Jenka

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SCI AM Subscribe Sign In OPINION July 6, 2021 4 min read G Add Us On Google ® A Tsunami of Disability Is Coming as a Result of 'Long COVID' We need to plan for a future where millions of survivors are chronically ill BY CLAIRE POMEROY
OPINION INTERESTING TIMES Scott Galloway: America Abandoned Its 'Unremarkable Young Men And what society can do to help a struggling generation. Aug. 6, 2026
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NBC NEWS New CDC director is confirmed, giving agency its first permanent leader in a year The Senate voted in favor of Dr. Erica Schwartz, who was deputy surgeon general during President Donald Trump's first term. Aug. 5, 2026, 3:11 PM EDT
drjencaudle • 3h + Hiya. Family doc here COVID really happened and it was one of the worst things imaginable. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise O1.1K Q59 957 D babiejenks 2m As a family doc are you not aware what the #1 chronic illness among American children is CURRENTLY, TO-DAY? = Newsweek Subscribe Sign In File photo: a mother holds her daughter while she has a COVID-19 test done in a clinic in Washington. | Carolyn Kaster/AP/AP A study by Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) last year found that up to 5.8 million American children now have long COVID.
Jenka .... @babiejenks There is literally no "lockdown" in the United States. You can leave your house. You can cross state lines. What there is, is a vintage, sepia-colored, have antibiotics been invented yet in the timeline? unclear, quarantine. Calm down. 6:58 PM • May 2, 2020
danielleprice007 1d + In the short story Wicker is based on, the people in their town are massively confused by the Wicker husband but the women eventually become intrigued and they get mad at their husbands for not being as sweet and attentive as he is, and the men get PISSED saying he's making them all look bad, and I just think that's really funny because that literally been the exact reaction to the trailer on Threads 1/2 40.6K Q 797. G 1.2K 468 bookboner 11h A wicker basket giving more love and attention than a man is hilarious 305 2 4 Im really concerned that the movie ends with the husbands burning him
The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline X.com Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her...If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?" BUL WARK 2,037 vieven 10:35 AM • 8/2/26 • 1.9K Views
imoffthecouch • Id Men: We want submissive women cos we are leaders and protectors and you should submit and wipe our butts for us Women: We want to be put through the mattress with that wicker dicker and have the bed break and he fixes it 1/2 © 32.8K Q 735 G946 → 1.4K telostiajewelry 18h + Women literally just have a competency kink: like you can be a basket as long as you're competent.
Newsweek File photo: a mother holds her daughter while she has a COVID-19 test done in a clinic in Washington. | Carolyn Kaster/AP/AP A study by Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) last year found that up to 5.8 million American children now have long COVID. The authors wrote that this means between 10 to 20 percent of children who tested positive with COVID-19 went on to develop the condition. Their findings suggest that long COVID may have surpassed asthma-which around 5 million youngsters have—as the most common chronic condition experienced by American children.
I had a nostalgic moment that reminded me of you and I wanted to check in with you and see how you were doing 8:17 AM I think that in our 20s, we were both kind of obnoxious archetypes of our particular niche and . v understanding is that in our 30s and 40s, we both kind of grew into creative, interesting and happy people with intrinsic motivation 8:18 AM I hope that's true for you. My life went to shit for a while but it's still true for me g:18 AM You don't have to respond to this. I just want you to know that I was listening to an audiobook and remembered that I told you once that I wanted to be a novelist which was pure 25-year-old ego bullshit and then I thought... I wonder what babiejenks is doing now Edited 8:19 AM And I wish you the best g:20 AM OK, please do not be defensive g:20 AM 0:05 8:20 AM 0:25 8:20 AM How was l obnoxious? 8:20 AM J/ No im curious 8:20 AM
howglodoesit 45m You guys I can't we're all talking about champagne & Threads Al doesn't know why < Champagne Trending People are encouraging one another to chill champagne for an anticipated but unspecified event involving President Donald Trump. Some mention they have had bottles ready for a potential celebration since late 2022. Others are preparing for the occasion with nonalcoholic sparkling drinks as an alternative. What people are saying, summarized by Al >
Jenka @babiejenks A thing abt coming from a failed state is ur gonna get urself killed waiting for someone official to tell the what you should do 9:18 PM • Mar 20, 2020
Jenka @babiejenks • Jun 4, 2020 Replying to @babiejenks 0 ... @ 4 271 (In a possible future Classic Jenka move my sneaking suspicion since the early days is that this could be something that would accelerate our understanding of the immune system as a civilization.)
Jenka @babiejenks • Jun 4, 2020 Replying to @babiejenks 0 ... @ 4 271 (In a possible future Classic Jenka move my sneaking suspicion since the early days is that this could be something that would accelerate our understanding of the immune system as a civilization.)
POLITICO How sick is sick enough? New Medicaid work rule worries patient advocates, states. Trump administration wants ill recipients to prove they can't work every six months. Doctors, advocates and state officials wonder how.
christina_lynne_ • 19h * Every woman over 35 is basically running an independent clinical trial on herself at this point.
sarahofmagdalene 1d @ Threads The Earth is in Perimenopause. She's Hot & Bothered As Fuck. She's Burning it All Down to Reinvent & She's. Done. With. Men.
'We all are going to die' GOP senator defends proposed Medicaid cuts
HUFFPOST SUPPORT US Log In Kamala Harris Proposes Major Initiative To Help Millions Of Seniors — And Their Caregivers The Democratic nominee has a plan to help the "sandwich generation," aging Americans and people with disabilities. By Jonathan Cohn Oct 8, 2024, 05:00 AM EDT Updated Oct 8, 2024
The Independent • • Follow X 1d• 0 Superstars like Bellingham and Haaland are sh... more COMMENT This World Cup is proof that the manosphere is dying, and its idea of masculinity is for losers
nypost s 2d • • • While the alarming trend has been stumping medical professionals, one expert shared some intriguing theories with The Post. trib.al/SmleQ... 外 NEW YORK POST Why so many people are having strokes in their 20s, 30s and 40s: We've never had patients so young"
Jenka @babiejenks • Aug 3, 2022 New CDC Guidance just dropped DEATH IS COMING EAT TRASH BE FREE Superimposed on a photo of a gang of raccoons at night, their eyes lit eerily by the camera flash.
At one point, she only needed the iron lung to sleep. But as she got older, her health declined - largely after she developed post-polio syndrome, a disabling condition that causes fatigue and weakness. She contracted COVID-19 twice, and then developed long COVID.
No one of course wants to actually address in any way the reason that many more people are more sick now, but in the meantime the German Chancellor literally just said Work will set you free. Olga Nesterova O @onestpre... • 1d Merz: We can no longer accept the extraordinarily high levels of sick leave in our companies. We are abolishing sick leave by telephone and introducing the requirement to submit a medical certificate from the very first day of illness. 027 328 ♥ 73 •.. Olga Nesterova • @onestpre... • 1d Continued Merz: We know this is a tough decision. But we can no longer afford this competitive disadvantage caused by prolonged absences from work.
Jenka @babiejenks Every woman I know, in one way or another, is engaged in a lifelong project of liberation, standing on the shoulders of those who blazed the trail before us, and I'm sorry to say, that if liberation is what you want, it's gonna have to be your personal project too.
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rohita.kadambi 23h @ Threads Right wing men treat women like private property. Left wing men treat women like public property.
princesspaperplane 1d Follow There are so many Tips from US-Americans how we Europeans should combat the heat wave. But where are the Australians, Vietnamese and other south east Asians? Where are the Cubans, telling us, how they survive the heat? О 766 Q1.1K G 15 24 Top v View activity > krizoitz 1d Japan checking in here where we get 35° summers with 90% humidity. AC. The answer is AC. 3.2K 7 2 globelleaffairs 1d Lol. Like we told them. 989 1 Show replies cjoybellc @ 1d Philippines here. We have airconditioners running 24/7 year-round. And those who can't afford airconditioners go to the airconditioned malls all day. Working spaces are equipped with airconditioners 24/7 as well. We also bathe twice a day. We drink lots of oral rehydration salts (they come in sachets, you mix them into water and drink the water). What's deadly is dehydration due to loss of
doctor eep (alt decorative gourd season) @absolutely-not.bsky.social + Follow no. you have to make it gender. the Protect Americans from Pedophiles Act (PAPA) requires federal mandatory minimum sentences of 25 years for attempted genital inspections or solicitation of medical records for the purpose of verifying birth gender or 'biological sex' for activity participation. • David Schraub@schraubd.bsky.social • 3h Big winner for Dems is an "Anti-Pedophilia Protection Act" which prohibits genital inspections or other intrusive "gender verification" tests in youth sports. 8:15 PM • Jun 30, 2026
Bloomberg.com Forget Healthspan. Midlife Men Face Pressure to Extend 'Hotspan' A generation of men is facing new pressure around looks and longevity in midlife.
mojaveproject NEW MOJAVE PROJECT DISPATCH! This second installment of a three-part series explores how investor-owned, utility-scale solar is transforming the Mojave Desert. While the first installment surveyed California's solar frontier, this latest dispatch turns to Nevada, where vast stretches of the Mojave are being sacrificed to serve the tech industry's expanding network of data centers, whose insatiable demand for electricity to power Al, cloud computing, and crypto mining appears to be the true engine of Nevada's solar boom-not decarbonization for the public good. Later in the series, I will examine how distributed generation— community-based, locally managed solar power and related initiatives-could offer a more resilient and environmentally responsible alternative to the vast, investor-owned installations now transforming the region. Included is an audio interview with @basinrangewatch cofounders Laura Cunningham and Kevin Emmerich, a leading grassroots environmental nonprofit at the forefront of opposition to the investor-owned, utility-driven renewable-energy transformation in the eastern Mojave and Great Basin deserts. Tim Halbur of Rhubarb Audio, with whom l've collaborated for 20 years, created a wonderful sound design for this track. Be sure to check out Tim's audio projects at https://www.rhubarbaudio.com/audiotours READ THIS DISPATCH: https://mojaveproject.org/dispatches-item/transforming-the-desert-utility-scale-solar-in-nevadas- mojave/
AI Overview Russian studios do produce spy films and series set against the backdrop of the Cold War and modern international conflicts, but they generally focus on heroic KGB/FSB counterintelligence agents catching American or Western spies, rather than deeply humanizing the Western agents as protagonists.
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Nukit @NukitToBeSure Solid-state Far-UVC is probably at least 5 years out. Right now, even LED UVC above 230nm is monstrously inefficient and barely useful in most applications. It just doesn't put that many joules into the air per TCO dollar. Solid-state is also most appealing in places where labor is costly- the "guy on a ladder once a year to change a bulb" factor. Until the patents expire, the price point of solid-state Far-UVC will reflect the savings in Western labor costs. In 90% of the places Far-UVC is needed, a guy on a ladder once a year is cheap. There is this perception that it is viable to protect only elite spaces with expensive, proprietary Far-UVC, but that just doesn't work very well. Infection chains don't stop when you aren't around your fancy tools. The broligarchs may be keen to have Far-UVC in their offices at Stripe and Anthropic, but they still vacation unmasked in Bali and Phuket. They are constantly one step away from people who can't afford anything more expensive than an oscillating fan or rice cooker, and they're flying back to California with whatever they got. This ongoing obsession by philanthropists with buffing high-cost proprietary Far-UVC over non-IP-encumbered alternatives ignores the simple fact that until everyone is protected, no one is. 8:00 PM • Jun 25, 2026
josheeirl = 3h Hear me out: I think maybe 20 years from now, science is going to discover that COVID did "something" to the brains of people who got it (especially those that got it multiple times). I could be wrong... but... there's not ZERO chance. 1/2
Intercept Why this matters Today, we treat respiratory infections like the cold and influenza as a minor nuisance. The evidence increasingly suggests otherwise. • Healthy people spend roughly 15-25 days each year-about 5% of their lives -sick with respiratory infections like the common cold and influenza. 1 • Common respiratory infections can lead to severe outcomes. In 2021 alone, there were 12.8 billion infections globally, mostly caused by viruses. 2 Annually, over 65 million ≥ 4 of these progress to serious lower respiratory disease and account for around 7% of deaths from major causes in the U.S. = & I • Respiratory infections raise our risk of serious illness, often years later. While researchers are still early in establishing these connections, it seems plausible that society has meaningfully underestimated the significance of seemingly benign infections on short and long-term health, e.g.: • 9.8x asthma risk by age 6 if infected with HRV between birth and age 3 in a high-risk cohort - • 6.1x heart attack risk for 7 days after influenza infection - • 4.5-5x dementia risk after severe influenza • 2.6-4.1x Alzheimer's risk after severe influenza and pneumonia • 2.2-3x schizophrenia potential risk for infant if mother is infected by influenza during pregnancy 1 13 • 1.3x risk of heart failure after RSV infection compared to influenza 14 • Routine respiratory illness imposes a massive, persistent economic burden, driving 1-1.5% annual productivity losses-roughly $600B globally, or ~0.6% of global GDP-in non-pandemic years. 13
Nukit @NukitToBeSure Money to combat respiratory illnesses is fantastic, but I would just not get your hopes up too high. Quite a lot of money in philanthropic grants for this was already handed out over the past few years. Most of it vanished, with little to show for it but white papers and salaries for large staff rosters at "non-profits". There's a whole cottage industry that's optimized for the grant application and fundraising process, but not really adept at delivering actionable output, however honest their intentions. Fingers crossed they get more out of it this time though🤞🏻 Quote Nukit @NukitToBeSure · May 17 Replying to @anderssandberg and @generationloss Nearly all of these "philanthropists" promote and fund research exclusively for Ushio products. Ushio is publicly held and controls most of the Far-UVC market. Ushio has refused to implement the incredibly simple measure of replaceable excimer bulbs, but instead forces users to
Stripe, Anthropic and OpenAl are backing an effort to stop respiratory infections Intercept, a new nonprofit, will focus on countering the common cold and the flu. By Antonio Regalado June 24, 2026
FUNDING SLOWDOWN The total grant money awarded so far by the US National Science Foundation in fiscal year 2026, which began on 1 October 2025, lags far behind the total for the same time span in previous years.