Probably the same thing as with any other language. What Happens In The Brain When People Grow Up Speaking Hawaiian And English? I thought I was going to get an answer.
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Discord hack shows risks of online age checks. This is what happens when you force people to collect sensitive information, but let them figure out to do it securely. Yeah, they got hacked, and now all that information is probably on the darknet.
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When did the term liberalism go from meaning limiting the power of government, individualism, protecting personal property and freedom of speech, to its modern meaning of just being anti-conservative (tax the rich, free stuff for the poor, censor and attack opposing viewpoints)? Now, being called a liberal is more like an insult.
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Another theory behind LongCOVID from researchers at the Graduate School of Medicine at Yokohama City University.
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By comparing imaging data from 30 patients with Long COVID to 80 healthy individuals, the researchers found a notable and widespread increase in the density of AMPA receptors across the brains of patients. This elevated receptor density was directly correlated with the severity of their cognitive impairment, suggesting a clear link between these molecular changes and the symptoms. Additionally, the concentrations of various inflammatory markers were also correlated with AMPAR levels, indicating a possible interaction between inflammation and receptor expression.Since I've been doing this blog, there have been so many "theories" as to what the key culprit is;
- genetic variants associated with the FOXP4 gene (12 July 2023)
- persistence of SARS-CoV2 spike protein (5 September 2023)
- amyloid deposition in the muscles of those with LongCOVID (7 January 2024)
- a leaky blood-brain barrier (24 February 2024)
- detectable ghost proteins (fragment of viral spike protein) in their blood. (25 August 2025)
Reddit can be evil. Lars Lofgren describes how one Reddit moderator with an evil fixation was able to destroy a competitor's business.
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What? So the U-shaped curve showing how happiness increases again in the elderly was bogus? You mean it was just a trope? So this old ronin is not likely to be really happy once he recovers from mid-life crisis? Dang, I was looking forward to it. The curve actually looks like this:
Happiness declines slowly over adulthood (about half a scale point). A low point is reached in the late 50s—at ages 55, 58, and 59. Subsequently, happiness increases slightly during the golden ages (about a tenth of a scale point), peaking at age 64. In old age, a steep decline in subjective well-being sets in.
This actually makes sense. Why would you feel happier in your later years when infirmity sets in? Paper here.
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Democrat mayoral frontrunner for Seattle, Katie Wilson, has a really crazy idea. She wants taxpaper money to go to pay for all those shady "news outlets" that no one reads. Rags like The Urbanist, Publicola, and the South Seattle Emerald.
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Microsoft Word will now, by default, save your documents to their OneDrive. And if you save photos to OneDrive, Microsoft will automatically use face recognition on them, like with Facebook. You have only 3 specific times a year to opt-out, and they don't tell you when those dates are. What is it with their sudden desire to get people to use OneDrive?
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Portland to open 3 new overnight-only shelters in undisclosed locations. They don't want to tell you where these locations are, so you can protest and raise objections. Until it's too late. Where's it going to be? Here? There? Maybe Willamette Week will find out, because it certainly isn't going to be The Oregonian.
Keith Wilson is determined to turn Portland into a wasteland.
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