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".
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.
Two years after Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump staged a New Jersey press conference flanked by grocery staples to spotlight inflation under Democrats, food prices are still rising despite his pledge to bring them down. read more
Will Weissert: A look at Trump's tendency to avoid blame when things go awry. read more
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." ...
@#6
In that photo, I notice a container of Folgers coffee, the red container with the black lid on the top of the pile.
Before Pres Trump, I had been paying $7.99 for that container.
Now I am paying $15.
( www.walmart.com )
Double what I had been paying.
YMMV ...
@#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. ...
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.[italics theirs]
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? ...
@#18 ... "Summer of Soul" ...
Summer of Soul
en.wikipedia.org
... Summer of Soul (...or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) is a 2021 American independent[3][4] documentary film about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, directed by Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson in his directorial debut.[5][6]
It had its world premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival on January 28, 2021, where it won the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award in the documentary categories.
It had a limited theatrical release in the U.S. by Searchlight Pictures on June 25, 2021, before expanding and being released for streaming on Hulu the next weekend. ...
Another view ...
The Backlash Is So Strong That People With "Pervert Glasses" Are Afraid to Use Them in Public (July 2026)
futurism.com
... Meta's camera-equipped "AI Glasses" are so divisive that some adopters are now leaving their expensive smart glasses at home, as Engadget reports.
Influencers, mostly men, have been using the glasses to inconspicuously -- and non-consensually -- capture footage of themselves approaching women and attempting to hit on them, interactions they've then posted online for content. Some wearers have even attempted to extort victims of covert recordings for cash. That's on top of serious allegations of alleged privacy breaches by Meta itself.
And then, of course, there's the simple fact that a lot of people just really don't like the idea of the world's largest and most powerful social media giant, which has a history of misusing biometric information and other data, facilitating abuse and surveillance in this way -- especially as Meta has taken highly controversial steps to infuse facial recognition capabilities into the tech. ...
@#219 ... 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 ...
WTF???
Witkoff and Kushner?
The two who majorly blew the Iran peace negotiations?