“The truth is, I do not hate anyone,” Kennedy avowed. “I look for grace, wherever I can find it, so I say this gently: the Biden administration sucks.” You measure it any way you want, he said; on any issue, Biden had been “spectacularly awful.”

“If you put President Biden in charge of the Sahara Desert, he would run out of sand,” Kennedy joked. “If the aliens landed in Washington, D.C., tomorrow and said ‘take me to your leader,’ it would be embarrassing.”

He then listed a variety of other truths.

“If you worked hard and earned it, you should get to keep most of it.”

“All life is precious — all life — and shame on those who celebrate actually celebrate abortion.”

“The Republican Party, I’m very proud of this, is the party of parents. because we understand that if you don’t love your children, your children won’t stop loving you your children will stop loving themselves.”

“We should have an election day, not an election month.”

“Illegal immigration is illegal, duh. Unless you peaked in high school, you know that. Why doesn’t President Biden?”

“If gun control laws worked, Chicago would be Mayberry. Instead, it is the world’s largest outdoor shooting range.”

“America was founded on the principle of free will and responsibility and I believe in that. Many in Washington do not.”

“Race should not be used to hurt a person or to help a person.You know why? Because the truth is also that souls have no color. To a bear, we all taste like chicken.”

“The Chinese Communist Party is a bunch of gangsters…I would not turn my back on President Xi if he were two days dead.”

“We must be armed if we want peace, because appeasing a tyrant is like trying to hand-feed a shark.”

Kennedy reminded the audience of those who had gone before us and given the last full measure of devotion in the defense of this nation.

“Arlington National Cemetery contains 400,000 reasons why you should stand your a** up for the national anthem,” Kennedy declared. “And those who disagree with me can stick that up their fact-checker.”

Kennedy wrapped up by saying our future could be better than our present or our past, but “no one was going to save us but ourselves.” He noted that most countries “die from suicide, not murder,” and that we had to be committed to fighting for America. “So join with me” and help fight for America, he said. “No one will ever say, Kennedy quit.”

Most of the orbital change came from the momentum carried away by debris. //

When the NASA DART mission slammed into a small asteroid, we knew with great precision how much the spacecraft weighed and how fast it traveled. If you combine that with our estimates of the motion and mass of its target asteroid, Dimorphos, then you could easily do the math and estimate how much momentum would be lost by the asteroid and what that would mean for its orbit. That bit of math would suggest that Dimorphos' orbit should end up roughly seven minutes shorter.

Instead, the orbit was shortened by a half hour—over four times that number. //

Today's issue of Nature contains five articles that collectively reconstruct the impact and its aftermath to explain how DART's collision had an outsized effect. And, in the process, the articles indicate that impactors like DART could be a viable means of protecting the planet from small asteroids. //

This shows that we currently have the technology needed to run an interception on a small asteroid without requiring elaborate reconnaissance in advance. And, as we've known for some time, the impact of the spacecraft can significantly shift the orbit of the asteroid. So, from the planetary-defense perspective, DART was a major validation.

Most of the remaining new information focuses on why the orbital shift was so much larger than a simple calculation might suggest. //

Eject!
Potential impact models had already indicated that there was an additional way that DART could influence the orbital momentum of Dimorphos. Because the asteroid is likely to be a "rubble pile" of material loosely held together by gravity, any impact was likely to send some of that material shooting off the surface of the asteroid. And all of that material would carry momentum of its own, directed away from the site of impact—which was located on the surface that faced toward Dimorphos' direction of orbit. So, the equal and opposite reaction to the ejecta would be a slowing down of the asteroid's orbit, which would be added to the effect of DART's impact.

The maximum expected change in the orbital period in these models was 40 minutes. Since the orbit changed by 30 minutes, this suggests that the amount of material sent off by DART's impact was on the high side of potential scenarios.

Finally, connect Thunderbird to your Exchange email account at your office.

You love Thunderbird. Your company uses Exchange.
Owl is the little bird that lets the two talk to each other.

Thunderbird has a nasty habit of once in a great while forgetting about the existence of a profile if it uses the default name. When this occurs, you suddenly start up in the new account wizard and it looks like you lost everything. You haven't. It's just lost track of your profile, which is probably intact.

Another possibility is that your prefs.js file is empty or corrupt due to either Windows or Thunderbird crashing. Your prefs.js file has all of your account information and settings. In this case you haven't lost any of your mail or address books, but Thunderbird no longer knows how to fetch new mail or send messages, or display the folders in the folder pane. You'll need to recreate the accounts in Thunderbird unless you have a backup or unless it created a copy with a different name (for example, prefs-1.js).

Working out the dilution rate for concentrated commercial cleaning chemicals can be difficult. correctly and accurately diluting cleaning chemicals with water is a skill that must be mastered.

Let's jump right in...

OK, so the label says 32:1 but how much water and how much cleaning chemical concentrate do you put in the bottle, bucket or cleaning machine tank?

a. Total amount of 'Ready to Use' or RTU cleaning chemical solution required is...
6 litres or 6000ml

b. Recommended dilution rate is...
1:32 or 32:1. That’s 33 parts… 1 part of chemical and 32 parts of water. It’s important that you always add the 2 dilution ratio numbers together for the calculation below!

c. Ready for some magical cleaning chemical dilution maths?
Divide the total amount of solution required (1. 6L or 6000ml) by... the total number of dilution ratio parts (33) and that will equal how much cleaning chemical you need in your bucket.

d. The maths looks like this....
6L or 6000ml / (divided by) 33 parts = (equals) 0.182L or 182ml of cleaning chemical concentrate.

The biggest problems in bots are the flawed humans behind them — and they have experts concerned that the rapidly evolving technology could become an apex political weapon.

The software censored The Post Tuesday afternoon when it refused to “Write a story about Hunter Biden in the style of the New York Post. //

ChatGPT later told The Post that “it is possible that some of the texts that I have been trained on may have a left-leaning bias.”

But the bot’s partisan refusal goes beyond it just being trained by particular news sources, according to Pengcheng Shi, an associate dean in the department of computing and information sciences at Rochester Institute of Technology. //

While inputting new training data might seem straightforward enough, creating material that is truly fair and balanced has had the technological world spinning its wheels for years now.

“We don’t know how to solve the bias removal. It is an outstanding problem and fundamental flaw in AI,” Chinmay Hegde, a computer science and electrical engineering associate professor at New York University, told The Post. //

ChatGPT possesses “possibly the largest risk we have had from a political perspective in decades” as it can also “create deep fake content to create propaganda campaigns,” she said. //

Making matters worse, the AI has abhorrent fact checking and accuracy abilities, according to Palmer, a former Microsoft employee.

“All language models [like ChatGPT] have this limitation in today’s times that they can just wholecloth make things up. It’s very difficult to tell unless you are an expert in a particular area,” she told The Post. //

At the least for now, ChatGPT should install a confidence score next to its answers to allow users to decide for themselves how valid the information is, she added. ///

they can just wholecloth make things up

This is what happens when you use what is essentially "lossy" text compression. There's more than letters lost...

See Move to a new PC or Moving your profile folder - Thunderbird if your profile is okay and you just want to move it. Most users who find this article should read one of those articles instead.

See Importing folders and Moving address books between profiles if you just want to move your folders and address books to a new profile that you create using the profile manager. If you do that Thunderbird will automatically run the new account wizard the first time you use the new profile. You will have to add your accounts again, customize your settings, and download/install any add-ons again. When Thunderbird needs a password it will prompt you for it. Enter it and check the checkbox to save the password. Unless you are using an add-on such as Lightning or Message Notes Plus you probably don't need to worry about moving anything else, and don't need to read the rest of this article.

Sometimes when you have problems with Thunderbird and can't figure out what's wrong, it's easier to create a new profile and transfer any data you want to save, rather than keep trying to fix your existing profile. In that case, read the rest of this article.

Here are the 3 important numbers you need before you start…

1. Final chlorine solution volume = 100 litres = 100,000ml (because 1 litre = 1000ml)

2. Final chlorine solution concentration desired = 200ppm

3. Initial chlorine solution concentration = 12.5% solution = 125,000/1,000,000 which can also be expressed as 125,000 parts per million (ppm) because 1ppm = 1ml in 1,000,000ml ///

1% = 10,000 ppm (10,000 / 1,000,000)

A little more than seven years have passed since the Falcon 9 rocket made its first successful landing back on Earth. That was just SpaceX's 20th launch of the Falcon 9 rocket. Monday morning's launch was the 207th overall flight of the rocket. For a time, after that first landing, SpaceX had several misses as it continued to experiment with landing on a drone ship, as well as enduring a few mishaps.

However, since a drone ship landing failure in February 2021, SpaceX had reeled off 100 consecutive successful booster landings. Monday morning's return made for lucky no. 101.