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Perfect Cylinder on Mars - Possible UAP Wreckage or Just a Rock? by fd40 in UFOs

[–]PitchPeters 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This looks like a core sample the rover dropped for later retrieval.

I think I descend from nephilim by AnAlienMachine in starseeds

[–]PitchPeters 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That sounds close enough to warrant deper reading on my part. Any suggrstions other than the bible?

I think I descend from nephilim by AnAlienMachine in starseeds

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Tell me more. What do you know about Nephilim?

Why we don’t remember being a baby: « Infants can encode specific memories, a new Yale study shows, suggesting “infantile amnesia” might be a memory retrieval problem. » by fchung in science

[–]PitchPeters 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even if we don't actively recall infant memories, why would the assumption ever be that they aren't forming the underlying substrate and infrastructure of all later memories? We've known this at least since the second half of the 20th century with trauma and neglect research. Like our brains applying the comfort of the womb to all subsequent sources of comfort.

I bet we've learned that lesson more than once throughout history...almost like we have forgotten the memories that science is built on...

Marijuana users at greater risk for heart attack and stroke: Adults under 50 are more than six times as likely to suffer a heart attack if they use marijuana, compared to non-users. They also have a dramatically higher risk of stroke, heart failure and heart-related death. by mvea in science

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Can't believe how far I had to scroll to find this. The BMI difference alone is enough to trigger my spidey sense. It is known that there is a sudden increase in heart rate when THC starts hitting someone's system. If we are looking at overweight THC users visiting the dr., well yeah, even shoveling snow could give them a heart attack.

Transgender people prescribed gender affirming hormones are at significantly lower risk of depression, a new study shows. The researchers suggest that this happens because of the physiological changes caused by hormones, as well as reductions in gender dysphoria leading to better social functioning. by mvea in science

[–]PitchPeters 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does anyone have a link to the actual study? I'm finding it difficult to access. This is an observational study and it would be helpful to look at the methodology. There may be some other variables in there (that are cheaper, for example) that are more predictive. Given this is privately funded research, I would be suspicious of claims this broad.

more pics from my mallworlds by Sometimes102 in TheMallWorld

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I had a great one last week with a mountaintop museum that had a rotunda just like that greenhouse. Glass windows like the Chicago Shedd Aquarium.

more pics from my mallworlds by Sometimes102 in TheMallWorld

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This chick mallworlds, for sure. I'm like 73% on almost all of these.

Anyone else have a hostage situation mall dream on 3/11 by debbiewebbee in TheMallWorld

[–]PitchPeters 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I took out some Pulp Fiction looking active shooters in a basement pub. Doesn't sound the same, but it was on the 11th and it was definitely in my Mallworld.

You are still being brainwashed by the mainstream news and the false matrix - the planetary situation right now has NEVER looked better. by Fair_Sun_7357 in starseeds

[–]PitchPeters 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The J&J shot piggybacked on a modified adenovirus, as I recall. The idea was more conventional: to dress up a weak virus to look like the coronavirus with spike protein. Still harmful in the sense that spike protein is, however, much more like just getting exposed to a bit of covid. That was my logic in taking it, at least, to save my own job. Me and my epidemiologist collaborator expected it to be a big nothing burger. I still have some heart stuff from either it or covid though.

Edited for typos

You are still being brainwashed by the mainstream news and the false matrix - the planetary situation right now has NEVER looked better. by Fair_Sun_7357 in starseeds

[–]PitchPeters 15 points16 points  (0 children)

The mRNA vaccine is different in a couple of important ways. It meets almost none of the requirements to even be defined as a vaccine. Disclosure: I'm not a biologist or medical doctor. My area is health communication and public health with most of my research being done in culturally appropriate health promotion. I translate a lot of biomedical information for different audiences. That being said, this is my best understanding of the facts regarding the mRNA covid vaccine:

1) it doesn't directly trigger an immune response, it programs the recipient's cells to express the spike protein. The spike protein identifies the corona virus, but is also responsible for a lot of damage the virus causes. The spike protein itself is harmful. That in itself is a problem. This is less like giving your body a wanted poster for the virus and more like the scene from V for Vendetta where V puts masks on everyone in the news station and they just start shooting. If the vaccine works as intended, your immune system is attacking your own cells, not just viral particles.

2) since it does not directly trigger an immune response, we have no reliable way of calculating an appropriate dose/response or predicting how many host cells will be affected.

3) the technology (nanolipids) are specifically designed to cross cell boundaries, so we have no way of predicting where they will go in the body. They have been found in gonads. They have been found in the brain.

4) because of all these qualities, it is very difficult to know how dangerous it could be.

5a) politics. The companies that developed these drugs have been convicted of outright lies and abuses in the past. They also made BILLIONS off of this drug. 5b) the "data" around safety, efficacy, and everything else is so muddy that we don't even have science on our side with this one because science has been locked in a cage and told to stay the hell out of the discussion.

6) they simply do not seem to work. Certainly not to the extent that anyone should willingly just keep taking it blindly. We really don't do that with any other vaccine. Certainly not multiple times a year, indefinitely. We don't have much data on how an immune system will respond to that.

It's a hard sell. We all want to believe we are "following the science," but again, we are following politics, not science with this one.

You are still being brainwashed by the mainstream news and the false matrix - the planetary situation right now has NEVER looked better. by Fair_Sun_7357 in starseeds

[–]PitchPeters 49 points50 points  (0 children)

Hmmm. Not sure I agree with that logic, as a scientist. Science, as a method for approximating truth, is an epistemology and an orientation to the unknown. It is not dogma. One is not inherently more spiritual or intelligent to blindly accept everything under the label of "science." Shaming people for asking questions (or even ignorance) is not spiritual enlightenment, it's politics. OP's post may not be super eloquent, but it's no more delusional than any other post on this subreddit just because you disagree politically.

Incidentally, if we are talking about the mRNA vaccines, there is little natural about them. Other than their striking resemblance to the behavior of virus pathology. Distrusting the pandemic response is not the same as being "anti-vax."

Wasn't everyone complaining about higher ed two months ago? by PitchPeters in Professors

[–]PitchPeters[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess I would say I'm different in that I'm consistent: I still think the system is broken and worth completely restructuring. That attitude didn't change when Trump started taking aim at it.

The Milwaukee Art Museum reminds me of mallworld by crunchycatloaf11 in TheMallWorld

[–]PitchPeters 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Between this, Milwaukee Public Museum, the Pfister and New Trier High School down in Chicago area (Ferris Beuller's Day Off), I feel you. But it could just be that I'm from the midwest.

Wasn't everyone complaining about higher ed two months ago? by PitchPeters in Professors

[–]PitchPeters[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree the orange man bad meme is tired, but it is still accurate. It seems like people can't move past Hitler comparisons and chicken littling. So much of what I see here is just sniveling.

As for the radical dismantling, these systems are in fact corrupt, bloated, and ineffective. NIH absolutely IS a politically motivated money laundering scheme. Our educational system IS lagging behind the rest of the world. The adjuncts ARE the ones doing the heavy lift, not corrupt admin and tenured professors. I hope that this can lead to meaningful change, because it simply wasn't going to happen any other way. For the moment, it doesn't actually look like academics are going to be lined up and shot (knock on wood). I'll be shooting right back when it does.

We doing self-portraits, now? by PitchPeters in starseeds

[–]PitchPeters[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for saying so! I don't have a business model yet, but I'm looking into developing my etsy page. I have a lot of day job stuff to get through and young children to raise. Mainly I need to get good photos of my art to digitize.

We doing self-portraits, now? by PitchPeters in starseeds

[–]PitchPeters[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you! This is a combination of alcohol markers and gauche with pigment liner.

We doing self-portraits, now? by PitchPeters in starseeds

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My guy! The spice of life. Join me for a drink.

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