13 April 2024

How much of it was all fake? I used to watch Ken Anderson give talks, and would wonder in awe how he was able to get such amazing data. Well, imagine my surprise. And these were just the ones that were recently caught. How many more are still undetected? The guy needs to step down. He's besmirched the reputation of Dana Farber Cancer Center.

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Holy crap!  96% of US hospital websites share visitor info with Meta, Google, data brokers. What the hell, man? This is crazy! Why don't hospitals do something about this?

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Biden just forgave 277,000 more student loans. Guess how much that's going to cost taxpayers now. Go on, take a guess. This is loan transfer folks. From those college students to you.
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It's costing way more to own a home now. Robert Kiyosaki said that a home is not an asset but a liabilty. It seemed counter-intuitive at first, but it's true. Especially now.

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Physicists find a surprise with gluons. It looks like the strong force reaches a plateau at larger distances. Well, that's unexpected.

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This is what's going all around – Oregon Health Authority finds no link between the vax and sudden death.  If you look at the original study, you find that the researchers only searched the death certificates for certain terms: “sudden death,” “arrhythmia,” “dysrhythmia,” “asystole,” “cardiac arrest,” “myocarditis,” “congestive heart failure,” “unknown,” “undetermined,” or “pending”. They did not search for "pericarditis, myopericarditis, ventricular fibrillation, ventricular tachycardia, atrial fibrillation, or pulmonary embolism. So they relied on physicians writing specific terms on the death certificate, didn't find anything, and concluded that there is no connection.  What about people who may have had cardiac arrest but were resuscitated soon enough and did not die? They would not be recorded in this study. Others followed vaccinated people prospectively and found an increase in myocarditis. Others have used ICD-10 codes to see if there an increase in cardiac injury. Some have looked for all-cause mortality and found an uptick in cardiac mortality in males by subgroup analysis. I therefore don't consider the OHA study to be definitive. The limitations of the study need to be understood.

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Here's an interesting music idea. RSSBlue lets fans subscribe to your musical RSS feed. This way they can directly access your music, and a payment system assures that payments go to you.

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So who's right? Will AI be a boon to the world, or will it destroy the world. Here's what experts think.  Spoiler alert: there are opinions on both sides.

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China's youth are saying "Screw it. We're not going to save for retirement." They expect the state to take care of them. OK. I think American youth are soon going to come to this conclusion, too. Then what? Do we let these people die or go hungry? Eventually, you run out of other people's money. Then what?

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I've heard that it was good to give Ukraine our current military equipment, because it would mean that we would build new equipment that would be more modern. Well, that's not what's happening. The article makes it sound like using old planes taken out of storage is a good thing, but the Chinese will have more modern weapons, and we have this. I think we're screwed.

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Heh. This made me smile. Teenagers learn about the tax system. And they aren't happy. More conservatives, maybe?

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Welcome to Oregon.
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