A lot of opioids are fairly related, Oxycodone and Oxymorphone can be used as precursors to make Nalaxone and vice versa. I recall Four Thieves Vinegar Collective doing a similar trick though I don’t remember what the actual precursor was.
EssilorLuxottica might be “unknown” but it is the eyeglass maker with a functional monopoly on the industry and parent company to the many better known ‘companies’ such as: Ray-Ban, Oakley, Persol, Oliver Peoples, Vogue Eyewear, LensCrafters, Pearle Vision, Sunglass Hut, EyeMed etc.
The implications are the variables are conflated and the conclusions are overblown.
It should come as no surprise that acute trauma and injecting a foreign substance would cause a relatively significant immunological response. The issue is that for the “chronic phase”, which is where the novelty of this research lies, the evidence shown is far from difinitive compared to the story being told and what results are shown aren’t overly significant.
Even if you 100% believe the paper the conclusion is that the effect of getting tattooed is, arguably, similar to catching the flu once. However, the paper itself tried to obfuscate that so they have a more impactful result and the marketing/outreach/media site that was linked here doubles down on it trying to sell the story of “tattoos==illness and death”!!!
Oh honey… This is barely below average.
The full paper is here and, as usual, it’s hardly anything and decontextualized in order to get a publishable result.
This one is so bad that it doesn’t use established baselines or do any form of statistical analysis on the results instead opting for their own “baseline” measurements using very small sample sizes. It also plays a smoke and mirrors game where it shows a result for short term immunological response and then uses that to insinuate the ‘slightly reduced but still likely well within the error of the poor control’ long term effects are worth noting.
Other major flaws:
At best it’s a very poorly communicated and poorly designed experiment but I suspect that’s due to it result hunting.
Depends on when you count, but for the Iraq war specifically that’s about right for the official foreign coalition forces.
However, the Iraq war was just one front of the nearly dozen wars that were being fought as part of the “Global War on Terrorism” which NATO perpetrated, the short list of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen, but arguably also including Camaroon, Philippines, Libya, Kashmir, etc.
Sure, of Europe only UK and Poland were officially deployed to Iraq, but they were actively collaborating with the rest of NATO in a much broader conflict and don’t ask about where the mercenaries and security consultants that were used heavily during those conflicts came from.
It’s not a misconception, it’s misdirection.
Also the issue of you need to be a deranged psychopath to get wealthy in the first place.
And it’s not just “overcrowded jails full of pretrial prisoners, the barefoot children carrying buckets for water in Appalachia” but the grad students in LA living out of their cars, or grandpa sleeping on a bus stop, or people in the Rockies surviving off roadkill and forage.
Seattle tent cities/tiny homes make some Favelas look real swanky.
Forgiveness can only be granted after an honest apology, acknowledgement of the harm caused, and an honest effort made to undo those harms.
Her acknowledging the harms that those surrounding her are causing is a step in the right direction, and a step towards forgiveness. But oooh boy does she still have a lot of aplogizing to do and acknowledging the harms that she herself has caused. Not to mention that her current plan isn’t to undo those harms but wipe her hands clean of it all.
Forgiveness is only on the table once she starts championing the causes of the black, hispanic and trans peoples she has victimized.
Oh, those other administrations were absolutely intentional. They were just smart enough to ensure plausible deniability and not gloat about it like the current Idiocracy.
That’s because the billions spent on homelessness/poverty doesn’t go to those experiencing it but to large non-profits so they can get their reservations at 5* restaurants.
Seattle specifically is facing multiple lawsuits such as Kicheon V Seattle for violating those “checks and balances”. However those violations always seem to be in one direction.
There’s multiple ways, but as an example in a similar way as nutritional yeast is made by growing a microorganism such as Saccharomyces Cerevisiae and then extracting the products. B12 is made by growing an organism like Propionibacterium Freudenreichii and extracting and seperating those products.
You then mix the B12 from the Freudenreichii with the inactivated[dead] Cerevisiae.
Oh, they are. But you underestimate the power of opioids, police state, etc. in preventing that hunger from turning into action.
Most people here are, correctly, pointing out that going fully vegan easily gets all your required nutrients except for B12. However, this is a mostly solved problem because while “naturally” humans would get it through consumption of animal products it’s synthesized via bacteria and it’s currently produced at scale via genetically modified strains, such as Propionibacterium Freudenreichii, and used to fortify things like plant based milks and nutritional yeast.
It is something to be aware of, but it’s also not the problem many on this thread are trying to paint it as.
I don’t know why homeless people don’t break into every unused house and squat in it, especially in the winter.
Because cops kill people who do. There will be no “Robin Hood economy” without extreme violence.
Length of shutdown had drastically increased recently.
Yes. That is what this is a graph of, but that’s not particularly interesting and doesn’t make for a good graphic. The interesting bit is the addition of uncorrelated variables to imply a correlation/causation that isn’t supported by the data.
The problem with stats is the prove truth or show complete trash and both look the same if you don’t have experience.
Right, which is why I would hope a “data is beautiful” community would be able to recognize trash when it sees it.
The story that I suspect is trying to be told is that “Republicans cause shutdowns” but that is not what this shows. Using a basic PCC1 shows that these 2 variables aren’t particularly correlated:
With a standard error of +/- 0.302 the signal is technically outside the noise, but it’s not a strong signal and is indicative that different methodologies will give different results.
In other words the data shown does not support the hypothesis. It’s barely correlated and certainly not to enough of a degree to argue causation.
This might show the assumed premise if it included every year without a shutdown. I’m lazy, but I linked the tools so if somebody else wants to show that they can.
This does, arguably, show that shutdown length increases over time independent of controlling parties.
But, as is, it’s a chart of two uncorrelated variables where the author and audience are assuming causation despite available data.
^1. not ideal, especially with such little data, but I’m lazy.^
Potassium Metabisulfite
If you have it, it sounds like it’s a better option than whatever easy ethanol source you’ve got. But the trick to proper sterilization is that certain microbes are resistant to different things. The Potassium Metabisulfite sounds like it’s about as nasty, but less toxic, than bleach. However even that alone isn’t enough for sterility.
Glassware is usually fine so long as you allow pressure to build and release slowly.
For what you’re doing there are additional microorganisms which can outcompete anything you don’t kill and so “sterile enough” is probably fine, but putting this here as something to keep in mind in case things go wrong.
Boiling water isn’t enough to kill a lot of hardier bacteria and fungal spores and so it’s certainly not “sterilized”, though it may be ‘sterile enough’ for your purposes. Water just can’t get hot enough and the “shells” are well insulated enough to survive for hours in those conditions.
However, they also become tougher once dehydrated and so simply placing them in a really hot stove has the same issue.
You simultaneously need more heat, pressure, time, and possibly some form of chemical attack to truly “sterilize” something.
Using a pressure cooker and a tiny amount of alcohol, ethanol, is usually enough to do the trick.
Microsoft when Bing first came out was literally like “it is highly recommended that everyone here use Bing Search”.