Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective
News discussed:
Idaho GOP overwhelmingly rejects adding abortion exception to save the life of the mother to their platform
Ohio abortion clinic received calls from two women with ectopic pregnancies who said their doctors wouldn’t treat them
10-year-old girl who had been raped was forced to travel from Ohio to Indiana to get an abortion
An Abortion Is Not An Abortion If A 10-Year-Old Gets One, Says Anti-Abortion Leader
Germany: reject modernity, RETVRN TO COAL
Sri Lanka suffers critical existence failure
Compare: protests in The Netherlands.
US and Russia getting into dick-measuring contest over Lithuania.
Biden bought back “guilty until proven innocent” campus sexual assault rules
SCOTUS granted cert in a worrisome election law case
Alito, Gorsuch, and Thomas all wrote in favor of this theory before
California passed a gun bill authorizing civil enforcement by individuals
Armed Bystander (carrying legally) stopped a mass shooting in a mall in Indiana
MonkeyPox News:
Doesn’t require sexual contact. It is an overall rash that is easily mistaken for chicken pox.
It is primarily an affliction of MSM though. Seems to mostly be spread thru sexual networks
Cases in US up to 1800 as of a few days ago
Receiving a vaccine up to four days after exposure can prevent disease onset altogether, but even getting it up to two weeks after exposure can reduce symptoms
US has over 1M vaccines, but FDA bureaucracy has strangled distribution to ~1/10th of that
2.5 M more Monkeypox vaccines ordered
Happy News!
First batch of pictures released from the James Webb space telescope.
the deep field image which shows clear lensing
a picture of Andromeda where individual stars are clearly visible
a patient in New Zealand has undergone gene-editing to lower their cholesterol
Samsung has started initial production of its 3-nanometer semiconductor chips
In England, a dog escaped only to return later that day with a ribbon won at a local dog show
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