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Yes, dozens. 71 in one weekend is a huge number for one small department! Just because this number sounded low to you as quoted in the headline doesn't mean it's not a big expensiv…

Easily mitigated by what? Doing less things with your partner seems to be your suggestion? I am active with close friends that I have maintained for even longer! I am lucky enough …

This is such a lazy, bad take. I was deeply moved by the article thinking about my own relationship of twenty years, and imagining the inevitable death of one of us in the future. …

Mescaline is a substituted amphetamine just like MDMA. As is the antidepressant buproprion (Wellbutrin). And a variety of very strong hallucinogens.

GHB is a great alcohol substitute in many ways but also has an extremely unforgiving dose response curve with doses that can't be safely eyeballed and that build up in unpredictabl…

This essay is very long. While it does accurately touch on high risk activities (multiple partners, anal sex, sex clubs) it is primarily a deep dive into the author's wildly neurot…

I use Spotify everyday and think it's great but I ignore the garbage recommendation features. Useless.

Some people do choose to have deaf children: https://jme.bmj.com/content/28/5/283 There was quite a bit of outrage around that case from hearing people, but it seems no different t…

The viruses listed by parent aren't spread sexually, though they are all herpes viruses. EBV is also known as HSV-4 and gets to 60% plus prevalence in children, 90% in US adults. I…

There is no such thing as a trace/undetectable transmission. These studies have been going on a long time now with large numbers of participants, replicated in multiple countries/d…

It is a cultural problem but the game industry is not SV based. Blizzard Activision is SoCal, Ubisoft is French (with studios in many locations). I worked at a studio owned by Acti…

Absolutely, we form such weird attachments to things we saw as kids that we don't really remember well at all. ST:TOS I highly recommend because it remains engaging/entertaining an…

I just finished a rewatch of Star Trek the original series and wow professionals working together to do their job is... So not what that show is. I don't like Discovery but TOS is …

The quote originally is about Japan and Argentina being outliers in development trajectory, Japan extremely rapidly developing after WW2 to one of the world's richest countries vs …

https://www.propublica.org/article/despite-what-the-logging-... Controlled burns and other forestry practices need to be back on the table, clear cutting absolutely does not. I liv…

You've misunderstood, from your own article: “California’s forests naturally adapted to low-intensity fire, nature’s preferred management tool, but Gold Rush-era clearcutting follo…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_relativity_priority_... This is just not true. Einstein's earliest GR work is a collaboration with Marcel Grossman. Hilbert's work is so clo…

There are quite a few nucleoside analogues that have been used for HIV treatment: AZT, Zerit, FTC, Videx, Abacavir, 3TC, Hivid. There may be others I'm missing. Of these, only Abac…

Well Le Cinq in particular had a scandalously bad (and very entertaining) review from a very well known restaurant critic questioning how the hell it had 3 stars: https://www.googl…

To respond to everything in this that I found either intellectually or personally offensive would be exhausting. Gay marriage doesn't fit neatly into left/right ideological politic…

To be clear, Truvada (or Descovy) for vast majority of people will have essentially no side effects. There is a small increase in chance of kidney disease, mainly for those with ot…

No, the consensus is that they reduce severity but also protect against contracting, just at lower efficacy rate than against earlier variants. They still reduce cases versus not h…

Despite liking this article and wanting more burns, that last parenthetical is misleading/incorrect. Giant sequoia need fire to reproduce. Coast redwood, which is more common, tall…

It tastes good, especially with breakfast food, wakes me up a bit, and is hydrating. I experience no negatives, and nothing in particular happens to me if I skip it either. It seem…