9 June 2024

The medical marijuana experience made it look like legalization would be safe. But lawmakers didn't account for people strengthening cannabis potency. Now the incidence of cannabis psychosis is around 20%.  Yeah, that's not good. Oh well, too late now.

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Yale law prof clarifies Trump's status. Trump is not a felon until the verdict is officially entered as such, which it has not. A jury verdict isn't the last step. Now there's a question that it may be a mistrial.

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Economic termites are a thing. They are vestiges of a good idea, but now are just overly expensive entites that should be eradicated – like termites.

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Heh. Seattle thought that the having a $15 fee would be enough for the express lanes to be moderately used. Turns out Seattle has so many wealthy that the lane is congested.

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In rural Oregon, boys are pursuing apprenticeships. Smart move, especially with today's college experience.

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In laboratory dishes, when lolamicin was pitted against 130 drug-resistant strains of common gram-negative bacteria, like E. coli, K. pneumoniae, and E. cloacae, the medicine killed every single one, succeeding where many other antibiotics failed.

In living rodents, lolamicin also successfully treated acute pneumonia and blood infections, all while sparing the gut microbiome.

In fact, scientists found the medicine had "no effect on gram-positive bacteria or on non-pathogenic gram-negative commensal bacteria" that were living in the mice.
Great news!

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