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Sunday, August 16, 2026

President Donald Trump's war against Iran is stretching the limits of U.S. aircraft carriers and leaving the western Pacific without one of the key American warships as China shows more signs of aggression. The USS George Washington is departing the Pacific and expected to replace the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Middle East amid growing concerns about mental health and supply issues aboard the long-deployed carrier.


US president credits himself with lowest drug prices in 60 years, when article says drop is more likely due to Biden


It's hard enough to try not to remember
It's hard enough to write return to sender
It's hard enough to know that its not over when its over
It's hard enough to think you know the reason
You make a list of things not to believe in It's hard enough to know your getting over that its over


Looking younger and actually making aging skin biologically younger may not be the same thing. Fillers, lasers, microneedling, and other popular aesthetic treatments can visibly improve the skin. But a new review suggests there is surprisingly little evidence that these changes amount to biological "rejuvenation" or "regeneration".


Saturday, August 15, 2026

A preprint paper published this week highlights the dangers of harassment involving Meta's camera-equipped smart glasses. Of the 350 covert recording videos studied by researchers at the University of Sydney, just under 60% of them included harassing behaviour, and 43% resulted in reams of insulting and derogatory comments directed at unwitting female subjects.


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... The White House flooded social media on Saturday with an image of Donald Trump showing off the recent Washington Post headline "Prescription drug prices record sharpest drop in more than 60 years", but failed to mention that experts cited in the article actually attributed the price drop to Joe Biden, not Trump.

On its official accounts, the White House triumphantly captioned the photograph of Trump: "POV: you bring the receipts." Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, also shared it.

The image was one of several taken during a staged photo-op on Friday, when Trump approached reporters with a copy of the headline he wanted them to see. Holding up a print-out of the headline, and the first five lines of the article, the president waved the page around and encouraged the press pool to record and photograph it.

"The headline today is exactly that," he said proudly. "Did you see it?"

He then read the good news aloud and held up the print-out again for the cameras. "OK, got it? Everybody have it?" he asked. "I told you that was going to happen."

Before stepping away from the press, Trump repeated the line that he wanted them to relay the news to the public, and held his hands wide apart as if he had just performed a magic trick. "Prescription drug prices down more than at any time over 60 years," he said. "What else do I have to say?

What the president did not say is that the text of the article, published by the Post on Thursday, reported that while the Trump White House "took credit for" the biggest year-over-year drop in drug prices in more than 60 years in July, independent experts "said a Biden-era policy that requires Medicare to negotiate prices for some popular prescription drugs is more likely to be driving down costs". ...

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And now, may be we can get this thread back to the sailor upon the USS Lincoln ...

Centcom commander visits USS Abraham Lincoln amid questions about conditions on ship
thehill.com

... U.S. Central Command (Centcom) commander Adm. Brad Cooper visited the USS Abraham Lincoln Saturday after the ship had been docked in the Middle East for over 260 days since November.

Centcom released a statement Saturday about the visit, stating Cooper, who oversees the war with Iran, visited the ship as part of a 10-day trip where he visited Bahrain, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

"The Lincoln Carrier Strike Group is a strong team of high-achieving Americans standing tall with immense, justified pride in everything they accomplished," Cooper said in the statement. "History will record this deployment as one of the most operationally intense and consequential of the modern era."

Centcom stated that the crew aboard the ship completed "thousands of combat flights in support of Operation Epic Fury, regional security missions and the ongoing U.S. naval blockade against Iran."

The ship's 5,000 sailors and Marines initially expected to end the deployment in May but it was extended to its current tenure because according to acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao the mission "demanded it.".

Cooper visited the ship in February, as well, with the U.S. Special Envoy for Peace Missions Steve Witkoff and President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner. Centcom stated at the time the ship was in the region to "to support maritime security and stability." ...


@#4 ... the 100-year-storm that happens every few years now. ...

Why 'Hundred-Year' Weather Events Are Happening More Than Once Every 100 Years (2025)
time.com

... Environmental scientists have gotten so good at reading weather history that they can characterize some severe storms or floods as likely to occur in a given area only once in 100 years"or even 500 years or a thousand years.

That's where the oxymoron comes in. As climate change leads to greater meteorological volatility, the one in 100 -- or 500 or 1,000 -- year events are occurring twice or three times or more in those windows. Since 1999, there have been nine storms along the North Carolina coast that qualify as hundred or thousand year events.

From 2015 to 2019, one suburb of St. Louis experienced three major floods, two of which met the criteria for hundred-year events.

One study by the Montreal-based carbon removal project Deep Sky calculates that the frequency of deadly hurricanes has jumped 300%, with 100-year storms now forecast to occur once every 25 years. ...


@#205 ... Well, since the IAE said they were complying, Trump's tearing up the agreement was the lynchpin. ...

Lynchpin, indeed.

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figuratively a central cohesive source of stability and security; a person or thing that is critical to a system or organisation.
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Woodstock (2019)
Three days that defined a generation.
www.pbs.org

... In August 1969, nearly half a million people gathered at a farm in upstate New York to hear music. What happened over the next three days, however, was far more than a concert. It would become a legendary event, one that would define a generation and mark the end of one of the most turbulent decades in modern history.

Occurring just weeks after an American set foot on the moon, the Woodstock music festival took place against a backdrop of a nation in conflict over sexual politics, civil rights and the Vietnam War. A sense of an America in transition -- a handoff of the country between generations with far different values and ideals -- was tangibly present at what promoters billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace and Music.

Woodstock turns the lens back at the audience, at the swarming, impromptu city that grew up overnight on a few acres of farmland. What took place in that teeming mass of humanity -- the rain-soaked, starving, tripping, half-a-million strong throng of young people -- was nothing less than a miracle of teamwork, a manifestation of the "peace and love" the festival had touted and a validation of the counter-culture's promise to the world.

Who were these kids? What experiences and stories did they carry with them to Bethel, New York that weekend, and how were they changed by three days in the muck and mire of Yasgur's farm? ...

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