Per the CDC, here are the following cases/outbreaks for the last few years. (Per the CDC, an outbreak is defined as three or more related cases.)

2024- 285 cases reported in 33 jurisdictions
2023- 59 cases reported in 20 jurisdictions
2022- 121 cases in 6 jurisdictions
2021- 49 cases among 5 jurisdictions
2020- 13 cases among 8 jurisdictions
2019- 1,274 cases (amongst 31 states)

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CNN asked HHS whether the secretary recommends people get the measles vaccine. The agency responded with, "Vaccination remains the best defense against measles infection."

Now here we are, he's trying to bring an end to this conflict, we've explained very clearly what our plan is here, which is we want to get the Russians to the negotiating table, we want to explore whether peace is possible.

They understand this. They also understand that this agreement that was supposed to be signed today was supposed to be an agreement that binds America economically to Ukraine, which to me, as I've explained it, I think the president alluded to today, is a security guarantee in its own way, because we're now involved, it's us, it's our interests. //

I've asked people, what is the European plan to end this war? I can tell you of one foreign minister told me, I'm not going to say who it was, but I can tell you what one of them told me, and that is that the war goes on for another year, and at that point Russia will feel so weakened, that they'll beg for a peace. That's another year of killing, another year of dying, another year of destruction, and by the way, not a very realistic plan in my point of view. //

It takes two sides to end a war, but only one side to perpetuate one. Ending this affair will require both Ukraine and Russia to come to the table. Once the shooting stops, then the parties involved can start talking about how to prevent a recurrence in a year, a decade, or a century hence. But first, the shooting has to stop.

OrneryCoot
4 hours ago
Zelensky failed to realize that Trump WAS giving him a real, tangible security guarantee. He was promising American shoes (not boots) on the ground in the form of American workers and executives to work the mineral deal. I think he doesn't realize just how far Trump would take that responsibility to protect those American workers. The first time Putin endangered those citizens would have brought him a whole lot of pain. Putin knows this about Trump, which would have stopped him from trying it. No, they weren't soldiers. With our country, it didn't need to be. Zelensky had what he wanted but couldn't realize it due to his arrogance and basic misunderstanding of American culture. Now, he's left to either squeeze blood out of Europe's turnip of military might, or be replaced by a less narcissistic Ukrainian leader.

If you’ve got an old Kindle laying around, you may be interested in this write-up from [Hemant] that shows a practical example of how the popular e-reader can be pushed into service as a weather dashboard.

Obsidian has made managing my work significantly easier
For someone who struggles with organization, it really helps

There are a lot of note-taking apps out there that I've tried, but Obsidian is the first to have finally captured me. I don't need overly complex notes, I just need something to help me keep track of my day-to-day life... and this finally does it for me in a way no other app has before. //

CJ
Key features:

• Sync across devices
• Data control of your files/data
• Ease of dropping a note from your phone or desktop
• Ability to organize your notes based on your method

I feel like the author was trying to convey they chose a new note taking methodology that worked for him.

You can apply a note taking methodology to anything, including the trusty pocket notebook.

This author chose a new methodology and chose to use obsidian. That's it. Not that obsidian is better at note taking apps.

So far for the literal speed to note taking onenote and Trello seem to be the winners. They also sync flawlessly. There may be other apps too.

All that being said, you can make a mess of your notes in any app too.

As you may have gathered, Super Display turns almost any Android device (and Chromebook) into a portable monitor connected to a Windows PC or laptop via a USB cable or Wi-Fi network. //

Super Display consists of a Windows driver and an Android app. You’ll need to install both for it to work. Once that’s complete, the host Windows machine views the Android devices as another monitor. This includes access to the regular array of display settings, including resolution, refresh rate, location of the monitor in the array, and even customization options. Super Display also includes some limited quality adjustments if the connection drags for any reason. //

As mentioned, Super Display is a puzzle of two parts. You’ll first need to install the Windows driver and then the Android app.

1. Download the Super Display driver on your Windows PC.
2. Once the driver is installed, install the Android app on whichever device you want to connect.
3. Once the app is installed on your phone, open it.
4. Grab a USB-C (or micro-USB) cable and connect your Android device to your PC.
5. Follow the prompts on your Android device’s screen.
   Super Display includes a three-day trial, which is more than enough time to determine its usefulness. However, you’ll need to invest $14.99 to unlock it for life.

The steps below outline how to access Netflix's additional categories on your Mac, PC, or tablet from the Netflix website.

1. On your device, go to the Netflix website and log in.

2. In another browser window, open What's On Netflix.

3. In the prompt of your first tab, enter: https://www.netflix.com/browse/genre/.

4. Over on the tab with What's On Netflix, select your desired code, and place it at the end of the URL. For example, the "Fantasy Anime" subgenre code is 11146, so I altered the URL to read: https://www.netflix.com/browse/genre/11146.

5. Choose your title from the selection there and click play.

6. Then, once you've identified a movie or show you want to watch, add it to your queue and find it on the app.

The point is not about Donald Trump, and the meaning of the moment is much larger than most of the reporting suggests. The claim that it’s outrageous, unprecedented, and a crisis to fire flag officers is laughable. It’s also dangerous and threatens to reduce civilian control of the military if the premise is accepted at all. If it’s an illegitimate act for President Donald Trump to fire senior military officers, then it’s illegitimate for presidents to fire senior military officers — all presidents. It means that anyone who wears stars on his or her collar is somehow untouchable, a member of a protected guild that stands above political control. “You can’t fire me — I’m a general.” Good luck with that. //

The current president’s decision to fire flag officers isn’t a break with American law and tradition. The “Appeal to Congress” from former secretaries of defense certainly is. The warning about a crisis is the crisis. This dangerous argument needs to be hammered into its grave, quickly and forcefully.

The basic gist of Trump's remarks was this: The U.S. wants to broker peace, but Zelensky wants to keep fighting with assistance from the U.S.

High-ranking White House officials confirmed to CBS News that President Trump is unwilling to talk to Zelensky at this point because of Zelensky's disinterest in peace. //

High-level Trump sources tell me the White House is now uncertain if they can get the Russians and Ukrainians to stop fighting because this episode with @ZelenskyyUa raised questions about whether he can move forward toward a peace deal. It also raises questions about whether US will pause aid to Ukraine. But Trump is NOT seeking regime change in Ukraine. No discussions about who in Ukraine might be a better leader than Zelenskyy.

Ukrainian officials have reached out this afternoon to senior White House officials desperate to get the deal back on track. But that will not happen today, I'm told. Trump is unwilling to talk to Zelenskyy further today.

When Rubio and Waltz went into the Roosevelt Room to ask Zelenskyy to leave, Rubio made it clear that any further engagements today would be counterproductive. Waltz told Zelenskyy he had made a tremendous mistake, and it was a grave disservice to Ukraine and to Americans, both.

No phone calls between Trump and Putin have been scheduled. But multiple European officials have called top Trump officials since Zelenskyy left asking how the minerals deal can be salvaged.

Trump fully intended to sign the minerals deal today. Two official binders were prepared -- Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and his Ukrainian counterpart and the two presidents were going to sit at a conference table in the East Room and then trumpet their success at podiums.

But there were suspicions before Zelenskyy arrived today that it might fall apart. Because the Trump admin had been pushing for weeks for a minerals deal signing at the ministerial level, and Ukraine had refused. Zelenskyy wanted security guarantees.

US officials thought negotiations would be much harder with Putin so today have been been in disbelief that it has been Zelenskyy who has been more difficult, making maximalist demands, sources told me. //

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Zelenskyy declares that he won't negotiate an end to the war without security guarantees from the United States -- And then admits that he doesn't have enough weapons to push Russia out of Ukraine -- And then demands more money from the U.S.

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RedDog_FLA
an hour ago
Zelesky forgot the he's dealing with the Producer of the Apprentice.

Zelensky thought he could manage an on-camera negotiation with the dealmaker. 🤔

He might not get another chance... it's possible he has been FIRED.

Bob Smalser
an hour ago
"If it’s true that Blinken, Rice, Nuland, and Vindman conference called with Zelensky on the flight to DC advising him to "stand strong" and "be tough" and "don't let Trump bully you" it seems to have backfired. Perhaps FBI Director Patel should meet with those clowns for a debriefing (and Logan Act discussion) after talking with a foreign head of state.". //

Slappy
an hour ago edited
The way Zelenskyy bombed this meeting publically like that, I think he isn't stupid, he did it because he wanted to torpedo any ceasefire deal and he's unwilling to settle for peace. The Europeans are all that's left, so maybe he thinks that's who he played up to here. I wish them and Ukraine luck, because blowing up what's left of the relationship with the U.S. is one hell of a risky move.

Slappy
an hour ago edited
The way Zelenskyy bombed this meeting publically like that, I think he isn't stupid, he did it because he wanted to torpedo any ceasefire deal and he's unwilling to settle for peace. The Europeans are all that's left, so maybe he thinks that's who he played up to here. I wish them and Ukraine luck, because blowing up what's left of the relationship with the U.S. is one hell of a risky move.

Sean Davisb@seanmdav
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Trump doesn’t bad mouth anyone who comes to the negotiating table in good faith. Ever. It’s a near-cardinal rule of negotiations for him, and a major reason he’s been such a successful dealmaker. 

If you refuse to negotiate, he will trash you. If you lie or negotiate in bad faith, he will trash you. He has zero interest in allowing empty moralizing to get in the way of a deal that he wants.  

He has done this his entire career, in business and in politics, and it’s fascinating to me how many people who think of themselves as smart and savvy are incapable of seeing or understanding this dynamic.

Christian Datoc @TocRadio
TRUMP: "You want me to say really terrible things about Putin and then say, 'hi, Vladimir. How are we doing on the deal?' It doesn't work that way. I'm not aligned with anybody. I'm aligned with the United States of America, and for the good of the world."
8:05 PM · Feb 28, 2025. //

The key here isn't just that Trump is holding the cards and that Zelensky needs him — not the other way around — it's that Trump is negotiating from a fortified position of "America first." Everything at the table is subject to that one point, and if anything drifts away from that, then Trump pushes back and pushes back until he's all the way gone from the table.

Zelensky acted like a petulant child who showed no respect to the country that had given him the money for his war while trying to secure more, and Trump saw no value, not in the war, and not in Zelensky's disrespect. As such, there was no deal. Moreover, Zelensky attempted to pressure Trump into capitulation through our own media, which was a costly mistake. Trump is not beholden to the American media as other leaders are.

But Zelensky's error came from a habit he never should have never been allowed to develop. The Democrats — and too many Republicans — taught Zelensky that he was in charge. They caved to him constantly because the last thing they wanted was for our own media, who fawn and worship the ground Zelensky walks on, to turn on them. That would result in massive blowback from Democrat supporters, including their donors. //

Ultimately, the Democrat at the negotiating table asks, "what's expedient for me politically right now?" When the question that they should be asking themselves — and Trump clearly understands — is "how does this put America and Americans in the best position possible?"

The answer is sometimes not to make a deal at all. It's not sexy to come back and say negotiations fell apart, especially to a bloodthirsty media who makes everything sound like every failed deal moves us closer to doomsday, but again, Trump isn't concerned with the media, he's concerned with America.

And Democrats just can't seem to wrap their heads around that. //

TexasVeteran
3 hours ago edited
"The answer is sometimes not to make a deal at all."

Trump is channeling his inner Ronnie! Remember when Reagan walked away from a nuke deal with Gorbachev in Iceland? It lead to the collapse of the Soviet Union!🤔. //

anon-m0b0
2 hours ago
The war with Putin is a gigantic money-laundering operation that Zelensky and Democrats (and some Republicans) are getting rich from. Trump knows this. He wants to end the war and end the corruption. Zelensky is not ready for peace because a lot of people are getting rich. The mineral rights are some repayment to U.S. taxpayers for tax dollars sitting in oligarchs bank accounts.

Zelensky is counting on the U.S. press to do his dirty work to Trump. He doesn't realize Trump doesn't care.

Zelensky will be back at the table when the money is gone. He made his own bargaining position worse and he still doesn't realize yet.

There was a very touching moment when Vice President Vance spoke of something "really amazing that happened to me in November of 2024." And that moment was? "Of course, I'm talking about when my seven-year-old chose to be baptized into the Christian faith," saying it was maybe "the proudest moment that I've ever had as a father."

The vice president also offered some insight into his and wife Usha's interfaith marriage.

But, as many of you know I am part of an interfaith marriage. My wife, though she comes to church with us almost every single Sunday, she is not Catholic herself and so the bargain that we have struck is that we will raise our kids Catholic, but we will let them choose the moment that they want to ultimately become baptized.

The move rescinds a mandate issued by former President Bill Clinton in 2000 that required federal agencies to provide language assistance for non-English speakers.

“Agencies will have flexibility to decide how and when to offer services in languages other than English to best serve the American people and fulfill their agency mission," a fact sheet obtained by The Hill reads. //

Shelley G
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This is so much more important than people realize.

The necessary condition of being a nation is sharing things in common, such as language, culture and values.

Having English as our official language will be a great unifying influence in these times of polarization.
3:56 PM · Feb 28, 2025. //

It seems like a common-sense move that will benefit legal immigrants seeking to achieve the American dream. English proficiency is considered essential for integrating into U.S. society. It helps with community involvement, political participation, and daily communication.

Not to mention, English language proficiency, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services — "determined by the applicant’s ability to read, write, speak and understand English" — is part of the naturalization process. //

Sarcastic Frog anon-fl4c
4 hours ago
Well...back in 1776 we were having a bit of a disagreement with Great Britain. After the ratifying of the Constitution in 1787 several of the founding fathers did NOT want English to be the official language. They argued back and forth, with English, German, French, Spanish (that didn't last long), and even Hebrew being considered. They finally decided that, since they couldn't agree on any of them, the US wouldn't have an official language.

A Statement from President Donald J. Trump

“We had a very meaningful meeting in the White House today. Much was learned that could never be understood without conversation under such fire and pressure. It’s amazing what comes out through emotion, and I have determined that President Zelenskyy is not ready for Peace if America is involved, because he feels our involvement gives him a big advantage in negotiations. I don’t want advantage, I want PEACE. He disrespected the United States of America in its cherished Oval Office. He can come back when he is ready for Peace.”. //

Cletus Maximus
5 hours ago
The tone of this meeting needed to happen. How long has it been since someone literally got their ass kicked out of the Oval Office? This video should be in the curriculum for every business school. //

Skibum
5 hours ago
I suspect that Zelenskyy agreed to things in private and then tried to play tough in public for his home crowd. Boy did that prove to be a mistake.

Marc Thiessen 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦🇹🇼🇮🇱
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This is entirely Zelensky’s fault. Trump greeted him graciously, was ready to turn the page. Just said he wanted to get help Ukraine get it’s territory back. And Z comes in and gets into a fight in public? I’ve never seen anything like it in my life.
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🚨 WATCH: Here’s the FULL exchange of President Trump and VP Vance EXCORIATING Zelenskyy
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6:14 PM · Feb 28, 2025

Jacqui Heinrich
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WH OFFICIALS TELL FOX:-

TRUMP KICKED OUT ZELENSKYY – HE DID NOT WALK OFF ON HIS OWN

-RARE MINERALS DEAL WAS NOT SIGNED.

• WH SAYS “UKRAINANS WERE BEGGING TO RESET” BUT RUBIO AND WALTZ INFORMED THEM ZELENSKYY NEEDS TO LEAVE WHITE HOUSE GROUNDS, RETURN WHEN HE’S READY FOR PEACE

-THE PRESIDENT AND US OFFICIALS FELT DISRESPECTED BY ZELENSKYY’S RHETORIC AND DEMEANOR

– CITED THAT HE WAS “SHRUGGING AND ROLLING HIS EYES” DURING THE CONVERSATION

**WHEN I WENT TO UPPER PRESS TO ASK WHAT WAS GOING ON, THE LUNCH THAT TRUMP AND ZELENSKYY WERE SUPPOSED TO DINE ON AND TALK OVER WAS SITTING IN THE HALLWAY. I’M TOLD WHITE HOUSE PRESS OFFICE STAFFERS WILL BE EATING IT.
6:52 PM · Feb 28, 2025

This was a colossal miscalculation by Zelensky. Trump has never accepted the idea that Ukraine is doing the United States a favor by fighting Russia as a way of justifying unlimited aid. Perhaps Joe Biden found that argument persuasive, but Joe Biden is not in office anymore. Russia is not going to invade the United States or any NATO country (if for no other reason than a lack of capability), and using that as a type of blackmail for support was never going to play.

Here's the deal. Fairness or being "right" doesn't factor into a situation like this. Zelensky is in a desperate spot, and Trump had largely acquiesced to a very Ukraine-friendly deal over the last few days (including lowering the repayment amount to just $90 billion). The negotiations were over. All the Ukrainian president had to do was show up, shake hands, smile for the cameras, and sign the deal. His attempt to lecture Trump and Vance for the cameras was an ego move that he didn't have the leverage to pull off.

Trump does not care about the press. You aren't going to bully him into a certain point of view by appealing to CNN or any other legacy news outlet. Whether that's fair or not is irrelevant. What's relevant is the reality of the moment, and Zelensky chose to pick a fight with Vance when it was completely unnecessary. Liz Cheney and David Frum may do performative outrage online, but they are not going to cut a check to Ukraine. Zelensky needed this deal and chose to blow it up for no good reason. What was the point of him even coming to the White House if he was going to publicly denounce any possible ceasefire?

What this really comes down to is how Zelensky handled this. If he has issues with Trump negotiating a deal with Putin, then he should express those behind closed doors, which is something Vance pointed out during the exchange. By trying to embarrass and undermine the U.S. president in public, he destroyed an already frayed relationship. In doing so, he might have cost his country its war. //

Claudius54
3 hours ago
"What the Heck Was Zelensky Thinking?"

Simple. He was thinking that he had leverage. ... he was mistaken. //

etba_ss anon-6tg1
2 hours ago
When you can't get along with Vance and Rubio either, the problem is pointing toward Zelenskyy. //

etba_ss
4 hours ago
Keep in mind, that Rubio has already pointed out that they reached a deal with Zelenskyy before. Then he left the meeting and went to the press and claimed he told them "no" and he isn't signing any mineral rights. Rubio called him a liar in public over the whole deal. Now they agree to a deal and instead of signing it, Zelenskyy pulls this stunt.

What an idiot.

Jesse Kelly
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All else aside, how much does Trump respect @JDVance? It’s cool to watch. He doesn’t keep him on any kind of leash. He must think very highly of him.

I dig it.
6:37 PM · Feb 28, 2025 //

Mike Lee
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Is @JDVance the GOAT Vice President of the United States?

A—Yes

B—No
Gunther Eagleman™
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Vance is by far the best VP I've seen, ever.
8:37 PM · Feb 28, 2025 //

TexasVeteran
an hour ago edited
"Is @JDVance the GOAT Vice President of the United States?"

It’s the beard! He’s channeling Unconditional Surrender Grant! //

ThatGuy81
an hour ago edited
I didn't realize we were electing Terminater VP along with the lion of a president, but here we are and I am here for it.

This unusual photograph, taken during the second Apollo 12 extravehicular activity (EVA), shows two U.S. spacecraft on the surface of the moon. The Apollo 12 Lunar Module (LM) is in the background. The unmanned Surveyor 3 spacecraft is in the foreground. The Apollo 12 LM, with astronauts Charles Conrad Jr. and Alan L. Bean aboard, landed about 600 feet from Surveyor 3 in the Ocean of Storms. The television camera and several other pieces were taken from Surveyor 3 and brought back to Earth for scientific examination. Here, Conrad examines the Surveyor's TV camera prior to detaching it. Astronaut Richard F. Gordon Jr. remained with the Apollo 12 Command and Service Modules (CSM) in lunar orbit while Conrad and Bean descended in the LM to explore the moon. Surveyor 3 soft-landed on the moon on April 19, 1967.

The Dark Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius
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The lander's four shock-absorbing legs have some give, sort of like the crush zone of a car, according to Will Coogan, Firefly's chief engineer for the Blue Ghost lander. The legs have an aluminum honeycomb material inside, and they connect to bowl-shaped footpads with a ball-socket joint to give the spacecraft some flexibility in case it comes down on a slope or a rock.

That's basically a copy of the Apollo landers. Apollo had crushable aluminum honeycomb in the legs and bowl-shaped feet attached to the legs with ball joints. The statistical analysis was that Apollo's system had a 99.9% of not fully crushing the honeycomb as long as the landing velocity was below 4 feet per second horizontally and 7 feet per second vertically (1.22 m/s and 2.13 m/s). All of the landings were well under those velocities:

https://arstechnica.com/civis/attachments/1740667805423-png.103726/

NASA Technical Note TN D-6850 Apollo Experience Report - Lunar Module Landing Gear Subsystem by William F. Rogers (June 1972).

D-6850 Apollo Experience Report - Lunar Module Landing Gear Subsystem

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19730010151/downloads/19730010151.pdf. //

EarendilStar Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
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SkyeFire said:
Lunar conditions are brutal. Two weeks of brutal daylight (plus unfiltered solar radiation) followed by 2 weeks of total darkness. A few lunar probes have managed to survive the night and reboot once they got some sunlight again, but none of them survived more than a few day/night cycles. The thermal swings tend to destroy the electronics and power systems.

This entire bath and forth made me realize I don’t know how the temperature swings of the moon and Mars differ. I was reading thinking “How is this thermal swing different than Mars, a place we operate electronics for far more heat cycles than this?”.
Allow me to share what I found:

Commonly accepted average temps for Luna:
-180°C to 105°C
Mars:
-130°C to 22°C

That’s quite the difference!
Does anyone know why Mars nights are warmer? Is it mostly due to ground surface absorption of radiation, and not losing most of it until the next day cycle? The (limited) atmosphere retaining some heat? ///

Shorter nights on Mars