neurobama

If you look closely at what those studies actually survey and how that data is collected, it's clear that many possible co-morbid conditions aren't adequately filtered out. There is _no_ objective test or evidence-based protocol that can conclusively diagnose "long COVID." Doctors must rely on checklists of broad symptoms and the patient's word. The CDC page you linked mentions this under "Data for Long COVID:"

>For example, some studies look for the presence of Long COVID based on self-reported symptoms, while others collect symptoms and conditions recorded in medical records. Some studies focus only on people who have been hospitalized, while others include people who were not hospitalized.

Can serious health conditions can arise as a lasting consequence of infection? Absolutely. Can we easily distinguish between those and other symptoms or conditions which may arise out of stress, anxiety, other unrelated conditions, or symptoms which in some (not all) cases may be psychosomatic? Can we accurately draw conclusions as to how many long-COVID patients there are in total, then apply that conclusion in other areas with confidence as the GP commenter has done? Not yet.

The evidence-based research on long COVID is limited and of mixed quality. From what I've seen, there are significant gaps in experimental methodology and a lot of studies based on extremely subjective surveys which don't effectively filter co-morbities. I would strongly caution you to examine the data before adopting a strong position on the issue and applying it to potentially unrelated phenomena.

It's never good to hear of political instability in a nuclear-armed state right next to Afghanistan.

>The WASPs of a generation ago didn't need to cheat; as long as they could graduate they were almost assured of a good job.

Do you have data to back this up, or is it just lazy racial basis? Also Jared Kushner isn't a WASP.

The actual article says it. I know this because I read the actual article.

They've attempted to serve Page via conventional methods, have been unable to physically locate him, and are now requesting the power to serve him via "alternative means." That seems substantive to me.

You jest, but strong arguments have been made on both sides of that counter-factual. Popular narratives of the American Revolution leave much unsaid. Contemporary accounts of inciting events such as the Boston Massacre were often gross distortions or plain lies.

The Townshend Acts were meant to tax the colonies to recoup the cost of their own defense, after the French and Indian War kicked off arguably due to Washington's poor French and inexperienced military leadership:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Jumonville_Glen#Afte...

Yes, we even know where his possible father is buried:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberius_Julius_Abdes_Pantera

Crying shame that so much work went into these recreations yet you can't (for now) visit them in VR. The sense of presence and scale adds so much.

>Family structure is itself a class issue.

Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, both very poor parts of the world on average, have a higher ratio of married couples with children to single parents than do the United States and Canada:

https://news.gallup.com/poll/286433/women-worldwide-single-m...

David Drummond, former head of legal at Google and recipient of $47M in total comp in 2019, had a child with a woman who he abandoned and abruptly cut off:

https://www.businessinsider.com/david-drummond-earned-47-mil...

I can provide more anecdotes and data if you like, but my strong sense is that family formation isn't as nearly as tied to class as you think. If anything, low-income people save relatively more money by co-habitating.

This history is important and relevant in the abstract, but what does it tell us about solutions for today's problems? I don't see what Dred Scott tells us about stopping rampant car thefts in Milwaukee. We are where we're at, now how do we improve?

I think a lot of people who didn't know the contours of this auto theft crime wave, or perhaps even know such a crime wave was happening, now have a better understanding of what's happening and why.

"Negro" was the word in common use by people of all races at the time. Wikipedia:

>Negro was accepted as normal, both as exonym and endonym, until the late 1960s, after the later Civil Rights Movement. One example is Martin Luther King Jr. self-identification as Negro in his famous "I Have a Dream" speech of 1963.

Do you have any comment on the content of the article?

It's not strictly speaking the color of anyone's skin, but the taboos around discussing criminals of a certain shade that bugs me.

>Classism is the issue.

Crime does correlate somewhat with income, but racial differences in rates of violent crime are poorly explained by income level. Page 93, Table 6:

https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/research/epr/9...

And here, see "Analysis of the Combined Data" and the conclusion section:

https://randomcriticalanalysis.com/2015/11/16/racial-differe...

The author claims a large amount of the difference is explained by family structure. I'm inclined to agree, and I wish our leaders touched on this more often. You can't welfare or police your way out of a failed subculture where kids aren't raised to respect life and property, or themselves for that matter.

>Why? Do we treat minorities poorly?

No, they come here from all over the world to find happiness and prosperity.

>He served 3 months. after being rich enough to post bail and hire decent lawyers.

This became national news and the judge involved was recalled:

https://harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-132/california-judge-...

We'll all know Brock Turner's name and his crime for the rest of our lives. I believe this is an exception that proves the rule.

Who do you mean exactly?

The social media component of this crime wave is huge, as victims with insight on the perpetrators' social scene will tell you:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/01/us/car-theft-teens-pandem... (https://archive.ph/XCzB4)

On the bright side, Wisconsin (home to Milwaukee and the Kia Boys) is poised to increase penalties on vehicle theft:

https://www.weau.com/2023/04/18/wisconsin-assembly-aims-hars...

And Kia Boys who are arrested will potentially be held in jail for longer, which in practice will prevent them from committing more crimes as they await trial:

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2023/... (https://archive.ph/tT8Xr)

So long as these kids remain unparented and out of control they will continue to destroy their own lives, the lives of others, and communities which tolerate their behavior.

My understanding is that H2S is toxic to nearly all plants and animals. Barring some massive technical leaps, I don't see how humanity survives in the worst-case scenario. H2S on the levels of the Great Dying takes millions of years to clear from the atmosphere. Rich humans living in domes would probably die of equipment failure long before the atmosphere became safe once again for human life.

The H2S in question is produced mainly by sulfate-reducing bacteria in the ocean, so targeting these microorganisms might be one way to stave off disaster. That would require massive bio-engineering on a scale never before seen in history.

Right now we're just crossing our fingers and hoping we can reduce carbon emissions and ocean warming fast enough, and that we don't trigger (or haven't already triggered) runaway warming feedback loops such as the clathrate gun hypothesis.

Thermal hydrolysis (raising water/sewage to very high temperatures and pressures) can also break down PFAS and other bad stuff like pharmaceutical compounds. The Washington, D.C. Blue Plains water treatment plant uses this technology to safely convert septic sludge to fertilizer, sold under the brand name Bloom:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Plains_Advanced_Wastewate...

https://bloomsoil.com/faqs/#what-is-bloom

edit: As I Google to double-check my recollection, I'm finding mixed but encouraging reports on this technique's effectiveness. For instance this 2021 paper:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S22133...

>To our best knowledge, there are only two studies that have evaluated fate of PFAS in sludge before and after HTL. In a report presented by Mitroshkov et al. [19], 15 PFAS were quantified in five sludge samples before HTL. After HTL, concentrations of the majority of these PFAS were below detection limit of the GC/MS/MS. However, the authors did not report the HTL operating conditions used in this study. In addition, PFSAs including PFOS, the commonly recognized most recalcitrant PFAS, were not targeted in this work.

>In another study, degradation of five PFAS (i.e., PFOA, 7:3 FTCA, 8:2 FTUCA, 8:2 FTS, PFOS) in sludge by HTL was conducted [35]. Among the five, each spiked at 1000 µg/kg, the first three were degraded > 99% at 350 °C for 90 min. Degradation of 8:2 FTS and PFOS was 34% and 67%, respectively. It was found that undegraded PFAS partitioned to the biocrude phase, which may negatively impact the quality and use of these biocrude in the real world.

>Compared to PFAS in water only, more degradation was observed when these PFAS were spiked to sludge. It was speculated that metal ions and mineral solids in the sludge might have contributed to enhanced PFAS degradation [35].

Photoshop seems like a straightforward way around this method of verification. It works for the DMV here in the States, but perhaps only because lying in that context carries legal penalties.

>Additionally, the decomposition of dead marine organisms in these zones can release harmful gases such as hydrogen sulfide, which can be toxic to marine life and humans.

If human extinction occurs due to climate change, this will be how. Anoxic ocean events can lead to massive emissions of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) into the atmosphere. This is the speculated mechanism for the end-Permian extinction event, also known as the Great Dying, and several other mass extinction events in Earth's history. H2S is immediately dangerous to human life at concentrations as low as 100ppm. It's so dangerous that humans have evolved to smell it in concentrations as low as 100 parts per billion.

UW-Seattle professor Peter Ward has spoken about this at length:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS4FIoOKKfc

Don't know if they're Venezuelan, but some botters are now using LLMs to simulate human conversation in-game and avoid bans:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbTsHEPMQoo

I'm really excited for LLM D&D dungeon masters.

Doesn't work for me. I get this:

>There's already a [number] minute timer. Replace? Confirm/Cancel

Running iOS 16.1, so unless they added this feature in the last few months I'm not sure why we'd see different results.

edit: Perhaps you're using HomePod? Apparently Siri on HomePod supports multiple timers, while Siri on iPhone does not. Goofy.

The inability to set multiple simultaneous timers is annoying. I compensate by setting multiple alarms. "Delete all my alarms" works when I'm done, but it's certainly a hack.

I worked for several years in IoT and as a consequence avoid smart home stuff like the plague, so this hasn't been a problem for me.

>I don't think any of them will ever be the helpful AI that they were initially promoted as, though.

I must disagree. ChatGPT-style LLM functionality with ElevenLabs-quality realtime voice synthesis will absolutely supercharge these products. The ability to e.g. answer kids' questions in simplified English according to parental prompt guidelines, or drill down on complex educational topics, or maintain context over many back-and-forth conversational interactions will be huge.

It deals with my oven fan and similar regular kitchen noise pretty well. I hold it close to my mouth at parties, so I can't really compare it to e.g. Google Home or Alexa's far-field capability.

I generally like Siri and rarely experience bugs. I use it to set timers, get the weather, play music via Spotify, occasionally dictate text messages, and look up trivia mid-conversation. It's been my replacement for Alexa ever since I got creeped out by Amazon's audio data retention. In this context I'm suprised to hear Apple employees are unhappy with it.