Saturday, March 8, 2025
https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/johann-david-wyss/the-swiss-family-robinson/mary-jane-godwin_william-godwin
The Swiss Family Robinson
Johann David Wyss
166,675 words (10 hours 7 minutes) with a reading ease of 56.32 (fairly difficult)
Translated by Mary Jane Godwin and William Godwin.
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I found this book somehow and was totally absorbed by it. Maybe that’s why I have sympathy for the survivalist lifestyle. Maybe if I had made different choices, then I’d have different results.
Amazing all the great, and not-so-great, books that are available here. I’ve chipped in and hope you do too.
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Friday, March 7, 2025
FROM 1440 https://join1440.com/
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Postpartum Neurology
Women with postpartum depression symptoms exhibited corresponding shifts in the size of certain brain regions, according to a study this week. The study provides the first neurological evidence of the condition’s impact, which affects as much as one in seven pregnant women worldwide.
Researchers analyzed a series of brain scans of 88 first-time mothers without a history of depression. They then compared the images to answers given in standard questionnaires used to diagnose postpartum depression. Nearly 30 women who showed moderate to severe symptoms of the condition saw enlargement of the amygdala and hippocampus, key regions of the brain that regulate emotion. Whether the enlarged anatomy causes the depression or vice versa remains unclear.
The condition has been studied for centuries, though data has stemmed from reported experiences rather than anatomical observations. Severe postpartum depression typically manifests as extreme mood swings, extended periods of sadness, and loss of sleep, and its severity distinguishes it from milder, more common “baby blues.”
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So this is another finding that it’s “not in your head” psychosomatic craziness. It’s a real demonstrable physical symptom.
Do we have to revisit all the baby killings by moms with baby blues?
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Friday, March 7, 2025
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/02/ryan-mcmaken/secession-why-redrawing-us-state-borders-makes-politicians-so-mad/
Secession: Why Redrawing US State Borders Makes Politicians So Mad – LewRockwell
By Ryan McMaken
<< EDITOR ADDED DATE 2025-02-27>>
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The opponents of state-level secession should give it a rest. Few people outside Illinois with families and jobs—and who want to mind their own business—care if the border between Illinois and Indiana is changed. The same is true of the line between Idaho and Oregon. These lines weren’t drawn by the Almighty. Politicians care deeply about such things, however, because they care deeply about power, and about preserving the status quo that has served the ruling class so well.
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At the risk of reigniting the War for Southern Independence aka the (un) Civil War, what’s wrong with allowing voters to change boundaries or even leave these United States?
From a just Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee POV, why shouldn’t Staten Island escape liberal New York and join the less liberal Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee?
Similarly, Texas, Hawaii, California, Alaska, and New Hampshire should all be allowed to decide their fates. (Remember that only North Dakota currently has the ability to clear checks thru the (not) Federal Reserve System via their current Bank of North Dakota.) All throughout the world, people should be allowed the right of self-determination. Imagine how peaceful the world would be if the Straight Line Borders drawn my the English and French to divide ethic groups into “manageable” populations didn’t happen. Ethinic minorities would be too busy fighting each other to focus on the foreign invaders.
Let’s all agree that the right of self-determination trumps the desires of the status quo elite.
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Thursday, March 6, 2025
https://nautil.us/can-we-prove-the-world-isnt-a-simulation-238416/?utm_campaign=website&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nautilus-newsletter
Philosophy
Can We Prove the World Isn’t a Simulation?
- You might think we have definitive evidence we’re not in a simulation. That’s impossible.
By Dylan DiScenza January 26, 2022
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What about the other way around? Could we prove we are in a simulation? In The Matrix, Neo realized he’d been living in a simulation when he took the red pill and woke up in a different reality. He shouldn’t have been so sure. For all he knows, his old world was nonsimulated and the red pill plunged him into a simulation.
Still, we certainly could get very strong evidence that we’re in a simulation. The simulators could lift the Sydney Harbor Bridge into the air and turn it upside down. They could show us the source code of the simulation. They could show us private episodes from our past, along with the simulation technology that produced them. They could show me a film of my brain hooked up to wires in the next reality up, with an associated readout of my thoughts and feelings. They could give me control of the simulation, so that I could move mountains in the world around me just by pressing some buttons.
Even this evidence would fall short of absolute proof that we’re in a simulation. Maybe the world we’re in is a nonsimulated magic world, like the Harry Potter world, in which all-powerful wizards are using their powers to convince us we’re in a simulation. Maybe most of my life has been nonsimulated but simulators have put me into a temporary simulated duplicate to fool me. Or maybe I’m having a drug-induced hallucination. Still, I think that if I got evidence like this, I would probably be convinced that I am in a simulation.
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If we are in either, what difference does it make? We still have to “live” with the evidence presented us. And, why would it be this way? Is a wizard, a god, a space alien, or the flying spaghetti monster just playing with the equivalent of a kid’s train set?
Makes my head hurt so I’ll just pretend it’s “real life” until proven otherwise.
Ockham’s razor (i.e., fewest assumptions) says it’s “real life”.
Sigh!
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Wednesday, March 5, 2025
https://www.boredpanda.com/offensive-things-people-say-to-women/
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Tempest 8 minutes ago
I remember a comment somewhere from some time ago which renamed mansplaining as “correctile dysfunction” and I’ve never forgotten it. Waiting for the day I’ll get to use it!
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Pretty funny.
Never thought of it this way.
Some of the others are amazing as well.
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Tuesday, March 4, 2025
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/how-to-not-pay-your-medical-bills-e9d195e6?st=Smcycm
How to Not Pay Your Medical Bills
- Actually, that’s easy. This is how I paid a lot less.
By Joel Stein
Feb. 20, 2025 10:25 am ET
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As you probably recall, I had a mole removed about a year ago. As fresh as this is in all of our memories, a year is a fair bit of time, so I was surprised to get a bill in the mail for $604.80 from a company called DermTech. Apparently, much like wedding gifts, you have a year to send someone a medical bill.
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A friend of mine, who is retired and better off than me, has a different strategy. He calls and asks for a payment plan. He offers 5$/month since that’s “all his budget allows”. Each month he mails 5$ paper checks by US mail. Sometimes people call and say don’t bother since processing the checks costs them more than 5$. I don’t understand that but it seems to work for him.
My only experience with “delayed billing” was with a hospital bill for my sainted wife’s last hospital stay that was about TWO YEARS prior. It was bill for about 1½ M dollars. That certainly made my eyes water. Talking to them yielded that someone forgot to send it to the insurance company and I should submit it to my insurance company.
Instead, I called my lawyer. His firm was conflicted out because they represent the hospital. He recommended any local lawyer could take care of this with one letter. Found one with an office near my home. One visit. TWO LETTERS required.
First one to the hospital asking for their agreement with the insurance company. After a two week delay, he sent a SECOND LETTER to the hospital that their agreement with the insurance company required all bills to be submitted within 180 days and, if not, were deemed “closed”. A month later he got a letter saying basically “You’re right. Have a nice day”. Cost me about $400. Slightly better than 1½ M$!
At no extra charge, the local lawyer pointed out that the hospital wouldn’t want to make an issue out of it since the contract with the hospital applied to all hospital bills even if the patient was not insured or insured with some other insurance company. I can understand why they don’t want that to become common knowledge. Wonder if the hospital’s lawyers cleaned up their contracts?
Of course, YMMV.
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Monday, March 3, 2025
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14421799/yale-scientists-covid-vaccine-study-message-victims.html
Yale scientists who risked careers to publish bombshell Covid vaccine study issue message to shot’s victims
By EMILY JOSHU STERNE HEALTH REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and ISHITA SRIVASTAVA FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
Published: 01:40 EST, 22 February 2025 | Updated: 07:03 EST, 22 February 2025
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On Wednesday, a team from Yale University known for their rigorous work revealed the mRNA shots can cause a previously unknown condition known as ‘post-vaccination syndrome.’
The syndrome appears to cause brain fog, dizziness, tinnitus, extreme fatigue and biological changes to patients’ immune systems.
Dr Akiko Iwasaki, the lead researcher behind the paper, told DailyMail.com she understands her findings could be seen as controversial. But she wants patients to know her team will keep studying to bring them ‘better transparency and safer vaccines.’
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Now we know that ‘post-vaccination syndrome’ is real. And, who do we hold accountable and how?
What’s controversial?
People were harmed. People were misled. People were unemployed forcibly.
How can it all be made right?
How is it prevented in the future?
Argh!
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Sunday, March 2, 2025
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/02/see-a-garbage-trucks-cng-cylinders-explode-after-lithium-ion-battery-fire/
See a garbage truck’s CNG cylinders explode after lithium-ion battery fire
- It happened recently in Arlington Heights, Illinois.
Nate Anderson – Feb 20, 2025 5:21 PM |
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Garbage truck fires are never ideal, but they are usually not catastrophic. When a fire broke out on December 6 in the back of a garbage truck making its Friday rounds through the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights, the fire department responded within five minutes. Firefighters saw flames shooting five feet into the air out the back of the truck, and they prepared to put the fire out using hoses and water. Four minutes after their arrival on scene, however, the garbage truck exploded in rather spectacular fashion, injuring several firefighters and police officers, damaging several homes in the vicinity, and scattering debris through the neighborhood.
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What is an infrequent event — a garbage truck fire — turned into a war zone!
Do you think all the warnings are just to give someone a job?
In this case, no one was hurt. But that was just luck.
Remember this when you’re flying or just doodling around town on your e-scooter with your laptop.
Not everything has to be sabotage by a waring country; sometimes it’s just ordinary human stupidity.
Argh!
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Saturday, March 1, 2025
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/14-year-old-kentucky-boy-shoots-kills-two/
14-Year-Old Kentucky Boy Shoots and Kills Two Home Invaders With His Father’s Handgun
by Ben Kew Feb. 20, 2025 9:15 am
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The two men have since been identified as 44-year-old Roger D. Smith and 51-year-old Jeffrey M. Allen.
Smith was taken to hospital but succumbed to his injuries, while Allen was pronounced dead at the scene.
Manchester Police Chief Jeff Couch told NBC News that the boy was on his own at the time of the incident.
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FAFO
Exceptionally good shooting under stress.
Two ne’er-do-wells have been forcefully retired. Wonder what their rap sheets look like.
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Friday, February 28, 2025
https://johnklar.substack.com/p/maha-vs-microplastics-to-ensure-the?publication_id=779141&post_id=156807700&isFreemail=true&r=3vwsqx&triedRedirect=true
MAHA vs Microplastics – To Ensure the First, Get Rid of the Second!
American children are being sickened by toxic partisan ideology.
John Klar
Feb 19, 2025
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If Americans are ever to be healthy again, an effective response to ubiquitous microplastics will be essential. Recent confirmation hearings of the MAHA maven Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. focused on his supposed vaccine and abortion positions while mainly ignoring his opening statement centered on American diets. Industrially-backed officials may thrust their ostrich heads in the political sands, but America’s babies and children are left exposed to toxic chemicals in the meantime – especially microplastics.
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Studies increasingly demonstrate toxic threats to developing children’s bodies from microplastics and chemicals called phthalates (plasticizers) used in plastic containers and food service gloves. A recent study of human brains found an average equivalent of a plastic spoon’s worth of microplastics per brain, an increase of 50% in eight years. A 2023 study estimated that humans are inhaling the equivalent of a credit card per week of microplastics.
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The visual of a “credit card per week” made a traumatic impression upon me. Don’t know why? For me at the end of life’s journey, not much worries me.
BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), what about the little children?
That can’t be good for them. Not sure how the average parent prevents that, but I’d sure like to know.
Argh!
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Thursday, February 27, 2025
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/how-did-108-economists-predict-mileis-results-exactly-wrong/
How Did 108 Economists Predict Milei’s Results Exactly Wrong?
- Leading lights on the left said Milei’s free market reforms would be disastrous. Instead, they’ve been hailed as a miracle.
Jon Miltimore
February 15, 2025
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“Their understanding of how markets work and of how governments work is superficial,” writes Henderson. “I wonder if any of them, seeing the apparent success of Milei’s policies, are questioning their prior views. We can always hope.”
Indeed we can. But for now, it’s not unfair to assume from their silence that they’ve learned little from Argentina’s economic progress.
As President Donald Trump begins his own second term as president, there’s much he can learn from Milei’s first year in office.
This includes ignoring economists who claim that cutting government spending, regulations, and bureaucracy will result in economic devastation. And perhaps most importantly, the danger of using government printing presses to avoid making difficult budget decisions.
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Jonathan Miltimore is Senior Editor at AIER. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME, Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, and the Star Tribune. He is a contributor at the Washington Examiner and has had bylines in Fox News, Newsweek, National Review, the Epoch Times, Real Clear Politics, the Washington Times, and other media.
Prior to joining AIER, Jon served in editorial roles at the History Channel magazine and the Foundation for Economic Education. He also served in the Bush Administration as an intern in the Department of Speechwriting. When he is not working, Jon enjoys reading, watching movies, and spending time with his wife and three children. He also coaches youth football, baseball, and wrestling.
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All the little L libertarians knew that, if allowed, Milei’s free market reforms would radically change the incentive structure in that socialist economy. Just like that, freeing people’s competitive skills and ability from the chains of a Welfare State would stun all the pessimists. And it did.
Inflation from 300% to 2.4%. GDP of 5%.
I guess that the people of any country would want stats like that. Now it’s time to get the leadership that will give it to them.
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Wednesday, February 26, 2025
“You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. Don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.” – Johnny Cash
Today is the anniversary of the worst day in my life. While she and I always lived with the expectation it would happen, it still was metaphorical punch in the gut when it happened.
I wrote about it in my book long before it did happen.
“You can’t be afraid. It’s not right to be afraid. It’s as if you don’t trust the Lord with our lives. I’m not a big Bible Banger, but it seems rude to joggle God’s elbow. Like a little kid, who has no concept of what is happening.” — character “John” in CHURCH 10●19●62 Volume 2 Page 206
“My love, were it in my power, I would sadly grant thee this boon. But, we have to continue to follow His Plan for us. Let’s go forth and speak no more of this. Who ever is last will be last. It will be His choice; not ours. We’re but humble custodians of His temple on earth. It’s not our place to trump His plan. Whatever that plan be, know that I will be with you to my last breath.” — character “John” in CHURCH 10●19●62 Volume 2 Page 399
And each year I reflect on the thing I might have done to delay or prevent it.
“You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. Don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.” – Johnny Cash
I have a theory that, unless you care crazy, you always make the best decisions among the available options at the time. Hence there are no “mistakes”. There are only choices that worked out well and those that worked out badly. Like in sports, doing the high percentage play doesn’t guarantee in the short run; maybe not even in the long run either.
Unfortunately, we live in the Fourth Dimension of Time. And, there’s no do overs to test other outcomes.
“… checked the Eternal Possibilities Machine, which generates all the possibilities for use in creating the alternative worlds. In all those probability lines …” CHURCH 10●19●62 (Vol 1) 978-0-557-08387-9 page 45
Wish I had that Eternal Possibilities Machine to go back and look at all the other paths possible and their results.
But, unfortunately, no such device exists. (Yet?)
So we just have to trudge along. “Let’s go forth and speak no more of this.”
So today ends my reflection. I’ll put the mental folder away for next year and put one foot in front of the other on my way to whatever life has in store for me next.
Sigh!
YMMV
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Wednesday, February 26, 2025
https://wokespy.com/study-homeschoolers-have-highest-life-satisfaction-better-families-least-divorce-rates-and-are-least-depressed/
Study: Homeschoolers Have Highest Life Satisfaction, Better Families, Least Divorce Rates, and are Least Depressed
By Martin Tribe / February 17, 2025
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A Cardus Educational Survey (CES) has discovered that homeschooled children outperformed their non-homeschooled peers on various psychosocial issues. Between 2019 and 2021, school enrolment declined by 2.1 million while homeschooling increased by 30%.
The trend was largely influenced by the pandemic when homeschooling was mandatory. However, many parents continued to teach their children at home even after physical classes resumed.One key finding was that homeschooled adults exhibited better mental health than their non-homeschooled peers amid the nation’s ongoing mental health crisis affecting teens and young adults.
The CES report that studied adults between adults 24 to 39 years old analyzed economic, mental health, civic, spiritual, and family formation among homeschooled and non-homeschooled individuals.
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One key finding was that homeschooled adults exhibited better mental health than their non-homeschooled peers amid the nation’s ongoing mental health crisis affecting teens and young adults.
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While the short-term financial gains might be appealing, they are costly in the long due to depopulation which is an existential threat. The mental health crisis also requires more funds to address, resulting in the loss of otherwise productive members of society through depression and suicide. Likely, that is why nearly 60% of all “gun crimes” in the US are suicides instead of accidental shootings or homicides.
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While “home schooling” is a daunting undertaking, it does point out that the problem is Gooferment Skrules. Mixing in non-Gooferment schools and comparing that to “home schools” confounds the data and makes Gooferment Skrules’ flaws not as obvious.
In the 80’s, I proposed a voucher solution for the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee that would eliminate Gooferment Skrules over forty years. (Enough time for everyone to get comfortable and shift the “Overton window” on “education”. The essence of the plan was to give Gooferment Skrules to the teachers and staff of every school. In the first 20 years, 5% of the students could use their “green” voucher anywhere they wanted, while everyone else would have a “red” voucher that he’d to be used at their local school. Each year, the 5% would grow by 5%. (New students entering the system would get via a lottery either a “green” or “red” voucher.) The school would get a chance to adapt to a free market. Then in the second 20 year period, the amount of the voucher would decrease by 5% each year. At the end of forty years, no Gooferment Skrules. Of course, the property tax portion of real estate would decrease. School “corporations” would have to compete in the free market.
Hard to imagine what this would look like but I’d bet that schools would adapt to be wonderful places. Not the pre-prison incubator of illiterates that they are today.
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Tuesday, February 25, 2025
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-first-in-man-oral-proteolytic?publication_id=1119676&post_id=157693736&isFreemail=true&r=3snn7d&triedRedirect=true
BREAKING–First-in-Man Oral Proteolytic and Thrombolytic Dissolution of Intra-Arterial COVID-19 Vaccine Thrombi
- Complex Blend of Oral Enzymes and Natural Ingredients Clears Brain Fog and Removes Impending Stroke Risk in Heavily Vaccinated Patient
Feb 24, 2025
By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH
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While McCullough Protocol Base Spike Protein Detoxification with Ultimate Spike Detox has quickly grown to a global standard for managing long-COVID and complications after COVID-19 vaccination, at the McCullough Foundation we continue to seek innovative solutions to more rapidly and completely manage the health problems brought on by the pandemic.
In this breaking interview, Dr. Takuji Shirasawa from the Ochanomizu Health and Longevity Clinic describes a 60-year old Japanese man who took 4 Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines and presented with a loss of mental clarity otherwise known as “brain fog.” Shirasawa used MR angiography to demonstrate sessile bilateral arterial thrombi in the carotid bulbs. His hypothesis was that mini-blood clots may be responsible for the neurological and cognitive symptoms.
Shirasawa performed a N-of-1 trial giving the patient a complex blend of oral proteolytic and thrombolytic enzymes featuring nattokinase, bromelain, serrapeptase, and papain adding over a dozen natural ingredients given in proprietary blends from Texas based Phytomedic Labs. The patient was also administered aspirin 100 mg per day.
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This certainly good news. It proves that “brain fog” really does exist by MR angiography. So anyone who says the symptoms are all in your head is correct but not in the way they mean it (i.e., psychosomatic).
I was also fascinated by the term of art “N-of-1 trial” that I never heard of.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N_of_1_trial
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An N of 1 trial (N=1) is a multiple crossover clinical trial, conducted in a single patient.[1] A trial in which random allocation is used to determine the order in which an experimental and a control intervention are given to a single patient is an N of 1 randomized controlled trial. Some N of 1 trials involve randomized assignment and blinding, but the order of experimental and control interventions can also be fixed by the researcher.[2]
This type of study has enabled practitioners to achieve experimental progress without the work of designing a group comparison study. This design, especially if including blinding and wash-out periods, can be effective in confirming causality. N-of-1 trials, if used in clinical practice to inform therapeutic decisions concerned with the patient participating in the trial, can be a source of evidence about individual treatment responses, fulfilling the promise of personalized medicine.[3][4]
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Never heard that before. Heard of “case reports” as anecdotal evidence. But those were always dismissed as “unscientific”.
As always, this is just hearsay until it happens to you or a loved one.
Nice to know such a treatment exists and appears to work.
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Monday, February 24, 2025
https://nj1015.com/violent-record-roman-romanovskiy-nj-man-charged-murder-lauren-saldana/?lh_aid=84349&lh_cid=7kirmfg475&di=a842a82fc065ea5c55c94d390ad9f7cd
NJ courts kept letting him go until mom of 4 was killed in front of her kids
Erin Vogt
Published: February 10, 2025
- Lauren Saldana, 38, was strangled to death
- The murder suspect has a long history of violence
- Victim’s daughter now pursues justice
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Prosecutors and judges kept giving him new chances. And he kept returning to his girlfriend’s life.
It was a decades-long cycle of brutal violence and lenient justice that came to a head on Jan. 9 in South Brunswick when Roman Romanovskiy, not for the first time, placed his rage-filled hands around the neck of a woman, police said.
But this time, Lauren Saldana, 38, did not survive. This time, a 5-year-old boy witnessed the homicide of his mother by his father, just steps from his newborn brother.
This time, Romanovskiy, just seven months into a probationary term of four years for a seemingly unprovoked assault on two other people, was accused of the most heinous charge after a life of terrorizing others.
“This isn’t fair and was never supposed to happen,” Saldana’s oldest child said in a heartbreaking post on Facebook two days after her mother was killed. “I will fight for her memory and make sure justice is served for her 3 sons and myself, no matter what it takes.”
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OK, let’s start names and kicking asses. (Yeah, I said it.)
Sorry but this criminal was not some young first-time non-violent offender who deserved the benefit of the doubt or leniency.
Everyone involved should be publicly outed and scorned.
Judges should be impeach for poor judgement. The attorneys involved should be censured. And any prosecutors, politicians and bureaucrats should be fired.
And, by the way, what was Roman Romanovskiy immigration and drug testing status?
Argh!
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Sunday, February 23, 2025
https://dailyreckoning.com/blissful-ignorance-now/
Blissful Ignorance Now
By Sean Ring
Posted February 13, 2025
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I was recently watching Landman, which is a TV series about the oil industry in West Texas. Tommy Norris, the Landman, explained to his female lawyer colleague the economics and environmental impact of wind turbines and how oil companies use them to power the wells. They need to use those monstrosities because the wells are off-grid.
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Tommy: “Do you have any idea how much diesel they have to burn to mix that much concrete or make that steel, and haul this shit out here, and put it together with a 450-foot crane? You wanna guess how much oil it takes to lubricate that fucking thing or winterize it? In its 20-year lifespan, it won’t offset the carbon footprint of making it. And don’t get me started on solar panels and the lithium in your Tesla battery. And nevermind the fact that if the whole world decided to go electric tomorrow, we don’t have the transmission lines to get the electricity to the cities. It’d take 30 years if we started tomorrow. And, unfortunately, for your grandkids, we have a 120-year petroleum-based infrastructure. Our whole lives depend on it. And hell, it’s in everything. That road we came in on, the wheels won’t every car ever made, including yours. It’s in tennis rackets, and lipstick, and refrigerators, and antihistamines, pretty much anything plastic. Your cell phone case, artificial heart valves, any kind of clothing that’s not made with animal or plant fibers, soap, fucking hand lotion, garbage bags, fishing boats, you name it. Every fucking thing. And you know what the kicker is? We’re gonna run out of it before we find its replacement.”
Rebecca: “It’s the thing that’s gonna kill us all as a species.”
Tommy: “No, the thing that’s gonna kill us all is running out before we find an alternative. And, believe me, if Exxon thought them fucking things right there were the future, they’d be putting ’em all over the goddamn place. Getting oil outta the ground is the most dangerous job in the world. We don’t do it ’cause we like it, we do it ’cause we run outta options. And you’re out here trying to find something to blame for the danger besides your boss. There ain’t nobody to blame, but the demand that we keep pumping it.”
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Funny how we have to rely on TV fiction to “explain” why “green energy” is fictional concept.
And, even more peculiar, that we need nuclear power before we run out of oil.
The alternative is we die off as a species.
ECONOMICS is truly the dismal science of limited resources and the recognition there of.
Argh!
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Saturday, February 22, 2025
“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.”
– Groucho Marx
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Saturday, February 22, 2025
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UPDATE:
White House
Trump signs Laken Riley Act into law as first legislative victory in new administration
‘America will never, ever forget Laken Hope Riley,’ Trump said before signing the law
By Diana Stancy
Published January 29, 2025 2:46pm EST
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Friday, February 21, 2025
https://nypost.com/2025/02/13/us-news/about-100-cars-and-trucks-involved-in-oregon-highway-pileup/
100 vehicles involved in Oregon highway pileup in treacherous whiteout conditions
By David Propper
Published Feb. 13, 2025, 10:40 p.m. ET
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A highway pileup involving 100 vehicles, including big rigs, grinded an Oregon highway to a destructive halt during a nasty whiteout snowstorm Thursday, according to authorities.
The series of crashes caused a SUV fire and closed a part of Interstate-84 where numerous drivers and passengers were trapped in their vehicles late morning, the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office said.
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The conditions were so treacherous the Oregon Department of Transportation closed the highway in both directions between La Grande and Baker City – a stretch of roughly 50 miles between the two cities.
“Closures are due to blowing and drifting snow with visibility less than 500 feet,” the state DOT wrote before later reopening that section.
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Lucky that no one was killed or seriously injured. First rule in survival training was “AWARENESS”.
Did these folks not realize the danger of the weather?
Visibility of less than 500 feet didn’t happen because the weather gods waved a magic wand. I’ve driven some costal roads, even in Oregon, and fog can be just around the next bend.
At 30 MPH, and 10 second reaction time, you’ve used up your 500 feet.
And, seriously who goes 30?
The other night was a passenger in car and all the drivers in the car thought 15 was fast. Yet we were being passed by drivers doing far in excess of 50. No way they could stop on an ice covered road. Even at 15, we could all feel the slip of the tires on gentle curves.
I guess I’m getting old. But, I think drivers in the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee are all insane!
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Thursday, February 20, 2025
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2025/02/12/is-anyone-really-surprised-there-were-two-shooters/
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1889411775696896438?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1889411775696896438%7Ctwgr%5E3ed66cd690aca4194a6f5dffe88699ac141ba215%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theburningplatform.com%2F2025%2F02%2F12%2Fis-anyone-really-surprised-there-were-two-shooters%2F
Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna says her FIRST investigation will be the JFK assassination.
“Based on what I’ve seen, the initial hearing held in Congress was FAULTY. I believe there were TWO SHOOTERS.”
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The official story never made sense.
Never had a fair investigation,
The events surrounding the body, autopsy, and Zapruder film are prima facie evidence of a high-level conspiracy.
The assassinations of RFK, Dorthy Kilgallen, and numerous others were cleaning up loose ends.
“Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Whose gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinburg? I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago, and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That Santiago’s death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don’t want the truth because deep down in places you don’t talk about at parties, you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post. Either way, I don’t give a damn what you think you are entitled to.” Colonel Jessep in A Few Good Men played by Jack Nicholson
TO BE CONTINUED
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Wednesday, February 19, 2025
Here’s an odd bug that no one seems interested in:
Using opera air when I go to signon I fail the cloudflare robot test. Argh! I’m not a robot. When I click on the cloudflare link it knows I’m not a robot. Suggestions?
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Sorry to hear you are having troubles! Unfortunately, we have no control over what Cloudflare returns in these challenges. If you have any add ons or extensions enabled, you could try disabling these in case they are interfering with the validation.
Another option would be to use the login link option from the login page. This will email you a link that will log you in to your account automatically.
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Cheers,
The Penzu Support Team
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Of course, CLOUDFLARE has no end User support. Interesting that I’ve never seen that happen before.
YMMV.
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Wednesday, February 19, 2025
https://nypost.com/2025/02/11/opinion/make-doge-stick-let-taxpayers-monitor-americas-checkbook/
Make the DOGE revolution stick: Let Musk and taxpayers reveal what’s really in America’s checkbook
By John Hart
Published Feb. 11, 2025, 6:29 p.m. ET
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A federal judge’s decision to bar Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from reviewing the Treasury Department’s payment system is most likely a temporary setback — but it illustrates the urgent need to secure a permanent win for transparency.
Progressives are panicking because their 100-year, largely successful assault on American constitutional government is in danger of being reversed.
Thanks to Musk’s wise plan to follow the money, he has a historic opportunity to mount a coup — not on behalf of himself or President Trump, but for We the People.
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Crowd-sourcing oversight will shift the balance of power away from the bureaucracy and back to individuals.
“America’s Checkbook” will give citizens a megaphone and silence critics.
It will prove our leaders’ confidence in the wisdom of We the People, our system of checks and balances and the genius of America’s founders.
John Hart is the chief executive officer of Open the Books and the former communications director for US Sen. Tom Coburn.
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Not sure how that could possibly work but I like the idea.
But I’m a like foggy on the usefulness of:
“Check #, Payee Joe Blow, Amount 1B$”
But it should give investigative journalists a lead. (If there are any such left? Other than Sharyl Attkisson and James O’Keefe.
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Tuesday, February 18, 2025
https:///174085/cyber-crime/google-tag-manager-gtm-e-skimmer-software-in-magento.html
https://securityaffairs.com/
Crooks use Google Tag Manager skimmer to steal credit card data from a Magento-based e-stores
Pierluigi Paganini
February 11, 2025
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Crooks use Google Tag Manager skimmer to steal credit card data from a Magento-based e-stores
Threat actors are using Google Tag Manager (GTM) to install credit card skimmer malware on Magento-based e-stores, according to Sucuri researchers. The malware hides in a website’s database and steals credit card information entered during the checkout process, sending it to the attackers’ server. This sophisticated attack demonstrates how criminals are using legitimate platforms like GTM to deploy malicious code that is difficult to detect.
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Isn’t it about time to retire the concept and strategy of using numbers for identification?
Social Security Numbers, credit card numbers, account numbers, or any kind of numbers are just not secure enough any more. I even have my doubts about crypto keys used for “wallets”.
The Gooferment and Visa are the primary actors that we need to lead the change.
Medicare transitioned from a number to an alphameric string to stop the frauds. Why can’t social security?
I’m not sure what should take its place but how about a secure hash of your name?
“John Q Public” could easily become “9YWJSN0BSVR3IKNV11A2HZM 8X70I24JXUA6REACFTXYD7WC436”!
Go ahead hackers guess that!
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Monday, February 17, 2025
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/epic-president-trump-releases-powerful-ad-support-secret/
EPIC! President Trump Releases POWERFUL Ad in Support of Secret Service Prior to Super Bowl LIX – Can You See What’s Missing?
by Jim Hoft Feb. 9, 2025 5:00 pm
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President Donald Trump released a powerful new ad on X Social and Truth Social in support of the US Secret Service prior to the kick off to Super Bowl LIX.
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Made sense to appeal to American pride. So far, the Secret Service has not been involved in any scandal. Although their (DEI influenced) performance in Butler PA was not up to snuff.
All physical standards should be reviewed in every aspect of the Federal Gooferment. No more “accommodations”. And, I include fat old out-of-shape men; not just slightly built short women as bodyguards.
One standard for EVERYONE in a meritocracy!
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Sunday, February 16, 2025
https://nypost.com/2025/02/07/business/investors-take-aim-at-nba-with-plans-to-create-5b-basketball-league/
Investors take aim at NBA with plans to create $5B basketball league: ‘Opportunity is massive’
By Reuters
Published Feb. 7, 2025 Updated Feb. 7, 2025, 5:54 p.m. ET
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A group of investors are looking to create a new basketball league that will span Asia and Europe to one day rival the NBA, with Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund as a strategic partner and Swiss bank UBS serving as an adviser.
The Financial Times reported that the $5 billion basketball competition plans to create six men’s teams and six women’s teams that will compete in eight host cities.
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Interesting. The NBA is a “monopoly”. Economics teaches that monopolies don’t last since competition seeks to “eat their lunch”. Here’s real life proof of that economic ‘lesson”.
From Standard Oil on to every other attempt to corner the market, we see monopolies destroyed without Gooferment intervention almost immediately after they come into being. Remember Standard Oil went from 100% market share to under 70% in a decade due to competition. And, then the Gooferment got involved.
The only way you can have a monopoly today is with a Gooferment grant of immunity. Like Baseball, the Post Office, or Amtrak. And, it usually comes with subsidies (i.e., why does the Gooferment build NFL stadiums?) that return to the politicians and bureaucrats as payoffs (i.e., campaign contributions).
In the end, the Taxpayers and the Customers get <synonym for the act of procreation>!
Argh!
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