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cheddarsox t1_j8um94r wrote

Reply to A study in the US has found, compared to unvaccinated people, protection from the risk of dying from COVID during the six-month omicron wave for folks who had two doses of an mRNA vaccine was 42% for 40- to 59-year-olds; 27% for 60- to 79-year-olds; and 46% for people 80 and older. by Wagamaga

Vaccinate weekly. I always do! You can't tell them, and you have to shop around, but you can get weekly vaccines if you do your homework. They don't check!

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km89 t1_j8ukh6r wrote

Reply to comment by bannedPosts in Psychedelics activate the same receptors as serotonin, so why aren't we always tripping? Psychedelics may cause neuronal plasticity and relieve depression by activating intracellular serotonin receptors that serotonin itself cannot, suggests a new study. by rjmsci

Coming from a place of total ignorance here, is there any explanation for why SSRIs work so well, assuming serotonin isn't correlated with depression?

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ThermoreceptionPit t1_j8uhk29 wrote

Reply to comment by ShelbySmith27 in New UC San Diego model predicts housing prices to fall as much as 18% this year by Sofie-Forsberggg

They could do it through community land trusts, which is basically where a nonprofit owns the land but leases it to the tenants at very low rates with the purpose of keeping housing affordable in perpetuity. One of the ways community land trusts get land is by having rich people donate it to them and then deduct the value of the land from their taxes. One reason coop housing doesn't get built as much (in the US at least) seems to be that coop housing used to get more funding from local governments, but local governments have favored low income rental housing construction for several decades, because of these getting tax credits that housing cooperatives don't.
Limited Equity Housing Cooperatives
Tax Credit

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The-Crawling-Chaos t1_j8u9m24 wrote

Reply to comment by rjmsci in Psychedelics activate the same receptors as serotonin, so why aren't we always tripping? Psychedelics may cause neuronal plasticity and relieve depression by activating intracellular serotonin receptors that serotonin itself cannot, suggests a new study. by rjmsci

> Depression is not caused by lowered serotonin activity, sure, but compounds that primarily modulate the serotonin system do relieve it.

Which isn’t surprising when their response rate is only ~10% higher than the placebo- controlled response rates for depression of ~40% on average.

source 1 Source 2 Source 3 (another Moncrieff)

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ShelbySmith27 t1_j8u8lty wrote

Reply to comment by danielravennest in New UC San Diego model predicts housing prices to fall as much as 18% this year by Sofie-Forsberggg

That doesn't address problem to me though. There isn't enough supply of land or fixer uppers to make these options affordable for most, so it doesn't lower demand, and we don't get lower prices. Your plan obly works if the person has enough capital to buy land or a house, which people don't have

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