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U.S. President Donald J. Trump is now facing the toughest decision so far of his presidency, a legacy-defining endeavor, whether to deploy hundreds or even thousands of American ground troops into Iran to support a number of contingencies being prepared by the Pentagon, including the capture of Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, or operations deep behind enemy lines to secure highly-enriched uranium from nuclear sites in Iran, according to CNN. For many Trump allies in Washington, the deployment of thousands of troops to the Middle East would mean the swift end of their public support for the Iran War - and likely threaten the administration’s ability to deliver the hundreds of billions of dollars in supplemental funding that will soon be requested from Congress by the Pentagon and White House. The economic repercussions of the conflict have led many of Trump’s Republican allies, staring down a tough political road to the midterm elections in November, to urge him to find a way out of Iran.

22 days complete of only eating Wendy’s chili! To say it’s been a weird experience is an understatement, both mentally and physically. Absolutely astonished, and a bit unsettled how much weight I’m losing. Lost 21.6 pounds in 22 days.

Countries That Sleep the Least (2026): 1. 🇯🇵 Japan — 5 hours 52 minutes 2. 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia — 6 hours 2 minutes 3. 🇰🇷 South Korea — 6 hours 2 minutes 4. 🇵🇭 Philippines — 6 hours 8 minutes 5. 🇰🇼 Kuwait — 6 hours 15 minutes 6. 🇹🇼 Taiwan — 6 hours 21 minutes 7. 🇮🇩 Indonesia — 6 hours 25 minutes 8. 🇶🇦 Qatar — 6 hours 26 minutes 9. 🇲🇾 Malaysia — 6 hours 27 minutes 10. 🇸🇬 Singapore — 6 hours 34 minutes 11. 🇹🇷 Turkey — 6 hours 35 minutes 12. 🇮🇳 India — 6 hours 35 minutes 13. 🇮🇱 Israel — 6 hours 36 minutes 14. 🇲🇽 Mexico — 6 hours 37 minutes 15. 🇨🇴 Colombia — 6 hours 37 minutes 16. 🇨🇷 Costa Rica — 6 hours 39 minutes 17. 🇭🇰 Hong Kong — 6 hours 39 minutes 18. 🇨🇱 Chile — 6 hours 39 minutes 19. 🇧🇷 Brazil — 6 hours 40 minutes 20. 🇹🇭 Thailand — 6 hours 42 minutes 21. 🇨🇳 China — 6 hours 43 minutes 22. 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates — 6 hours 45 minutes 23. 🇷🇺 Russia — 6 hours 45 minutes 24. 🇵🇱 Poland — 6 hours 50 minutes 25. 🇺🇦 Ukraine — 6 hours 52 minutes 26. 🇮🇹 Italy — 6 hours 54 minutes 27. 🇬🇷 Greece — 6 hours 54 minutes 28. 🇪🇸 Spain — 6 hours 56 minutes 29. 🇸🇰 Slovakia — 6 hours 57 minutes 30. 🇷🇴 Romania — 6 hours 58 minutes 31. 🇵🇹 Portugal — 6 hours 59 minutes 32. 🇨🇿 Czechia — 7 hours 0 minutes 33. 🇭🇺 Hungary — 7 hours 2 minutes 34. 🇿🇦 South Africa — 7 hours 4 minutes 35. 🇺🇸 United States — 7 hours 6 minutes 36. 🇦🇹 Austria — 7 hours 7 minutes 37. 🇩🇪 Germany — 7 hours 7 minutes 38. 🇨🇭 Switzerland — 7 hours 8 minutes 39. 🇳🇴 Norway — 7 hours 9 minutes 40. 🇨🇦 Canada — 7 hours 11 minutes Note that sleep data can vary by source/year/method (e.g., self-reported vs. tracked), and no major UN/World Bank index tracks this annually. Data reflects time in bed (2015 baseline); actual sleep may be slightly less. Individual results vary! 📌 Source: World Population Review – Average Sleep Time by Country 2026 (data from 2015 global surveys; page updated January 2026). ~~Alpha Index

the best engineers i know from before the ai thing think i'm not nearly ai pilled enough, if they see me do a single task that isn't agentified they yell at me and are like why are you so inefficient you could have agented that, why aren't you thinking about this right

Once again, I am pounding the table on using Gemini to analyze your genes. Get a basic Ancestry DNA test, opt into their privacy options, and once you get your results login and download your "raw DNA file" Ask Gemini to give you the identifiers to search for high impact genes and then use it to understand your own data and suggest interventions for the ones with a detrimental impact It's legitimately life changing

If you think AI coding is a fad, I get it. I felt the same way about a year ago. If you tried these tools out during the Copilot auto complete era, I understand entirely why you wrote them off. Things have changed a lot since then. These tools are here to stay.