miriparhelion.bsky.social
Fan of energy systems and clean energy. "Big infrastructure" leftist. They/them.
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No, that's the newer scoring system. The old one had a maximum score of 1600.
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Not really, most of the data is from military recruits. The observed decline in sperm count is probably due to changes in how it's counted.
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There's actually very little research, if you read anything about fertility preservation for pediatric cancer patients you see that there's not that much data on what's normal.
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They're really not. There's maybe been a decrease in median age of menarche by a few months over the last century.
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It's consistently been people looking at samples through a microscope but how they actually count has changed and probably accounts for most if not all of the apparent decline in sperm count.
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*Systematically. A lot of the literature about sperm count decline assumes that how it's measured hasn't changed, which isn't true.
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JFC. I am regrettable unfamiliar with the literature about sperm count. Most of the data comes from military recruits, especially in countries with mandatory military service. I don't think anyone has been systemically measuring the sperm count of "young boys".
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The important thing to know is that there are longish tails on both sides of the distribution. Just because the median age is between 12 and 13 doesn't mean that no one get their period at age 9. Also, puberty starts before menarche as does thelarche, and many people get those confused.
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I don't think it's ever been closer to 18 outside of famines or endemic malnourishment. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24721149/ has a chart going back to 1939 for age for the US. It seems unlikely that average age would have dropped by 5 or 6 years in a few decades.
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They didn't experience menarche closer to 18 even in the 1910s.
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I remember back in 2002 or 2003, tech luminaries talking about improving search so that end users could ignore the concept of folders and hierarchical storage. It sounded unpleasant to me, but it caught on.
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Ugh, more like scoldPDX.
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And that's what they're like when run as very expensive institutions for the family members of rich people!
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This exists, they're run by extremist Anthroposophists, as in Waldorf schools. They're generally a very expensive way to have your relative with intellectual disabilities abused in primitive conditions. I am like 99% sure he's thinking of them.
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There are Anthroposophists (same movement as Waldorf schools) who operate "technology-free" institutions called Camphill communities for people with intellectual disabilities. They tend to be a very expensive way to have your relative abused on primitive conditions.
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None of the undocumented immigrants voted for him, they can't vote.
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They variously claimed either that children didn't transmit Covid or that in-person schooling was so important to children that it should be valued over protecting parents, grandparents, and other relatives from getting Covid.
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Oh, interesting! Does Ukraine even have considerable resources? What I was able to find about lithium suggests that while there's some, none of it would be straightforward to extract.
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See section 5.2 which explains this and discusses criticisms as well as other evidence corroborating this claim. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The claim is not that upzoning reduced rents but that rents increased less than they would have otherwise, using a model based on rents in New Zealand cities that did not upzone.
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doi.org/10.1016/j.la...
It's an article in the publication 'Land Use Policy's which is an Elsevier published journal available through the Science Direct database. Articles in peer-reviewed journals can obviously be wrong, but it's not just "someone's website".
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No, miasma theory was also irrelevant nonsense 300 years ago.
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My maternal grandfather died of polio which is an objectively bizarre thing for a 48 year old to die of even when polio was common.
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Even if you are at an increased risk, nothing's certain. I recently learned that I likely have a hereditary condition that increases the risk of kidney disease. No one in my family has died of kidney disease and as far as I've been able to find out, no one has had more than lab abnormalities. 🤷
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Correction, screening colonoscopies usually start at 45 or 50. Some doctors who perform them are okay with patients remaining fully conscious during them (instead of under sedation) and will let you watch the video display, which seems like something you might find interesting.
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Colonoscopies for cancer screening usually start at 40 but if other relatives have had colon cancer you may want to look into starting them sooner, read about it and ask your doctor. If you actually get the recommended screenings, you'll be doing better than most people.
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The biggest one is lung cancer. If you smoke, reducing or stopping is the probably the most important thing you can do for your health. I know it's hard and this is a particularly difficult time to quit. Vaping is also bad, unclear if it's as bad and I don't think there are statistics on it yet.
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If they're on different sides and they're the only relatives who've had cancer, then as far as I know you're unlikely to have a higher than average risk of cancer. Breast and colon cancer are among the most common cancers and the most common causes of death from cancer.
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Zinnia, I am so sorry. The parents of those high-schoolers are so irresponsible, what the hell.
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I think one of her kids is trans. Saying something weird about gender but actually listening to feedback fits with that.
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My method for buying tomato sauce in a jar: look for the cheapest option that doesn't have added sweetener or any oil besides olive oil. That's usually Paesana and it's usually a couple of bucks cheaper a jar than Rao's.
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Clearly proof that we're delusional, how could anyone be happy about any outcomes besides being cured of being transgender? Their whole thing seems to be that nothing trans people people say about themselves can be true.
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Sadly, some of it started under Carter who really got snookered by what Elizabeth Popp-Berman calls the "economic style of reasoning".
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I take your point in general but that low section lines up with the weight and time on the market of the BMW i3, which was an unusually light car. Surprisingly not that energy efficient for a car of its size/weight.
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Wow.
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Some of them did go in for Bernie, but he had other supporters.
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I know you have gluten-free oats in the UK, my friends with celiac buy GF oat matzah for Passover that's made in the UK, stunning that the C of E won't do something similar.
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Wow, I don't know if this is still the case but at least ~20 years ago the Episcopal Church in the US was getting people with celiac who'd left the Roman Catholic Church because the Catholic Church required communion wafers to contain wheat and the Episcopal Church didn't.
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Huh, I'm glad to be wrong. I heard it from a professor at a women's college in the US. The college had lots of students (and faculty) from outside the US, but I think the professor in question was American.
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I remember hearing in college that it's because programming was originally seen as similar to bookkeeping and accounting, which are traditionally women's roles in family businesses in many parts of Asia. Not sure how true that is.
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That price tag apparently is just the rent for that warehouse for 90 days, not including police overtime or other expenses. I wonder who owns the warehouse.
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Sports occur outside of the world, according to New York Times editorial board.
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Ketamine is not a stimulant, even though it rhymes with amphetamine. It's used for anesthesia. I would not be surprised if he's also on stimulants, but ketamine isn't one of them.
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So, Hegseth seems to actually want to do something like that. In particular, he seems to think that any personnel besides those in combat positions are superfluous. It's very strange.
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I got the same one. I do not have a car.
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Or VC-junta.
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Now that's a bridge too far.
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And even 1.6 gallons per flush was the result of efficiency regulations.
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"Unleash Commercial Nuclear Power in the United States" and that section is about developing new reactor designs for export to the rest of the world. Not surprising really, the regulatory agency for commercial reactors in the US (the NRC) isn't part of DOE.