Correlation Games

Gut microbiome composition and food insecurity linked to risk of cognitive impairment in adults

 

Oral microbes determine the composition of your gut microbes.

If you can't afford food, you're definitely not going to the dentist...

Efficiency in action

 Elon blew up his "Starbase" again.    And called it an Anomaly again.

Excellent Data via Excellent Graphics

 

Unfortunately their conclusions make a huge, incorrect assumption.

"The most common causes of death globally ...were from ‘non-communicable diseases’.  This includes cardiovascular diseases, cancer, and chronic respiratory diseases. They tend to develop gradually over time and aren’t infectious themselves."

All those things can be, and are, caused by common transmissible infections.   

Predictable

 Men's Dementia Risk May be Doubled by Common Gene Variant

Scientists have now identified a genetic variant that causes male carriers to be twice as likely to develop dementia at some point in their lifetime, compared to non-carriers...

This gene encodes for a protein that helps control the levels of iron in the body. The findings showed that one in three individuals carry one copy of a HFS variant called H63D, and one in 36 individuals carry two copies of this variant. Men who carry two copies of this variant are more than twice as likely to develop dementia, but this was not true for women who carried two copies. The findings have been reported in Neuron.

Fascinating.   

Iron and Microbial Infection

The use of iron as a cofactor in basic metabolic pathways is essential to both pathogenic microorganisms and their hosts. It is also a pivotal component of the innate immune response through its role in the generation of toxic oxygen and nitrogen intermediates. During evolution, the shared requirement of micro- and macroorganisms for this important nutrient has shaped the pathogen–host relationship. Here, we discuss how pathogens compete with the host for iron, and also how the host uses iron to counteract this threat.

edit : bonus article

Microscopic heist: How lung bacteria forge weapons to steal iron and survive

Newly discovered natural compounds from Pandoraea bacteria influence the lung microbiome by competing for iron

Pop Quiz

Explain how a Christian man who preaches non-violence could turn into an obsessed, premeditated spree killer.     

(hint: it's not a woke mind virus)

 

This is what bravery looks like

Wow America

That was quite a day.   Not the red wedding I expected.

Thanks so much.   I had become despondent.

Here is the King of June 14th:

Now that's a baller.

Defend Sanity

 A Primer for the Youngsters

Holy Shit

There she is.   The reason Stephen Miller is so obsessed with brown skin and immigration.   My oh my.   

She was his high school class President.    Oooh....

Symptom Misinterpretation

Tom Homan blames his miserable existence on immigrants.

Go figure

New Apple study challenges whether AI models truly “reason” through problems

Librarians have been saying this for 25 years. 

They are fancy sentence generators.   They operate on statistics.  They calculate that their answers are correct based on frequency of examples in the training set.   They are  a fancy autocomplete program.  

They do not understand cause and effect.   They get it confused all the time.

They only find patterns.

They cannot be creative. 

Horrible, Vicious Rumors

Oh my.

 Is DJT wearing a catheter?     

I hope this doesn't become a thing too.

It's a symptom

 Star Trek minus context

Same as it ever was

 

State of the Insanity

BRAZEN.

ICE impersonator zip-ties and robs woman

My Favorite Photos

 

Her name is Inspiration.  She stands above the main door of the building where I went to library school.   She made the trip in the rain possible.   I call her Endurance.  




I would like to find the original of this. I have looked for years   It was on a Psych article after Hurricane Katrina.    It's my very favorite photo.

These have too often been my comfort in the darkness.

You are not alone.

Just like Jesus

 Dr. Oz on Medicaid cuts: People should ‘prove that you matter’

For the Faith Healers

 Thoughts and prayers have no effect on microbes.   

Why didn't your omniscient protector tell you about germs?

Big Boy Games

 

If we think about these guys health issues, we can be pretty sure that even between the three of them, they do not have one functioning penis.  (ooh, Steve Bannon and Kanye joined in too.)

I am sick of this bullshit.  Take a drug screen for performance enhancers, get on TV, pull down your pants, show me an erection.  

Rerun

 Thursday, November 14, 2024

Ahem

Diabetes in adults nearly doubles worldwide, study suggests

I believe this is caused by rampant over-prescription of antibiotics that don't kill P. gingivalis.

Edit: This doesn't help either.

Antibiotic use in young children tied to reduced vaccine response

Mass antibiotic treatment may promote resistance to life-saving drugs

Never Forget

 

Jonestown. 

trigger warning.

Holy Frankenfuck

 Talking drones in Gaza like 'Black Mirror,' Engel says

The hopped up billionares are bad, but these berserker drone pilots create a new level of unmitigated impulse control issues...

Good Morning America

Largest egg producer in Southwest loses 95% of its chickens in Arizona to bird flu

According to Hickman’s Family Farms, about six million birds have been lost due to bird flu.

Hickman said hens at one of the farms began showing symptoms two weeks ago. Swabs were sent to the University of Arizona for analysis, and bird flu was detected.

Reflexive Lack of Empathy

Standing before a row of weathered headstones in a local cemetery, Ernst addressed the camera in a video statement dripping with sarcasm and evangelical fervor.

'For those that would like to see eternal and everlasting life,' she declared, her voice lifting, 'I encourage you to embrace my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.'

 The biggest con.    The ultimate plausible deniability.    "You'll feel better when you're dead"

You first, Joan.

Proposal

Can I please have the money that Elon is getting to blow up rockets?

I would buy a factory and make some vaccines.    Promise.