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tsol commented on MAID in Canada nathansnelgrove.com/2025/... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

squigz · 2 days ago

Are those "other options" going to be "sitting here and dying naturally, maybe drowning in your own vomit, maybe dying of starvation"?

I have a hard time believe things are going down like, "You have cancer. We can treat it and you'd be fine, but you know what you should do instead? Kill yourself"

On the other hand, I do believe (and want) doctors to be like, "You have cancer. We can treat it and you might get a few more months with very poor quality of life. You may wish to consider these other options"

tsol · 2 days ago

It's not always the way you imagine it will be. I've posted this in this thread already but it seems most people haven't seen it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG3AJ3W_sbI This veteran seeks help and isn't able to get what she needs. What she is offered is MAID. That's the reality; sick people who aren't getting medical care are offered the comparatively cheaper option of death and it's very insulting for them.

tsol commented on MAID in Canada nathansnelgrove.com/2025/... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

joshdavham · 2 days ago

As a Canadian, I’ve witnessed a perfect polarization of opinions among the people I’ve talked to about MAID. So far, every Christian I’ve talked to about MAID is against it while every non-Christian is either for it, or has a neutral attitude about it.

tsol · 2 days ago

Really? I'm surprised, many secular people on the left are against it because they see it as the state running it badly. Take this video someone posted higher up; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG3AJ3W_sbI A paraathelete get injured and it's suggested MAID. Insulting and ridiculous. It only takes a few of these before people decide even if they like the idea the government botches the execution and there's little recourse if they go too far.

tsol commented on New treatment eliminates bladder cancer in 82% of patients news.keckmedicine.org/new... · Posted by u/geox

tracker1 · 14 days ago

I know I may get some flack for this. But IMO, you shouldn't make waves when you are a VISA guest in another country. It's just a bad idea all around. There's every reason to actively avoid getting politically involved. While I realize that US higher education is particularly motivated towards activism, protests and the like. Historically accepting even foreign nationals in such activity. It's still just a bad idea for non-citizens in any country to do so.

I do think a lot of grant funding will cycle back around. There's every reason for commercial sourcing to become a larger portion of university funding as well as university funding directly from endowments considering the profit motivations in both cases. I think it's far from dead, just changing.

tsol · 14 days ago

I don't think everyone that got their funding pulled made waves. Terrance Tao for example had funding pulled simply for being associated with the wrong school.

tsol commented on How Kentucky bourbon went from boom to bust bbc.com/news/articles/ckg... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

Terr_ · 16 days ago

> "That's worse than a tariff, because it's literally taking your sales away, completely removing our products from the shelves ... that's a very disproportionate response," Lawson Whiting, the CEO of Brown-Forman

Nonsense, it is a perfectly reasonable response to the disproportionate, capricious, and possibly-illegal Republican import taxes on Americans (tariffs) that were thrown onto Canadian everything while "joking" about violently annexing Canada.

If Mr. Whiting cared about reasonable and proportional trade, he should be aiming those complaints at his own politicians. He's been maxing out in his donations to the company PAC for the last several years, but I can't tell you for sure what candidates that money went to. [0]

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P.S.: Fair disclosure, I live in a US state where Canada is--was?--the #1 international trade partner... You'd be surprised how little that narrows it down. [1]

[0] https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs...

[1] https://www.weforum.org/stories/2021/07/usa-us-trade-canada-...

tsol · 16 days ago

When walmart wanted to attribute their raised prices to tariffs President Trump directly called them out, the subtext being a threat. Once one person backs down, it becomes normal to back down. I don't have much sympathy honestly but it's not surprising.

tsol commented on US reportedly forcing TSMC to buy 49% stake in Intel to secure tariff relief notebookcheck.net/Despera... · Posted by u/voxadam

lazyeye · 22 days ago

This is how China has been operating since forever. They don't seem to be doing too badly.

tsol · 22 days ago

Are they? But Silicon Valley is in the USA and not China. I would imagine the legal and business environment has something to do with that.

tsol commented on Ozempic shows anti-aging effects in trial trial.medpath.com/news/5c... · Posted by u/amichail

radiofreeeuropa · 22 days ago

There's a whole little online subculture of people in the US importing the precursors and making it themselves at home for dirt-cheap.

I gather it's extremely easy and basically fool-proof, as far as producing the desired drug and not producing some other, undesired drug. Much easier than, say, home-brewing beer. The risk is all in contamination, which presents a vector for infection.

[EDIT] I don't mean to downplay the risks or suggest people go do this, only to highlight that there's enough demand for this that we're well into "life, uh, finds a way" territory, and also just how lucky (assuming these hold up as no-brainers to take for a large proportion of the population) we are that these things are so incredibly cheap and simple to make, if you take the patents out of the picture.

tsol · 22 days ago

Not just the current generation of drugs, but they also import and use the next generation that is still in clinical trials and won't be on the market for at least a year. I had it reccomended to me online in a very casual as if it were a supplement. The risk with the is not just contamination but also if you get side effects there's no recourse to sue because you bought it from a chemical factory in China. The new generation of glp peptides is similar to the old one, but still can have unintended side effects as they do work on three receptors rather than the two that the current generation does

tsol commented on Ozempic shows anti-aging effects in trial trial.medpath.com/news/5c... · Posted by u/amichail

morkalork · 22 days ago

Even then, limiting calorie intake isn't all that difficult; there's a reason why intermittent fasting took off and so many people were getting results from it.

tsol · 22 days ago

Not necessarily. Some people respond well too intermittent fasting but not everyone. Some people respond to keto but not everyone. And just because you respond doesn't mean it's gonna take you to where you need to be.

I've always been skinny but for some reason I've gained weight recently. Even with keto, intermittent fasting, tirzeptide, and workouts twice a week I have only lost 5 lbs in months. When I was skinny and forgot to eat, I would feel a little crappy but still could function. Now I begin to feel incredibly depressed, I can't sleep nor focus. This solidified it to me that there's a circuit in your brain that controls feeding and if it's out of whack it'll punish you until you eat. Dieting takes months and no one can go that long without sleep. So it's still a practical problem, its just hard to see if your system is well calibrated.

tsol commented on Kyoto University team develops pain reliever comparable to morphine japantimes.co.jp/news/202... · Posted by u/nogajun

cluckindan · 22 days ago

Sounds like it comes with an increased risk of stroke and cardiological issues, psychomotor agitation, anxiety, aggression, possibly even psychosis. Humans have noradrenaline regulation for a reason.

tsol · 22 days ago

We'll have to see. There are a lot of natural and experimental painkillers that aren't used either because of side effects or more often because they just don't work consistently. It just so happens that so far the opioids are the only ones that can handle extreme pain. It's a hard problem to solve

tsol commented on Sleep all comes down to the mitochondria science.org/content/blog-... · Posted by u/A_D_E_P_T

cubefox · a month ago

Yeah. Perhaps animals are the first organisms that developed the ability to be awake, not the first that developed the ability to sleep.

By the way, even Cnidaria (jellyfish etc) exhibit sleep-wake cycles [1]. They don't have a brain, but they do have a nervous system. Maybe the first animal with nervous system (a common ancestor of Cnidaria and Bilateria) was the first to have a sleep-wake cycle.

I don't understand the current research on mitochondria, but it sounds as if sleep has to do with how neurons work.

1: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-62723-1_...

tsol · a month ago

That's actually very interesting. The most convincing explanation for also I've heard is it's just a result of living in a planet that is cold and dark half of the time. It makes sense to use that time to recharge. I wonder how much sunlight would factor in for something like a jellyfish.

tsol commented on NMDA Receptor Antagonists: Slightly More Than You Wanted to Know grillbert.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

gavinray · a month ago

I've been taking 90mg DXM with my 150mg Bupropion XR for the last few years.

Noticed a moderate improvement. I think NMDA is one of those targets that's flown under the radar, but now is being implicated with all sorts of cognitive processes.

tsol · a month ago

It causes memory and thinking problems. Some people are less sensitive to it than others, but i think that's why they haven't caught on. People online definitely experiment with using dxm and the alzheimers drug memantine. From what I've heard they're just too strong. Not sure why something weaker and not functional has never been produced though