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Cake day: January 29th, 2025

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  • Why does nobody read articles before weighing in?

    They discuss this and discount it in the opening paragraphs.

    One might be tempted to explain the disparity as a natural consequence of women living longer. But those studying the disease say that wouldn’t account for such a large difference, and they’re not precisely sure what would.

    While many factors may be at play, researchers are zeroing in on two where the biological differences between women and men are clear: chromosomes and menopause



  • What you’re failing to include in your calculations is how cheap political sway is to buy worldwide. You don’t need to be the wealthiest nation in the world to place several $50k political donations per year to the two major parties and some of their key politicians, and keep a lobbying firm in the nation’s capital well-funded to wines and dines key politicians and journalists.

    Manufacturing consent is financially trivial for Israel, they’ve been practicing it for 50 years and the machine is institutionalized.



  • Nurses need to do a lot of calculations day to day.

    Example: a nurse needs to give a patient a dose of some medication, and that medication is dosed at 0.7mg/kg for their age & sex. Instead of using their head or a calculator, and then double-checking as a fail-safe (because everyone makes mistakes), they just ask ChatGPT to figure it out. Of course, they do not double-check the answer because it’s an AI, they’re like… really smart and dont make simple maths errors.


  • For awareness you can achieve the same on CalyxOS by setting it to automatically wipe the phone after either 5 or 10 failed unlock attempts. Though this does mean a child (or childish friend) could do it accidentally. I’d prefer a duress PIN, but then I’d probably forget it if I ever really needed it.

    There’s also a less nuclear ‘panic trigger’, that allows you to hide apps or choose to uninstall any apps you like. No PIN needed, simply hold the power button and select ‘Panic Trigger’, there’s then a fullscreen 5 second countdown before your select private/sensitive data is obliterated… unless you hit cancel. The user can set up in advance what the panic trigger does - eg which apps to uninstall (deleting their data and auth keys), all cloud provider apps with sensitive data such as email apps or cloud storage provider apps are recommended.



  • We consumed alllll the BPA when we were young and it was unregulated. Same with PFAs in non-stick pans and microwave popcorn bags. Probably dozens of other toxic things that are now regulated but when we were young were heavily used and consumed as we grew.

    Aussies also eat a lot of sausages, pies and processed meats, which is now known to be a cancer causer - including bowel cancer. Now we’re getting to the age where damage from all the above starts to manifest as cancers.

    The question is did we do all of those things at just a slightly higher rate which led to the higher rates the cancer scientists are seeing now and worrying about - because it’s not like they can go back in time and measure our environmental factors and inputs, they largely have to estimate.






  • Texas Trumpers/Republicans strongly voted for a president & governor they knew would:

    • defund climate research
    • slash FEMA budgets
    • slash NOAA budgets & weather funding, including early warning systems.
    • go on an general anti-science, politically-motivated defunding spree Texas Trumpers/Republicans:
    • cheered it all on, especially when it upset scientific groups, researchers, liberals, greenies
    • watched with glee through 2016-2020 as it the de-funding caused or heavily exacerbated many disasters
    • voted it back in for 2024, knowing full-well that even stronger defunding anf political zealotry was planned this time round.

    Homosexuals:

    • were gay

    That person: the Trump voters involved got what they voted for, I feel sorry for everyone else.

    You: you sound like those preachers that say gays cause earthquakes.

    What a terrible analogy. People are allowed to vent frustrations, especially when ‘taking the high road’ has proven to be completely ineffective in changing the opinions of conservatives, and especially ineffective against fascists.



  • Before anyone rushes to replace their phones my Pixel 5 is nearly 5 years old, still on original battery (would be on at least 1200 cycles) and is presently sitting at 92% and claiming 1 day 11hrs remaining. Off the charger since 9:45 this morning and used for streaming music to my car while I was driving earlier. It still easily holds over 24 hours charge in my usage, so if I forget to charge it at night it’s usually around 40% in the morning and I can plug it in sometime in the morning to top up. Perfectly useable after almost 5 years, and this is pretty normal for Pixels in my experience.

    Love the new EU measurement standards but per other people’s comments above they do not seem to mandate strict third-party testing, but rather rely on manufacturers submitting their results and adhering to the set test standards. This has not worked out well in the past, it should be mandatory third-party.

    Cannot wait to see the return of user-replaceable batteries (thank you again, EU).