https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physiology/articles/10.3389/fphys.2014.00036/full

It’s been in the works for over ten years. Here is a paper on research into it from 2014.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3000521/

Here’s another one from 2010.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1882761608000070#cesec60

And another from 2008.

Potentially even one or two tech companies that have been around for decades depending on how large it gets before that burst.

Please be Microsoft, please be Microsoft, please be Microsoft.

Who are these twelve fuckheads who are gonna fuck this all up? I want fucking names CNN! Of course they leave out the important information about which Senators need to get hammered with calls from their constituents to not give up!

Just do what Republicans in other states do… never make new maps and then just use these maps anyway because oops too late.

Limeade is better than lemonade by a country mile.

With the caveat that both store bought limeade and lemonade are absolute trash compared to fresh squeezed.

Fresh squeezed limeade is just divine.

“This is democracy manifest!”

Oh so the Business Plot all over again, huh?

Violent crime has been consistently been dropping for decades. In certain areas petty crime has risen.

Times are getting tough, I expect petty crime like shoplifting food to increase.

Compassion for the vulnerable and weak.

I quit smoking cigarettes when the indoor smoking ban took effect 20 years ago in Washington state. I could no longer spend all night at a diner drinking coffee, smoking, and reading so it seemed like a good time to quit.

My budget has been a lot tighter due to having cancer, and so I more recently gave up vaping marijuana. I had been smoking marijuana since my teens and had switched to vaping it about 10 years ago for the sake of my lungs. The biggest difference in breathing quality was definitely the switch from smoking to vaping, I haven’t noticed as much of a big difference since I quit vaping.

Either I don’t have strong addictive tendencies or I don’t know because I quit both cigarettes and marijuana cold turkey pretty easily. I struggled with sleep for a while after quitting marijuana, but that eventually passed after about a month and a half. I struggle with sleep anyway, and always have, so it wasn’t that huge of a change.

There’s going to be an enforcement step, right?

The judge will vigorously wag their finger at the Trump administration and admonish them with a politely written letter.

Maybe they’ll even threaten to count to three or hold their breath.

It remained unclear how the Trump administration might proceed — or, potentially, if it might appeal the ruling.

Oh FUCK OFF New York Times. They’re just going to ignore the court order and maybe eventually appeal it. Like they’ve been doing for 9 god damned months now. Take this weak attempts at impartiality and shove them up your printing press.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-025-01477-0

Here’s the paper published in Nature.

However, it’s worth noting that Nature has had to retract studies before:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_(journal)#Retractions

From 2000 to 2001, a series of five fraudulent papers by Jan Hendrik Schön was published in Nature. The papers, about semiconductors, were revealed to contain falsified data and other scientific fraud. In 2003, Nature retracted the papers. The Schön scandal was not limited to Nature; other prominent journals, such as Science and Physical Review, also retracted papers by Schön.

Not saying that we shouldn’t trust anything published in scientific journals, but yes, we should wait until more studies that replicate these results exist before jumping to conclusions.

Oh yeah, it’s a joy to watch, regardless of how little we should trust them.

I mean they don’t exactly have a large bench of sane people to pull from.

MTG is just brash, open, and loud with her insane takes.

Previously, they were at least good at entrapping poor misguided people whom they gave plans and weapons to, only to sweep them up at the last second after helping to create the situation so they could scream “We stopped a terrorist.” A terrorist they were also actually responsible for creating.

Yet I agree, I don’t think Kash Patel’s FBI is even able to do that convincingly or successfully.

This is absolutely what is happening. She is the current rotating villain for the GOP. She’s “allowed” to go against the party line and become a villain to a subset of their voters and to make “independent” voters think there is still sanity in the party.

I don’t trust this woman at all. She enabled all of this. She has to do a lot more than this to redeem her behavior and voting record.

Remember when she harassed David Hogg before she was in office? She has no shame, she deserves no forgiveness for so little done in good faith.

I don’t think they’re even going to bother to appeal as much as they’re just going to ignore a court order… again.

Pentagon admits it is committing acts of war and war crimes.

Fixed that for you.

Those in power are all above the law, every single one of them, and it’s because of that there is no cognition that these office holders are public servants.

I get the gist of what you’re saying, but the “law” has nothing to with morals, ethics, or righteousness and never has. So the “law” will be brought down on anyone who questions the authority of the ones with the most power, and that includes those who also have power, just not as much. They have already threatened Ilhan Omar and Zohran Mamdani with risk of deportation. The House refuses to seat Adelita Grijalva. Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh has been slapped with felony charges. The “law” is also coming after people who enabled all this chicanery as well, including James Comey and Merrick Garland. The pardons that Biden wrote to protect the people in his administration from the incoming Trump administration have been struck as null and void by the Republican apparatus, and charges are likely coming for anyone and everyone in Biden’s orbit, up to and including Biden himself, no matter the Supreme Court ruling that effectively said “if the President does it, it’s not a crime.” They’ll find a way to make anything Biden did a crime, despite that.

Your post also ignores how much more the wealthy private sector benefactors of these political puppets gain by legalizing their corruption through lobbying and bribery. The kind of things they should be in jail for are perverted because their wealth, as you pointed out, allows them to buy out the fear of prosecution from the law. I think it’s unfair to say all those with political power are immune to prosecution when it’s clear they’re happy to go after people like Comey and Garland. I would say those people who aren’t in the political organizations but are rather pulling the strings have even more safety than the politicians. The “law” isn’t ever going to materially come down on Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Steve Huffman, Larry Ellison, Peter Thiel and so on. That’s because their wealth bought their way out of that by legalizing the worst of what they do. They have used their wealth to leverage control over a badly designed political system and prevent healthy changes to the system at every step of the way for nearly the entire existence of the USA.

Anyway, I just think your ire should be pointed a little less at a badly designed political system which has been gamed by the wealthy, and instead at the wealthy so willing to game it because they don’t give one hot damn about the future of the nation or it’s citizens. They are all ready to skip the country and go somewhere else when the house of cards falls, leaving us here to suffer after they’ve strip-mined it all. In that moment, many politicians will end up like Gaddafi, literally torn limb from limb by their former constituents, no longer protected by the “law.” The wealthy who enabled them, however, will be long gone in their New Zealand bunkers.