RecursiveParadox
@RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 1 week ago:
Are you me?
- Comment on Frick 2 weeks ago:
~Don’t kill spider friends please~
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah alas the subreddit for it did a lot of the heavy lifting for me - they took apart every study (I helped) and had some good sidebar (or was it pinned, been so long I cannot remember) info to counter the “dumb reactionary shit.” I am pretty sure the sub got baninated, but I haven’t been back to reddit since I rage quit after the API debacle.
When I first started vaping in 2011 (after smoking two packs a day for decades), there were a lot of solid, research-based web boards, but I think social media killed them, as it did so much.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 weeks ago:
I am someone who used to do medical research for a lot of money. I’ve interviewed chairs of FDA committees, trial designers, and active trial leads on phase III (mostly) research in pharma and biologics. I still have access to PupMed via my old friends.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 weeks ago:
My guy/gal/nonbinary pal: pls see the references in this medicpro.london/…/vaping-and-popcorn-lung-separat… Diacetyl has been widely banned since 2014 in all but the most trash Chinese vape juice, and quality vendors never used it in the first place.
Also the supposed cases of popcorn come from one source. Some dude in California who cut his cannabis juice with it, and in every single case the kids that got sick were using his juice in vape pens, not actually vaping. It’s Friday night here and I’d rather not track the story down but if you really want it I’ll find it.
As a former life long smoker, vaping (which is the front line treatment for cessation in the UK) saved my life. Now, however, the shops pushing disposable vapes with super high nicotine salts on to kids - which is illegal almost everywhere - they need to die in a fire. The kids don’t get hooked on "vape;’ they get hooked on nicotina because those damn things are the equivalent of smoking two or three regular cigarets in one puff.
- Comment on A look at search engines with their own indexes 2 weeks ago:
That was a good read, well done! I’d be interested if you ever reconsider Startpage. I’ve had good success with that on my work computer.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 weeks ago:
Data? No, because there is none. And I have read every.single.study. They are all fucked in some way or another whether it’s methodology or the stats or the sample size/composition. Not a single real in vivo study. None. There is exactly one researcher in Greece doing decent work, and that’s it. I took a career change from my previous and now present career and worked in pharma and biotech research.
- Comment on YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection 4 weeks ago:
There are days…
- Comment on YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection 4 weeks ago:
Shipping and petroleum - got an old Ikea Mercator map behind me for quick looks and estimations.
- Comment on YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection 4 weeks ago:
Shipping and petroleum - got an old Ikea Mercator map behind me for quick looks and estimations.
- Comment on YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection 4 weeks ago:
I’m in the one and only line of work where Mercator makes sense, and even I hate Mercator.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 5 weeks ago:
For work at any given point I have 17-20 tabs open. It’s totally useful for me to sort them into tabs to cut out the “noise” when I’m doing research.
- Comment on YSK: US Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem publically bragged about killing her puppy 5 weeks ago:
Not withstanding what @boddhisatva wrote in reply and in no way a defense of the meat industry, you’re missing the point.
The point is the woman demonstrably lacks any empathy and in fact appears to be a sociopath. She should never have been in any position of power over others, far less the position she holds now.
It’s about her, not the animals (as horrible as it was for these, and is for other, animals).
- Comment on ICE agents pointed guns at a US citizen when she walked out on to her yard to ask why they were arresting her (legal immigrant) partner. 1 month ago:
Of course it’s North Charleston.
- Comment on ICE agents pointed guns at a US citizen when she walked out on to her yard to ask why they were arresting her (legal immigrant) partner. 1 month ago:
So my objective person: you are saying you believe the word of ICE (which conveniently we do not even have) over a published article? Neither should be taken at face value, but who do you think is more likely to be telling the truth?
- Comment on America wants AI that doesn't care about misinformation, DEI, and climate change 1 month ago:
Brave of you to assume America will ever have free and fair elections again.
- Comment on America wants AI that doesn't care about misinformation, DEI, and climate change 1 month ago:
Recommendation: download wikipedia. While you still can.
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 1 month ago:
Man I took my kids off location sharing when they got their first phones at 12. Shit is creepy.
Just communicate!
- Comment on He suffered so we could learn from his mistakes 1 month ago:
This crate has NO HONOR!
- Comment on Reality vs Fantasy 2 months ago:
And all the prescriptivists just collapsed onto their fainting couches.
(I kid, nicely done. Also fuck prescriptivists.)
- Comment on The Wikipedia Test 2 months ago:
While 700k may look like a lot (and by most objective measures it is), the skill set needed to run a successful non/not for profit is actually quite unique no matter how big or small it is. They do not work not like “normal” CEOs. Replace caring about share price, and moving the share price up effectively versus caring about voluntary donations from people who get nothing out of but perhaps a tax break. And you’re competing not against other equities (stocks); you’re competing against other non/not for profits for limited money and attention.
Anyway, just saying I do not begrudge that level of compensation to the people running the last corner of the internet not filled with AI slop.
- Comment on The Wikipedia Test 2 months ago:
Yes see comment above.
- Comment on Why is cottage cheese the only cheese defined by some relationship to a building? 2 months ago:
I wasn’t going to get into how we form possessives; it will confuse and scare them.
- Comment on Why is cottage cheese the only cheese defined by some relationship to a building? 2 months ago:
GHOW-da is about the closest English approximation. The G sound is quite different in Dutch though.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Doing the lord’s work here.
- Comment on We poisoned the whole planet so our eggs wouldn't stick to the pan 🙃 3 months ago:
Can’t we just have AskCulinary back? Please? Kenji…?
- Comment on I'm bored and desperately search for a proper game 4 months ago:
Endless Sky. Open source and crowd developed. Its story lines, assets, and general size have only increased with age. Active Discord server as well (but it’s only single player, for now anyway).
- Comment on As a US citizen who was born in the UK, how risky is it to leave and reenter the US right now? 5 months ago:
FWIW, I have multiple things I should go to in the USA coming up, and neither I nor my family are willing to risk it. My two (young adult) children and I have dual USA - EU country citizenship. My wife had a green card when she lived with me in NYC for over a decade, but turned it in when we moved back long ago. These facts (let alone what my posting history is like) are just too much for us. We won’t risk it.
It’s kind of like a plane crash: very unlikely to happen but you are equally unlikely to walk away unhurt.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
It’s got dat alliteration on its side though!