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These Mormon women are rejecting Trump, fraying GOP support in a key state
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You mean after the infidelity and after the porn star scandal? Please. They pick the ideals they want to care about.
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These Mormon women are rejecting Trump, fraying GOP support in a key state
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You mean after the infidelity and after the porn star scandal? Please. They pick the ideals they want to care about.
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Microsoft fixes the Excel feature that was wrecking scientific data
Thank god! You have no idea how awful this is for scientists. Need to paste some gene names down? Better hope it’s not MARCHF8 or in the Septin gene family, otherwise you have to convert columns to text then import the data. Seems like a simple fix, but many wet lab biologists are technologically challenged.
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Supercomputer that simulates entire human brain will switch on in 2024
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That’s only counting connections. The brain learns by making new connections, through complex location and timing dependent inputs from other neurons. It’s way more complex than the number of connections, and if neuroscientists are still studying the building blocks we don’t have much hope of recreating it.
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Steam adds "Dwarf" as a tag
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I get it from their perspective, featuring dwarves in a game doesn’t really help others find similar games in the same vein. On the other hand, they have a tag for pirates and Black Flag differs quite a bit from puzzle pirates.
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Florida Residents Flee State as Insurance Premiums Skyrocket up to 900%
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I mean rebuilding houses in regions every 5-20 years was never gonna come out on top.
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Map of the world showing parts colonised from Africa
Bitches don’t know ‘bout Pangea.
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Second Boeing whistleblower dies in less than two months
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Pneumonia and a MRSA infection, also suffered a stroke. I wonder if someone could weaponize MRSA, perhaps aerosolize it?
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‘Astonishingly cruel’: Alabama seeks to test execution method on death row ‘guinea pig’
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Exactly, the headline is just trying to get people to react.
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A reminder on the difference between demonstrations and protests
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The issue with many protests in America is that they aren’t prolonged or widespread to the degree that they would produce the level of disruption necessary for supply chain effects. This post assumes that disrupted operators would roll over though and capitulate to the demands of the protestors, but that’s a pretty bold assumption as well in a country that where corporations would rather pay for union busters than give their workers a pay raise.
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'I Think We Should Kill 'Em All,' GOP Rep. Andy Ogles Says of Palestinians in Gaza
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Had to do a double-take, thought this was an onion headline.
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Opinion: Long COVID is debilitating to me and 65 million other people. Where is the urgency to treat it?
Jesus these comments act like curing diseases is just a matter of attention and throwing money at it. Cancer still exists because it turns out science is actually really complicated. While we’ve made breakthroughs, they come at huge amounts of time and money (see KRAS G12D inhibitor).
Take fibrosis in the lungs post-COVID. That’s scar tissue. Your body magically stitched you up. The cells that were previously there for air exchange died, and are not coming back. Lungs don’t continually grow at adulthood. If they did, it would be prone to cancer, which is also going to be a huge risk if a treatment ever gets far enough to undo tissue fibrosis and stimulate proliferation of the existing cells in the lung. Not to mention they need instruction to form the alveolar structures (no way how they’re going to do that, they formed by budding in embryogenesis).
People think scientists are taking their sweet time on it, but don’t even have the patience to understand the problem in the first place.
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A California man was found with 1 million rounds of ammo and 248 illegally owned guns in his house, state authorities say
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I’m old enough to remember the start of the ammo shortage, it coincided with massive ammo orders from the TSA of all government organizations. They placed massive orders for ammo, completely wiping everything out at the stores. Then, once it was back ordered for months the demand never went back down, nor did the prices.
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Man killed during FBI raid in connection with threats against Biden, other officials
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The plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan.
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Tech Titans Are the Robber Barons of Our Gilded Age
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Especially considering what we know about the uneducation system in America. Now featuring flat Earthers.
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Long COVID Seems to Be a Brain Injury, Scientists Discover
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That’s exactly it, long COVID is multiple problems in many damaged tissues. We’ve found a new damaged location, it doesn’t diminish the impact of everywhere else though like this article headline claims.
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Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production
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Get out of here, you know what you did wrong.
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"We have the technology, but we’re not going to save your kid because we can’t make any money on you’? Really?"
If you’re producing a product at a loss, you’re not going to be in business for very long. The bigger issue is that the treatments rely on companies to foot the cost of production for the promise of later profit. Cut the companies out, have medical centers manage production not-for-profit.
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Satellite weighing as much as adult rhino to crash through Earth's atmosphere today
How aren’t people getting it yet? The use of wild and obscure weight references is the new clickbait?
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ROCK AND STONE BABY
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We’re rich!
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Russian TOS-1A was incinerated by an Escadrone FPV drone.
I wish they hadn’t put a gigantic watermark in the middle, but excellent footage.