The Lotus Effect

193 - Floating Shitshow

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Health:
  • Weight-Loss Drugs Have a Surprising Foe: Fat Activists
  • Trump Signs Executive Order Bringing Presidential Fitness Test Back To Public Schools
  • In trial, people lost twice as much weight by ditching ultraprocessed food
  • Boar’s Head to reopen plant as mold and funky meat problems pop up elsewhere
    • Happiness:
    • ‘I Married the Hitchhiker We Picked Up on the Road’ – If Uber Would have Been Cheaper They’d Have Never Met
    • Engineer Revives the Pay Phone for Vermont Community to Make Free Calls in Their Cellular Dead Zone
      • Tales from Rideshare/Toast and Jam:
      • New Laptop Who Dis? (Amazon Affiliate Link)
      • Jimmy Della Valle
        • Higher Consciousness:
        • Weed & Psychedelics Are Doing for Eating Disorders What Big Pharma Couldn’t, Survey Says
        • Is Cannabis Really Legal If You Can’t Grow Your Own Weed?
          • Lotus Tech Tips:
          • As electric bills rise, evidence mounts that data centers share blame. States feel pressure to act
          • Man Falls in Love With an AI Chatbot, Dies After It Asks Him to Meet Up in Person
            • The Junk Drawer:
            • Delta Pilot Arrested Onboard Plane On Child Sex Abuse Charges
            • Experiment will attempt to counter climate change by altering ocean
              • Last Call:
              • Tom Lehrer, song satirist and mathematician, dies at 97
              • CHILD DIES IN HOT CAR WHILE IN STATE’S CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICE CUSTODY
              • Of Course A Seattle Cat Lady Wants To Ban The Blue Angels
              • AOL announces September shutdown for dial-up Internet after 34 years
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                Credits:
                • RevCyberTrucker for the Cavalcade of Stupidity!

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