Indeed, Canada has been opening markets for its produce and they advertise that their stuff is free of nasty things the countries do not want, and, most importantly, their record are open for customers to see.

Hokkaido is not an "Island of Flowers". While the Furano Biei lavender fields are pretty famous, it is a small part of the island. Most of it is the same sort of forest and mountain terrain you'd see in Yosemite.

DOGE doesn't but the little Maggots in it have been seeded out to the agencies to spread their diseases further. I hope the next actual Administration goes through and weeds out the Maggots with which la Presidenta has infested the Fed. Gov. And sells off the tasteless gold-plated gewgaws with which el Bunko has festooned the White House, give the proceeds to the poor. And while it is cleaning house, it can tear down the dumpy flag poles he's installed and tear down the new "ballroom" and the new gaudy arch he's planning. They can dump it on Mar-a-Lago, "Here's your crap back, Miss Piggy!"

In the future, Terminator bots will track you down and demand payment to be funneled to el Bunko by threatening to make you sit next to Stinky during a very loooong cabinet meeting if you don't pay up.

Only in this regime. Prior administrations, forgetting about el Bunko I, had very intelligent Sec. of Ed.

It isn't, and the title was not clickbait. It merely indicated an antivirus system. Actually, it should have said a "virus monitoring system". CO2 is merely a convenient canary.

You do realize that masking is mainly to prevent you, a sainted prole, from spreading your germs, yes?

Indeed. My thought was that CO2 levels could roughly correspond to the number of people in the specific room, offset by actual ventilation levels.

IE more CO2 = more risk because it means more people with inadequate ventilation.

Conference crud is really simple. Hacker or not. You bring in hundreds/thousands of people from around the country and world, exposing most of them to even more potential disease carriers on airplanes, trains, busses, and more, then disrupt people's sleep and disgestive tracts with unfamiliar locations, schedules and food and you have the perfect melting pot to get people sick.

What can be done to help prevent it? Mask wearing might help some, along with sanitary other stuff - improve the ventilation in such buildings, including good filters, UV lights and such helping to sterilize the air. At the same time, improve air quality otherwise, because harsh cleaning chemicals can also make people sick.

In case of the CIA top-secret cloud, Amazon had an actual SCIF (Secure Compartmentalized Information Facility) where only people with an appropriate clearance could come in. It's probably be something similar for Google.

Well, the would be the case except that Elmo is a weenie. He'll happily send others to an uncertain fate but not himself.

HHS has a job opening for you. Please see JFK Jr.'s appt secretary. You need (2) faulty references, proof of your ability to lie with a straight face, and a bone and a rattle. The latter are for explaining new "cures".

The dead giveaway your comment is some AI-slop is the use of "synergy". No one uses that word. Hell, even MBAs know better than to use it lest they sound like their dork bosses.

In the end, it's still a somewhat better search than Google (If it gives you links to original sources, which a lot of the LLMs do).

Imagine having such an immense vocabulary, and using it that weakly.

Because an Interstate can carry more people and cargo, and far more flexibly than a railroad.