29 April 2024

Ten fastest dying states in America.  Is Oregon on the list? Making onto lists like this is Oregon's specialty now, don't you know?

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The Chinese published the most detailed map of the Moon at 1:2,500,000 scale.

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No. Do people have the right to camp on sidewalks? We'll see what SCOTUS will rule when the opinion is issued in a few months. If the homeless just slept somewhere and were gone the next morning, leaving no trace of their being there, it would not be so bad. But they are essentially setting up a semi-permanent camp, and depriving the rest of us the use of the municipality for which we pay tax money to maintain. They don't. It's really not that complicated.

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Part-time jobs. People with full-time jobs are getting laid-off and more are getting part-time jobs instead. Well, this is one way to avoid the wage-spiral and fight inflation, but at the cost of workers who need those full-time jobs.  If there were only some way to fix the economy. Hmm....

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Big trouble. Vancomycin used to be the go-to drug to treat C. difficile. Now 34% of strains exhibit reduced susceptibility. Metronidazole is not very effective now, and the only other effective treatment is fidaxomicin.

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