Entirely by design.
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jamisteven commented on Alzheimer's study shows ketone bodies help clear misfolded proteins genengnews.com/topics/tra... · Posted by u/msie
Not quite. I've been taking Beta-hydroxybutyrate (BHB) salts in powder form, mixed with water. Here is some interesting literature discussing its benefits as a metabolic regulator of proteostasis in aged and Alzheimer-diseased brains:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37461525/ (same research article referenced in the post link)
I personally take it to manage brain fog due to long-Covid.
Interested to know if this ends up helping you long term, thanks.
jamisteven commented on A rural ski slope caught up in an international scam newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
Gov creates program ripe for exploitation by wealthy foreigners > foreigners exploit program > US citizens take cut of said exploitations.
Wow yea, shocking.
Idea bad, idea gone.
jamisteven commented on We need female mice in neuroscience research news.harvard.edu/gazette/... · Posted by u/belter
I'm reminded of the research from decades ago on the size of infectious particles for airborne disease transmission. Animals were exposed to droplets containing tuberculosis, producing a model for whether other diseases could be transmitted through the air.
That model said COVID-19 could not, which we now know is entirely wrong. As it turns out, tuberculosis must travel deep into the lungs to produce an infection, which is not true for every pathogen.
It's important to check the assumptions underlying new research and make sure they really apply.
We now know what is entirely wrong?
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jamisteven commented on Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English words cnn.com/2023/04/01/europe... · Posted by u/rntn
On the one hand: If your culture needs a preservation movement, it's not a culture, but a relic. Culture is defined by people, not some sacred thing that needs to be preserved. How much of the Italian cuisine they're trying to protect would exist if they had the same attitude in the 1500s, when the tomato was introduced to Italy?
On the other hand: I think countries should resist global cultural homogenisation. No offence meant to the Americans here, but I detest the exportation of American culture to Europe. I don't mean music and films, but rather the way of thinking about the world. I suspect this is where things like these proposals are coming from; it's the pendulum swing reaching too far before it settles in the middle.
I would argue that it is importation, rather than exportation.
There’s the story of a manager who starts booking expensive training courses for his team, and another manager says, “but what if you spend all this money on training and they take their new qualifications and leave the company?” to which the first manager replies, “and what if we don’t give them any training, they stay low-skilled, and they stay?”
tbh I hate this approach of up-skilling / free trainings, all they are really after with this is squeezing every last bit of juice out of you so they can continue to consolidate job roles and make you do more with less, instead of hiring SME's for specific things, they have a jack of all trades working on an endless amount of items that use to require a team of 10+ people to do. Especially in tech roles.
..which is, quite accurate really.