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Lots of people say lots of stupid things.

FortuneTesla recalls every single Cybertruck ever delivered to f...Tesla will inform owners it is recalling all 46,100 Cybertruck pickups after glue fixing the exterior sheet metal in place could fail.

Ah, no: ABC NewsActing Social Security chief now says he won't shut down...A federal judge blocked the agency from granting personnel affiliated with DOGE access to agency systems containing personally identifiable information.

Trump revokes legal status for 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans Ted Hesson Fri, March 21, 2025 at 4:03 PM CDT By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump's administration will revoke the temporary legal status of 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans in the United States, according to a Federal Register notice on Friday, the latest expansion of his crackdown on immigration. The move, effective April 24, cuts short a two-year "parole" granted to the migrants under former President Joe Biden that allowed them to enter the country by air if they had U.S. sponsors. Trump, a Republican, took steps to ramp up immigration enforcement after taking office, including a push to deport record numbers of migrants in the U.S. illegally. He has argued that the legal entry parole programs launched under his Democratic predecessor overstepped the boundaries of federal law and called for their termination in a January 20 executive order. Trump said on March 6 that he would decide "very soon" whether to strip the parole status from some 240,000 Ukrainians who fled to the U.S. during the conflict with Russia. Trump's remarks came in response to a Reuters report that said his administration planned to revoke the status for Ukrainians as soon as April. Biden launched a parole entry program for Venezuelans in 2022 and expanded it to Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans in 2023 as his administration grappled with high levels of illegal immigration from those nationalities. Diplomatic and political relations between the four countries and the United States have been strained. The new legal pathways came as Biden tried to clamp down on illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border. The Trump administration's decision to strip the legal status from half a million migrants could make many vulnerable to deportation if they choose to remain in the U.S. It remains unclear how many who entered the U.S. on parole now have another form of protection or legal status. In a notice set to formally publish in the Federal Register on Monday, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said revoking the parole status would make it easier to place the migrants in a fast-track deportation process known as "expedited removal." Under a Trump-era policy implemented in January, expedited removal can be applied to certain migrants in the U.S. for two years or less.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/21/oil-protest-activism-greenpeace-dakota-pipeline-verdict

Looks like white metal or die cast, welds probably won't work, try some good epoxy.

My job rerquired that I had to go to welding classes at Tech school do to inspection of welds on Bridge beams, back in the late 1960's.

I hit 1 of the welds with a 2lb. short sledge hammer, didn't break.

Depending on the Amps used I could see the opposite weld side turned blue from penatration. I'll play more with it at a later date.

The Bidens want back in Peter Nicholas Fri, March 21, 2025 at 4:00 AM CDT Former President Joe Biden wants to step back into the arena to help his party. WASHINGTON — Former President Joe Biden has told some Democratic leaders he’ll raise funds, campaign and do anything else necessary for Democrats to recover lost ground as the Trump administration rolls back programs the party helped design, according to people close to him. Biden privately met last month with the new Democratic National Committee chairman, Ken Martin, and offered to help as the party struggles to regain its viability amid polling that shows its popularity has been sinking, the people said. So far, Biden's overture seems to have fallen flat. Democrats find themselves adrift, casting about for a compelling messenger. Whoever that is, it's not Biden, many party activists and donors contend. He's tethered to the 2024 defeat and, at 82, is a symbol more of the party's past than its future, they argue. “Who’s going to want Joe Biden back in the game?” said a major Biden supporter, speaking on condition of anonymity to talk candidly about him. A spokesperson for the DNC didn’t provide a comment or make Martin available for an interview. A new NBC News poll shows that the Democratic Party’s popularity has dropped to a record low. Only 27% of registered voters said they held positive views of the party — the lowest figure in the network’s polling dating to 1990. Former first lady Jill Biden is also prepared to campaign and raise money for fellow Democrats as she and her husband settle into life back home in Delaware, a person close to her said. “She recognizes that serving in the capacities that she served is an honor and it comes with responsibilities to the party. And she’s prepared to help in any way she can,” the person said. Both Bidens are carving out post-presidential lives aside from the partisan political work they've volunteered to take on. Each plans to write a book. As Biden develops a theme for his memoir, he has been consulting former senior administration officials, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken, national security adviser Jake Sullivan and senior White House advisers Mike Donilon and Steve Ricchetti. He has been splitting his time between Delaware and Washington for meetings in office space supplied by the federal government. As was his habit as a U.S. senator, he often commutes via Amtrak. The onetime first couple were shocked when President Donald Trump abruptly announced this week that he was ending Secret Service protection for their two adult children, Hunter and Ashley, the person close to Jill Biden said. They'd gotten no warning, another person familiar with the matter said. Their first question was whether their two children would be safe. The Bidens have been out of office for only two months. After Trump’s first term ended in 2021, then-President Biden extended protection for Trump’s adult children for six months. Though Biden is willing to help, Democrats aren’t unanimous in wanting them to. Some party activists believe Biden is an admired figure who remains a draw inside a grateful party. Jane Kleeb, a vice chair of the DNC, said in an interview: “If you were to call any state party chair and ask them if they wanted Joe Biden to be a keynote speaker for their annual dinner, the answer would be yes. He is beloved by the party and beloved by the voters.” Others argue that reminding voters of a 2024 campaign that went sour isn’t the best strategy for a party that is grasping for a message and searching for new, younger leaders. A CNN poll this month asked Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents which leader best reflects the party’s core values. Only 1% chose Biden. What’s more, the wounds of 2024 are still fresh, with many Democrats aggrieved over Biden’s decision to run again and remain in the race until just a few months before the election, leaving Vice President Kamala Harris little time to organize a campaign of her own. Alan Kessler, a longtime Democratic fundraiser from Philadelphia, said in an interview: “There are plenty of people in the Democratic Party who were obviously very frustrated with how things played out last year, but there are plenty of people who still love Joe Biden." At the “appropriate time,” Biden can be an asset to the party by campaigning in selected areas, such as his hometown, Scranton, Pennsylvania, but now isn’t it, Kessler added. “It’s time to move on with new leadership,” he said. Biden has no pangs of regret, a person familiar with his private conversations said. He remains defiant and believes Trump’s victory shows the party did itself no favors by pushing him to drop out of the race, the source said. One person in particular seems eager to see Biden return to the political stage: Trump. The new president has used his massive following to ensure that Americans don’t soon forget the old one. Trump has publicly mentioned Biden, Biden family members or the Biden administration an average of seven times a day since the start of his second term, according to an NBC News review of his remarks, interviews and social media posts. Overall, Trump has invoked his predecessor in some form more than 400 times since the inauguration on Jan. 20. In most instances — more than 325 — Trump has mentioned Biden alone. In about 75 cases, Trump has mentioned Biden family members or the Biden administration. The context in which Trump brings up his predecessor often involves immigration, inflation, elections or foreign wars, as well as issues involving the Justice Department. Speaking at the Justice Department last week, Trump questioned Biden’s use of an autopen to sign documents, calling it “disrespectful to the office” and "maybe not even valid." The Justice Department blessed the use of an autopen in a memo in 2005, and the Constitution carries no requirement that the president sign documents by his own hand. Vice President JD Vance also uses Biden as a foil. At a tech summit this week, Vance took time in his speech to take a swipe at Biden’s mental acuity — an issue that dogged the former president throughout the campaign. “In defense of Joe Biden, he was asleep most of the time. I don’t think he totally realized what he was doing,” Vance said. Asked why Trump speaks about Biden so frequently, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said: “We still very much are fixing so many of the problems created or started by the Biden administration. It’s important to remind the American people and media why these problems exist." A defense that Trump supporters use in rationalizing his attacks on perceived political foes is that he’s a “counterpuncher.” But here, Biden has already left the ring. He hasn’t thrown any public punches since Trump escorted him to the helicopter on Inauguration Day for his departure from the U.S. Capitol grounds. Indeed, Biden’s first speaking event since he left office came last week with no fanfare whatsoever. He appeared in New York City for a conference of the National High School Model United Nations in Manhattan. Six months after having spoken before the actual U.N. for his last time as president, Biden gave a speech to its high school facsimile in a hotel ballroom. He also took questions and posed for pictures with students. “He asked me about my future, and I told him how much he inspired me to go into the field of politics,” said Suzy Radzinski, 18, a senior at Brighton High School in Utah, who met Biden on the photo line. A Facebook video from the event showed a group of excited students waving to Biden. “I met you on your book tour!” one shouted to him as he stood onstage in a suit and tie. “All right!” said Biden, prompting appreciative laugher. Inside Biden’s close-knit circle, advisers have concluded that it’s not wise for him to respond publicly to every insult or accusation Trump throws his way. Doing so would personalize the issue, turning it into a contest between Trump and Biden, as opposed to keeping the focus on whether Trump is being truthful or not. Biden’s approach for now is to let surrogates respond to Trump’s broadsides. Donna Brazile, a longtime Democratic strategist, said that’s the right posture. “It makes no sense for Joe Biden to respond to Donald Trump,” she said in an interview. “The American people are not looking backward; they’re looking forward.” Rather than take the attacks personally, Jill Biden has found a new role for herself: soothing those who are unnerved by the tumult in Washington, the person close to her said. “She is finding herself comforting people. More and more, as she’s out and about, people come up to her who are looking for reassurance," the person said.

This is the one I have: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CN4D61TM?ref=fed_asin_title

Sorry, I should have posted..I did get it, I bought one that was only $60, 200 amp..I welded 1/8" all the way up to 1/2", it welded like my big AC/DC Lincoln welder..it works great so far.

Says the now dumbest person on this site.

"I’m In My 40s And Never Thought A Thing About It:" 34 People Reveal The "Unusual" Body Things They Spent A Good Chunk Of Their Life Thinking Were Totally NormalAngelica Martinez Wed, March 19, 2025 at 3:16 AM UTC As someone who has — on more than one occasion — left a medical professional thoroughly stumped over something that I thought was totally cool, casual, and not a big deal...I can personally attest that this happens way more than you'd probably think, TBH. Bodies are weird, y'all! It can be really difficult to place something your body has always done as being "wrong" when it's all you know! I asked BuzzFeed readers to share experiences like this that they've had, because we absolutely need to normalize talking about our bodies. We are each other's greatest resource, after all! So, here are 34 stories of how people learned the "unusual" thing(s) their bodies do were not, in fact, normal (and what they ended up getting diagnosed with): 1."I was complaining to my husband about how annoying it is when food gets stuck in your throat and you need to drink something quickly to get it down. He informed me that that’s not normal. Turns out I have dysphagia." —besthouse853 2."When I’m laying in bed at night and it’s really quiet (just the fan on), I hear faint music playing (which isn’t really there). Sometimes, it sounds like jazz; other times, it’s old-timey swing or big band. When I realized it was just me, I thought I had a brain tumor or some kind of mental illness, but after undergoing several medical tests including a brain scan, it turns out that it’s a rare form of tinnitus." —pastelmagician962 3."I’m allergic to water. Since I was little, bathing, swimming, showering, etc., all caused me to break out into hives. I thought it was a normal thing for the longest time and that it was just something everyone had to live with, but apparently not. Turns out I have aquagenic urticaria." Suzifoo / Getty Images —Anonymous 4."I have Auditory synesthesia. Basically, I can feel certain sounds in different parts of my body. For example, thunder feels like being kicked in the spine, and rustling paper or bags feels like someone running their fingers all over my back and chest. I love music because some songs feel like I'm being tickled or getting a massage. I was 33 when I discovered it wasn’t common to experience music and noises like this." —megandonovan 5."I wake up from anesthesia all the time. Every time. The first time I was under anesthesia, I was like 8 and getting stitches in my head. The doctor took a step back and was like, 'Oh gosh, you’re awake!' I felt him sewing my head back together and snip the stitches. It didn’t hurt, but it was itchy as crud. I also had jaw surgery when I was 13, and I woke up alone in a chair and dragged myself down the hallway until a nurse found me and helped me back to my room to sleep off the remainder of the anesthesia." —cornynugget234 6."I have experienced two very unusual brain-related conditions. First, when I was a child, I experienced something VERY STRANGE, and only within the last 10-15 years or so did I find it has a name for it: Alice In Wonderland Syndrome. Basically, I was experiencing things around me, and myself, growing and shrinking in size. It was more than visual — it was like I knew the sizes were changing. Sometimes it was accompanied by sounds. I didn't tell anyone about it until I was an adult, because I had no idea how to explain it." Henrik Sorensen / Getty Images "Then, starting at some point in early adulthood, I started experiencing something called Exploding Head Syndrome. (Why do both of these have the coolest-sounding names, btw?) When this happened, I would hear something like a loud explosion, which would wake me up. Upon asking others about it, there was no noise. Other times it manifests as hearing someone yelling my name, which wakes me up, too. But again, nobody is yelling anything, it's just my head." —hwh 7."When I get turned on, I sneeze. It’s some kind of weird reflex. I also sneeze when I go out into the sun, which is more common." —Anonymous 8."Since I was a kid, I would sleep, walk, drink, and eat. The sleep-drinking was the most problematic, because I've woken up drinking acetone, windex, and contact solution before. My brother did these, too, and my dad was notorious for eating a sleeve of Oreos while asleep. So, I thought it was normal. Over the last year, it's gotten WILD. One time, I made full-blown oven nachos with chopped vegetables. I fed them to my mom at 3 a.m. while dead asleep. I only woke up when I started talking about a school bus, and she realized what was happening." "The sleepwalking is worse when I'm stressed. Last week, I woke up in the morning to find I had fried pierogis. I put four sauces in containers and put them in the sink, and then I packed my lunch. It was cat food. Also, last week, I woke up to my back door WIDE OPEN, and a receipt for an Uber ride to the city (124$) that apparently I ordered and didn't take. Because the tasks are getting more complex and generally fucking dangerous, my doctor made me get elderly alarms like the ones they have in hospitals." —acappiello1684 9."I asked my mom as a kid why everyone loves eating apples when they always make your throat itch uncontrollably. Turns out that itching is NOT NORMAL. It’s an uncommon symptom of pollen allergies called oral allergy syndrome. It won’t kill me, but it explains why raw fruits and veggies are agonizing for me to eat!" Aleksandr Zubkov / Getty Images —Anonymous 10."I started to get mouth ulcers and sores at about 14. When I started university, I’d get them so bad I couldn’t eat or talk. Eventually, I went to the doctor and learned I was severely anemic with ferritin levels below 5. Turns out, my periods had been so bad and heavy that they made me really anemic. I thought everyone’s period was like that. I'm managing it OK now, but please talk to your friends, family, and doctors about your periods so you know what’s not normal!" —poeticsword455 11."I have synesthesia! I found out when I was teaching a creative writing class and was trying to explain how the word 'empty' and the word 'hollow' have different textures. My students were very confused, and so were my fellow instructors. To me, words have colors and textures. Smells have colors. I don't see them like I do the things that are physically around me; I just understand them in a way that's kind of like daydreaming. I also feel sounds when I taste things. I don't know how else to describe it." —skeletonsaintjames 12."I was talking to someone about how annoying it is when my hyponychium (the skin that attaches your nail to your finger at the free edge) grows all the way up past my fingertip, and I have to get in there and separate it so I can trim my nails. I thought this happened to everyone. It doesn't. It is, in fact, a symptom of connective tissue disease, as confirmed by my rheumatologist." u/Ok-Cook4618 / Reddit / Via reddit.com —toucansans 13."I have eyes that are bifocal, as in one is nearsighted and one farsighted. I learned about it in my 30s during an eye exam. It wasn’t until just last year when I finally needed glasses, that I learned it is very unusual. It’s pretty cool to see the shadow of my glasses, because one lens has a significantly darker shadow. —Teri, 60 14."I have Aphantasia. I just learned about this recently. It is when your brain doesn't form or use mental images as part of your thinking or imagination. Think about a red apple — can you actually visualize the apple? If not, you might have aphantasia. I have also seen it described as lacking a 'mind's eye.' Anyway, after hearing about it, I realized I have it. I had no idea. The fact that I can’t visualize images wasn’t something I had ever consciously thought about, but my mind is blown that when other people think about something they can vividly see it in their mind!" —Anonymous 15."I can't hear anything while underwater, which I learned is apparently not normal. My friends were talking about how water transmits sound, and I asked how they could tell, because when I'm underwater, it sounds like I'm inside a jet engine — a loud, deafening roaring all around me. Turns out my eardrum was damaged/punctured when I was younger, and I never knew." Greg Finnegan / Getty Images —lacjiba 16."I thought everyone dislocated their joints on a regular basis until I did physical therapy and my provider told me that it was NOT normal. Apparently, I have loose joints. For as long as I can remember, I could always dislocate my big toes, thumbs, hips, and ribs. It hurts like hell, but I'd just pop them back in and move on with my day. I started asking friends and family if that happened to them too, and they looked at me like I was insane." —sarahp472e09325 17."For as long as I can remember, every time I pee, my eyes tear up. I don’t mean just a little watery-eyed moment, I mean full-blown tears streaming down my face, sometimes even a runny nose. The longer I hold it, the worse it gets. I always assumed this happened to everyone. Growing up without the internet, there wasn’t exactly a way to fact-check my experience, and honestly, it never even crossed my mind to ask my family about it. It was just…normal. Then, one fateful day in high school, I hadn’t adjusted to my new schedule yet, so I went for two full class periods without a bathroom break. By the time I finally made it to the restroom, the floodgates (both kinds) opened. When I walked back into class, my friends looked alarmed." “'Are you okay? Why were you crying?' one of them asked. Confused, I just shrugged. 'Oh, I wasn’t crying. I just really had to pee.' Apparently, this wasn’t a universal experience. No one in my friend group had any idea what I was talking about. In fact, they didn’t even believe me! Fast forward to today, and thanks to the internet, I now know this rare phenomenon is called Gustatory Lacrimation. It’s a quirky little glitch in the nervous system where the body gets its wires crossed, making my tear ducts go into overdrive when I relieve myself. If that’s not a completely useless superpower, I don’t know what is." —Anonymous 18."I didn't know I had flat feet until I was 16 or 17 years old. Neither of my parents have flat feet, and no one ever noticed, not even doctors. A teacher pointed it out, and I had no idea what she was talking about. Yes, they are super duper flat. My footprints are all on one blob, lol." KVLADIMIRV / Getty Images —born_with_no_bones 19."I didn't know getting dizzy and collapsing all the time wasn't normal! I thought everyone was dizzy when they stood up or were standing for any length of time. It wasn’t until I was newly married and my husband caught me collapsing in the kitchen (a normal occurrence for me) that I learned everyone doesn’t experience this! Turns out I have a severe case of POTS. Now, I have a new diet and service dog, and I am doing much better." —Anonymous 20."I have visual snow. It looks like the salt and pepper TV static in my vision constantly. Because it's all I've ever known, I didn't realize it wasn't normal until I came across a Tumblr post about it. Like, y'all aren't seeing constantly moving dots at every second?" —monikap6 21."When I laugh too hard, I start crying. I don't just get tears in my eyes from laughing, but it's like a switch flips and it turns to actually sobbing. So, my body is crying, but my mind is laughing at the absurdity of the situation. It’s not embarrassing at all! Just kidding. It's awful." Siarhei Khaletski / Getty Images —Rachel, 49 22.I have a skin condition called cold urticaria, where — with exposure to cold — I break out in hives on my face and body everywhere. I also have the same thing from sweat and water (getting out of the pool or shower I have hives). In PE at school, my friends would always comment that my face was bright red (from hives), or when I got to school, I would sit in my chair and itch. I was in first grade, and when I asked my friends where their hives were, they were confused. I just slowly realized that this was not normal, and now I keep itch cream with me wherever I go because of my casually just breaking out in hives anywhere." —Anonymous 23."I have Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome which makes my joints very flexible. When I was younger (up until about the age of 12), I could put my leg behind my head without needing to stretch or anything beforehand. I didn’t feel any pain or discomfort while doing it, and I would sometimes sit like that while doing homework or watching TV, just because I could. It wasn’t until I got to gymnastics class that I realized not everyone could do that. I would probably tear or break something if I tried to do it now, but I can still extend my elbows and knees past 180 degrees. It's not terribly useful, but it's a neat party trick!" —awkwardtooth58 24."Apparently, I have something called Gorlin sign. I can touch my nose with my tongue. My tongue is apparently really long and I can do all these tricks with it. I thought it was normal to have a tongue at my length, but then when I would show people as a kid, they were always like, ‘Woah, your tongue is so long!’ and everyone showed me how short theirs were. I still get comments on my long tongue to this day." Patrick Sheandell O'Carroll / Getty Images/PhotoAlto —miss_snowleopard 25."I saw a dietitian because everything I ate or drank made me feel bloated and heavy. I managed to ask the million-dollar question of 'Is it normal to throw up undigested food 12-24 hours later?' Got looked at like I had three heads, followed by a '...No...' And that's how I discovered my digestive disorder, gastroparesis." —simplysarahish 26."Most of my internal organs are not in the typical places they're supposed to be. My appendix was on the left, my heart slightly to the right, and my gallbladder in the center. My uterus is almost fully split in two, as well. I found out when I had exploratory surgery for abdominal pain at 19. Turns out it was appendicitis, but no one guessed because it wasn’t where they expected it to be!" —Anonymous 27."I have always had great vision and never needed glasses, but whenever I went to the eye doctor, and they asked if option 1 or 2 looked better, I always asked them if I should relax or focus my eyes. They would look at me a little funny and tell me to do whatever I would normally do. I would always get frustrated because I was never sure if I was doing the exam correctly, but any attempts at clarifying the situation went nowhere. Fast forward a couple of decades, and I was listening to a podcast where the host was interviewing an optometrist about vertical heterophoria." Joey Ingelhart / Getty Images "It was fascinating to hear that all these weird, random things I never thought twice about could be related and could be impacting my life negatively. I took an online quiz on that optometrist’s website, and she personally called me back a couple of days later. The weird dry feeling I get in large public spaces? Drifting into someone that I’m walking next to? Yep, didn’t realize people don’t normally do that. Aching eyeballs? Closing one eye to read? Neck pain because my head is always tilted? Every single one was a yes. Then, the doctor asked if I had double vision. I said no, just the normal kind that happens when I rest my eyes. She paused for a beat then told me double vision isn’t normal. I reassured her that it wasn’t actual double vision, just the normal double vision that everyone has when they unfocus and relax their eyes. That's when she diagnosed my vertical heterophoria, which is a type of binocular vision disorder where my eyes don’t align properly. I was prescribed prism glasses and was blown away when my headache, motion sickness, head tilt, neck pain, anxiety in open spaces, headaches, eye strain, and double vision went away immediately. Eye teaming issues are not screened for in standard vision exams, so binocular vision disorders are commonly missed. If I had not happened across that podcast, I doubt I would have ever realized there was an issue." —Jess, 44 28."I thought all periods were just really bad. I thought it was normal to vomit and pass out purely from pain. Turns out it wasn’t, I have extreme hormone levels. I found out it wasn’t normal when after passing out for the third time in school. My school nurse told me he didn’t get periods, but even he knew this wasn’t normal. I’m currently on a treatment plan that involves birth control, and life is so much better. I had no idea how much of my life was needlessly painful, including times when I wasn’t even menstruating." —Anonymous 29."I learned that I have Musical Ear Syndrome by reading the comments from one of these BuzzFeed articles. When it’s quiet but there is white noise, like a fan running, I’ll hear very faint music or talk as if a radio were on in another room of the house." —Jessica, 44 30."I have a 'pocket' in my throat! I can partially swallow food I’m not done chewing and then regurgitate it back into my mouth whenever I want. While I have something stashed in my throat pocket, my mouth is completely empty, and I can breathe and talk just fine. I can only stash solids (liquids are a no-go), and if I wait too long to put the food back in my mouth, I’ll reflexively swallow it the rest of the way. It may seem a bit gross, but it’s actually really convenient — being able to do this has saved me from choking and/or embarrassing myself with a spit-take on so many occasions!" Jan-Otto / Getty Images —Lindsey, 30 31."Only my right arm has seizures. Yup. As a kid, I could at first extend my arm, and just kind of let it shake, and my wrist would go back and forth and clench. It was a cool party trick. When I was older, I was having a physical, and my doctor asked if I had any questions. I thought since I was getting older and body changes were occurring (like leaking when laughing type thing), I should show him my arm thing. Of course, it stopped on its own, and my doctor sent me for a bunch of tests. I found out I have a form of neuropathy." —Anonymous 32."I can’t smell ammonia. I didn’t realize it had a smell at all until I got married and started living with my husband. We were talking about the products we needed to buy to clean our first place. He said he preferred bleach-based products because he hated the smell less than ammonia-based products. I was confused, to say the least! We immediately went to buy some ammonia for a little scientific test. Sure enough, no smell! I can ~feel~ the burn in my nostrils (always waft, folks!) but absolutely no smell." —Anonymous 33."When I got pregnant and had my first doctor’s visit, they examined me from top to bottom. The doctor asked me to lift my gown to see my breasts. She then exclaimed, 'Oh, look at that. You have a third nipple!' Then, she reached down and wiggled it with her finger while saying, 'Boodoodoodoodoo!' I was so shocked that I didn’t think to be offended. I always thought I had a weird-shaped mole. I was 22 years old when I learned it was an extra nipple." Gareth Cattermole / Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images —Anonymous 34.And lastly, "Often after using mouthwash, the inside of my mouth peels. I’m in my 40s and never thought a thing about it. One day, I was talking to my dentist, and she offhandedly mentioned how some people have an allergic reaction that will make their mouth slough skin. I was shocked to learn that everyone’s mouth doesn’t shed skin after using mouthwash. Oral mucosal peeling, who knew!" —Anonymous

Libs are a bunch of fools, always have been, many Dems are the same, idiots.

Researchers find a hint at how to delay Alzheimer's symptoms. Now they have to prove it LAURAN NEERGAARD and SHELBY LUM Updated Wed, March 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM CDT 1 / 10 Alzheimer'sJake Heinrichs hugs his wife, Rachel Chavkin, after speaking about early-stage Alzheimer's disease while inside their home in New York, on Wednesday, March 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa) ASSOCIATED PRESS More An experimental treatment appears to delay Alzheimer’s symptoms in some people genetically destined to get the disease in their 40s or 50s, according to new findings from ongoing research now caught up in Trump administration funding delays. The early results — a scientific first — were published Wednesday even as study participants worried that politics could cut their access to a possible lifeline. “It’s still a study but it has given me an extension to my life that I never banked on having,” said Jake Heinrichs of New York City. Now 50, Heinrichs has been treated in that study for more than a decade and remains symptom-free despite inheriting an Alzheimer’s-causing gene that killed his father and brother around the same age. If blocked funding stops Heinrichs’ doses, “how much time do we have?” asked his wife, Rachel Chavkin. “This trial is life.” Two drugs sold in the U.S. can modestly slow worsening of early-stage Alzheimer’s by clearing the brain of one of its hallmarks, a sticky gunk called amyloid. But until now, there haven't been hints that removing amyloid far earlier – many years before the first symptoms appear – just might postpone the disease. The research led by Washington University in St. Louis involves families that pass down rare gene mutations almost guaranteeing they’ll develop symptoms at the same age their affected relatives did – information that helps scientists tell if treatments are having any effect. The new findings center on a subset of 22 participants who received amyloid-removing drugs the longest, on average eight years. Long-term amyloid removal cut in half their risk of symptom onset, researchers reported Wednesday in the journal Lancet Neurology. Despite the study’s small size, “it’s incredibly important,” said Northwestern University neuroscientist David Gate, who wasn’t involved with the research. Now participants have been switched from an earlier experimental drug to Leqembi, an IV treatment approved in the U.S., to try to answer the obvious next question. “What we want to determine over the next five years is how strong is the protection,” said Washington University’s Dr. Randall Bateman, who directs the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer’s Network of studies involving families with these rare genes. “Will they ever get the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease if we keep treating them?” Here’s the worry: Bateman raised money to start that confirmatory study while seeking National Institutes of Health funding for the full project but his grant has been delayed as required reviews were canceled. It's one example of how millions of dollars in research have been stalled as NIH grapples with funding restrictions and mass firings. At the same time researchers wonder if NIH will shift focus away from amyloid research after comments by Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, nominated as the agency's new director. “One of the reasons I think that we have not made progress in Alzheimer’s, as much as we ought to have, is because the NIH has not supported a sufficiently wide range of hypotheses,” Bhattacharya told senators, responding to one who brought up an example of earlier science misconduct unrelated to current research. Scientists don’t know exactly what causes Alzheimer’s, a mind-destroying disease that affects nearly 7 million Americans, mostly late in life. What’s clear is that silent changes occur in the brain at least two decades before the first symptoms -- and that sticky amyloid is a major contributor. At some point amyloid buildup appears to trigger a protein named tau to begin killing neurons, which drives cognitive decline. Tau-fighting drugs now are being tested. Researchers also are studying other factors including inflammation, the brain’s immune cells and certain viruses. NIH’s focus expanded as researchers found more potential culprits. In 2013, NIH’s National Institute on Aging funded 14 trials of possible Alzheimer’s drugs, over a third targeting amyloid. By last fall, there were 68 drug trials and about 18% targeted amyloid. Northwestern’s Gate counts himself among scientists who “think amyloid isn’t everything,” but said nothing has invalidated the amyloid hypothesis. He recently used brain tissue preserved from an old amyloid study to learn how immune cells called microglia can clear those plaques and then switch to helping the brain heal, possible clues for improving today's modest therapies. For now, amyloid clearly is implicated somehow and families with Alzheimer's-causing genes are helping answer a critical question for anyone at risk: Can blocking amyloid buildup really stave off symptoms? Without NIH funding, Bateman said, that opportunity will be lost. “It’s absolutely insane,” said longtime study participant June Ward, who lives near Asheville, North Carolina, and plans to ask friends to complain to lawmakers. Ward turns 64 in June and is healthy, two years older than when her mother's symptoms appeared. “It is exciting to think about the possibility that Alzheimer’s disease might not be what gets me,” she said. In New York, Heinrichs said he has hope that his 3-year-old son won’t “experience the stress and sorrow that I lived through as a young man to watch my father fade away.” “We need the NIH to be not politicized,” added Chavkin, his wife. “It’s just about keeping people alive or helping them live better. And in this case, it’s helping my husband survive.”

Not at all, but it sures bothers dummies like you..

No, that would be you, you've been practising again?

TDS much?

I actually like many of Trump's policys but not all of them..

Wrong as usual, I can't stand lots of things, doesn't mean I hate them.

Post where I said I hated Trump? I said I can't stand Trump, I don't HATE anyone even a fool like you.

AI

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