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Best way cost a little $.

$5 for NBC (peacock app) monthly or $10 for ad free. You also get access to world feed so you don’t need to suffer with Bob Roll.

After years of trying other solutions, high seas, etc., I happily pay the $10.

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Yes, but Pog is a bit of an unknown since he’s coming back from an injury and maybe hasn’t trained enough. UAE brought Yates in as co-captain. So a bit of uncertainty on UAE.

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Hold Trump in a cell with no bail until his trial date. He’s encouraging this with his access to the media and social media. He’s a flight risk. Sadly, this won’t happen.

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I liked the new jersey. It’s got a nice understated design. It’s slick.

Then I saw it in action. Or, more accurately, didn’t see it in action. Kind of forgot there was a green jersey because your eye isn’t naturally drawn to it in sprints like the old one.

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In 2016, aerospace giant Northrop Grumman invited me and 14 other professors and NASA scientists—all experts on exoplanets and the search for extraterrestrial life—to Los Angeles to answer one question: What will exoplanet space telescopes look like in 50 years?

In our discussions, we realized that a major bottleneck preventing the construction of more powerful telescopes is the challenge of making larger mirrors and getting them into orbit. To bypass this bottleneck, a few of us came up with the idea of revisiting an old technology called diffractive lenses.

Color me skeptical of this story. The author no doubt believes it.

But the fact that this was organized and sponsored by NG makes me skeptical of this take. Maybe it’s less scientists innovating and inventing and more an NSA/NRO-approved, NG-led, soft disclosure of technology that already exists. The scientists are likely reinventing the wheel after getting a nugget of an idea seeded by NG.

Civilian optical space telescopes lag far behind spy ones. Literally decades.

KH-11 is much, much older than Hubble.

Some improved KH-11s were deemed unnecessary or out-of-date and gifted to NASA. Never flown, still in a warehouse somewhere.

I have strong suspicions that Webb’s folding mirror system wasn’t exactly new and novel either. Probably just a refinment of something NRO and Ball Aerospace worked out many years prior. No hard evidence for that, however.

Anyway, long-winded way of saying there’s a decent chance these guys are trying to figure out something that’s already floating around up there and maybe already 5-10 years old or more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NRO_launches#Launch_history?wprov=sfla1

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AI is the new crypto. Idiots will be fleeced. Schemes will be hatched. Vaporware will vape.

In 2-5 years there will likely be some Intel- or Google-like companies with big controlling stakes in AI. Investing in the them then will likely be a good idea. Trying to figure out now which of the 61,000 AI startups will become them, and hoping to win the lottery in the process, is a fool’s game.

Also a non-zero chance that AI itself is all vaporware and the “industry” fizzles out completely.

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If you like Pidcock, you apparently can never make predictions about him again.

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Many, if not all, of the charges he faces across all three indictments have a punishment of a fine or jail time or both. So no, he doesn’t need just one for prison time. He could easily get a slap on the wrist and pay a fine.

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John Eastman just surrendered too. 5’7", 160 lbs. That’s n=2. If Trump’s height and weight isn’t posted by Fulton it’s further evidence of a two-tier, rules for thee, justice system.

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