That’s a photo op I’d be careful of with an opportunistic omnivore.
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Speak for yourself.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•When a person gains weight and keeps the weight on for a long time, is that old fat in your body, or does the fat get replaced over time?
17·1 month agoMost of the weight is carbon that is breathed out actually, but metabolic water isn’t insignificant.
Lewis acids aren’t. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_acids_and_bases
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•what's your take on employers banning the use of languages other than English between coworkers at the workplace?
6·2 months agoWhat’s funny is no charge nurse is capable of getting you to the point of getting fired over this shit. They’re just capable of making you want to quit. Management does not like spending money orienting new nurses.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•what's your take on employers banning the use of languages other than English between coworkers at the workplace?
7·2 months agoCharge nurses and power tripping, name a more iconic duo.
They get to walk in the hov lane.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•The McDonald's employee who called on Luigi has never received their "reward", folks chasing the 100k for Kirk may not either...
231·2 months agoThey just have no legal recourse if the reward is not paid.
To be clear, it’s because while promissory estoppel and unilateral contracts are a very real thing you can sue over, sovereign immunity keeps that from being an option, particularly federally. If some private organization offered the reward you’d be fine, but when it is a sovereign immune government that hasn’t waved it’s immunity you’re fucked.
You. The dust is coming from you.
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Technology@lemmy.world•WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables neededEnglish
201·2 months agoCool tech but I question it’s usefulness. They focus on clinical in their language but anybody who’s on telemetry orders needs waveforms not beats per minute. I care if they’re suddenly in afib, not that they’re a little tachy after getting up to go to the bathroom.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Not promoting suicide. But my question is can someone with onset dementia and hire a person to put them down like a rabid dog? Or do I have to still be with it to jump off a building or bridge?
10·2 months agoFunctional in what way. You’ll still be quite lucid well into the middle stage where you can’t work. It ain’t like it’s direct ticket from work to a locked memory care unit. You might even find life fulfilling along the way that your current anxieties can’t see. I’m an RN myself and I certainly understand seeing cases where you’d rather be dead than there, but there’s a lot of transition between.
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Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL you can buy soft serve beer at the Minnesota State Fair.English
24·2 months agoSoft serve is effectively a partially frozen emulsion foam colloid. It’s one of the easier ways to trap liquid alcohol.
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science@lemmy.world•Scientists identify culprit behind biggest ever U.S. honey bee die-offEnglish
29·2 months agoStill not one cause though. Maybe a proximate cause but the bees have less forage due to monoculture and climate change screwing with plant cycles. This results in malnutrition and increased susceptibility to viruses. The anti mite drugs allowed them to limp along while feeding them sugar water till they got to orchards but obviously that’s not going to cut it. Competitive pollinator services racing to the bottom unsustainably leading to a mass die off as soon as more stress is introduced is the systemic issue at play here
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Imagine there was a society in which blue eyed people are referred to with blee/bler pronouns, and green eyed people are referred to with glee/gler pronouns...
3·3 months agoEarly Proto Indo European genders were if things had agency/was animate/acted on the world or not. Was pretty much him and it. A car would be a him because it moves around. Same with a river or a weapon. A rock would be an it. A rolling boulder though becomes outside context, since now he’s an animate rock that has enough agency to kill you. You get enough of these inconsistencies and the language just loses the original plot and you just have to memorize it points to Germanic and romance languages
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What would be ancient ways to properly store vitamin C?
221·3 months agoYeah sailors had jerky, smoked meats, and dried meats and still got scurvy. Hudson Bay colony had pemmican and still had scurvy outbreaks. The problem is most of the sources you noted destroy much of the vitamin c. Pemmican is a super food for macros but sucks for micros and still needed some forage to supplement. Famously the Iroquois would use tea made from eastern white cedar to do so.
On your glut-4 note: glut-4 is important for cellular transportation and diabetes can harm it’s use leading to oxidative stress but it’s not significant in uptake from food to serum which is the important part when we’re talking about dietary vitamin c. It’s also really incorrect to say glucose wasn’t a factor in ancient diets. The Romans marched on porridge and bread. High carb diets are a defining feature of the neolithic and beyond.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What would be ancient ways to properly store vitamin C?
4·3 months agoDrying can work to a degree if it’s cold, but it really depends on how you dry it since vitamin c is water soluble. Anything heat dried(including sun dried, which over temp and time will oxidize the vitamin C) is out and osmosis like salt drying can bring the vitamin C along with the water into the salt. Modern sauerkraut is often pasturized so that’s pretty useless for vitamin C. Finally canned preserves are canned under high heat. These industrial processes are a major reason why scurvy was so hard to treat at the beginning of the industrial revolution. Nobody could figure it out because they kept heat treating potential solutions. The British pasturized the lime juice at one point, for example.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What would be ancient ways to properly store vitamin C?
37·3 months agoVitamin C is heat sensitive but fermentation is fine and a good reason why fermented cabbage is popular in places with cold winter. See kimchi and sauerkraut, as rice or rye alone would kill you over a long winter. Similar mechanics going on for andean freeze dried potatoes to a lesser extent. Beyond that, it’s straight up foraging for greens and berries but that only really works if you’re moving a small enough group of people to allow forage to be an option. Plenty of leafy greens from forage allowed enough vitamin c to stave off scurvy for many ancient armies and sailors(though not all). Cook notably would beat sailors who wouldn’t eat foraged greens. The other option was uncooked organ meats.
Activated carbon does absorb lead because it has a variety of binding sites that will bind to lead ions. The problem is, those binding sites are limited and will get quickly used up if you’re having to actually deal with any significant amount of lead and if you have other metal ions (like copper) trying to compete for binding sites the whole profile looks worse. This means if you’ve got hard water with a ton of competing ions, the filter will likely do dick for lead. So the Brita filters do do something, but if there’s an actual utility to what they do in regards to heavy metals depends on the water.





The clown show carries on.