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This positive review of Apple's MacBook Neo has lots to consider in mechanical design
"The trackpad mechanism is simple, but still magic. Two flexures let the trackpad move, and a central screw sets how much force it takes to actuate the membrane switch underneath. It’s easier to understand than Force Touch, easier to access, and almost certainly cheaper to produce."

MacBook Neo Is the Most Repairable MacBook in 14 Years
Is Apple’s most affordable laptop ever also one of its most repairable? We’re loving the screwed-in battery.

Auf #AfD ablehnt.
Wenn es erfolgreich wäre (was ich für sehr wahr…

Sonntagsfrage – Forsa (Wahlumfragen zur Bundestagswahl)
Übersicht über aktuelle und frühere Ergebnisse von Wahlumfragen von Forsa zur Bundestagswahl (Sonntagsfrage)

Milwaukee didn't even make it more than 9 months since flooding due to heavy rain ruined everything. Climate change is a thing.
https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2026/04/16/milwaukee-again-cleaning-up-from-overwhelming-force-of-nature/

Milwaukee Again Cleaning Up From ‘Overwhelming Force of Nature’
City officials said there was little more they could have done to prepare.

Ich muss da heute raus. Bäh! Aber mit'm Rad fahre ich ich nicht. Und wenn ihr euch auf'n Kopf stellt (glaub ich sowieso nur, wenn ihr Fotos davon schickt)!
Edit(t) kichert vor sich hin: Ich bekam ein privates, frisch gemachtes Kopfstandfoto und es ist SAGENHAFT!

ICE officials knew use of force was rising well before Minneapolis shootings (Eric Bazail-Eimil/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/17/ice-officials-use-of-force-00782501
http://www.memeorandum.com/260217/p25#a260217p25

Now here is something designed to shake confidence:
Flying, unmanned warships controlled by an on-board, but distributed, AI...
"Airbus is Preparing 2 Uncrewed Combat Aircraft from Kratos for 1st Flight With a European Mission System'"
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Airbus is Preparing 2 Uncrewed Combat Aircraft from Kratos for 1st Flight With a European Mission System
Airbus is working at full throttle to offer the German Air Force an operational Uncrewed Collaborative Combat Aircraft (UCCA) system by 2029

Commissioner Dan JŸrgensen: The EU is in a better position than in 2022, but the scale of the current shock to global oil and gas supplies is greater. Warns against lowering taxes on oil and gas, since that risks keeping demand high, putting pressure on supplies. https://www.…

‘Even the best-case scenario is bad’: EU chief warns of higher gas prices ‘for years’
Supplies of diesel and jet fuel may come under pressure if Strait of Hormuz remains blocked, European energy commissioner fears

A Texas court interpreter who was arrested by ICE after living in the US for more than 35 years
is speaking out from detention, saying she has been “treated like a criminal”
and fears being deported to a country where she has never been.
Meenu Batra is the only licensed Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu court interpreter in the state,
and has served as an interpreter for hundreds of people in immigration court.
Then, last month, immigration agents at Harlingen internation…

Trump’s Memphis Crime Task Force Arrested Over 800 Immigrants, Records Show.
💥Only 2% of the Arrests Were for Violent Crimes.
Trump ordered a law enforcement surge in Memphis to end violent crime. -- But crime in the city has fallen steadily since 2023, hitting a 25-year low before the surge began.
The vast majority of the more than 5,200 arrests made by the Memphis Safe Task Force in its first four months have been for nonviolent crimes.
Of the task force’s 800 imm…

Trump’s Memphis Crime Task Force Arrested Over 800 Immigrants, Records Show. Only 2% of the Arrests Were for Violent Crimes.
Businesses closed. Churches emptied. Parents afraid to take kids to school. Advocates say what was supposed to be a crime-fighting effort is keeping a community in fear.

Even after a U.S. bombing raid last June and more than five weeks of attacks on Iran since February,
one suspected nuclear site remains untouched.
Experts say the underground facility, known as #Pickaxe #Mountain, is buried so deep that it may lie beyond the reach of America’s most powerful bunker-buster bo…

Trump Is Urged to Act on Iranian Site Feared Impervious to Airstrikes
Little is known about Pickaxe Mountain, but some experts say it illustrates the impossibility of relying on force alone to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear bomb.