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The medical fields are more nearly unionized and therefore don’t have the h1b/scab labor used as a lever to erode their job (career?) security problem to quite the same extent. Tech workers are too important for our national competitiveness to be allowed that same level of job security.

This reminds me of that old-web website that sold human meat. Human depravity no’s no bounds.

No. Health related fields or something like that would be more sensible.

“half of the patients who are treated with cholesterol-lowering drugs stop taking them within a year”

Wow, that’s extremely counterintuitive based on everything I’ve heard from actual doctors (as opposed to influencers) about how great statins are and how rarely they result in real side effects (as opposed to nocebo effects).

Seems like they are doing this now just to distract from the Tucker/Epstein controversy.

You can read comments instead.

The argument against mice was the same they made about cigarettes. TBH, I take NAC regularly, but I understand the risks as should others who take it.

Covid exists and there are claims which I suspect are at least directionally correct that getting regular vaccines (within 3 months of exposure iirc) can reduce some symptoms and prevent what seem to be rare complications. But, my doctor and my insurance company are not suggesting I get these boosters?/vaccines?, and they have a vested interest and better ability to weigh the evidence and make decisions about what pharmaceuticals they recommend as that’s their profession and making mistakes about it poses an existential risk for them. But I’m in a very low risk area and reasonably low risk so ymmv. Even the frail elderly people I know aren’t being vaccinated despite their thirst for it and fear of Covid. Personally, I worry a lot more about candida auris than I worry about covid.

You probably also would argue smoking cigarettes doesn’t cause cancer? Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.

Edit: to connect the dots:

How mice studies are used

Experiments on mice have helped scientists understand how the carcinogens in cigarette smoke damage DNA and cause cancer, which complements epidemiological data from human studies. These animal studies have been crucial in establishing the link between smoking and cancer since at least the 1950s.

I believe Fauci knew enough to know that herd immunity wasn’t a real probability when he was on the news talking it up as the way we “return to normalcy”. Will there ever be a public trial to disprove my belief and vindicate what seem like glaring mistakes as honest scientific naivety rather than misguided public health messaging strategy? Maybe. But it seems few are interested in the actual historical facts and would rather let sleeping dogs lie, bygones be bygones, since it’s all water under the bridge anyway and we have new things to fear like book banning and transgender athletes and Tucker platforming people who think Macron’s wife’s a dude. I’m inclined instead to believe knowledge is power, history repeats itself and governments should be transparent and accountable, even if it means putting our kings on trial.

You have reached a different conclusion than I, viz that Fauci had no way of knowing his comments about herd immunity were potentially misleading, and that the variants were a complete surprise to him and that the unlikely goal of herd immunity was not really part of the definition of vaccines as we have come to know them. You and I will have to live in our different worlds. If you want to give your infant thrice yearly Covid boosters in perpetuity I totally support your right to do that. Hopefully you support my right to disagree and base my own decisions on my own reading of the literature (which isn’t as suppressed for many decades to come)?

“Sayin VI, Ibrahim MX, Larsson E, Nilsson JA, Lindahl P, Bergo MO. Antioxidants accelerate lung cancer progression in mice. Sci Transl Med. 2014;6:221.”

There’s more but that’s just one example.

Is Fauci not a scientist? Was he not the leading proponent of the belief that the COVID vaccines would work via herd immunity? You are probably just misinformed, as most folks seem to be. Anyway, verify don’t trust is simple enough for you and I both.

Here is what Google says, “Yes, early in the pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci implied that classic "herd immunity" against COVID-19 was a possible and desirable goal that could be achieved through widespread vaccination. He hoped the U.S. could attain this "umbrella of protection" by late spring or early summer of 2021, which would allow society to approach normalcy.”

A noble lie is still a lie.

No. They lied, well one person specifically who I’ll refrain from naming because he is a lightening rod for controversy, lied by implying that herd immunity was possible and that it was the goal. It was the precise reason I took the vaccine and the precise reason I tried hard to convince many younger low risk friends to take “the” vaccine. It was 100% a lie, and that’s a matter of record.

I used to think vaccines were about herd immunity. That was what they taught me in elementary school. When our leading authority told me that herd immunity was the goal of the new covid vaccinations, and that herd immunity was entirely possible if even low risk people like myself and certain friends and family members just took “the” vaccine I totally believed him and worked hard to spread the word, believing vaccination and herd immunity to be everyone’s civic responsibility. Then I was told it wasn’t one vaccine, but different vaccines and that they would be needed at least bi-yearly or maybe even quarterly, and that the definition of vaccine was being adjusted to reflect “new science” rather than “old science” about herd immunity, and that vaccines don’t stop transmission anyway, that’s just silly “old science”. I have adapted my behavior accordingly. I feel enormous guilt for my part in spreading (the official) disinformation. Now I tell people, don’t trust, always verify.

NAC causes cancer in humans.

TP-link are definitely the worst of the worst. My cousin insisted they were fine as long as you kept the firmware updated, but then he lost all his bitcoins to hackers. TP-link, never again.

“name phở could have come from pot-au-feu”

Didn’t know that. The French also make consommé which is a very luxurious, very clear beef broth. I prefer Bun Bo Hu, but it’s not as easy to find good examples, even in my area.

Unless you’re a protected “vulnerable” group in which case everything, from health care to rent to Taco Bell is free, paid for by the middle class who are too poor to have children or own homes, or get decent healthcare.

Pm2.5 is a specific particle size, yes, we do agree on that. Importantly, it is also a common measurement used in assessing air quality. In that context it is typically composed of particles from a set of common sources, like wildfires, industrial sources, automobile pollution, etc…. It is, in the context of air quality monitoring, never composed of amino acids. It seems valid to make claims about pm2.5 and health, even though the claim does not distinguish wildfire pm2.5 from pm2.5 from automobile pollution or other sources. Maybe I misunderstood you to be saying otherwise.

pm2.5 is a metric used in assessing air quality. Amino acid aerosols are not a source of air pollution.

As I understand it you are incorrect. Salt from sea breeze is pm10 not pm2.5. My information may be inaccurate but google backs it up.

If more capitalists were Christian it might. I mean there are capitalists and then there are capitalists.

I don’t know. Pm2.5 by definition doesn’t include gasses and as I understand it the issue is that the particulate matter, whatever it happens to be, gets in the bloodstream. Is there any particulate matter of that size that is not neurotoxic once it enters the bloodstream? I don’t know the answer but it seems like a legitimate question.

There are others. Ferlingetti as just one example had some great stuff. That was the critical lesson for me: you have to evaluate works by big names with self blinding to the person’s reputation. Real life reviews aren’t that different from yelp. I ask myself, is a work good on its own, not because of who did it or what other people tell you to think or how often you hear the artist’s name referenced. Doing so opens a whole world of beauty and saves you from so much dreck and wasted time. So much is overrated and so much is underrated. There’s a lot to gain by understanding that and then seeking to refine one’s own sensitivity to what is good.

As a youngster I was really into Burroughs. He was presented to me by older people as great writer, a cool artistic sort of person like Andy Warhol or Jackson Pollok, but in the literary sphere. When you’re young you don’t have life experience yet, so if someone gets enough critical praise, you think they must be great. Boy is it hard growing up and realizing that not only does the emperor have no clothes, but the people you idolize are morally, intellectually and artistically bankrupt. I still really adore some of Ginsburg’s poems, there are some real gems in the dross. But Ginsburg was a legit pedo. Kerouac was an overrated drunkard. Burroughs killed his wife and seemed to have little to no remorse, arguably he was a sociopath. As you note, as a group they were horrible people, abusive parents, drunkards, pedophiles, junkies, but for me the most difficult realization was that they were artistic frauds and really not very talented, and even worse, that everything presented to me by authority figures about aesthetics and culture was complete bullshit. But that is the best sort of liberation, and the beats would approve of liberation from the baggage of the past so it sort of goes full circle.

Exploring other z drugs (Lunesta, sonata), Benzos, thc, cbd, trazodone, Doxipin, belsomra, gabapantin, whisky, Dramamine, and herbal additions to higher dose melatonin (10mg+) and magnesium glycinate/threonate, like ashwaganda, valerian, gaba, passionflower, hops, lemonbalm, California poppy, jujube seed, chamomile/apigenin, myoinositol, taurine, higher dose glycine, theanine, 5htp (be careful), tryptophan (be careful), nighttime vitamin d, anti-hypertensives, arginine, supplemental oxygen, nsaids, red light therapy and placebo effects may be worth trying alone or in various combinations.

I’ve been told repeatedly by high ranking members of the apple support forum to never look at logs. Only schizos and idiots look at the logs they said. Even experienced apple developers don’t look at the logs I was told. This makes me question everything about apple support, especially the “geniuses” that work at the Apple Store.

We do that already so I’m not sure what you’re talking about.

SNAP should be the last thing that gets reformed, aside from its tendency to fund less than ethical corporations (coca-cola, big agribusiness, Taco Bell). On that I totally agree.

The wealthy boomers who own multi-million dollar California track homes and don’t pay taxes because of prop 13, who are consuming millions on quasi-necessary medical procedures because they partied too hard in the 70s, gorged on trans fats in the 80s, smoked drank and didn’t go for walks, that’s where entitlement reform should start. But those are the base of one, maybe both parties and will vote out anyone that refuses to subsidize their ozempic and knee surgeries. They will even vote to reduce democracy by gerrymandering the state to block third party candidates and ensure nobody can come for their unnecessary health care costs and other ballooning entitlements.