It's sad that Japan has these quaint rituals to help them find their mates, but in real life, love doesn't come to them nearly enough to stave off population decline. C'mon, Japanese people – it's not enough to visit temples. You have to actually pick someone.
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Concierge medicine is big in New York. Although this kind of concierge medicine seems to be borderline snake-oil. Prescribing dubious supplement and infusions because that's what the craze is on TikTok, or some other social media. However, there needs to be an effort to take control back from hospitals and private equity. This kind of thing is only good for primary care, however. For specialists, you need to interact with the traditional orthodoxy, and things kind of fall apart. So it's good if you're mainly healthy and just need on-demand minor stuff. But for serious illnesses, you need regular medical care. Despite all the money you've paid.
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Wow, this aging ronin might benefit from this device to continue strenuous hiking. You can get it here.
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Speaking of aging, new research suggests that it is not just genetic mutations that contribute to aging. Epigenetic changes also contribute. Ah well, it's all entropy anyway. Makes it less likely that we'll be able to reverse aging. Only prevent it, possibly, or slow it down.
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Another one bites the dust. Queen Anne Café closes in Seattle. To be replaced by another pizza joint. Life marches on.
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Pike Place Market was going to host an event about the incarceration of Japanese-Americans. But it was canceled. It was going to morph into a "Resistance" message against Trump, but they decided that approach wasn't going to work. I guess the organizers found out that the political party that incarcerated the Japanese was the Democrat party. Yeah, big oops. C'mon Japanese people, this ronin says "Wake up!" already.
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