phobosanomaly

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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
One or more of those immune cell types (B/T) in conjunction with SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies killing enough of the virus that you don't get noticeably sick.
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
I don't think nurses have much (any) training in biotech. An MD might have a 4-year undergrad in biochemistry or molecular biology or something, an internship at a biotech company or time in a research lab, they might be on one or two
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
So they don't spread it to their patients?
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
Where did you hear that ICUs are always full? I keep hearing that from people, and I don't know if it's bullshit or not. Do you have any sort of a source that ICUs and ERs are on divert more often than not?
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
You can't evaluate the counterfactual without a controlled experiment. And we don't have that. We have a year of guesswork, and learning, and trying to stop thousands and thousands of loved ones and neighbors from dying. Perhaps s
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
Look at it in terms of total number of deaths, not the rate. It's killed a LOT of people. Like 360,000 people in the US according to the CDC. https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#cases_casesper100k... If you
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
Our discussion has become fragmented enough that I don't think either of us knows what we're arguing for or against.
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
Not if it is accompanied with a simultaneous desire offer the populace the tools to become more savvy at understanding the world around them with an education in history, politics, economics, ethics, science, etc.
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
> "How did the 'engage economically to change the regime' policy work with China and Russia?" China and Russia didn't engage economically to change the regime. They did it to make money. > "For that ma
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
I'm not arguing that Iran is the best country ever, who does only nice things and only hugs their neighbors. I'm arguing that when you weigh Iran's activities in the Middle East alongside U.S. activities in the region over th
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
Nah. I love my country dearly, but I don't feel attacked at all. My country has done a lot of stupid stuff in the Middle East. I get why they're upset. They should be. Fair enough. It would be nice for us to move past the petty ha
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
> " Because Iran signed the NPT " They signed in 1968. In your words, " something that happened 60 years ago when both countries had very different governments " But, perhaps after watching the US performance in Iraq,
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
Even if it does literally mean 'death to America,' as an American I always interpreted that as being directed at the American government. I never took it personally. Hell, I could probably wear them out complaining about the fed
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
> nuclear program Objectively, why can't Iran have a nuclear program while Israel, India, and Pakistan can? > Iran killing hundreds of American soldiers They are a regional superpower and the United States invaded and destabi
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
Super interesting comparison. From the Wikipedia article: "...the company traded with Indianised Southeast Asian countries when the Dutch government granted it a 21-year monopoly on the Dutch spice trade." It's a dumb compa
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
I'm not sure how many (if any) actually do. Do you have a source? For example, Diane Rehm got in hot water for assuming Bernie Sanders had it based on something she saw on the internet: "As the site Jewish Journal noted, the list
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
So, we spy on them too in a weird, incestuous, mutually-distrustful, but politically-useful relationship. "Stepped-up NSA eavesdropping revealed to the White House how Mr. Netanyahu and his advisers had leaked details of the U.S.-Iran
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
Nah, you were just kind of vague in the parent comments and I wasn't sure what you were looking to see. Adding an 'Animal May Have Consumed Insect Protein' label seems pretty reasonable and low-key. It might wind up being add
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
So this would look like all meat products having a mandatory label with the specific feed(s) given to the animal over the course of its lifetime? You'd have to have a USDA-maintained database that tracks each feeding instance of each a
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
Quick background on the great Walt Kelly quote, with images of the comic strip in which it was used. https://library.osu.edu/site/40stories/2020/01/05/we-have-me...
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
So then how do we make progress without analysis paralysis?
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
If there is indiscriminate use of maximal force in all situations of noncompliance with the law, then there is bad government. Bad government may be worse than no government at all.
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
What would you be screening for in the target population?
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
> Who cares about the thousands of other unstudied compounds we're introducing into the human diet with this? The OP article is about raising insects for animal feed, not for people feed. There may be instances of individuals with
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
Agreed. If everyone would write down on paper what the perfect world actually looked like for them, and brainstormed a plausible roadmap to get from A to B we might actually get somewhere. That being said, rage is probably not the least app
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
There's a difference between sneezing every year from pollen, and having a history of anaphylactic reaction to medications requiring administration of epinephrine. Everyone has been pretty clear that if you have a history of the latter
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
TIL that anaphylactic reactions can manifest with seizures. https://www.merckmanuals.com/home/immune-disorders/allergic-...
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
This is my absolute favorite way to spend an evening. Wandering around the neighborhood with a THC vape pen thinking about a problem. Helps me get in about 5 miles of walking every evening too.
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
Believe it or not, that actually happened back in in '96. There's a documentary on it called 'Mars Attacks.' Akakakakakakakakakak
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by phobosanomaly 6y ago
It's too late, I'm deeply, deeply offended. And I simply don't understand your reticence to share private health information with strangers on the internet. /s Ok, so from what I understand, much of the fallout from a co

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