13 November 2023

Portland teachers strike continues Monday, gives new meaning to ‘No School November’. We now enter into the third week of the strike. Just unbelievable. Portland students already have low school attendance due to COVID-19 and getting time off to attend all kinds of protests. They get days off for teacher preparation days. And every single holiday. Now this. Students don't seem to care that their academic lives are being frittered away. Even the lefty Oregonian is saying "enough already". This is why we were concerned about Tina Kotek's support by the unions. And the teachers demand racial equity training during the strike. How about math, reading, writing?

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Narrator voice: "The insanity was to go on much longer."

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Be ungovernable. Kudos to the Lakeridge HS boys. I suspect Lake Oswego is probably more conservatives than Portland.
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Can't believe the Oregonian let Steve Duin run this column. But he's right.

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As you can see, there are no tent camps. But commenters have said, this is the typical Asian conflict avoidance. Instead of facing the problem head-on, they just go the passive-aggressive route. Instead of attacking the root problem and not spending money on a "workaround". Some have decried that there is no compassion for the homeless. Yeah, but is THIS compassion?
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Joining the combined powers of CRISPR-Cas9 technology and CAR-T cells. Researchers have found that disrupting SUV39H1-mediatied H3K9 methylation status facilitates early expansion, long-term persistence, and overall anti-tumor efficacy of human CAR T cells in leukemia and prostate cancer models. Amazing!

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Drink coffee. The trigonelline in coffee improved memory. At least in aged mice. Could work in humans, too. 

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In the A.I. developer world, people are so accustomed to importing libraries and trying out someone's new A.I. model, or GPT wrapper app.  Now some evil hacker in the Philippines has abused this trust to hide malware. Everything goes to sh!t eventually, when you open it up to the world.

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And speaking of Google, they are no longer hiding their political leanings. Try this search – it's really true.
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Unintended consequences. Ensuring adequate staffing in hospitals can be challenging. Finding doctors to work can be expensive. Congress' "No Medical Surprises Act" sounded good on paper. Who likes a surprise expensive bill? But now companies that provide the staffing to hospitals, such as TeamHealth, Envision Healthcare, American Physician Partners, Air Methods Corp, Global Medical Response, Radiology Partners have either gone bankrupt or are in serious financial difficulty.  So it may end up that your local hospital will not have enough doctors to treat you. So no surprise bill, but maybe "we'll just have to do the best we can" medical care instead.

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