25 October 2023

I think we'll be seeing more of this.  Pilot Who Tried to Kill Flight’s Engines Told Cops He’d Taken Shrooms, Feds Say.  Oregon should make its own version of the SNL skit Bad Idea Jeans.
And it appears that pilots are like healthcare professionals. They avoid getting help for mental health issues. So they turn to self-medication to get help.

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Just in time for the 2024 election, I'll bet. Chinese scientists discover EIGHT never-before-seen viruses... and now they plan to experiment with them.

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Parents like private school vouchers so much that demand is exceeding budgets in some states. Guess more parents are taking matters into their own hands. They want their kids to have real education, not to serve as the gratification object of their pedophile teachers.  But Washington state is ready to sue META/Facebook, because the state thinks that's the cause of kids' mental health crisis.

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24 October 2023

PMS is real!  Scientists Show Structural, Brain-Wide Changes During Menstruation. I knew it!

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A cure for baldness on the horizon?  Well, Jean-Luc Picard was still bald, so it's unlikely that treatment for baldness existed in the 24 century. Just sayin'.

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This can't be good. Russia withdraws from the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT). We are heading towards dark times.

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We hope so. Yann LeCun says that AI will never threaten humans, says top Meta scientist. Tell that to Geoffrey Hinton.

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Common Fungus Might Fuel Alzheimer’s Onset. C. albicans produces enzymes breaking down the blood-brain barrier, allowing it to access the brain and produce toxic amyloid beta-like peptides, typically associated with Alzheimer’s. This could be related to the claim that Alzheimer's disease was transmitted by transplanting gut microbiota. Could it be that a virulent form of C. albicans was transmitted?

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Password guru regrets past advice.  It seemed like a good idea at the time.  I like my system better, and no, I'm not telling you what it is.

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Depression, anxiety common among college students.  This is concerning because chronic depression and anxiety scars you. It changes one's brain. Episodic and brief anxiety is not so bad, but years of anxiety and depression can affect the rest of your adult life. Young adults need to be taught resilience and given skills to deal with this.

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Maybe this will come to Portland. Canada Will Legalize Medically Assisted Dying For Eligible People Addicted to Drugs. This is an admission that society has failed.

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Google Decides To Pull Up The Ladder On The Open Internet, Pushes For Unconstitutional Regulatory Proposals.  Google no longer wants an open free Internet. It's to protect teens and children, you understand. Google is campaigning for age verification on the Internet, essentially "asking Congress to basically make it impossible for any site other than the largest, richest companies to be able to allow teens on social media".

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Can the A.I. boom rescue San Francisco?

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How to run 50% faster without external energy. Just get these pogo stick shoes. I'll wait for the next iteration. At least.

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23 October 2023

Here we go. US Travel To Europe Will Require Prior Approval, Biometric Scanning. It's always the same sequence. You have something nice that people enjoy. Then you let in scuzz who have no intention of respecting the original culture. Then you have destruction and crime, which requires heavy-handed law enforcement and surveillance. Then you have a dystopian society. Because not all of the world can have nice things. Now, it's an increasingly smaller segment of the world that can enjoy peace and civility.

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Peter Schiff is having his moment again, as the world economy is crumbling. Subprime loans are being explored again. Business are failing. People can't afford things. Car payment delinquencies are at record highs. Government is spending money foolishly. Oil reserves are low.

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Beautiful.  A Dutch artist imagines what Tenochtitlan probably looked like in the distant past. Very impressive.

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A clear and simple visualization that π is irrational.

22 October 2023

While China is prioritizing AI-based warfare, America's Navy is prioritizing gender and sexuality studies.

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Why are lithium batteries going to landfills, and not being recycled? Why are we even discussing the damaging effects of mining at Thacker Pass, when we weren't even recovering the low-hanging fruit of lithium recycling?

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Can you detect diabetes mellitus from speaking into a mobile phone app?  One company thinks so. Apparently diabetes mellitus changes your voice in subtle ways.

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COVID-19 "vaccines" are indeed a travesty against mankind.  Take a look at this table.  Why would anyone want to get "vaccinated" with a product that had 20% lethality.  Even 10% lethality is way too much, especially for a disease that had 0.3% mortality in the U.S.

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USS Gerald R. Ford crew get 'steak and lobster' dinner ahead of bombshell news. This is worrisome news, as meals like this are essentially saying "salutamus eos qui morituri sunt" (We salute those who are about to die.)

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21 October 2023

A stressed and burnt-out doctor's mental health is potentially your problem, too. Why don't doctors get help? Because they can easily get doxxed for it, that's why. And hospitals and medical boards ask for it. So to admit that you need help already can put you in a different category. The system is already punishing and unforgiving. Being a doctor in today's world isn't what young dreamy medical student's envision. And if a physician's pay plummets, expect even worsening shortages.

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Washington state hospitals are pushing back against laws that require them to offer charity care to ANYONE, even out of state patients with no insurance and no realistic possibility of paying for their care.
...the new interpretation would require the state’s hospitals to provide “scarce, costly and complex medical care” to patients who “will likely come from around the world” as well as more common procedures to those in nearby states.

Without reimbursement, the requirement would harm Washington hospitals financially and “result in the exact opposite of the legislature’s intent” by decreasing access and increasing costs for state residents, the group wrote in its complaint.

Isn't it funny how the Left's political views change when the money runs out?

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The ban on physician-owned hospitals may be lifted. That could be a win for physicians, as they could finally run medicine as they thought they could do when they were a naïve medical students. Instead of working in systems where MBAs, private equity, pharmacists, nurses and attorneys tell you what to do.

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Still reeling after August wildfires ravaged his hometown of Lahaina, he doesn’t want to serve tourists, pouring brut Champagne or topping their mai tais with honey-liliko’i foam.

“I’ve seen people dead on the street,” Kiakona said. “My grandma’s house is gone. My whole town died.”
Yeah, that kinda kills the spirit, doesn't it? Especially when the government has forgotten about you, in favor of Ukraine and the Middle East. Today, both Israel and Gaza are getting more aid than you. (And Hawaii will still vote Democrat.)

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Can Portland police confiscate drugs?  Question asked and answered. The tweakers know the trick. Just put the drugs in your pocket. Police aren't allowed to search there.

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Portland regional population decline is the new normal. We know why it started in 2016. When Trump got elected, Antifa took over and people started to leave. It's just gotten worse.

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Do you have a murder bag? Here's the checklist for it.

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20 October 2023

What to do when you are involved in a "gun incident". Personal Defense Tip: Don’t Just Ask For An Attorney In the Aftermath of a Defensive Gun Use. Hopefully, information you won't have to use.

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Scientists transfer Alzheimer's disease to healthy animals by inoculating them with unhealthy gut microbiota. This is wild. Strong evidence to support the gut-brain axis. Could lead to more effective treatments.

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19 October 2023

Here's how chatbots accessing LLMs can violate privacy through inference. Scientific American has an article on this as well. We are powerless to stop it.

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It looked like scientists at University of California San Francisco were going to develop the first artificial kidney. Now it looks like the University of Edinburgh will be first. This is great, and will help a lot of people.

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These are the side-effects of the new weight loss drugs. I think tirzepatide is the best of them all. Gastroparesis can be very serious and debilitating. Loss of muscle mass will a negative to people who want to look fit, not gaunt. And if looks like fructose is a major culprit as to why people are gaining weight. Fructose makes you hungry and fat provides the calories.

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Finding the right clinical trial shouldn't have to be this hard. I agree – finding the right clinical trial for cancer is made very difficult using a website designed and maintained by the government. I wouldn't expect lay people to have to depend on it, but they do. This needs to be revamped urgently by smart people.

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18 October 2023

Speaking of diseased, judges in the 10th Circuit now want to mandate aberrant pronoun usage. This is compelled speech.

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Bridge maintenance is now a generational crime. That's if you're an Oregon economist, who'd rather you walked and biked everywhere, or took transit, so you can sit on wet seats next to tweakers. 

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Woman dies of acute pancreatitis while waiting 4 hours in Everett, WA emergency department.  Horrible way to die. I would like to see the facts of this case, but I bet it wouldn't happen if there weren't shortages in hospital staffing.

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17 October 2023

It is spooky, isn't it? Does GPT-4 actually understand the world?  It's getting harder to tell.

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  1. Most of what makes you happy in life has nothing to do with money, and realizing that once you have money can be a painful admission.
  2. What you think is admiration of your success may actually be envy.
  3. The richer you become, the less likely people around you are to tell you when you’re wrong, crazy, mean, or oblivious.
  4. Sometimes what made you successful was worry and anxiety, and you can’t let go of that when you’re rich.
  5. There is no easy way to manage wealth and kids.
  6. Quick wealth is fragile wealth.
  7. Reputations have momentum in both directions because people want to associate with winners and avoid losers.
  8. Expectations can rise faster than income, so a higher income sends expectations spiraling out of control.
  9. No one is going to remember you in 100 years.
So true!
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Economists warn of impacts from Oregon's birth rate decline. It's really the decline in population that is of concern. Not many people want to move to Oregon anymore, especially Portland. Well, you guys wanted diversity in your government. Enjoy it, now.

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