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I think she feels ignored and unappreciated in life. higs, I think you should invite her to your home for dinner.

Is she a baby boomer? I can see baby boomers unironically accuse people of giving them a cold

Nowadays if you are on public transport and not staring into your phone, you are considered a weirdo. So that's what I'm doing. Blending in, adapting.

If were to get the Hugh Jackman body, I would spit in every 7/10's face!

@Polaris things like rheumatoid arthritis has been found in mummies from ancient Egypt - which I wouldn't consider a rebuke to the notion that modern diets predispose people to autoimmune disease, considering that ancient Egypt were one of the pioneers of agriculture and mass-production of...

Selfishness as it manifests in your life is about principles and ethics, not psychology. Everyone is born selfish to various degrees, but we have the option to base our actions on other things than pure instict and emotion.

baccheion is right on the money I think. Its all about fats and organs. Indigenous tribes prepared the most nutricious food they had when they wanted to conceive - which was things like liver. When it comes to fatty meats, nutrient content will depend on what the animal ate. E.g. grass-fed beef...

The ability to shit money

We have to show consideration for the immunosuppressed and never leave the house, just in case. Nah, unless you work with a bunch of people with AIDS, there's no moral component to carrying a goddamn cold.

@Minuend Yes, there's not a lot of ways to diagnose arthritis until the physical traces of it show up in the bones etc. So some doctors rely on stone-age methods like just looking at which regions on the body are painful, stiff etc. So when I went to the first doctor, he rejected the idea based...

Hmm yes, I see now that "great apes" is the same as hominids. I guess we are apes - great ones.

Technically speaking, humans are not apes.

To point to fat and red meat as the main issues concerning the American diet is amusingly foolish. I would try processed foods and sugar.

@Minuend yes, the current knowledge on arthritis is comically poor. I was also told initially that it was "definitely not arthritis", then diagnosed a few months later after a genetic test. Had it for about 7 years now, but you wouldn't be able to tell. Painkillers, diet, and lots of exercise...

Your colleague is mistaken, because common colds are transmittable only during the incubation period. I.e. if you notice symptoms, it's no longer transmittable.

@Minuend Accroding to WHO, there is a weak statistical link between red-meat consumption and colon cancer. The problem is that they also state that things like high-temperature preparation of meat creates carcinogens, and it's also impossible to say for sure whether it's the red meat that causes...

Have zero respect for authority but utmost respect for the subject and the craft. That was my strategy in school and everywhere else since. The fail kids conflated their disdain for teachers with disdain for knowledge.

I agree that during a pregnancy, too much fish is not good due to the mercury content. In the long-run though, I don't see what other foods we have that have an adequate ratio of omega 3 to omega 6. The argument against chicken is also that it has very high omega 6 content. "natural sugars" is...

@washti interesting that when talking about veganism and infertility, you immediately concluded that the cause was something unrelated to veganism –lower body fat in general. Whereas here, you do the opposite – conclude that whatever effect there is must be due to the specific diet. Obviously a...

while it is true that body fat in itself affects hormones, one also finds cases where e.g. women get their period back only after a few weeks after going back to eating animal foods like eggs, fish, etc. Then it's not really about body fat – it might be fat-soluble vitamins, certain specific...

Maybe look into diets. Ive heard that e.g. vegans tend to lose fertility because they mess up their hormones. I personally would recommend a meat/fish-based diet, no sugars, no starch, no processed garbage foods.

Actually, in my view QT's chaos theory argument makes sense, in the sense that if you do have phenomena ostensibly deterministic but chaotic (in the sense that an arbitrarily small perturbation of initial conditions dramatically change the final outcome), then this means that non-deterministic...

Your perception is cloudy because you are consuming too much low-quality audiovisual entertainment. Hollywood movies, TV series etc. The weather is as usual – the streets are filled with the unthinking masses, consumers, people staring into their cell phones, misc semi-conscious organisms.

Well yes, they are formalisms – which seems to the very problem for anyone who suggests the universe is computable, because a computer system would require formalism. Not only in terms of numbers, but also in terms of the process itself, namely formalizing nature as an input-ouput machine.

well, I think you described it pretty well. Conveyor-belt produced stuff for teenagers with lots of repressed anxiety but very little taste in music. 2/10

Pizza, stop taking so much drugs. Your brains have turned into mush.

"Mr Pregnant". It's available online:

MBTI measures behavior along 4 dimensions. One could argue it captures 4 quite important dimensions, but obviously an actual personality has millions of dimensions. So MBTI is a statistical approximation of personality, and its utility depends on the context. And in general, statistics is not...

I see the validity of that argument. Seeing a picture of a black hole doesn't really change anything on earth. Some people complain about the small amount of funds that are being given to NASA compared to other government expenses, but then the question is: what's the use of pictures of dark...

I think it's going to depend on definitions. Once again if you're talking about the "weight" of an object as the effect of gravitational fields on the object in stationary state, your conclusion is definitely wrong because e.g. light has zero rest mass but has energy (and thus relativistic mass)...

The image I have in my mind is a pet owner almost squeezing their pet hamster to death

Well, let me quote a classic: I think, therefore I am. I sometimes have the opposite experience – from time to time, an intense feeling of physical existence, along with the pulsating blood in my veins, the passage of light through my corneas, and the myriad of electrical signals in my brain...

That tumor example comes from a real-life case, I believe. I don't recall the details, but some guy committed murder and it was later revealed he had a brain tumor which affected his behavior. Living in a society means giving up certain freedoms – e.g. the freedom to kill people at will. As...

I have no expertise in physics, but I believe you would have to differentiate between relativistic mass and rest mass. Photons have zero rest mass, for example, yet they exist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%E2%80%93momentum_relation

Did you witness the fire first-hand higs?

amazing to think that this thing has been around for almost 1000 years and survived the French revolution, yet is gonna succumb to a fire in 2019. a goddamn tragedy edit: there's a wikipedia article about the fire already lol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre-Dame_de_Paris_fire

I assume it's to let people know that if that stuff shows up on your screen (let's say, a pair of huge tits), everyone will know that you're not working

yes, and that is why most people would rather engage in self-destructive behavior than changing one's habits of thoughts and behavior. An illusion of self is a built-in instinct and is a powerful one, to the point where it takes precedence over many others (which makes sense, because without an...

keeping a pet that looks like a 10-year old girl? Regardless of the level of consciouses of that creature I would say it's both animal abuse and creepy af. In my opinion, keeping any type of animal as a pet is a form of slavery/imprisonment. Animals, like humans, want to be free and autonomous...

they have been fooled, it's actually God's anus jokes aside, the method of photographing a black hole is an interesting one:

I don't understand the appeal of eternal life. Having an aversion to death, sure, that's a pretty normal instinct. But to extrapolate that instinct to a supposed desire to live forever? I don't think people realize how insanely boring and depressing that would be.

solar panels is a scam though. They produce feeble amounts of energy and are a net burden on the environment.

@CatGoddess I definitely think it's something that get surprisingly little attention. One would think it should be possible to politicize the shit out of this stuff, even more so than global warming. Rising sea levels is too abstract for most people. Whereas the idea of catching a bug that...

I guess what people feel about this sort of stuff is exemplified by (stupendously naive) counterarguments to things like global warming; they say "ya'll eggheads were talking about rising sea levels 10 years ago, yet here we are, alive and well". It's been only about 90 years since Alexander...

have you ever done anything for refugees or anyone in need? Based on the consistent lack of constructive thoughts and persistent negativity in your tone, I suspect you're mostly dealing in terms of social prestige bucks. I would recommend giving some euros to charity (or better yet; a...

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6390/739 https://amr-review.org/ One particular case which has been seen recently: Candida auris. It's been popping up over the last decade and is resistant to pretty much everything we have. Will this finally give us a chance to experience a...

youtube popularity is 99.99% luck otherwise you could infer that pewdiepie has an IQ of 500

how do magnets work?