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So you are skeptical?

I reserve judgment. Obviously need repetition and consistency before it is a thing. Keep in mind again that the mind clearly plays a role in the placebo effect. And state of mind seems to be instrumental in some dying and others living. Hey i get it. If anything FEELS like woo it is…USE YOUR MIND TO HEAL THOSE WOUNDS!

Enco

Check out this article. Sounds nuts to think that focusing on the pain may induce healing. Instinctively we want diversion or pain relief. But then again fooling the individual thinking they are getting the good stuff sometimes helps.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/feel-the-burn-90-of-people-heal-faster-by-focusing-on-their-pain-israeli-study/

“Disproportionate”? Sorry, I should have specified ‘relative to what’.

Yes, Israel is disproportionately represented in scientific and technological innovation relative to its population and size. I would say that Israel produces more high-level scientific and technological output than you would expect from its population, land area, or even it…[Read more]

I would have like to have been in the meeting when that idea was first floated. I think Israel’s longstanding advantage has been disproportionately dense networks connecting universities, engineering, medicine, entrepreneurship and venture capital. That produces a cultural environment in which somebody can plausibly say “Can I have some money to g…[Read more]

Don’t have a cow man.

Zionist ice cream. Zionist cheese. Zionist milk.

They must. They must. They must prove they’re value to justify their existence.

https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/article-905625

Have a great week!

Ok wise guy i asked all knowing AI.

Yes, it is fair and accurate to characterize microbes as evolving in response to antibiotics. Antibiotics create a strong selective pressure. Microbes with random genetic mutations that grant resistance survive. They then pass those helpful traits to their offspring, leading to evolutionary adaptation.How…[Read more]

*correction

non free range
aka slave ship chickens.

I don’t know what my microwave does. But i do know if i alter the positioning 180 degrees that should correct for everything.

Well i was mistaken in an assumption. Turns out nonfarmraised chickens are innoculated but not as i had thought with antibiotics. Those are administered only after an outbreak. Pre and probiotics and more sanitary…[Read more]

Still, still, not one goddamn time since i first reported the coffee cup pointing away when microwaving has it pointed towards me. Not even achieved equator. I will take equator. I equate equator as a victory.

See Schecter Poultry v. USA for a very boring constitutional law case that involves cruelty to chickens and the interstate commerce…[Read more]

Enco,

I’ve heard lab grown meat is served in restaurants in Singapore. Still a process that needs to be refined. Carbon emissions will be significantly lower i think. Land requirements obviously far lower. The cells still need food so i guess that and energy are required. How much compared to animal farms? No can say.

Not only would orthodox…[Read more]

Reg,

I don’t know of any atheist Popes or do i but certainly have read about atheist preachers. It is a lucrative gig. Might even do some good if the grifter atheist fesses after the fact. Naa. It probably would not.

Your line, i want to make them think for themselves is something i’ve been pondering. AI might be employed to create good…[Read more]

Thanks Jake, I appreciate that. Yesterday a friend of mine said “Reg, I am so glad you are an atheist!” I looked a bit bemused as we know each other a long time and are both of us are ‘militant’ anti-theists. She caught my look and continued…..”I mean, even as an atheist, you would be able to convince certain people that God is real”. I replied…[Read more]

That was truly excellent Reg. Very well done.

Was thinking about reading the Metamorphosis again. So cool that great literature is available at a click.

Let’s take the ‘Kafka Intifada’  a little further. However, I will coin it the “The Samsa Effect”.

Gregor does know that something has happened to him. What he fails to grasp initially is the significance of his transformation. His world has changed beyond recognition, but his inherited routine of thought continues running as though nothing fu…[Read more]

I am thankful to have vegetable meat. Hope cultured meat is on horizon and affordable too.

There are hot dogs that taste like cheap ball park franks. Sausage as good as sausage from meat. Hamburg a close second but when doctored indistinguishable. Bacon with the texture and not quite the taste and none of that bacony smell. Chicken is not that…[Read more]

Enco, i aine even a vegetarian. I eat fish.

I liked a lot of different meat. Not veal. And when i found it what it was i cringed. Maybe it is a reaction like ‘the women, the children’. What about men? Why don’t men count? Even old men?

The distribution of photos and information regarding clubbing of seals predates foundation of PETA. I can’t…[Read more]