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can't wait 'til they put "AI" in charge of the lasers

then a shadow off a passenger jet looks like a drone to the cameras

I figured they were using the EMP-like device they used in Venezuela

(what the orange infant disclosed as top secret "the discombobulator" no really google it)


Does "tokens per dollar" have a "moore's law" of doubling?

Because while machine-learning is not actually "AI" an exponential increase in tokens per dollar would indeed change the world like smartphones once did


is Big Pharma going to invest in any of the other peptides or is it just one and done?

because the underground grey market seems to be snowballing for all kinds of diseases and symptoms

just very dangerous without any regulation


Yes, this is a class of thing that is obviously being studied. Check out tesamorelin etc. but there is also a Phase 1 somewhere for BPC-157.

The peptides themselves are being used for everything but realistically, considering the costs, you have to innovate a little. Here’s a little example with GLP-1: the core biology and mechanism were well understood. But use was like the grey market peptides you were talking about: a daily injection. Half life is super short because DPP4 chews through.

So you need some innovation first to make it last so that you can bring it to market. Perhaps they misread the market and didn’t realize that for sufficient weight loss people would inject daily. But anyway, the liraglutide, dulaglutide, semaglutide, are various attempts at this to preserve function while raising half life in the body.

If you want to accelerate this research you’re really going to have to reform the whole process of medical testing and this and that but most things are not so dangerous that you need to rush to release a drug. Not everything is COVID-19 or obesity. Getting a PDA trial so some few people can heal faster from workout injuries is probably going to be a hard sell, even on this forum.

I’m of the view that the combination of grey market and clean market supply is a great way to serve latent desire as well as safe mass access.

One funny thing that a researcher told me (on seeing my lab notebook of my retatrutide self tests) is that it complicates baseline wide population studies. The total population is also losing weight, not just known GLP-1RA users. It turns out grandpa and grandma are reconstituting vials with BAC in New Salem, Oklahoma.


It seems like pharma developed many of them, but it takes a while to get them to market.


btw Musk overstayed a Canadian student visa to work in the USA, both illegal

and historically documentable

there's probably good reason he's writing 5 Million dollar checks a pop to various PACs


No way LA Olympics can happen

Right now ICE hasn't opened any of their human warehouse "internment camps"

and their quota is "only" 3000 souls per day

Now scale that out 1,000 more days and predict what's going down

Every tourist will be a viable target, there are no consequences for arresting people with paperwork, it just meets quota

Heck they could be grabbing athletes, there were some events this year in US where athletes from various countries in Africa could not get visa permits


I'm still trying to figure out the justification of ICE operating in foreign countries. Are there illegal immigrants in Italy? This is not about immigration.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7007390/2026/01/30/ice-wint...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/at-winter-olympics-pr...


Studies also show you do NOT need DHA and DHA can be detrimental, you want pure EPA or very high EPA to DHA ratio

if you want the purest Omega3 EPA without all the contaminants that are in OTC supplement nonsense (they are completely unregulated and untested by batch)

ask your doctor for a script of generic VASCEPA

CostPlusDrugs has the cheapest generic Vascepa that I've found

The dose is usually two pills a day but trust me on this, start with one for a long time, it takes your GI a long time to handle it without bathroom urgency

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5282870/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uoQUM30Ess


Your link doesn't say anything about dementia. Do you have any source that shows EPA is more beneficial than DHA?

What I found from a quick search says the opposite:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4019002/


sorry it requires a little detective work

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7760937/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3534764/

> "An X-ray diffraction study found that EPA and DHA exert different effects on the lipid bilayer of cell membranes. EPA readily incorporates into the cell membrane core and stabilizes it, whereas DHA does not"

> "Why does this matter? Cell membranes are essential for cellular function: not only do they provide structural support for cells, but they also facilitate cell-to-cell communication and nutrient/toxin transport. Different effects of EPA and DHA on membrane stability likely elicit different effects in cell signaling. A second study revealed that in addition to stabilizing cell membranes, EPA is also protective against harmful reactive oxygen species and lipid peroxidation"

basically EPA modulates the immune system, DHA does not


That's evidence of possible low-level protective mechanisms, but what really matters in the end is the effect on cognition, which in RCTs have favored DHA.


He also apparently traveled to Russia every few months

which somehow escaped scrutiny by multiple governments


> He also apparently traveled to Russia every few months

I've seen a lot of MSM talking about Epstein's Russia connections while ignoring the Israel connections.

But I haven't seen that specific claim anywhere. Have you a source?


Perhaps financial/spy ties to Israel but the key thing with Russia was their mafia and banking for trafficking network

He has thousands of bank transfers with Russia, while Israel is not exactly known for trafficking?

Ironically the UK and Europe is going to produce far more with their enquiries than the USA ever will (at least before 2029)

https://bsky.app/profile/peterjukes.bsky.social/post/3medwja...

That high profile prison "suicide" in Paris from the modeling agency founder was connected between Epstein and Russia, basically a front to get visas into US for the women

But again, UK and EU will document far before US ever will because Russian mafia owned entire floors in Trump Tower


Sorry I'm missing the part in any of that which backs up your claim?

> He also apparently traveled to Russia every few months

Remember?

> Israel is not exactly known for trafficking?

Yikes. You might want to research that a bit more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_trafficking_in_Israel


Wikipedia has developed a strong anti-Israel bias, particularly since Oct 7. If we ignore Wikipedians' spin and look at actual data like the Global Slavery Index, Israel is ranked 114th out of 160 countries, meaning better than 71% of countries. It's similar to the US, and better than all of its regional neighbors.


Are there any articles on how vector graphics were developed for arcade games?

I vaguely remember there was also one home game console that attempted vector graphics but cannot remember the name

Was fascinated with it at the time but with only access to a TRS-80 such things were impossible to learn back then


Retro Game Mechanics Explained has a video about how the Asteroids vector generator worked and was coded for:

https://youtu.be/smStEPSRKBs?si=k_0u3NKCxCqZBc6w

Battlezone and later 3D games used different circuitry that generated vectors with analog circuitry and used a “math box” coprocessor based on Am2901 bit slice ALUs to help with the 3D math.


A really good start is Jed Margolin's website. He was a key engineer in Atari's vector hardware and software through the classic era.

https://www.jmargolin.com/


> home game console that attempted vector graphics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vectrex


I had that vector based tank game for the early 90's pc


ha I had one of those "Copy II PC Option Board" and remember TRANSCOPY

it could pretty much copy anything

copying disks in 1980s was like radar vs radar-detector battle, always escalating

https://www.robcraig.com/wiki/copy2pc-option-board-status/


Central Point Software, the makers of Copy II PC, was one of our customers (we created back office software, order processing etc.).

It was a pretty healthy business, not just for the copy protection breaking but also the general tools software.

Funny story:

I was at their offices working on a project when they were getting ready to ship out the new version. Their warehouse was connected to the office building and they were producing all of the final copies and loading them on trucks to get sent to the distributors.

In the morning they gave the all clear for the first wave of trucks to leave, then about 4 hours later someone found a bug and they had to call all of the trucks back to the warehouse, unload, re-create new clean product etc.

They did this about 3 times before that version finally made it to the distributors.


not just illness but age too will "bitrot" your brain

fifteen years ago I decided to fiddle around one winter and learn a newfangled thing called "bitcoin" and setup my computer to run 24/7 and heat my apartment as a benefit

after mining a dozen coins which were worth next to nothing then, I gave up and took apart the PC and put it away

fast-forward to 2020 and covid/long-covid has now rotted my brain, swiss-cheesed my mind to the point I cannot remember the password for the life of me

I was too clever then for future me, and used a long passphrase that made funny sense then but beyond me now

(they are worth over a million dollars at times now)

In hindsight:

go find a book in your library and pick a random page and write the password or a significant hint to the password on that page and then put it away (don't put any other indication on that paper)


Libraries get rid of books in poor condition and loan books to other libraries, and patrons regularly fail to return books.


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