Robert
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That's exciting! The artificial heart in those pics is the Aeson total artificial heart from French company CARMAT (near Paris). Not from one uni/hospital, but developed with surgeons from the European Georges Pompidou Hospital in Paris (early implants) and tested at places like Marie-Lannelongue Hospital and Lille University Hospital. Long-term support, not literally forever, but a big step for heart failure patients.
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@RealToddChapman @chrismartenson They are constantly "buying back" their debt. It's like 30 billion dollars recently of debt buyback.
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@chrismartenson How much money would be needed to manipulate the market like this?
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How do I explain that massive gap between US oil futures and the ROW? Manipulation of oil futures by the US government and/or its proxies. The line in the sand is $100. These efforts will backfire and are highly destructive to market function. 8 days - lol 👇

The Disgruntled Viking Nomad@Nomad66843968
@chrismartenson Chris - can you explain how there appears to be no arbitrage in the oil markets to force WTI to reflect true prices and over come the paper slam?
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The only answer to this is "Thank you"
Eylon Levy@EylonALevy
Netanyahu: Iran no longer has the ability to manufacture ballistic missiles.
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Svensk framgång i Bryssel!
Regeringen vinner gehör från Europeiska rådet som stödjer Sveriges linje om flaskhalsintäkter.
Sent igår kväll blev det klart att slutsatserna från Europeiska rådet stödjer vår linje att:
1. svenska pengar stannar i Sverige, och
2. en större flexibilitet i hur flaskhalsintäkterna kan användas.
Det är ett styrkebesked för Sveriges goda samarbete, samt viktig signal att andra länder står med oss. Vi har ställt upp med tjänstemän, ambassadör, statssekreterare, jag själv som energiminister och till slut även med statsminister.
På ren svenska: Viktig, tung delseger men inte klart.
sverigesradio.se/play/artikel/9…
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@FreedumbFrier @SlappinBongos @PhilipProudfoot I agree that many with PhDs are kind of humble... Not all though ^^
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@SlappinBongos @BCResource @PhilipProudfoot This is hilarious to read because a cliche amongst PhD holders and students is that you know you're finally ready for your PhD when you can conceptualize just how little you truly know about the world.
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@SlappinBongos @PhilipProudfoot I am not saying they are better people. I am just saying that it takes dedication to do research on one topic for four-five years....
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@BCResource @PhilipProudfoot Phd folk make up some of the most clueless people on the planet. Even more dangerous because they are so much more confident that they aren’t clueless.
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@katchyna @EylonALevy It's more to show how stupid the argument was from the first place. The civilians of Gaza were punished for the crimes of Hamas, just as the Israelis for the crimes of their government.
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And you have Western libs cheering on the regime.
Deranged.
New York Post@nypost
Iran executes 19-year-old champion wrestler Saleh Mohammadi, two others in horrific public hangings trib.al/E63jG1q
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j'achète chez @EcoCuisine_15 @EcoCuisineinfo @EcoCuisine63 ça se passe TRÈS mal ils font un CARNAGE sur ma commande alors que j'ai payé l'intégralité de ma cuisine. Je laisse un avis négatif mon mari aussi et ils retiennent ma cuisine en otage ! N'hésitez pas à RT en masse svp

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It's been 48 hours. I decide to retire to be with my family after 3 siblings died, daughter has Stage 4 cancer, and another brother had a heart attack + more
It shows that Democrats don't care about people, only power. @SenHesselbein should tell her team to take it down.
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Two doses of magic mushrooms degraded my sperm count from the 99.6th percentile to the 77.7th.
This may be a first-in-human observation.
Context: we ran the most quantified magic mushroom (psilocybin) experiment ever conducted. We were asking if psilocybin is a longevity therapy. After seeing the data, we think it is (see reply post for the experiment summary).
Also, like most things biology: the results are complicated.
My data suggests that the magic mushrooms (psilocybin) negatively impacted my fertility markers.
Before the first psilocybin dose my motile sperm count was at 99.6th percentile for men under 25 years of age, it dropped to 77.7% and partially recovered to 89.3% following the first dose, and second doses, compared to the same age cohort (numbers compare similarly to my age cohort as well).
3 days following my second dose (first dose 25 mg, second dose 28 mg)
. Motility: dropped 51%
. Total count: almost unchanged, dropped by 2%
. Total motile count: dropped 52%
. Normal morphology: dropped by 50%
20 days post 2nd dose, the pattern continued, with typical latent effects on total sperm counts
Motility: recovered back to -2% of pre-psilocybin baseline:
. Total count: dropped by 38%, latent effect.
. Total motile count: remained inhibited at -39% of pre-psilocybin baseline, (despite motility normalizing, due to the total count drop)
. Morphology normalized to -10% of baseline levels.
Reduction in free testosterone might have contributed to the effect.
While total serum testosterone increased by 30% 3 days following the 2nd dose (neither FSH or LH were meaningfully affected either), and continued to be at 11% above baseline, SHBG increased by 37%, SHBG binds testosterone and reduces its bioavailability and activity. My free testosterone (direct) showed 24% and 23% drops at 3 and 20 days post 2nd dose.
In light of the neuroplastic, well-being, brain reset, and systemic metabolic and anti-inflammatory benefits, the trade-off is probably worth it. Especially considering that the magnitude of inhibition has no meaningful effect on actual fertility (total motile counts above 50 million are still on the safe side).
This is a first-in-human observation, to our knowledge there is no published human clinical study demonstrating that psilocybin diminishes male fertility markers.
General mechanistic evidence exists for recreational and psychoactive drugs possibly inhibiting fertility markers due to their effects on the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis and general hormonal reset. Yet no direct evidence for psilocybin or other similar psychedelics inhibiting fertility markers exist.
A potential mechanism for the immediate inhibition of motility could involve direct serotonergic signaling in sperm. Human sperm express multiple serotonin receptors, including 5-HT2A, and one recent study found that a 5-HT2A antagonist reduced sperm motility, suggesting that 5-HT2A may regulate motility. Psilocybin is known to bind 5-HT2A with high affinity.


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