it'd probably be the dryness, as plant-metabolism usually requires water, you know?
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EVERY time one's gut gets borked simply take a good probiotic with a mild meal ( that the good microbes will like ), and in about 2+h your gut is fixed.
Look for a probiotic with multiple Bifido strains & multiple Lactobacillus strains & Subtilis if you can find that too ( there is a PubMed item on how adding Subtilis to agricultural animals reduced their sickness/infection rate, and since we're mammals too, I'm presuming that we work similarly )
Also use a probiotic after any course of antibiotics, to fix-up one's gut.
I'm old, and find I need the things more frequently, now: even too-much salt in a meal can wreck my gut, but if I'm careful, then I don't need the help.
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Salt-resistant stainless-steel is the 316/316L steels & the 317/317L steels.
( the L versions are low-carbon, which means they can be welded & the low-carbon won't create carbon-rich defects in the welds )
Salt-resistant aluminum is 5052 aluminum ( low-copper. iirc )
normal cheap aluminum kitchenware is Commercially Pure aluminum, not alloy.
I've no idea what percentage of aluminum food-contact things are made with alloys, but it wouldn't be that much, I don't think?
Nobody bothers using those salt-safe alloys for making kitchen stuff, because there's no market-pressure to do-so.
( those stainless steels are costly, & 5052's used mostly for boats/marine/nautical stuff )
Therefore, using salt in the other alloy bowls/pots/pans does release metals ( including nickel or/and chromium ) into one's diet or/and ecology.
I won't add salt to normal "stainless" pots or pans because of that: it can get added after, even-though that's a harsher taste.
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I'd say combining Pimsleur with Tandem & Anki would be an extremely effective method.
Only Tandem's got Sanskrit, though..
( & I'm not a people-person, being autistic )
So, I'll try again, someday..
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AI could be beneficial for poorer nations, somebody warns.
AI could be harmful for poorer nations, somebody warns.
BOTH are true statements, and it comes down, entirely, to implementation ( & regulation of implementation ).
Corruption rules this world, however, and expecting anything other-than corruption, of money-driven-medicine ( there's a book named that, if someone wants to read up on such things ), is idiotic.
FLOSS medical diagnostic software may compete well, however, IF evidence-based-medicine is permitted to compete against authority-based-medicine.
( https://www.edge.org/response-detail/25433 is an article that got turned into a chapter of one of John Brockman's books, on authority-based medicine.
That book is named "This Idea Must Die", and some of the chapters in that book I agree with.
However, rather-than giving-up on evidence-based medicine, I'd rather dig-in & break authority-based medicine's gaslighting, eventually breaking authority-based medicine, itself, leaving only evidence-based medicine. : )
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Language forms one's mind, and, then, one's formed-mind is reflected in the language one uses.
"Collaborative Intelligence" is a book on working-with 3 of the 4 kinds of innate-mind-language:
- AbstractShapeCognition, or implication-patterns
- VisualCognition
- AuditoryCognition
- KinestheticCognition
are the 4 kinds that I know-of.
The AbstractShapeCognition kind ( my kind ) apparently makes up a significant fraction of physicists.
The book only deals-with the other-3, however.
Why does that have any significance, whatsoever?
Translating EVERYTHING from AbstractShapes into English .. gets exhausting & frustrating.
Temple Grandin has a couple of TED Talks.
She thinks in movies.
then translates what the variant-movies showed her into words, to communicate.
Language is confining.
Languate is enabling between people, and also between oneself & one's thoughts, but it is crippling.
Douglas Hofstadter's "Godel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" is on how self-consistent-formal-systems are INHERENTLY mind-blind to all that the formation of the formal-system doesn't/won't see.
Leonard Shlain's "The Alphabet Versus The Goddess" book identifies that women's-rights simply doesn't get much of anywhere, in language/cultures which speak more-gendered language.
ie Anglo cultures have more women's-rights than Latin cultures, with their gendered-language.
That is consistent, & durable.
It gave me dispair for human potential, when I discovered that many language-families program people into genderizing everything, & locking "validity", in establishment's eyes, from "female".
That isn't going to change.
Which means that humankind is less-likely to endure The Great Filter, this century.
The "shackles binding our Potential" are too strong, and too strongly-valued, for humankind to break, enough?
It looks more & more like this is the case.
See the fallacy of wrong-framing, and understand that all human languages are wrong-framing something.
Each language is better at some things, but worse at others, and incapable of some concept-expressing...
That alters our viability, planet-scale.
In "The Design Of Everyday Things", it noted that we've a species-wide mental-defect:
When we do something, and it doesn't work, instead of agilely changing-what-we're-doing, we do what we already-were-doing, MORE FORCEFULLY.
That is why I ditched Emacs for Vim: Vim keeps hitting one on the head with one's not-changing-levels, thereby conditioning one's mind into the habit of changing-levels, counter to that innate species-wide ignorance/incompetence.
Morass-of-capability ( emacs ) was fun, but I NEED to be able to see what need be seen, need to be able to think what need be thunk, etc, and not-changing-levels is an already-known-incompetence?
And I'm autistic? ( making that much worse, with woodenheadedness/monotropism )
Vim forces the change in mental-habit.
Some equivalent is going to be required, species-wide, to force-change our language, in order to make our viability more-likely, XOR our conditioned mental-habit is going to sink a greater percentage of our species' life, this century.
Oh, & Temple Grandin's thinking in movies nuked the entire "without language, thinking cannot happen" school of philosophy, didn't it?
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The commenter who identified that we're now able to eliminate radiowave-broadcast communications, via lasers ( & fiberoptics, etc ), is spot-on.
There is another angle, though.
Imagine a simplified-model of civilization...
a batch of 7 newborn-babies, instead of hundreds of genetically-distinct populations in Africa...
those 7 babies live in "eden".
they learn that they can consume everything they want, that doesn't harm them.
they learn that they have to be somewhat self-moderating, because others fight them when one crowds the other, too much.
etc.
they move away from each-other, & some lose their skin-pigment, others change it...
an empire forms, in-which industry is the rule ( the Roman empire ).
Now a momentum is set in-place, that is making the sequence of the Industrial-Revolutions inevitable...
at the time of the Roman Empire, the children are, say, 11yo.
at the time of the Industrial Revolutions, they are in puberty, their brains forced into chaos, & ALL sorts of new force-multiplying technologies landing in their hands...
So, what is The Great Filter?
What happens when it is unconscious-toddler-mind, or unconscious-adolescent-who-never-got-challenged, who has all the world-snuffing technologies that we now have, but who has the global-responsiblity-level of .. drunk & drugged narcissistic children...
Say you have 7 kids going into The Great Filter, representing the whole populations-sea of our world...
Say only 1 of them survives The Great Filter...
Are they going to be CAREFUL in what they do, technologically, from then on??
Obviously.
I don't expect more than about 1.5% of this planet's population to survive this century's TANTRUM/POGROM that has narcissism-roots, politics-roots, religion-roots, food-insecurity-roots ( like total collapse of the terrestrial & marine food-webs, later this century ), etc.
Will the remnant who survive this century, if any do, be as careless with technology as we currently are??
How could they be?
If The Great Filter is an automatic force-growing-up consequence of EVERY world-overwhelming-species, who mixes accommodated-immaturity with ecosphere-destroying technology, then whatever portion of worlds who reach The Great Filter have survivors of it, .. it'd be inherent in the survivors' experience that they have been made careful.
Same as you don't find incapable-of-self-discipline in career-military-officers, you don't find our murderous carelessness/ideological-rabies in any survivor of The Great Filter:
Universe automatically force-extinguishes populations who won't grow up, who gain the technological-leverage that we've gained.
So, silence depicts a lack-of-carelessness AND an absence-of-need to be throwing-away-energy through radiowave broadcast, both.
When combined, galactic silence makes much fundamental sense.
We're in our species' "puberty" stage, and haven't survived our force-growing-up Great Filter, yet.
If we do, well, then finding others who also did, will make sense.
If we won't, .. then our epitaph will be that we wouldn't grow-up, at ANY cost.
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Good!
Now do the correlation between toxoplasmosis ( tiny amoeba who infest braincells ) infestation's stress & Alzheimer's.
ScientificallyTestablePrediction: I bet there is a statistically-significant correlation!
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THIS is what happens when you succeed in making an AI ( or Hoomin ) that can create MODERN KOANS.
You Bastard!!
: P
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That means that there is a positive-feedback-loop, between working-destitution-while-pregnant & inability-to-parent-because-of-working-destitution,
and those 2 combining to multiply the effect, in the produced Attachment Disorder...
Damn, damn, damn, why didn't that happen to be obvious...
"thousands of years ago" isn't the kind of resolution I was interested-in.
IF the genetic-drift-rate ( or whatever it's called ) of the critters is known,
THEN it should be possible to identify when they came here from Asia, through cladistics.
That may be another torpedo-hit in the "there is no evidence the Indigenous people were in the Americas significantly before the interglacial began" prejudice.
( there is already plenty of evidence that they were here, but when dealing with ideology-addiction/prejudice, you have to keep nailing the damn coffin closed, until the prejudice stays dead )
ALL power-minorities, women, Indigenous, battered people, homeless people, autistics, the same is true.
Power-majority is self-centered, aka narcissistic.
That is the default.
"majority RULE" means minority over-ruled/bullied, inherently.
Look at how a story in the Abrahamic religions scripture, on how women ate "the fruit of the knowledge of Good & Evil" which means they ate Morality .. got turned, by the power-majority into hating-on women for their "sin".
Women ( mothering ) ate of morality & shared it with men.
Period.
Researchers studying wasps in the Americas discovered that altruism is generalized-mothering, Buddhism perceived the same underlying-principle 25 consecutive centuries ago, the correct reading of that story in Genesis stated so, but the male-supremacism deformed the meaning until bullying women became religious-law for .. millenia..
Many years ago, in the 1990's, there were the Internet FAQs.
The Feminism FAQ of that time identified that there was a category-difference between early White feminists & early Black feminists:
White feminists wanted to be included in the White privilege that males had. They wanted their half of White entitlement.
Black feminists, being bullied both for being women & for being Black, wanted something completely different: they wanted the abuse to be forced to unexist.
That is evidence ( my life corroborates it ) that our unconscious, when bullied in 1 dimension, wants to be included in the power-majority group, but when bullied in 2+ dimensions ( each individual may have a different threshold ), then the underlying problem with bullying-itself is understood by one's unconscious, and it becomes removing bullying's rule that one's unconscious understands to be the problem.
It isn't leaving women, Indiginous people, homeless people, etc, fucked-over, while fixing it for 1 subgroup, that is going to make humankind viable, it is dismantling abuse-archy for all that can.
IF we earn it.
in time.
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