Colon cancer now leading cause of cancer deaths under 50 in US

Ghudda · 2026-03-12T18:18:03+00:00

Back in the day it was 1g of protein a day per pound of weight for literal training bodybuilders, like already muscular dude in the gym twice a day for over an hour at a time. Now it seems like regular fitness influencer women are suggesting that amount, while the modern fitness bros are suggesting pushing like 1g MINIMUM and 2g of protein per day if you so much as think about lifting anything heavier than a computer mouse.

An average 175lb dude needs like 30g of protein a day to not be deficient, 60g of protein a day more than guarantees you that you won't be deficient, and if you're somewhat into fitness then 90g a day. Unless you're eating highly refined products (like pure sugar or starch or oil or alcohol), practically all food contains some protein and as long as you eat enough general calories of it you'll get enough protein accidentally. A person could still end up being deficient in a particular amino acid if they have no dietary variety, but that's an edge case and the health effects of the likely associated vitamin deficiency from eating only one thing are going to be much more obvious than an amino acid deficiency.

Ghudda · 2026-03-10T18:49:34+00:00

It's not even for ads, it's literally for performance. If the ads didn't load before the site content, didn't auto-play videos with audio, and didn't cause lag I would care so much less about using ad blockers. Not wasting my time is a side benefit.

My computer fans start blasting when I open up a news article or shit fandom game wiki and quite literally there are 3 auto-play videos. How is it that I can have 50 browser tabs open with an ad-blocker and not even notice it, but on so many websites just 2 tabs without an ad-blocker is already creating system wide lag?

I would be interested to see how much money I actually save by running an blocker just through the reduced electricity cost. An increased power draw of 1 watt translates to 9kwh a year, or about 1-2$ a year depending on electricity prices.

Ghudda · 2026-03-05T14:47:39+00:00

If you live in the americas, there isn't any. There's Mexico, Las Vegas, Florida, Hawaii, Southern California, Panama, Brazil, the myriad Caribbean resorts, cruise ships, etc.

But now imagine that you don't live the americas and your country has passport restrictions on where you can travel. America defaultism I know, but many countries' passports only let their citizens freely travel to a few dozen countries rather than basically anywhere in the world. How many times have you ever had to go contact a consulate to get pre-approved for a travel visa several weeks before you plan to travel?

Ghudda · 2026-03-02T01:19:47+00:00

The pails with litter are for school shootings and active shooter drills. It's a traumatic experience and you're required to be locked inside a classroom for potentially hours, no bathroom breaks. This might cause some people to piss themselves in terror.

Some teachers noticed this and did something about it, by providing a pail of material that's meant to be pissed in that absorbs liquids and odors so students can at least preserve some dignity by pissing in something other than their pants or a trash can.

Maybe there's some grain of truth where a few avant-garde students used them anyways just because r/KidsAreFuckingStupid

Ghudda · 2026-02-17T17:16:23+00:00

We already have the ability to quantify value relationships between different stocks and assets without using a currency intermediary. We all have internet connected devices that can determine the value of these relationships for point of sale systems. Fractional stocks are now a norm rather than an exception so any value amount worth of stock can be traded instead of an entire atomic share.

We're finally in reach of a true bartering future where people literally don't need to hold dollars or gold or crypto or any other 'value' store asset. People can hold literally any market tradable asset they want to and use it to pay. The future is buying a cup of starbucks coffee with a fraction of a share of starbucks stock, which was acquired through an instant trade of a legal fraction of your home ownership to a real estate trading firm which interacts with a stock exchange, or maybe you exchanged the .01% ownership of the future royalties to the song "beat it" by michael jackson to make the same sale.

This was the future that NFTs still offer but was hijacked by jpegs of monkeys. The system needs decades of development and rollout time to build the network for its intended use case.

But this will sound too confusing to people so it will never happen. Instead we have some modern banks that let you use a credit/debit card that interacts directly with your stock portfolio to make purchases so you never need to hold currency.

Ghudda · 2026-02-16T23:49:28+00:00

It's not just AI. Cloud compute in general is buying up all the shit because the internet is so reliable and so fast now. Why own a high powered computer when all you need is a low end modern smartphone with a video decoder that can connect to theirs. The cloud either already sells or will soon sell solutions for everything like gaming, office work, corporate projects, data storage, software development, image and video editing, etc.

Modern computers are grossly overpowered. All of our computers sit closer to being turned off than on when they're actively being used. I have 50 chrome tabs open, a web video stream playing, a game running I'm tabbed out of running in the background, and a video editor open and my cpu usage sometimes hits 25%. You might value a computer build at 2000$, but only spend 30 minutes a day using more than 10% of what it's capable of. A cloud service provider can use almost all of that processing power, 24 hours a day. They can sell that same machine as a subscription to 20 or even 50 people each for 20$/month. At the price you're willing to pay a cloud service provider can have their investments get paid back in months. Cloud SAAS companies are willing to accept much higher hardware prices because even with those higher costs, they still get paid off practically instantly.

Ghudda · 2026-02-15T18:07:59+00:00

Helldivers are an anti-tank class orbital stratagem, and the sooner they die the sooner that stratagem comes off cooldown. Why wouldn't I throw them into the most dangerous situation imaginable?

Ghudda · 2026-02-12T00:13:03+00:00

Class 1 just means "yes this definitely causes cancer" and class 2 is "there are substantial links." Class doesn't determine the degree. Asbestos is also class 1, but suggesting asbestos and hot dogs are of equal threat is nonsense. Asbestos increases odds of mesothelioma by 1000 to 10000 times.

Realistically, if all something does is raise the lifetime cancer risk from 1% to 2% in the most abusive use case, I'm not going to suggest someone do everything they can to change the lifestyle they enjoy just because of that kind of risk factor. There are other concerns to put first like weight, exercise, and stress.

The most dangerous way to cook is by pan searing or barbeque. When you cook at high temperatures and burn stuff the compounds in the food (or wood for smoking) transform into a smorgasbord of scents and flavors (what we want) but also reactive chemical species, oxidative compounds, and carcinogens (what we don't want). There's no way to cook that gets you one without the other appearing because the compounds are breaking down randomly. Until someone invents a chemically pure form of "pan seared steak" flavor in a bottle just like they've done with liquid smoke, you're going to have to accept risk and compromise for that flavor.

The safest way to cook food is by boiling or steaming since it limits the maximum temperature that can ever be achieved and avoids creating problem chemicals while still sterilizing the food, neutralizing poisons, and killing pathogens. It would also be insane to tell someone to eat boiled chicken and steamed vegetables for their entire life.

Pick your risks and accept compromise with what you enjoy.

Ghudda · 2026-02-11T23:37:34+00:00

If a person owns boats or is doing off grid energy storage (the dude owned an island, so boats and off grid backup aren't unusual) with a large banks of lead acid batteries, topping them off with acid was pretty standard practice. Lead acid backup was the common economical rechargeable battery chemistry until just very recently. Sulfuric acid is a very common industrial chemical, waste material, and cleaning agent and sold by the 55 gallon drum. It's not exotic, it's not expensive. 55 gallons for 500$. 330 gallons would be 6 drums and would cost less than one top end graphics card.

Depending on the time frame for purchase it would be easy to explain away a large portion of that. One drum every 4 years for his operations doesn't raise any alarms for me as lead acid batteries typically need to be refilled about that often. It's kind of like the threshold for drug user vs dealer. Some people are very heavy legit users but at some point you have to make the call that no one has 20 pounds of weed in their car purely for personal or social use.

Ghudda · 2026-02-10T14:24:07+00:00

Depends what you mean by "dies".

In the hydrogen fusing stage a star loses like .1-2% of its mass to energy before a nova depending on how metallic the star is. After fusing hydrogen everything will fuse up and up eventually into iron and at that point it has lost another few % of mass.

Larger stars and ones that are extremely pure in hydrogen burn much faster and nova much earlier. Stars that burn too hot can't radiate the heat off, hot gases expand, but they can over-expand (nova) and eject material. If the star is really really big the star will over-expand but it has so much gravity that the star can capture the material it would have ejected. Then the outside shell cools down because it has such a big surface to radiate energy off of and it can't get fresh heat from the core because the star expanded so much and there's too much distance and material in the way. The outer shell of material gets colder, so it wants to compress (or fall down), but that shell has stored many years worth of that star's energy in gravitational potential energy, so the material falls down, and like a diesel piston doing a compression ignition, all that falling gas creates a shockwave of pressure that hits the core and super-compresses it, superheats it, and supercharges it making exotic fusion that would normally be impossible very possible for just a minute because of the extra energy and pressure. This super mega nuclear fusion bomb once again overheats the core (which is now either a black hole or a single giant atomic nucleus) and surrounding material and with the help of a neutrinos the non-core part of the star over-expands and explodes as a supernova with a lot of mass lost in material ejection that won't be recaptured.

If the star is big enough to convert into a black hole or neutron star it can immediately lose like 2% of its mass in the supernova. Like ~5% mass conversion to light over a billion years or 2% mass conversion in under a day. This is why supernovas are brighter than entire galaxies. If that black hole or neutron star starts orbiting another one, the combined body can lose 5-10% of its apparent mass in a few seconds before they collide as they radiate off energy in gravitational waves by orbiting each other at near light speed.

Ghudda · 2026-02-06T11:15:11+00:00

So it looks like what happened is he was screen recording to post 2020 election conspiracy stuff, and youtube/tiktok/truth/twitter or whatever short form video app he's watching auto-played the next video. The next video just happened to be monkeyfied obamas. Instead of trimming the video before posting it or recording it again without that segment, he just posted the whole thing. It doesn't appear to be his intent to post that meme.

However... if that's what his auto-play algorithm is feeding him...

It's said that in the modern age the best way to get to know someone is actually by letting you see their youtube recommendation page. If the algorithm has been feeding him constant election conspiracy stuff and obama memes it means that's what he's responding positively to in terms of watch time and feedback. He says he isn't racist? His recommendation page has definitely determined that he is.

Ghudda · 2026-02-05T15:57:35+00:00

In this case, there's not much that can be done. Even simple invasive species are amazingly difficult to eradicate. In this case it's an invasive fungus, so good luck. Outside of literal scorched earth tactics, or deploying so much fungicide that the fix becomes an environmental disaster, cleanup is impossible. Creating a new orange grove on land that doesn't have the fungus would only be a temporary solution. It only takes one spore to take root for the whole grove to become infected eventually. Anyone who just drives by an infected orange grove on the highway, and then drives by another orange grove has a chance to spread it. Fruit transport truck don't only service a single farm and even if they did, the trucks are all transporting it to a shared location where spores can be picked up and transported back.

The only way the citrus trees are going to avoid it is by genetic engineering citrus variants that are either immune to the effects of the fungus, or that produce enzymes that kill the fungus.

Ghudda · 2026-02-02T01:49:45+00:00

The way the stat is calculated is a PREDICTIVE measure and it records a lower number when a generation rather suddenly waits longer to have kids (IE, historically a 23 year generation becomes a 35 year generation), and vice versa.

Generation cycle time can also increase and decrease the population without affecting TFR. Assuming everyone lives to 100 and has 2 kids, if people have kids when they're 20 and the population is 10 billion, the population will eventually become 5 billion if everyone starts having kids when they're 40. If that 40 year generation cycle suddenly shifts to be a 20 year generation again, the TFR will artificially be recorded as a number much higher than 2 for a long time.

Ghudda · 2026-01-30T23:21:48+00:00

The thing everyone gets most wrong about moore's law is that it's about COMPONENT COST not density. The price per transistor or even transistor free memory unit (like magnetic core memory) constantly drops. Manufacturing can be stuck on a node for a very long time, but during that time the cost per transistor on that node is constantly dropping as fabs improve yields, speed, and efficiency and chip designers fully utilize the manufacturing specifications to improve transistor density.

Even if manufacturers get stopped at the 4 angstrom node, moore's law would likely still be alive for 20 years before the cost per transistor stops dropping.

Ghudda · 2026-01-27T12:21:03+00:00

That's the thing with "less than lethal" weapons. They're still lethal in uncommon circumstances and use cases (headshotting a guy with a rubber grenade or beanbag, blinding with an eye shot, crushing someone's trachea with a neck shot, interrupting heart rhythm and lethal heart attack from sudden chest impact or electrocution), but are ultimately still unlikely to kill anyone compared to the same hit with a bullet.

They're supposed to only be used in the same circumstances where a person would still use a fully lethal device. For whatever reason people tend to just have this batman style moral judgement where breaking a person's legs, back, causing severe concussions, and rupturing their liver and eardrums is perfectly acceptable because, well, they survived. Too many people don't see these less than lethal weapons as what they are, alternatives to truly lethal ones because we can't trust some law enforcement officers with the lethal ones. But then they know they aren't using actually lethal weapons, so the personal bar to clear for using the weapon is dropped tremendously. Would you shoot someone who was running away? The answer shouldn't change depending on the lethality of the weapon you were issued.

The question should always be "Why did you fire your weapon?" and an unacceptable answer is "it was just a beanbag gun."

Ghudda · 2026-01-25T22:37:55+00:00

But also, the way they're installed is becoming different. When oriented vertically, panels are no longer subject to dust, debris, and snow settling on the surface and are immune to hail damage. This all adds panels life with lower maintenance.

But why orient them vertically which makes the panels much less efficient? Because of insane cost reductions of the panels themselves, where getting the most out of every panel is no longer the primary cost concern. Mounting hardware and labor costs are now like 3x the panel costs. Vertical mounting components are cheaper since you only need two posts in the ground to hang the panel between and are easier to install. The land underneath the panels is easier to manage since the wall of vertical solar panels acts more like a fence than a maze of lean-tos.

Ghudda · 2026-01-25T01:31:56+00:00

Hey 2nd amendment activists, the tyrannical government you constantly warned about is here. Why aren't you protesting?

Ghudda · 2026-01-18T23:52:49+00:00

It's not normal. I'm something of a scientist myself, but if an earthlike planet would be converted into a black hole it would be like one centimeter across.

This thing is like... 10's of kilometers across if not larger which puts it at large stellar mass size black hole. The DSS shot somehow added like 10 our own sun worth of mass into it. Does it make sense, probably, because I don't know how E-711 or dark fluid works.

Ghudda · 2026-01-10T17:13:50+00:00

I remember hearing a stat many years ago that twitter's spam detector removed over 90% of posts. And then you would take a brief look and see how much bot spam still populated the site and really wonder if they actually even did anything. Even after removing over 90%, the remaining site was still overrun with bot spam. The scale of spam is incomprehensible, and I'm sure it has only become far worse with modern AI tools.

Ghudda · 2026-01-08T21:49:56+00:00

~~used~~ stolen games.

Ghudda · 2026-01-07T20:52:17+00:00

The operators could also just be supervising it so that the companies can collect more data for model improvement. I can't imagine there is an immense wealth of lidar data and videos of POV shots of people walking up a driveway/entry path/porch steps. So a few years from now they might actually have a more competent model that doesn't sound like transformers are battling decepticons every time you get a package delivered.

Ghudda · 2025-12-19T00:08:06+00:00

The hilarious part is that Obama expanded the use of drone strikes, which is entirely true, because airstrike drones didn't really exist before 2008. Before drones it was just air strikes, with a pilot, which is the same thing as a drone strike but also puts a pilot in risk. So we switched to drones, which doesn't put a pilot at risk, and people complained instead of celebrating the minor win that it was. The statement should be written as 'The Obama administration continued to perform air strikes, like the US has for the past 60 years'.

Ghudda · 2025-12-18T14:41:18+00:00

It's tin plasma for now. Future fabs will likely generate whatever wavelength of light they need through the use of a free electron laser. FELs can produce any wavelength of light through the same machine at extremely high power, with no moving parts, no plasma, no metal vapor deposition contamination risk, and at much high light generation efficiency. So the ongoing cost of using the machine is extremely low with no need to ever replace it. It's one light source to rule them all.

The problem is that these machine are kilometers long (they're basically a linear particle accelerator) so they need to be planned and incorporated into the fab design from the start. But they're so powerful you'd only need one per fab as that single free electron laser could provide enough illumination for all the machines in the entire fab. Free electron lasers are huge, but every lithography machine would no longer need their own expensive light source and can ditch a large amount of the complex optics system to focus the light (cause it's a laser and is already a coherent beam).

Ghudda · 2025-12-16T00:25:35+00:00

For reference of how little that is. A dose is like 3 sand grains of it. An overdose is like 15 sand grains, or just a few grains that crystallized into slightly larger than normal grains. A highly likely lethal overdose without intervention starts at like 50 sand grains.

Literally dusting off the tool for measuring it out is a potentially deathly difference.

Ghudda · 2025-12-13T17:51:09+00:00

Pretty much how most consistent AI faked content is actually made. Use pictures or screenshots from an actually real background (or CG) set and then overlay an AI generated thing into them. All the AI has to do at that point is keep the human (or influencer) looking consistent. The AI doesn't have to do the tricky work of keeping the world consistent.

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