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How ironic, me stating some simple public facts got "cancelled" here. Guess, this whole free speech thing is not meant for everyone. Pretty sad, HN...

Most countries got their shit together and infection rates decreased. That means the same test capacity is now testing less severe cases, more preemptively across the population.

I also think it's unlikely to have the virus pathology synchronized across the world with current travel restrictions.

Last time I checked the virus actually seem to feature some "dual gene pool" mechanics, which should make it more robust and adaptable to "fading out".

We're not talking opinions tho.

Spinster.xyz is build on Soapbox and _run by Alex Gleason. It's hosting a community, which was banned from reddit for actively harassing and willfully hurting trans people. That's actions not words. Maybe people underestimate how organized and funded these hate groups are, how coordinated and planned the gaslighting of the public is. It's also not just "feminism" but more and more intersection with ultra right and "christian" conservative thinktanks.

Just because you are not directly affected doesn't mean it's all just opinions and words, and nobody gets hurt.

Sure, sharing information, so other people can make their decisions as they please...

Is this the cancle culture apocalypse the right is talking about?

Weren't consumer decisions once held differently? Or is it because there is no money spend, it's not ethics anymore?

If these things concern you:

Soapbox is developed by a massive TERF, boyfriend/husband to the founder, and co-founder of the transphobic, radical "feminist" hate-platform spinster.xyz. This is where all the TERFs migrated after the reddit ban of /r/gendercritical, /r/LGBdroptheT, ...

I think in this case, it's really hard to separate the product from the person, since it's all over the place; he's at the core of organized transphobia, harassment and hate.

Could also mean we test more people, register more mild cases.

Lol. Reads a little bit like cells accumulating mutations, becoming increasingly unchecked. Cancer analogy would be complete, if they end up training other idiots.

The CA-53W doesn't have it.

That's a smart thought, I haven't had!

Could be testable by turning the stopwatch on and then change the time. I have no idea how these clocks work; if they have a Unix time style counter as internal reference, then this test won't work. Would need a 36 bit memory to run for 20 years continuous counting; 30 billion times bit flipping on the lowest bit. Probably done differently.

For me the straps were tearing after about 6-7 years (bought it 2009, might be less plastizer used). Became shower watch for some more years. Sometimes you even forget the stopwatch running for month, but the battery still lasts longer then anything else.

I hate the buttons on that watch. They are prominent enough to always get stuck with whatever I slip my arm through. Especially backpack straps.

Otherwise love it. The battery lasts longer than the plastics. Has this timeless 80s chic of the original Walkman and Thinkpads.

I would love the calculator one more, but that is critically missing a light, which makes it impractical.

It's disputed, if the linear, no threshold model is adequate. The problem is, 1:5 people die of cancer anyway and the people getting fullbody CTs tend to be either old and die rather soon, or are people who had cancer at some point to begin with. Really hard to find a signal there. The best data is still from the nuclear accidents/bombings.

Cells can repair (maybe faulty) a certain amount of damage, but may suicide when too much is broken (double-strand breaks). The amount and type of ROS generated by ionizing radiation also depends on your antioxidant state and how well tissue is saturated with oxygen (more ROS if you exercised before exposure). Generated ROS are a significant factor in cell damage, it's not just direct DNA hits. Some ROS can last for weeks and travel across cells to fuck things up.

I think we can confidently say, lowish radiation exposure is: not great, not terrible ;)

Worth noting an MRT is of low value for prevention. Small lesions would be invisible and you could very well progress from nothing visible to seriously sick in 6 month. We really need some marker for before we get unhindered growth.

Even if we had 100% precise AI assisted image analysis, once a year fullbody MRI... the MRI resolution would still not catch the "before things escalate quickly" pre stage of cancer. With imagery catching _most cancers early is inherently a thing of mostly luck.

From what I know, the risk is not high enough to leave a strong signal. The problem is the overall high cancer rate for humans. As far as I know, we still don't have a model for predicting cancer rates after low exposure to ionizing radiation.

CT is simply more practical for full body scans, since an MRT would take forever. Imagine laying completely still for 2 hours... CT does it in 5 minutes.

They also differ in diagnostic value for different types of use cases. But I am lacking any expertise there.

Either way, CT plus constrast agent is the standard in cancer diagnostics/staging.

I keep an eye on that route. So far it hasn't been confirmed the AMD motherboards actually can connect to the high res displays.

I would love the X13 yoga 4k(?) oled version with AMD. That be my perfect machine as it has pen input too.

Yeah, but IdeaPad is not ThinkPad... I would only do education offers and the non ThinkPads don't come with 3 years of onsite premium support. The IdeaPad does come edu discounted tho.

The problem is with breast cancer screening the next step probably isn't a full body CT. If you detect cancer in the blood, next step would be actually finding it. A full body CT would actually increase your cancer risk and add the chances for another false positive which might involve more invasive diagnosis. The real risk/benefit calculations quickly become tricky.

All that said, I'd rather risk dying while propofol'ed, than from say colon cancer. I mean all this is about how we die, not if we have to die.

This causes me pain. I really, really want an AMD Thinkpad, but NONE of them has a 2k or 4k display. I tested the FHD ones and I just can't bare it/feel alright dropping 1.3k€ on FHD in 2020. No sure what to do now :(

Aww c'mon. You guessed it was fake, because it's an article about computer generated articles. Who would read that and not question the content in front? You are not analysing everything you read for oddities in writing style.

So what's in asparagus to cause this?

Sounds like you have some enzyme defect. Do you know any specifics?

The perceived "hard" first two weeks abstinence struggle immensely benefits from foregone tries. It's a bit like fasting: first time is the hardest and after that there might even be some self-challenging pleasure fighting the urge to give up.

The real hard part, in terms of actually prolonged success, is that party six month later, one year later, two years later, ...

You will never stay a casual, 2-3 cigarettes a week smoker. You permanently fucked this up for yourself. YOU ARE AN ADDICT FOR LIFE!

Weird sentiment to think the researchers wouldn't identify and correct for such an obvious factor.

You have no idea what aesthetic surgery can achieve. They can crush your skull to shambles and give it a completely new shape. If you think trashy when thinking about aesthetic surgery, you've only identified the cheap stuff and seen the addicts and failures.

Ugly rich people either don't care or don't consider the risks worth it.

I am using AntennaPod for years now and absolutely love it. Not the best UI, but all the functionality I could wish for.

It's one of three "hard to switch to iOS" apps:

1. Newpipe <3 2. AntennaPod 3. Slide for Reddit

Newer Thinkpads are the only laptops I've seen which bring their own camera shutters. Thinking how often you see people putting tape over their camera, it's quite astonishing build in shutters aren't more common. It's a tiny piece of plastic, costing nothing.

Now what I want is a hardware microphone switch, where the off state actually connects to a noise generator.

The farmers are supported by climate scientists and meteorologists. I don't get your sentiment.

What's the point of "the issue is more nuanced!!1!" all the time? We collectively need to act now. Everyone of us. You are draining momentum to what end?

I think there is a difference between "it's raining" and it's raining enough. The last two summers lowered the ground water levels and that takes a lot to refill. Here in the mid east it's all "rainy weather" too, but two days of clear skies let's the vegetation's leaves droopy. Humidity is super high all the time, I think most of the water just evaporates and does not reach deeper grounds.

Seeing trees sick and dying put climate change on my immediate threat plate 2 years ago. Too late but oh well, I am trying to change the people around me vigorously :)

I liked your theory while it lasted.

Quite the leap to derail the conversation into some anti-X agenda.