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The poem is a parody of the first lines of Yeat's poem, "Sailing to Byzantium": That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees, —Those dying ge…

The time to market for a new vaccine is mostly not in the development, it is in the necessary safety testing before deploying it.

The courts have a third party doctrine. If you willingly give your data to a third party (the airlines) it's not a violation for the government to also use it.

Hard to believe an Alphabet company doesn't support Android.

I wonder if a water only fast would also work.

The problem with developing new antibiotics is that pharma wants to sell them at a high price to recover research costs. But older antibiotics are out of patent an are dirt cheap. …

Disappointed that Tibetan is still not available. It's not clear how the decision of what languages to add was made.

No, in Spanish double negations are not positive statements.

There are two problems. The first is while testosterone reduces fertility, it does not reduce it sufficiently without another steroid like progestin. The second is that testosteron…

Among other errors they overestimated the effectiveness of the Covid vaccine, said it stopped transmission when it didn't, didn't consider measures to mitigate the risk of myocardi…

And prescribed in homeopathy under the name Cicuta Virosa. ( https://plankhomeopathy.com/blog/cicuta-virosa/ )

The currency was devalued to bring the official rate in line with the black market rate. So anything imported is going to have a big jump in price. But also making Argentine produc…

The Indian word for caste, "varna" literally means color.

To viruses and bacteria the human body is like a buffet table. If one virus is eliminated, another virus will evolve to take its place. Already we have acute flaccid paralysis, a d…

The average Venezuelan cannot survive on what they can earn because of poverty and inflation caused by the incompetent and corrupt socialist government of Venezuela.

Why is soy milk any more confusing than peanut butter?

The problem here is obvious. What if the patient has an adverse reaction to the drug? If they took a single dose, you can discontinue the drug. But you can't discontinue a multiple…

The sweet spot for Perl is any problem combining text processing with Unix system calls. It's a system administrator's idea of what a programming language should be. I feel the rea…

The number of applications for disability payments from Social Security has declined every year since Covid began. https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/STATS/dibStat.html

Reminds me of the poem by Ogden Nash: A funny animal is the flea You cannot tell the he from she But he can tell and so can she

Computers do not have agency and cannot endorse anything, any more than your word processor, camera, or tape recorder.

Social security disabilty claims have decreased since 2020, contradicting the claim that Covid, Long Covid, or the vaccine are leaving large numbers of people too disabled to work.…

I believe the definition of this set is contradictory. The set is defined as all numbers that cannot be described with a finite number of symbols. But that set must have a member w…

I'm willing to believe the mRNA vaccines have "saved a lot of lives" but there is a study that I haven't yet seen and I'd like to see: compare the number of deaths per hundred thou…

When your boss tells you to do something, you can always say no, but you don't treat it as a mere suggestion. There's a power imbalance that makes it something more. You can't trea…