Linkee-poo, you'll see it's true someone like me can learn to be like someone like you

Xennials? What the Wannabe Motherloving F are those? Look, okay, may people on the cusp of "generations" don't fit well into that "generation" because, and I can't state this loudly enough, Generations as we think of them today are marketing demographics defined to sell you something. Nobody fits the "generational mould." It's like book genres or music groups, it's all marketing bullshit.

"'Our analysis gives the first evidence that these faults are still active and likely producing moonquakes today as the Moon continues to gradually cool and shrink,' said Thomas Watters, senior scientist in the Center for Earth and Planetary Studies at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington. 'Some of these quakes can be fairly strong, around five on the Richter scale.'"

"In what may be a first of its kind, a lump of amber has preserved the shell of an ammonite and other shoreline life in stunning detail." (Grokked from Kathryn Cramer)

Worst. Timeline. Ever. "Adobe warning of legal problems if subscribers keep using old versions of Creative Cloud apps." (Grokked from Dan)

"At a couple bucks a ride, it takes about four to six months for companies just to break even on these scooters, and there's a big problem: the scooters aren't lasting that long." Well that and their taking their business model from Uber without examining that cars on the road problems have (mostly) been solved (as far as working into society), but scooters and bikes haven't been. So while Uber could get away with flouting "car for hire" laws (and then beg forgiveness), the scooter and bike-share industry must first work out the regulatory and social aspects of their business. Because without doing so, without it being a conscious effort with meetings and press push, it's doomed to failure (note destruction of scooters by the populous). Because it doesn't matter is scooters last for years if they're eventually outlawed or deemed by society to be a menace (and having experienced them in DC, I'm leaning more towards the menace part).

There's this saying in health education, "The good thing is we know half of what we know is wrong, the problem is we don't know which half." "For people without heart disease, a new study found taking low-dose aspirin is associated with an increased risk for bleeding within the skull… Patients with a low body mass index or Asian backgrounds face the highest risk, according to the study published Monday in the journal JAMA Neurology." Continual use of almost any drug is a Bad Idea™ in most cases. There are very few long-term studies done before drugs or treatments are approved. We knew aspirin acted as a low-potency blood thinner ("blood thinners" actually just inhibits clot formation, which is different), so it was thought of as a relatively safe option for low-risk individuals. Unfortunately long-term use of aspirin causes other problems.

"The White House is filling in the blanks on its promise to return astronauts to the lunar surface by 2024, requesting another $1.6 billion in funding (pdf) on top of the $21 billion already proposed in US president Donald Trump’s budget for the 2020 fiscal year… The administration proposes to get the money by repurposing unused funding earmarked for Pell grants, the government financial aid program for low-income college students." Wow, that's unnecessarily punitive and self-defeating.

Something you may have hear me wittering on about, but now from the guy who literally wrote the goddamn book about it. "Designers and companies of the world, you are badly serving an ever-growing segment of your customer base, a segment that you too will one day inhabit. Isn’t it time to reform: to make things that are functional and stylish, useable and accessible? Every ailment that I described that impacts the elderly is also present in people of all ages. Designs that make it easier for elderly people often are of equal value for younger people." (Grokked from Dan)

"The shock of the rare burst of violence was multiplied by its odd circumstances: In a picturesque and normally placid little German city, three bodies lay in a hotel room, each one killed with a crossbow… More than 300 miles away, another gruesome discovery made the case still more confounding. Searching the home of one of the three people who had died in the hotel, the police found two more bodies." Suicide by crossbow?

How go the Trade Wars? "Consider it China’s nuclear option in the trade war with the U.S. — the ability to start dumping its massive pile of Treasury bonds that could trigger a surge in interest rates and substantially damage the American economy… At least for the moment, markets aren’t that worried that China could take such a seemingly drastic step, in large part because the move might not have much upside except to create headlines."

"American farmers are running out of patience with President Donald Trump's trade war with China." But here's the thing Trump knows that you can't admit, you'll vote for him again regardless. There's a moment in the con when the conman sees the greed in the other person's eyes and knows he's about to close. Suckers.

"The United States and Iran responded to a recent series of apparent attacks targeting a number of tankers not far from the world's busiest oil-shipping chokepoint, already a scene of fierce tension between the longtime foes." Anyone want to take bets on whom the US will blame?

"Oil prices rose sharply Tuesday morning on reports of a drone attack at oil pumping stations in Saudi Arabia." Oh, hello $3 gas.

"As the Supreme Court rounds the final turns of the term, Justice Stephen Breyer seemed to launch a warning towards his conservative colleagues in an opinion released Monday… Be very careful before you overturn precedent, he said." Here we go.

"President Trump hosted Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at the White House on Monday, a gesture that two past presidents have avoided granting to the hard-right European leader… 'People have a lot of respect for this Prime Minister,' said the president in a photo-op in the Oval Office before their meeting. Trump went on to warmly praise the Hungarian leader. 'He's a respected man. And I know he's a tough man, but he's a respected man. And he's done the right thing, according to many people, on immigration.'" "Many people" is the president's way of referring to himself and Steve Miller. But the most chilling part is this, "'You have been great with respect to Christian communities,' Trump said. 'You have really put a block up, and we appreciate that very much.'" Orbán also referred to this as well.

But who watches the watchmen? "Attorney General William Barr has appointed a U.S. attorney to examine the origins of the Russia investigation and determine if intelligence collection involving the Trump campaign was “lawful and appropriate,” a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Monday." It'll be kept alive just long enough to be a factor in the 2020 elections, and then dropped with the report detailing how those fuckers actually did try to subvert the American election with foreign assets buried deep in a drawer somewhere.