The Lotus Effect
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179 - Cowcakke Festival
2025-04-12
Your favorite petalheads discuss sucralose, the immunity debt hypothesis, apple cider vinegar, memory, feeding the world, drink your weed, AI generated lawyers, cicadas, and yay or nay on ricotta in your lasagna.
“Sit down, strap in, shut up, and listen!” — Pheonix
Health:
- Common artificial sweetener makes you three times hungrier than sugar
- Global study supports the immunity debt hypothesis for flu after COVID restrictions
- 7 Benefits of Apple Cider Vinegar Before Bed
- A simple, science-backed way to sharpen thinking and improve memory
Happiness:
- Tony Robbins’ 100 Billion Meals Challenge Secures First 30 Billion Meals, Redefining Global Hunger Relief Efforts
- Ambulances Gifted by India Have Helped Sri Lanka Save 1.5 Million Lives
Tales from Rideshare/Toast and Jam:
Higher Consciousness:
- Oregon Officials Don’t Know If $46M Used To Fight The Unlicensed Marijuana Market Has Accomplished Anything
- THC-Infused Beverage Companies Are Recruiting 2,000 People To Drink Free Cannabis Seltzers As Alternative To Alcohol For A Study
- THC Beverage Study
Lotus Tech Tips:
- A 74-Year-Old Needed a Lawyer, So He Used an AI Avatar in Court. It Didn't Go Well.
- Microsoft: Windows 'inetpub' folder created by security fix, don’t delete
The Junk Drawer:
- Tesla Supercharger damaged in possible explosion in Washington
- THEY’RE BACK! GET READY FOR 17-YEAR CICADAS TO RETURN
Last Call:
- FDA: Popular Chocolate Bars Recalled Over ‘Small Stone’ Contamination
- Butter Recalled By Cabot Creamery—1,700 Lbs In 7 States
- Marijuana Consumers Say They’ll Increase Their Cannabis Use To Deal With The Trump Administration, Poll Shows
- How Costco’s CEO Went From Forklift Driver to Kirkland’s Final Signoff
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Credits:
- RevCyberTrucker for the Cavalcade of Stupidity!
- Mama T
- Wiirdo
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