. . . after the struggle I had today to setup up a stupid Nest Mini, I would seriously consider switching to a Windows Mobile ecosystem if it had even passable IoT integration.

And restored by the new canon. Of course the Empire didn't die in a day. If Trump dies on his toilet today, does anyone think we wouldn't see every MAGA hat in existence being worn tomorrow? And that's without holographic proof that Garland didn't throw him down the toilet and explode Mar-a-Lago.

There is no way in hell 40% of American homes have smart thermostats. We can't even get 40% of Americans to fucking vote. No way they are shelling out 100+ dollars for more future e-waste that knows they just left work and need the house temp dropped three degrees.

The dossier that says a known associate of Jeffrey Epstein and Bill Clinton, that has committed adultery with multiple porn starts, owns a beauty pageant, and creeps on his daughter also got peed on by a different porn star and the Russians happened to film it? The only part of this I find hard to believe is that the Russians haven't released it yet, which just implies he's still doing what they want. And what he's currently doing is to undermine our democracy, so. . . yeah, it still rings true. Of course, I'm a gun-loving libertarian, so you weren't actually talking about me anyway.

Amyloid plaques (such as the beta protein sheets referred to in TFA) have long been associated with Alzheimer's. Grant authors and journalists often act like it's the end-all-be-all, but the sad fact is that every treatment for Alzheimer's (the great majority targeting amyloids) has failed.

Miserably.

Aducanumab, the $56k/year drug approved by the FDA last year, targets these proteins, and it was such a poor decision that three members of the FDA advisory committee resigned. Medicare has since severely restricted paying for the drug, despite the approval.

. . . He has a degree in physics. . .

I'll vote for any party that accepts and will deal with anthropogenic climate change. Unfortunately, right now that's the Democrats in the US. *sigh*

They really did have some great comedy content. WTF D&D is one of my favorite series of all time. I can't get the URLs since I'm posting at work, but here's one after they moved to their own site eight years later or so:

WTF, D&D: Ravenloft

The Social Security cost of living increase this year is 5.9%, so 5% on investments for 2021 is practically LOSING money. Hell, Mitch McConnell's net worth went up 30% this year, and that's because all of his money is in just one fund, Vanguard 500.

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/cola/...

As a former polymer chemist that worked on using phthalates for food packaging, they are fantastic. Nothing else has come close to the characteristics and cost ratio (or at least hadn't ten years ago).

Plus, as the article mentions, we still don't have a mechanism for biological interference, only correlation. As someone said above, people are dying earlier because they eat lots of TV dinners and potato chips. That's a hard thing to suss out.

Almost like we all work for shitty, souless corporate amalgams that want nothing more than to exploit us to death to make their stock rise five points.

Except when you "buy" digital copies, you are only renting them until the IP holder pulls off that service. I usually buy movies rather than renting them as I tend to watch old films that are only a dollar or two more, but I've had a few now that Amazon has pulled off my list, and I'm back to pirating now because of that.

I hope I'm not the only one who scoffed at "tried to teach them morals."

The only people who ever tried to teach me morals are the ones who say gays shouldn't marry and PoCs deserve it.

. . . But a ROGUE vendor!

. . . that a cloning magnate has "twin" children?