In The NEWS

Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Conan O'Brien tapped to host next year's Academy Awards; O'Brien returns after hosting this year's Oscars, which hauled in the show's highest ratings in five years (More) | Émilie Dequenne, Belgian actress best known for "Rosetta," dies at age 43 (More)

> Universal Music Group files motion to dismiss Drake's defamation lawsuit, which alleged Universal damaged Drake's reputation by promoting Kendrick Lamar's diss track "Not Like Us" (More)

> Chicago Cubs and Los Angeles Dodgers kick off the MLB regular season from Tokyo this morning (6 am ET, FOX); regular season begins in earnest on Opening Day, March 27 (More)


Science & Technology
> Google's Gemini 2.0 is highly effective at removing watermarks from copyrighted images, users report (More)

> New study finds gorillas have self-awareness comparable to chimpanzees; results suggest efforts should go beyond the "mirror test"—an evaluation of whether animals can recognize themselves in the mirror (More)

> Engineers develop artificial muscles capable of flexing in multiple directions; advance has applications in soft, form-shifting robots (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close up (S&P 500 +0.6%, Dow +0.9%, Nasdaq +0.3%), posting back-to-back gains (More) | Trading platform Robinhood launches predictions market, allowing users to bet and trade on current events (More)

> HR software firm Rippling sues rival Deel, alleging the company planted a mole who rose to Rippling's executive ranks to carry out corporate espionage (More) | Pepsi acquires Poppi, maker of lower-calorie prebiotic pop, for $1.7B (More)

> Fashion retailer Forever 21 files for bankruptcy, citing continued drop in mall and brick-and-mortar shopping, will wind down its US business (More) | What is bankruptcy and how does it work? (1440 Topics)


Politics & World Affairs
> Legal showdown begins between federal judge, Trump administration over use of Alien Enemies Act to carry out deportations of nearly 300 alleged Venezuelan gang members; see timeline here (More) | Texas midwife accused of providing an abortion, the first to be charged under state's near-total ban on the procedure (More)

> President Donald Trump expected to release around 80,000 pages of previously classified documents relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy today (More) | Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) postpones book tour over Democratic backlash to passage of recent funding bill (More)

> US court orders British Prince Harry's immigration records be released by end of day today; Harry, who moved to California in 2020, is accused of lying about past drug use on visa application (More)

SOURCE:  1440 NEWS

Dell Vostro 7620 Laptop

 

I purchased a Dell Vostro 7620 laptop three years ago this May and the following has been fixed:

• the case hinges
• keyboard/keypad 4 times
• sent to Del Advanced Recovery Center - TX
• OS been reloaded 3 times
• 20 hours spent troubleshooting with tech support online that involved their having remote access of the laptop

The Dell Technician that has come to the house five times to make the repairs (the same one) told me that he very seldom is called out to fix the Dell Lattitude.

So, do I purchase a Dell Lattitude next time or another brand?

Do I buy online from Dell again (which included online tech support) or buy from Best Buy and use the Geek Squad?

Computers need to be upgraded every three years and sometimes, if you have good ones (more expensive) they will last five years.  The problem is not the hardware, but the software is expansive now that it requires:  

• a larger hard drive
• a more powerful processor
• more RAM memory

It is cheaper to buy new than to upgrade those three items.

This was designed by the computer industry, I believe, to force out REPEAT BUSINESS that automatically generated more revenues consistently. 

Somewhat Political

 

Time's Arrow

If a cup of water spills on the floor, the water can’t unspill—that is, it’s inconceivable that each water molecule would exactly reverse its course to slip back into the cup. To do so would be to turn back time—something that, as far as we know, can’t be done. The water either spills or it doesn’t, but if it does, it’ll stay that way.

In that way, time as we experience it is asymmetric. We have memories of the past rather than the future, and spilled water doesn’t flow back to its cup, just as an arrow that has been let fly doesn’t return to its bow. In our everyday lives, the “arrow of time” goes only in one direction: forward.

“We know [this] is something that’s part of our common experience,” says Andrea Rocco, a theoretical physicist at the University of Surrey in England. But how exactly time’s arrow arises is less clear to physicists, in part because the math they use to describe most of the world makes no distinction between time that moves forward and time that moves backward; either direction is perfectly viable, as far as their equations are concerned.

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Good Night

 

Malone News

Drugs as Weapons of War: The US CIA and the Heroin Trade

A Forced Retraction

AP forced to retract false story claiming Trump, Putin are

 'very good friends' after backlash

Blaze Media

Why more Americans are waking up to the intersectionality hoax

Laser Driven Technology

 

A Network Connection 10 to 100 Times Faster than a Conventional Starlink Antenna, and for Much Less: Taara Breaks Away from Google to Shine Alone with Its Lasers

Artificial Intelligence

Google DeepMind CEO says that humans have just over 5 years before AI will outsmart them

Invasion of Russia Has Begun

Knowledge is Power

 

The Female Body

 

My Land - Not Yours...

 

Where I Wanna Be

 

PRIDE Suffers Hit

San Francisco Pride takes financial hit after major companies pull sponsorships amid DEI fallout

Tucker Carlson - Deportations

 

Brookings Brief

Work permit applications suggest prior immigration is still pushing up labor supply—for now

Wendy Edelberg and Eileen Powell

For immigrants to work in the United States legally, they generally must obtain work authorization. Immigrants with particular legal statuses, such as those seeking parole or asylum status, request authorization by applying for Employment Authorization Documents, commonly called work permits. Tracking work permit applications can illuminate how changes in the pace of immigration are affecting labor supply. If immigration policy changes or other factors dampen net migration to the United States, work permit applications should be an early indicator of how much and when the decline in certain kinds of immigration will slow labor force growth.

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The Amber May Show

 

How our global friends can help us - Robert Reich

Friends,

I’m addressing this letter especially to those of you who live in other lands.

As you probably know, we here in the United States are facing the biggest emergency in the history of our democracy, and we need your help.

Trump and other members of his regime (Elon Musk, JD Vance, Marco Rubio, Kash Patel, Pete Hegseth, Pam Bondi) are actively undermining our system of government — usurping Congress’s power to fund the government, saying they “don’t care” what judges say, arresting peaceful protesters, investigating Trump’s “enemies,” siding with Putin against Ukraine, encouraging bigotry, and sowing widespread fear.

Please know that the Trump regime doesn’t represent the majority of Americans. Trump won the 2024 presidential election by a razor-thin (1.5 percent) margin, but half of all Americans didn’t vote, including many who voted for Biden in 2020. Polls consistently show most Americans do not support what Trump is doing.

How can you help us?

Like most bullies, Trump can be constrained only if everyone stands up to his bullying — including you.

First, if you are thinking about a trip to the United States, please reconsider. Why reward Trump’s America with your tourist dollars?

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At A Glance

How AI has entered the vineyard.

America's religious landscape in one chart.

How to know whether to get the measles shot.

How to spot a fake art masterpiece.

Archaeologists restore a temple to the Egyptian god Khnum.

Vintage photos from early 20th-century saloons.

The long road to naming a car.

A tour at this museum comes with a barf bag.

Clickbait: Is Jim Morrison the new Tupac?

Good Morning

 

How to make healthy eating unbelievably easy | Luke Durward | TEDxYorkU

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In The NEWS

Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Prince Harry's US immigration files to be made public tomorrow amid questions about whether his prior drug use may have disqualified him from obtaining a visa (More)

> Sean "Diddy" Combs pleads not guilty to new charges related to alleged forced labor of past employees; the new charges are in addition to his racketeering and sex crimes charges he already faces (More)

> Apple TV+ comedy "Ted Lasso" renewed for a fourth season (More) | Matt Richtman becomes first American male to win the Los Angeles Marathon since 1994 (More)


Science & Technology
> Replacement crew for astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams arrives at the International Space Station; the two have been stuck in orbit since June, expected to return as early as Wednesday (More)

> Texas measles outbreak rises to at least 259 cases, with 34 hospitalizations and one death; the US reported 285 total cases across the country in 2024 (More) | See previous write-up (More)

> New study proposes "microlightning" inside individual droplets of water may have helped start the chemical reactions needed to create life on Earth (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets mark big gains Friday following tumultuous week (S&P 500 +2.1%, Dow +1.7%, Nasdaq +2.6%); rise comes a day after S&P fell into correction territory, down more than 10% since recent peak (More)

> Fintech startup Klarna files for initial public offering; firm seeking valuation above $15B, made $21M on $2.8B in revenue last year (More) | What are IPOs? (1440 Topics)

> The price of gold briefly passes the $3K per ounce mark for the first time Friday amid tariff fears, settling near $2,990 per ounce as of this writing (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> Trump administration issues memo instructing seven smaller agencies to reduce headcount and limit activities to the statutory minimum required by law, including Voice of America (More)

> President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin to hold call this week in attempt to advance Ukraine ceasefire talks (More) | Russia reportedly retakes nearly all of the Russian border region of Kursk (More)

> The US carries out strikes on Houthi rebel-held positions in Yemen over attacks on commercial vessels using Red Sea shipping lanes (More) | Nightclub fire in North Macedonia kills at least 59 people, injures more than 150 (More)

SOURCE:  1440 NEWS

Parents and Children

 Generally speaking, the more mobile a family is, the less the siblings maintain a close relationship throughout their lifetimes.  This is also true, for the most part, if there is eight or more years difference in age.

However, the biggest determining factor that keeps families together or pushes them apart is the parents influence on the children.

That is to say if the parents treat the children with respect then for the most part the children will treat each other with respect long after the parents are deceased.

It is not just if the parents treat their children with respect, it is also how the parents raised their children.  For instance, if the parents were very strict with lots of rules and procedures, then not only will the children treat their children that way, but they will treat their siblings that way as well, ruining their future relationships.

The way parents treat their children is not related to education or financial resources or geographical location; however, cultures do influence parental oversights in the sense that Muslim children are more disciplined than non Muslim children...  this also applies to Christian children as well but not in the same way as the two societies are different.

In the USA, Christian parents who live in the north treat their children different than Christian parents that live in the south.

In many cases, but not all, the poorer the family unit, the closer the parents are to the children and the closer the children are to each other.

Somewhat Political

 

The power of quantum disorder

Quantum mechanics entails clearly defined units and rules, so it isn’t really disordered. However, there is a sense of disorder that has to do with the complexity of quantum mechanics – and that’s actually really important for how we can apply it.


When physicists say “disorder,” we’re probably talking about uncertainty and entropy. The Heisenberg uncertainty relation is one of the first and most surprising things you learn in quantum mechanics. 

Basically, you can’t know the position and momentum of a particle at the same time. In a classical world, we can know where something is and how fast it’s going – of course we can; we do that all the time – but that’s impossible to do exactly in quantum mechanics. Even if you know everything you can about a quantum particle, there are still unknowns. The disorder is built into the structure of the theory in the form of uncertainty.

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