Friday, December 5
In The NEWS
Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Spotify Wrapped reveals Bad Bunny as the platform's most-streamed global artist in 2025, dethroning Taylor Swift's two-year reign (More) | "The Joe Rogan Experience" is Spotify's most-listened-to podcast for fifth straight year (More)
> Matthew Perry's doctor is sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for selling ketamine to the late actor weeks before his fatal overdose (More)
> Germany selected to host UEFA Women's Euros in 2029, marking the nation's first major women's soccer tournament since the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup (More)
Science & Technology
> Waymo begins testing self-driving vehicles in Philadelphia and launches manned drives in Baltimore, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis to collect road data (More)
> Chemists synthesize a fungal compound with potential to fight diffuse midline glioma, an aggressive pediatric brain cancer that has few treatment options (More)
> NASA scientists find bioessential sugars and a gum-like material rich in oxygen and nitrogen in an asteroid sample, offering clues about how life’s molecular building blocks arrived on Earth (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +0.3%, Dow +0.9%, Nasdaq +0.2%) as weaker-than-expected private payrolls data spurs interest rate cut bets (More)
> Delta Air Lines reports this year's 43-day-long US government shutdown cost the airline an estimated $200M (More)
> OpenAI to acquire Neptune, a startup that builds monitoring and debugging tools used in training AI models; deal terms were not disclosed (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> President Donald Trump pardons Rep. Henry Cuellar (D, TX-28) and his wife, indicted last year on charges of receiving almost $600K in bribes from Mexican and Azerbaijani companies (More)
> House Oversight Committee releases 10 images, four videos taken in 2020 of late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's two private islands (More, w/photo, video)
> European Commission proposes using over $150B in frozen Russian assets to fund reparations-style loan to Ukraine despite Belgium's concerns of Russian retaliation (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
Predetermination
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At 78 years of age, I have seen more than I wanted to see and done more than I would care to admit; yet I am who I am for a reason.
What's that reason?
I believe our lives are predetermined.
Why?
Because they have been seen.
Explain.
In string theory, subatomic vibrating filaments of energy move in random, unpredictable direction UNTIL they are being observed, then their path becomes fixed.
Therefore, all our lives are fixed because they have already been observed.
Explain.
Think of the inner sprocket of a bicycle wheel and compare its revolutions to those of the outer edge of the wheel.
Every time the outer wheel makes one complete revolution, the inner sprocket has made several complete revolutions because its diameter and circumference are substantially less.
Therefore, if you were to compare earth as the inner sprocket and the edge of the known universe as the outer wheel, earth makes substantially more revolutions.
Consequently, we age faster on earth than life would age OUT THERE.
So... our entire life has been witnessed before we have actually lived it and whatever happens to us has already happened.
WE BECAME WHAT WE WERE SUPPOSED TO HAVE BECOME...
Belgium’s 15-year-old prodigy earns PhD in quantum physics
Laurent Simons and his parents. Credit: Justin Stares
Belgian child prodigy Laurent Simons has officially become a doctor in quantum physics at just 15 years old.
On Monday, he successfully defended his doctoral thesis at the University of Antwerp, VTM Nieuws reported.
"After this, I’ll start working towards my goal: creating ‘super-humans’," he told the broadcaster shortly after the milestone achievement.
According to VTM, Laurent believes he may be the youngest person ever to obtain a PhD. His latest success marks a new peak in a trajectory that has fascinated the scientific world for years, a journey that began long before his teenage years.
Bachelor at 12
Laurent’s academic feats were already making headlines back in 2022. Then aged 12, he had just completed a bachelor’s degree in physics with distinction at the University of Antwerp, finishing the three-year programme in only 18 months.
Thursday, December 4
Headlines
Photo by Adam GRAY/AFP via Getty Images
Trump’s immigration crackdown comes to New Orleans and Minnesota. Federal agents arrived in New Orleans yesterday and began an immigration enforcement operation that the Department of Homeland Security said would focus on people who are in the country without authorization and have a criminal history. But many people detained in past sweeps have not had criminal records, according to federal officials, and immigrants in the city told news outlets they were fearful of leaving their homes. New Orleans is the latest Democrat-run locale to be targeted, and, as in other cities, there have been protests in response. An operation was also launched in Minnesota, a day after President Trump went on a tirade against the state’s Somali population during a Cabinet meeting, saying, “I don’t want them in our country.”
Watchdog reportedly finds Hegseth could have endangered troops with Signal chat. The Pentagon’s inspector general’s report on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of Signal to discuss a forthcoming military strike in Yemen said it could have put troops and their mission at risk—but also found that Hegseth had the power to declassify the information disclosed in the chat, sources who’d seen the findings told the Associated Press yesterday. The report is also said to note that Hegseth violated Pentagon policy by using a personal device for official business. The Signal use became public after an editor from The Atlantic was accidentally included in a chat. The report comes as Hegseth faces scrutiny from lawmakers over a second strike that killed the survivors of a previous attack on an alleged drug boat.
Trump admin to roll back car fuel-efficiency standards. With executives from General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis in attendance, President Trump announced plans to weaken Biden-era fuel economy standards that were intended to help boost electric cars. Under newly proposed Department of Transportation rules, most cars would need to achieve 34.5 miles per gallon through the 2031 model year, down from the 50 miles per gallon standard adopted under former President Biden. The DOT said the proposal would save Americans $109 billion over the next five years, while critics say the change will encourage automakers to continue to focus on environmentally unfriendly vehicles that could ultimately cost consumers more at the gas pump.—AR
Robert Reich
His brain is turning into sh*t
Friends,
After criticizing media coverage about him aging in office, Trump appeared to be falling asleep during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Tuesday.
But that’s hardly the most troubling aspect of his aging.
In the last few weeks, Trump’s insults, tantrums, and threats have exploded.
To Nancy Cordes, CBS’s White House correspondent, he said: “Are you stupid? Are you a stupid person? You’re just asking questions because you’re a stupid person.”
About New York Times correspondent Katie Rogers: “third rate … ugly, both inside and out.”
To Bloomberg White House correspondent Catherine Lucey: “Quiet. Quiet, piggy.”
About Democratic lawmakers who told military members to defy illegal orders: guilty of “sedition … punishable by DEATH.”
At A Glance
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Study finds having a dog may improve teens’ mental health.
Lego to make life-size World Cup trophy from 2,842 bricks.
Clickbait: A raccoon’s booze bender.
Historybook: English philosopher Thomas Hobbes dies (1679); President Woodrow Wilson travels to Versailles for WWI peace talks, is first US president to travel to Europe while in office (1918); Jay-Z born (1969); Tyra Banks born (1973); American journalist Terry Anderson released after more than six years as hostage in Lebanon (1991).
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