IIRC it has the effect opposite of depression, making people more outgoing, uninhibited and assertive, slightly dumber and more promiscuous. This is because the parasite secretes an analog of some neurohormone, either serotonin or dopamine. It's thought that asians are more reserved because their t. gondii infection rates are far lower than in western cultures.
When I was a kid I had a neighbor who was an actual crazy cat lady, me and the other kids were warned to stay away from her house. I found out years later that she had schizophrenia. I've also met a few bird/squirrel ladies who have dementia at the least.
Be glad it's not an Electro Techno-Tron Compu-Cyber Super-Info-Weapon, or we'd all be doomed. Only Sandra Bullock, Will Smith, and/or Keanu Reeves could possibly save us.
Well, 3d-printed ghost guns haven't become a major problem, particularly in countries where gun ownership is heavily restricted. 3d printing hasn't really led to any major problems I've heard of.
Space tech has never had a disaster worse than a launchpad explosion killing a bunch of people at the launch site, and that was several decades ago. Worse as in, say, a rocket crashing into a city. We haven't hopelessly contaminated every body in the solar system with Earth microbes. We haven't had a major Kessler Syndrome incident that wiped out a large portion of satellites in orbit. We haven't had an Andromeda Strain-type incident.
We haven't had a large-scale Luddite backlash against technology, if that counts.
We haven't had a Jurassic Park-style disaster where revived/genetically-modified animals go on a rampage. Where's the GM bioweapons selectively wiping out certain ethnic groups or only active at certain latitudes? GM food causing (proven) mass sickness or poisoning to populations. GM babies leading to prejudice against them (or against unmodified people) a la Gattaca.
Nuclear terrorism has yet to happen. Large-scale nuclear exchange has never happened. Physics tech has yet to create bombs more powerful than thermonuclear. Directed energy weapons aren't superior enough to lead to an arms race. Hypersonic missiles have yet to lead to significant political/military conflicts. Space weapons have remained in the realm of rumor and innuendo (and a couple failed projects). Killbots 'exist' but are mostly remote-controlled waldoes, no AI has used poor judgment to decide to intentionally kill someone without a human in the loop (AFAIK).
Cloud seeding hasn't evolved to weather control that destabilized the planet's climate.
There are an infinite number of ways that humans can err and things can fail, so it's impossible we'll ever approach the infinite. However: "If something can go wrong, it eventually will." - Tom Clancy, Rainbow Six
An organized shelf is faster to find a game in, than waiting an hour for that game to download because you had to delete it to make room for something else.
Many new laptops come without optical drives, nowadays. I was expecting PC games to be on blurays by now, but nope. Who wants to put their game on 3-5 DVDs? I'm getting Baldur's Gate flashbacks of the sleeve of 8-ish CDs. Nintendo claims that NAND chips are actually cheaper than dual-layer blurays, so games might come on a flash drive instead. Of course, that's more expensive than a slip of paper with a code, plus bandwidth, so guess which one publishers are going to prefer.
Preparing to piss on their grave. GameStop can't die fast enough. They popularized game preorders -- which have skewed game development and marketing -- and retailer-specific content. They make it nearly impossible to walk in and buy a new game that you didn't preorder. They try to push warranties on solid-state Switch cartridges. Their treatment of employees is abysmal. Their prices for used games are usually far higher than what can be found on ebay or even Amazon. It's convenient to sell stuff to them, but that's the only upside I can give them.
What I really want to know is if the USB-C port is coming to the mainline iPad and iPad mini. If so, that'd suggest they're generally transitioning away from Lightning, not just on their high-end products.
Forking Chromium and customizing it to follow Mozilla's philosophy would free up lots of resources currently dedicated to copying Chrome UX/functionality, and keeping up with the latest W3C standards. It'd also make moot the hand-wringing over issues like AMP, media DRM, and H.264 support.
The main argument against doing so would be leading to a monoculture. However, Chrome has beaten out Firefox in security the last 2 pwn2own competitions, so there's questionable value in that. Maybe the move to Rust will be a silver bullet, but if it's not, maybe that should be the end of the road.
Isn't this basic Black Market theory? The summary implies the benefit is to the market, by creating competition, rather than to the producers of the works. Producers don't care about the health of the market, nor do they want more competition.
Your link says ulcerative colitis is nearly twice as prevalent in Norway as it is in the US. Norway isn't part of the EU (although is part of the european economic area) so may not have the same regulations/food properties as EU countries. Importation of wheat or processed foods made using US wheat should be kept in mind, though. The Western diet causing microbiota changes which increase susceptibility to IBD seems likely.
I doubt that Norway uses so much more glyphosate than the US that that would plausibly explain the difference in people having the disease. However, that says nothing about symptoms being triggered by consuming glyphosate, once one already has the disease, which was what I was originally talking about. Good point about the oats, though. It could be that people give oats a pass since they don't contain gluten, like the opposite of confirmation bias. As usual, more research is required.
It is known that IBD diagnoses have spiked in the USA in the past couple decades, which suggests an environmental factor. Use of glyphosate for desiccation of wheat became popular in the late 1990s. I did some quick Googling and it seems glyphosate may affect gut bacteria, the jury's still out on that for humans, so my next best guess would be directly causing inflammation of the gut, if it were implicated. This was mostly over my head but it suggests glyphosate might cause tryptophan deficiency which could lead to IBD and other maladies. Couldn't find any experiment that specifically found a link between glyphosate and IBD.
Another possibility I learned of while researching this is that benzoyl peroxide, which is added to white flour to bleach it, is causing inflammation somehow. It's not added to flour in the EU.
And of course there are countless other possibilities I haven't considered. Probably the best place to start would be a study on if European wheat really does cause fewer digestive problems, since it could be tested cheaply, quickly, and easily.
This reminds me of how older children are most likely to die in a survival situation (lost in the woods in the winter etc.) because younger children follow their instincts and adults have enough knowledge to reason out their survival. Older children attempt to reason out their survival but don't have the knowledge/wisdom to do so as successfully as if they had just followed their instincts.
So you're suggesting that ignorance of genetics correlates with being educated about the economic and regulatory issues related to GMOs? I find the opposite more likely.
The typical claim is that some people are 'gluten sensitive', even if they don't have actual celiac disease. I have some anecdotal evidence that American wheat tends to aggravate inflammatory bowel disease, whereas European wheat doesn't as much. The most plausible speculation I've heard is that American wheat has more glyphosate residue on it due to higher usage (for desiccation especially). FWIW, glyphosate came to market in 1974, and the first reports of non-celiac gluten sensitivity were reported in 1976. I.e. the condition might not predate glyphosate, even if it's coincidental timing.
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IIRC it has the effect opposite of depression, making people more outgoing, uninhibited and assertive, slightly dumber and more promiscuous. This is because the parasite secretes an analog of some neurohormone, either serotonin or dopamine. It's thought that asians are more reserved because their t. gondii infection rates are far lower than in western cultures.
When I was a kid I had a neighbor who was an actual crazy cat lady, me and the other kids were warned to stay away from her house. I found out years later that she had schizophrenia. I've also met a few bird/squirrel ladies who have dementia at the least.
Be glad it's not an Electro Techno-Tron Compu-Cyber Super-Info-Weapon, or we'd all be doomed. Only Sandra Bullock, Will Smith, and/or Keanu Reeves could possibly save us.
Micro-dosing was proven to have a testable effect in a double-blind experiment with controls. There was a post about this two days ago.
Still... un... clean!...
*continues frantically scrubbing the UI as it bleeds*
Well, 3d-printed ghost guns haven't become a major problem, particularly in countries where gun ownership is heavily restricted. 3d printing hasn't really led to any major problems I've heard of.
Space tech has never had a disaster worse than a launchpad explosion killing a bunch of people at the launch site, and that was several decades ago. Worse as in, say, a rocket crashing into a city. We haven't hopelessly contaminated every body in the solar system with Earth microbes. We haven't had a major Kessler Syndrome incident that wiped out a large portion of satellites in orbit. We haven't had an Andromeda Strain-type incident.
We haven't had a large-scale Luddite backlash against technology, if that counts.
We haven't had a Jurassic Park-style disaster where revived/genetically-modified animals go on a rampage. Where's the GM bioweapons selectively wiping out certain ethnic groups or only active at certain latitudes? GM food causing (proven) mass sickness or poisoning to populations. GM babies leading to prejudice against them (or against unmodified people) a la Gattaca.
Nuclear terrorism has yet to happen. Large-scale nuclear exchange has never happened. Physics tech has yet to create bombs more powerful than thermonuclear. Directed energy weapons aren't superior enough to lead to an arms race. Hypersonic missiles have yet to lead to significant political/military conflicts. Space weapons have remained in the realm of rumor and innuendo (and a couple failed projects). Killbots 'exist' but are mostly remote-controlled waldoes, no AI has used poor judgment to decide to intentionally kill someone without a human in the loop (AFAIK).
Cloud seeding hasn't evolved to weather control that destabilized the planet's climate.
There are an infinite number of ways that humans can err and things can fail, so it's impossible we'll ever approach the infinite. However: "If something can go wrong, it eventually will." - Tom Clancy, Rainbow Six
An organized shelf is faster to find a game in, than waiting an hour for that game to download because you had to delete it to make room for something else.
Many new laptops come without optical drives, nowadays. I was expecting PC games to be on blurays by now, but nope. Who wants to put their game on 3-5 DVDs? I'm getting Baldur's Gate flashbacks of the sleeve of 8-ish CDs. Nintendo claims that NAND chips are actually cheaper than dual-layer blurays, so games might come on a flash drive instead. Of course, that's more expensive than a slip of paper with a code, plus bandwidth, so guess which one publishers are going to prefer.
Preparing to piss on their grave. GameStop can't die fast enough. They popularized game preorders -- which have skewed game development and marketing -- and retailer-specific content. They make it nearly impossible to walk in and buy a new game that you didn't preorder. They try to push warranties on solid-state Switch cartridges. Their treatment of employees is abysmal. Their prices for used games are usually far higher than what can be found on ebay or even Amazon. It's convenient to sell stuff to them, but that's the only upside I can give them.
SCOTUS doesn't use juries.
What I really want to know is if the USB-C port is coming to the mainline iPad and iPad mini. If so, that'd suggest they're generally transitioning away from Lightning, not just on their high-end products.
Because both revolve around photos from digital cameras. They could've called it 'T&A Time/Book' but that'd be too on-the-nose.
I want to take the Jack... off...
A case leak suggested a vertical camera and quad speakers
Apple is bringing back quadraphonic sound?! Guess they figured out how to get us to buy the White Album again...
Forking Chromium and customizing it to follow Mozilla's philosophy would free up lots of resources currently dedicated to copying Chrome UX/functionality, and keeping up with the latest W3C standards. It'd also make moot the hand-wringing over issues like AMP, media DRM, and H.264 support.
The main argument against doing so would be leading to a monoculture. However, Chrome has beaten out Firefox in security the last 2 pwn2own competitions, so there's questionable value in that. Maybe the move to Rust will be a silver bullet, but if it's not, maybe that should be the end of the road.
When women lose economic opportunities, marriage rates go up. When men lose economic opportunities, rioting rates go up.
Isn't this basic Black Market theory? The summary implies the benefit is to the market, by creating competition, rather than to the producers of the works. Producers don't care about the health of the market, nor do they want more competition.
Your link says ulcerative colitis is nearly twice as prevalent in Norway as it is in the US. Norway isn't part of the EU (although is part of the european economic area) so may not have the same regulations/food properties as EU countries. Importation of wheat or processed foods made using US wheat should be kept in mind, though. The Western diet causing microbiota changes which increase susceptibility to IBD seems likely.
I doubt that Norway uses so much more glyphosate than the US that that would plausibly explain the difference in people having the disease. However, that says nothing about symptoms being triggered by consuming glyphosate, once one already has the disease, which was what I was originally talking about. Good point about the oats, though. It could be that people give oats a pass since they don't contain gluten, like the opposite of confirmation bias. As usual, more research is required.
It is known that IBD diagnoses have spiked in the USA in the past couple decades, which suggests an environmental factor. Use of glyphosate for desiccation of wheat became popular in the late 1990s. I did some quick Googling and it seems glyphosate may affect gut bacteria, the jury's still out on that for humans, so my next best guess would be directly causing inflammation of the gut, if it were implicated. This was mostly over my head but it suggests glyphosate might cause tryptophan deficiency which could lead to IBD and other maladies. Couldn't find any experiment that specifically found a link between glyphosate and IBD.
Another possibility I learned of while researching this is that benzoyl peroxide, which is added to white flour to bleach it, is causing inflammation somehow. It's not added to flour in the EU.
And of course there are countless other possibilities I haven't considered. Probably the best place to start would be a study on if European wheat really does cause fewer digestive problems, since it could be tested cheaply, quickly, and easily.
The more we learn about Neanderthals, the less inferior they seem compared to other hominids.
Cognitive biases die hard, even if you've studied them.
This reminds me of how older children are most likely to die in a survival situation (lost in the woods in the winter etc.) because younger children follow their instincts and adults have enough knowledge to reason out their survival. Older children attempt to reason out their survival but don't have the knowledge/wisdom to do so as successfully as if they had just followed their instincts.
So you're suggesting that ignorance of genetics correlates with being educated about the economic and regulatory issues related to GMOs? I find the opposite more likely.
Clearly he works for Big Insect.
The typical claim is that some people are 'gluten sensitive', even if they don't have actual celiac disease. I have some anecdotal evidence that American wheat tends to aggravate inflammatory bowel disease, whereas European wheat doesn't as much. The most plausible speculation I've heard is that American wheat has more glyphosate residue on it due to higher usage (for desiccation especially).
FWIW, glyphosate came to market in 1974, and the first reports of non-celiac gluten sensitivity were reported in 1976. I.e. the condition might not predate glyphosate, even if it's coincidental timing.