In other news today...
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@boner Blame
CanadaSouth Park.
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@pjh I was going to post it in funny stuff, but I figured I'd be told the new thread is
Meh
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"Coffee has been shown, over and over again, to be a healthy beverage. This lawsuit has made a mockery of Prop 65, has confused consumers, and does nothing to improve public health," William Murray, president and CEO of the National Coffee Association, said in an emailed statement.
Obviously not an unbiased source, but he's not entirely wrong. He's not entirely right, either; Prop 65 was already a joke, and has been for decades.
In addition to coffee, acrylamide can be found in potatoes and baked goods like crackers, bread and cookies, breakfast cereal, canned black olives and prune juice, although its presence is not always labeled. It's in some food packaging and is a component of tobacco smoke. According to the National Cancer Institute, people are exposed to "substantially more acrylamide from tobacco smoke than from food."
Everything is carcinogenic.
However, a review by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, a branch of the World Health Organization, found that drinking very hot beverages was "probably carcinogenic to humans" due to burns to the esophagus; there was no relation to the chemical acrylamide.
Even water is carcinogenic, if it's hot. (Cue dihydrogen monoxide rants...)
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@hardwaregeek said in In other news today...:
Everything is carcinogenic.
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... participants received our standard instructions to entertain themselves with their thoughts (in this case for 15 min). If they wanted, they learned, they could receive an electric shock again during the thinking period by pressing a button. We went to some length to explain that the primary goal was to entertain themselves with their thoughts and that the decision to receive a shock was entirely up to them.
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@pjh said in In other news today...:
... participants received our standard instructions to entertain themselves with their thoughts (in this case for 15 min). If they wanted, they learned, they could receive an electric shock again during the thinking period by pressing a button. We went to some length to explain that the primary goal was to entertain themselves with their thoughts and that the decision to receive a shock was entirely up to them.
not including one outlier who administered 190 shocks to himself
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@pjh said in In other news today...:
... participants received our standard instructions to entertain themselves with their thoughts (in this case for 15 min). If they wanted, they learned, they could receive an electric shock again during the thinking period by pressing a button. We went to some length to explain that the primary goal was to entertain themselves with their thoughts and that the decision to receive a shock was entirely up to them.
More seriously
Though, since this is a relatively non-political issue, this risk of bias isn’t as bad as it could be.
Ha. I'm pretty sure there's a bias here, from the way they present things (the study, not even the blog post you linked):
But what is striking is that simply being alone with their own thoughts for 15 min was apparently so aversive that it drove many participants to self-administer an electric shock that they had earlier said they would pay to avoid.
They're trying to make a point, and the bias shows through in the interpretation. Bored people under observation decided to mess around with things? It must mean they hate being alone with their own minds, not that they're inquisitive, or bored, or under unusual conditions which inhibit them from behaving normally (see the study where having images of eyes around inhibits crime, for example).
I wonder if they think people who eat spicy food hate their tongue?
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@dreikin said in In other news today...:
I wonder if they think people who eat spicy food hate their tongue?
You mean the way Dr Oz and his ilk hate food?
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@pjh said in In other news today...:
... participants received our standard instructions to entertain themselves with their thoughts (in this case for 15 min). If they wanted, they learned, they could receive an electric shock again during the thinking period by pressing a button. We went to some length to explain that the primary goal was to entertain themselves with their thoughts and that the decision to receive a shock was entirely up to them.
I would be an outlier. I think I can entertain myself for at least a month from cached situational analysis scenarios alone...
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@pjh I was the kid who learnt that you could use the step-down transformer from standard appliances to step up a 9 volt battery to a decent-sized jolt, then proceeded to build more and more elaborate shocking devices -- with the simple addition of a big capacitor, you could punch more current through the coil faster, producing a bigger jolt; then add a relay wired to oscillate, you could produce a series of shocks.
Then once I got bored of shocking myself, I amused myself with getting other people to touch it, because let's face it, how big of a shock could a puny 9 volt battery provide...
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@anotherusername I did something simpler with a toy relay, wired such that the circuit went through the coil and the NC termal for a really simple oscillator circuit. No idea how many years of useful life that removed from the relay...
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@da-doctah said in In other news today...:
@dreikin said in In other news today...:
I wonder if they think people who eat spicy food hate their tongue?
You mean the way Dr Oz and his ilk hate food?
I try to avoid them, so I wouldn't know.
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@hardwaregeek said in In other news today...:
Even water is carcinogenic, if it's hot. (Cue dihydrogen monoxide rants...)
It gets much better. Much much better.
The most common carcinogen is oxygen. No special form. The regular stuff that we all absolutely must keep breathing to stay alive is carcinogenic. For long, it was straight out poisonous for all life, until some forms learned to handle it somewhat safely. But it's still pretty far from safe. It is also still poisonous even for us at higher partial pressures (more than you can encounter under normal conditions, but a concern for divers).
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@pjh It's not even specific to lungs. It can trigger it anywhere at all, because it is most dangerous during the actual process of burning sugars and fats and that runs in every living cell of your body.
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@bulb said in In other news today...:
The most common carcinogen is oxygen. No special form. The regular stuff that we all absolutely must keep breathing to stay alive is carcinogenic. For long, it was straight out poisonous for all life, until some forms learned to handle it somewhat safely. But it's still pretty far from safe. It is also still poisonous even for us at higher partial pressures (more than you can encounter under normal conditions, but a concern for divers).
Love is like oxygen. You get too much, you get too high; not enough and you're gonna die.
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@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
I would be an outlier. I think I can entertain myself for at least a month from cached situational analysis scenarios alone...
I kind of assume they were in a sensory deprivation chamber or equivalent.
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The organizers aren’t quite sure what went wrong, but they suspect the 100 or so nearby wifi spots could have had something to do with it.
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He's not rude — he's just French.
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@doctorjones said in In other news today...:
Mind you, it was very close to delivering the package, at speed and through the window. Just make it aim a little to the left or right and apart from windows it should also break delivery time records.
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@timebandit said in In other news today...:
He's not rude — he's just French.
He likely forgot to lead with "Excusez-moi" and stop with "eh". Typical beginner error.
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@timebandit said in In other news today...:
He's not rude — he's just French.
Showed up as a related story:
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Gamers have a future
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@jbert said in In other news today...:
@doctorjones said in In other news today...:
Mind you, it was very close to delivering the package, at speed and through the window. Just make it aim a little to the left or right and apart from windows it should also break delivery time records.
Wait'll you see how it delivers the replacement windowpane!
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@da-doctah That's pretty bad, right?
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I actually know a woman like that. To be fair, she's pretty fat and the baby was born with less than a kilogram, but still ... period, shmeriod? Also her second child, it's not like she didn't know how people get pregnant.
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@laoc Yeah, the only thing I can say about this story is, "Florida, amirite?"
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@boomzilla Yes. Florida Woman strikes again…
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla Yes. Florida Woman strikes again…
Pensacola is only technically Florida. We like to blame that on Alabama.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@laoc Yeah, the only thing I can say about this story is, "Florida, amirite?"
And in a city named "think of the pussy" at that?
Technically it would be "piensa-cola" in Mexican, but "pensa" is the Portuguese imperative.
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@laoc said in In other news today...:
I actually know a woman like that. To be fair, she's pretty fat and the baby was born with less than a kilogram, but still ... period, shmeriod?
Typically, the people who 'didn't know they were pregnant' have irregular periods to begin with.
https://edition.cnn.com/2012/07/05/health/living-well/pregnant-no-symptoms/index.html
Obesity can affect a woman's menstrual cycle, which is why missing a period wouldn't send off warning signs. The added weight might not be a tip-off either.
For one thing, women can continue to have monthly bleeding throughout their pregnancies. Yes! It’s rare, but it happens. It happened, in fact, to a neighbor of my mom’s. Every single month of her pregnancy this lady had period-like bleeding. It wasn’t as heavy as a regular period, but it came regularly every month.
Many, many types of modern birth control, such as IUDs and different types of contraceptive pills, reduce monthly bleeding or allow women to have periods only a few times a year rather than every month.
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@laoc said in In other news today...:
And in a city named "think of the pussy" at that?
Technically it would be "piensa-cola" in Mexican, but "pensa" is the Portuguese imperative.But in Portuguese "cola" means glue (both noun and verb).
Also, it's not necessarily imperative. Could just be present.Pensacola in Portuguese translates quite well to Thinkglue in English.
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@pie_flavor ¡Come at me, vato!
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla Yes. Florida Woman strikes again…
Florida Woman!
Stay away from me-e!
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@zecc said in In other news today...:
But in Portuguese "cola" means glue (both noun and verb).
Also, it's not necessarily imperative. Could just be present.Pensacola in Portuguese translates quite well to Thinkglue in English.
I know, it's just not as funny as in Mexican slang.
@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
Mexican
Sounds like an interesting language.
You know, like American. It's not the same as English.
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Here's what's happening in my neck of the woods....
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Somewhere we were talking about F150s. Looks like they're trying to move on their own...
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Canada has pulled off a brain
freezeheisthttps://www.axios.com/canada-has-pulled-off-a-brain-heist-1aba7430-82d5-4316-8008-e039d3964b36.html
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