Lots of interesting news today

RatLabGuy said:
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Landmark study shows one dose of psilocybin induces new neural connections

An extraordinary new study from a team of scientists at Yale University is reporting the first direct cellular demonstration of a single psilocybin dose inducing neural plasticity in a mammalian brain. The researchers show how the psychedelic prompts rapid growth of neural connections in the…
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This is something I’ve been reading about for over a year.

Johns Hopkins has done some incredible research on the possibilities including drug abuse and smoking treatment that is successful in one treatment. Depression that can be cured in one treatment for some and a period of micro-dosing for others.

The most amazing is the possibility of repairing cognitive loss in older people.

The fungus world is responsible for bazillions of underground connections in the plant world and it is amazing to think they can repair the mind. Truly a new frontier in medicine.
 
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Bear attacks couple, dog on Blue Ridge Parkway

A bear attacked a couple Wednesday evening in the parking lot of an Asheville area art center this week, WYFF reports.
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Why kill the bear? That's a messed up policy (of course it is...the government idiots thought of it)....the people are in the bears backyard with a unleashed annoying dog.

Humans are so dumb....we will be our own demise.
 
ponykilr said:
This is something I’ve been reading about for over a year.

Johns Hopkins has done some incredible research on the possibilities including drug abuse and smoking treatment that is successful in one treatment. Depression that can be cured in one treatment for some and a period of micro-dosing for others.

The most amazing is the possibility of repairing cognitive loss in older people.

The fungus world is responsible for bazillions of underground connections in the plant world and it is amazing to think they can repair the mind. Truly a new frontier in medicine.
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@RatLabGuy
I feel like we all just walked into your cubicle slung a chair open Kenny Powers style and enlighten us...
Ive likewise been interested and reading hee - feels like something you might have researched a tad
 
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Historic day: First legal bottle of liquor sold on a Sunday in NC since Prohibition

This Sunday is a moment in North Carolina history. Oct. 3, 2021 is the first Sunday a bottle of liquor has been legally sold in our state since the beginning of prohibition in the early 1900s.
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Cosmo Kramer Yes GIF
 
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ponykilr said:
When I go to CO a few times a year it is always so cool to see booze sold in convenience stores in other states.
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you only have to head north a slight bit to VA...
 
I haven’t seen liquor sold in grocery or convenience stores in VA. I go to Galax every few days 🤷

They have ABC just like NC
 
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When I go to CO a few times a year it is always so cool to see booze sold in convenience stores in other states.
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That was really odd to see when I moved down here. "Wait wait wait, you can't buy vodka at the gas station, you have to go to something called the ABC store??" (Gslander googles the history of abc stores and did some reading) did I somehow move out of America??? LOL!!!
 
gslander said:
That was really odd to see when I moved down here. "Wait wait wait, you can't buy vodka at the gas station, you have to go to something called the ABC store??" (Gslander googles the history of abc stores and did some reading) did I somehow move out of America??? LOL!!!
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Idiots voting for idiots keeps the ABC commission in place. And there is no shortage of idiots.
 
ponykilr said:
I haven’t seen liquor sold in grocery or convenience stores in VA. I go to Galax every few days 🤷

They have ABC just like NC
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Guess by Booze I meant alcohol in general.
Here in Mary-Land they are all sold in independent stores, but they have to ONLY sell booze. Nothing at the grocery or gas station.
Forgot VA was split w/ liquor like NC
 
gslander said:
That was really odd to see when I moved down here. "Wait wait wait, you can't buy vodka at the gas station, you have to go to something called the ABC store??" (Gslander googles the history of abc stores and did some reading) did I somehow move out of America??? LOL!!!
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Hahah, and depending on where in Hickory you live, you were extremely close to moving into a dry county/town.
 
Nothing like walking through a Target in Louisiana and coming to the Liquor Aisle.
 
awheelterd said:
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While I understand your sentiment, thats not really who the robots are taking jobs from.
Most people get replaced by robots because the robot can perform it better and faster, which ends up being cheaper unless the human basically worked ridiculous hours at indentured servant rates. They were gonna be replaced eventually anyway.
Robots will always continue to get better and cheaper, and humans will always get more expensive (because they have to keep up with inflation etc).
Thats why the most secure jobs aren't those where you can work fast and "good" to be valuable, but where its something a robot could never do.
 
RatLabGuy said:
While I understand your sentiment, thats not really who the robots are taking jobs from.
Most people get replaced by robots because the robot can perform it better and faster, which ends up being cheaper unless the human basically worked ridiculous hours at indentured servant rates. They were gonna be replaced eventually anyway.
Robots will always continue to get better and cheaper, and humans will always get more expensive (because they have to keep up with inflation etc).
Thats why the most secure jobs aren't those where you can work fast and "good" to be valuable, but where its something a robot could never do.
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I understand all that, and it's true. The thing now is that the lack of workers is driving it much faster than it would have gone otherwise. Jobs that were previously done by people and that really weren't necessarily "ripe" for automation are being automated anyway, because companies literally can't find the people to fill them. I purchase equipment based on how quick of an roi it produces, same as everyone else. My timeline for ROI keeps stretching because even if the machine takes longer to pay for itself than I normally would like, it shows up to work everyday.
 
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