3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetabean

Is the song not in that film?

how bad could it be at that level of dilution

it's not just methamphetamine but also its incompletely combusted products (some of which are certainly carcinogenic) that one is inhaling when smelling these fumes

The uptick in aggressive, late-stage cancers since the dawn of the pandemic is confirmed by some early national data and a number of large cancer institutions

But there is no real world data linking SARS-CoV-2 to cancer, and some scientists remain skeptical.

I fucking hate the state of science journalism :( I guess early national data and analysis by the data collectors at cancer centers isn't real enough for the "real world"

The article continues:

Even as the first wave of the coronavirus pummeled the United States, public health officials predicted a surge of cancer cases. A Lancet Oncology paper analyzed a national registry showing increases of Stage 4 disease — the most severe — across many cancer types in late 2020. Baptist Health Miami Cancer Institute, UC San Diego Health and other large institutions have released data showing continued increases in late-stage cancers.

I guess those data indicating a potential link between cancer surges and the pandemic aren't real either.

I get that the authors are trying to navigate how to communicate that the researchers don't have enough evidence to conclusively support a hypothetical explanation for the increase in cancer prevalence but do have some preliminary evidence that indicates much more study has been warranted for at least 3 years.

It would be cool if they could do that in a way that wont lead lay people to think the thesis is: some scientists think covid causes cancer but there's no real world data that lead them to that line of thinking

“It’s like a cold. It seems like everyone has it,” said Bob, 73, a flight instructor.

Fuck you, Bob and fuck everyone who played a role in instilling this particularly pernicious piece of bullshit in your mind. I've been lucky enough to avoid even a single infection (okay there was a small amount of skill involved in consistently masking, not deliberately putting myself in high risk situations, and not caving to peer pressure from my friends and family, but it was mostly luck that I have a job that allows me to avoid high risk situations that I credit my success to) and it's going to take a lot more than a geriatric flight instructor's truisms to convince me that dropping my defenses is worth what you're going through.

imagine being born before the millenium

imagine being born after 9/11

As a REDACTED who has published in a few neuroscience journals over the years, this was one of the most annoying articles I've ever read. It abuses language and deliberately misrepresents (or misunderstands?) certain terms of art.

As an example,

That is all well and good if we functioned as computers do, but McBeath and his colleagues gave a simpler account: to catch the ball, the player simply needs to keep moving in a way that keeps the ball in a constant visual relationship with respect to home plate and the surrounding scenery (technically, in a ‘linear optical trajectory’). This might sound complicated, but it is actually incredibly simple, and completely free of computations, representations and algorithms.

The neuronal circuitry that accomplishes the solution to this task (i.e., controlling the muscles to catch the ball), if it's actually doing some physical work to coordinate movement in in a way that satisfies the condition given, is definitionally doing computation and information processing. Sure, there aren't algorithms in the usual way people think about them, but the brain in question almost surely has a noisy/fuzzy representation of its vision and its own position in space if not also that of the ball they're trying to catch.

For another example,

no image of the dollar bill has in any sense been ‘stored’ in Jinny’s brain

in any sense?? really? what about the physical sense in which aspects of a visual memory can be decoded from visual cortical activity after the stimulus has been removed?

Maybe there's some neat philosophy behind the seemingly strategic ignorance of precisely what certain terms of art mean, but I can't see past the obvious failure to articulate the what the scientific theories in question purport nominally to be able to access it.

help?

trying to take advantage of your professor's weebish tendencies by composing your argument with familiar symbols is academic dishonesty

cite it when people incorrectly assert that omicron or more recent variants are less dangerous

This is not the greatest Kyle in the world. This is just a tribute.

Can I offer you a in this trying time?

Maybe we just need to put these 12% freaks in a gulag and feed them nothing but beans for a few years.

yeah, it's probably their most anticommunist:

"and if you go carrying pictures of chairman mao, you ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow"

... ...

"don't you know it's gonna be alright?"