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by phonypc 5y ago
CO2 will be elevated in a stuffy room, but that's not actually what you're noticing. It's humidity and VOCs. If CO2 was actually high enough to be a problem, the first symptoms would be an increase in heart rate and rate of r
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by phonypc 5y ago
Blade is chuck.
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by phonypc 5y ago
I'm curious what you're thinking of regarding rhubarb. As another reply pointed out, it's fine raw. Otherwise it's usually just cooked gently with some sugar.
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by phonypc 5y ago
I don't think "sub-par cuts" makes sense as a category. Different cuts are just suited to different kinds of cooking. Calling a blade roast sub-par because it doesn't make good steaks makes about as much sense as calling
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by phonypc 5y ago
Ya, "correlational" is a legitimate criticism of a study based on VAERS data that wasn't presented as such. Anyway, I'm not aware of studies being retracted as you describe. Certainly there have been problematic pre-prin
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by phonypc 5y ago
The medical establishment is not trying to convince everyone that systems like VAERS are useless . That might be a hyperbolic talking point in some circles on Twitter. The issue is mis using the systems. They exist to generate evidence of
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by phonypc 5y ago
That article is about cycling as a sport. I'd bet if you look at cycling as a method of regular transportation, it would skew heavily non-white and lower income. Owning a car is expensive.
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by phonypc 5y ago
VAERS and its like are useful data. The issue is abusing them by implying that all reports are causally linked to the vaccine. They track adverse events following vaccination , not adverse reactions to vaccines . They exist so that profes
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by phonypc 5y ago
The WHO essentially says it lacks context. Read the "Important points to consider" heading in your link. Namely "VigiAccess cannot be used to infer any confirmed link between a suspected side effect and any specific medicine.
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by phonypc 5y ago
You can make vodka from pretty much anything, and there are potato vodkas. Just not the most common.
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by phonypc 5y ago
Isn't the idea behind supposed paleo/ancestral diets to limit your food to ones that resemble what one could forage or hunt for? If age in the range of 1000+ years is the criteria, wheat and other cultivated grains should be fine,
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by phonypc 5y ago
A $3 loaf was described above. 50lb bag of flour making 30 loaves. At a pretty standard 60% hydration, the resulting loaf is both heavier and cheaper by weight than a loaf of Wonderbread usually is. I suppose it could end up substantially
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by phonypc 5y ago
Okay. What I'm gathering from this is that if one tries to sell artisan bread at prices competitive with Wonderbread, and overcharges for bottom-barrel pizza cheese, one might fall under the illusion that low margin items are high and
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by phonypc 5y ago
I'd love to see how one comes to these number. $0.75 is either very expensive flour, or a very large loaf sold too cheaply. Adding seeds (at what, 5-10% of the weight of the flour?) to a loaf doubles the ingredient cost? Glancing at bu
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by phonypc 5y ago
A sandwich loaf baked in a pan should be made in a different style of oven, but the types of bread you're talking about are ideally made in the same style of deck oven as pizzas. To achieve that speed of pizza turnout would be quite th
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by phonypc 5y ago
There's plenty of "artisan" sandwich loaf, baked-in-a-pan bread out there.
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by phonypc 5y ago
Pizza dough is bread dough, the process is the same up to a point. In making loaves, you will have them portioned as balls at some point, same as pizza. You will shape them and put them on racks, same as pizza (pizza stacks/packs more
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by phonypc 5y ago
In reality, dedicated pizza ovens are tall enough fit most styles of bread. The necessities of air circulation means you can't shrink the vertical space as much as you might like to. Anyway, it seems to me the important metric in this
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by phonypc 5y ago
Margin on ingredients specifically was mentioned. Anyway, I contend that pizza is more labour intensive than bread. You can fit many loaves of bread in the oven space of one pizza. No doubt that in some circumstances, pizza is a more viable
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by phonypc 5y ago
This seems backwards. The flour (say 500 grams) for a basic loaf of bread should cost something like 50 cents, looking at U.S. prices. Water, yeast and salt a fraction of a cent each. You should be able to charge at least $3 for the resulti
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by phonypc 5y ago
None of this indicates the vaccines increase asymptomatic transmission. Yes, breakthrough cases can still transmit. Keyword can .
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by phonypc 5y ago
> They increase the risk of asymptomatic transmission, since the person would otherwise self-isolate. This is conjecture. It's a hypothetical effect to take into consideration, but it's certainly not borne out in data that th
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by phonypc 5y ago
This study not finding an effect it wasn't designed to isn't incompatible with the more hyperbolic interpretations of the threat of COVID / the importance of vaccination. Did we need RCTs demonstrating a reduction in all-caus
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by phonypc 5y ago
> Fun fact: the trial you referenced failed to show any benefit of COVID vaccination in reducing all-cause mortality in the population they studied: Is the implication that we should have expected it to? The study endpoints are clearly
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by phonypc 5y ago
Montreal is definitely not colder than Calgary. More precipitation, so snowier in the winter, but not colder.
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by phonypc 5y ago
Do you actually test your blood ketones? Unless you're eating largely fat tissue straight up, rather than somewhat fatty meat, you're probably getting enough of your calories from protein that your ketones aren't particularly
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by phonypc 5y ago
> Further, you get nothing back for complying. Contributing to the well-being of your friends, family and fellow citizens ain't nothing.
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by phonypc 5y ago
Worth noting that when you break down the data into age groups the efficacy is substantially higher than that overall number, since the vaccinated population skews older. An example of Simpson's paradox. Good explanation here: https:&
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by phonypc 5y ago
That oft-cited paper out of Israel isn't yet published, and seems to have some issues on (informal) review: https://twitter.com/DGBassani/status/1431390188924768269 Or from the article you just linked: >
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by phonypc 5y ago
Based on an annual questionnaire of how frequently the food categories were consumed. I struggle to understand how research based on that data can be useful.

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