Bea Like the Letter @highitsbea

AOC: Schedule I drugs are supposed to have no potential for medical use and a high risk for abuse and addiction. What are some examples of Schedule I drugs? Dasgupta: Cannabis, LSD, ecstasy. AOC: Is there zero evidence that they have no potential medical application? Dasgupta: I think the medical literature is clear that they do have clinical benefits. AOC: So right now, our law says that these drugs have zero medical application, but the science says something else.

Writers like Dan Brown and Andy Weir, who write ugly and clumsy prose at the sentence level, are sometimes extremely engaging storytellers in ways that transcend their technical deficiencies. “Project: Hail Mary” is a story about a lonely astronaut who undertakes a one-way mission into deep space to do a science thing that is the only hope to save the world, and when he gets there, he encounters an alien bug who is also a lonely astronaut on the same kind of mission, and they become best friends and work together to do their science thing and find a way to get back home. It is utterly charming, and everybody knows it. All these dunks are meaningless.

Robert Rubsam @rob_rubsam

3 months ago

Driving me slightly insane that everyone has to pretend that Andy Weir is a real novelist and not a guy whose books are like 70% math equations

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110-year-old Turkish grandma shares her secret to a long life: "i never once used Microsoft Teams"

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the end credits of Project Hail Mary featured authentic astrophotography images by astrophotographer Rod Prazeres, showcasing his captures of real nebulae structures

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"Teams must get player consent before trading a pregnant player" A Pregnancy No Trade Clauses is so sick. Good on the players for negotiating that in.

Underdog WNBA @UnderdogWNBA

3 months ago

WNBA and WNBPA officially announce tentative agreement on a new 7-year CBA. Details:

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can someone please do something about the fact that muffins come in packs of 4 but there are 5 morning where i need a muffin each week

Starting this Saturday, Ohio breweries like Jackie O’s could face felony charges for selling hemp-derived beverages—products that our voters overwhelmingly legalized in 2023. This ban is an out-of-touch overreach from our Statehouse that threatens jobs, small businesses, farmers, and local breweries. As governor, I’ll respect the will of the voters and ensure that Ohio adults 21+ can safely make their own decisions. It’s that simple.

The United States Postal Service, USPS, doesn’t “lose” money. It costs money. It’s a public service. Don’t fall for the privatization propaganda.

Answering the call. 🇺🇸 Roman Celentano has been named to the U.S. Men’s National Team Head Coach Mauricio Pochettino’s 27-man roster for the upcoming March FIFA International Window.

Big news for #FCCincy midfielder Pavel Buka, as he has been called into the Czechia national team for World Cup qualification playoffs March 26 (vs Republic of Ireland) and with a win, March 31 in Prague. First call up since 2021.

ChatGPT helped plan a school shooting, according to a new lawsuit from the mom of a girl critically wounded in the attack. Jesse Van Rootselaar killed her mother and 11-year-old half-brother, then went to Tumbler Ridge Secondary School where she killed 5 students and a teacher’s aide, wounded two students, and shot herself. ChatGPT provided “information, guidance and assistance” to carry out such an attack, according to the suit. The lawsuit also says “approximately 12 employees” of OpenAI spoke up before the shooting and recommended that police be called. It says the concerns were “escalated to leadership” but “rebuffed.” ctvnews.ca/vancouver/arti…

neuroplasticity is at its highest during the follicular phase, a couple of days after your period ends. it puts the brain in a highly susceptible learning state, making it the perfect time to create art, learn new and complicated topics, step into a new identity, and experiment in every way. ovulation makes you expressive, wittier, and more sociable, which nurtures your need for connections at the exact moment you are most receptive to them. your luteal phase is when threat detection and vigilance become more prominent in the brain. that means your pattern recognition is at its absolute peak, which makes it extra hard to ignore your own mistakes and contradictions. it’s an energetically dense phase that forces you into introspection because your auric field needs to be sealed for internal processing. it’s when you face what needs facing before shedding can take place. can’t lie to yourself here, so you might as well use that honesty in your favor. finally, menstruation induces the brain into a quieter, lower-stimulation neural environment. it’s both a neurochemical reset window for your brain and a spiritual cleanse of energy accumulated during your last cycle. it pushes you toward self reflection and strategic planning, and makes the brain more internally oriented. this is the time to do deep journaling sessions and big picture adjustments. you have an entire inner ecosystem that efficiently distributes your immense energetic power in a monthly cyclical manner. it’s about time you learn how to finesse it instead of looking at it as a cruel sentence!

gabrielle @legitimatetiger

3 months ago

please don’t fall for the propaganda that your body only works in your favor during ovulation. you can maximize each phase of your cycle to your highest benefit. women are incredibly powerful when they learn how to sync up with their natural gifts.

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🚨BRACE ALERT🚨 Kevin Denkey bags his second to put @fccincinnati up 3-0! @TheChampions

With tonight's start, Roman Celentano reaches 150 matches in the net for FC Cincinnati! 🧱 Celentano is the fourth player in club history to reach this landmark.

The US is largely a hyper-individualized, functionally illiterate, propagandized, & pacified population with no sense of solidarity & no tolerance for the slightest inconvenience or uncomfortability. There will be no mass movement to the streets til the economy collapses.

Annemarie Dray @AnnemarieDray

3 months ago

I do not understand how Americans are not on the streets every single minute of the day and night trying to oust him.

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For some neurodivergent adults, cannabis isn’t about getting high. It’s about reducing the mental noise enough to fucking function.

So let me get this straight. FIFA is threatening to penalize Iran for not coming to the world cup in the United States, which just bombed the hell out of them and this is the same FIFA that gave the president of the country that bombed them a peace prize.

The actual research is wild. Every time you push down a feeling, your brain has to choose between suppressing that emotion and recording what’s happening around you. It picks the suppression. The memory doesn’t get saved. A 2000 Stanford study confirmed this: people told to hide their emotions while watching a film remembered far fewer details than people who just reacted naturally. Suppressing emotions uses up mental energy, and that leaves less brain power for saving new memories. Brain scans show why. A 2012 study found that suppression quiets the hippocampus (your brain’s memory-recording center) right when it should be saving information. The two brain regions that normally team up to lock in memories stop talking to each other. Over time it gets worse. Suppression keeps cortisol (the stress hormone) elevated, and cortisol shrinks the hippocampus. Chronically stressed people can lose 10 to 15% of its volume. Just three weeks of high cortisol can shrink the tiny connection points between brain cells by about 20%. The good news: studies show this shrinkage can partially reverse once stress levels drop. Not necessarily permanent. A Finnish study of 1,137 older adults tracked over roughly a decade found that habitual emotion suppressors had nearly 5x the risk of developing dementia, even after controlling for genetics, smoking, obesity, and education. There’s a better way to handle emotions that doesn’t cost you your memory. It’s called cognitive reappraisal: instead of bottling the feeling, you reframe what’s causing it. (“This meeting isn’t a threat, it’s practice.”) A 2003 Stanford/UC Berkeley study found reappraisers had more positive emotion, better relationships, and higher wellbeing. Suppressors got the opposite on every measure. And reappraisal carries zero memory cost. The difference comes down to timing. Suppression kicks in after the emotion has already fired, so your brain is fighting its own response while simultaneously trying to record the moment. Reappraisal changes how you interpret the situation before the emotion fully activates. Same event, same person, but your hippocampus stays free to do its actual job: recording your life.

syl ♡ @sylviapuffs

3 months ago

SUPRESSING YOUR EMOTIONS CAUSES MEMORY LOSS WTF???

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Nutrition science buried its most embarrassing finding for 20 years because it contradicted every dietary guideline they’d ever written. Harvard tracked 190,000+ people across three studies starting in 1986. Half a cup of ice cream per day was associated with a 20% lower risk of type 2 diabetes. A doctoral student named Ardisson Korat later found the same half-cup daily was linked to lower cardiovascular disease risk in diabetics too. The researchers tried to kill the finding. They ran every statistical test they could think of to make it disappear. Controlled for reverse causation. Stripped out data from people who changed diets after health diagnoses. The effect shrank but stayed statistically significant. Multiple independent scientists confirmed the ice cream signal was as strong as, or stronger than, the yogurt signal. Yogurt got published and promoted. Ice cream got buried. Same data quality, same cohorts, opposite treatment by the field. Food diaries expose that nutrition science operates on vibes and then reverse-engineers the statistics to match. When the data cooperates, you get a landmark study. When it doesn’t, you get a buried dissertation. Ice cream’s glycemic index is lower than brown rice. That single fact should tell you how much of what you’ve been told about “healthy eating” is evidence-based versus reputation-based.

Brian 🔰 going to Vibecamp @brianwut

3 months ago

harvard can't figure out why ice cream eaters are healthier. it's because ice cream is the only food nobody eats out of obligation or guilt. the food diary is an accidental personality test and "eats ice cream on purpose, reports it honestly" is just measuring internal locus of

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One of the most beautiful lines I have read “Half the World are Women. The other half are their children” - Efu Nyaki #InternationalWomensDay