Increases were seen in women and in younger people diagnosed with gastrointestinal and breast cancer
... experts say there are several possible reasons behind the trend, including rising obesity rates and lifestyle factors such as drinking alcohol, smoking, poor sleep and being sedentary. Environmental factors, including exposure to pollutants and carcinogenic chemicals, also likely play a role.
You know there are two kinds of public wrestling matches. One is the WWF thing, which is enormous fun for people (not so much the wrestlers, as most of them are treated badly by WWF and promoters), and everyone knows that while quite athletic in its way that one is not entirely real, outcomes being scripted and all. And the other one is like Olympics wrestling etc. Why can't someone promote real wrestling that has costumes and some drama, but it's actual wrestling in terms of rules and outcome?
Scientists Recreate Pink Floyd Song by Reading Brain Signals
"The audio sounds like it’s being played underwater. Still, it’s a first step toward creating more expressive devices to assist people who can’t speak.
"Scientists have trained a computer to analyze the brain activity of someone listening to music and, based only on those neuronal patterns, recreate the song...scientists hope to build new “speech prosthetics” for people with neurological diseases"
I'm finding the "not allowed to be able to use hashtags" thing too aggravating. I can type them in but they don't work, because I'm being punished for something that was never explained to me--I also cannot follow people easily now....So how does this migration thing work? You can take your followers and those you follow with you?
@JohnShirley2023@mrcompletely Ok. Then following that guide will get you moved, but not all of your old posts. Which may or may not go away if you close down your old account after moving (you don’t have to).
@davepolaschek@JohnShirley2023 the bookmark trick resolves that reasonably well if you just leave your old account up (bookmark key posts before moving, then export/transfer bookmarks to the new account).
Addiction affects two-thirds of Americans, survey finds
Two-thirds of those surveyed said either they or a family member have been addicted to alcohol or drugs, been homeless because of an addiction, or overdosed or died from drug use. Moreover, 19% say they themselves have been addicted to drugs or alcohol, had a drug overdose or were homeless because of an addiction.
If Trump is convicted (and he probably will be on at least two of the crimes he's charged with) and IF it looks like he's going to jail, I think he'll leave the country, making some speech about returning when justice is restored or something. He has his own private jet, for one thing. Would he be so blatant as to flee to Russia? His handlers would surely take him in. He might well go there as being the most secure option. And of course Vlad will want to debrief him more thoroughly this time.
I suspect that prosecutors are secretly rooting for him to flee. It would make everyting much easier for them.
Although of course their duty would be to prevent that...
@JohnShirley2023 I don't have such a close personal relationship with him as you seem to have to know this, but I will wager you $100 that he does not flee the country.
--Amazing: Jack Smith tried to impose a gag order on Twitter by arguing Trump was likely to "flee from prosecution" if it came out that his account had been seized. DC district court then affirmed the validity of this claim. Later, the claim was mysteriously retracted as "errant" (@mtracey. August 9, 2023)
@JohnShirley2023 any tiny chance I might have ever believed such a thing was derailed when I was a child through the simple and direct experience of being around a lot of white people. We ain't that great. I mean, some of us turn out okay in the end, but as a whole? Lmao absolutely not
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[Did you know there were women Islamic commando teams fighting alongside the USA against the Taliban? There were. ]
She was lucky to escape Afghanistan. Two years later, she’s stuck in limbo.
This former commander of an Afghan military all-female special ops team, Mahnaz Akbari was among the 77,000 U.S. allies successfully evacuated to the United States...her status here still isn't cleared up as Congress has failed to deliver on the promises made to our allies...
"What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets, inflamed with wild notions." - Plato, 4th Century BC
Yes they DO think Jesus is too woke. Not all evangelicals take this attitude. But there's a MAGA faction of Christians. Some are saying, "We need to get more Old Testament"--others say no, because that's so...Jewish
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Christian is only a cultural signifier for them. At most, they (we?) were following Paul anyway. It went from Jesus asking Mary and Martha for their opinions to "women be silent." Jesus was too liberal for Jews, Greeks and Romans also.
@JohnShirley2023 imo this is definitely one to wait for the rebuttals and dust to settle regardless of this claim to be conclusive. Super spicy topic among physicists as I'm sure you know. Won't shock me if either dark matter or energy (especially dark energy) hypotheses turn out partly or mostly wrong, it's just a fast moving field