The Mind Killer Episode 101 - It's Election Season!
Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community
News discussed:
SCOTUS voted 5-4 to say Texas needs to let in the feds
Canadian highest court held that invoking of Emergency Act during trucker protest was unlawful
Apple to have 3rd-party app stores!
Hong Kong court orders liquidation of Evergrande (only HK parts tho)
Iran-backed drone strike in Jordan injures 40 US soldiers, kills 3
International Criminal Court ruled mostly in favor of Israel?
Funding pulled for UNRWA after allegations that 12 of their employees participated in 10/7 attacks
Leaked Israeli dossier accuses 190 employees being operatives of Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad
Trump ordered to pay $83 million for defaming E. Jean Carroll
Mitch McConnell outright said they don’t want to solve any border issues before the election
Biden says he would shut down the border ’“right now”
Fani Willis is sleeping with her special prosecutor?
Georgia is trying to empower its oversight board
Articles of impeachment introduced
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute - a top cancer research institute, affiliate of Harvard Medical School, retracts 6 studies and investigating 31 more for copy-pasted graphs fraud.
Hugo Awards for SF lit, held in China this year, censored by CCCP to no one’s surprise
(they started the fuckery in 2018)
Happy News!
NASA’s Mars helicopter flew 14x further than planned, lasted 3 years
Experimental gene therapy gave a deaf 11 yr old hearing for the first time
CAR T cells - genetically engineered T cells - have been used to fight blood cancers for a while. In mice they are slowing aging when altered to eliminate senescent cells
Husky digs up gas leak, potentially saves the block
two teen girls in canada rescue british couple pulled out by riptide
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