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[News from Science @NewsfromScience]

Do your biceps turn heads? Do your pecs impress? If so, brawny reader, you may have your Neanderthal ancestry to thank for it.

In a new study, scientists identify a gene variant associated with human growth hormone that probably made our close evolutionary cousins stockier and burlier than modern humans.

What’s more, some people today have inherited that variant from a long-ago mixing between the two groups—and they tend to carry more lean muscle mass than those with the standard version of the gene.

Learn more: https://t.co/n06O4ye0AO

[Australian Femicide Watch @MapFemicide]

A man with a history of domestic violence has just been charged with manslaughter following the death of a 25-year-old woman in Smithfield, Qld, yesterday. She is the 44th Australian woman killed this year. It is understood he is NOT known to her. https://t.co/9B7LcaQfii

[Australian Femicide Watch @MapFemicide]

A man murdered a 23-year-old woman in Charleville, Queensland, yesterday. He ended his own life. A child was at the property when he killed the woman.
She is the 43rd Australian woman killed this year.
https://t.co/9B7LcaQfii

[News from Science @NewsfromScience]

For decades, biology textbooks have enshrined a simple rule: DNA is made by copying a template. After one enzyme unzips a DNA double helix into separate strands, another called a polymerase builds a complementary sequence, base by base, for each strand. Presto: two copies of the original DNA.

But research into how bacteria defend themselves from viruses now shows this synthesis rule isn’t absolute.

A team describes a bacterial enzyme that synthesizes DNA without a nucleic acid template, using its own structure as a guide.

Learn more: https://t.co/bpVgr0KMdR

[Toilet Paper Australia @toiletpaperaus1]

We’ve started to notice something a little *odd* about One Nation’s Victorian candidates.

While One Nation announced 8 candidates this week, only 3 are listed on their website.

Now, this might be fair enough… but you can’t find most of them on socials.

[Neuroscience News @NeuroscienceNew]

Songs You Imagine Can Be Decoded Directly From Your Brain

A neuroscience study demonstrates that musical melodies imagined in the human brain can be decoded and reconstructed using surface electrode brain signals.

The study analyzed invasive brain activity from ten epilepsy patients undergoing clinical intracranial monitoring. Participants listened to the opening bars of familiar children’s songs, mentally imagined the continuation of the melodies, and subsequently hummed them aloud.

By targeting brain signals encoding relative pitch classes (such as do, re, mi), the research team successfully reconstructed the melodic contours of the imagined music over time. The findings provide direct neural evidence for internal musical representation and offer a foundation for developing music-based brain-computer interfaces for non-verbal populations.

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[Your prefrontal cortex @URamygdala2big]

@wargames4001 @viciousSid111 I was remiss to omit an emoji, my apologies. On the definition, it has morphed online, as many do. Seppo can be an attitude as well as a nationality. Race has never had anything to do with the term which is why I mistook your initial comment as a joke

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@SammyN1903 @wargames4001 @viciousSid111 🤷‍♀️ half of RWauspol have me blocked, can't take any of them seriously

[Your prefrontal cortex @URamygdala2big]

@wargames4001 @viciousSid111 It's fascinating how we lose our sense of humour when we're frustrated

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@wargames4001 @viciousSid111 Seppo is a state of mind, R¡O

[The Noisy Elephant @TheNoisyTrunk]

Dave Hughes ' latest spray. Oh fuck, he took Andrew Leigh @ALeighMP on- not a smart move, Hughesy. He has more smarts in his underpants than you have dry skin flaking off.

Dave Hughes latest blurt: "@labor pouring more taxpayer money into the public service to buy votes is an economic death spiral." - How to have amnesia and make a cock of yourself in public by Dave Hughes.

Why is @DHughesy so spectacularly wrong?

Dear Dave,

To save you any further public embarrassment, have a quick read of this before your next spray.

You've conveniently left out the Scott Morrison government's (Yes, #AngusTaylor was part of it) favourite accounting trick: sack public servants, then pay private consultants to do the exact same work for more money.

The 2021–22 APS Audit found $20.8 billion was spent BY LNP on outsourced labour - the equivalent of nearly 54,000 full-time staff.

That's not shrinking government. It's changing who gets the taxpayer money while increasing the bill.

That's the part Angus Taylor is hoping people forget.

So no, cupcake, this isn't "vote buying". It's replacing an expensive outsourcing model with public servants who deliver the same services at a lower cost.

Read that last sentence again, Hughesy.

Same services. Lower cost.

Now... about that bath. Throw in some Fairy Liquid, pretend it's bubble bath, and wash off whatever Sky News has been spraying on you.

Dave: You have been educated, again, by an elephant. 𓃰. Off you fuck.

Dave Hughes illogical, dimwitted, fact-free zone, latest rant, for context - Link in replies.

[Your prefrontal cortex @URamygdala2big]

@kit3m4n

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@viciousSid111

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@Renyas672523 @gypsyranger War is hell

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@gypsyranger @Renyas672523 https://t.co/wr2nYSlUBA

[Your prefrontal cortex @URamygdala2big]

@Renyas672523 @gypsyranger Would you like a different reference?

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@Renyas672523 @gypsyranger Rhine Meadows (Rheinwiesenlager) and that figure is incorrect https://t.co/PxqKYlgKRT

[Sherele Moody (Femicide Researcher) 🌈 @ShereleMoody]

❤️SHE MATTERS: ELAINE GEE!❤️

GoFundMe: https://t.co/JWOkeNoo6q

Elaine Gee was just going for a drive. Now her husband and little boys face a lifetime without her because a man decided to be violent and reckless. Elaine died in hospital days after a man drove his vehicle into hers at Legana, Tasmania on July 24. He killed himself. Elaine is the 41st of 42 Australian women killed this year. Last year we lost 79 women to violence – the year before 106 women were killed.
Elaine may not have been the direct target of this man's violence but she is very much a victim of his violence.
Shortly before driving into Elaine's car, the repeat domestic violence offender stabbed a woman in Exeter. She suffered critical injuries and remains in hospital.
This is the complexity of violence in Australia - not every victim knows their killer and not every journey leading up to his actions are linear.
Elaine, a nurse at Launceston General Hospital, leaves behind a husband who loves her dearly and two sons whom adored and worshipped her.
"There are no clever words for it," Rodney Gee wrote in a tribute to his wife.
"This entire situation is just completely unacceptable, unfair and crap.
"So please, it is going to take all of us … to help me make the good boys we have raised together become the great men she knew they could be."
ELAINE GEE MATTERS!❤️

* You can help me get a Royal Commission into the Killing of Women and Girls by signing the petition using the link in my bio (Insta) or go to: https://t.co/Cxq1KK2zYy.

❤️ABOUT THE COUNT❤️
I document all Australian women & children lost to murder, manslaughter, neglect and other unlawful acts regardless of perpetrator gender or relationship to the victim. This means not all women and children killed are lost to domestic violence. They are also killed by people known to them (ie friends) or by strangers. My work includes Australians killed overseas. Every death is documented at https://t.co/DW9BTHvSrM (link in bio).

[Aaron Smith @aaronsmith]

Thank you, Dave. I appreciate you reaching out to ask what you got wrong.

The clip we’re discussing is less than 90 seconds long. What I’m about to do demonstrates Brandolini's Law: where the amount of energy required to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude greater than that required to produce it. Or, in this case, it takes around 600 words to correct 90 seconds of your economic fan fiction.

1⃣ Between 0 and 30 seconds

You begin by confusing government debt with the Future Fund and appear to suggest that the Future Fund can't exist along side Govt debt.

They’re different things. One can exist without the other, and in Australia they do.

Australia's Future Fund was established in 2006 with an initial govt investment of about $60B. Its first annual report, in 2008, showed assets of around $64 billion - not the $100B you suggested.

Then, at around 27 seconds, you talk about the Future Fund as though it ceased to exist (you used the word 'had' as in past tense).

It still very much exists Dave. In fact, it's grown every single year since it was created. Today it's worth around $270 billion, or over $330 billion once the other funds under management are included (eg Medical Research / Housing Australia / Drought).

So before we're even 30 seconds into the clip you've managed to confuse government debt, the Future Fund, its size, and whether it still exists.

That’s a lot of economic history to get wrong in under 30 seconds.

2⃣ Around 32 seconds

You then claim Kevin Rudd used the Future Fund to "flush money through the economy".

Again, that’s simply false. The Future Fund wasn't used to fund the stimulus. It wasn't used to build school halls. It wasn’t used for any of the things you’re describing. In your defence, you do briefly flirt with the possibility that you don’t actually know what you’re talking about. Sadly, it was a very short-lived relationship.

The GFC stimulus was funded through government borrowing.

For context, construction approvals were collapsing, more than a million Australians worked in construction, and the objective was to stop unemployment exploding during the worst global financial crisis in generations.

You're welcome to argue that was the wrong policy (but you didn't). You’re not entitled to rewrite where the money came from.

3⃣ At about 44 seconds

You say, "I might be wrong".

I concede you were correct during this part of the video.

4⃣ From 44 seconds onwards

You make a series of broad claims about the GFC response.

Yes, government debt increased. That's true.

What you omit is that Australia's stimulus largely went directly to households rather than primarily rescuing financial institutions, as happened in many other countries.

The aim was simple: keep people spending, businesses operating and Australians employed while global demand collapsed. It's known as counter-cyclical fiscal policy.

Whether you agree with it politically is your business.

The specific outcome for Australia isn't contested though - Australia was one of only two economies in the OECD to avoid recession during the Global Financial Crisis. There's no reality where that wasn’t a comparatively impressive outcome.

The money didn’t need to "trickle down". The entire point was that it started at the bottom.

5⃣ Government debt

Throughout the clip (and in life generally) you repeatedly return to the theme Labor is responsible for Australia’s debt (which btw is comparatively low).

Here are the actual numbers of net debt added by each Govt since 2007.

> Rudd/Gillard: about $190 billion over six years.
> Abbott/Turnbull/Morrison: about $366 billion over nine years, around two-thirds of which pre-dated COVID.
> Albanese: about $75 billion over four years.

Those figures don’t support the story you've been telling people. And that’s really the issue.

This isn't about getting one date wrong or misremembering one statistic. Nearly every claim in your 90-second clip turns out to be either wrong or misleading.

If you're going to publicly lecture Australians about economic history, the bare minimum expectation is that you’ve first acquainted yourself with it.

Because once the errors have been pointed out, as they have been to you multiple times, every repetition stops looking like an accident and starts looking like a strategy.

Given your very public coffee with Angus Taylor last week, perhaps people are entitled to ask what that strategy might be.

[Your prefrontal cortex @URamygdala2big]

Flerfers are always good for a #PFCfail but this thread might go down as a classic

[OzFlerf @OzFl3rf]

@TexasLucha @selbsman1 Yeah and I'm a fucking astronaut. Also it doesn't matter where a lake is, the water always finds it's level.
https://t.co/YWtcwTJ1OT