lithocarpus

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by lithocarpus 9d ago
In simpler language: The top 0.1% increased their share of the total wealth by 67%. The top 1% increased their share of the total wealth by 40%. And the bottom 50% decreased their share of the total wealth by 30%.
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by lithocarpus 10d ago
In 27 years The top 1% went from holding 22.8% of wealth to holding 31.6% The bottom 50% went from holding 3.5% to 2.5%.
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by lithocarpus 11d ago
That's what I meant, but you put it a bit more clearly. I do know a lot of people who grind their own flour fresh - that is real homemade bread and not ultra processed, and agreed, not magically unhealthy.
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by lithocarpus 11d ago
Maybe true as long as you make it the same way at home as the ultra processed version from the store. But you usually can't since you don't have the machinery. Homemade wheat bread made of just wheat/water/salt is an en
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by lithocarpus 1mo ago
Even to whatever extent this is what's happening, a stopped clock is right twice a day applies.
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by lithocarpus 1mo ago
"Beaver attacks on people are rare and are thought to primarily involve rabid animals" - the article
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by lithocarpus 2mo ago
There's no way 7 in 10 people were prescribed antibiotics in 2024. This looks like a simple and egregious misinterpretation of the data, which seem to be all too common. I could believe there were 700 prescriptions given in the US pe
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by lithocarpus 2mo ago
Both humidity and temperature matter, it's a complex thing going on. But yes I'm mostly in a dry environment doing this, I haven't tried it anywhere that was warm and humid at the same time. It helps a lot to not seal the lef
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by lithocarpus 2mo ago
I've gone without a fridge for 8 years now and do something kind of like this usually - I'll cook a pot of food and then steam or boil it again after ~24 hours to reset the clock on it rotting. It's handy for things like eat
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by lithocarpus 3mo ago
Can confirm, have made hundreds from playing music after four years of several hours a day. Still probably only made 25% the cost of instrument and strings though.
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by lithocarpus 3mo ago
Parent's question isn't answered in the article - no figure is given for how many deaths under 30 there are as a baseline. From the article: “We estimate that since its introduction [in 2008], HPV vaccination has prevented nearly
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by lithocarpus 3mo ago
Totally agree - I don't mean to promote or defend all NIMBYism - and a lot of it is simply "I got mine and don't want to share". And there's also something to be said for NIMBYs protecting the habitat they live in
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by lithocarpus 3mo ago
Didn't read the article, but regarding the title, this is kind of fundamental. NIMBYs want to protect some aspects of a particular place usually because it is their home. Capitalism largely lives on destroying particular places to bene
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by lithocarpus 3mo ago
And... sometimes stats and population level studies take a very long time or (more often) are never done at all and so if we only rely on this to tell us what to do, we'll miss a lot. There are common sense ways to reduce cancer risk t
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by lithocarpus 4mo ago
I'm sure someone is thinking that job loss needs to be gradual enough that they can get technology to the point of having killer drones ready to take out any individual instantly, before any uprising threshold is crossed. If the abund
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by lithocarpus 4mo ago
There are clinical tests for systemic inflammation. But there are also lots of potential causes of systemic inflammation, so testing for high inflammation consistently will tell you there's something wrong, but not what exactly is wro
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by lithocarpus 4mo ago
It doesn't require credentials to identify obvious ways in which a given study or paper doesn't show the thing it is being claimed to show.
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by lithocarpus 4mo ago
Technically extra virgin olive oil should not be refined. I'm always a little dubious because of the financial incentive to cut unrefined oil with some amount of cheaper refined oil, but I don't have any idea how much this actuall
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by lithocarpus 4mo ago
There are tons of possible symptoms because systemic inflammation including from dietary causes basically damages the entire body. But here's a list of some common symptoms from one source: persistent pain, chronic fatigue or insomni
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by lithocarpus 4mo ago
Good point, there are a lot of diseases of civilization that have been with us since large scale agriculture, that did not afflict most hunter gatherers.
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by lithocarpus 4mo ago
That's interesting and nice to know. Good point that industrial use might not strictly be "reusing" - that might apply more to restaurants where they have big vats of frying oil and keep dipping food in it for multiple days.
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by lithocarpus 4mo ago
Absolutely agree. I don't think I'd want industrially prepared stuff fried in tallow either. There is a chemical distinction in that tallow is mostly saturated fat which doesn't oxidize nearly as easily, so it might be less
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by lithocarpus 4mo ago
Yes, I wasn't talking about unrefined olive, flax, sesame, or coconut. I don't think most people concerned about "seed oils" are concerned about those. It's the refined soybean oil, canola/rapeseed oil, cott
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by lithocarpus 4mo ago
> There’s a secondary argument about oxidation — seed oils go rancid at high heat, producing potentially harmful compounds. This idea is chemically real and worth being thoughtful about (don’t reuse frying oil repeatedly). But the eviden
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by lithocarpus 4mo ago
Any isolation of certain compounds from whole food from other compounds would be part of what I refer to as processed. In the case of refined oils, I'd call it ultra processed just because of how much is removed - even before consider
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by lithocarpus 4mo ago
Two things can be harmful at once. I am curious which is worse in terms of contribution to modern chronic metabolic disease. In the case of ultra-processed/refined oils though, there is an argument to be made that these are novel foods
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by lithocarpus 4mo ago
Much olive oil is not refined or ultra processed, but in the US market, 25%+ is. According to https://www.imarcgroup.com/united-states-olive-oil-market 10% of olive oil in the US market is refined using the same hexane proc
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by lithocarpus 5mo ago
A slightly different and no more charitable perspective is that the people pulling the president's strings are the same people pulling Fox News's strings.
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by lithocarpus 6mo ago
Personally I don't trust big pharma or the natural or alternative medicine people who want to sell me things. Pharma has shown itself untrustworthy too many times, and in general I don't trust big institutions with financial ent
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by lithocarpus 6mo ago
Yeah.. there should be a prompt that gauges how savvy the user is, and if the user doesn't understand the implications of this, the default should be low precision location data with a random offset per item + random offset per user.

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