There's so much change churning through global cultures, wouldn't it be great if the Olympics, and all the fiscal tomfoolery therewith, just went away? Amy dares us to dream....

LA didn't have pro football for many years. Everybody was fine with it. An LA team went to the Super Bowl recently, and no one cared.

This is showbiz irony.

This video is at the top of the download charts - yet for some reason cannot be found with Google searches... hmmmmm.....

https://youtu.be/2l6JUNFAJ9o

• Let's send AOC to China to make their lives better.

• Robinhood / GME:

Robinhood said the restrictions were necessary to comply with regulatory capital requirements and clearinghouse deposits, which it said fluctuate with volatility.

The lawsuits allege the restrictions benefited large funds that were allegedly invested in or allied with Robinhood.

But the customers are unlikely to clear preliminary court hurdles to get to the point where they can demand documents and depositions to investigate Robinhood’s actions, said Ann Lipton, a professor at Tulane University Law School.

She said attempts to sue brokers for mishandling customer accounts have generally been unsuccessful due to limits that federal securities law places on the filing of class actions.

Rarely will you see a contender so devastated by a single blow.

> cannot be found with Google

Showed up front and center, VPN'd from Phoenix.

The great thing about this article:

Bitcoin Investors May Lose Everything, Central Banker Warns
By Peter Flanagan and Francine Lacqua

January 29, 2021, 5:52 AM EST

But central bankers are worried.

So there's that.

Re: Let's send AOC to China

Their field-work does need a tune-up:

"There is a serious tendency towards capitalism among the well-to-do peasants. This tendency will become rampant if we in the slightest way
neglect political work among the peasants during the co-operative movement and for a very long period after."
Introductory note to "A Resolute Struggle Must Be Waged Against the Tendency
Towards Capitalism" (1955), The Socialist Upsurge in China's Countryside, Chinese
ed., Vol. I.

Mao's a Dong, Little Red Book; Socialism and Communism

This is for fellow olds

Move over, Mary Anning! (They both made their discoveries on beaches.)

Elsewhere, there's a BBC video.

https://www.sciencealert.com/perfectly-preserved-dinosaur-footprint-discovered-by-a-4-year-old

This is for fellow olds too— Raise your hand if you remember last time!

If you remember hostages in Iran, you oughta.

Also, I love that Lenona story. That kid will always have something to talk about at parties.

Remember parties? When she grows up, they'll be back!

Speaking of the upside-down stock market, Crid...

There's been no news of medical or marketing progress on Vasalgel for a year or so.

This doesn't exactly make sense, when most scientists right now are predicting a big drop in the American birth rate for this year - and likely around the world as well. Given the pandemic, why would couples CHOOSE to have babies right now?

To put it another way, people clearly very much want to use birth control right now, even if many of them are unhappy about having to use it. So now is hardly the time for any investors or doctors to turn away from contraceptive research just because it isn't COVID vaccine.

Another example: The birth rate dropped during the Great Depression, despite the relative lack of contraceptives for all. (Also, "decent" women didn't buy condoms back then, so wives had to rely on husbands to buy them and use them.) However, couples back then would almost certainly have appreciated more contraceptive availability, given that the birth rate then was higher than in 2019.

Do you think research into other worthwhile things, general projects like birth control improvement, has been stalled by Covid research? There are a lot of labs in the world, and more scientists that ever.

I certainly suspect that they're having trouble in their FUNDRAISING. I don't know about other projects, but I do know that for the last 20 years or so (judging from a certain newsgroup), there have been several scientific articles every year about the progress of RISUG and Vasalgel (they are similar, non-hormonal, male barrier contraceptives).

Until February, 2020. Since then, the mainstream media have been a desert, regarding that subject. Even though there have been several 2020 articles about the possible shortage of condoms and other contraceptives!