Sure, but I think we both know these are typically some very creative interpretations that just so happen to benefit whomever gets to draw them.
Some Red State/Blue State Indicia
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It should go neither way. I couldn’t possibly be more clear about my position on this. Partisan gerrymandering is a scourge.
I’m not saying Texas is specifically wrong for doing it, it shouldn’t be up to the states. There was a bill a few years ago on the table that didn’t pass that might have helped. We should consider it again.
My only objections are to the idea that Dems are to blame or that Texas is just making a fair map. Both of those are false.
nsacpi
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Seven years of investigation by scientists at Harvard Medical School has revealed that the loss of the metal lithium plays a powerful role in Alzheimer’s disease, a finding that could lead to earlier detection, new treatments and a broader understanding of how the brain ages.
Researchers led by Bruce A. Yankner, a professor of genetics and neurology at Harvard Medical School, reported that they were able to reverse the disease in mice and restore brain function with small amounts of the compound lithium orotate, enough to mimic the metal’s natural level in the brain. Their study appeared Wednesday in the journal Nature.
“The obvious impact is that because lithium orotate is dirt cheap, hopefully we will get rigorous, randomized trials testing this very, very quickly,” said Matt Kaeberlein, former director of the Healthy Aging and Longevity Research Institute at the University of Washington, who did not participate in the study. “And I would say that it will be an embarrassment to the Alzheimer’s clinical community if that doesn’t happen right away.”
Yankner, who is also the co-director of the Paul F. Glenn Center for Biology of Aging Research at Harvard, said: “I do not recommend that people take lithium at this point, because it has not been validated as a treatment in humans. We always have to be cautious because things can change as you go from mice to humans.” He added that the findings still need to be validated by other labs.
potentially fantastic news
Researchers led by Bruce A. Yankner, a professor of genetics and neurology at Harvard Medical School, reported that they were able to reverse the disease in mice and restore brain function with small amounts of the compound lithium orotate, enough to mimic the metal’s natural level in the brain. Their study appeared Wednesday in the journal Nature.
“The obvious impact is that because lithium orotate is dirt cheap, hopefully we will get rigorous, randomized trials testing this very, very quickly,” said Matt Kaeberlein, former director of the Healthy Aging and Longevity Research Institute at the University of Washington, who did not participate in the study. “And I would say that it will be an embarrassment to the Alzheimer’s clinical community if that doesn’t happen right away.”
Yankner, who is also the co-director of the Paul F. Glenn Center for Biology of Aging Research at Harvard, said: “I do not recommend that people take lithium at this point, because it has not been validated as a treatment in humans. We always have to be cautious because things can change as you go from mice to humans.” He added that the findings still need to be validated by other labs.
potentially fantastic news
nsacpi
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Finally some good news for the average American worker.
How dare you disparage the deeply gratifying work of shit shoveling. It’s honest work, and it’s beneath you to not respect it. I bet a lot of the laptop class would feel happier and more accomplished shoveling that shit.
nsacpi
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There is one obvious reason that the tech industry’s ground zero for big ideas has moved north from Silicon Valley to San Francisco: OpenAI, the company that created the ChatGPT chatbot that started the A.I. craze, has its offices in a neighborhood that people in the tech industry have started calling the Arena. Anthropic, a rival A.I. start-up founded by former OpenAI researchers, is also in San Francisco. And many of the Silicon Valley investors who put money into start-ups have moved up the highway into the city.
San Francisco officials, stung by offices that emptied during the pandemic, companies that left town (temporarily, it turned out) and warnings (generally overstated) that the city was on the ropes, have mostly welcomed the newcomers. And there is a sense that the city, led by its new mayor, Daniel Lurie, is ready to turn the page on its pandemic-era woes, even if many housing and drug problems persist.
“It used to be that you built your company in Palo Alto. Investors loved it because there were no distractions,” said Steven Pham, the head of media for Y Combinator, the famed Bay Area start-up incubator. “Now all the founders want to live in the city. It’s where their friends are. It’s where the action is.”
San Francisco officials, stung by offices that emptied during the pandemic, companies that left town (temporarily, it turned out) and warnings (generally overstated) that the city was on the ropes, have mostly welcomed the newcomers. And there is a sense that the city, led by its new mayor, Daniel Lurie, is ready to turn the page on its pandemic-era woes, even if many housing and drug problems persist.
“It used to be that you built your company in Palo Alto. Investors loved it because there were no distractions,” said Steven Pham, the head of media for Y Combinator, the famed Bay Area start-up incubator. “Now all the founders want to live in the city. It’s where their friends are. It’s where the action is.”
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California is one of the most beautiful prosperous places that ever existed. It would take mismanagement of unimaginable incompetence to make the environment undesirable.
And yet... they are losing federal influence while they are robbing their citizens to not build a train while they are giving their homeless tent camps more drugs while they are bleeding corporate talent while they are not rebuilding their homes lost in wildfires while they are begging citizens to unplug their toasters
it took 30 years of Dem rule to destroy a juggernaut.
And yet... they are losing federal influence while they are robbing their citizens to not build a train while they are giving their homeless tent camps more drugs while they are bleeding corporate talent while they are not rebuilding their homes lost in wildfires while they are begging citizens to unplug their toasters
it took 30 years of Dem rule to destroy a juggernaut.
nsacpi
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San Francisco's great American comeback
Written off as hopelessly broken, the City by the Bay is recalibrating—fighting back against crime, restoring order, and reclaiming its lost identity as one of America's great cities.
www.newsweek.com
It was pretty nice when I visited in May.