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by subungual 2y ago
Hey, thanks for asking! Kid is almost 4 now and doing great. She eats a pretty varied diet, fortunately-- if she were picky, I expect we'd have had to have made some changes early. We made the call after consulting with her pediatricia
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by subungual 2y ago
As a ~7 year vegan, I eat a fair number of substitutes. As others have said, I don't do it for my health or because I don't like the taste of meat. That said, in line with the article, when I was in college, I had the Maddox &quot
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by subungual 3y ago
To be fair, the Simpsons poked fun at itself for exactly this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axHoy0hnQy8
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by subungual 4y ago
Thank you! It's definitely worth dipping your toes, I'd say. I made the call to try it at 29 and matriculated at 32. There's one person in my class who is a decade older than me, another my age, and several who were in their
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by subungual 4y ago
Great hearing from you! I think you're taking a wise approach. I inverted things from the way that you did them-- I spent a year studying for the MCAT alongside work (had taken all the prereqs 10+ years earlier as a part of my degree).
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by subungual 4y ago
I left tech ~6 years ago to pursue medical school. I'll be graduating and starting residency soon. A significant number of my classmates express regret for choosing medicine, and a lot of them fantasize about pursuing a career in tech,
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by subungual 4y ago
I fully understand what you're saying, but it's somewhat skew to the point I'm trying to make. The people I'm talking about are the ones who have already baked health effects of their habits into their calculus and claim
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by subungual 4y ago
Not here to proselytize about your lifestyle choices, and I've certainly enjoyed my fair share of smoking and drinking myself over the years. That said, as someone who works daily with patients whose health has been destroyed by excess
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by subungual 4y ago
This person is right that hospitals, or health care systems in general should be working on this. It's more complicated than simply not helping people who won't help themselves. The difficulty is that no one knows the best, most e
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by subungual 4y ago
Yep, pain at the infusion site is an incredibly common complaint with potassium IV. The person you replied to is talking confidently outside of their expertise.
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by subungual 5y ago
I think the piece you're both referencing is here: https://kotaku.com/how-elmo-ruined-sesame-street-1746504585
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by subungual 5y ago
It's fascinating to me that everywhere that I've traveled and lived in South America (including Colombia), people seem to have this narrative about the locals that they'll "just shoot you and go through your pockets afte
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by subungual 5y ago
I've not really encountered the idea that it's unnatural exploitation, to be honest, and I completely agree with your point there. The core ethical argument that I generally see presented for veganism is that once you've adva
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by subungual 5y ago
Whoa, I'm an ethical vegan and pretty steeped in theory, and I've never encountered this wing before. I doubt I'll agree with them, but I'd be curious to read if you have anything you can link or cite.
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by subungual 5y ago
Haha, yeah, fair. I imagine the cats that do live there are probably enjoying themselves through this but have had their capacity overwhelmed.
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by subungual 5y ago
It sounds like the numbers they're dealing with may be well beyond what could be controlled by cats. Additionally, they may be wary, as Australia is already a case study in what can happen as a result of introducing one species to cont
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by subungual 6y ago
Yeah, your logic is pretty good here. Prions are a super interesting emergent phenomenon of a complex system. In a weird way, like cancer or viruses, they're just an inevitability of having enough of certain materials interacting for l
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by subungual 6y ago
So denaturing a protein generally involves interfering with the noncovalent interactions (e.g. hydrogen bonds, attractions between internal charges) that allow it to fold into the right functional shape. Often times, these proteins folded u
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by subungual 6y ago
Maximal extraction of resources would involve focusing on eating plants. Feeding the plants to animals and then eating them is tremendously inefficient in terms of both calories and nutrients.
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by subungual 6y ago
Maybe I wasn't specific enough here. When I said "smaller peptides," I should have instead written "free amino acids, dipeptides and tripeptides." The two papers you cited refer to topical application, but your stat
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by subungual 6y ago
Do you have a source for this? As far as I know, there is no way for the body to uptake and employ collagen directly. It needs to be broken down into smaller peptides, absorbed, and rebuilt, just like any other protein.
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by subungual 6y ago
Ha-- having been in that situation this past October, that simple description is incredibly evocative for me. Even in that dazed, sleepless state, though, I remember a sudden upwelling of intense sadness when I realized for the first time h
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by subungual 6y ago
The hunter-gatherer argument also fails an important sniff test for me. Evolutionarily-driven arguments fail to take into account that what may have been sufficient outcomes to drive selection (e.g. survival to/through reproductive pri
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by subungual 6y ago
I think it's just easier to call it meat because it makes clear what dietary/textural/taste role it is supposed to fill. The spot is already cut out in people's schemata. Maybe language will shift and a new word will eme
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by subungual 6y ago
The overwhelming majority (95-99%, from what I can find) of cattle in the United States are fed corn or soy. 98% of soy and 48.7% of all corn grown in the United States are used to feed livestock. Corn is the top crop in the US and soy is #
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by subungual 6y ago
This study is a meta-analysis, so it works off of published research and does no original experiments of its own. By its nature, it incorporates systemic bias of earlier published studies. Often times, this kind of analysis leads to opposin
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by subungual 6y ago
Nutrition research is incredibly difficult to conduct, too. It often relies on participant reporting and is immensely complicated in terms of identifying and weeding out potential confounders. With how little we know about things that could
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by subungual 6y ago
>True, but the number of people who focus on non-indo-european languages is a lot smaller than people who focus on languages "closer to home". Probably just comes down to numbers. I think it's likely less a question of foc
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by subungual 6y ago
This is true. It's also one of the reasons that search phrase is cluttered with lists that look startlingly like this one.
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by subungual 6y ago
>Since the site is in English I think it is likely aimed at an English audience... To be fair, fully half of the top ten books were not written in English. Non-Indo-European languages can be translated just as well as French and Russian

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