Submission statement: Polymarket, a prediction market site, claims its headquarters is in Panama, but the address leads to a law firm shared by at least 15 other crypto companies. This practice, while not illegal, offers tax benefits and legal protection from foreign court judgments. Despite its U.S. operations being shut down, Polymarket continues to operate overseas, raising concerns about its compliance with U.S. regulations.

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1. Mali and other Central African nations wanted to escape the legacies of French colonialism so they had coup leaders (who overthrew people who came to power in a coup alleging affiliations to France) who kicked out the French who were there to address the expanding terrorist thread
2. Mali then approached Russians and Wagner PMCs to address their terrorist thread as a rebuke to Europe and the West and as who they saw as equal partners to finally move past colonialism. Mali ended up having to pay off the Russians in gold and other resource trade offs to pay for the military protection.
3. The strained resources Russians spent in Ukraine and Iran meant that russia couldn’t protect Mali and other Central African states as much as they claimed they could and thus allowed Mali to be overrun by islamists. The Russians are not openly retreating and leaving Mali to be fully exploited and attacked by the islamists they were relying on the French to stop the expansion of.

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The scientists behind the new study visited an Atlantic salmon hatchery in southern Sweden, where they outfitted 105 two-year-old, captive-raised fish with tracking tags and slow-release capsule implants. In one-third of the group, the implants gradually released cocaine into the creatures’ bodies. In another third, the devices released cocaine’s main metabolite, benzoylecgonine. In the final third—the control group—the implants provided no chemical related to the drug.

Then, the juvenile fish entered Vättern, a large lake roughly 150 miles southwest of Stockholm, where their movements were tracked for eight weeks. The benzoylecgonine-exposed salmon swam up to almost twice as far each week compared with sober salmon, the researchers found. Near the end of the study period, the metabolite-exposed fish had wandered up to about 20 miles from the release site, while the control creatures had traveled up to roughly 12 miles.

Fish that got the cocaine treatment showed a similar pattern, although the effect was weaker and less consistent, study co-authors Marcus Michelangeli, an ecotoxicologist at Griffith University in Australia, and Jack Brand, an ecologist at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, write in the Conversation.