Favorites February 23rd 2023
People have fewer discriminatory feelings against overweight Asian Americans, because they see them as “real Americans”.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28746011/
Ah yes, "Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free" and order a large fries and a 32oz soda.
It is extraordinary how Russia has frittered away its mobilisation since Sep; half of 300,000 sent straight to the front as casualty replacements. Western officials are surprised Russia began offensive so early & that it’s taking such risks w/ ammo stocks.
There were rumors of an upcoming new offensive by Russia, but it has turned out that we were already seeing it and could only tell because Russian causualties were up. If Der Spiegel is right, and China starts providing Russia with drones, will things change, or will Russia's timing be off once again.
Apple’s “no-prick” blood-glucose monitoring moonshot was started by Steve Jobs. The secretive project was run under a fake startup called “Avolonte”.
The device is currently size of an iPhone (worn in bicep). Plan is to shrink the tech into the Watch and here’s how it works:
This is a really impressive sounding technology, I wonder what it takes to get it down from the size of a phone to just a component of a watch.
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• Strong argument that election day should *not* be a national holiday.