Both of these groups have done painstaking searches for such autoantibodies - the first finding candidates targeting skin and epithelial tissue, the second (looking closely at patients with neurological and cognitive symptoms) targeting neural and endocrine tissues. It’s believed that the skin/epithelial autoantibodies may well be targeting nerve endings in those tissues, so there could be an overall neurological component to Long Covid in general.

This is funny because the pseudo-Latin is almost legit:

O Sybil, if therefore

you are among the brave,

O noble one,

you are a wild beast,

for the prophet is the leader of the cause.

This one’s so finely targeted that it feels as if there’s something personal here… Did the comic artist’s wife leave him for this Knausgård dude perchance?

They should see a doctor about that.

If you enter “do not touch” in an online braille translator it produces the characters for ,d n t|* for some reason…

It’s been mine since I was 13.

Immigration officials hate this one little trick.

This is an awful choice for a title, and the article’s author should feel bad. They didn’t even capitalize “Cockroaches” to be able to claim it’s “technically correct”, they just went for maximum shock factor.

There a lot of info here – what did you find most interesting?

Not always, but most times, yeah.

10:45 here apparently: https://youtu.be/J92JsynPJ-I

Well, mine is abysmal, thank you for asking, BUT I have seen people drive for life goals like that with single-mindedness and actually achieve them. I imagine you have to widen your “acceptable” target landing zone quite a bit most times.

If you take out the implied over-precision, it makes a lot of sense though. It’s good to know what you’re looking for, even when it’s very vaguely scheduled. “Get married and have kids around 25-30” is a decently vague expectation that is not at all useless when making life decisions.

/c/disappointingnews

For those who want to learn more about the birds: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01254-9

Step one: bedazzle the US President with pomp and circumstance and a “rare” visit somewhere special. In Britain’s case, this was Windsor Castle. In China, it was Zhongnanhai – the secretive compound for the Chinese leadership set in ancient imperial gardens.

Step two: follow the King’s example in Washington last month. Fob off the Great Narcissist with warm words about friendship between their two great nations before shafting him with such a subtle – but profoundly barbed – message that Trump is either obliged to pretend he hasn’t heard it, or has genuinely failed to grasp its import.

Xi warned Trump in Beijing to stay away from “clashes and conflicts” over Taiwan’s status and reinforced this point by urging him to avoid the “Thucydides Trap” – the theory that war breaks out when a rising power challenges a declining one. It took a while for the penny to drop that Xi thought America was in decline.

This led to some delusional spinning on Truth Social later that the Chinese leader was really harking back to the US under Joe Biden. “When President Xi very elegantly referred to the United States as perhaps being a declining nation, he was referring to the tremendous damage we suffered during the four years of Sleepy Joe,” Trump claimed.

Trump’s usual Maga cheerleaders were so perplexed by the China summit that they mostly ignored it. Sean Hannity of Fox News didn’t have that luxury, having travelled with Trump to Beijing. In an interview, he tried to press Trump on whether Xi had agreed Iran cannot have nuclear weapons, as Trump had claimed.

Well, not in so many words, Trump admitted. “He’s not going to respond too much. He’s a pretty cool guy. He’s not going to say that’s a good point.”

One popular Maga YouTuber, Benny Johnson, had valiantly attempted to project optimism before Trump came home empty-handed.

“Trump is winning BIG Today,” he initially claimed on X. “China trip is going better than anyone could have imagined. China helping bring Iran War to an end. Buying American oil. Massive trade deals. Stocks roaring.”

He later sounded more sober, saying Trump “thinks” President Xi will help the US reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

In fact, Xi had said nothing about reopening the Strait. Returning home on Air Force One, Trump admitted he hadn’t even asked for China’s help. “I don’t need favours,” he said. “I think automatically he’d like to see it opened up.”

Xi didn’t grant the US any greater hoped-for access to rare earth minerals, either, and Boeing’s share price dropped four per cent when it turned out China was only buying 200 out of 500 expected aircraft – and possibly not even that many. The tight-lipped Chinese foreign ministry wouldn’t say.

Once again, Maga can’t cope with the truth. There were no shouts or murmurs about the presence of middle son Eric Trump on the trip, even though Trump went ballistic over Joe Biden taking his son Hunter to Beijing in 2013 as vice-president.

Eric Trump’s net worth has risen tenfold to $400m since his father was re-elected, according to Forbes, but he was just in China in a “personal capacity”, according to the Trump Organization, which he represents.

Trump didn’t believe Biden when he said the same about Hunter, describing his presence in China as “a horrible thing” and clamouring for an investigation, but sure, let’s give Eric the benefit of the doubt.

When Hannity tried to press the President to repeat his previously extensive criticisms of China, he demurred. Trump U-turned, for instance, on whether China should be buying up tracts of land from farmers in the US, including near military installations – having railed against this on the 2024 campaign trail.

“You want to see farmers lose a lot of money? Just take that out of the market,” he chided Hannity.

He went on to sound like a raging liberal about the presence of Chinese students in the US: “I frankly think it’s good that people come from other countries and they learn our culture.”

Back in the US, Trump faces the reality of rising inflation, now at 3.8 per cent, fuel prices upwards of $4.50 a gallon and deepening hostility to his handling of the economy – 70 per cent disapprove and only 30 approve, according to the latest CNN poll.

It won’t help that Trump said before leaving for China “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation” when considering the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran. “Not even a little bit,” he explained.

Never mind though. The big conclusion he drew from his visit, as posted on Truth Social from Air Force One was: “China has a Ballroom, and so should the U.S.A.!”

IIRC, they launched with 1GB (which was ridiculously much for the time) and later only had “unlimited” in the sense of “continuously slowly increasing”. Until they reached 15GB and never budged from there again.

Fully dispatchable renewable with sufficiently deep buffers against dunkelflaute is prohibitively expensive(BESS 120 usd/kWh) , and this ruins your EROEI which is already marginal to start with.

Renewable energy sources that can be switched on and off at will with sufficiently deep buffers against lulls in generation are prohibitively expensive (Battery Energy Storage Systems cost 120 usd/kWh) , and this ruins your Energy Return on Energy Invested ratio which is already marginal to start with.

Getting a second FIFA Peace Prize? Distract everyone from Epstein? (certainly not this one)