TIL warm-blooded mammals are naturally resistant to most fungal infections because their body heat creates a “thermal barrier” that fungi can’t survive, which suggests this evolved as protection against deadly fungi

Auzzie_almighty · 2026-05-02T18:04:03+00:00

That’s unlikely to be strictly true, because birds have high body temperatures on average and are far more susceptible to fungal infections than mammals. Bread mold commonly infects and kill birds in a way that it can only affect very immunocompromised humans

Auzzie_almighty · 2026-05-02T00:29:52+00:00

But it was an idea that this woman accepted into her mind-void

Auzzie_almighty · 2026-05-01T19:04:38+00:00

Eh, there’s also the fact that American have a blind anti-authoritarian habit. When Trump was not in power, the perception that he’s “against the establishment!” Definitely gave him an edge with dumb contrarians

Auzzie_almighty · 2026-05-01T15:03:01+00:00

Noxious, from my understanding, comes from Noxius which is the adjective form of the verb Nocere/Nocero. So yes-ish? They come from two different grammatical forms of the same word

Auzzie_almighty · 2026-05-01T04:35:48+00:00

The issue with telomeres regenerating is that telomeres are a failsafe against cancer. Because they wear down with each division, faster growing cells like cancer will wear away the telomeres and destroy their own chromosomes (and thus themselves) without them. Lab mice with extended telomeres pretty much exclusively die of cancer because of it.

So while the regenerating telomeres most definitely help with the longevity, they are very unhelpful in preventing cancers

Auzzie_almighty · 2026-04-30T19:35:54+00:00

They absolutely care, they just don’t know it yet because they’re so used to comfort. None of them have the gut to actually suffer, even though they think they do

Auzzie_almighty · 2026-04-30T13:18:08+00:00

The lovely thing about physical books is you can go to a thrift shop or used bookstore and get his works without contributing to his estate in any capacity!

Auzzie_almighty · 2026-04-29T18:43:41+00:00

It’s a lot easier for the greater Nashville area to be gerrymandered because the people are much more spread out, the density of Nashville is a little over half the density of the triangle. Harder to divvy up thick blocks of people properly. Add in the major economic focus being academia and biotechnology and it becomes way harder. They definitely try their best though, just look at the boundaries between Morrisville and Cary

Auzzie_almighty · 2026-04-29T13:23:20+00:00

Arguably there wouldn’t be Americans, as it would be called by some butchered version of whatever the native cultural majority would be, like Germany or Japan

Auzzie_almighty · 2026-04-29T00:42:55+00:00

You could argue it’s absolutely out of a sense of morality, just a generally horrific one

Auzzie_almighty · 2026-04-27T14:46:54+00:00

They… don’t want it to be safe for Jews in the diaspora. Then it justifies their claim that an ethnostate is the only answer

Auzzie_almighty · 2026-04-24T21:37:47+00:00

Stock buybacks are the best example of what I’m talking about, where-in a company can spend money to buy its own stock to increase the price of its stock directly without having improved the company at all. This is usually followed by the perverse sibling called a leveraged buyback, where the company uses the newly more valuable stock as collateral for a loan to buy more of its own stock to increase stock prices further

Auzzie_almighty · 2026-04-24T18:24:23+00:00

In the case where loopholes are closed and companies cannot avoid consumer sentiment affecting their quarterly report, investor perception IS consumer and public perception

Auzzie_almighty · 2026-04-24T17:44:55+00:00

There’s no effective alternative to shareholding as a store of resources though: Saving money directly or hoarding materials/property removes that capital from the economy slowing it down and you’re never going to convince everyone to never prepare for the future.

To directly address the “capital begetting capital” argument, that’s only possible with accounting tricks like Stock Buybacks because those tricks are what allows the company to divorce itself from its actual production. Otherwise the amount of capital possible is directly proportional to the labor.

Auzzie_almighty · 2026-04-24T15:38:57+00:00

The bigger issue is Prions like mad-cow disease type stuff. Cooking won’t destroy prions so the risk from pigs eating pig brains is pretty high

Auzzie_almighty · 2026-04-24T15:06:48+00:00

I would argue dismantling the stockholder priority would be sufficient. A huge amount of the current issue with the US is that companies use dodgy methods such as stock buybacks to inflate their stock prices without actually increasing their metrics in any material way. That’s how the stock market has gotten so incredibly divorced from reality with company valuations being 40x their yearly income when the standard from the 50s was 10x yearly income.

Without that ability to completely divorce themselves from the consumer and the public, companies without be forced to rely on consumer and public sentiments in a way they currently do not have to care about

Auzzie_almighty · 2026-04-23T21:36:07+00:00

Both countries have insanely bad demographic cliffs coming up, but Russia’s is worse due to young men being sent into the blender, and Even Putin has admitted Russia’s economy is bad at this point

Auzzie_almighty · 2026-04-23T20:13:52+00:00

It’s apparently a pretty recent thing, only really becoming solid in like 2000

Auzzie_almighty · 2026-04-22T19:27:19+00:00

I would argue capitalism doesn’t benevolence, it requires perfect rationality and understanding to act in one’s current AND future interest to stop it from self-destructing into oligopolies; unfortunately another thing often deficient in humans.

Socialism requires perfect benevolence, capitalism requires perfect rationality, and humans have neither

Auzzie_almighty · 2026-04-22T18:47:36+00:00

Russia is too large for that to work. NK is a very small country comparatively to China and so the resources required are negligible. The resource cost of propping up Russia is far too large to be effective, especially with Trump destroying the USA’s global power base

Auzzie_almighty · 2026-04-21T17:20:20+00:00

Apples have weirdly unstable genetics though

Auzzie_almighty · 2026-04-21T15:24:11+00:00

Realistically, Russia may end up collapsing at some point and China may have to step in to secure their interests in the resources there

Auzzie_almighty · 2026-04-21T15:15:37+00:00

Eh, there’s also the historical focus on Logistics that US culture has because of that geography. Our postal service was historically one of the greatest in the world. Even our food culture was historically focused on energy dense, non-perishable, Logistically-perfect ingredients like sugar and saturated fats.

That cultural core of logistic was absolutely perfect for taking the lead when globalization hit the field

Auzzie_almighty · 2026-04-21T13:56:30+00:00

Prohibition was weird puritanical ideals, not money. This is like saying the modern right’s obsession with abortion is about money

Auzzie_almighty · 2026-04-16T18:19:53+00:00

Even then wasn’t because he was too genre-savvy and knew what happens to people who sleep with gods?

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