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Early on I wrote a script for my user account to run df and save the output to a file, then a second script to read that file and if the drive was full send me an email.

First, it failed because it couldn’t send the email because the email service failed under full disk conditions.

Second, it failed because it couldn’t write the file to disk because the disk was full.

Third, it failed because outbound SMTP was blocked by my ISP.

I learned a lot about how well you can fail if you really put your mind to it. Now I have Home Assistant grabbing the disk stats for my machines and flagging anything over 90%.

Indeed, future research needed, but definitely interesting.

That is my read of it too. The next question would be quantifying the effect in terms of duration and durability. If you have this depression of cortisol response from a one time set of exercise, how long does it take for that reduced response to fade? If you have one psychological stressor does that now reset your system and return you to the pre-exercise state?

I would also want to know about the levels for someone going from sedentary to low, mid, and high levels of activity. If you take someone from any of the 4 categories, sedentary, low, mid, and high activity, and then change their activity to one of the other levels what is the impact? For example if you change from a physical job to a less physical job do you have increased cortisol response to psychological stressors? What about parents as their kids move from requiring lifting and carrying to walking on their own? Could this be part of the terrible twos? What about people who have an injury and then become depressed?

Very interesting research, I will definitely be following it in future.

To be clear, people do this all the time with medications for suicidal ideation and depression. Those drugs are less effective at preventing suicide than gender affirming care in trans people. If we want to talk about the harms of a medical intervention we always need to keep the harms of the alternative in mind.

I take Warfarin and could therefore have a major bleed where I just don’t stop bleeding. I take it because if I didn’t I would have clotting which would lead to really bad outcomes like a stroke. The stroke is more likely without warfarin than the bleed is with the warfarin, so that is an overall lower risk.

In the same way, if you look at trans kids who are hitting puberty they have two paths, gender affirming care or not. The not path has lots of extra harms, including but not limited to suicide, self harm, depression, anxiety, and so on. The gender affirming care side has bone density issues during the period of puberty blockers, difficulties with accessing medical care, and much much lower rates of the harms available in the not path. The balance is clear, the experts agree, only a vanishingly small minority of politically and financially motivated people push the other way. The parallels to the climate change “debate” are clear. This is not reasonable and rational disagreement, this is ideological and not science based.

I will keep taking my warfarin and I hope the kids impacted by this keep taking their puberty blockers as long as that is beneficial for them.

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