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chemoelectric

@chemoelectric@masto.ai

Monster Island Tea, Pen, Oxford Commas & Non-loco #Physics.
A Division of The Crud Factory.

☙ To be good at scientific method, distrust scientific authority. ❧

(Barry SCHWARTZ (Barijo ŜVARC), of Pig’s Eye, Minnesota Territory, United States of America. See me also on Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/chemoelectric)

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thepoliticalcat, to random
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People? Just because something is good for SOME people doesn't mean it's good for you. Even if it's "natural" and "organic."

https://mastodon.social/@auscandoc@med-mastodon.com/112486193782536020

Don't take supplements unless your DOCTOR tells you to based on test results. What's good for one person is not necessarily good for another, and just because Ivermectin cured your anal warts doesn't mean it won't explode your sister's gut and leave her permanently incontinent.

chemoelectric,
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@thepoliticalcat These associations are generally so tenuous that it hardly is worth making a big deal. They are people getting through college by running statistical software.

Now, for instance, low dose aspirin regimen is associated with increased stroke risk, so they say DO NOT do it. But all this was just statistical studies in the first place! No one, but no one, actually knows ahead of time what is good for YOU.

chemoelectric,
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@thepoliticalcat Some supplements are awfully safe to take, though. Synthetic vitamin C is unlikely to do more than give you the runs.

I OTOH have had niacin poisoning. You do not want niacin poisoning. It is like being the victim of slow arsenic poisoning in a mystery novel. And I even had a doctor's orders—he paid too little attention. It is not safe to take niacin supplements unless you know what you are doing.

chemoelectric,
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@thepoliticalcat Be sure to take enteric coated. Not using the enteric coated might be what killed my MiL. She died of a cancerous stomach ulcer.

chemoelectric,
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@thepoliticalcat She was on the regimen because of a past stroke.

chemoelectric,
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@thepoliticalcat I take D. I'm olive skinned so probably don't generate D as efficiently as a lighter skinned person, but probably well enough. However, sunlight gives me hives. And I am broken out now. :((((((( So I am taking histamine opposite-of-supplements.

chemoelectric, to random
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It seems not to occur to many, many, MANY people that the CLEAREST WAR CRIME OF THEM ALL is the taking of hostages.

There is really nothing that can be a more obvious war crime.

I do not say it is the worst war crime. I simply say there is none that is more obvious.

Thus, how can they decry war crimes without mentioning it? Something is WRONG with people who decry war crimes but do not mention the most obvious.

What is it that stops them mentioning it? Hmm.

bitmaker, to photography
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Two-way shadow. The sun is reflecting off a building behind me, causing shadows to be cast in both directions. Cinestill 400D on a Rollei 35s.

chemoelectric,
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@bitmaker This reminds me of Neil Armstrong getting a photo of Buzz Aldrin using only light reflected from the Moon's surface. (This being notable because conspiracy theorists claim it should be impossible to see Buzz in the shadow of the Lunar Module.)

lauren, to random
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Cop shoots blind 13lb family dog claiming he thought it had "rabies" -
https://boingboing.net/2024/05/22/cop-shoots-blind-13lb-family-dog-claiming-he-thought-it-had-rabies.html

chemoelectric,
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@lauren The cat mitzvot include "You shall slay the dog."

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VirginiaMurr, to random
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Pundits absolutely do not grasp the fact that Trump's trial's value does NOT rest on whether or not it "moves voters" if he's convicted.

The VALUE is accountability.

The VALUE is a working system of law that functions--regardless of whom the person happens to be or what position that person holds.

Treating it like "no biggie" because voters APPEAR unmoved is great messaging -- for Trump.

chemoelectric,
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@VirginiaMurr The penalty for a class E New York felony BTW is typically up to 4 years probation. Anyone expecting Trump to be locked away is uninformed.

What is notable about the trial is probably no customer of a news outlet (advertiser) would want to be very closely associated with it. So it is not wall-to-wall "news", for that reason.

(I am applying correct journalism theory, not the bogus theory that ignores the actual goal of a news outlet is to sell stuff.)

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@luv_wins @VirginiaMurr

The media exist to serve advertisers and sell subscriptions. So they cater mostly to the needs of advertisers.

That we are told they are supposed to do otherwise is the fault mainly of journalism professors teaching false theory. (I have endless criticism for academia more generally.)

chemoelectric,
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@VirginiaMurr But I say the theory should match the end goal, not the other way around.

IOW the journo professors are the ones who are scamming us. They teach by example the detachment from reality that epitomizes journalist-public relations.

BTW when I saw Jay Rosen with an account on Mastodon during the early migrations, I blocked it on sight. He's got one of the worst scams going IMO. He is as open to contrary opinions as a brick wall, for instance, and thus teaches this attitude by example

chemoelectric,
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@VirginiaMurr Trump should get whatever sentence anyone else would get., of course. He's just a citizen.

chemoelectric,
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@VirginiaMurr I studied electrical engineering, and you would think that was fine, but in fact it is now deeply infected by "quantum physics", which is the worst pathological pseudoscience in the history of the sciences.

When I was studying EE, the rot had not yet set in. It was barely starting to and I had had no exposure to the contaminated aspects. But now it is everywhere.

chemoelectric,
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@VirginiaMurr I think my father's mother had a master's degree in philosophy. In any case, it was her copy of Russell's "The Problems of Philosophy" that I read. She died when I was about ten, and I hadn't seen her often, because we lived in New Jersey and she in Oklahoma.

chemoelectric,
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@VirginiaMurr My grandmother also got a second master's. Probably in teaching. In any case I think the second degree was from Southwest State in Oklahoma where my grandfather was a professor at the pharmacy school.

He took the job without even looking at the place, just to get out of his job in D.C. in Veterans Administration management. :)

(But another reason I seldom saw my grandmother is my paternal grandfather could be unbearable. Not a pleasant person towards family. I think he had OCD.)

chemoelectric,
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@VirginiaMurr (I have very bad OCD, but it is under treatment. And, anyway, I am too delicate to be that overbearing. Instead my problem is I make myself a burden.)

GottaLaff, to random
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Um…

posted a video on Monday showing images of a fake newspaper article that references a “unified Reich” if he’s reelected in 2024.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/21/politics/trump-unified-reich-video?cid=ios_app

chemoelectric,
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@GottaLaff It's not as if he has Nazi staffers...

jciv, to random
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How can the media focus be on Cohen in response to this testimony:

“During cross-examination, Cohen admitted to stealing from Trump’s company. He kept money that was meant to go to a tech company hired to rig polls in Trump’s favor”?

Hired to rig polls? This is part of Trump’s defense? Cohen stole money I wanted him to spend committing election fraud, so we shouldn’t believe him when he says I committed election fraud?

chemoelectric,
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@IzzyChambers @jciv

The defense was trying to argue Cohen was working solely as Trump's LAWYER, and ended up helping prove that was NOT the case.

The defense is dumber than a pile of bricks.

chemoelectric,
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@IzzyChambers @jciv

But the reason media focus is on Cohen is easy to explain. The job of media is to sell advertiser space. It is, in particular, NOT to convince a jury of anything, NOR to predict what a jury will decide. The people they get to make such predictions are not sharp thinkers, they are people who write columns that appeal to advertisers.

So media are doing their job: they are putting Michael Cohen's name and image out there, so people will tune in and see the advertisements.

chemoelectric,
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@IzzyChambers @jciv

A media outlet that does otherwise is called "Out of Business".

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@jciv

Well, I myself don't watch any cable news channel or subscribe to any news of the major news outlets, but have no particular aversion to being advertised to.

Advertisers just have to inform me where I DO go.

Advertisements are informational, when they aren't packed with lies (which they aren't nearly as much as they were when I was a kid). I consider them more useful than MSNBC. :)

MisuseCase, to random
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Someone made a good point on our Synagogue listserve:

“To the extent that we decide we must hold allegiance to the term Zionist as a litmus test in Judaism, I wonder if we might inadvertently be communicating to young adults that their sorrow and anger around Israeli policy might mean there is no longer a place in Judaism for them.”

1/2

chemoelectric,
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@ravenonthill @MisuseCase

It is possible simply not to adopt an opinion on the term Zionism, and it is possible to do so even if pieces of garbage spit on one for it.

chemoelectric,
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@ravenonthill @MisuseCase

In any case, I am not young, but my view is I simply do not get involved for or against Zionism, in it or out it, towards it or away from it. It's not part of my life.

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@ravenonthill @MisuseCase

But as for "falling away"—because Jewishness is not a matter of faith in the first place, it cannot be fallen away from the way Christianity can be.

Christianity is "Whosoever believeth in me yadda yadda yadda". Jewishness OTOH is a thing handed down by generations, like an old set of china.

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