I lost four spokes on my morning commute when the chain decided to jump off the big cog. Of course I don't have a spoke protector. (Who needs a dork disc? Bad things won't happen if you keep your bike maintained. /s) I was lucky to skid to a stop rather than crash when the rear wheel locked up....
I haven't run windows since 2019. However I need to boot my old drive to grab some data. I really need to make sure this system doesn't update any windows components, but I'll need it to have internet access for a portion of the time....
I was thinking boot from a different media and access the file system. But the moment I saw Steve Gibson had a different way I felt like my option was stupid. That is the power of Steve Gibson.
Gaza officials say the death toll from Israeli air strikes on a camp housing displaced Palestinians near Rafah in southern part of the strip has risen to 40....
"Let us honor the memories of those we lost by fostering a spirit of solidarity and kindness."
They were lost by fostering a spirit of solidarity and kindness? No, they were lost by inaction. They should have run this by an editor because that doesn't say what they think it says.
We watched 1 through 66 recently. We will be going back for more. It's like watching someone put in their 10,000 hours one episode at a time. The art, story telling, direction, cinematography, sound etc all improve with each episode.
My standard reply was "hailing frequencies open."
Needless to say it was the opening line that let multiple women know that I was single. Surprisingly it had a 100% success rate. I was the best nerd.
The data is conflicting. I think they had already made up their mind on that topic before messaging me. My reply just reinforced their decision. It's hard to separate causation and correlation in that case.
Roundup acid? Now there's a phrase I've never heard before. Depending on if it's buffered or not Roundup can have a pH of 3.5 to 9. But it's not the pH of glyphosate that makes it an effective herbicide. I'd probably not use that phrase in the future because it's a distraction that undermines your point.
You ever see an article about a "this changes everything" study but when you look at the study you start seeing all kinds of problems?
There is an untested assumption here. Just because glyphosate is present doesn't mean it's having an effect. That's like when we found aluminum plaques in Alzheimer's brains and assumed the aluminum was causing it.
I know that this article mentions new research showing DNA harm. This is counter to all previous studies so it will require a bit of replication to confirm that. The study they are depending on doesn't do a very good job showing it. The DNA damage they focused on was exclusively oxidative stress [OS] and at least twice that I saw they suggested looking to see if this could be counted with antioxidants. I expected it to be mentioned once because I had the same idea myself by the second time I had to fight the impulse to check and see if this was funded by Big Antioxidant.
Prior studies have shown that if you give super doses of GLY to sperm that it does effect motility for up to an hour, but a) this hasn't been shown in realistic dosages or in vivo. Just in vitro.
b) hasn't shown to effect DNA. I don't think this study did a good enough job of countering the prior data. As can be seen in these key graphs below.
c) they only tested for GLY. By not testing for anything else they get to attribute all variances to the one thing they tested for when it could have been something else. That alone should disqualify the study from being taken seriously without replication with better controls. This is exactly the kind of thing that gets weeded (no pun intended) out in replication and where Regression Towards the Mean rears its omnipresent head.
Only infertile couples were selected to be in this study. That creates a Texas Sharpshooter problem. There is no control group. Without s control you don't have a valid study.
The study found that eating an organic diet had no impact on GLY levels. That's worrying. Either their tests failed to find a difference, the study participants lied about their diet, or GLY is everywhere in the environment (both cities and farms). The study does not tell us how it was determined that the people included that only eat organic are, in fact, organic only eaters. It doesn't tell us if this was a check box or observation. If it was a checkbox what was the wording? Because self reporting and question design is important.
"Do you eat only organic?"
"Do you eat only certified organic?"
"Have you had an diet that consist of only certified organic foods for at least 6 months?"
Those are all going to give very different answers and because they didn't find any GLY variation between organic and non-organic diets the way they determined who had an organic and non-organic diet really matters.
There is definitely some shadiness going on with GLY. Bayer said that it was going to stop selling GLY to filthy casuals by January 2023. It is still very much for sale and shows no signs of going away.
Two asides.
according to this study being a smoker has a much larger impact than GLY. Given that a third of French people (all subjects in the study were French) smoke this seems like a much bigger concern than GLY.
The antinatalist in me is kinda fine with the whole situation because if it does actually reduce births then, sarcastically, this is a self limiting problem. Eventually there won't be enough people to mess things up and this is just a tool to get us there. The unspoken premise behind this study is that not having kids is bad.
The article doesn't explicitly state it but it's obvious from that fence and the nails through the hands that this was a literal crucifixion. Which sounds like something that should be said out loud instead of dodged.
‘Julian Assange is free’: Wikileaks founder freed in deal with US ( www.aljazeera.com )
Some days it'll be like that, take 2 ( sh.itjust.works )
I lost four spokes on my morning commute when the chain decided to jump off the big cog. Of course I don't have a spoke protector. (Who needs a dork disc? Bad things won't happen if you keep your bike maintained. /s) I was lucky to skid to a stop rather than crash when the rear wheel locked up....
Trump wanted to drain the swamp to make it easier for the swamp creatures to get around
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Disable windows updates
I haven't run windows since 2019. However I need to boot my old drive to grab some data. I really need to make sure this system doesn't update any windows components, but I'll need it to have internet access for a portion of the time....
Steroids Are Awesome ( www.youtube.com )
New community, a dedicated space for Heathcliff edits and Heathcliff originals.
Heathcliff...
At least 40 killed in Rafah after Israeli missiles hit camp for displaced ( www.aljazeera.com )
Gaza officials say the death toll from Israeli air strikes on a camp housing displaced Palestinians near Rafah in southern part of the strip has risen to 40....
Just catching up now, but apparently Skibidi Toilet is the source material for most of Generation A's cultural milieu. ( youtu.be )
Anybody got any thoughts? I'm planning a watch of the entire series and a deep dive into the offshoots....
ICQ, One of the Oldest Instant Messengers, Is Shutting Down ( www.pcmag.com )
ICQ will stop working on June 26. It's encouraging users to migrate to a messaging app from Russia-based VK, its parent company....
High levels of weedkiller (glyphosate/e.g. Roundup) found in more than half of sperm samples, study finds ( www.theguardian.com )
The levels (of glyphosate that the) French researchers found in sperm were four times higher than in the men’s blood...
Bushmills: Man nailed to fence in 'sinister attack' ( www.bbc.com )
The man in his 20s was found nailed to a fence, with a nail through each hand, shortly after midnight....
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‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens ( lemmy.ml )
Here we go again...