- A discussion of battlefield first-aid doctrine noted that in the Israeli Defense Forces “first aid” is deliberately limited to bleeding control and other simple, common-sense actions; more complex interventions such as IV insertion or tourniquet adjustment are reserved for trained medics and are not labeled “first aid.”

- Participants debated whether repeated plasma donation might reduce vaccine effectiveness over time, since donated plasma contains the donor’s circulating antibodies.

- Bryan Bishop shared an updated longevity-drugs spreadsheet (https://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/longevity/longevity-drugs.2021.xlsx) cataloging candidate compounds; others criticized the lack of inline citations and poor formatting when converted from .xlsx.

- Forest Johnson’s “pow-captcha” project (https://git.sequentialread.com/forest/pow-captcha) was introduced as a modern implementation of Hashcash-style proof-of-work to mitigate spam and bots, prompting jokes about wasted CPU cycles because it does not mine Monero.

- The Nuclear Weapon Archive (https://nuclearweaponarchive.org/) was linked as a reference resource, though no specific discussion of its content followed.