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Underlying brain study.
The pleasure of revenge: retaliatory aggression arises from a neural imbalance toward reward.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26117504/
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Here is the article about the hole in the ionosphere due to SpaceX explosion in 2023.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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You cant deal with what you cant see.
TLDR: "The communications freeze has been met with outrage in some medical and science circles. "This idea that science cannot continue until there's a political lens over it is unprecedented,""
www.axios.com/2025/02/03/b...
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CPB is now turning back all packages from China and Hong Kong. (They have no manpower to inspect so they just turn them away)
TLDR: “vastly increasing the amount of parcels US Customs and Border Protection needs to inspect”
www.wired.com/story/tariff...
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Keep in mind thanks to 45, Temu and Shien (and other <$800 direct to customer foreign companies) are currently immune.
47s actions today compounds this.
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🤯😧 that’s 10M federal employees. (Or 2.5% of the entire US population)
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Going to get worse. A quarter of the Nations crops are rotting in Kern County. Prepare for produce price surges.
TLDR: “Kern County, where Bakersfield is located, has ranked within the top three agricultural counties in the nation for the last several years"
newrepublic.com/maz/post/190...
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7) Dozens of cities are paying for a gunshot detection system they may not need”
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5) Though gun violence has returned to normal levels in many places, the aftermath of the COVID-era surge persists
6) Gun rights supporters said removing permitting requirements for carrying guns would make people safer. It hasn’t
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TLDR:
1) You’re more likely to be shot in the rural South than in big cities like Chicago
2) Large Democratic-run cities are getting safer, despite what Republican politicians say
3) Road rage shootings are on the rise
4) Shootings happen near K-12 schools with alarming frequency