US life expectancy is dropping fast. Bottom line: We suck in so many ways.

"The panel looked at American life and death in terms of the public health and medical care system, individual behaviors like diet and tobacco use, social factors like poverty and inequality, the physical environment, and public policies and values. 'In every one of those five buckets, we found problems that distinguish the United States from other countries.'

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/03/25/1164819944/live-free-and-die-the-sad-state-of-u-s-life-expectancy

Moderna plans to increase the price of its COVID-19 vaccines by more than 400 percent.

Remember, Moderna received $1.7 billion to develop the vaccine, and has already raked in $36 billion in revenue.

This is what corporate greed looks like.

Since 1990, maternal mortality has more than doubled in the U.S. As a result, pediatricians describe #maternal depression as a public #health crisis. #Postpartum #depression is so much more than just the “baby blues”.

New #research into biomarkers and preventative care are emerging as paths to create new ways of identifying those most in need of help so that they can get aid before their baby is born.

https://www.damemagazine.com/2023/01/18/new-clues-reveal-how-to-treat-postpartum-depression/

When I Bookmark something, it's just for me.

When I Like something, it's just for me and the person who made the post.

When I boost something, it's because I want to share it with others.

There's no software in the background recording and evaluating my behavior so it can decide the best ads to show me, and what I should see or not see in my feed to increase my engagement.

It's pretty nice not being the product anymore and just enjoying the web again.

#Mastodon & #TwitterMigration FTW

British Rail was the state-owned company which ran the UK's railway network from 1948 to 1997. It didn't do anything else, just trains and public transport.

Inexplicably, in 1973 it patented a nuclear fusion-powered flying saucer with an artificial gravity generator, creating a graviton field using high energy electrons.

Here's the patent:

https://worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/search?q=pn%3DGB1310990

Here's an in-depth look at the whole bizarre situation:

https://allthatsinteresting.com/british-rail-flying-saucer

#Space #Spaceflight #Tech #PublicTransport

Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell struck a particularly somber note at his press conference earlier this week when he mentioned that one reason the labor market is so tight right now is that many workers died from COVID-19.

https://www.axios.com/2022/12/16/the-missing-workers-who-are-never-coming-back