Sugoi & Yokunai

No psychoactive mushrooms in California?  Clearly someone wants to seem reasonable prior to running for president. We see you.

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Can you say "Conflict of Interest?" This story is everywhere.  JAMA didn't dig deep enough when asking about disclosures. Now the report that supports the reason for Measure 110 is utterly discredited. Credits to Jeff Eager for rooting this out.

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Sign of the times.  What happened?

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Interesting – these two images are working QR codes.  They take you to the creator's website - QRBTF.ai.

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Generative AI Is a Disaster, and Companies Don’t Seem to Really Care.  Nope, not when there are short-term profits to be had.

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....the preliminary results of this investigation suggest that the login credentials used in these access attempts may have been gathered by a threat actor from data leaked during incidents involving other online platforms where users have recycled login credentials,” they said.

“It’s very concerning that 23andme has such a big loophole in their website design and security where they are just freely exposing peoples info just by typing a profile ID into the URL.

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Don't get sick. U.S. cancer centers report ongoing shortage of chemotherapy drugs. Anyone done with the Biden administration, yet?

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First external links. Now news headlines for news stories. X/Twiiter is getting to be less usable.

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What?!? This came out last summer and I missed it, but apparently Pfizer had two vax manufacturing processes: one for the clinical trials, and one for general public consumption. The one for clinical trials used PCR amplification, but the one for the public used plasmids. Now there are reports of plasmid contamination in the vax product. This is crazy! Why was the FDA asleep at the wheel.

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A deep dive into how time is defined. Something most people aren't generally interested in.

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Another one bites the dust.  Portland commercial real-estate values are going down fast. It's not worth paying off the loans. People are cutting their losses. Shame.

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Alexey Guzey's lifehacks came out in March, and I missed it. Alas, this ronin is probably too old for many of these, but it is still good to be reminded of some of the others.

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Mainstream media is seeing a significant decline in viewership, largely from a decrease in referrals from social media links. Musk is eliminating links in news stories in the name of having a more streamlined look. Sure, whatever. It may be more than that. Can't feel too sorry for the MSM, however, as they've become so partisan as to be useless as a purveyor of news. More a purveyor of propaganda.

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Strike Nation!  Astoria nurses at Columbia Memorial Hospital are striking now.  Don't get sick.

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Mixed feelings  Patrick Bowman is trying to close a loophole and prevent doctors from selling their practices to private equity.  He claims that studies show a decrease in quality of care. Well it's been happening and I haven't seen people stop referring to practices that have sold out. Many doctors don't have the stomach to be business owners, and with the turmoil since Obamacare was passed, I can see why. Doctors would rather practice medicine than deal with wrangling with partnership equity, the vicissitudes of reimbursement rates, making payroll, and what happens in Washington D.C. and in Salem. So Patrick wants to make it difficult to sell a practice. I think he should just stay out, not interfere, and let doctors do what they need to do.

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That Kaiser strike is the largest healtcare strike in the nation's history. So it's big and things are going to have to change. In the meantime, don't get sick. Ah, Biden's America – everything's falling apart.

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Portland Criddlers is back on Reddit.  Whatever moderator issue they had has been resolved. Another place to go to get my daily outrage.

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Really?  Portland safety commissioner asks residents not to call 911. 

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Strike Nation? Try Strike World. Doctors across Europe are now striking. It's the same old thing.  They're tired and overworked, and they can't find enough qualified help.

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Opium dens are back! We haven't learned and must get instructed again. Scottish officials create safe drug consumption room. Idiots.

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Barcelona's Sagrada Familia is finally near completion, after all these years. Just in time for the migrants to vandalize it.

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Should be interesting, if true. Northern lights could become intense over the next 18 months.  Would be nice to see it in Portland. Been fooled so many times.

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Another one bites the dust. Allouette is closing. Too bad.

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Strike Nation. Now Kaiser pharmacists are going on strike.  Nurses and EMTs, too. Things are just breaking down all over.  When everyone demands higher pay for less work, and struggling employers can't pay it without cutting corners and taking away services and the nice things we used to enjoy, we all suffer.

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Back in 2012, the ILWU encouraged workers to do a work slow-down to protest a squabble with ICTSI that is detailed here.  I guess the union thought that the opposing party would cave, because that's what happens when union workers unite, right?  Now the ILWU is bankrupt from all those legal fees. No winners here, except the lawyers.

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Portland’s small businesses are struggling. When will our leaders step up?  Don't hold your breath.

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One of the four horsemen of the apocalypse is going to hit Oregon harder.  "The 540,000 Oregonians with federal student loan debt owe more than $20 billion in all, according to the U.S. Department of Education."  Wait, what?  Oregon alone owes $20 billion?  How much is it for the whole nation?  $1.77 trillion, that's how much.  And Biden wanted to just forgive it all just like that? 

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Cpl Klinger was right. The kid that assaulted the girl at Hazelwood School was arrested. "We understand the trauma and outrage" they say, but do they really? I suspect that most Americans have had enough of this crap, and the rampant mental illness we see in our society.

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Ceftobiprole is active against MRSA. Great, another option to choose from.  

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Strike fever! Now Legacy doctors and nurse practitioners are striking. This is a consequence of Obamacare, which ended up ruining independent physician practices and making most doctors employees of some larger organization. So it makes sense for them to unionize. But I wonder what will happen when they don't get their way. Are they going to strike? What leverage do they really have?

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"Republicans shut down the government" The media always allows blame to fall on Republicans for any responsible behavior. Like why don't they just go along with giveaways, right? Oregon would probably have more money if it didn't go overseas to Ukraine. Why not ask for that money. We've already spent more than we should. More illegals to support, too. Not enough money for WIC and SNAP food assistance programs? Gee, maybe you shouldn't have allowed Oregon's economy to be trashed.

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Who's paying the legal fees for the homeless to sue Portland? Taxpayer money pays for most of it. How nice that we pay for people to demand the right to take advantage of us.

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It's pretty unhealthy when the financial health of your university depends so heavily on success of your football program. Didn't realize that Oregon State was such a jock school.

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List of major retailers that have closed Portland stores in the last year.  @Ted Wheeler and @Jessica Vega Pederson – what are you going to do to gin up the tax base?  Raise the tax rate?

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Can't believe Harvard let them release this.  Duration of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine persistence and factors associated with cardiac involvement in recently vaccinated patients.  How is this allowed to continue?  The authors only conclude that their study "provides a map of the biodistribution and persistence of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines in human tissues".  Is that all you can say?  How about "This is a serious concern and warrants immediate cessation of the the vaccine until safety can be determined?

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Sad. Oregon's Board of Education will allow Kate Brown's lowered school standards to stand for at least another year. 

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