StringTheory

@StringTheory@beehaw.org

Fun with strings! Ukulele, knitting, physics!

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

StringTheory,

I got into a very strange argument with a relative (who doesn’t know any trans people -at least none they are aware of). They were absolutely convinced that ANY man is better than ALL women at all things. Athletic, intellectual, creative; men are inherently better at all of it.

Therefore, in their mind, anyone who was a man/boy at any point in their lives will be better at everything than a cis woman ever could be. So trans women will always dominate no matter what.

The profound misogyny at the base of their argument was flabbergasting.

StringTheory,

This same relative also argued that cis men would go through transition just so they could be at the top of their sport (because they’d beat all the women) or so that they could get scholarships ear-marked for women (because they would be smarter than all the women and would win the scholarships). Somehow that seemed reasonable to them? How on earth!?!?

BifL bicycle: SUGG in Brussels, Belgium

A new bike has been recently introduced which is designed with the goals of products in the 1960s-- rugged, simple, built to last. Nothing is flimsy on this bike. Even the fenders and sprockets are thick. The design focus was two main goals: robustness and simplicity so owners can fix it themselves. The gears are internal, which...

StringTheory,

Are you talking about internal hubs? There are many bikes with internal hubs available in the US, far more than bikes with Pinions. Even department/sports stores like REI sell bikes with internal hubs. I have 4 bikes with internal hubs, one is a CVT which is a hoot to shift but heavy as heck.

StringTheory,

Good.

I worked in a fairly large clinic (office assistant type stuff) and always wondered why the top-surgery patients looked so much “better” than the mastectomy patients. Finally I asked one of the doctors, and he explained that top surgery is quite different than a mastectomy, with different protocols and goals and results.

Someone with training and experience performing mastectomies can’t just step in and do a top surgery.

StringTheory,

I’m gonna be really shallow and judgmental and just say her picture is creepy, too. What a bizarre pose and expression.

StringTheory,

So abused kids grow up to have smaller hippocampi, but not every person with a small hippocampus also has major depression?

StringTheory,

This is the cool part:

But histotripsy foils cancer’s cloaking efforts by destroying its cell walls, leaving the tumor antigens in plain sight for the body’s immune system.

This effect was detailed in a pair of papers published by the U-M research team between March 2022 and January 2023. They demonstrate that the sound waves used to break down cancerous tumors in rats also helped trigger the rats’ immune response. After histotripsy destroyed 50% to 75% of liver tumor volume, the rats’ immune systems cleared away the rest, with no evidence of recurrence or metastases in more than 80% of animals.

That immune response occurred throughout the body, not just in areas targeted by the histotripsy treatment, resulting in the reduction of tumors far from the treated area.

The immune response is key. Without it, histotripsy is just yet another way to destroy a tumor without curing the cancer.

StringTheory,

Rental prices culdesac.com/tempe/apply/unit-selection/

Gov. Abbott is now putting barriers along Texas border with New Mexico (news.yahoo.com)

Isn’t this against the US constitution? Razor wire along the state border and checkpoints on roads that cross the state border are kind of nuts. I read a comment joking that the wire and road checkpoints were to keep Texan women from escaping to New Mexico, which got a bitter laugh out of me.

StringTheory,

I’m finding the opposite. Books that I loved when younger are even better as I re-read them now. Ursula le Guin, Terry Pratchett (their YA and their adult books) have so much more nuance and subtlety than I was aware of when I just read them for the adventure and story. There are some profound bits of wisdom and wry observation tucked in those books.

StringTheory,

These are the same folks who think that the pinnacle of comedy is farting as you leave a crowded room.

StringTheory,

Something like the Forest Schools and outdoor schools/daycares now. Students outdoors and engaging with the real world and each other nearly all the time. Nothing stripped to dry and abstract isolated bits (and boring) but always learning concepts in context and seeing how they interact.

StringTheory,

The old “divide and conquer” works remarkably well.

Keep the poor fighting each other, so they don’t start toppling the extremely wealthy and powerful who are feeding off them.

StringTheory,

There have been similar studies looking at “feeding” mannose to solid tumors. The starve-the-tumor-with-fake-nutrients option has a lot of potential.

StringTheory,

Coffee makes me incredibly hungry (any caffeine does). This would backfire on me soooooo bad.

I have to wonder if an extra cup of any liquid per day would help avoid weight gain. You hear so much about people misinterpreting thirst as hunger - they eat instead of drinking.

StringTheory,

And I am very grateful for that. I deeply appreciate this policy.

Thanks, all you awesome admins!

StringTheory,

A “final solution”, as it were.

‘People are happier in a walkable neighborhood’: the US community that banned cars (www.theguardian.com)

In the environs of Phoenix, Arizona, on a 17-acre site that once contained a car body shop and some largely derelict buildings, an unusual experiment has emerged that invites Americans to live in a way that is rare outside of fleeting experiences of college, Disneyland or trips to Europe: a walkable, human-scale community devoid...

StringTheory, (edited )

300+ days a year of sunshine, all they need to do next is pop some solar panels up on those roofs!

You can rent a furnished studio short-term for 2 days minimum at $99/day, and you get the same transportation benefits as residents do during your stay. Honestly, I’m considering this for a vacation during the winter. This walkable community idea is fascinating to me and I want to check it out. culdesac.com

StringTheory,

I read it as being at least one of the three.

That’s how I read the ol’ saying, too. Unless at least one of those things applies, maybe reconsider the post.

StringTheory,

Side note about pockets: Duluth Trading women’s pants have multiple ginormous pockets, and about half have crotch gussets or anterior inseams to avoid chub-rub destroying the pants.

StringTheory,

For t shirts I always sing the praises of Gettees. Tiny “factory” of half a dozen people making extraordinarily high quality and durable shirts in Detroit. Most of the people doing the sewing are former auto upholstery stitchers from the car factories. The quality is truly the best I’ve ever encountered. gettees.us

StringTheory,

You can add pockets to the pants you buy, too. This video by Morgan Donner is adding several examples of types of pockets to skirts, but the process is the same. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pE_nrHKd58

And there’s this one by Bernadette Banner www.youtube.com/watch?v=thlzJj1EHiY

Thigh pockets are really great for phones. You can make visible patch pockets or subtle welt pockets and you can customize to the size of your phone.

Higher point of impact makes SUV crashes more dangerous for cyclists (www.iihs.org)

Ground-impact injuries — a frequent cause of head injuries — were more than twice as common in SUV crashes than those involving cars, the study showed. The findings follow earlier IIHS research that showed SUVs are more lethal than cars to pedestrians despite design changes that have made them less dangerous to other...

StringTheory,

My old Honda has a low and slanted front end (kind of like a wedge). At the time, Honda was crowing about enhanced pedestrian safety and how the wedge would scoop the pedestrian (or cyclist) up onto the hood rather than tossing them under the car.

Dunno about that, but I can say it is far easier to see over the nose of that old Honda than over the damn nose of newer cars I’ve driven.

StringTheory,

And even when “right on red” is allowed, they will still lay on the horn when you stop. As if they don’t know you have to stop at the red and only proceed with your turn after a full stop and if the way is clear.

Actually, maybe they don’t know you have to come to a full stop before turning?

Your brain finds it easy to size up four objects but not five — here’s why (www.nature.com)

An experiment found that the brain uses one set of neural circuits to identify the numbers 1–4; these circuits are very specific to their own numbers. A separate set of circuits respond to the numbers 5–9; these are less precise, and are activated by adjacent numbers....

StringTheory,

This is cool. I always wondered why I can instantly grasp 1 through 4, but 5 and up become abstract. Thank you for posting this!

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • megavids
  • everett
  • Durango
  • mdbf
  • magazineikmin
  • InstantRegret
  • rosin
  • modclub
  • Youngstown
  • slotface
  • thenastyranch
  • cubers
  • kavyap
  • DreamBathrooms
  • JUstTest
  • khanakhh
  • GTA5RPClips
  • osvaldo12
  • ngwrru68w68
  • normalnudes
  • cisconetworking
  • Leos
  • ethstaker
  • tester
  • tacticalgear
  • provamag3
  • anitta
  • lostlight
  • All magazines
    •