Viewing profile — stooliepidgin

I'm having TMS done for 9 weeks starting at the end of this month for treatment-resistant, endogenous depression. Wish me luck. I'm considering doing a ketamine treatment too.

Anti-union propaganda or actual goldbricking? This story doesn't have enough detail to support the latter. It seems like it just tries to stir-up class warfare. What it underscores…

> sex industry is deeply tied to human trafficking Which career? Where? Sex workers encompasses a number of careers including escorts, prostitutes, strippers, burlesque dancers, ca…

Untrue. https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share

Marcin Jakubowski realized earlier than most that open source hardware is a deeper solution that even generous right-to-repair (R2R) protections cannot necessarily deliver.

Zerohedge is not a reliable source. It happens that this title is within the realm of reason and fact, and Robert Reich, a White House veteran, has been shouting about how grotesqu…

Nope. Prohibition "War on Drugs" is stupid and wasteful of human lives. It was ordered by Nixon to attack minorities and hippies. Portland and Portugal prove decriminalizing all dr…

If you have something positive, not social media outrage bait, not a red herring, and interesting to contribute to the conversation, let me know.

I don't know what point your comment attempts to make. > not some weird thing where trees are grown in the desert. This is being tried in Africa. [0]. You can't "regrow" forests if…

You're conflating a range of colors with a single color. "In the middle" is red. Red is red. It's not red-orange. It's not red-blue.

"Anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." this isn't. There is nothing scientific or substantive about this article and it's more-or-less basic information found in a…

Regardless of Ethiopia or #TeamTrees, trees are not fast or permanent enough to sequester anything substantial. Not all tactics will be equally effective. It's worth investing in t…

That's a rosy, invalid assumption and equivocation. Climate drying, and effectively biome changes in the direction of desertification, across much of western North America and othe…

Yeap. Lots of specialists. Many areas are under investigation. One is activation of the There is a possibility of an autoimmune disease like lupus or MS causing dysautonomia. I als…

https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/85/1/6/4649294

And no to that too. RDAs try to be one-size-fits-all guesstimates. For Vitamin D3 in particular: "The model developed for UL derivation was summarized in 1998 (IOM, 1998), and it a…

That's what the minimum bar of excellence should be, and it's the same standard for everyone. Americans are more illiterate overall and have a level 5 rate comparable to the global…

How would someone control their cortisol levels? Maslow's hierarchy of needs, medical/pharma interventions, and/or something else?

Incorrect. The RDA and TUL amounts for vitamin D are wrong. 10k IU/day is safe. Dr. Fauci takes 6k IU/day. My levels of 25(OH)D3 are optimal. It takes slightly over what the real a…

White text on a blue background are what we used for Wordperfect for DOS in the ye olden days specifically because the white popped out of the background. If this is paradoxically …

See the stacked bar graph at the bottom of the article. The US is near the bottom and Japan is at the top. I doubt the average American or Japanese person is any more or less intel…

Maybe related: Why do "red" products (i.e., dyes, paints, markers, pencils, pens) from China appear red-orange? Does it have something to do with language?

It is very difficult/impossible to focus on blue images because the focal plane of the eye and blue cones (2% of cones) are out of alignment. https://biology.stackexchange.com/ques…

In the US, TSCA grandfathered-in thousands of chemicals without any evidence of safety for purely economic reasons. Also, new substances aren't required to be tested for safety bef…