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Cake day: June 24th, 2023

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  • “I want to see two things in Los Angeles: Voter ID so that the people have a chance to vote. And I want to see the water be released and come down into Los Angeles and throughout the state. Those are the two things. After that, I will be the greatest president that California ever has ever seen,” he said

    California requires state or federal id when registering to vote and when voting for the first time in person. They recently banned cities and districts from making additional requirements.

    Los Angeles primarily gets its water from three main sources: the Owens River, Northern California, and the Colorado River, along with local groundwater. Approximately 57% of the region’s water supply is imported, while groundwater accounts for about 34% of the total supply.

    As a former los angeleno, I have always been proud of the changes they’ve made to conserve water in homes and business over the last few decades and I don’t believe most people living there expect to receive more water from outside the region as the climate worsens. But then, I don’t own any golf courses




  • Here are some of the professor’s comments in the interview in question (not the one linked in this article), from a year ago, at least this is what I think most likely to be construed by the university as targeting a group of students:

    And what the students were able to do is examine video from that protest and identify, I think, three older students. We have a — Columbia has a program. It’s a graduate relationship with older students from other countries, including Israel. And it’s something that many of us were concerned about, because so many of those Israeli students, who then come to the Columbia campus, are coming right out of their military service. And they’ve been known to harass Palestinian and other students on our campus. And it’s something the university has not taken seriously in the past. But we’ve never seen anything like this. And the students were able to identify three of these exchange students, basically, from Israel, who had just come out of military service, who were spraying the pro-Palestinian students with this skunk water. And they were disguised in keffiyehs so that they could mix in with the students who were demanding that the university divest from companies that are supporting the occupation and the war, and were protesting and demanding a ceasefire. So we know who they were.












  • I’m not sure what this article is saying and I’m not sure even the article knows what it’s saying. Here is from the published study:

    The largest healthspan-lifespan gaps were observed in the US (12.4 years), Australia (12.1 years), New Zealand (11.8 years), United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (11.3 years), and Norway (11.2 years) (eTable 2 in Supplement 1). The smallest healthspan-lifespan gaps were observed in Lesotho (6.5 years), Central African Republic (6.7 years), Somalia (6.8 years), Kirbati (6.8 years), and Micronesia (7.0 years) (eTable 2 in Supplement 1)

    What I think I can take away from reading the study is that people in richer countries live longer especially when sick; and, among rich nations, a major factor in the slightly higher unhealthy years in the US is the length of time people spend addicted to drugs.