kuhewa

45 ms·

571.
by kuhewa 5y ago
In monkeys, there wasn't much of a benefit of an omicron specific booster vs an original Wuhan strain booster. The main thing was just getting a third dose which generates the mature antibodies that are apparently similar enough betwee
572.
by kuhewa 5y ago
They are also at higher risk of breast cancer though (female aircrew)
573.
by kuhewa 5y ago
> followed by heat dissipation because humans are all 100 watts space heaters. Well that's an.. interesting take
574.
by kuhewa 5y ago
It's a nice, kinda elegant study. I'm not convinced by the results that a 'map' sense need be involved, could be a 'how far did I go' sense that provides a good enough proxy. I'd need to see movement path
575.
by kuhewa 5y ago
The sugar metabolism part really doesn't strike me as too interesting. Less movement explains less lactate production.
576.
by kuhewa 5y ago
Also, to be fair to the people arguing for reducing suffering, doing so can be defended in a entirely rational ethical framework, it need not be an emotional argument. I'm just not sure within that framework how defensible it is to ass
577.
by kuhewa 5y ago
How to measure.. capacity to suffer or intelligence? Both are a active fields of research, the former in the neurobiology, animal welfare, ethology space. I should add though, I think the science on the nature of sentience and suffering is
578.
by kuhewa 5y ago
> I think much of conventional wisdom about weight, diet, health is wrong. If they weren't alive, it would be a few other old people you would use as examples. Even if conventional wisdom on those topics was bang on, you'd stil
579.
by kuhewa 5y ago
In high latitude Australia I reckon this is seems to be the norm. A lot of prison colony age houses still and not great insulation so attempting to maintain a warm temp in the entire house would be expensive, plus it typically doesn't
580.
by kuhewa 5y ago
I lived in an Australian house on the shady side of a narrow stream valley, temperate climate. If you didn't heat in winter, dew would form on the walls inside at night as temp fell and mold would grow everywhere
581.
by kuhewa 5y ago
This is true, for example I've handled both captive and wild animals naive to humans from the same species (for conservation related research). The captive ones are a bit feisty, but the wild ones are so terrified they are basically in
582.
by kuhewa 5y ago
Thats true, partially because of economics, but also because Americans' seafood palette involves farmed salmon, farmed tilapia and swai (not coastal seafood btw), etc. doesn't mean more diversity isn't available.
583.
by kuhewa 5y ago
I'm calling BS on the happy octopus study.
584.
by kuhewa 5y ago
> Just because the customs are different from other coastal communities in other countries doesn’t make America’s any less sophisticated. On average it is less sophisticated though. Most coastal Americans (US) only consume a subset of t
585.
by kuhewa 5y ago
Really dumb animals can have distinct personalities, which is why I think what gets inferred from some of the quirky behaviours octopus display in terms of intelligence gets a bit overrated.
586.
by kuhewa 5y ago
I understand what you are saying about implied agency, but it really must have worked like this on some level. Cow (physiology and behaviour) had to allow domestication. People tried to domesticate cheetahs, they didn't breed in captiv
587.
by kuhewa 5y ago
That seems like a reasonable heuristic and I understand why someone might feel drawn to put a greater inherent value on intelligent species on an emotional level, but I just don't see the relevance of intelligence in and of itself in t
588.
by kuhewa 5y ago
Dogs and cats are companion animals, incidentally and intentionally selected to have behavioural phenotypes that make them amenable to that role. A wild octopus isn't quite the same. I've had quite a few marine animals in captivit
589.
by kuhewa 5y ago
Yeah, I don't totally get equating greater intelligence with greater capacity to suffer.
590.
by kuhewa 5y ago
> But that might not include anything recognisable as "fishing" or harvesting wild populations That's just not true. About half of scientifically assessed fish stocks at or above target levels, thus sustainably harvested,
591.
by kuhewa 5y ago
Can't agree it is weird, the comment I replied to raised exclusively ocean-related examples to support their taking exception to the existence of sustainable management (of food production), I reckon management of capture fisheries is
592.
by kuhewa 5y ago
Not trolling, and nothing personal but I pointed out an inaccuracy in a vapid and snarky comment with the level of detail it deserved. The fallacy in your understanding of fisheries management, as you describe it, is that fisheries are not
593.
by kuhewa 5y ago
> We have nothing close to sustainable management That is incorrect.
594.
by kuhewa 5y ago
It's a worthwhile topic for discussion, and you got the point across succinctly, I feel like you'd be doing the author a solid if you did some copyediting
595.
by kuhewa 5y ago
From the beginning, > The US, and New York State in particular, are embarked on a decarbonization agenda. Canada has a lot of hydropower to spare, which emits on CO2. (Though large hydropower is rather hilariously not deemed "renewa
596.
by kuhewa 5y ago
We don't need to do a lot of things. Sustainable management of all sources of food is going to save species, taking 71% of the surface of the earth entirely off the table of potential solutions is not optimal for most reasonable metr
597.
by kuhewa 5y ago
So you want us to optimise for minimised nonhuman animal suffering rather than for minimised environmental footprint or maximised human well-being. I respect that, but it's a value judgement, and your priorities therein are different t
598.
by kuhewa 5y ago
> There is easily enough land on earth to support us all. https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets > Your diet of dead animals is killing the planet. You are showing your hand too soon mate. I'm taking about foo
599.
by kuhewa 5y ago
> so that doesn’t seem to be a good reason to continue doing it. Forgive me, but "Many people worldwide are struggling to get certain nutrients, so it doesn't matter if we remove an important source of those nutrients" doe
600.
by kuhewa 5y ago
In some idealized world where everyone acts collectively toward the goal of minimising animal production, sure, but that's not actually how it works. If the supply of fish is constrained, demand for terrestrial animal protein and relat

More ›