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Conscious_Pickle3605 t1_j9olrdv wrote

Reply to comment by Depressedgotfan in The case of a patient who had COVID for 318 days helped scientists discover a new route for dangerous coronavirus strain emergence. They found mutations enabling T cell escape. Keeping track of mutations is crucial for understanding, monitoring, and controlling the pandemic by Skoltech_

Seriously, I'm on day 5 of a fairly mild case and it SUCKS. Can't imagine dealing with this continuously.

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Conscious_Pickle3605 t1_j9olioc wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in The case of a patient who had COVID for 318 days helped scientists discover a new route for dangerous coronavirus strain emergence. They found mutations enabling T cell escape. Keeping track of mutations is crucial for understanding, monitoring, and controlling the pandemic by Skoltech_

So scary and sad. Do you have to take extra precautions around them so that you don't expose yourself to mutated strains?

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Darth_Kahuna OP t1_j9okvzn wrote

Reply to comment by sweepinganhyzer in Obesity can cause changes in the brain similar to Alzheimer's by Darth_Kahuna

You spoke nothing to my point and hand waived it away wo a rational rebuttal. You cannot say ppl do not make healthy choices bc they do not have time to do so due to working 80+ hours a week when < 5% of the population does this, >50% of the population works < 35 hours a week, and > 40% of the population is obese.

What to eat and how much to eat is a personal choice. Education can be done at the population level and is advisable, but, unless you are advocating a totalitarian answer where the government stipulates what you can or cannot eat or picks/chooses what is affordable and what is not, at the end of the day, it is personal choice.

Also, saying "78% of the population experiences this thus it is a systemic issue" is false. I live half the year in France and half in the US (duel citizen). France has ~10% obesity. Is it a personal choice issue in France and not systemic? At what point does it become systemic and why? What do you believe is a personal choice?

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kermitpolice t1_j9okt0w wrote

Reply to comment by heeywewantsomenewday in Research suggests that school-based physical activity intervention, by way of increasing physical exercise classes to daily during school, is successful in reducing childhood obesity. Scientists found that obesity was reversed after 3 years. by Wagamaga

I am completely certain without any doubt that regular exercise has a wide range of benefits on the development, health and wellbeing of a child.

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Rens_kitty_litter t1_j9oja74 wrote

Reply to Research suggests that school-based physical activity intervention, by way of increasing physical exercise classes to daily during school, is successful in reducing childhood obesity. Scientists found that obesity was reversed after 3 years. by Wagamaga

It's like people forget what it's like to have been a kid. Boundless energy that needs an outlet. It's great that studies are revealing what, I'm hoping, is common-sense knowledge. Kids need to run around. For BMI purposes, yes, but to also quiet the mind.

EDIT: change "...coming sense..." to "...common-sense..."; add"the" btwn "quiet" and "mind."

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Big-Mathematician540 t1_j9ofh1s wrote

Reply to comment by 0002millertime in A study found that "people with cannabis purchases after legalization reduced significantly and persistently their cash spending and electronic transfers, indicating a shift from the black to the legal cannabis market." by OregonTripleBeam

Best bang for your buck.

You know you won't get screwed over from legal sources. Not that badly at least, and would have recourses available.

Probably people who have friends who still grow buy "black market" often, but then there's not as much selection.

If only I got an euro every time I read a another confirmation of weed that we've known for ages. It's slow work, convincing people they've just been lied to about weed. (And am not saying there are no negatives.)

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heeywewantsomenewday t1_j9of7m6 wrote

Reply to comment by kermitpolice in Research suggests that school-based physical activity intervention, by way of increasing physical exercise classes to daily during school, is successful in reducing childhood obesity. Scientists found that obesity was reversed after 3 years. by Wagamaga

I'm in education and the lads diagnosed with ADHD or who generally struggle doing long hours in the classroom do so much better when they have daily outdoor time (outdoor work) and exercise time. It improves their in class work.

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DigiMagic t1_j9odemj wrote

Reply to comment by unswsydney in Australian and UK researchers have developed a proof-of-concept display technology that is 100-times thinner than liquid crystal cells and offers a tenfold greater resolution. by unswsydney

Your tech does not require polarizers, but requires heaters. What is the total final efficiency, compared to LCDs? Why are you expecting that something heated up to 200 Celsius (and constantly re-heated and re-cooled?) will have a long life span?

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