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Howdy folks! Welcome to the eve of the 4th of July!

I Voted For This

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Bans Rainbow Crosswalks

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy struck a blow at radical LGBTQ activism as “Pride Month” ended.

Duffy sent a letter to all 50 state governors, the D.C. mayor, and Puerto Rico’s governor, a letter which he also shared with The Daily Signal. Trump’s transportation secretary told the governors to work on removing distractions, including woke political symbols, from roads and intersections.

In the letter, Duffy wrote, “Roads are for safety, not political messages or artwork. Today I am calling on governors in every state to ensure that roadways, intersections, and crosswalks are kept free of distractions.”

He added, “Far too many Americans die each year to [sic] traffic fatalities to take our eye off the ball.” He assured the governors that the Transportation Department “stands ready to help communities across the country make their roads safer and easier to navigate.” Just this June, a Rhode Island man was reportedly arrested for leaving skidmarks on a rainbow crosswalk. Hopefully, Duffy’s new guidance will help the man as his case moves forward.

About time.

Disgusting

Pop Singer ‘Can’t Remember’ How Many Abortions She’s Had

“The pattern would be: Unfortunately, get pregnant, like, not want to be, have an abortion, then while I was sedated in said abortion, they’d give me a coil,” Oliver recalled, noting that she “can’t quite remember” why she ultimately got the IUD removed each time.
This is not the first time Allen has been forthcoming about the matter. In 2022, she received support from fans after revealing that she’d had an abortion in the past.
“I wish people would stop posting examples of exceptional reasons for having abortions,” she wrote via her Instagram Story at the time while advocating for the pro-choice movement. “Most people I know, myself included, just didn’t want to have a f-----g baby. And that is reason enough! We don’t have to justify it.”

Nice to know that you don't need any justification for murder.

Medical News You Can Use

Man suffered horrifying side effects after injecting himself with own sperm to 'cure back pain'

As doctor's examined him, they spotted that his arm was red and swollen and questioned the man about it.

It was then that they learnt that his back pain wasn't actually new and that he'd been injecting himself with semen for the last 18 months as an apparent 'cure' for his ongoing pain without proper medical advice.

According to ABC News, the unnamed individual had been using a hypodermic needle he'd bought online to inject himself and shortly before his hospital trip he'd administered three 'doses' at once.

He proceeded to undergo an X-ray which found that he had subcutaneous emphysema and a collection of semen in his muscle. The man needed urgent antibacterial treatment as a result.

Cleveland Clinic describes subcutaneous emphysema as 'a rare condition that happens when air gets trapped under your skin'.

So, uh, don't do that.

Musical Interlude

An oldie but a goodie. NSFW lyrics.

Stay Away

Dear New Yorkers: Texas Will Break You

Hey New Yorkers. I heard you're probably going to get an outright communist as your mayor. Zohran Mamdani sounds like a real peach, and the fact that he won the Democrat Primary and is well on his way to the mayor's office has made many of you fire up your Zillow account and start looking for homes out of state.

I don't blame you, but let me offer you some advice. You're probably going to be tempted to come to Texas because so many companies have moved here, and you feel like you could easily land a job. I could see why you'd think that, but let me tell you about Texas. 

You really don't want to move here. Texas is like Hell, only worse, because the living conditions here are so chaotic and difficult that the devil himself thinks it's a bit much. 

Let's start with the weather. People joke about how hot it is in Texas, but hot doesn't fully describe what happens here. Texas isn't just hot; the air is the essence of heat. When you walk outside, you have .02 seconds before you start sweating, even if you're in the shade. The humidity is so thick that you don't just walk through the heat, you swim through it. 

And that's during the fall. 

Can concur. Texas is horrible, you don't want any part of it. California, however, California is beautiful. Move there.

Deep Dive On AI Costs Vs Benefits

Bunk Costs

So let’s put all of those points together:

If you have a developer who can create $10m in value and you give him an AI he can create $20m in value in the same period, for a gain of +$10m. While they are rare by general population standards, $10m value developers are fairly common for competent people. If you give 20 of them a -4o class AI, the AI will have generated enough value to offset its training cost.

Any additional $10m value developers who use the AI are over-unity, and the thousands of $1m value developers add to the pile on. We haven’t even touched any business case beyond making the very best programmers more productive and we’ve already demonstrated that the concerns – or perhaps concern trolls – about recouping the cost are full of nothing but wind.

It's all Greek to me, but I know there are some of you who are into it.

Depressed? Trip.

Just one single dose of ‘magic mushrooms’ could relieve depression for 5 years, researchers find

Psilocybin, the main psychoactive ingredient in magic mushrooms, could alleviate depression for at least five years after just one dose, according to a new study.

The research, presented June 18 at the Psychedelic Science 2025 conference in Denver, followed up with patients who had been diagnosed with clinical depression — also known as major depressive disorder (MDD) — and had participated in a previous psilocybin treatment study in 2020.

“Most people who participated in our trial reported improvements in depression symptom intensity or in the ways in which they experienced depression in their life, lasting up to five years after the trial,” study co-author Alan Davis, director of the Center for Psychedelic Drug Research and Education at The Ohio State University, told Fox News Digital.

I've never taken 'shrooms, but I've always kinda wanted to try, just to see what it's like.

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