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Laffy

Kissing more than his ring. #lower

Via Marc Cuban:

My one wish for the inauguration is that there is a gift bag under the seats of Bezos, Zuck, Elon etc, with a single, embroidered , padded knee pad

Need to protect themselves when they are on bended knee, kissing the ring 🤷😆

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Nonilex

Today, the #Biden - #Harris Admin took another major step towards #lower #HealthCare #costs for #seniors & #families.

All manufacturers of all 10 #drugs selected for negotiation have signed agreements to participate in the #InflationReductionAct’s #Medicare #DrugPriceNegotiation Program

#DemocratsDidThat
whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/s

The White House · Biden-Harris Administration Takes Major Step Forward in Lowering Health Care Costs; Announces Manufacturers Participating in Drug Price Negotiation Program | The White HouseSee President Biden’s video announcing the news HERE: “Today I can announce that the manufacturers of ten drugs are coming to the negotiating table to lower prices. They’re taking steps to participate in the negotiating program so we can give seniors the best possible deal.” Today, the Biden-Harris Administration took another major step towards lower…
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Chuck Darwin

How Putin Cannibalizes Russian Economy to Survive Personally

Amidst #lower #commodity #prices across the board, thanks in part to the effective G7 oil price cap, Russia is now barely breaking even on oil sales with unwanted Russian Urals oil trading at a persistent discount.

Putin has abandoned all pretense of responsible fiscal policy, running record #budget #deficits, #printing record amounts of money, forcing Russian banks and individuals to buy #near-#worthless Russian debt, and drawing down Russia’s hundreds of billions in sovereign wealth funds, mortgaging away Russia’s future.

No wonder disenchanted elites such as oligarch Oleg Deripaska are reduced to complaining to the press while across Russia, labor strikes are taking place with increasing frequency in a throwback to 1917 amidst already disastrous labor shortages.

time.com/6291642/putin-canniba

TimeHow Putin Cannibalizes Russian Economy to Survive PersonallyBy Jeffrey Sonnenfeld
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Chuck Darwin

Gravitational waves produce a background hum across the whole universe |

The fabric of the universe is constantly rippling, according to astronomers who have discovered a background buzz of #gravitational #waves. These waves may be produced by #supermassive #black #holes merging across the universe, but they might also have more exotic origins, such as leftover ripples in space-time created shortly after the #big #bang.

Pinning down their true nature could tell us about how supermassive black holes grow and affect their host galaxies, or even about how the universe evolved in its first moments.

To find this mysterious hum, astronomers have been tracking rapidly rotating neutron stars called #pulsars that blast out light with extreme regularity. By looking at different pulsars across the Milky Way, astronomers can effectively use them as a galaxy-sized gravitational-wave #detector called a pulsar #timing #array.

While individual gravitational waves, which are ripples in space-time created by massive objects colliding, have been seen regularly since the first detection in 2015, the object of this search is different. Those previous gravitational waves all have a #localised origin and rise and fall hundreds of times a second, but the newly-discovered signal is more like a gravitational wave #background that would permeate the entire universe at much #lower #frequencies, similar in concept to the cosmic microwave background, which is radiation left over by the big bang and seen all over the universe today.

newscientist.com/article/23804

New ScientistGravitational waves produce a background hum across the whole universeBy Alex Wilkins
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Chuck Darwin

Cortical thinning is associated with altered neurotransmission in young adults with a history of heavy drinking since adolescence

The article discusses a recent study conducted in Finland that explored the effects of #heavy #alcohol #consumption during #adolescence on #brain #development.

The study followed a group of young adults over a 10-year period, comparing those with a history of heavy drinking in adolescence to those who consumed little or no alcohol. The researchers found that the heavy-drinking group had #lower #cortical #gray #matter #thickness in several brain regions and #altered #neurotransmission compared to the control group.

Specifically, they observed increased activity in inhibitory neurotransmitters and thinner gray matter in the #frontal and #parietal lobes.

The study highlights the potential negative impact of heavy alcohol use during adolescence on brain structure and function, emphasizing the need for further research to understand the underlying mechanisms

| University of Eastern Finland

uef.fi/en/article/cortical-thi

University of Eastern FinlandCortical thinning is associated with altered neurotransmission in young adults with a history of heavy drinking since adolescenceDuring adolescence, the brain is particularly susceptible to the deleterious effects of alcohol use.
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Chuck Darwin

For #longtermists, there is nothing worse than succumbing to an #existential #risk: That would be the ultimate tragedy, since it would keep us from plundering our "#cosmic #endowment" — resources like stars, planets, asteroids and energy — which many longtermists see as integral to fulfilling our "longterm potential" in the universe.

What sorts of catastrophes would instantiate an existential risk? The obvious ones are nuclear #war, global #pandemics and runaway #climate #change. But Bostrom also takes seriously the idea that we already live in a giant computer #simulation that could get shut down at any moment (yet another idea that #Musk seems to have gotten from Bostrom).

Bostrom further lists "#dysgenic #pressures" as an existential risk, whereby less "intellectually talented" people (those with "#lower #IQs") outbreed people with #superior #intellects

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