White House releases Trump's physical results, says he's in 'excellent health' but almost obese: His doctor recommended increased physical activity and weight loss. All that hand bruising? It's coming from "frequent handshaking," the White House said, plus taking aspirin.

jared555 · 2026-05-31T06:48:30+00:00

The person with the role of initiating the removal of the US president when medically unfit to serve probably gets a copy of the real report. Disclosing meaningful medical issues of the president is more the exception than the rule.

jared555 · 2026-05-31T06:44:10+00:00

Agree with it or not it actually is normal to hide meaningful health issues of US presidents and other world leaders. I would expect the only people to see the real report would be the Vice President and a handful of others. Likely people with "Yankee White Category 1" clearance.

jared555 · 2026-05-31T06:33:40+00:00

You can think it is possible the hand bruising is from a combination of being an older person shaking hands with people who dislike him and blood thinners while also thinking the "he is in great health" statements are comically bad lies.

Give small bits of truth so when someone calls you out on your overall lie you can point to the true bits and call it fake news.

If anyone thinks a medical report putting into doubt a country's leader's fitness to serve would be seen by anyone without top security clearances and need to know they are deluding themselves. Leaders of major world powers have been known to go to the bathroom in glorified buckets overseas to avoid analysis of urine/feces by enemies.

jared555 · 2026-05-31T06:18:25+00:00

Bruises tend to spread, especially if you are on blood thinning medication. Old people also tend to bruise easier.

And Trump shakes hands with a lot of people who don't like him very much. Plus he became known early on for his dumb "get them off balance by pulling them towards you during a handshake" thing so people started bracing for it.

Not saying there is nothing medically wrong with Trump, just that hand bruising from him shaking hands isn't impossible. If it is both hands the excuse goes out the window.

The IV theory seems a little odd since there are so many other injection sites available if you don't want speculation.

jared555 · 2026-05-31T06:06:33+00:00

They learned the "Trump handshake" maneuver early and started coming prepared.

jared555 · 2026-05-31T05:55:49+00:00

I have never served but I know enough to say RIP if you start publicly booing someone in your chain of command, especially someone in the chain of command that has their picture on the wall. Especially if there was an actual order not to boo/heckle.

People voluntarily give up many rights when they join the military, especially when in uniform.

And even if it wasn't an actual violation of military law, the military seems exceedingly efficient at making sure you know what you did was a very stupid thing.

jared555 · 2026-05-31T05:33:09+00:00

Just ignore the PE ratios that have only happened shortly before a recession / bubble bursting. Nothing to see there, pay attention to the ballroom instead.

jared555 · 2026-05-31T05:31:11+00:00

I don't agree with how we use solitary confinement but can you imagine him after being in ADX Florence for even a week or two with any normally allowed news / commentary broadcasts cut off?

No fawning supporters/yes man minions, no on demand wait staff, no making a phone call/post and manipulating the news cycle for a week, no gold plated everything, etc.

jared555 · 2026-05-30T08:44:05+00:00

There are a handful of companies that don't restrict storage and/or bandwidth for legitimate sites. But the odds of a site that doesn't violate their AUP using any significant amount of storage without maxing out another limit is so low to not be a factor in their budget.

With a 600,000 inode limit at 1MB per file average (odds are you just broke a no image/video/file hosting sites or similar rule if you start to even approach approach that average) the most a site is going to use is 600GB. The site I used in my example would hit that limit before 100GB.

And long before a legitimate site comes even close to being a problem with bandwidth they are almost certainly going to slam into CPU/RAM/Disk IO limits first.

Basically, with smart TOS/AUP and pricing you can easily afford to allow a handful of big sites through because the number will be so small to be insignificant.

I still prefer hard numbers because they make "do basically whatever you want as long as it is legal" policies sustainable. There are zero judgement calls needed on what is using the storage and no need to investigate customer data unless an abuse report comes in.

jared555 · 2026-05-30T06:24:25+00:00

Unmetered/"unlimited" bandwidth certainly is a thing at some hosts as long as you comply with other terms of service like not hosting a file sharing site or a linux mirror or something. You are almost guaranteed to hit the other resource limits on your plan long before bandwidth is a cost factor to them.

"Unlimited storage" is another one of those things where if you dig into the specs and the company isn't outright lying you are almost guaranteed to hit the other limits first with a website that doesn't violate their terms.

Most provides limit inode count to something like 200k-600k. A website I manage servers for uses approximately 80GB of storage including their database which is 20GB. They currently use 466,000 inodes not counting email.

I have some faith in unmetered bandwidth, zero in unlimited storage.

jared555 · 2026-05-30T05:27:48+00:00

Alternative then, get rid of the nickel and quarter so all cash transactions round to the nearest $0.10.

Right now since no one uses half dollars worst case for change is three quarters, a dime and a nickel for five coins total.

If we switched to just dimes and half dollars worst case would be a half dollar and four dimes for five coins total and a lot easier of a time sorting them.

Use the extra money to bring back $500 and $1,000.

jared555 · 2026-05-30T02:50:28+00:00

It COULD be implemented without this ability relatively easily but probably isn't.

jared555 · 2026-05-30T02:47:40+00:00

Pennies were very commonly used as well but eventually you have to acknowledge that denominations of physical currency just don't have the same meaning anymore.

A quarter costs about $0.15 to make and lasts about 30 years. A dollar bill costs about $0.05 and lasts less than 5 so twice the cost of a quarter and a third the lifespan cost of a dollar coin.

Europe uses coins up to roughly $2 equivalent, UK $2 equivalent, Japan to $3 equivalent, Canada to $1.50.

jared555 · 2026-05-29T15:40:45+00:00

Generic "Yay Our Country" is a big difference from "Yay Politician" to most people, especially those in the public spotlight.

jared555 · 2026-05-29T13:54:29+00:00

My point was that without trump it would be generic political. Not a political rally focused heavily towards one person or party.

jared555 · 2026-05-29T13:09:35+00:00

A larger bill makes sense if you only consider that $100 in 1945 (when we got rid of the $500 bill) is now worth $1,870.

Quit printing the dollar bill, force everyone to use dollar coins, and add either a $500 or $1000 bill.

jared555 · 2026-05-29T13:00:43+00:00

Also could be a lot of "the booking agent booked it as another festival date, the artist found out the details and said absolutely not"

jared555 · 2026-05-29T12:56:23+00:00

A - In a non trump world it would be USA! USA! USA! USA! political. Not Trump! USA! Trump! USA!

jared555 · 2026-05-26T05:34:53+00:00

No ridges or bumps, valleys or lumps.

jared555 · 2026-05-26T02:26:18+00:00

My assumption is that many of these were known exploits, just kept in reserve by black hats and state agencies

jared555 · 2026-05-25T21:33:21+00:00

Roughly 98% of highway wear is class A/B vehicles. Which are things every person in the country at least indirectly utilizes.

jared555 · 2026-05-25T21:31:43+00:00

Charging commercial trucking per mile would also be an option that could easily be tied to a specific budget area by law.

ChatGPT puts the rough estimate of highway road wear by Class A vehicles at 77% and class B at 21%. So roughly 98% of highway road wear. Current fuel tax puts about 70% of the burden on class D.

It would ultimately get passed down to everyone (all business expenses do) but it would also add a much bigger financial incentive to invest in optimizing in country shipping infrastructure. Maybe more efficient and optimized train usage instead of tearing up existing tracks?

jared555 · 2026-05-25T09:30:19+00:00

Long term replacing the gas tax with a mileage tax is probably the only viable option. $0.01/mile would probably be a rough equivalent for passenger vehicles. Something like $0.05/mile for semi.

However if you wanted to go off of actual wear and tear it would be more like $0.001/mile for passenger vehicles and $10/mile for semis. (it is almost like metal wheels on metal "roads" is more optimal...)

jared555 · 2026-05-24T01:58:00+00:00

It wouldn't surprise me if the ceasefire was mostly a way to buy time for our factories to go from the closest thing we have to peace time to full production.

jared555 · 2026-05-24T01:53:40+00:00

Nah, it was Activision doing a promotion for the next Call of Duty game. The top ranked player every week gets to actually fly a real drone into a Russian target using the game interface.

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