Hexboare [they/them]

The leading theory for what causes people to be trans (or gay for that matter) is hormonal fluctuations at critical points of fetal development. So we are born this way.

The evidence for this is really poor, the entire field of the hormonal theory of sexuality (and gender) is garbage

There’s lots of good literature on transmedicalism

Anyway someone who subscribed to that theory would say that a micropenis would be consistent with low fetal testerone and this story would be readily believable by them - far more than a trans woman who was born with a macropenis.

Grow your own chili plants, then eat normal corn chips after using your bare hands to extract the seeds

so “undercooked” hamburger (red in the middle) can have pathogens introduced during the grinding process from exposure to the ambient air and unsanitized surfaces.

Rare beef tends to have enough cysts already in it that you wouldn’t want to eat rare beef - for example the primary method of infection of toxoplasma gondii in humans is eating undercooked meat

The cysts themselves are tiny, like 25 micrometres (0.001 inches) so you can’t really tell if they’re there

Yeah, higher yield and no change in the nutrient level will mean a decreasing concentration of nutrients.

They’re just utilitarians trying to prevent further harm that will occur by living longer

I would recommend this video on the Library of Alexandria https://youtu.be/M4WU8gqrgsQ

Shame the people proclaiming covid is getting less deadly never account for all the people who have already died from covid

new heated cat bed

cardboard box the bed came in

Here is the actual article

The SELECT (Semaglutide Effects on Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients With Overweight or Obesity) trial randomized 17,604 participants ≥45 years of age with a body mass index ≥27 kg/m2 with established CV disease but without diabetes to once-weekly subcutaneous semaglutide 2.4 mg or placebo; the mean trial duration was 3.3 years. Adjudicated causes of all deaths, COVID-19 cases, and associated deaths were captured prospectively.

Of 833 deaths, 485 (58%) were CV deaths, and 348 (42%) were non-CV deaths. Participants assigned to semaglutide vs placebo had lower rates of all-cause death (HR: 0.81; 95% CI: 0.71-0.93), CV death (HR: 0.85; 95% CI: 0.71-1.01), and non-CV death (HR: 0.77; 95% CI: 0.62-0.95). The most common causes of CV death with semaglutide vs placebo were sudden cardiac death (98 vs 109; HR: 0.89; 95% CI: 0.68-1.17) and undetermined death (77 vs 90; HR: 0.85; 95% CI: 0.63-1.15). Infection was the most common cause of non-CV death and occurred at a lower rate in the semaglutide vs the placebo group (62 vs 87; HR: 0.71; 95% CI: 0.51-0.98). Semaglutide did not reduce incident COVID-19; however, among participants who developed COVID-19, fewer participants treated with semaglutide had COVID-19–related serious adverse events (232 vs 277; P = 0.04) or died of COVID-19 (43 vs 65; HR: 0.66; 95% CI: 0.44-0.96). High rates of infectious deaths occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic, with less infectious death in the semaglutide arm, and resulted in fewer participants in the placebo group being at risk for CV death.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0735109724081567

I just started reading it, he directly says it’s a different system and not just a mutation on the second page

In the years after it was published, first in Greek, later in English, my weird hypothesis that capitalism was on the way out (and not merely undergoing one of its many impressive metamorphoses) gathered strength…

So, what is my hypothesis? It is that capitalism is now dead, in the sense that its dynamics no longer govern our economies. In that role it has been replaced by something fundamentally different, which I call technofeudalism.

I haven’t read Varoufakis’ book but I can only assume it completely misuses the term feudalism and tries to make a case for “ethical capitalism” (or overtly or by implication), as though you can point to a particular period of capitalism when everything was great and the US wasn’t dropping incendiaries or napalm on kids in Asia

The risk? Too good you can’t stop

Yes, in Australian Senate elections you only need to rank at least 6 parties above the line or at least 12 individual candidates below the line on the long ballot paper

In practice you might rank all ~100 candidates to try and avoid a couple candidates you hate the most

bullshit math wizardry are they pulling out of their ass to argue that the exact ranking of each individual candidate

If you’re voting in an election with ten candidates, but you only like two of them and equally despise the other eight, the “maths impossibility” arises because you’ll have to put a candidate you hate third

While ‘Hell on Earth’ may be primarily intended as an entertainment product, the analytical issue it raises about capitalism does deserve to be taken seriously.

However, even in these two episodes, capitalism’s origin is only cursorily mentioned rather than rigorously elaborated.

Seems like no, it does not need to taken seriously within the context of the podcast given they didn’t take it very seriously.

A manager’s work ethic right there

My girlfriend messiah goes to another school vision