a practical guide on setting up WireGuard VPN on the MikroTik router.

Any type of aerobic exercise works for the improvements, study finds. //

Exercise is generally good for you, but a new high-quality clinical trial finds that it's so good, it can even knock back colon cancer—and, in fact, rival some chemotherapy treatments.

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Each pattern examined is expanded using tilde expansion, parameter and variable expansion, arithmetic substitution, command substitution, and process substitution.

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Could phonics solve California's reading crisis? Inside the push for sweeping changes
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Could phonics solve California's reading crisis? Inside the push for sweeping changes
8:31 AM · Jun 2, 2025. //

The bill is the capstone to decades of debate and controversy in California on how best to teach reading amid stubbornly low test scores. Gov. Gavin Newsom has pledged his support, setting aside $200 million to fund teacher training on the new approach in the May revise of his 2025-26 budget proposal. //

What is so infuriating about all this, aside from the obvious fact that generations of kids have been unnecessarily hampered in their education and hence their lifetime achievements, is that liberals are always given a pass for ruining things, and when they shift to proven methods, they somehow get credit for doing the obvious. //

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It took 100 years to rewire our brains to make us a society that thinks in written words. Giving up phonics was an attempt by the teacher’s union to disrupt the reading ability of our students and create another “crisis” that they could ask for more money. As a recently retired teacher (on my fourth day so far) I’m sure that was their intention, even though I haven’t been part of the union in twenty years.

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You may be right, but I think there were other factors as well:

• The desire to come up with something new and innovative for the sake of it, or to demonstrate that education, too, is a real science.

• The fact that, once we get the phonics down, we do tend to see whole words as units and no longer need to sound them out (kind of like reading Chinese characters). So the "innovators" thought they could skip the phonics step and jump to adult reading.

Inside a laboratory nestled above the mist of the forests of South Dakota, scientists are searching for the answer to one of science's biggest questions: why does our Universe exist?

They are in a race for the answer with a separate team of Japanese scientists – who are several years ahead.

The current theory of how the Universe came into being can't explain the existence of the planets, stars and galaxies we see around us. Both teams are building detectors that study a sub-atomic particle called a neutrino in the hope of finding answers.

The US-led international collaboration is hoping the answer lies deep underground, in the aptly named Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (Dune). //

When the Universe was created two kinds of particles were created: matter – from which stars, planets and everything around us are made – and, in equal amounts, antimatter, matter's exact opposite.

Theoretically the two should have cancelled each other out, leaving nothing but a big burst of energy. And yet, here we – as matter – are. //

Scientists believe that the answer to understanding why matter won – and we exist – lies in studying a particle called the neutrino and its antimatter opposite, the anti-neutrino.

They will be firing beams of both kinds of particles from deep underground in Illinois to the detectors at South Dakota, 800 miles away.

This is because as they travel, neutrinos and anti-neutrinos change ever so slightly.

The scientists want to find out whether those changes are different for the neutrinos and anti-neutrinos. If they are, it could lead them to the answer of why matter and anti-matter don't cancel each other out. //

Half a world away, Japanese scientists are using shining golden globes to search for the same answers. Gleaming in all its splendour it is like a temple to science, mirroring the cathedral in South Dakota 6,000 miles (9,650 km) away. The scientists are building Hyper-K - which will be a bigger and better version of their existing neutrino detector, Super-K.

The Japanese-led team will be ready to turn on their neutrino beam in less than three years, several years earlier than the American project. Just like Dune, Hyper-K is an international collaboration. Dr Mark Scott of Imperial College, London believes his team is in pole position to make one of the biggest ever discoveries about the origin of the Universe.

"We switch on earlier and we have a larger detector, so we should have more sensitivity sooner than Dune," he says.

Having both experiments running together means that scientists will learn more than they would with just one, but, he says, "I would like to get there first!"

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Adding together the above numbers yields the following affordable, reliable, and clean total scores, with lower scores being closer to perfect power sources and higher scores being least compatible with the affordable, reliable, and clean ideal:

Natural gas - 3
Nuclear - 6
Hydro -7
Coal - 8
Biomass - 12
Wind - 22
Solar - 23

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BREAKING: The BBC has officially retracted its story, confirming the video of the IDF firing on Palestinians at an aid site was false.

The question remains: If they could verify the truth in 24 hours, why didn’t they wait to verify it before publishing the lie?
4:28 PM · Jun 2, 2025. //

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BBC Attempt 1: "Israeli tanks kill 26."

BBC Attempt 2: "Israeli tanks kill 31."

BBC Attempt 3: "Israeli gunfire kills 31."

BBC Attempt 4: "Red Cross says 21 people killed in aid incident."

BBC Attempt 5: "We reviewed the footage and couldn't find any evidence of anything."
4:50 PM · Jun 2, 2025. //

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Want to know who opened fire on Gazans trying to get aid?

IDF drone footage from earlier today shows Hamas operatives throwing rocks and firing at civilians attempting to collect humanitarian aid in southern Khan Yunis. Show more

12:56 PM · Jun 1, 2025

The thing about history proving that communism is evil and undeniably cruel is something these people tend to willfully overlook. You can't miss it. It's pretty in your face, but these people always brush it off as having never been "real communism" or "real socialism." What they don't understand is that we as a species are not compatible with that kind of economic and governmental system, but that's another article.

But what history also proves is that people like this guy above are usually the first to be in mortal danger when these systems seize power.

Ex-KGB agent Yuri Bezmenov mentioned this in his warning about the steps communism takes to bring down a system, and at the end, he warned that the people who fought the hardest to bring the system down — who advocated for it and did everything required to bring these overreaching systems to power — are usually the first ones lined up against a wall and shot.

https://rumble.com/v2tsncy-the-four-steps-of-a-communist-takeover.html. //

It's because totalitarian governments don't really like ideologues, they want obedience. The people demanding "justice" and "equality" don't really fit in with communism, a system historically incapable of both. True believers — or the people who consider themselves the true ideological representatives — never stop advocating for a system that can never exist, and the last thing despots want is for the complaints and advocacy that collapsed the previous system collapsing this one too.

So it's people just like the they/them above who are the first to the wall to be silenced permanently. Their nature of being unpleasable, and perpetually the victim, has no use and only creates complication. Better to get rid of them then have to deal with them. Moreover, they become a great example of how crossing the regime won't be tolerated in any capacity.

But that's why they call them "useful idiots." They're easily lied to, easily manipulated, and they deploy themselves willingly against a system they've been brainwashed into believing is evil on behalf of a system they've been told will "work this time."

But the result will be the same as it always was if they should succeed. They will bring about the end of the system, then the new system will bring about their end. No longer useful, but still an idiot.

"People are out there taking photos of the names and their faces and posting them online with death threats to their family and to themselves," Lyons emphasized, explaining just one incident in Los Angeles where officers were doxxed after an operation. He was upset that they would be put in that position.

"So I'm sorry if people are offended by them wearing masks, but I'm not going to let my officers and agents go out there and put their lives on the line, their family on the line because people don't like what immigration enforcement is."

He wanted to know why the media was asking about masks, and not about the threats to the ICE officers and their families.

"Is that the issue here, or is anyone upset with the fact that ICE officers' families were labeled as terrorists?" he declared with great emotion.

Unfortunately for the NAACP, the supply of actual racism in America does not meet the demand. And while they are busy accusing Elon Musk of racism, environmental or otherwise, they are conveniently forgetting some facts. Musk's xAI facility is a roughly $12 billion investment in the city. It is believed that investment will create thousands of jobs in tech, engineering, construction, and other fields. You would think the NAACP would champion those high-paying jobs in a nearby black community. But sadly, for the very community the NAACP claims to care about, the race industry may be more profitable.

The targets were:

Olenya Air Base in the Murmansk Region
Belaya Air Base in the Irkutsk Region
Ivanovo Air Base in the Ivanovo Region
Dyagilevo Air Base in the Ryazan Region
Severomorsk (Main Administrative Base of the Russian Northern Fleet) in the Murmansk Region //

The airbases are the home to Russia's fleet of Tu-22, Tu-95M, and Tu-160 nuclear-capable strategic bombers as well as AS-50 battle management aircraft. They were located from the Siberian Far East to the Arctic Circle. The furthest target, Belaya Airbase in Irkutsk, is over 2700 miles from Ukraine.

Reports indicate that at least 41 aircraft were hit. The unofficial tally indicates 24 Tu-22, 8 Tu-95MS, and 5 Tu-16 were hit. MiG-31 fighters and Il-76 transports were also hit. To put this in context, open-source data says Russia's bomber inventory is about 58 Tu-22, 47 Tu-95MS, and 15 Tu-160. These planes are the ones used to launch most of the missiles fired at Ukrainian cities. //

When you consider the operational readiness rate, Russia probably has less than 50 aircraft capable of flying...on the bright side, they have plenty of aircraft to cannibalize for parts. The Tu-22 and Tu-95MS production lines are closed, and the Tu-160 production is one, yes, one per year. For all intents and purposes, this represents a permanent decrease in the size of the Russian strategic bomber fleet.

How did this come to be? The special forces operated by Ukraine's intelligence directorate, the SBU, used semi-trucks hauling trailers that were drone launch pods. //

This was a fire-and-forget attack. There was no need for Ukrainian drone operators to remain on the scene to manage the attacks. An autonomously targeted drone swarm hit each target. SBU operatives placed the trucks, and the rest of the operation, from first launch to the self-destruct of the transport, appears to have been carried out without a man in the loop. //

According to online reporting, the Russians were prepared for a night attack by large drones and got a daylight attack by quadcopters instead. China has access to some 43,000 container ships registered in either the People's Republic of China or Hong Kong (which is basically the same thing). Imagine a few hundred of them carrying containers modified for launching drones. I would submit that a similar attack by China on US Naval and Air Force bases throughout the world would render a crippling blow that would force us to either acknowledge a possible Chinese conquest of Taiwan as a fait accompli or go nuclear.

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I'm not sure how the Democrats expect to maintain a constituency. Drive off men, and then erase women from existence.

What Grassley's investigation, and pit bull intensity, has produced is evidence that the FBI and the Department of Justice bureaucracy are partisan Democrat organizations who repeatedly punish conservative people for crimes while letting those on the left go free. Compare and contrast the kid glove treatment received by Nellie Ohr with the hammering given Roger Stone for similar offenses of the Russia Hoax. In the same way misdemeanor defendants for January 6 crimes were subjected to pre-dawn raids, held without bail, and imprisoned in brutal conditions while no one showed any curiosity about the Antifa and BLM goons who attacked police and police stations during the summer of 2020.

Keep in mind that this cover up happened on the watch of Donald Trump's own Attorney General and his personal choice to be FBI Director.

“Ohr never suffered consequences for advancing the phony Trump-Russia narrative and attempting to cover up her involvement in the hoax,” Grassley said in a statement. “Yet time and again, the American justice system has been weaponized against President Trump and his associates with reckless abandon.” He also noted that “The DOJ’s inaction on Nellie Ohr’s criminal referral — despite the obviously incriminating evidence provided in the FBI’s own analysis — undermines public trust in the rule of law."

Not only did Ohr not suffer any consequences for her lying, she never will. The statute of limitations on that offense has passed and she is home free.

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Since you asked, here are the essential elements of any legal claim:

1. There must be an enforceable duty to do something, or not do something, established by law, contract, court decree, custom, or otherwise. For example, there's a legal duty to not commit adultery, although they forgot to tell my ex-wife that.

2. There must be an identifiable breach of that duty by someone legally obligated to obey it. If I'm committing adultery with Kristi Noem, but only in my heart, I haven't breached any duty in the (secular) legal sense.

3. The breach of that duty must be the cause of any injuries complained of. This has two aspects: "cause in fact" (the "but for" test), and "proximate" or "legal" cause (the relationship of the breach to the harm as a matter of public policy: The fact that Hitler's father met Hitler's mother might be a cause in fact of WWII, but it is not a proximate cause).

4. The breach of duty must result in (i.e., have been the legal cause of, see above) identifiable damages to an identifiable party. As you might have guessed, there's an entire area of law devoted to the subject of what constitutes legal damages. The fact that the Democrats make my blood boil is not a legal item of damage.

Ancillary considerations include:

5. Any valid defenses to the claim, which can involve anything from immunity (yes, I did it, but the law allows me to because of who I am) to statute of limitations (yes, I did it, but you waited too long to complain). There are a myriad of other legal defenses, everything from contributory negligence to condonation and recrimination. Don't you wish you'd taken my Remedies class?

6. The jurisdiction of the court to resolve the matter. This includes such considerations as personal jurisdiction (i.e., whether this particular party is properly before the court) and subject matter jurisdiction (i.e., whether the court in question has authority over this kind of legal dispute, and the power to afford the kind of relief requested. You can't try a felony case before a traffic court judge). Another jurisdictional issue is the feasability of relief. A court shouldn't issue a ruling that would be impossible or even unreasonably difficult/expensive to enforce.

Applying all of these factors makes it pretty clear that most of what drives you and me crazy these days (everything from making excuses for murderers, racists, terrorists, etc. to providing them with material support) is not going to be actionable under the legal principles enumerated above, certainly not by us, and in many cases not even by the government. In support of the idea that this is a pretty good thing overall, I cite two words: Fani Willis.

I hope this answers at least part of your very excellent questions, above. I also wonder what our RedState Legal Eagle, @Susie Moore, would tell us about this?

North America has vast reserves of uranium, enough to power the United States and Canada for hundreds of years, and the Trump administration's Department of the Interior is now, as we see, fast-tracking approval of new uranium mines:

The decision, executed by the Department of the Interior, was made in just 14 days…a stark contrast to the months or years such reviews typically require. //

According to a report by the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency and the International Atomic Energy Agency, as of 2015, the United States' reserves of recoverable uranium were at 101,900 tonnes (metric), and Canada is blowing us away with 969,200 tonnes. That's a lot of uranium. But, according to this same report, the world champion by a wide margin is Australia, with 2,049,400 tonnes.

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Mayor Karen Bass used Walter Lopes’ Pacific Palisades home as a prop to pat herself on the back for helping the neighborhood rebuild after the January wildfires.

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Lopes said he was only able to get started so quickly because he was rebuilding his house exactly as it was constructed just a few years ago — and he’s shelled out millions of dollars and pulled out all the stops to get it done. //

The reality is, five months after the wildfires tore through the Pacific Palisades, fewer than 300 homeowners have even applied for rebuilding permits – out of more than 7,000 structures destroyed.

Just 52 addresses have had permits approved, and fewer still have actually seen any construction – despite a batch of executive orders from state and local government meant to free homeowners from bureaucratic hell.

Multiple press outlets, including Fox News, the Associated Press, CNN, the BBC, and other outlets, ran with a report early Sunday morning claiming Israeli forces randomly opened fire on civilians gathered to collect aid. Sourced by the "health officials" and "witnesses," the claim involved dozens being killed and "at least" 175 injured. //

At least 26 Palestinians were killed and at least 175 were wounded as they made their way to receive food in the Gaza Strip, according to health officials and witnesses.

Witnesses said Israeli forces fired on crowds around 1,000 yards away from an aid site run by the Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. A Palestinian journalist told the BBC that thousands of Palestinians had gathered near the aid site near Gaza's southern city of Rafah when Israeli tanks approached and opened fire on the crowd... //

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This is truly glorious:

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation just released security footage from the distribution site in question during the precise minutes that the "massacre" allegedly took place.

As you can see — It didn't happen.

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Update via @IsraelWarRoom:

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation says that talk of a "massacre" at the aid sites are "untrue and fabricated" and that the aid was distributed without incident.
6:08 AM · Jun 1, 2025

“Our advice is: Never give up [because] nothing is perfect, don’t sweat the small stuff, never stop communicating, and never go to bed mad,” wrote a pair of high school sweethearts married 40 years.

“Keep God at the center of your marriage and have fun together. Don’t forget to be best friends [and] laugh at the little things,” another kindly couple advised. “Stick together through the hard times [and] good times will eventually come again.”

“Unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments,” a well-wisher warned. “Be nice, communicate wants and needs.”

“Be quick to forgive and say, ‘I’m sorry,’ ” suggested longtime lovers of 43 years.

“Always respond to your partner’s bids for attention,” another urged. “If they say the sunset is pretty, drop everything and enjoy it together. If they ask if they look nice, truly take a moment to take them all in and give them a compliment. If they give you a quick hug, hold them longer. These small moments matter for intimacy.”

On Friday, the Supreme Court allowed President Trump to suspend a program that provided “parole” to 500,000 aliens from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.

Democrats are crying foul, saying Trump isn’t following the law. But it was President Biden who broke the law when he allowed these migrants here in the first place.

While the Supreme Court’s reprieve doesn’t assure that the Court will ultimately rule in the administration’s favor, it is good news for now. For these parole programs were some of the most egregious misdeeds of Alejandro Mayorkas, President Biden’s Secretary of Homeland Security.

This program ushered into the United States on a red carpet over half a million aliens who, under our
nation’s immigration laws, were flatly inadmissible.

In fact, the House of Representatives impeached Secretary Mayorkas for high crimes and misdemeanors in part because of these very programs: proclaiming that “Mayorkas willfully exceeded his parole authority” by “creat[ing], re-open[ing], or expand[ing] a series of categorical parole programs … which enabled hundreds of thousands of inadmissible aliens to enter the United States in violation of the laws enacted by Congress.”

When Congress granted the President the parole power in 1952, it was strictly for, as the House Judiciary Committee made clear, ONLY “emergency cases,” such as “an alien who requires immediate medical attention” or an inadmissible alien who needs to be here as “a witness or for purposes of prosecution.” //

In 1996, Congress reacted to decades of abuses by administrations of both parties by tightening the language of the parole power in the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act. Among other changes, IIRIRA required that parole only be granted “on a case-by-case basis.” //

While Biden ignored the “case by case basis” requirement, and provided a mass parole, the lower-court judge who ruled against Trump, said that since parole can only be granted on a case-by-case basis, it likewise can only be terminated on a case-by-case basis.

So one law for Biden, another for Trump.

The Trump administration has canceled $3.7 billion worth of grants for multiple climate-related infrastructure projects, the majority of which were approved in former President Joe Biden's lame duck period after he lost the 2024 election.

Secretary of Energy Chris Wright made the announcement on Friday and said the 24 projects failed to advance the energy needs of the American people, were not economically viable and would not generate a positive return on investment of taxpayer dollars.

The department said that after a "thorough and individualized financial review of each award," it found that nearly 70% of the awards (16 of the 24 projects) had been signed between election day on Nov. 5 and Biden's last day in office on Jan. 20. //

The Center for Climate and Energy Solutions is claiming a loss of $4.6 billion in economic output, along with the loss of thousands of jobs, and it would be roundly interesting to see them show their work on that estimate. That loss of economic output, of course, requires that there is some profit somewhere along the way. If any of these enterprises were profitable, if any of them actually generated any economic output, they wouldn't require millions or billions in taxpayer subsidies.

There is also a storm of whining about how these cuts and others like them under President Trump "stifle innovation." Horsefeathers. If there is a profit to be made in any of these technologies, someone will go to the effort to develop them.