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I love hats. They don't look good on me, though, so I don't wear them. 
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50 years of travel tipsI am not a traveler, but even I was intrigued by some of these tips.
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Elon has time on his handsPresident Donald Trump expressed frustration in recent days about the long wait for a pair of Boeing
747s that will serve as the new Air Force One planes.The jets are years behind schedule. Trump negotiated the $4 billion contract for the aircraft during his first term, and it isnât clear whether theyâll be ready during his current one. Cost overruns have totaled more than $2 billion to date.
Trump advisor Elon Musk is working with Boeing in hopes of delivering the aircraft faster, the manufacturerâs chief executive, Kelly Ortberg, reiterated on Thursday.
âThe presidentâs clearly not happy with the delivery timing. I think heâs made that well known,â Ortberg said at a Barclays industrials conference. âElon Musk is actually helping us a lot in working through the requirements ... to help us get the things that are non-value-added constraints out of the way so that we can move faster and get the president those airplanes delivered.â
Ortberg called Musk, CEO of SpaceX, which competes with Boeingâs defense and space unit, a âbrilliant guyâ who can âpretty quickly ascertain the difference between technical requirement and things that we can move out of the way.â
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/20/trump-boeing-air-force-one-delays.html
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Elon has time on his handsIn a remarkable statement Thursday, SpaceX founder Elon Musk said the International Space Station should be deorbited "as soon as possible."
This comment from Musk will surely set off a landmine in the global space community, with broad implications. And it appears to be no idle comment from Musk who, at times, indulges in deliberately provocative posts on the social media network X that he owns.
However, that does not seem to be the case here.
"It is time to begin preparations for deorbiting the @Space_Station. It has served its purpose. There is very little incremental utility. Letâs go to Mars," Musk wrote at midday on Thursday.
This original statement was somewhat ambiguous. Last July, NASA awarded Space X an $843 million contract to modify a Dragon spacecraft to serve as a propulsive vehicle to safely guide the aging space station into the Pacific Ocean in 2030. So in some sense, preparations are already underway to shut down the laboratory.
I asked Musk if he meant that NASA and the US government should commit to the 2030 end-of-life date, or if he wanted to accelerate the timeline for the station's demise.
"The decision is up to the President, but my recommendation is as soon as possible. I recommend 2 years from now," Musk replied.
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A previously unknown (to me) form of refluxI called Gaviscon Canada today. I try to limit sodium and wanted to have a better idea of how much I might be taking in while I'm taking the Canadian Gaviscon. I knew there was some sodium carbonate in the tablets but the amount wasn't listed on the label, so I couldn't calculate an approximate sodium content.
Final answer:
Regular strength: 22.6 mg sodium per tablet
Extra strength: 29.95 mg
Max Relief: 34 mgI can live with those numbers with the number of tablets I'm using daily.
I asked why the alginate products aren't available in the US. He said that the US Gaviscon is made by a company called Haleon, and that the Canadian Gaviscon is produced by a completely separate company that is only licensed to sell and market in Canada.
I had looked at the various Gaviscon products that show up on various sites. They all have different formulas. Some have aluminum or magnesium, some have potassium carbonate instead of sodium carbonate, and I saw different sweeteners, too. Sugar, aspartame, and saccharin.
With these GI and ENT docs developing their own alginate product lines, I wonder how long it will take Haleon to launch one here. Clearly there seems to be a market developing for it. The US Gaviscon does list alginic acid as an inactive ingredient in their product but from the anecdotal stories I've heard, people haven't had as good results with the US product because there isn't enough of it to form a good raft. Plus the US product has magnesium and aluminum and people often try to avoid aluminum.
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Grok 3An AI flop. Bigly.
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/humane-ai-shuts-down-flop-20175974.php
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Birthright citizenshipAppeals court declines to reinstate the EO. SCOTUS, here we come.
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Goodbyesville to ChromeDiscussion on reddit about Brave:
https://www.reddit.com/r/brave/comments/pqe6qi/what_are_your_guys_honest_thoughts_on_brave/
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Goodbyesville to ChromeBrave browser is great. Very fast. Have been using it for several years. Lots of protection built in.
I used Firefox for years but started having problems with it crashing pretty regularly. Haven't tried using it again recently, but it's worth looking at.
DuckDuckGo for search engine only. Haven't tried their browser.
