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- Comment on It's true... 6 days ago:
Thanks for sharing, otherwise I wouldn’t even have thought of this. It’s so infuriating :(
- Comment on It's true... 6 days ago:
Severe obesity (body weight over 200 lbs.) or severe wasting
Wait what? I converted 200 lbs to kg and it should be equal 90 kg. This isn’t severely obese. I weigh much more and do stuff like bouldering.
Anyways, doesn’t even matter because it is important to also train on fat bodies. Because otherwise we face the same problems medicine has with ignoring female and black bodies. Most studies have just been on white, able-bodied male bodies. To actually treat all bodies with the best care, medical professionals should be trained on all types of bodies!
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 1 week ago:
Wait what? Clovers are a species of Trifolium in the Fabaceae (legume family), but sorrel refers to the leaves of Rumex species in the Polygonaceae. What are you referring to?
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 1 week ago:
Apiaceae are generally very hard to tell apart. Sure, the common hogweed is relatively easy to ID if you know the plant well enough. But there are sooo many species in this family that all have small white flowers and similar looking leaves…
- Comment on sadtrombone.wav 1 week ago:
Natural cave systems don’t have as many animals in them either, because there are just not enough nutrients around for larger populations to establish. (Exceptions are to this are caves where birds or bats nest in large colonies and there you can find huge populations of other animals feeding on the feces for example.)
I don’t think the spiders necessarily feed on pillbugs though. At least I haven’t observed that yet. I’d think spiders would either feed on other spiders or on any flying insects getting in the garage.
Oh and something new I’ve learned from Wikipedia about pillbugs:
They have also been observed eating wood supports in houses, making them a house pest.
Maybe check for that if there are so many in your garage?
- Comment on sadtrombone.wav 1 week ago:
Believe me, there are many other animals, you just don’t see them ;)
- Comment on Just hear me out 1 week ago:
Still an ugly plant imo…
- Comment on I'm so ready. 1 week ago:
I mean, who said you have to watch it on apple’s streaming service. The pirated stream is just to clicks away anyways…
- Comment on Mary E. Brunkow, one of this year's Nobel Prize winners in Medicine, has only 34 published papers and an H-index of 21. 1 week ago:
Adding to what the others have said: I think Hossenfelder is also an example of chasing YouTube popularity. And apparently many people are really into this anti-science, right-wing stuff. It probably also aligns somehow with her own values, but I’m pretty confident that this is beneficial to her streaming business.
- Comment on sadtrombone.wav 1 week ago:
Your garage is basically like a natural cave and there are some species adapted to live in caves, such as various species of pillbugs, spiders, millipedes, … The isopod living in garages are mostly scavengers/detritivores, meaning they mainly eat dead or dying animals falling into your garage or other organic material they can find. They basically clean up for you.
- Comment on Don't forget to turn purple and remove your arms 1 week ago:
Hm yes, I’m a very anxious person myself so that makes sense.
My theory for why I have to pee so often (not only lying down) is also that it was a strategy for me to cope with a very controlling household growing up where my needs were frequently dismissed or ignored.
- Comment on when hell freezes 1 week ago:
Yes, that’s why I said lifespan. That’s what the cited paper is about and it even goes to great lengths to exclude deaths by battles etc. But well, you seem to have made up your mind and not being open to expand your perspective. Annoying, but ultimately your problem. For me this discussion is over, bye.
- Comment on when hell freezes 1 week ago:
What you said about the nobility in medieval times interested me, so I looked into it:
In this paper they’ve looked at over 130,000 people in the European nobility between 800-1800 and found that there was an upwards trend in lifespan from around 50 to 60 years excluding violent deaths. So no, I don’t believe many people got 80 years old back then even though they had the best care of that time.
And what you say about our modern world regarding cancer rates etc is simply not something we’ve conclusively solved yet.
- Comment on when hell freezes 1 week ago:
Well, modern medicine builds on top of natural remedies, but it has standardized it and brought it to a whole new level. People get incredibly old and survive many diseases thought of as incurable a hundred years ago because of modern medicine. Just looking at the similar ingredients in some medicine and nature is not helpful but naive.
- Comment on Don't forget to turn purple and remove your arms 1 week ago:
Doing meditation or other relaxing exercise on my back is usually not so relaxing because of it :/
- Comment on Don't forget to turn purple and remove your arms 1 week ago:
Same, if I lay on straight my back for just a minute my bladder will start to nag me to go to toilet and it doesn’t matter that I’ve just peed a couple of times in the last half an hour…
- Comment on when hell freezes 1 week ago:
Ugh, at first they obviously sound pretty cool, but I feel like they are all about the aesthetic of changing the world, but with no actual approach to do so.
We relate to them because they had to stand by with their cannabis in their bag while the old white doctors came and put leeches on the son—the king’s epileptic son—when they had the medicine for that… In the same way, we have to stand back with our medicine and watch chemo and radiation sometimes kill people without the benefit of restoration from healing plants.
Nope, telling people with cancer just to smoke pot in actually doing cancer treatment is really bad and causes unnecessary deaths. Also, you aren’t like actual healers back then who had so much more experience in what they did.
We make medicine on a full moon and basically it’s more feminine for us to do it by moon cycle. Each product that we make comes with a sticker on the bottom to show what moon cycle we made it in. It’s a way of us coming together with the plant and Mother Nature and having that meditative time—being with the plant and making the medicine under the full moon. It just does something to us.
Like I said, it’s all about the aesthetic, not much else…
Big Pharma has caused a lot of heartache, and a lot of deaths, and a lot of unnecessary treatments where people have exacerbated their incomes and their financial ways of living—especially the poor, the marginalized, the people that can’t have access to this plant
Big pharma sure is evil, but instead of just blindly trusting in one plant to cure all and throwing all of medicine’s knowledge out we could also fight for systemic change and free medicine from the grasp of capitalism.
- Comment on when hell freezes 1 week ago:
Depends to what kind of church you go to. There are really nice old churches in Europe and even when they have a mass it is pretty relaxing, because European church service is much more boring than it is in most churches in the US I’d think. Basically just a person speaking in a monotone voice for an hour and sometimes everyone sings slow, monotone songs.
- Comment on Are you feeling lucky? 2 weeks ago:
Damn that’s good!
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Just to be clear:
1/4 of all mammal species are bat species.
But only a tiny fraction of all mammals are bats.
Or this might be a giant conspiracy and there are trillions of bats living in underground cave systems and only come out when no one is watching!
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
My thought exactly!
- Comment on Scientists identify fusion point of Robertsonian chromosomes, hinting at how chromosomes evolve 2 weeks ago:
Interesting read! Thanks for sharing :)
- Comment on help 2 weeks ago:
Would be nicer with a photo where you can actually see the leaves in detail ;)
- Comment on Become irresistible to women 3 weeks ago:
Wow, never heard of Gnetum until now. Incrediblethat it is in the Gymnosperms while looking so much like an Angiosperm :O
- Comment on LOOK AT THIS NERD 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’m pretty sure you’re right. But what is new to me is that they apparently molt only halfway?
- Comment on tortoise beetles are hella tite 3 weeks ago:
I mean, these are leaf beetles, so you would probably only need their host plant(s) and a controlled environment. But there are 3000 species in this subfamily that all look different. If you are talking about this specific beetle here, it is probably Stolas imperialis, which is a Brazilian species. So you would need to have access to this beetle first, probably deal with very strict export/import regulations and then also do the same for the beetles host plant(s)…
- Comment on Can't argue that. 4 weeks ago:
What has discipline got to do with it? I feel it’s pretty independent or may even get in the way of learning. If you force (discipline) yourself to learn something, it will feel much harder than if you do it out of joy. But maybe I didn’t fully understand what you were saying.
- Comment on The 2025 Ig Nobel Prize Winners 4 weeks ago:
Who parsed the text in the description? There are several mistakes that totally change the meaning of these. Bats impacted by pigeons and not alcohol, no mention of pasta sauce etc…
- Comment on Hello there 4 weeks ago:
It was more of a rhetorical question ;)
- Comment on Hello there 4 weeks ago:
Are the straights alright? Why not just plan a date together?