New Research Suggests That Routine Dietary Supplements May Be Unnecessary or Even Harmful

In a new editorial in AOIM (otherwise known as the Annals of Internal Medicine), physicians say supplements don't do anything. Or better put: not only could supplements not prevent cancer, but could cause harm.

Supplements including vitamins B, C, and E, do not slow down, or stop cognitive decline in men.



High dose multivitamins will not stop heart problems.



Essentially, you're just turning your pee into very, very expensive, vitamin-enriched pee.

But, they did say that supplements do have benefits in certain situations.

In women who become pregnant, you should definitely take folic acid.



Iron supplements are also very important for pregnant women.



Vegetarians, or vegans need to eat foods that have B12, or take supplements (in that case).

Very interesting. It seems that the theme along this entire study is that the vitamins are not ultimately useless; it seems that when you are deficient in something, that's when you can definitely use it. But, when you are already getting enough, and you still think that "the more, the better", it doesn't actually work that way.

Musk's Vision: The Hyperloop

Elon Musk made a bunch of money when PayPal sold; and then he created Space X and Tesla Motors.



Not too long ago, he revealed the Hyperloop. He described it as the solar-powered, high-speed future of inter-city transportation.



Apparently, one of the reasons he was inspired to do this, was the high-speed train planned to be built between San Francisco and LA.



It's been greatly disputed; many people saying it is highly political. More importantly, it's going to cost seventy billion dollars!!!!!!!



Additionally, many people say that it's too expensive, too slow, and too impractical.

So, in walks in Musk's vision: the Hyperloop, aluminum pods enclosed inside of steel tubes that travel up to seven hundred miles per hour...



...that's too freaking fast!!!

According to Musk, the pods themselves would utilize air bearings to reach such speeds!

The Hyperloop would also utilize a low-friction pod system, in which Musk proposes, 70 pods would blast out every 30 seconds.



Regardless, the trip would take a super boring 30 minutes to complete.

Musk goes on to detail that 840 passengers can make the trip per hour.



His proposal paints a picture where an elevated track would run alongside the I-5 freeway in California, between Los Angeles and San Francisco.



The pods themselves would shoot air out, creating space between the pods and the track.



This creates the low-friction environment necessary for subsonic speeds, which will be achieved by an electric motor that would give the pod a boost every 70 miles. Just a little push.



For safety, the space between each pod would be around 5 miles; and of course, it would have emergency brakes. A lot of the train crashes that we read about every now and then, are because new systems have not been integrated.

Musk suggests that the price tag on the Hyperloop system would sit right around six billion dollars, but that's just for the people version. For an extra four billion dollars, the system would be able to ferry cars from LA to San Fran as well.

Paraphrasing, instead of a seventy billion dollar train, Mr. Musk believes he can do this for six billion dollars. Or, for ten billion, if they made the larger Hyperloop that people could drive their cars on. That'd be extra-large (pods) and awesome!!!

No one's stepping up to the plate to make this happen quite yet; and if no one does, Musk says he'll throw the time and money into building a prototype himself.

And, if it does become a reality, and it works, and people don't die in fiery, subsonic disasters, then the world would see these popping up between big cities everywhere. As long as they're no more than 900 miles apart according to Musk...



...any more than that, and it'd be cheaper just to sit your ass at home, and do whatever you want to do.

The Republican Party's Pretty Unpopular Right Now

During the U.S. government shut-down, a Gallup poll showed that the Republican party is now less popular than they have been in the history of Gallup polls.



That's since 1992, and it's even worse than the Bush-era in 1999; then they at least had 31% of the American population viewing the party favorably.



Currently, it's 28%.



Interestingly, this wasn't partisan. In fact, this poll shows that Republicans themselves are twice as likely to look at their own party unfavorably. Meaning, come election time there may be a massive shift in who Republicans will be voting for.

Pacu: The Terrific Testicular Thief

The Pacu is a relative of the Piranha and is currently growing in numbers. The freshwater fish has been known to cause fishermen to bleed to death (in certain areas where it's prevalent), after attacking their genitals.

The fetish fish whose small mouth is prone to grabbing hold of fishermen's testicles can grow to 90 centimetres and 25 kilograms; which (for everyone who has a scrotal sac) converts to nightmares.



The testicle-munching fish is known lovingly as a ball cutter due to its bloodthirsty, vengeful attacks on the testicles of innocent fishermen and skinny dippers.



These plum pluckers have been found in the Amazon and several states in the U.S., including Texas.

Henrik Carl, official (fish) expert at the National History Museum in Denmark, stated:



Ha!

He went on to say:



Lmao!

And he later added:



Personally, I always ere on the side of testicle safety, and you should too. Whether male or shemale, keep your rollers safe. Watch out for jewel snatchers. I personally leave my volleyballs in a peanut butter jelly jar before I go swimming. It's only mandatory (for me); and thankfully, mine's detachable.

Incase you've had one of your nuts bitten off, I've got a third testicle to spare. But, if you've lost all two of them teabags then I'm afraid I can't help you.

So, when you're done checking your bits, lemme know if this freaks you as much as it does me, in the comments section down below. Also, while you're down there, please click the share button.

Google Self-Driving Cars: Technology Advance and Humans

In the not-too-distant future, there will be a fleet of self-driving cars that'll take people to different destinations.



I read an article on TechCrunch that predicted a future: 2023.

The concept that I don't actually have to drive while I'm in my car; maybe I could get more work done; maybe I could sleep, or anything; it's nothing short of amazing. It's absolute awesomeness.



It's not that crazy of an idea, Google Ventures is already an investor, and Uber, which is a car-service. I imagine legislation has been put into place where a human driver doesn't really need to be in the car, with a self-driving car (across locations). You can then use your handy-dandy Uber app, the car shows up, and there's no driver, the car would drive you to wherever you want, you input it. You won't even need to have any unwanted conversation, there's probably Wi-Fi in the car, you click to browse, and it's apparently safer because the technology has advanced so far. So far that the car can drive you to the airport and then drive itself back home, to take your lady to the grocery store.



It's all amazing things, except for the guy that'd normally have driven that car. Looking back, it's kind of history at this point: technology taking place of humans. That guy who'd normally have that job to support his family, no longer has that option.



And it ultimately wouldn't stop at taxi drivers, proportionately all transportation. So, you'd make the obvious jump to truck drivers. Literally, these guys can travel across a country with no sleep.



Basically, these truck companies won't have to pay self-driving trucks overtime (which is how human truck drivers feed their families). At the end of the day, your end result is a business owner who does not have to pay human employees; pay their health insurance; worry about their leave and their schedule; and you have a bunch of people out of their jobs.

Realistically, you (assuming you're the one in charge of the truck company with self-driving trucks) wouldn't be able to fire everyone, but you'd fire pretty much all of your drivers, and then hire a few other people to keep track of trucks.

The way I see it, in the future, affirmative action will no longer be about hiring a specific color or race. It'd definitely be about having a minimum amount of humans working on your force.

The Height of Incest

I had to blog about U.S. Marine Stephen Lewis. He was a private first class stationed at Camp Pendleton in Southern California; who apparently loved mirror selfies.



He was arrested for trying to arrange to have sex with an entire family.



The only problem is that when he tried to make this arrangement on the incest website: family4love.com, the man he was talking to was in fact, an undercover Homeland Security agent.



Then to take a deeper dive into the oh-that's-disgusting, I got the text exchange:



Later, the undercover asked Lewis what fantasies he would want fulfilled with his daughter, and he replied:



Lol, creepy pedophiles! Just like everybody else.

And then there was this exchange about how he would want to buy masks at Walmart, and sex toys at a place near Walmart, blah blah blah. It's all weird, and I try not to pass judgement on sexual things (for obvious reasons).

Ultimately, what happened was that Lewis drove 400 miles to meet this father. When he got there, he was arrested. They found the masks and sex toys in his car, so he wasn't just talking. As well as submitting a child pornography on his computer and his phone.

For some strange reason, this makes me terrified to ever have children; and also, the fact that this arrangement was being made means that in the weird country of the United States, people actually do this!

This is way too terrifying and awful. No amount of Clorox can undo this now (together with the gory #ALUU4 video images in my head; not to mention the tons and tons of hardcore pornographic material).

The Amazing Awesomeness of Bionic Limbs

Zac Vawter lost his leg in a motorcycle accident years ago and he never thought he'd be able to walk normal again. But today he can, because Vawter is a test pilot for a U.S. Army funded study on bionic limb technology. He's been fitted with the leg that comes from the rehabilitation center of Chicago's Center for Bionic Medicine.



They've described this as a mind-controlled leg. There's not a lot of buttons. There's not a lot of craziness. It's something that connects to two nerves in his leg...



...and when he thinks that he wants to stand up (like anyone else would), he stands up...



...when he thinks about his knee bending, it bends...



...when he wants to walk straight...



...when he wants to walk up and down some steps...



...he just thinks about it and it happens.

As of right now, they say the limb is close to flawless...



...with just a 1.8% rate of error.

Additionally, they said the only negative to this, is that the foot is not ready for running.

Ultimately, the fact that this exists, and it could be ready for the 1,200 plus veteran soldiers who lost limbs in Afghanistan and Iran; not to mention, after that the general public. I think that this is just too damn good.