18 June 2024

An Alarming Thing Happens Whenever Magic Mushrooms Are Decriminalized. Guess what? People take too much and overdose. I haven't seen mention of this in the news, but then again, the local news agencies aren't going to report one case, because such matters are not told to the news media, and unless you're a public figure, it's not felt to be newsworthy. It would have to come from some intrepid reporter, doing journalistic work. So unless WWeek gets interested, we won't hear about it.

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TDK, that old cassette tape making company, has developed a battery that has high energy density  1000 Watt-hours/L. The beginning of the article sounds really exciting, but as you read on, it talks about barriers to production and other obstacles, competitors doing something similar, and by the end, your ready to close the tab and move on.

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Recycling Plastic Is a Dangerous Waste of Time.  Apparently it just generates microplastics and washes them into the water supply.  Only 6% of U.S. plastics get recycled anyway.  Maybe we need to cultivate this fungus.

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Tokyo government to launch dating app in bid to boost birth rate.  Government-sponsored dating app? Uh, no thanks.

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What???  This article was supposed to be a positive one, supporting mRNA vaccine research against cancer. But in the middle of the abstract, the authors make this statement:
Evidence is provided that adding 100 % of N1-methyl-pseudouridine (m1Ψ) to the mRNA vaccine in a melanoma model stimulated cancer growth and metastasis, while non-modified mRNA vaccines induced opposite results, thus suggesting that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines could aid cancer development.
Shouldn't the COVID-19 mRNA vax then be taken off the market?  Why is the FDA recommending that we continue to get mRNA shots?

And those German politicians don't want to be reminded of their COVID-era insanity and heavy-handedness.

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More Oregon insanity.  Proposed ballot measure to raise corporate taxes, give every Oregonian $750 a year likely to make November ballot. This is a great way to get large corporations to leave Oregon, and people not want to start a successful business here.  Nice going.

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This is what downtown Portland looks like now.  I think that someone mistook this for happiness when they said that Portland, Oregon was one of the happiest cities in the world.  Look at those people, dancing in the streets!  How happy they must be.

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Great!  Nanoclay can turn a desert into farmland.

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Australia has a new position: Ministry In Charge Of 'Changing Men's Behavior'. I kid you not.

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