A casualty of government policies. So many Oregon restaurants closing. First it was the George Floyd riots, then coronavirus, then homelessness and more crime. All avoidable problems.
Amazing. Longtime Portlander Jeanne Shioshi, who experienced forced relocation to prison camp during WWII, turns 100. Great genes - her mother lived to 113. Wow! And listen to her — she's quite mentally intact, unlike....."uh,....anyway".
Glossed over. Oregon's unemployment is the 4th worst in the nation — just behind Washington, D.C. and Nevada. Nevada's problem is that they overpaid coronavirus unemployment benefits, and so people had no incentive to look for work. What's Oregon's excuse?
Even Newsweek is appalled about SB3501.
Was anyone asking for this? Apple's iOS 17 will:
No, no, no....be able to look at data stored locally on your phone to determine what a typical day looks like, with access to your contacts, your location, workouts, and more. It will make recommendations to users about what they might journal about that, including when the app detects behavior that is outside of the normal routine.
It will even offer "All Day People Discovery," which will track the user's proximity to others, drawing distinctions between work colleagues and friends.
A clue to the aging process. RNA polymerase II, responsible for DNA transcription integrity, speeds up as we age, and becomes less accurate. Errors accumulate, and DNA damage is uncorrected. When the rate of RNA Pol II was slowed down to improve accuracy, the lives of fruit flies and worms was increased.
This is amazing. One picture. Three simultaneous views of a galaxy and a supernova at different time stages. You can see a supernova blazing in full glory, as well as later when it has fizzled out — all in the same image!
It's called decussation. Why do brain control centers on one side of the brain control the opposite side of the body? What's the purpose of having the optic chiasm? There hasn't been a good explanation, although this person thinks he has an answer.
"I’ll give you a short explanation of why different green teas use a different temperature." Good information to know when preparing fine teas.
“This newspaper has long championed more liberal laws, but before rushing ahead, reform-minded states—in America and beyond—would do well to consider the experience of Oregon, the only American state so far to enact decriminalisation,” The Economist wrote April 13. “It has had a rocky start.”
End of an era. At last, Oregon is finally ending COVID-19 emergency status. But Sidelinger is careful to maintain the fear factor:
the risk of future significant outbreaks "remains low."
"But risk is not non-existent," Sidelinger said. "We anticipate that COVID-19 will be with us for the foreseeable future, perhaps forever."
"Anyone who is eligible should get it," Sidelinger said.
So can we keep our gas stoves? Recent research suggests that methane is not as bad a contributor to climate change as the greenies believe. While still considered a greenhouse gas, effects of shortwave absorbance reduces its contribution to global warming (since pre-industrial times) from 0.2 °C to 0.16 °C. I'm sure I'll feel this.
Taxes are too damn high! Portland Kettle Works is eyeing moving across the river to Washington because of high taxes. The city can't keep raising taxes due to the shrinking tax base, or more companies will leave.
Oregon COVID-19 hospitalizations drop below 200. Love the way Dean Sidelinger keep the fear alive for the "Arcturus" variant. COVID-19 is still a "leading cause of death"? Well so are deaths from homicide and drug overdoses, but I don't see Oregon doing anything effective to stop that.
Washington (and soon Oregon) thinks it's fine to take children away from parents who object to genital mutilation surgery. But when Florida passed a law allowing children to be taken away from parents who want their children to undergo genital mutilation surgery, suddenly it's "fascist".
Elon Musk was dead on! The battery manufacturer CATL announces a breakthrough which promises to deliver lithium ion batteries with double the energy density of current batteries, and manufacturing of automotive-grade batteries will start this year. CATL also thinks it can build electric airplanes.
If you asked me where college students turn to write their essays, I would not have guessed Kenya. Some people say that A.I. will steal those jobs away from Kenyans, but perhaps not....
Could be a good thing, actually. Two-thirds of Legislature's bills for 2023 have died. Including the universal basic income proposal.
And with the tax base declining, they can't go hog-wild, thankfully.The Legislature will focus more time on the state budget in the second half of the session. It's a fraught process since, unlike Congress, the Legislature has to craft a balanced budget - money spent has to be balanced by money coming in.
India just overtook China as being the world's most populous nation. Hmmmm.....
Reasons why you might not want to live near your friends. Everything about being an adult seems to be complicated.
Portland businesses don't get any slack. Shake Shack downtown hasn't even opened yet, but already it's had a window smashed.
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Smoke gets in your wine. Oregon wines have been tasting a little smoky lately, due to recent wildfires. Maybe some will like it.
Pancreatic cancer might respond to intra-tumoral immunotherapy. Very promising.
Trade secrets. Chatbots sound really smart, but they're only as good as their training sets. So what's in the training set, to give them great general knowledge? This has been a closely-guarded secret, but the Washington Post found out.
Is the Fed bankrupt? Hard to imagine that they are, but they've made a lot of promises, and the money printing machines have overheating. So maybe not exactly bankrupt, but not quite in the Old Helicopter Ben days.
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Will Chat replace human physicians? Some think so. I'm still of the opinion that doctors powered by A.I. will replace those who aren't, but we're not ready to discard human physicians just yet.
You're not uncool. Making friends is just hard. Good to know. I wondered if it was just me.
Portland's controlled demolition. Beyond the point of recovery?
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