Probably worth investigating, but if the numbers of scientists are in the thousands as the summary mentions, then I'd expect a few suicides and medical issues. Very smart people often are unstable. I recall in my early twenties a fairly bright coworker committed suicide. Pretty surprising, I had no idea he was depressed. Another friend in aerospace had a coworker go from being an asset to quitting and living on the street by his own choice. I knew another coworker who's wife committed suicide, although she was not a techie. And I've also known relatively healthy people die suddenly. As a kid I'd never would have expected to see as much early death amongst friends and acquaintances. And I've also had 3 people on my street die early, one in her late 30's, one child around 2 and one teenager.

I think we can all agree it would be difficult to return the tariff's to consumers. I won't say impossible. And much like if you screw up with paying taxes, the IRS charges penalties and interest. I would suggest that because it was trump personally who thought this was a good idea, a penalty should be charged to trump to sort out the amount biz's owe to consumers. And yes, it is a very big number, probably enough to give him another personal bk. Oh well, IRS doesn't care if they break you with a penalty, why should anyone care if bad judgement on don's part breaks him?

I'll disagree a bit. Initially, yes the R's and the D's offered literally crazy old white men. Then the D's dumped theirs and offered a pretty smart mixed race woman. I expect it was the woman part that was unpalatable. Weirdly the US was pretty early in the women's rights thing. But now even Japan has elected a PM that is a woman, Sanae Takaichi. Crazy to me that Japan which even a short couple of decades when I was there barely allowed a female engineer to speak at a meeting is now leap frogging the US electing women to top offices. I also see crazy hate for gm's CEO, Barra. I think that a vast part of the country, D's included have a bias against women leaders. I've seen women in positions that they should not be in, but I've also met some very very very capable women leaders. I had no problem voting for Harris and in fact preferred her to Biden based on her abilities.

Depends a bit on what you buy. As an example, I build hobby electronics. Digi-Key has during the entire time added a line item to anything I buy that is tariff'd with the exact amount. I know exactly how much tariff I pay. I just ordered a relay that was I think 4.56 with a tariff of 1.14. I would expect many of the amazon orders are similar except the seller just pre-adds in the amount to the sales price. I recall Donald threatened sellers that did that back when he first when on a tariff frenzy, so amazon forbade sellers from showing the tariff amount.

So I think in many cases the tariff amount the consumer paid is known, and probably stored. Digi-Key certainly knows as they keep my order history for quite a long time.

I think partially because they are getting better at catching the kid before. Examples just from TX this year... https://www.kltv.com/2026/04/0... https://cbsaustin.com/news/loc... https://www.fox26houston.com/n... https://www.valleycentral.com/...

Google also referenced a story about an 8 year old caught with one, all the ref's were FB, IG or X so didn't copy them. This is one state in the first 4 months of the year.

Correct, not sure why I was thinking Millie.

The winner I believe was typical human size. From a cnbc article, "fitted with legs 90 to 95 cm (35 to 37 inches) long to mimic elite human " and the legs were proportional to the body, so person sized. And based on the read of the cnbc, I don't think needed a recharge. They imply in the article it beat the humans running the same race, so unless it was fast enough that the charge time was so small as to not change who "won", I don't think needed a charge. Could also be why it was a 1/2 marathon instead of a full. Maybe it would have needed a fillup for a full 26 mi marathon.

Agree, quite a feat. The article I read also says,

"Experts said the skills on display during the half-marathon, while entertaining, do not translate to the widespread commercialization of humanoid robots in industrial settings, where manual dexterity, real-world perception and capabilities beyond small-scale, repetitive tasks are crucial." which I think is crucial.

Still a ways from Millie from the Jetsons handling household chores from cooking to washing dishes/clothes to vacuuming.

Another thing I read in an article yesterday was cooling was important in this latest race. It was indeed an interesting race. The cnbc article has more depth than the techcrunch. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/1...

That one sounds more promising. A "custom" mRNA vaccine sounds very expensive. Very. Like billionaire class drug.

If the US could have elections during the civil, WWI, and WWII, I can't imagine even the R's agreeing to not having elections for an attack. And I don't expect one either. Unless nukes, and then no one is having elections anywhere. It's over.

When I can stand it, which is not often, I'll watch like Germany's DW or BBC. It usually has a much more vanilla take on what is happening. I was in a waiting room for my car and I took a break from my laptop. They had CNN scrolling across the big screen. It is just too much. I get it is headline, but my god, to watch the crimes of my country played over and over again was repulsive. At least with DW/BBC you see it once and they move on. Moreover they cover more than just US.

For trump II I can barely stand to look at the news. I agree with you, the only way I can belly it is to watch usually Kimmel. Makes it so at least I don't cry about the destruction of my country.

Weird how some of the very old rulings were the best even today. Time doesn't always change things such that a new interpretation is needed.

Or maybe the 250 grand(per infringement) that the MPAA wants to fine you for violating copyright, splashed right up with an FBI warning on every video disc I've ever watched.

Like most "new" tech for consumer, it starts high while they have the niche to themselves and will drop like a stone. I think I paid 5 grand for a 55" RPTV when the HD system first came out. Today that thing would be a paperweight, although a nice looking one. Had a really nice wood veneer trim. Mitsu knew how to make a good looking cabinet. Now of course a tv is a piece of glass with a black surround an inch deep.