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Health:

• 'Ozempic Babies': How Weight Loss Drugs Can Interfere with Birth Control and Boost Fertility
• $935 Diabetes Jab Can Be Made For Less Than $5, Study Suggests
• We wouldn't have Ozempic without Gila monsters — their hunger-regulating venom inspired weight-loss drugs
• A decade of aphantasia research: What we've learned about people who can't visualize

Happiness:

• Dog Named Hero Saves Owner’s Life for Days, Fighting Off Cold and Coyotes and Getting Help

Tales from Rideshare/Toast and Jam:

The Pursuit of a Higher Consciousness:

• Germany Approves Cannabis Reform Plan: Possession Legal April 1
• Proposed Tennessee Rules Seek To Close Hemp THCA Loophole
• Kamala Harris To Host White House Weed Policy Reform Summit With Fat Joe

Back of the Napkin:

• Apps secretly turning devices into proxy network nodes removed from Google Play
• TheMoon malware infects 6,000 ASUS routers in 72 hours for proxy service
• Here’s our first look at Apple’s in-the-box iPhone updating machine
• What we know about the xz Utils backdoor that almost infected the world

The Junk Drawer

• Immunity Rejected For Tennessee Deputy Who Turned A Traffic Stop Into An Impromptu Baptism

Dishonorable Mentions:

• Tennessee Senate Votes To Ban Chemtrails Because What Even The Fuck

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Credits:

• RevCyberTrucker for the Cavalcade of Stupidity!
• Wiirdo

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