Absolutely unbelievably ridiculous

#Trump Admin to Pay $765 Million of #TaxpayersMoney to Cancel 4 More #Wind Projects

It’s the THIRD such deal the #Interior Department has struck to pay firms to abandon plans for #Offshore wind turbines, spending roughly $2.5 BILLION to get companies to abandon their wind projects because they are idiots & Trump both doesn’t get it & loves #BigOil money.

#EnergyCrisis #FossilFuels #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #Republicans #GOP #law
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/climate/trump-wind-farms-cancel-millions.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

The latest flu season generated 340,000 hospitalizations and 21,000 deaths in the United States.

Nevertheless, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth,
instead of focusing his energies on the ongoing war,
came up with a bold idea in April:
-- The Pentagon he leads would no longer mandate flu vaccines for service members.

While service members could voluntarily get a flu vaccine,
Hegseth decided to reverse the military’s longstanding policy and end the requirement as a condition of service.

The change led to a variety of questions, including the obvious one:

How long would it take before this misguided, regressive and unnecessary decision backfired on the armed forces?

💥The answer, it turns out, is not quite two months.

The New York Times reported:

A major flu outbreak has sickened nearly 160 troops at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas less than two months after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that U.S. troops would no longer be required to be vaccinated for the flu, defense officials said.

The outbreak at the base in San Antonio raced through an Air Force Basic Military Training wing,
where new recruits sleep on bunk beds in open bays and share meals at large communal tables.

⭐️The Times’ report noted that one trainee in his sixth week of basic training died after falling ill late last week,
although the exact cause of death is still under investigation.

The report added that only about 40% of Air Force trainees have opted to take the flu vaccine
— a total that used to be 100%, because it wasn’t optional.

In response to the outbreak at Lackland,
the base received an exception from Hegseth’s policy
and is now requiring recruits to get vaccinated.

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/hegseth-vaccines-air-force-base-flu-outbreak

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I've worked remotely since the 1990s and can operate with minimal supervision. I don't need hand-holding to find the right problem to solve. Several of my most valued projects were self-directed: I identified the need, built the thing, and shipped it.

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I'm also a published author (Higher-Order Perl, Morgan Kaufmann), longtime blogger, and conference speaker with a reputation for making complex ideas clear.

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Brain picked 2 AM to start wondering how to do division/multiplication with Roman Numerals. Thanks, brain. Tonight you get the Melatonin.

TIL, after coffee, that the Romans used other methods, including the 'Roman Abacus', which mixed decimal and quinary (base-5), and that Roman Numerals were used only to record the results.