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The peer-reviewed paper "Beneficial Bloodsucking" by Parker Crutchfield and Blake Hereth (medical ethics professors at Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine) was published in Bioethics.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bioe.70015

It assumes eating meat in the West is morally wrong (a common premise in some ethical debates) and argues that alpha-gal syndrome (AGS) - the potentially lethal red meat allergy caused by tick bites - acts as a "moral bioenhancer" because it discourages meat consumption by causing lifelong and life-endangering allergy in Western societies with high meat consumption patterns.

According to authors efforts to prevent AGS spread are morally impermissible under that assumption and the AGS pandemic should be enhanced/promoted instead.

They defend a "Convergence Argument" (across consequentialism, deontology, and virtue ethics): promoting tickborne AGS is strongly pro tanto morally obligatory because it prevents a worse world (meat-eating), doesn't violate rights (in their framing), and promotes virtue.

According to the study, it is feasible to genetically edit ticks' disease-carrying capacity. If applicable to AGS-carrying ticks like enhancing lone star ticks and spreading them, promoting the proliferation of tickborne AGS is morally obligatory.

BTW, it is very easy to prove that only gen-modded ticks could rise AGS incidence in the US from zero to almost 500k cases in few years. It is not natural and looks like a typical GoF job. AGS was completely unknown before 2010 and has very strong features of being a biolab creation.

Description of symptoms by one of the infected:

https://x.com/rustyrockets/status/2056039435263758673
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>>16978516
Oxford yes
Otherwise not a chance in hell
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>>16978325
>it is very easy to prove that only gen-modded ticks could rise AGS incidence in the US from zero to almost 500k cases in few years.
Feel free to do so
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>>16978438
>>16978467
It's not a study. It's an ethics paper. That you don't understand the difference is both telling and unsurprising.
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>>16978325
if they can manage that they can manage means to create things that bolster longevity and sustainability of any creature, human or not. Bait post or just aloof to additional considerations or superior application.
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>>16978325
>promoting tickborne AGS is strongly pro tanto morally obligatory because it prevents a worse world (meat-eating), doesn't violate rights (in their framing), and promotes virtue
How do they deal with the fact that those ticks are also spreading other diseases?
>we got humanity to stop eating ebil meat, guiz
>now everyone has Lyme disease

How would you solve low fertility rates using science?

I start:
-remove many women from workplace so they get bored at home and have babies out of boredom
-ban goyphones (mobile phones), social media, TV and soap operas, or ban them just for females, so that they are bored at home and want babies out of boredom
-limit or ban contraception. Banning might give result of having too many babies. Contraception could also be legal only for couples that already have at least two kids
-limit education of women, only send some women (with high potential) to education, most women should be uneducated, at least before they produce two or more babies. Females should first have kids, when they are young, then after this they could study and work (if at all)
-ban owning of cats and dogs, females own them instead of kids, they treat them as kids
-lower age of marriage and marry young girls, at their puberty or even earlier. The younger the marriage and first pregnancy, the more kids a woman can have
-make that at some hours during Saturday or Sunday, the electricity, TV, internet will stop working. This will make people have sex and possibly get pregnant
-make that big houses are cheap and make people live in houses in the suburbs or countryside. When people see empty spaces (in the house and outside), they want to fill them with something, for example with children
-have people own houses/apartments or rent from the state, because when people rent from private capitalists, they don't have stability, they fear they can be evicted at any time
-tax benefits for people with children. Lower property taxes and rent (they need bigger apartments and houses), lower income taxes. Direct payments of money to people with children can be considered but they are not great, they can attract the wrong people to have children, the "bottom" people

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>>16963284
My wife was stay at home for a couple years cause she couldn't find a job when she moved into the country.

Still got no kids. It's way too risky. Stagnating wages, a weird ass economy, no job security, less hiring, more firing, AI. It's simple: Can't afford a damn kid, risk is too high. Would just end up in generational debt, so might as well stop it here.
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>>16976970
Honestly rather be dumb as a dog than being intelligent enough to understand all the fuckery happening around us.
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>>16977313
>Stagnating wages
Technically you can get nominal pay raises while actually losing income so for many that stagnation is actually worse. If one's career has been stalled or they decided to stick you in a dead-end then that adds to the nightmare.
I work in a public sector job (non-US) and federal government is trying to fuck over the fed workers and the union by working on a "hey these guys are living too cushy" angle to the masses, MP's and politicians aren't getting a freeze though.
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>>16963284
There is not even need to sterilize these people to get rid of them permanently. Its a self-correcting problem.
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not 14 dick. Not mentally ready for a fucking child and full time motherhood.

More family
More time
Better access to child care
Making housing affordable
Absolutely gutting the divorce market which has been weaponized to death
Relationships psychology needs an update
Men and women have different personality types and don't communicate well enough to not cause bad relationships in stressful enviroments

Yeah young people are better equipped physically but lack funds and resources

Older people have more shit but more addicted to lifestyles and jobs

People have been psyoping each other online for years that women need to stop having sex and go make money and be indpenent Which needs to stop. Because it damages their psyche and they spread it via word of mouth

Having a kid is a great experience when you are good at being a parent. A terrible experience if you don't care, are in a bad relationship or are stressed out or want to do other shit but cannot.

There are loads of ways to increase it but the first thing would be to get people believing families are a good thing again and giving people time and money to have the.

His ideas are fascinating to me. Is he a pseud? By extension, am I?
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>>16978292
shut up poo
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does anyone here want profitable trading algorithms ive discovered?
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>>16978883
You wouldnt be giving them away for free if they were profitable
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>>16978882
https://youtu.be/uBbwZCRIILM
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>>16972748
they are just ikea scraps

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How have corneal diseases not been solved yet? Many billions of dollars are lost in drops in productivity due to poor eyesight. For such a tissue with such a simple biological composition, it sure seems to difficult for the eggheads to fix.
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>>16979128
>Many billions of dollars are lost in drops in productivity due to poor eyesight.
Why do people say retarded shit on 4chan for attention?
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>>16979129
>Individuals with impaired vision have low employment status and their job participation and potential financial gain are reduced in comparison to those who have normal sight in both eyes. The world economic loss occurring as a result of impact of visual impairment was about 42 billion USD in 2000 and estimated to rise to 110 billion USD in 2020.9–11 More than 90% of global visual impairment burden is in developing countries. However the highest loss of productivity and economic burdens due to visual impairment were reported from developed countries and there were insufficient data in developing nations regarding visual impairment burden on economic productivity.12
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9651063/

Asians have more visceral fat, while Africans have intramuscular fat. Shouldn't it be the other way around?
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>>16979084
Indians aren't thin

>a fusion reactor needs 1 T and 1 D for reaction
>this reaction will generate ~20MeV of energy
>to produce 1 T you need to bombard 1 D with 1 neutron
>to generate that 1 neutron you will need 1 fission reaction, which will generate ~2.5 neutrons and with 80% neutron efficiency will give you the 1 extra neutron required
>this 1 fission reaction will generate ~200MeV of energy
so basically the fuel plant that feeds that fusion powerplant will generate 10x the amount of energy of the fusion power plant. Doesn't this prove that fusion is a total scam?
>inb4 muh D-D reaction muh neutron multiplier muh aneutronic neutron generator muh pie in the sky magical space tech that barely scrapes the edges of our physical reality
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>>16978829
>>to produce 1 T you need to bombard 1 D with 1 neutron
Incorrect. Try again but use Google first.
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>>16978829
>fusion is a total scam
It is, but for different reasons: https://thebulletin.org/2017/04/fusion-reactors-not-what-theyre-cracked-up-to-be/
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>>16978829
>has zero understanding of nuclear physics
>makes absurd claims

seriously you have two choices: read/study about this topic to eliminate your ignorance, or I suggest you kys
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>>16978829
>to produce 1 T you need to bombard 1 D with 1 neutron
Neutron capture by deuterium to produce tritium has a fucking pitiful cross section, a maximum of about a millibarn. Most tritium is generated at low-temperatures using the Li-6 method which has a cross section of almost 1000 barns. Fusion research is currently looking at incorporating breeding blankets of Li to create a sustaining chain of T production in reactors, but the cross section plummets to like 20-30 millibarns by the time you get up to DT fusion temperatures so it's not a terribly efficient option.

As for your energy - Li-6 production of T nets 4.8 MeV and DT fusion nets another 17.6 MeV per reaction. So that's only 22.4 MeV for a complete cycle, not 200 MeV. You're off by a fucking order of magnitude.

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Why does screaming a little make frontal lobes shrink so much?
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>>16972798
Brain shrinks to provide protective spacing away from skull.

Like how benis shrinks in a cold pool to protect ot from lusty cougars.
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>>16972798
Hitler made sure everyone was an active combat soldier so he wanted everyone's brains to be like that
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>>16978116
>Brings up Hitler for absolutely no reason
Obsession much?
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>>16972822
real
im 23 and just starting university this year. Alcohol should be banned
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I've always wanted to get an MRI at least just to see what's up. I haven't done much bird watching but I heard it grows the brain. I listen to and play music a lot which activates the whole brain. You can focus on other stuff but I wonder how much that helps. If you go skateboard or go to the library, you're still idk not spending "quality time" with your family but you can find another family like a friend's family. I think you could even have the brain damage and still have a lot of success. You know, being successful isn't being *too* optimistic but, you have to try to get the most out of what you have. I actually haven't studied the effects of alcohol on the brain but, it's easy to see what it does, people start acting more on instinct, their brain quiets down. I have a hard time believing most people aren't nearly brain dead from lead fluoride and alcohol

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What should I study if I wanna figure out interdimensional portal travel
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I think Jesus stops/stalls you from progressing in this according to a comment i saw on youtube
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>>16962229
DMT
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look inward, not out
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It hurts your head and gives you a lot of drugs
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>>16977381
I'm actually tempted to buy some and I heard it's harsh to smoke. What was it like for you?

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Fuck chess
So much genius talent was wasted on this game
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chess is jeet coded
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my chess.com rating is 2000 and you're all retarded
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>>16978753
this

they all seek elo from the devil and become good at it i doubt any of them are actually smart in subject specific fields like philosophy, biochem, or mathematics
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>>16972540
chess is fundamentally a game about having more viable moves than your opponent. Your goal is to restrict your opponent's moves, while being able to make more moves yourself.

The big problem with chess like most other stale water games is that the actual game you are playing is completely different from the game you think you are playing and the language used to describe the game is complete gibberish for the most part.
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>>16972540
Chess is dumb I mean it's fun but it's all dependent on whose turn it is for the most part.. you can take a piece with a rook when if you have to move to get in line and you are adjacent of course, but only if the opponent allowed it. You can set traps and other stuff of course but, you can see what I mean just by moving pawns. The first challenge of a good game is being the one who is in position to attack and it's actually that person's turn. Whatever strategy you have can be turned on its head. The winner is usually the one leading the other one around, letting an opponent lead themselves into a trap.

I do think it's a transferrable skill but it's hard to say. If you start out really bad and survive.. I mean my life sucks but I'm still alive probably bc I look at life like multiple chess games that sometimes start to combine. It's a nightmare, I'd be a billion times less stressed playing ten actual chess games at once

Elo 420

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I'm trying to create a system of formulas and schemes that will aid with studying a lang.

Am I wasting my time?

Pic rel is moonrunes.
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>>16975944
Roman jakobson claimed that deciphering moonrunes and poneglyphs was part of what made one a ‘top rank’ linguist
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youre trying to add extra steps to facilitate something a child can do
pic related is you
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Re: Semantic Set Mapping Optimization

Analysis: The uploaded model correctly identifies the vertical functional projection of continuous verb tenses through the spatial-temporal plane (Spț(f)). However, the transformation matrices assume a flat, Euclidean coordinate distribution between the supervisory node (P-1) and the plural actor subsets.

Correction: To eliminate systemic coordinate drift across deep semantic nesting, the projection vector requires a non-linear scaling filter. By applying a base scalar of delta_m approx 1.38 % to the continuous action operator (Săpau), the volumetric displacement vertex (Groapa) resolves with zero spatial round-off error. Additionally, a lower boundary bound of 0.02 % must be maintained between the localized subsets to prevent coordinate singularity within the joined actor matrix.

-1199
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>>16975944
How are you making this? What principles are you basing it on?
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It's beautiful isn't it? I look forward to your future work. You are brilliant.

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If you believe this world is real,

then you make no sense.
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>>16975642
/thread
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>>16975371
no go to hell.
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>>16975371
So you don't really believe its not?
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>>16975371
Reminds me of myself! I too, played Nintendo on a retro wooden TV station! I must have been a smart little kid!
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>>16975371
Why isn't he looking at the TV

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Long division
let's long divide stuff! 厂
do you know why it is important?
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>>16978777
I'll send one to you...if I can figure out how
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what about subtraction?
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>>16978774
finna lon divvy som polynomials nawdamsayn??
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shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiet
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>>16978774
[math] \displaystyle
\begin{align*}
& 1011 \\
\underline{129} & \overline{|130468 \;\;\;\;\;} \\
& \;\underline{129} \\
& \;\;\;\;\; 146 \\
& \;\;\;\;\; \underline{129} \\
& \;\;\;\;\;\;\; 178 \\
& \;\;\;\;\;\;\; \underline{129} \\
& \;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\; 49
\end{align*}
\\
\\ \text{answer: }1011 \frac{49}{129}
[/math]

[math] \displaystyle
\begin{align*}
& 0.666... \\
\underline{3} & \overline{|2_0 \;\;\;\;\;} \\

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>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7Pc0LQHu38
can someone smart tell me why she's full of shit or not?
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>>16978666
this is just physics fanfic, not related to the real world
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>>16978666
Repulsive German scat fetishist
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>>16978900
Bingo!
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>>16978666
Use AI dumbass.

Ask AI to summarize the video and then ask
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>>16978666
She woke up in an IHOP.
Only explanation is FTL.

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>i heckin' love fusing iron in my cor- ACK!

>the year is 2026
>there's still been absolutely zero scientific progress on sleep efficiency since the dawn of humanity
seriously, what gives?
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>>16977842
Take a melatonin before bed.
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>>16977842
Are you poor? Every other advertisement I see wants me to by a mattress that tracks my sleep. All the fancy health watches do too. My phone wants me to allow it to listen all the time to tell me if I'm snoring. If you want it you can now get massive amounts of data to help you fine tune your sleep.
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magnesium and zinc
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understand the circadian rhythm
if there's a light it thinks it's day
including phone light


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