gamblor956 (u/gamblor956)

gamblor956 commented on Texas Instruments’ new plants where Apple will make iPhone chips cnbc.com/2025/08/22/apple... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico

edge17 · a day ago

I don't know if it was on purpose or not, but I have heard it said more than once that Republican led states are able to greenlight projects faster, are more business-friendly environments, and generally have less red tape compared to Democrat led states. Love it or hate it, but greenlighting projects is a big component in allocating funds.

gamblor956 · a day ago

Definitely not true. Right now Red states are openly attacking businesses that don't agree with the prevailing ideology. In Florida, the governor tried to destroy the state's biggest employer. In Texas they have been trying to prosecute out of state businesses. Alabama has more taxes on businesses than California.

Red states just say they're better for business.

gamblor956 commented on RFK Jr demanded a vaccine study be retracted – the journal said no nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/rntn

lithocarpus · 2 days ago

It is excreted by the kidneys, but according to the studies I looked at, for aluminum that gets in the blood some of it gets into bone and brain and other places where some portion stays there for years.

Point being that for a given amount of aluminum, many orders of magnitude more of it is still in the body years later if it was injected as compared with ingested.

I'm not saying this is harmful necessarily, but it is not something I would simply dismiss.

gamblor956 · a day ago

Studies...in mice.

Studies in humans show that if doesn't end up accumulating unless your kidneys aren't working.

gamblor956 commented on RFK Jr demanded a vaccine study be retracted – the journal said no nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/rntn

lithocarpus · 2 days ago

Disclaimer: I'm not claiming injecting aluminum is dangerous, but I must address this argument that we get way more from food than injections and the claim that what is injected quickly leaves the body. I've seen these arguments often but can't find solid basis for them.

It's a false equivalency to compare an amount of a substance eaten vs injected. Injected substances can get to places in the body and in different quantities than substances eaten.

There are different forms of aluminum, with different absorption rates, and different potential behaviors in the body.

Here's a study of aluminum accumulation in rodents after injection: https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1741-...

I don't think there are any studies showing that aluminum doesn't accumulate or remain in the body long after injection - while I've found ~5 studies indicating that it does.

Doesn't mean it's dangerous, just that some amount of it does stick around long term and it is not clear to me that it's a drop in the bucket compared to the aluminum we eat. We also eat a lot more aluminum than people used to before the industrial revolution. The amounts of aluminum we eat now could be mildly harmful too - I don't know about that.

Below is the math on amount of aluminum that a normal baby ingests vs gets injected. I got a result that a baby's first year they get between 2x to 65x as much aluminum in their blood from injections vs from feeding.

A baby drinking breast milk (250L in the first year) would get 250 * 40µg = 10mg of aluminum in their first year from breast milk. A baby eats around 300000 calories in their first year, which leaves 120000 not from breast milk. At a rate of 8mg of aluminum per 2300 calories this would be another 416mg of aluminum from food for a total of 426mg.

The absorption rate into the bloodstream of that aluminum would vary between ~0.01% (for aluminum hydroxide) to ~0.3% (for aluminum citrate), so they would get 0.04mg to 1.3mg of aluminum in their blood across the first year from ingestion. Compared to 0.125mg to 0.85mg per dose of vaccine. They get around 10 doses of vaccines containing aluminum in the first year, for around ~2.6mg of aluminum total, but 100% of that is absorbed since it's injected. So the amount that gets into the blood during the first year from vaccination is somewhere from 2 to 65 times the amount a baby would get in their blood from eating/drinking.

I could be wrong on this logic or math somewhere, and welcome being corrected.

Another aspect of this is that the injected aluminum adjuvant comes in big (relative to ingestion) sudden doses with the intent to trigger a significant immune response to the antigen. That could affect the body differently than a gradual very small daily dose.

Again, not claiming that injecting aluminum is dangerous, but it seems to me babies could be getting far more persistent aluminum in their bodies from injections than from food, and as far as I know this has not undergone a long term study showing that it's safe. Almost all vaccine studies have aluminum injected in both arms of the study, and I haven't found a single aluminum vs placebo study - please share if you have one.

gamblor956 · 2 days ago

Aluminum is excreted by the kidneys naturally. In order for aluminum to bioacculumate, the kidneys would have to be non-functional.

Infant kidneys may not be as efficient as adult kidneys, but any aluminum acquired through vaccines would still be excreted by the time they're able to talk.

gamblor956 commented on Ne Zha II is the biggest movie in the world cbc.ca/news/entertainment... · Posted by u/andsoitis

gamblor956 · 2 days ago

Visually amazing. Equal to or better than the best of Pixar.

Narratively, about as on par with the story of Elio, so close to the bottom of the barrel compared to Pixar. It's confusing even to Chinese audiences. It's tonal whiplash would give you a severe concussion if you experienced it in real life. It's basically Minions but with 10000x the toilet humor interspersed with the self-seriousness of B-grade flicks like the Clash of the Titans remake or Gods of Egypt.

gamblor956 commented on Toothpaste made with keratin may protect and repair damaged teeth: study kcl.ac.uk/news/toothpaste... · Posted by u/sohkamyung

adrianmonk · 9 days ago

Do you mean David's? Their web site says it's "fluoride free".

https://davids-usa.com/products/davids-sensitive-whitening-n...

gamblor956 · 4 days ago

Sorry, I mixed up my brands. I actually meant Ollie's. Dave's has the NAHP but not the flouride.

gamblor956 commented on Unity reintroduces the Runtime Fee through its Industry license unity.com/products/unity-... · Posted by u/finnsquared

pbarry25 · 4 days ago

"What happens if I am distributing the runtime for commercial purposes?

According to our terms of service, the distribution of the Unity runtime for commercial purposes by Industry Customers requires explicit authorization from Unity and is subject to a fee ("Distribution License') which is generally equivalent to 4.0% of the revenue generated by the software product that incorporates the Unity runtime (discounts may apply). Please contact sales to discuss further."

For folks who didn't make the move to Godot the LAST time Unity pulled this, there's Godot... (not saying that move is easy for everyone, but am just sayin'...)

gamblor956 · 4 days ago

Godot is entirely unsuitable for the types of non-gaming commercial applications subject to this license (which has been around for over a decade in similar form).

Also...a 4% license for the underlying platform upon which your product is based is relatively cheap by historical standards. The numbers used to be well into the double digits.

gamblor956 commented on Unity reintroduces the Runtime Fee through its Industry license unity.com/products/unity-... · Posted by u/finnsquared

rozab · 4 days ago

Based on job adverts, gambling is huge for Unity, even casino cabinets. It surprises me, you wouldn't think there'd be room for so many players in that market.

gamblor956 · 4 days ago

Unity is the de facto engine for a number of the interactive gambling machines you find in U.S. casinos.

gamblor956 commented on Unity reintroduces the Runtime Fee through its Industry license unity.com/products/unity-... · Posted by u/finnsquared

Lammy · 4 days ago

Until it's an established payment model for one product category, after which it fill feel more natural to extend it to others.

The worst part of it isn't even that devs would get their wallets shaken out but that it's really just surveillance in disguise. Those apps would “““have to””” spy on me as an end-user in order for them to know what to charge.

gamblor956 · 4 days ago

Unity has always had a separate license for the other types of applications, so it's a slippery slope argument without a slope.

The issue here is the surveillance aspect.

gamblor956 commented on Toothpaste made with keratin may protect and repair damaged teeth: study kcl.ac.uk/news/toothpaste... · Posted by u/sohkamyung

BenjiWiebe · 9 days ago

What product(s) do you recommend? I'm in the US.

gamblor956 · 9 days ago

Dave's is available in the U.S. and has NHAP, flouride, and the anti-sensitivity stuff from Sensodyne.

gamblor956 commented on Toothpaste made with keratin may protect and repair damaged teeth: study kcl.ac.uk/news/toothpaste... · Posted by u/sohkamyung

lend000 · 9 days ago

It seems to me the two are effectively the same unless you have significantly misshaped teeth (remineralizing vs regenerating). I also use hydroxyapatite, just to reduce my fluoride exposure, although I believe fluoride is supposed to be a more potent remineralizer (and fluorapatite is allegedly stronger than natural hydroxyapatite). But the upside is that I don't mind swishing hydroxyapatite around in my mouth for 10 minutes, twice a day, so whenever I go to the dentist, I'm the healthiest mouth of the day (not the case pre-hydroxyapatite tooth paste/powder).

gamblor956 · 9 days ago

NHAP particles are smaller than fluoride particles, so they're able to penetrate farther into the porous surface of the teeth; flouride basically can only coat the surface. There is some research indicating that NHAP is more effective than flouride at remineralizing (e.g. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4252862/) but that flouride is more protective than NHAP because NHAP isn't protective at all. (The flouride creates a temporary sacrificial enamel-like shell layer that closes off pores in the surface of the teeth in addition to buffering acids; the NHAP will just create new enamel.)

My dentist says that NHAP is great if you have lots of cavities or drink lots of acidic drinks like soda, but once your enamel is repaired too much of NHAP can actually cause weird growths.

Dave's toothpaste has both NHAP and flouride (and the sensitivity agent used in Sensyodyne) if you're looking for the best of all worlds in the U.S.