26 June 2024

Should we worry about global cooling too, now?  Can we stop worrying about global warming now? I'm confused. Is this a joke?

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Mail-Order Drugs Were Supposed to Keep Costs Down. It’s Doing the Opposite.  It's those pharmacy benefit managers again, marking up costs. Can't they be eliminated, already? If they're saving any money, it's not for the consumer.

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Alzheimer’s-related synapse damage reversed in mice by synthetic protein.  Japanese scientsts inhibited dynamin-microtubule interaction in vitro using a synthetic peptide named PHDP5. Interesting that there is mention of amyloid in this article.

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Scientists can detect the presence of antibiotics in fingerprints. It can be used to monitor compliance.

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A Great Resignation 2.0 is simmering as employees feel overworked and underpaid. Seems like everyone feels overworked and underpaid. What's new? Only the illegal immigrants don't feel that way. What a country this has become.

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States with the highest inflation are Democrat-run states, no surprise.
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Tina Kotek's 90-day drug state of emergencynothing changed.  And Portland is going to enforce a camping ban starting this Monday. I'm betting nothing will change as well.

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New York Times writes about what happens after Biden's student loan debt reassignment plan was overturned. Things are on hold, and loan holders basically get more forebearance.  They should use this as an opportunity to save up, so they can pay off the loan, but I predict they won't.

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Can I Vote for the Same Person Six Times?  WWeek inadvertently exposes the flaw in ranked-choice voting. Only losers get to vote again and again, when their loser candidates lose.

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That video about Portland graffiti ended up with the arrest of the most prolific tagger. Very nice work.

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