I don't know how this works in America but where I'm from, there already is a rule against changing someone's salary like that: Every salary change requires a contract amendment signed by both the employer and the employee.

The thing that inflates drug costs the most is not clinical trials but endless patents. The pharma industry keeps using patent law loopholes to keep their drug patented even decades after the original patents formally expired. There used to be a generic drug industry which produced cheap patent-free drugs and some of those companies even got big enough to start their own research. But it was mostly bought up by big pharma or driven out of business by endless patents.

Bruh, Springer is a giant publisher which owns hundreds of scientific journals covering all fields of science. If you search for climate science papers "on Springer", you'll find thousands of papers from completely different journals than the article above is about.

Let me put it this way: Scientists are free to follow their personal politics to ask scientific questions. But if they also allow their politics to override verifiable facts and dictate the answers, they're frauds who have no place in science.

The paper authors picked a physics journal that has nothing to do with climate science. It's very likely the authors knew that the paper would be reviewed by physicists who think they know more about climate change than actual experts (but really don't). That's how it passed peer review to begin with.

And blowing up the pipeline also allows Russia to wiggle out of hefty damages for breaching gas delivery contracts.

Gas prices in the EU are now cheaper again than the day before Russian invasion of Ukraine.

EU countries have already filed lawsuits against Gazprom for breach of contract when it stopped supplying gas through Nord Stream in early 2022. If Nord Stream didn't blow up, Gazprom would be on the hook for damages far greater than the cost of building a new pipeline. https://www.reuters.com/busine... https://www.cez.cz/en/media/pr... https://globalarbitrationrevie...

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I didn't say that Seldon made it to Terminus. But he certainly did live long enough to hear the exile sentence at the end of his treason trial.

I can assure you tha Gaal Dornick is not Mary Sue's brother. He's there only as an exposition stand-in and doesn't even appear in the rest of the book.

Well, the trailer appears to be based entirely on a 33-page introduction chapter of the first book. In short: A genius young mathematician from a backwater planet goes to Trantor, meets with Hari Seldon, gets caught up in Seldon's treason trial and ends up exiled with Seldon and his 100,000 followers to a barren planet at the edge of the galaxy. If that's the entire first season of the show, they didn't have much plot to work with and had a ton of blank space to fill.

I appreciate the effort but "uncopyrighted" music (whatever that means) is not the solution. The only viable solution is licensing the album under CC BY-SA or similar copyleft license and then aggressively suing anyone who starts sending invalid takedown notices or claims the music through ContentID.

Without a copyleft license on it, all it takes to turn the "uncopyrighted" album into a copyright minefield is one music industry artist sampling any song in their own music and suddenly they have a valid copyright claim on something that copyright robots can't tell apart from the original or any other derivative work of the original.

This study is misrepresenting the results. All they found is that post-COVID immunity lasts 5 months or more. That's not news. And it says exactly nothing about benefits of vaccination such as:

- Making immunity last longer (open question)
- Making immunity stronger (open question)
- Curing some chronic post-COVID health issues (reported for some patients)

There's a world of difference between "the car somehow didn't crash while driving on its own in ideal conditions" and "the car is capable of driving itself." Guess what happens in less than ideal conditions.