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Post by mhbruin on Aug 17, 2022 5:31:14 GMT -8
Scientists got together to study effects of alcohol on a person’s walk, and the result was staggering.
Fool Me Twice, Shame on Me.
Adam Neumann left WeWork, the once globally-hyped, now much-diminished, office space sharing company, under a cloud of questions about his management.
Less than three years later, he appears poised for a comeback.
The long-haired entrepreneur, whose staggering rise and fall has inspired reams of articles, several books and a television drama starring Anne Hathaway and Jared Leto, made headlines this week for winning hundreds of millions of dollars in backing for a new property venture - this time focused on apartments.
Details about Mr Neumann's new company, called Flow, are scant. In January the Wall Street Journal reported that Mr Neumann had purchased stakes in more than 4,000 apartments in the US, with an aim to create a "widely recognised apartment brand, stocked with amenities".
But this week storied Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz announced it was backing the firm, praising Mr Neumann as a "visionary leader" who had "fundamentally redesigned the office experience" and betting he will do the same for rental life.
The New York Times, which first reported the deal, wrote that Andreessen had invested $350m (£290m) - "the largest individual cheque" the investment firm has written for a start-up. It said the deal valued Mr Neumann's new venture at more than $1bn.
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Post by mhbruin on Aug 17, 2022 5:33:04 GMT -8
Turkey Talk is Kosher
Turkey and Israel have agreed to restore full diplomatic relations and will return ambassadors to each other’s countries following a gradual improvement in relations, the two countries have said.
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Post by mhbruin on Aug 17, 2022 5:36:34 GMT -8
Won't the Rods Land Somewhere? Chinese planes are firing rods into the sky to bring more rainfall to its crucial Yangtze River, which has dried up in parts, as swaths of the nation fall into drought and grapple with the worst heat wave on record. Several regions on the Yangtze have launched weather modification programs, but with cloud cover too thin, operations in some drought-ravaged parts of the river’s basin have remained on standby. The Ministry of Water Resources said in a notice on Wednesday that drought throughout the Yangtze river basin was “adversely affecting drinking water security of rural people and livestock, and the growth of crops.” On Wednesday, central China’s Hubei province became the latest to announce it would seed clouds, using silver iodide rods to induce rainfall. 
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Post by mhbruin on Aug 17, 2022 5:38:07 GMT -8
No One is Safe. Not Even a Children's Hospital
Boston Children’s Hospital has warned employees about mounting threats and is coordinating with law enforcement after far-right activists on social media began targeting the hospital with false claims about its treatment of young transgender people.
It’s the most recent in a series of attempts to target hospitals for their work with trans youth, adding to an ongoing wave of anti-LGBTQ sentiment that has hit libraries, schools and even a trans-inclusive Los Angeles spa.
The public relations office of Boston Children’s Hospital sent an email to employees with guidance on how to respond to harassment and threats earlier this week, citing an “increase of threatening and aggressive” phone calls and emails sent to the hospital commenting on treatment of transgender patients.” The email was confirmed to NBC News by a current employee.
Boston Children’s Hospital first became the target of activists in recent weeks, when well-followed social media accounts such as LibsofTikTok, which has often promoted “groomer” discourse that falsely linked LGBTQ teachers and parents to pedophilia, began to make a variety of false claims. One allegation said that the hospital offered gender-affirming hysterectomies to children under 18 years old.
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Post by mhbruin on Aug 17, 2022 5:39:20 GMT -8
"5th, 5th, 5th, 5th, 5th, 5th, 5th, 5th, 5th, 5th, 5th, 5th, 5th, 5th, 5th, 5th, 5th, 5th, 5th, 5th, 5th, 5th, 5th, 5th, 5th, 5th, 5th, 5th, 5th, 5th, 5th, 5th, 5th, 5th, 5th, 5th, 5th, 5th, 5th, 5th, 5th"
Rudy Giuliani is expected to testify before a grand jury in Atlanta on Wednesday in the criminal investigation into possible 2020 election interference, days after being informed that he is a "target" of the probe.
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Post by mhbruin on Aug 17, 2022 5:44:48 GMT -8
Want a Job Where You May Not Get Paid? You Also Might Get Disbarred, Questioned by the FBI, and End Up a Felon.
This Idiot Did
Donald Trump attorney Alina Habba came under fire on Tuesday after she demanded that the Department of Justice go against protocol and release the names of the witnesses who helped secure the warrant for the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago last week.
During an interview on the right-wing media outlet Newsmax, Habba said she and her client wanted the Justice Department “to uncover everything so that we can see what is going on.”
Habba said she understood “the witness protection issue” but warned that “these witnesses are truly not going to be concealed for very long.”
She added: “It’s in the best interest so that the country can get comfortable to see what the basis was, especially from someone who was cooperating.”
The Justice Department will only reveal the witnesses if it decides to press criminal charges against Trump because doing so earlier could jeopardize cooperation from other potential witnesses.
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Post by mhbruin on Aug 17, 2022 5:49:02 GMT -8
It's a Long Way to November, But ...A new, powerful signal that Dems’ midterm hopes aren’t lostPrimary results in Washington state track with general election results — and Democrats did much better in 2022 than 2010 or 2014, though not as well as 2018. The last two times Democrats suffered catastrophic midterm losses, an early warning of the coming earthquake came out of the Pacific Northwest. This year, the indication from Washington state suggests something very different: a more middle-of-the-road outcome in the general election, instead of the red wave Republicans have been hoping to build.
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Post by mhbruin on Aug 17, 2022 5:51:53 GMT -8
The NYT Sucks
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Post by mhbruin on Aug 17, 2022 5:54:39 GMT -8
Will The Headless Fetus Come Back to Haunt the QOP?
A pregnant woman in Louisiana says she’s being forced to choose between carrying a fetus that lacks a skull and the top of its head (as a result of a rare condition called acrania) to term, or traveling several states over for a legal abortion, since Louisiana has banned abortion with very narrow exceptions.
“It’s hard knowing that I’m carrying it to bury it,” Nancy Davis, who’s 13 weeks pregnant and is already the mother of one child, told local news station WAFB9 on Monday. A few weeks ago, she had her first ultrasound and was told the fetus wouldn’t survive—but that she would have to either carry and birth the nonviable fetus or travel to Florida, the closest state where abortion is still legal. Davis is running out of time to make her decision, however, because Florida bans the health service at 15 weeks.
Last Friday, the Louisiana Supreme Court allowed the state’s ban—which bans care except to save a pregnant person’s life or in some cases when the fetus won’t survive—to take effect, though litigation to block the ban remains ongoing. Louisiana’s ban includes an exception for some fetal conditions, but acrania isn’t on the Louisiana Department of Health’s narrow list of qualifying conditions.
I Don't Think Washington Irving Wrote About This.
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Post by blindness on Aug 17, 2022 7:02:41 GMT -8
Will The Headless Fetus Come Back to Haunt the QOP?A pregnant woman in Louisiana says she’s being forced to choose between carrying a fetus that lacks a skull and the top of its head (as a result of a rare condition called acrania) to term, or traveling several states over for a legal abortion, since Louisiana has banned abortion with very narrow exceptions. “It’s hard knowing that I’m carrying it to bury it,” Nancy Davis, who’s 13 weeks pregnant and is already the mother of one child, told local news station WAFB9 on Monday. A few weeks ago, she had her first ultrasound and was told the fetus wouldn’t survive—but that she would have to either carry and birth the nonviable fetus or travel to Florida, the closest state where abortion is still legal. Davis is running out of time to make her decision, however, because Florida bans the health service at 15 weeks. Last Friday, the Louisiana Supreme Court allowed the state’s ban—which bans care except to save a pregnant person’s life or in some cases when the fetus won’t survive—to take effect, though litigation to block the ban remains ongoing. Louisiana’s ban includes an exception for some fetal conditions, but acrania isn’t on the Louisiana Department of Health’s narrow list of qualifying conditions. I Don't Think Washington Irving Wrote About This. I hope it does. But I'm pretty sure in a couple of months we'll have a bunch of stories like that and the whole thing will lose its shock value. It'll be like school shootings. Ho-hum. It's terrible. But nothing can be done about it. These kinds of things are inevitable. The power of cognitive dissonance compells them! |
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Post by mhbruin on Aug 17, 2022 10:14:49 GMT -8
Florida, Florida, FloridaTwo recent polls. 15% difference. I don't know how to interpret this. | Date | Likely Voters | Pollster Rating | Demings | Rubio | Margin | Aug.12-14
| 610 | C | 41% | 52% | Rubio +11 | | Aug 8-12 | 1,534 | A/B | 48% | 44% | Demings +4 |
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