Seems like a lot of people are talking about Mark Hemingway's hit piece on Portland that came out on Real Clear Investigations. Even some Lefties are saying that it's true. All Portland leadership needs to do is
- Get the homeless off the streets. Make it not worth their while to set up camp in the region. Stop trying to install them in various parts of the city with shelters and rehab centers and crap. It's not working.
- Get tough on crime. Jail and prosecute criminals, including the drug dealers and drug users.
- Start spending money to the benefit of the actual taxpayers. Clean up the city and make it beautiful again.
We might be able to see a great comet in April. A Kreutz sun-grazer, C/2026 A1 (MAPS), is on the way. We're long overdue to see one of these. Comet West (1975) was very impressive. Even Comet Bennett (1969) was very nice. It's strange, because another comet, C/2025 R3 (PANSTARRS), is scheduled to make an appearance in April, with a magnitude of 0.4. So will we get two bright comets close together, like Hyakutake (1996) and Hale-Bopp (1997)?
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Do rich people live longer? Yes. Not just because they have better health insurance. They eat better. They have more leisure time to exercise. They're smarter and don't do stupid things and know better how to assess risk and handle it.
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The Search Engine Map. Wow, Bing is bigger than Google. People do rank their search results as being the best now. The Google search universe is smaller – how the mighty have fallen. Competition is good.
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Wow, I hadn't heard about ostarine before. It's a hormone-like agent that mimics the desirable effects of testosterone and anabolic steroids — including muscle growth and increased bone mass – without other negative effects of testosterone. Of course, it's now a performance-enhancer that athletes dope themselves with.
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The Stanford scam proves America is becoming a nation of grifters. And it's not just the students, it's the timorous faculty that allow it to happen. Such sheep. They knew about it, and refused to get involved in the scam.
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SCoR2 is a denitrosylase enzyme that regulates lipogenesis and fat storage. I predict we'll see seeing even more important research coming out soon regarding SCoR2 and drugs to inhibit its action.
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Anxiety about the impact of AI on software development is not going away. I'm playing around with Claude Code 4.6 and seems to be very good, although I haven't really given it hard stuff yet to see how much better it is over the previous SOTA model. I agree with Jensen Huang that people are over-panicking. It won't be that easy to clone Oracle, but what it might do is give companies the opportunity to be less dependent on large enterprise solutions. Hard to say what the fallout will be at this time. But the software kings will have less leverage, for sure.
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Ugh. Google workers want to restrict access to Google Cloud services for immigration enforcement. This is what happens. Google hired foreign-born immigrants in the name of diversity. Now they want to determine domestic policy and hamper governmental agencies. We need to enforce our borders or we lose our geopolitical integrity. It's as simple as that.
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This article says that anti-vaccine tweets caused people to get sick and some to die because they didn't get the vax. Hey, what about the lives saved because people didn't get pulmonary embolism, die of sudden cardiac death, or get turbo-cancer? Did you count those people?
It's important to remind people of the kind of bullshit we were subjected to. Here it is:
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Every major galaxy is speeding away from the Milky Way, except the Andromeda Galaxy, which is on a collision course with us. Better eat desert first. It's dark matter!
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Oregon Supreme Court Ruling Leads To Dismissal Of More Than 1,400 Criminal Cases Statewide. This is so under-reported. Oregon can't convince enough lawyers to move to Portland and can't graduate enough competent lawyers to practice, that we're letting felony crime perpetrators go free. How's that for a functioning state?
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The world is healing. Oregon advocates drop ballot measure that would secure rights to transgender health care, abortion, same-sex marriage. They wanted to put grooming and pro-pedophilia laws into Oregon's constitution. I know it's on-brand for Oregon, but still.
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New poll shows that Oregonians think that economic conditions in the state are getting worse. We have a long way to go.
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Portland wanted to raise taxes, but suddenly somehow, Portland is sitting on $106 million in unspent housing dollars. They really wanted to expand their slush fund. All that housing money, and nothing is going to improve.
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