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@wtg Thanks for posting this. Wow! It sounds really wonderful and life changing. Clearly for the gentleman interviewed, it has been. I remember when Neurolink was first announced, I was very skeptical bc of it being under Elon Musk. I still have that skepticism (if anything it's stronger now). I don't think Musk is a trustworthy individual, and I don't believe he acts in ethical ways when the decisions are up to him. (For example, if he had his way, would he deny this technology to people based on details of their identities and politics? I'd love to know how many of those 80 participants are not white...) But obviously the real work of Neurolink is not being done by Musk. Whoever is behind it, hopefully this technology will continue to evolve and become more accessible, and effective, for the many people whose lives could be improved by it.

Thanks all - I had a nice day with family on a beautiful sunny Chicago day!

You’re not hallucinating. I actually freaked out about the news you were excited about. (And if anyone thinks they take a lot of medications, hold my beer…) I agree of course that the imbalance whereby we subsidize drug development and the rest of the world pays something related to marginal cost is unfair and unsustainable. But like any large international imbalance it needs to be fixed very deliberately over time and would involve negotiations with other first world countries (most of us wouldn’t have an issue with very poor countries continuing to pay marginal cost I assume). Anyway, ‘deliberate’, ‘negotiations with allies’, and ‘over time’ are not in Trump’s vocabulary so it would have been a shit show and therapeutic development would have been the immediate casualty. If you want to make sense out of the two policies they are consistent from Trump’s viewpoint that the US gets ‘ripped off’ in international trade. He sees imports as us getting taken, and (far more rationally) sees us paying 5x what Europe pays for pharmaceuticals as us getting taken. It’s not really about lowering prices per se.

I read there are a million dead in Ukraine. I'm definitely sure they are conscripting men by kidnapping them off the street. It's clearly a war meaning I guess it could go on like this indefinitely or there could be a peace deal. Ukraine's military is full of Nazis. I don't mean fascists. I mean Nazis. Why not bring this to an end instead of letting Ukraine suffer these terrible consequences and why keep throwing money into yet another foreign war while the US people continue to sustain vicious degradation in their ability to afford the necessities of life?

I want this platinum bracelet. https://7879.co/products/forte-chain-bracelet?variant=45074201182385&metal=platinum Notice the links are oval and the top and bottom of each link is flat. This is my favorite style of chain. Notice it has a lobster claw clasp and Is 4 mm. The 7.5" platinum bracelet is around $1,700 with the discount code. I don't know why I have experience taste. The 18 kt gold one is $3,000 before the discount. People seem to want gold badly these days give the economic system is thought to be under threat by many people for multiple reasons. I don't know how close to market price per weight these pieces might be. I haven't looked at it. I think it's something of a gimmick.

Today will also be around 83 and raining with winds around 10 mph, again. Such a nice change. I have to confirm this but it looks like we might have our first hurricane. Erin has hit part of North Carolina. I don't know where that was but it looked like Long Beach where we used to vacation in the summer. At the best of times, high tide would rise to under the houses. They had an empty first floor for this reason. A random video said Tampa floods during high tide on a normal day. Lol. I can assure you this doesn't happen and has never happened.

Copy Copy? We have nothing like that if it's what I think. You have to have your own office, know someone you trust, or go to the library. We had Kinkos back in the day in Tampa. Why did those businesses go away? I don't know.

Will I be able to and would I are two different questions.

That's really disturbing.

Coin

Yes, but when I did the transaction it was out of stock. My package is still sitting in Memphis. The delivery date did seem optimistic.

Pentagon fires heads of Navy Reserve, Naval Special Warfare Command Their firing comes the same day that Hegseth fired Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse, the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Kruse was dismissed for a “loss of confidence,” the Washington Post first reported, the usual term used by the military to cover a variety of reasons for a relief of command. The Department of Defense’s official comment was a terse statement that Kruse “will no longer serve as DIA Director.” Kruse was the second senior Air Force general to be fired or announce they were leaving their post this week; Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin announced he would retire, although several outlets reported he was being forced out. Along with Allvin and the firings this week, several top military officers were removed from their positions once the Trump administration began. In February, Trump and Hegseth fired several of the top military leaders, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Gen. Charles “CQ” Brown Jr., Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti, and the Air Force’s second in command, Gen. James Slife. Additional firings since have included the commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard and the head of U.S. Cyber Command. The chief of naval operations position sat vacant for almost half a year until Adm. Daryl Caudle was confirmed by the Senate at the end of July. It is not immediately clear who will take over for Lacore or Sands. https://taskandpurpose.com/news/navy-fires-reserve-special-warfare-command/

Yes, and sometimes it hits pop culture stuff I have little knowledge of. Got them all today though.

Interesting, I think this would correspond in some way to the repetition and variation in Western classical music that keeps the mind interested.

Not so good for retirees it seems, although I am one. Still, we're not heavy on interest income. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/retirees-the-news-from-jackson-hole-is-ominous-for-you/ar-AA1L2ZD6

And then there's Denmark. PostNord will deliver its final letter in Denmark at the end of 2025 and focus its business on one core service from 2026: Parcels. Our goal is to become the Danes' preferred parcel courier. We want to be the very best where Danes need us - and that's in parcels. https://www.postnord.dk/en/postnord-will-deliver-its-final-letter-at-the-end-of-2025/

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