in the voltage measurements. The battery ran at about 3.7 to 3.8 volts at 50 percent charge, which is typical for high-nickel lithium-ion batteries with nickel-manganese-cobalt chemistry. Sodium-ion batteries usually operate at lower voltages and rarely exceed 3.5 volts at the same charge.

Expansion patterns reveal the battery’s true identity

Researchers say the most convincing evidence came from measuring how the cell expanded during charging.

When a battery charges, ions move into the anode, causing it to expand. Graphite anodes have a unique expansion pattern because of changes in graphite’s layered structure. The Donut Lab cell showed this exact pattern.

This finding matters because sodium ions are too big to fit into graphite the way lithium ions do. According to investigators, the graphite expansion pattern clearly shows that lithium is the active ion in the battery.

The report described the evidence bluntly: “It’s like we have a slightly noisy fingerprint and a picture of the suspect’s face. And yet again, it’s a match.”

Based on the data, investigators estimated the battery’s energy density at about 298 watt-hours per kilogram. This is good for a modern lithium-ion battery, but far below the company’s claimed 400 watt-hours per kilogram.

German supplier emerges at center of technology chain

The investigation found that the battery technology came from the German company CT Coatings, which supplied it to Nordic Nano and Donut Lab.

In this setup, CT Coatings provided the technology, Nordic Nano was supposed to make the cells, and Donut Lab took care of selling them. Investigators said Nordic Nano has never made a battery cell for the market.

Industry experts who met with CT Coatings representatives doubted their technical skills. Julian Zanau from the Fraunhofer Research Institute recalled concerns following discussions with company officials.

“The first impression I got was that these people have no idea how a battery actually works. They were talking about no rare earth metals in their batteries and therefore no lithium, and to any chemist lithium has nothing to do with rare earth minerals.”

Former Nordic Nano executive Lauri Peltola also criticized the decision to rely solely on internal evaluations rather than independent battery experts to assess the technology.

Investor scrutiny grows as authorities investigate

The report also questions Donut Lab’s public statements about its vehicle-making efforts. The company said the first production motorcycle left the assembly line in early 2026. However, an internal video reportedly said the motorcycles would first stay in Verge’s own fleet to improve manufacturing before being delivered to customers.

Investigators argue that these vehicles should be seen as pre-production units, not products ready for customers.

More doubts came up when CEO Marko Lehtimäki reportedly admitted that the much-publicized 400-watt-hour-per-kilogram cells were not actually in the motorcycles. Leaked messages also suggested Donut Lab was still looking for proof of the battery’s advertised performance from CT Coatings.

The financial impact is significant. Over 900 shareholders reportedly hold 50 shares or fewer, indicating many are small investors. Investor messages reportedly promised big returns and encouraged more investments as excitement about the battery grew.

According to the investigation, Finnish financial regulators and criminal authorities are now looking into the case. This could become one of the most closely watched technology investment cases in the Nordic battery industry.

https://t.co/qFypRm2Y82

[John-Jacob Jingleheimer Smith @Kihr____]

@OwenGregorian This is disappointing but honestly expected

[Owen Gregorian @OwenGregorian]

DOJ says EEOC pushed racial discrimination in hiring rules | Josh Schumarcher, WORLD News Group

The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday told the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that its policies may have led to racial discrimination. The message came in an opinion document the DOJ published on Tuesday. The policies in question dealt with disparate impact liability, or the concept that an employer can be held liable if an action or code affects a group of its employees disproportionately. The U.S. Supreme Court first articulated the idea of disparate impact liability in 1971. In Griggs v. Duke Power Co., the Court held that employers can be held liable for discrimination if they use hiring policies that aren’t strictly necessary and that result in them hiring too few minorities.

What does this have to do with the EEOC? Currently, the commission’s policies have an unconstitutional view of disparate impact liability, the DOJ said. The EEOC’s rules have motivated employers to hire more minorities based solely on their race so that they don’t appear to be discriminating against those minorities, the department said. Essentially, the EEOC has required employers to meet certain racial quotas in their hiring practices. That violated the U.S. Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause, the DOJ said.

EEOC Chairwoman Andrea Lucas wrote on social media that the commission was grateful for the analysis. The opinion should clear up the Constitutional limits of disparate impact in cases of employment discrimination, she wrote.

https://t.co/3dIgGxu1jK

[Owen Gregorian @OwenGregorian]

Single high dose of psilocybin temporarily restores lost abilities in an 80-year-old Alzheimer's patient | Sanjukta Mondal, Medical Xpress

She was able to talk and walk for longer periods, recognize some of her family members, and regain bladder control after five years of wearing diapers.

Regaining lost smile and memory

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of the most common forms of dementia and progressively worsens over time. It slowly takes away a person's ability to think, communicate and move freely, making even the simplest everyday tasks increasingly challenging. As the global population ages, cases of AD and other neurodegenerative disorders are rising with it. Most treatments currently available for Alzheimer's can, at best, help improve quality of life but do not offer meaningful functional recovery. Scientists have therefore broadened their search for promising therapeutic agents.

One such candidate is psilocybin, which activates specific serotonin receptors in the brain. Previous brain-scan studies investigating the effects of psychoactive compounds have shown increased communication between large-scale brain networks. In animal studies, these drugs have also been shown to promote neuroplasticity, which is the brain's ability to form new branches and connections between nerve cells.

To explore the effects of the mushroom compounds on AD, the researchers conducted an exploratory observational case report in which they closely followed one person to observe how she responded to the treatment. The woman involved in the study, 80, had been living with advanced Alzheimer's disease for 10 years. At the start of the study, she could barely speak, was unable to control her bladder and needed help walking. She was given a single oral dose of 5 grams of psilocybin-containing mushrooms, which is considered a high dose. A month later, she was given a slightly smaller dose of 3 grams.

They found that after taking a single high dose of psilocybin, the patient regained several abilities she had lost years earlier. Within 19 hours of taking the dose, she was able to hold hourlong conversations about her life, whereas before the study her speech had been limited to one or two words at a time. She began to show emotions and respond to humor.

Not only did her bladder control improve, but her diapers remained dry even overnight, and she also started dressing herself. She began to maintain eye contact and smile back at people. Many of the gains persisted for weeks, with some continuing after the second, lower dose.

This case showed that after receiving psilocybin, a patient with advanced Alzheimer's temporarily regained several abilities. The researchers, however, highlighted that the treatment did not reverse the disease but revealed that some functional abilities may still remain in the brain during late-stage Alzheimer's and can be temporarily reactivated under certain conditions.

Written for you by our author Sanjukta Mondal, edited by Stephanie Baum, and fact-checked and reviewed by Robert Egan—this article is the result of careful human work. We rely on readers like you to keep independent science journalism alive. If this reporting matters to you, please consider a donation (especially monthly). You'll get an ad-free account as a thank-you.

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@AmericanDebunk The ironic coffee maker dilemma

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@hotahotasa45082 It's a moronic PR shoot. It makes me not want to visit

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The laugh is what I might miss most.

Here’s a laugh compilation.

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@LibertyCappy MLK was a good Christian and Rosa Parks was just an innocent hard working woman in her way home from work.

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@Worldsource24 @JohnMurphy51 British police after after today’s attempted beheading in Ireland !!!

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@zerohedge Damn Zombies

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@camhigby It was war, we also nuked them (twice)

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@Timcast Wait, thats an option?.?.?

[Tim Pool @Timcast]

Tell them

"Do not stab people"

[John-Jacob Jingleheimer Smith @Kihr____]

@RapidResponse47 Seems like he'll be Pullte in too many directions... at least temporarily

[John-Jacob Jingleheimer Smith @Kihr____]

@ResisttheMS Let's start the mass deportationd December 2026

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@kangminlee Let's see the sentence. Hopefully 25+

[John-Jacob Jingleheimer Smith @Kihr____]

@tuuu28283 There are machine gun ranges, or some of our vast national parks. The 4 corners area has a large amount. It's a vast country with significantly varied cultures and weather. You could explore so much and never see it all.

I've been to maybe 24 or 25 states?

[John-Jacob Jingleheimer Smith @Kihr____]

@harukaawake Its not really acceptable anywhere. Even worse in Japan though