Great strawman but no, this is not free speech, this is illegal content and laws exist to prosecute those who disseminate it. Free speech allows you to offend others … it doesn’t give you a pass to break the law.

The majority of sexual abuse is by people known to the victim and much of it goes unreported.

The problem is that this solves nothing. Since COVID the US has been writing checks it cannot cash and the party will come to an end sooner or later. The longer we kick the can down the road the more painful it will be. Republicans won’t increase taxes (even Biden didn’t roll back Trump’s tax cuts). And Democrats won’t cut entitlement spending. So we are essentially screwed.

You can’t control how or even if you will arrive at old age but you can swing the odds dramatically in your favor by the choices you make when you are younger. Eat healthily, avoid hard drugs and tobacco, drink alcohol only in moderation and get plenty of excercise that consists of four categories: resistance (aerobic), VO2 max (anaerobic), strength and stability.

GPS jamming is trivial. This is spoof which is a lot more complex and requires sophisticated kit. I imagine there is Russian involvement here.

SQL. The simplest syntax of all languages but can be amazingly powerful if you know what you you’re doing. (And frighteningly dangerous if you don’t).

For most people their choice of life partner is the most important career decision they will ever make. 500 bucks could be a smart investment if it improves the odds of hooking up with the right person.

In areas with lots of people it’s also about efficiency. Single stall toilets don’t work at a train station. A better option is to have two toilets … one with urinal and one without. Use whichever one you want.

Gmail’s UI is awful unless you are coming from the Outlook webmail client … then it’s freaking amazing.

After moving from the US to Europe there is something magical about walking around the city and town centers here. Not just the tourist traps like Rome and Paris but smaller towns and villages with tiny narrow streets lined with shops and restaurants and people walking around. So much better than the souless shells our downtowns have become in the US.

Liberalism is the founding basis of modern Western democracy. So not quite the same as an obscure fact about a species of tree.

It’s the internet… we should question everything. That’s not to say this is false or that racists don’t exist. Just that being skeptical should be the default position.

I thought Ramzan Kadyrov was the Chechen leader

I run around 50 miles a week and swim 5, so if I didn’t eat plenty of carbs I would just crash. However, a long time ago I decided to stop second-guessing diet vs mortality. “Eat food¹, not too much, mainly plants” - is still as valid today as it was twenty years. Perhaps more so.

Along with this you need plenty of exercise. That needs to cover:

• aerobic exercise to increase your cardio endurance,
• VO2max (short spurts of high intensity that elevates your heart rate to near maximum and leave you breathless),
• Strength - weights or resistance exercise to work your major muscle groups, and
• Stability - specifically for core muscles

Don’t smoke or take hard drugs, and if you drink alcohol do it in moderation.

That’s it - then you can sit back and relax knowing that you are doing the most you can to be able to enjoy a healthy life. We can’t always control how or even if we will arrive at old-age, but we can swing the odds heavily in our favor by the choices we make when we are young.

1. Food - something you grandma would recognize as edible. Generally if you can’t pronounce it easily it’s not food.

“In the future, write the scientists in a paper published in the journal Science Robotics, drone swarms like this could be used for disaster relief and ecological surveys.”.

Yeah sure, tell me another one

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The next step will be to blame Ukraine.

Unemployment is at the lowest rate for 30 years and wages are rising… that’s actually part of what’s driving inflation. Annualized growth this year is expected to hit an astonishing 6%. In July new orders for manufacturing hit their highest level in 9 months. Construction is doing well and consumer spending is way up. Nothing points even remotely to a recession.

Decisions such as these should be taken by medical professionals, not judges or politicians. Unfortunately in the US both parties are entrenched in their “we are right and they are wrong” mentally with little regard to what the actual data say.

Norway, Finland, Sweden and the UK all limit or restrict hormones and puberty blockers for children, and a growing number of European countries are considering doing the same until a thorough review of clinical data and outcomes can be made. But any mention of putting guardrails on these treatments here iin the US is branded as “transphobia”, even when those recommendations are made by experts in their respective fields.

The airline didn’t do this to try and humiliate the passenger… they did it to make sure the plane doesn’t crash. What the hell is wrong with people? I’ve been weighed many times for flights in small aircraft. It’s absolutely normal.