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@congelation242 @DrHoenderkamp Not everyone

@DrHoenderkamp smartphones are inherently a surveillance device. everyone has got one.

Saw this in my local pharmacy today. Essentially anyone under 70 is being FORCED to order scripts digitally and use the NHS app. This is not choice: it’s digital ID by the back door.

Trees release invisible chemicals into the air to protect themselves from bugs and disease. Turns out those same chemicals also switch on your body's cancer-fighting cells. They're called natural killer cells. They're a type of white blood cell that patrols your bloodstream looking for cancer cells and virus-infected cells. When they find one, they punch a hole through its outer wall and inject proteins that force the cell to self-destruct from the inside. You're born with them. Unlike most of your immune system, they don't need to be "trained" on a specific threat first. They just attack anything that looks wrong. The 50% number in this tweet comes from Dr. Qing Li at Nippon Medical School in Tokyo, who has been studying the effects of forests on the human body since 2004. His original 2007 study took 12 men on a 3-day, 2-night forest trip, walking two hours a day. Blood tests showed 11 of 12 had roughly 50% more cancer-killing cell activity afterward. A follow-up with 13 female nurses found the same thing. But the part the tweet leaves out: the boost didn't vanish when they went home. It lasted over 7 days in both groups, and in men, it was still detectable in blood work 30 days later. Li's conclusion is that one forest trip per month could keep these cells running at a higher level year-round. The obvious next question is whether it's the forest itself or just the vacation. Li tested this directly. A separate group took a city tourist trip with the same amount of walking. No boost to killer cells. No stress hormone drop. Zero effect. Then he ran an even more controlled test: 12 men stayed in a regular Tokyo hotel room for three nights while a humidifier pumped tree oil (from Japanese cypress) into the air overnight. Their killer cells still went up. Their stress hormones still dropped. That isolates the cause to those tree chemicals, called phytoncides. Pine, cedar, and cypress trees release the most. These chemicals were found in forest air but were nearly absent in city air. A 2021 lab study showed that one of these tree chemicals directly switches on killer cells and slows colon tumor growth in mice. The bigger picture connects these cells directly to cancer risk. An 11-year study published in The Lancet (one of the world's top medical journals) tracked 3,625 Japanese people and found that those with weaker natural killer cells developed cancer at significantly higher rates. A separate study screening for bowel cancer found that people with low killer cell levels were 7 times more likely to be diagnosed. Li's own research across all 47 regions of Japan showed that areas with less forest had higher cancer death rates for lung, breast, uterine, prostate, kidney, and colon cancers, even after accounting for differences in smoking rates and wealth. The caveats: Li's original studies used small groups (12 and 13 people), and the regional data show a pattern but don't directly prove that forests prevent cancer. No large-scale clinical trial has confirmed that yet. But the chain is consistent: trees release chemicals, those chemicals wake up the cells in your blood that kill cancer, the effect lasts weeks, not hours, and people with more active killer cells get cancer less often. Japan now has 65 government-certified Forest Therapy sites across the country, each tested and approved based on the physical effects they have on visitors.

@m0ldilocks To be fair, there’s nothing you can do about bad air quality besides tell people about it (to deaf ears). That’s why the therapist was recommended.

Caesar's engineer figured out in 25 BC that damp buildings make people sick. Let that sit. Not a doctor. Not a scientist. An engineer. With a chisel and a scroll. He looked at swamps, looked at the people living near swamps, and wrote it down in De Architectura: 'The neighbourhood of a marshy place must be avoided… fogs and mists charged with unwholesome effluvia will diffuse over the bodies of the inhabitants and render the place pestilent.' He even described how excess moisture entering the body 'introduces disproportion… the virtues of the mixture dissolved.' That's immune dysregulation from environmental exposure. Written in 25 BC. With a quill. Meanwhile, I spent 45 minutes in a doctor's office trying to explain that my building might be making me sick and got referred to a therapist. He didn't have air quality sensors. He didn't have ERMI dust testing. He didn't have a single peer-reviewed citation. He just looked at the evidence in front of him and connected the dots. We have satellites. We have HVAC. We have the entire internet. Vitruvius figured it out with observation. We are not smarter than ancient Rome. We are just Rome with wifi and worse excuses.

@sino_sinovski @whittomd @SpaceKoala Cheaper that way, unfortunately

@whittomd @SpaceKoala No, but plastics are made from oil, which the original tweet is referring to. Although, once some plastic product has outlived its usefulness, it is ultimately burned for energy as well.

Gee, maybe using what fossil fuels we have to make the 10% plastic in something making power the next 30 years is better than just burning it. Because the solar panel probably makes more energy than is contained within its plastics in 2 weeks, and lasts decades.

@SpaceKoala And where do the plastics go then? They don’t just stop existing after you skip their end of life.

@AaronAmarok Tedious* Started with a manual, ended with an EV and never going back.

I always found it so funny how more and more people think manuals are this unforgiving task that suits only the strongest most talented drivers when in reality its the easiest thing ever

@Pablo_1791 @JackLinFLL @Polymarket (They’re forcing this on new cars now, btw)

@JackLinFLL @Polymarket This is often court ordered after DUI convictions. The interlock requires you to blow clean breath before your car will start. You don't really get a choice, but you have to screw up to get one.

BREAKING: Cyberattack against American breathalyzer test company locks out drivers across 45 states.

@Polymarket @ShriekingNoises And the modules need to communicate to the cloud…why exactly?

@vvage_labor They have majority leadership

ngl it’s kinda crazy there hasn’t been a capital coup against trump at this point. i wonder how much they’re gonna let him fuck shit up before stepping in.

As with every study, there are a few caveats: ◇ Small sample size (21 or 22 in each group) ◇ Only study testing this ◇ High-functioning ASD only studied ◇ They only measured behavioral scales, so other symptoms were not measured. Still, these are incredible results.

@LambrielVT “I was at (waterpark) in (city)” Tame, passable. “I live across the street from it” Naivety.

Why are children so addicted to doxxing themselves😭 A while back, I had a kid come into stream with their first message going "I just got back from the waterpark!". I ignore it. Seeing that I ignored it, their SECOND message is "The waterpark I was at was (NAME), I live across the street from it!!" I can't remember EVER being that reckless with my info when I was younger. Has internet safety just disappeared, or do children yearn to publicly post their address?

@Fintech03 And what if we chuck efficiency out of the question? Just run a motor with whatever materials are available?

To make an EV efficient, you need Permanent Magnet Motors & these require Neodymium. 90% of the world's high-grade Neodymium processing is controlled by 1 country (China). Going Electric just moves the choke point from the Strait of Hormuz (Oil) to the Bayan Obo Mines (Rare Earths).

@zackslab one has to wonder how people came up with fluxing as a practice

fun fact: soldering flux is just pine resin. the tree i cut down yesterday could supply me with a lifetime of flux. i'd have to distill it into rosin of course.

@TPV_John Yep. All new EVs have the same restrictions as modern ICE cars

If gas hits $5 a gallon on average, which is VERY LIKELY to happen, it will set a record for the HIGHEST EVER gas prices in American history. Just wait until they start shutting off the pumps, and you can only fuel up at certain times because of manufactured gas shortages… Or, worse yet…When your ability to get gas is tied to your “carbon credit score” and “behavior” coming down the pike. Welcome to the Great Reset.

@OtherSide61 @sora_no_mukou_e @MaitreyaBhakal

@sora_no_mukou_e @MaitreyaBhakal This one is actually funny considering that the civilians of Iran are on Israel side almost 100%

Israel is so small that Iran can destroy all of its desalination plants and its entire power grid within just a few hours. Just imagine what will happen to the settler population then, without water and electricity. Ask yourself why Iran is not doing that.

@transfix @LLJarrett1984 @JCeacc @anon_opin How did we get into a position where financing was a requirement?

@LLJarrett1984 @JCeacc @anon_opin Financing is what gets people owning things. Yes people should always save and invest, but even if you have some assets and wealth it doesnt mean you are liquid enough to buy a big ticket item or start a business

Multiple societies throughout history all came to the conclusion that charging interest on loans was immoral. Punishable by death in some cases. Now we've all done a collective 180 and decided it's the glue holding the world economy together? I think we got it right first time.

@anon_opin Like tipping, it’s traditionally done for gratitude.

There's an old joke in systems biology called "How Biologists Fix a Radio." A biologist, tasked with figuring out why a radio doesn't work, removes components one by one and catalogs the result. Remove this transistor: the radio makes a horrible screeching sound. Conclusion: this is the "horrible screeching transistor." Remove another component: the radio goes silent. Conclusion: this is the "silence transistor." This is essentially what we do with genomics. We see which genes are mutated in cancer and assume they must be "cancer genes." We see which genes are differentially expressed and assume they must be "important." But correlation is not causation, and a parts list is not a circuit diagram. You can have a complete inventory of every resistor, capacitor, and transistor in a radio and still have no idea how it plays music.

@DrEricDing Isn’t helium a nuclear byproduct?

FUN FACT—helium cools the superconducting magnets in more than 14,000 MRI machines used in hospitals worldwide. We lost the largest helium extraction plant in the world in Qatar. US reserves running low. Helium cannot be produced de novo. Any helium escape is permanent.

Periodic?

A restriction to verify identity to use AI tools is a restriction on the access of information Nothing new under the Sun