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I have a feeling that someone will soon a link between this discovery and the whole "Sonic attacks in Cuba" mystery ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana_syndrome ) Conspiracy t…

This is fascinating, and a niche where I can definitely see a smaller player causing a splash and driving down prices for nuclear medicine. My question is, how equipped are you to …

Both. Anecdotally I’d actually say that the ratio of MTF surgeries to FTM ones is higher than usual over here.

Not in the US style of drug ads, but not completely banned either; things like Tylenol and the various cold and flu drugs can be advertised. I’ve never seen ads for something that …

Aisle 5, right next to the condoms and lube bottles =) and Victoria Secret makes money hand over fist here. This would be off-topic here, but I think most people outside of the reg…

I actually agree with most of your points. I don't think this is ideal at all, I just think it's a less-harmful solution (and hopefully a temporary one) in the face of systemic dys…

The subsidy/export explanation does make a lot more sense, since it's not exactly in a high-risk drug class. I suppose those regulations could have been misinterpreted by him to me…

I live in a country where this scheme is already the norm (Saudi Arabia) and I can say that while it's not necessarily ideal, I much prefer it to the alternative. It plugs some ser…

Things get a bit more difficult when the identity is standing in the way of creating wealth. This seems to be the case here, assuming EU/NATO memberships would be largely positive …

I'm tempted to apologize on behalf of my countrymen, but hell no- those reprobates are a national embarrassment to us all over Europe, and deserve the antipathy. I'm sorry you have…

Thanks for the headsup, love Ben's stuff but I haven't caught up with it in a long time, I'll be sure to check it out.

Makes for a much more in-depth and capable version of the Game Boy Camera + Printer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy_Camera an object of gadget lust for me when I was growin…

For economics and economy-related cultural topics, I really like NPR's Planet Money ( https://www.npr.org/sections/money/127413729/planet-money/ ). The episodes on average are real…

Hah, while that would be hilarious it's not what it means in context; it refers to the apps block being lifted at midnight this past Wednesday.

I'm not sure this is at all accurate. Source: I'm in Saudi, and it's not working at the moment- unlike the other apps. There's been a big deal made out of the lifting of the voip b…

It's a lot simpler than that actually; there's just a need for money in the short-term. I can nearly guarantee that this has nothing to do with fears of electric cars or any disrup…

Doesn't work that way. The 5% sale is used to finance an overseas sovereign wealth fund. If the shares were made void the overseas assets would be seized by creditors and then the …

From wiki: "Both acetaminophen and paracetamol come from a chemical name for the compound: para- acet yl aminophe nol and par a- acet yl am inophen ol ." The former is the name use…

I'll take Chief :eggplant: Officer. (Previously known as Chief Restructuring Officer)

Saudi here; It's too early to tell. This is not the first schism in the GCC involving Qatar, but it's the one that's amped up the fastest. There's a lot of dynamics involved here b…

It really was, complete with a 1880s-vintage Tinder: http://archive.org/stream/wiredlovearomanc24353gut/24353.txt I read that a while ago and though the plot itself is kinda facile…

There's fighting dirty, then there's obstructing your own cause. He demanded that very accommodation, why make it more difficult than it needs to be- ESPECIALLY if he knows he's in…

Well, there's yet another meaning for it in Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf countries; "video game console". It became a genericized trademark for those who grew up in the 1980s. T…

Desalination is definitely a big one, innovation here may be needed to head off major ecological/humanitarian catastrophes. Desalination itself isn't hard, keeping it affordable is…