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I'd gladly set fire to parents to demonstrate to them what hell is like.

Why do parents assume kids want to be bought into todays toxic world?

Thing is it wouldnt be fair to single my parents out, the unkillable ideas that govern, like govt, law, medicine, religion and royalty also deserve a demonstration!

Its interesting living in a house where 2 of the 3 males have died. Is it an Omen? Is it an example of getting the 3rd degree? Time will tell....

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darkclouds··on Why do so many people hate EU bureaucracy?
I'd have to get past the French farmers at the ferry ports and channel tunnel if I wanted to descend on Brussels with my pitch fork.

By having Brexit, we now have the chance to have two Bonfire nights!

darkclouds··on Misusing words can even change their dictionary definitions
Sick!
darkclouds··on UK’s PM Sunak raises ‘strong concerns’ over alleged China spy in parliament
The Chinese have the population numbers and knowledge to brute force solutions, so I doubt they need to spy that much. Sure they have copied and produced their own variations of things like the military jet J-31 being similar to the F35, but the sheer number of Huawei's 5G patents, shows China are also capable of leap frogging in technological terms as the recent Chinese 7nm cpu appearing in some phones has also demonstrated, something US sanctions hoped to curtail.

I think this article is just Pro-European press offering support to the UK, by highlighting this "Chinese spying in Westminster" story to those of an easily led nationalist persuasion, as it also serves European interests to highlight the Chinese as spying, whilst not drawing any attention Western spying via big businesses, something Fifa's Sepp Blatter obviously wasn't aware of.

darkclouds··on The molecule DIM reduces biofilms causing dental plaque: study
Zinc starves bacteria via a variety of means, and a high zinc intake will see high levels of zinc in the saliva and in the teeth, helping to keep bacterial levels down, but RDA's are highly conservative amounts for young healthy people, not old or ill people, which then makes some RDA's woefully inadequate.

Very few products kill 100% of bacteria, even deionised water will still have less than 25 colony forming bacteria per litre in it, although by virtue of being deionised has less in it to help bacteria get established. Acidifying water will make it harder for pseudomonas to get established. But when scientists say they are searching for life on mars or an asteroid, they are referring to bacteria, mainly the bacillus aka rod shaped bacteria as it can survive in radiation 100,000 times more than humans can survive in, and extreme cold like space, so global warming and melting ice at the poles presents new viral and bacterial risks.

Diet can also reduce the body's own immune response, for example calcium disodium ethylene diamine tetra-acetate aka Calcium disodium EDTA found in a variety of products from makeup to food like Mayonnaise chelates zinc reducing zinc's ability to activate GPR39.

Zinc's inability from deficiency or chemicals like the one mentioned above, from being able to activate GPR39, creates a myriad of problems in human health, including reducing saliva production. [1]

There isnt anything wrong with using bacteria to out compete other bacteria, but adaptions occur.

Phages are viruses that kill bacteria, something the Russians developed decades ago as the West when with antibiotics[2]. I would also consider Georgia as a medical destination for some conditions as they are superior to Western options. Some of their doctors do scoff at the Western doctors!

You can find millions if not billions of phages in just 1ml of seawater [3]. The problem with phages is they take time to develop, so you could be dead before the bacterial strain is identified and a phage is developed, so antibiotics are the fastest immediate response, but the gold standard is antibiotics until the phages have been developed and then used as a part of a treatment program, but you'll only get this from very expensive private healthcare.

Of course drinking seawater when one goes surfing is a bit of pot luck, or lucky dip with regards to consuming phages. It makes me wonder if Surfers Against Sewage know about phages. [4]

So lots of different ways to tackle health problems, but medical experts cant always use them due to cost or simply lack of knowledge.

[1] https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/22/8/3872

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6203130/

[3] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210115-the-viruses-that....

[4] https://www.sas.org.uk/

darkclouds··on The molecule DIM reduces biofilms causing dental plaque: study
[1]: https://probiorahealth.com/ resolves to google, yet it shows in google results, so dont know if the HN hug of death has forced this change.

Last scan by the wayback machine.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230628125533/https://probiorah...

darkclouds··on Ask HN: How would you develop this service?
I dont know how the API works or what's behind it, so sometimes like others have pointed out, repeated polling of an api, could be causing a DOS situation and I just mentioned how the TCP Keep Alive could help with an API that could push data.
darkclouds··on Increased Vitamin D Intake Can Decrease Symptoms of Depression, Anxiety
Well according to this link [1] the LD50 for zinc is close to 3 g/kg body weight, more than 10-fold higher than cadmium and 50-fold higher than mercury.

If this is wrong for humans, then the US Govt is certainly not giving a toss about its unqualified statements!

Stomach acid dissolves metallic zinc, producing zinc chloride, which is a corrosive product damaging the stomach lining.

And if the British Govt was really bothered about our health, it wouldnt allow very hard water with lots of lime scale that inhibits zinc uptake, and if the medical experts were that bothered, they would be checking our diets, but they dont, just like they dont bother about tobacco products.

Some many expert criminals its hard to know who to listen to.

[1] https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Zinc#section=Toxic...

darkclouds··on Increased Vitamin D Intake Can Decrease Symptoms of Depression, Anxiety
If you get bone aches from taking vit D3 sups or even sunshine exposure, taking some zinc above RDA's amounts can get rid of them.
darkclouds··on Laura Kuenssberg: Inside the high-stakes soap opera that led to political chaos
"It was, as she sees it, a collective meltdown in a country previously known for stability."

Actually I'd argue repression not stability, I've come to view the UK having lived here all my life as one of the most scientifically advanced repressive nations on the planet, just look at the work of Dominic Cummings, or the police or the military! I know the Germans are often portrayed as being very rigid, but I honestly think that title should go to the UK.

And you have to thank the BBC for the nations love of the Arthur Daley character from the TV series Only Fools and Horses, which Nigel Farage emulated so eloquently.

Surely the BBC et al should take a bow for the part its played in enabling Brexit in a Little Britain Vicky Pollard kind of way?

I mean I've never seen so much of the British Press from all political corners seemingly united in their direct and indirect promotion of Brexit with their Johnny Foreigner bashing that gave rise to UKIP.

Anyway nothing appears to have changed for over 50 years when reading this [1].

The UK ruling elite have a stubbornness and pig headedness that rival the Taliban in Afghanistan!

So I'm sure nothing will have changed in the next 50 or 100 years time.

[1] https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/cabinetpapers/alevelstud...

darkclouds··on Teen’s death after eating a single chip highlights risks of ultra-spicy foods
People can go into shock and die.

"Shock may result from trauma, heatstroke, blood loss or an allergic reaction. It also may result from severe infection, poisoning, severe burns or other causes. When a person is in shock, their organs don't get enough blood or oxygen. If shock is not treated, it can lead to permanent organ damage or even death."

https://www.mayoclinic.org/first-aid/first-aid-shock/basics/....

darkclouds··on Ask HN: How would you develop this service?
I did wonder if an api would be polled so heavily.

To push data, things like Outlook mobile keeps a TCP Keep Alive connection open from the server to the phone and pushes data to the phone, so when an email arrives at the server, the phone is updated almost immediately. The TCP Keep alive can be a bit of nuisance for some firewalls though.

So like you say, a good idea to check any terms the site might have, otherwise a denial of service could occur.

darkclouds··on Ask HN: Are we already consuming AI generated content without knowing?
I do wonder this myself, which is the crux of the Turin Test, but there is a lot of data sharing between companies, facilitated by the advertising tracking networks and a lot of companies manipulating social media platforms like Reddit, but also seen in sites like this one.

The news organisations, ie journalists do collaborate despite working for different companies. Ultimate phishers in some respects, and the public face of the spooks.

darkclouds··on Smart people first in line for Covid-19 vaccines, study suggests
It shows the conformity of people educated in science.

Now if God had made the vaccine, plenty of religious people would have been first in line, and if the vaccine was rumoured to make your neck redder, then red necks would have been first in line!

darkclouds··on The English cottage where John le Carré wrote Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
https://search.savills.com/property-detail/gbtrrstrs210037
darkclouds··on CRISPR used to 'reprogram' cancer cells into healthy muscle in the lab
No I'm saying manganese helps regulates insulin which in turn helps modulate parts of the immune system. [1] It helps to smooth the blood sugar spike.

Chromium reduces insulin sensitivity which is helpful for cells especially muscle which in turn increases stamina. There are plenty of studies which call into question the RDA's for supplements and there are misleading studies like [3].

For example, [2] (Zinc) deficiency during pregnancy causes irreversible effects on the newborn such as growth impairment, spontaneous abortion, congenital malformations and poor birth outcomes.

The same probably exists for other supplements and likewise over exposure will also introduce problems like nickel over exposure can cause fibrotic lung in animal experiments which could explain why some people are born with cystic fibrosis.

In this example [3], the subjects are only consuming 200micrograms of chromium. I'm not surprised they didnt see any effect, the RDA is 400ug, but some body builders have been known to take upto 2.4g aka 2,400mg aka 2,400,000ug and have seen effects (cant find the study now), but the weight training muddies the water so to speak. And the chromium intake assumes there is enough manganese in the diet to help produce enough insulin and thus smooth the blood sugar levels in the first place.

Zinc plays a role at stabilising cell membranes, it can help reduce the need for a vit E intake which also helps protect cell membranes and is also heavily concentrated in organs like the pancreas.

And whilst non digestive exposure to metals like zinc and manganese can cause problems, the digestive system is very capable at removing excess intakes via the bile acids, helping to reduce any risks.

Zinc, manganese and chromium will all have an effect on the immune system, but as manganese is most commonly associated with insulin production, I only mentioned the manganese.

This study [4] shows that chromium alters the immune response by immunostimulatory or immunosuppressive processes, by altering the insulin resistance of cells.

We are very complex chemical reactions, so trying to get the right intake seems to be a logical first step and with todays technology, and the complete absence of medical experts asking about diet in the first place, how can they even do their job properly for long term illnesses?

So in this reprogramming of cancer cells, yes its a another scientific achievement but is this another achievement once the horse has bolted and should we actually be looking more at the quality and nutrition of our food and environment in order to avoid reactionary medicine?

[1] https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/322946#:~:text=%E2...

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9262205/

[3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9861607/

[4] https://academic.oup.com/femspd/article/34/1/1/498748

darkclouds··on CRISPR used to 'reprogram' cancer cells into healthy muscle in the lab
MSTN codes for myostatin, a myokine that is produced and released by myocytes and acts on muscle cells to inhibit muscle growth, myostatin gene defects (missing genes/myostatin knockout) are seen in whippets and Belgium blue cattle.

PAX3–FOXO1 drives miR-486-5p which induces skeletal muscle hypertrophy in myostatin knockout mice and represses miR-221 which contributes to rhabdomyosarcoma (soft tissue cancer), a type of rhabdomyolysis (muscle loss).

Personally I prefer the effect of high doses of manganese (chloride) on insulin and the stimulating effect insulin has on the immune system.

darkclouds··on Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed by Mozilla
I dont care if Porsche collect data on my driving style to improve their cars.

Car manufacturers will see how ineffective and dangerous the ABS/ESP can be in some situations, just like flappy paddle gear boxes still need a clutch pedal to engage the clutch when driving over low grip situations like oil, ice, snow and rain, and the car gets out of shape, because few are perfectly balanced.

Dipping the clutch to bring the car under control and pointing in the direction you want to travel is essential in these situations.

Here [1] Misha could have dipped the clutch or knocked the gears up from 4 to 5 or 6, to prevent the engine and rear wheels acting like a hand brake.

Whats also interesting to note is the traction didnt kick in for a second or two, once he was already getting more side ways.

Now I know the Mercedes AMG have had their traction control setup for at least a decade with drift mode tolerances, but in this situation, the traction should have cut in more quickly to bring the speed down and apply the front brakes only.

So whilst the driver waits for the traction to kick in, having a clutch peddle to dip is the next best thing if the flappy paddle gear box cant knock the gearbox up a couple of higher gears quickly enough, even being able to change the brake bias quickly on the fly like in rally cars could help.

Its also why when a car gets sideways, it invariably leaves skid marks on the road before a crash. Some people are capable of driving with faster reaction times than the systems can react.

I know this because I've had to switch my traction control off "mid situation" to avoid a crash and now as a default switch mine off religiously when driving.

I object to the data being shared, just like the UK Govt shares the names and addresses of every person who is eligible to vote with people who stand in a parliamentary election when they can stump up a £500 deposit which is far cheaper than any mailing list! Makes me wonder about the Monster Raving Loony Party!

And other entities can also get this data which shows the law is not fit for purpose in some areas in todays day and age.

So there should be a default data cant be shared unless opting in imo.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH3YpRYVTBM&t=1215s

darkclouds··on Google's Statement on the UK Online Safety Bill [pdf]
Why doesnt Katie explain that better education is needed, teaching kids how to recognise and avoid situations in the home, in public and online?

Keeping someone innocent and protected from the realities of life, can set them up for a lifetime of mental health problems caused by historical exploitation in a variety of ways, that will haunt them for the rest of their life.

If education is not the best way, what is?

Katie O'Donovan is Public Policy Manager for Google UK with responsibility for economic policy. In this role Katie has developed Google's economic and digital skills programmes to ensure online opportunities can be realised across the UK and is responsible for engagement with the UK government on policy initiatives to ensure the UK remains a world-leading digital economy. Katie is also responsible for Google's Brexit Policy and work on young people’s online behaviour.

Prior to working at Google, Katie developed wide-ranging experience working in government and policy as a special advisor to Prime Minister Tony Blair in the Research and Information Unit at No10, and as an advisor to David Miliband. Katie also established the communications and policy team at Mumsnet helping the website grow from a forum startup to online institution. Katie is a board member of the Internet Watch Foundation.

[1] https://www.csap.cam.ac.uk/network/katie-odonovan/

https://ie.linkedin.com/in/kathryn-o-donovan-a13b0092

darkclouds··on Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed by Mozilla
They didnt review any Porsche's then!

Porsche is reportedly concerned over the Android Auto collecting too much data.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/oct/07/google-de...

https://www.motorbiscuit.com/porsche-models-still-not-androi....

darkclouds··on Teen’s death after eating a single chip highlights risks of ultra-spicy foods
Too much calcium amplifying the effects of too much adrenaline that causes problems in the body and mind, seen with things like a higher heart rate, as well as panic attacks.
darkclouds··on Boss of Failed Crypto Exchange Gets 11,196-Year Sentence
The problem with Crypto is its decentralised, so there is no central bank to print money in exterminating circumstances for Tier 1 players, like we saw during the financial crisis of 2008.

Crypto Exchanges need to have that contingency in place to avoid situations that could land you in jail.

darkclouds··on Teen’s death after eating a single chip highlights risks of ultra-spicy foods
They could have died from shock, just like I suspect a few people died of shock when having breathing difficulties thinking they had covid.

Shock is a very nasty mind over matter condition.

darkclouds··on Should those who work from home be paid less?
All the sole trader company's in the world that operate from home, show working from home has been practiced for many decades.

Some need to do site visits, some dont, their job dictates that.

The sole trader shows the world some people are more motivated about working, increasing their earning potential than someone who works for a bigger company.

So does working from home, show greater or less productivity, or does it highlight the slave driving nature of the managers?

darkclouds··on Snoop unto them as they snoop unto you
In the UK we cant listen into radio communications, we can still identify it using the same techniques that is used to work out encrypted internet communication, namely the traffic patterns of the radio devices.

In more than 100 countries, Tetra (Trans European Trunked Radio) is used.

This was published a couple of months ago.

https://www.tetraburst.com/

https://github.com/MidnightBlueLabs/TETRA_burst

http://rageuniversity.com/PRISONESCAPE/JAMMING%20RADIO%20GSM...

darkclouds··on Ask HN: How concrete is the risk from the BLASTPASS 0-day to the average person?
Its a risk that goes beyond Apple but applies to all devices, once the patch is released and the exploit method is published and explained, any competent malicious/curious person could have a go especially if they can string more than one exploit together, so do you trust the people around your devices especially if these devices leave the house?
darkclouds··on Bees struggle to find flowers because of air pollution
Because its hard to predict the wacky weather here in the UK, and not knowing if the next time we cut the lawn might precede a period of hot weather, we have taken to cutting the lawn on its highest cut to preserve the grass during summer months as it traps more moisture at soil level thus preventing it from going brown and dying and we only cut it when there is rain forcast. So the grass can grow to be several inches in height like a meadow, obviously more flowers/weeds pop up, but its easier pulling the weeds out and leaving the flowers that pop up for the insects.

So fast forward to this year, and besides seeing an increase in insects, butterflies, and a wider range of birds, year on year I saw 6 goldfinches descend on the bird bath yesterday, never seen that before, and we are also seeing loads and loads of grasshoppers.

Havent seen this many grasshoppers since the 70's and 80's which is nice to see. I could probably walk out and catch 5-10 from the lawn in 10minutes. I'd be lucky if I saw one grasshopper a day in previous years.

We have been trying to make the garden more insect friendly since Covid and I think its beginning to pay off.

Ozone mentioned in this study will always be found in built up areas, the human health impact is it blocks UVB to a degree which means humans get less UVB light and thus less vit D3. So even though circa 100% of the UVB will reflect off man made surfaces, the ozone stops alot of it from reaching the ground meaning you get less vit D3 in built up areas.

In the countryside the vegetation absorbs alot more UVB (circa 25%), so gardeners in the countryside have higher D3 levels simply from the absence of ozone.

And Bee's like other insects use UV light reflecting off flowers to choose the different flowers to bumble between in their search for pollen. Reduce the ozone to get more UV light to the ground and the bees can see the flowers better.

It would be interesting to see of more bees got to flowers where some UV lighting is placed over the flowers.

darkclouds··on Menopausal hormone therapy and dementia: nationwide, nested case-control study
I think Davina McCall was on the money by prescribing low dose testosterone to women.

I know from my time in my 30's messing around with testogel, it does wonders for the brain and talking to someone from South Africa who worked in the medical field, they use testosterone therapy for treating dementia.

Coupled with factors like calcium, iron, fibre, phytates and tannins inhibit zinc, and zinc is required for so much in the body, I'm of the opinion we dont get enough zinc.

Zinc and aspartate mediate cysteine immune responses. So much needs zinc, the active form of Vit D3 needs zinc to protect the bones, but supplement form of D3 doesnt, but the supplement form of D3 needs to activated by the kidneys. D3 needs a zinc finger (zinc & cysteine).

Zinc plays such a major part in biology, I'm surprised the RDA is set so low, but also not surprised when looking at the method for calculating these RDA's, which involved healthy young adults, and not old people!

darkclouds··on Elon Musk sabotaged Ukrainian attack on Russian fleet in Crimea
You obviously dont realise that human robots gravitate towards jobs which require having instructions barked at them by other human robots with slightly better fancy dress.

Basic training is not a training course for the the computer language Basic, but a form of psychological and physical human desensitization to get more reliable human robots that will put their life on the line in return for some shiny metal attached to a fancy ribbon.

Whilst the military has traditionally represented a form of paid Darwinism, there are times when others need to stop things from escalating, so I take my hat off to Musk for standing up to these fancy dressed human robots.

darkclouds··on NSO group iPhone zero-click, zero-day exploit captured in the wild
A few years ago kaspersky caught something that had to be removed by their rescue ISO. That ISO was blocked from downloading its updates and their UK support team couldn’t resolve the issue so never got to find out what it was, but it doesn’t look good there was a block preventing it from working.
darkclouds··on The Paradox of the Radioactive Boars
Fungi absorb radioactive particles, boars truffle them and they have found two types of radioactive material, the Chernobyl nuclear fallout and the fallout from the experiments done in the 1950's.

So dont eat truffles!

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