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Logos reflect the ambient cultural trends. This is the Butthole Age

I believe that the “thought process” of humans is just another automatic process albeit more sophisticated because it is running on a far more powerful processor that has evolved over millions of years and was honed by many more years of fine tuning in a complex social system. The difference is only a matter of degree.

looks like a screw up in some farm(s)/processing plant(s), possibly exacerbated by heat and rain. It is going to be hard to identify the source. If I was in America, I would stop consuming fresh produce (it is really hard to ensure parasite-free produce no matter who you wash it). Wondering if this has already spread to Canada!

As a daily user of Homebrew for > 10 years, thanks for all your hard work.

Not sure it did. Look at what happened to the Quebec economy in the last 40 years or so.

This was a bone that Smith threw to the extreme right (by Canadian standards) wing of her base. Even Quebec, with its stronger claim to nationhood, found it hard to disentangle itself from Canada, so it is unlikely that Alberta will succeed. But, it will still pay a price like Quebec did; businesses and people do not like secession politics, and the infighting is likely to be bruising. Smith's conservative party, as well as the federal conservatives (also led by a unpopular Albertan, may also pay a price (arguably they have already did with defections of their MPs to the Liberal party). So, all in all, this looks like another unforced error by the Canadian right.

Is that you Luna?

Great! I was worried that we might run out of inhumane CEOs

I recall reading that ~30% of humans have evidence of toxoplasmosis. But, it is unclear whether that is harming their intelligence. Statistically, cat owners have higher IQ than dog owners (pls do not shoot the messenger unless you want to provide further evidence of the validity of this observation).

this is a good way to lose a toe or two

"Nothing in the governing statute supports the Orwellian notion that an American company may be branded a potential adversary and saboteur of the U.S. for expressing disagreement with the government." Well.. we live in Orwellian times.

A small price for demonstrating that our El-Douche is always right and a stable genius.

Let them eat foie gras! It was only a matter of time before they started manipulating index funds too.

Apparently, Trump was told that the Iran war is 10 to 1 (politically) winning for him. What do you think are the real odds now?

I see everyone now in the Administration is implementing the "Art of the Deal" tactics. The same tactics that bankrupted every project Trump did.

I believe 'grift' is a recent alternation of 'graft': https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/usage-in-the-midst-v...

None of these alternative statues give Trump what he wants and what he used the IEEPA for, which is unlimited power to use tariffs to force specific countries to comply with his edicts and more importantly to stop laughing at him. The SCOTUS took that away leaving him with the only other kind of power that he knows how to use: missiles and war ships. The next few months may prove disastrous for the US and for the world.

We have been here before many times. Nutritional epidemiology studies have a terrible track record of establishing causal relationships (e.g., Beta-carotene and lung cancer, selenium and prostate cancer, etc all were not replicated when the definitive clinical trials were done). The problem is that statistical models with questionable and often untestable assumptions are used, but the results are reported as if these models were fault-less. The result is overly optimistic estimates of statistical significance and inflated confidence in study findings.

This remains uncontrolled and unblinded experiment complicating the interpretation of the results. For instance, can you be sure that any changes you might see are not caused by (e.g., hormonal, behavioural) changes induced by your knowledge that you just received 10x the average amount of microplastics?

For a "little" speech, it is all people seem to talk about; e.g., it was mentioned few times in the comments above. And, yes, one can be on the board of a public company and still make valid and consequential analyses. Hell, one can be a convicted fraudster and at the same time become the president of a superpower. My point, you could belittle Canada, EU, China etc but it is going to solve the US's intractable problems.

Yes. If emergency services were run by a private company, like airlines for example, they will never ever be 30 minutes late!

Mark my words. Few years from now , all who had the power to stop the genocide will claim that they were the ones who were warning us about it but we were not interested. History will be rewritten to highlight how morally ambiguous the situation was and how the perpetrators had no choice but to kill everyone. War is peace. Genocide is love.

.. and only if myriad of other assumptions (many are unstated) hold.

I experienced similar challenges writing a music engraver app. I ended up rewriting it in Go in fifth the time. I think Rust is trying to solve a really difficult problem (certifying total memory safety at compile time) by exposing faulty assumptions about our code. But the problem is that in real programs, the interplay between correctness, safety, ease of maintenance and performance considerations is not a mathematical equation that can be solved at once by fixing the values of certain parameters. Often, what is needed is the ability to quickly experiment and rule out all the dead-end designs and algorithms which is really hard to do when you are changing multiple parts of your program while wrestling with the borrow checker all the way.

As a physician, I can tell you that euthanasia has been always around in every society and at all times. MAID just made the arrangement formal. Before MAID, it was implemented by withdrawing life-saving treatments (usually due to side-effects), rising doses of narcotics (for painful conditions) or even "terminal sedation" (the most explicit form of euthanasia before MAID-like laws).(And of course, patients always had the option of taking their own lives). In any healthcare system, there has to come a point where patients (and their families) and their doctors decide to terminate efforts aimed at extending life. In most cases, MAID is just a way to shorten the unpleasant interval between that decision and death. Given all that, it is not that surprising that 5-7% of deaths are attributed to MAID. The debate about MAID is another example where a lot of otherwise rational people fall prey to misguided sloganeering.

I think this study adds to growing evidence that aging doesn’t progress linearly. There’s less evidence supporting a specific inflection point for aging. If aging is like any other biological process, it’s likely to vary a lot between individuals depending on genetic, lifestyle and environmental factors and within an individual between different tissues. Until we develop accurate measures of tissue aging, there’s much we can do other than live as well as we can and as hard as possible.

We get plenty of sensations from our internal organs; just ask anyone who had kidney stones. The sensations may or may not feel like pain, but the internal organs are definitely not silent. The issue of referred pain is mostly related to organs sharing nerve supply at the spinal level, e.g., the liver and the left shoulder.

Is it possible that the pro-schizophrenia genes persist because they offer other (non-neurological) benefits, e.g., lower risk of cancer? Siblings of patients with schizophrenia are less likely to develop cancer, and in several studies these patients had lower risk of developing cancer despite higher prevalence of smoking.

Thanks Obama! singing terrible bills even after he left office.

Was it AI? Was it NS?