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Narrator: "They talked him into it and he took the bait like a quintessential senile boomer."
We should treat people who say "Iran did 10-7" the way they did us for saying "Israel did 9-11"
@Deplorable_Degenerate @Sovereign @TrevorGoodchild Trump did 10/7 by fucking up the entire diplomatic balance of the region. I'm gay btw.
> I'm gay btw
Yeah, we can tell
Yeah, we can tell
4/5 fag flags was a bit much
@TrevorGoodchild @Deplorable_Degenerate @Sovereign @KekistaniWanderer Which White country of the 5 do you not hate?
@technolyze @Deplorable_Degenerate @KekistaniWanderer @Sovereign @TrevorGoodchild I love England I should add it.
@AngelCelt @Deplorable_Degenerate @KekistaniWanderer @Sovereign @TrevorGoodchild oi have me an English breakfast
We doing British food horrors now?
whereβs that video that flashes the words βfamineβ and βpestilenceβ over pictures of British foods? π
If I wasn't sick I could go for beans and chips rn
I could always eat fish n chips. Itβs my go to Friday meal when not eating at home. But still the memes are worth laughing at
Im game for haggis, Scotland redeems the Britcuck cringe as usual
I would probably like a haggis
But Haggis is like the horror movie version of food tho?
I actually really like haggis, but liver and onions was a staple meal when we could afford liver at our house as a child. Itβs just poor people food with the marginal bits (thatβs not a criticism) π€·πΌββοΈ
@katereads @Deplorable_Degenerate @Sovereign @BowsacNoodle @Escoffier @KekistaniWanderer @TrevorGoodchild @eee @AngelCelt is liver and onions really that cheap? I like liver and onions myself
Organ meats are usually the second cheapest meat you can get behind ground trimmings.
Organ meat has the most micronutrients though. Liver supposedly has testosterone precursors in it
It does. We should be eating it on occasion. Not too often that's how you get gout
Im super skeptical on the gout claims. I think processed carbs are a much likelier cause than rich meats.
I'd have gout all the time then because I am a starch boy.
Allegedly the organ meat raises your uric acid levels.
Allegedly the organ meat raises your uric acid levels.
I did a pretty deep dive on that question and what I found was they just blamed everything kings ate. Because back in the day pretty much only royalty got gout.
Jared Leto needed to gain a bunch of weight for a role so he gorged himself on carbs and got gout. When he cut out the carbs the gout went away.
Jared Leto needed to gain a bunch of weight for a role so he gorged himself on carbs and got gout. When he cut out the carbs the gout went away.
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32Yeah, part of why I thought it held water is medieval medical texts discuss that. Given how long the assumption had been around it seemed solid.
You'd be amazed when you dig deep how often theyre just wild ass guesses.
You got ghosts in your blood your Majesty! You should smoke opium about it!
Now that's medicine I can get behind
Dude I've been slowly reading through the last 100 years of medicine and its insane how much of medicine before the 80s was just "Take these narcotics and if that doesn't work we've got no idea". They were giving people laudanum and hoping for the best
"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."
IDK where this comes from but it's old: "With allopathy (modern medicine) the patient dies from the cure, with homeopathy he dies from the disease"
I joke but the issue with modern medicine is that the massive groundbreaking humane advancements (antibiotics, safe general anesthesia making all types of surgery possible, MRI/CT/angiography revolutionizing radiology, typed and crossmatched blood transfusions) are always overshadowed by infinite quackery
Great roundup of medical advancements.
> overshadowed by infinite quackery
With the exception of computer science, all science is like this.
You've got people like Robert Maxwell intentionally trying to make things worse - but then you also have these supposed "scientists" who are total princesses and throw a bitch fit if someone finds an experiment that doesn't fit their grand theory. And then the universities and research centers do not fund great scientists, they fund great politicians who theater play as scientists.
The only reason I think CS manages to not get drowned in bullshit is because it's code, and when you send someone your code, they run it, and if it doesn't work, everybody knows instantly.
> overshadowed by infinite quackery
With the exception of computer science, all science is like this.
You've got people like Robert Maxwell intentionally trying to make things worse - but then you also have these supposed "scientists" who are total princesses and throw a bitch fit if someone finds an experiment that doesn't fit their grand theory. And then the universities and research centers do not fund great scientists, they fund great politicians who theater play as scientists.
The only reason I think CS manages to not get drowned in bullshit is because it's code, and when you send someone your code, they run it, and if it doesn't work, everybody knows instantly.
Axel Keys was another one. He really and truly believed animal saturated fats were bad for you but he could never prove it no matter how many taxpayer funded studies he did and then hid the results
There's a little book called Quantised Accelerations, and in it the author proposes a new - fairly rough - theory about what might be causing inertial force.
But the majority of this little book is just one experiment after another that have been done before, have been reproduced, and yet cannot be explained by mainstream physics.
Now this is fine, it's okay have unknowns, but the fact that these things are NOT taught in school, and the physics community has decided to kind of pretend they don't exist, makes it impossible to take anyone in academia the slightest bit seriously.
And this is physics, supposedly the MOST serious branch of academia - and even they are acting like they can make facts go away by pretending they don't exist.
If I was king, I'd send a copy of this book to the dean of every university - along with the letter saying they're being defunded, effective immediately.
But the majority of this little book is just one experiment after another that have been done before, have been reproduced, and yet cannot be explained by mainstream physics.
Now this is fine, it's okay have unknowns, but the fact that these things are NOT taught in school, and the physics community has decided to kind of pretend they don't exist, makes it impossible to take anyone in academia the slightest bit seriously.
And this is physics, supposedly the MOST serious branch of academia - and even they are acting like they can make facts go away by pretending they don't exist.
If I was king, I'd send a copy of this book to the dean of every university - along with the letter saying they're being defunded, effective immediately.
βCannot be reproducedβ is a flashing red light for any research, medical or otherwise.
Yes, and there's a "reproducibility crisis" these days (lots of papers are basically made up)...
But there's another side of it which is "debunkers", and you're never gonna get a positive result out of one of these people because they're never gonna try to do the experiment right.
> Can not reproduce
> Okay buddy, tell it to your wife
But there's another side of it which is "debunkers", and you're never gonna get a positive result out of one of these people because they're never gonna try to do the experiment right.
> Can not reproduce
> Okay buddy, tell it to your wife
So someday even psychiatry may be a respectable field?
I jest but I knew a young psychiatrist once who was beyond frustrated at not being able to help the truly ill patients she had to treat. Not the other ones. The genuinely ill. She'd joke that she should have gone into orthopedics.
I jest but I knew a young psychiatrist once who was beyond frustrated at not being able to help the truly ill patients she had to treat. Not the other ones. The genuinely ill. She'd joke that she should have gone into orthopedics.
Maybe one day (after proper neuromodulation therapy develops)
But today is not that day
Tomorrow not looking good either
But today is not that day
Tomorrow not looking good either
Itβs important to do research on your own. Doctors are also people and half ass things at their job.
Most doctors are basically ChatGPT but worse.
The whole field has been proceduralized to the point that you're not actually supposed to bring any unique knowledge, just match description to what's written in books. That's something which an AI is insanely good at.
The whole field has been proceduralized to the point that you're not actually supposed to bring any unique knowledge, just match description to what's written in books. That's something which an AI is insanely good at.
I put a lot of blame on insurance companies for this. Infectious disease specialists have to regularly fight to get non-standard treatments done. Iβve heard stories where doctors will have to say to insurance companies reps stuff like this:
>So this js a recorded line, right? Okay good. Since youβre denying the life saving care that my patient needs, I just want to hear you say that you are the one making the medical decisions and functionally practicing medicine, so that when the wrongful death lawsuit hits it comes to you. Oh really? You wonβt say that? You wonβt practice medicine without a license? Okay, letβs talk to your boss then!β
on and on for two hours until they finally get approval. Itβs insane.
>So this js a recorded line, right? Okay good. Since youβre denying the life saving care that my patient needs, I just want to hear you say that you are the one making the medical decisions and functionally practicing medicine, so that when the wrongful death lawsuit hits it comes to you. Oh really? You wonβt say that? You wonβt practice medicine without a license? Okay, letβs talk to your boss then!β
on and on for two hours until they finally get approval. Itβs insane.
> wrongful death lawsuit
Well that's part of it too, you can't wave the right to sue a doctor - and in a lot of cases, suing them is basically just second-guessing their decision.
So doctors can't make any decision that doesn't have the support of The Scientific Community, and they always have to recommend more tests, more specialists and more drugs at all times.
If they say "you're fine" and then you die, your family is gonna take their house - but if they say "oh you really need this pill" and you take it and die, then as long as their diagnosis was at least plausible, it's on the drug company, and suing the drug company is lolimpossible so the doctor is protected.
Well that's part of it too, you can't wave the right to sue a doctor - and in a lot of cases, suing them is basically just second-guessing their decision.
So doctors can't make any decision that doesn't have the support of The Scientific Community, and they always have to recommend more tests, more specialists and more drugs at all times.
If they say "you're fine" and then you die, your family is gonna take their house - but if they say "oh you really need this pill" and you take it and die, then as long as their diagnosis was at least plausible, it's on the drug company, and suing the drug company is lolimpossible so the doctor is protected.
Forget where I heard it (maybe from Dark Enlightenment) but a strong argument can be made that sewage engineers saved far more lives than doctors since the start of the 20th century. Cities used to quite literally be shit holes
This is a commonly accepted fact in the medical community, among the smart physicians at least
See: Doctor John Snow (no relation to Game of Goons) and the 'Pumphandle Lecture Series'
See: Doctor John Snow (no relation to Game of Goons) and the 'Pumphandle Lecture Series'
I've never heard that before, but I would already bet money that it's true just based on logical deduction.
@TrevorGoodchild @Deplorable_Degenerate @CobaltSasquatch @Sovereign @katereads @cjd @BowsacNoodle @DW2 @Escoffier @KekistaniWanderer @eee @AngelCelt @technolyze you have never seen midwit doctors fume and special-plead as hard as when theyβre told that their plumber has saved more lives than they ever will
I love that story. Also the Dr. who suggested Dr's wash their hands and ended up being committed to a mental institution.
Yes. Large scale water sanitation and food refrigeration have prevented more deaths than doctors.
There was that famous study in the 1800's where they found peope had worse outcomes going to doctors
bro 100%. Itβs hard for me to put to words, because I do think modern medicine is incredible, but it seems like they βoveractβ sometimes. Most healing comes from getting homeostasis back and letting the body do its thing. Sometimes
thatβs βimpossibleβ (is it though?), and thatβs when things go off the rails. I started getting into chiropractors and naturopathic stuff a few years ago after doctors couldnβt diagnose an injury that an LMT detected (hip/glute) while working on my neck. Nobody even thought to check for fascia issue while I had two doctors and two nurses fondling my balls looking for a hernia.
thatβs βimpossibleβ (is it though?), and thatβs when things go off the rails. I started getting into chiropractors and naturopathic stuff a few years ago after doctors couldnβt diagnose an injury that an LMT detected (hip/glute) while working on my neck. Nobody even thought to check for fascia issue while I had two doctors and two nurses fondling my balls looking for a hernia.
nigga had fascia-ism
When you realize Obesity, Type 2 diabetes, Heart attack (and high blood pressure & hardening of the arteries), cancer, PCOS, dental caries, Alzhiemers (sp), and a few other things are considered metabolic diseases (diseases of catmrbohydrates) it really changes the picture.
And several dr/profs have studied hunter gatherers do not get these things
And several dr/profs have studied hunter gatherers do not get these things
All my reading and thinking has led me back to homeostasis as foundational truth of health (at least).
Focusing on homostasis as prime importance means taking away things that prevent health is number one. Over-eating? bad food? bad sleep? too much sedentary time? too much blue light? stale air? corrupted water? Too many "suppliments"?
it takes the focus away from the germ or the faulty gene or nucleotide and puts the onus upon the person, returning the power and responsibility into their own hands rather than a medical priest.
This philosopy pre-supposes that the body naturally knows how to be healthy.
Focusing on homostasis as prime importance means taking away things that prevent health is number one. Over-eating? bad food? bad sleep? too much sedentary time? too much blue light? stale air? corrupted water? Too many "suppliments"?
it takes the focus away from the germ or the faulty gene or nucleotide and puts the onus upon the person, returning the power and responsibility into their own hands rather than a medical priest.
This philosopy pre-supposes that the body naturally knows how to be healthy.
Take three leaches to balance your humours or summat