Two big online learning communities, Coursera and Udemy, are set to merge. The former buying the latter.
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How common is Alzheimer's Disease? Maybe as high as 1 in 10? That's according to this Norwegian study that looked at a blood test measuring pTau217, a marker for tau protein, which signals amyloid buildup in the brain. Prevalence (not incidence) of dementia in developed countries is increasing primarily because of increased longevity and an increasing proportion of the aged in these regions.
Uranus and Neptune Might Be Rock Giants, Not Just Icy Worlds. Different from what most of us were taught in school. Oh well, guess I'll have to change my footwear plans for when I go there.
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More than 10% of Congress won’t return to their seats after 2026. It's not term limits but it's in the right direction. I guess with the elimination of USAID and with the PELOSI act, it's not as profitable to be in Congress anymore.
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U.S. mental health continues to worsen. Yeah, we already knew that. Not much change in the older generations. Just the younger, more mixed up, more doped-up, more indoctrinated with woke crap generation.
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House Passes Anti-Transing ‘Protect Children’s Innocence’ Act. Now it has to go through the Senate. Trump will sign this. Thank goodness. OHSU will have to practice this surgical atrocity just on adults.
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When you're a techie and can't meet production deadlines, post this fake Cloudflare error, blame them and buy yourself some more time. This is satire, but there have been too many Cloudflare outages lately, so maybe this will spur them to up their game.
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Downtown Portland’s ice rink won’t open this year. Here’s why. No money for staffing, that's why. Money to spend on illegals and homeless. But not for taxpayers to enjoy. This is your city leadership, Portland. But they want those foot traffic numbers to go up.
And Portland officials forecast another sizable budget shortfall for next year. This WWeek article hints at why.
WW: It’s almost impossible to build anything big in Portland without capital from big investors elsewhere. We hear big money is scared of our town. How bad is it?
Lauren Noecker: We can’t get capital to come in and fund any short-term needs at any project because Portland fell off the map in terms of capital funding. We see that it’s 80th out of 81 markets in terms of investment capital, and it used to be in the top five. At least that’s how it felt when we used to take meetings in L.A., San Francisco or New York. We used to talk about Portland, and there was a lot of interest from capital partners, be it debt or equity. Now, you say Portland and people want to run. How this happened so fast is the real question.
Why do you think it did?
Lauren Noecker: There are states that are in full recessions. We are one of them, but I think the commercial real estate collapse was just so much faster and so much deeper in Portland. All of the pieces came together at the wrong time. It was Measure 110, and the protests, and the absence of office workers downtown, and the city and the county not willing to bring people back, and all the new, high taxes. You had a very lax D.A. Go downtown and you’re going to see something you don’t want to see. You’re not going to get killed, but you’re going to see something else. You’re going to see some bad shit. From a business perspective, it was just impossible. You’re running uphill, and it’s not just the typical cycle of interest rates going up
City Council Staff Seeks to Unionize. Heh, couldn't happen to a more deserving set of losers. Deal with it, Portland City Council. See how you like it when your workers want to get paid more and not have to work harder. 🤣
And here's the farm workers union, wanting to sabotage public school education to support illegal aliens from being deported. Clearly the state has let this problem go on for too long. Years ago, such a proposal would have been quashed and ridiculed. Today, the illegals feel that they have a chance.
Oregonian writer misses the point completely. Not everything in Oregon is getting pricier. Here’s what costs more and what doesn’t in 2025. The Oregonian writer says that prices of a lot of things went up. Then at the end, she says, well it's not all bad news – average wages went up, too. That's why the price of things increased. Companies had to pay for everyone's increased pay (minimum wage increase) as well as new taxes, and then passed the costs onto consumers. Blue state blues.
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Poor Leavenworth. They need the Christmas season retail revenue. And they aren't going to get it this year. It's hard enough to go to that remote location. Now, it's really unsafe.
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