OPEN THREAD: Enjoy.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China’s Landspace aims to build a stainless steel rocket. “The Zhuque-3 (Vermillion Bird 3) will use stainless propellant tanks and clusters of Tianque methane-liquid oxygen propellant rocket engines, according to a presentation by Landspace CEO Zhang Changwu at the Mingyue Lake Aerospace Information Industry International Ecosystem Event in Chongqing, China, Nov. 21. The two-stage launcher will have a payload capacity of 20 metric tons to low Earth orbit (LEO) when expendable. Recovery of the first stage downrange will allow 16.5 tons to LEO, while a landing back at the launch site will offer a capacity of 11 tons to LEO. A render of the rocket shows grid fins and deployable landing legs on the first stage.”

This all sounds . . . familiar somehow.

WELL, GOOD: Exercising at The Same Time Each Day May Unlock Hidden Health Benefits.

HMM: Harnessing the Sea’s Hidden Energy: New Nano-Device Turns Seawater Into Electricity. Color me skeptical that this can be commercially deployed at scale, but I’d love to be wrong.

HMM: New type of bacterial infection could be behind recent dog illnesses.

MORE ELECTRICS: 2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5 N First Drive.

ACTUALLY, AT MY THANKSGIVING WE TALKED ABOUT MY NIECE-IN-LAW’S RECENT ACQUISITION OF A .458 SOCOM RIFLE: Tell the Moms Demand Action Harpies at Your Thanksgiving Table to Shut Up and Eat Their Tofurky.

SO, OUTPERFORMING OUR POLITICIANS THEN: Even without brains, jellyfish learn from their mistakes.

I HAD A NONSMOKER EX-GIRLFRIEND WHO DIED OF LUNG CANCER AT 33: AI tool assesses cancer risk in people who have never smoked. “Between 10% and 20% of lung cancers occur in so-called ‘never-smokers’ – people who have never smoked at all or have smoked fewer than 100 cigarettes in their lifetime, researchers said in background notes.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, SETTLER COLONIALISM EDITION: Northwestern gets green light for stadium rebuild despite Native American opposition.

LET THE PURGES BEGIN: Revamp education to stop the cultural rot: For far too long we have allowed the system to fail and anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism, and disdain for Western culture to flourish.

Standards have slipped, missions have been ignored, and it’s time for a reboot.

LOL: “Anti-Racists” Dropped by CAA Over Anti-Semitic Comments. “In case you’re not familiar with Rao and Jackson, they are the duo who started Race2Dinner, a private dinner party for white women who wanted to be called racist by two genuine BIPOCs for $5,000.”

DON SURBER: How Republicans win: It’s the economy, stupid, and the stupid immigration policy.

WELL, THAT’S BECAUSE HE DID. AND HE DID IT BECAUSE HE’S CORRUPT. 60% Believe Biden Participated in Hunter’s Business Dealings: Poll.

HEH:

A thousand years from now, if humanity survives, tourists born on Mars will visit these tunnels as ancient wonders. "In the presidency of Joeus Bidenus …"https://t.co/vEK3kRbgqa

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) November 23, 2023

SO I GUESS THIS MEANS WE’RE DOOMED:

Jim Cramer has said that the economy is headed for a soft landing, per CNBC.

— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) November 23, 2023

Heh:

Bulls right now after seeing this post pic.twitter.com/PacJFMvLY1

— Kai (@kaiyabunga) November 23, 2023

WHILE EVERYONE HAS BEEN TALKING ABOUT MAKING TRUMP UNELECTABLE, BIDEN HAS BEEN WORKING HARD AT MAKING HIMSELF UNELECTABLE: 5 questions looming over President Biden at Thanksgiving.

CONSEQUENCES ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE. AND FOR REPUBLICANS. Ethics Panel Votes Against Probing Rep. Bowman’s Pulled Fire Alarm Inquiry.

WHEN NARRATIVES COLLIDE WITH TRUTH:

Syria: 500,000 killed (Syrian Observatory for Human Right, 2021)
Yemen: 377,000 killed
Afganistan: 176,000 killed
Darfur: 300,000 killed
Iraq: 400,000 killed
Ukraine: 500,000 killed
Congo: 860,000+ killed

These are UN figures, just FYI…

— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) November 20, 2023

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— RealTalk Reports 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 (@RealTalkReports) November 21, 2023

IF THEY WON’T TELL, THEY DON’T HAVE TO TELL: Anti-immigration riot erupts in Dublin after children stabbed: Police refuse to reveal nationality of man held on suspicion of knife attack in Irish capital on Thursday.

OPEN THREAD: Yes, there was an earlier one, but here’s another. Give thanks!

IT’S NOT TIME TO PANIC YET, THE ELECTION IS NEARLY A YEAR AWAY: Don’t press ‘pandemic panic button’ scientists caution on China pneumonia report.

Of course, if there actually is something worth panicking over, no one will pay attention to official pronouncements because they blew their credibility.

BUSY WITH FAMILY. BACK LATER. ENJOY THIS EARLY OPEN THREAD.

IT’S ALL ABOUT CONTROL: The Biden Administration is Now Applying its Failed Thinking on Gun Control To Cars.

COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Lower testosterone correlated to higher rates of osteoarthritis in a non-dose–dependent way.