Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective
We had a number of digressions this week that were edited out. Become an MK Ultra to get access to over 4 minutes of additional content!
News discussed:
Hypnosis, LSD, and the Unabomber
Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber
SCOTUS granted stay in mifepristone case
Clarence Thomas’s billionaire friend also bought his property at an above-market price and let Thomas’ mother live there for free
Fox settled the Dominion lawsuit for $787 million
Florida enacts six-week abortion ban
Florida allows death penalty by 8-4 jury vote
Congress failed to extend a key tax provision last year allowing companies to fully expense research & development costs in the year incurred. See SSBalliance.org
North Dakota banned approval voting
Update: veto override failed!!
Buhan and Hemedit both think the old govt sucks, they should rule the new govt, and they’re gonna fight about it
Countries are pulling out all their diplomats/peeps
NIH blows $1B trying to make Long COVID a thing
Happy News!
Ghana has approved a malaria vaccine for deployment
Reforms signed three years ago in Michigan took effect last week, with nearly 850,000 residents seeing at least one conviction automatically set aside
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