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  1. Re:Unless the plaques are a symptom on Breakthrough Ultrasound Treatment To Reverse Dementia Moves To Human Trials · · Score: 1

    "Red meat is higher in cholesterol"

    ~10% higher than chicken, ~80% lower than eggs. If you're that desperate for cholesterol eat an extra egg. More cholesterol, none of the heme iron.

  2. Re:Unless the plaques are a symptom on Breakthrough Ultrasound Treatment To Reverse Dementia Moves To Human Trials · · Score: 1

    Red meat time and time again comes out as increasing risks for a wide array of ailments, in normal weight people as well. There are no cohort studies for people on high intensity training specifically I'm aware of, but I'd say you're exceedingly optimistic for thinking it will somehow protect you from the negative effects.

    You don't have to be a vegan to cut back on red meat.

  3. Re:Big pile of Nope on that one on Facebook Is Developing a Cryptocurrency for WhatsApp Transfers, Report Says (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    These things aren't mined. Every crypto-coin created is is paid for with real currency, they put that money in say a money market fund or short term US treasuries and when demand dries up and the coin's value drops they cash those in and buy the coin back (essentially destroying it).

    It's very similar to full reserve banking. Ignoring regulation you could do it with a centralized system more easily than cryptocurrency, but regulators are treating crypto with kid's gloves ... which is the big pull.

  4. Re:Unless the plaques are a symptom on Breakthrough Ultrasound Treatment To Reverse Dementia Moves To Human Trials · · Score: 1

    We're not designed to get that old, I wouldn't put much faith into naturalism. Especially if it's from keto-nutters. Skip the red meat, eat more blueberries.

  5. Re:Odd Choice of Target on Breakthrough Ultrasound Treatment To Reverse Dementia Moves To Human Trials · · Score: 3, Interesting

    AFAICS those medicines could only dissolve the plaques in theory, in practice they didn't (except with topical application, which isn't really an option for humans). The mechanical action of ultrasound might break up the plaques sufficiently so those medicines would actually work.

  6. Re:Editorial on the article on Breakthrough Ultrasound Treatment To Reverse Dementia Moves To Human Trials · · Score: 1

    The ones they use were "microbubbles comprising a phospholipid shell and octafluoropropane gas core".

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...

  7. Re:ten years can be an eternity on Breakthrough Ultrasound Treatment To Reverse Dementia Moves To Human Trials · · Score: 4, Informative

    They used a very highly focused ultrasound and more importantly injected the mice with a microbubble liquid. Without the microbubbles you would have to induce cavitation to get a mechanical effect on the plaque ... and that's a lot more destructive than the mild force of a bubble expanding/contracting.

  8. Re:This is Why Congress Passed the Right-to-Try Bi on Breakthrough Ultrasound Treatment To Reverse Dementia Moves To Human Trials · · Score: 0

    Letting people have authority over their own body ... when it doesn't just involve cutting off your dick. Trump really is evil personified.

  9. Re:Current CEO does not hold Western values on Google's Secret China Project 'Effectively Ended' After Internal Confrontation: Report (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    What are western values any more? Classical liberalism and free speech? Who the hell still believes in that.

    For the past 50 years the west operated under neo-liberal values. Trade with very few strings attached was supposed to make all things better (the strings being, don't invade other countries, don't sponsor terrorism and don't be someone Israel and/or Saudi Arabia want to see toppled). Russia and China would become more democratic and liberal as trade ties pulled us closer and all would be well in the world.

    Google is perfectly aligned with those values, trade uber alles.

  10. Re:Nope, there isn't on Emergence of Lab-Grown Meat Poses New Questions for Religious Leaders (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Some jews risk pushing a switch on saturday.

  11. Re: We might all need to eat lab grown meat ... on Emergence of Lab-Grown Meat Poses New Questions for Religious Leaders (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    I volunteer to push the button to release the anti-fertility virus.

  12. Re:Waste of time on Emergence of Lab-Grown Meat Poses New Questions for Religious Leaders (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    They never do, why start now?

  13. Re:That means Youtube has won on How YouTube's Year-In-Review 'Rewind' Video Set Off a Civil War (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    They are a big draw, there are just few advertisers who want to target them.

    Which is why Youtube's formula works so well, they allow all legal speech ... they just don't monetize all of it. This prevents even a niche competitor from arising.

  14. This was a rental, not a fine on Sean Parker Builds Beach-Access App To Atone For His Rule-Violating Wedding (wral.com) · · Score: 2

    This went just as planned, he rented a Redwood forest for 2.5 Million dollar. The politicians who let him get away with it are corrupt pieces of shit, the media which pretends this isn't a giant corrupt mess are also pieces of shit. This whole thing stinks to high heaven.

    If I had a small marriage in nature park do I get away with paying a couple thousands dollar to the cop and just continue the wedding? Of course fucking not. Blow off the marriage location, clean it up on his dime and throw the book at him. Letting him get away with this is fucking insane.

    Billionaire justice ...

  15. Re:"We found some terrorist sites!" on Cloudflare Under Fire For Allegedly Providing DDoS Protection For Terrorist Websites · · Score: 1

    Or they've simply gone to the FBI each time and heard "just keep doing what you're doing, it's a honeypot".

  16. Re: Good luck with that on Amazon Fires Employees Over Data Leak As It Fights Seller Scams, Report Says (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Corrupt always float to the top, fighting corruption can only happen bottom up. It requires a culture hostile to it, generally born from religion.

  17. This is for fixed route city hopes. Including extra fuel requirements you're not going to get a lot of distance out of this, say 400 miles, which is bugger all.

  18. Putting liberal feminists and TERFs in a single tent is a bad idea, there will be blood.

  19. Re:'huge windfall for Amazon shareholder' on Will AWS Be Spun Off Into a Separate Company? (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Only if they have voting shares, otherwise they can fuck off.

  20. Re:Science should be freely available! on Sci-Hub 'Pirate Bay of Science' Blocked In Russia Over Medical Studies · · Score: 1

    Maybe Russia is simply telling the west "leave us alone to fuck up the Ukraine and you will have one less IP pirate to worry about".

    Multinationals might find that a good deal.

  21. Nationalism seems to be better than capitalism then. You want your soldiers to be as healthy as possible, except for the crippling addiction to the drug you use to keep them obedient of course.

  22. Unless you want to simply nuke China before they become genetically superior, yes, you must.

    There are countries less worried about US export controls with commercial nuclear reactor technology, the expert restrictions aren't the limiting factor for nuclear power.

  23. A certain subset of liberals are rather hesitant about others talking about improving the gene pool because of some historical events happening to groups they are (self-)identified with. Then again, Daley is not part of that subset.

  24. Re:And if it doesn't work as expected...? on New Male Contraceptive Gel Enters Clinical Trials (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    By the time you detect it you need more elaborate medical abortion procedure than popping Plan B and bleeding a bit.

    Major psychological and physical impact and significant risks are unavoidable at that point.

  25. This is silly ... on New Male Contraceptive Gel Enters Clinical Trials (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 0

    Women have a naturally interruptible cycle and we still fucked up major trying to manipulate it, any man who would consider taking this is insane. Is this just about giving men the obligation to fuck up their body worse than oral contraceptives did to women, because the natural accident that hormonal contraception is more suited to woman is unfair?

    At least women can get a secondary benefit with the risk, menstrual suppression.