29 January 2024

The U.S. sold its helium reserve stockpile. Yeah, the medical world is dumbfounded. Like Hillary Clinton selling uranium to the Russians. Who approved this?

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And in other medical news, NY's Gov Hochul will essentially make physician assistants practice much like regular physicians. Because, you know, there's a doctor shortage. In large part, inflicted by her predecessor, and continued by her. That's how Dems solve problems. By covering them up with new ones.

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This goes on in a public park in Portland every Sunday. Free drug paraphernalia. Without a permit. City knows about it but does nothing. This is Portland.
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The Speed of Outrage. Tom Scott paints a scary picture of the near future, where outrage happens in an instant. Like a Black Mirror episode. Instant judgment. At the mercy of wackos.

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Firefox browser has built-in spyware that can't be disabled? Hmm. I switched to the LibreWolf just in case.

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This is a discussion of how doctors do knowledge management. As you can see, it's not uniform, and everybody does it a different way. I would bet only a minority uses a reference manager (Zotero).

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Portland Man makes it on Google Street View!
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Seattle Redditors get irate when their Uber Eats food costs so much money now.  $40 for a bowl of soup! Outrageous, right?
Working Washington fought to increase wages. Now, restaurants have to raise prices. And now people aren't using delivery services as much now. So drivers are getting NO money.

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