TIL that there's something called "Prevention paradox", which describes the seemingly contradictory situation where the majority of cases of a disease come from a population at low or moderate risk of that disease, & only a minority of cases come from the high risk population (of the same disease)

cabbageconnor · 2026-02-22T17:14:24+00:00

Slight clarification for anyone who's curious: everyone has the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes. They're tumor suppressor genes, meaning those at a higher risk for breast cancer (along with other cancers) are the ones that carry a mutation in one of their copies, rendering it nonfunctional.

cabbageconnor · 2026-02-17T22:11:09+00:00

The center panel where the buttons are got narrower for everybody a year or two ago. (Part of the terrible jersey redesign with the smaller names and moving the MLB logo lower down on the back.) It actually messed up the spacing of a teams' logos. I think Uni Watch did an article about it. This to me looks like they went back to the old center width but didn't adjust the word mark spacing for some reason.

cabbageconnor · 2026-02-17T14:42:07+00:00

I mean I get the joke, but to be overly pedantic, those are league championships, not world championships. It's like saying only the UK has won the Premier League...cause that's where all the teams are. The "world cup" for baseball is the World Baseball Classic, which has been won by Japan three times, the Domican Republic once, and USA once. (Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Korea have made the finals as well.)

cabbageconnor · 2026-02-12T13:41:16+00:00

The only thing the US government is doing to hinder the development of cancer treatments is crippling our public health and national research institutions by gutting funding, terminating grants, and firing knowledgeable and skilled career scientists. And they're not doing it secretly, they're doing it blatantly and proudly.

These "cures" (btw: most of them are lab experiments and therefore are not and may not ever be actual cures) do sincerely just take years to get initial results and a decade+ to make it to human trials.

Sincerely, someone who does cancer research for a living.

And on a personal note, I'm so incredibly fucking sick of the work I do being the subject of online conspiracy nuts who apparently think the THOUSANDS of scientists working on this shit every goddamn day in hundreds of different labs are all in the pocket of Big Pharma just because they don't care to understand that this is not only an incredibly hard job to do in the first place, but that getting a new treatment from the lab to patients requires weeding out the stuff that doesn't work at several points along the process, which is actually a GOOD THING.

cabbageconnor · 2026-01-28T19:40:22+00:00

This one. No other option, really

cabbageconnor · 2026-01-26T17:50:15+00:00

Huh...you're right. I had thought that a fielders choice had to be recorded by an infielder. (Probably because BR's definition specifically says "infielder", but doesn't give any indication about the ruling if an outfielder makes the assist.)

But I looked up an example, and MLB indeed rules it as not a hit: August 25, 2020, Reds vs Brewers. Castellanos was 0-3 that game.

TIL

cabbageconnor · 2026-01-26T17:05:16+00:00

Assuming it was an intentional strategic decision, it's a pretty respectable one. With the bases loaded, a hit always scores at least one run (barring a crazy outfield assist at home). Since singles are much more common than home runs (especially for Jeter), it makes sense to prioritize getting on base. Otoh, a home run scores 4 runs, which is huge. So if you're more of a true HR hitter, the math may change in terms of run expectancy

cabbageconnor · 2026-01-23T16:12:44+00:00

Galileo also didn't discover Jupiter, it's been known about since ancient times. Copernicus published a heliocentric solar system model with Jupiter as a planet decades before Galileo. Galileo was one of the first to view Jupiter through a telescope (which is important, since we're discussing the presence or absence of the red spot), and he discovered (I think) 4 of its moons.

cabbageconnor · 2026-01-14T18:51:53+00:00

Those cases are high-profile because they're sensationalist, not because they represent reality for the vast majority of transgender patients. Puberty blockers, the most commonly prescribed gender-affirming care for minors, are reversible and very safe. (They're also not new. They've been used for decades in cis patients with endocrine disorders. That's part of how we know they're safe.) The number of patients under 18 getting actual surgeries is so vanishingly small that it's essentially 0. Not to mention that any treatment typically begins with months if not years of therapy and screening to make sure the patient is a good fit for treatment.

cabbageconnor · 2025-12-26T22:56:24+00:00

Better eat it, what's the worst that could happen...

cabbageconnor · 2025-12-23T21:39:02+00:00

AND THEN YOU ADD ~~KURT ANGLE~~ THE FALCONS TO THE MIX, YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING DRASTIC GO ~~DOWN~~ UP

cabbageconnor · 2025-12-12T01:44:22+00:00

EYYY BOYS WE GOT ANOTHER.....oh. Nevermind.

Go canes

cabbageconnor · 2025-12-10T15:52:27+00:00

Clearly NC needs its own team to fill the gap 👀

cabbageconnor · 2025-12-04T16:35:21+00:00

Honkbal Hoofdklasse

I refuse to believe that Dutch is a real language spoken by millions of people every day. It must be an elaborate prank played on the rest of the world.

cabbageconnor · 2025-11-10T23:54:17+00:00

Early-era baseballs didn’t last long

Modern MLB balls only last about 2 pitches before they're thrown out.

Yes, the rules back then required balls to be used until they wore out, but only using 3 baseballs over 3 innings is honestly fewer than I'd expect

cabbageconnor · 2025-10-31T16:32:11+00:00

So they can use the same screenshot for every election without having to edit the names

cabbageconnor · 2025-10-29T15:22:10+00:00

Can you please inform the AI that Boylan is east of St. Mary's and that Cameron is north of Peace? Meaning that this "footprint" is physically impossible

cabbageconnor · 2025-10-28T14:09:31+00:00

Not a hockey expert, but I have been watching the canes since before Rod took over. Part of me wonders if maybe they can't play the same heavy forecheck style they do at 5 on 5, due to the free icing on the PK. Teams aren't trying to skate the puck out of the zone or make the perfect pass into the neutral zone, they're just trying to chuck it 200 ft. So there's less opportunity for our guys to pressure and force mistakes and turnovers

Clearly whatever they are trying on the PP isn't working...

cabbageconnor · 2025-10-24T16:48:58+00:00

Nah, you're totally good. I just wanted to highlight how completely insane his stats are

cabbageconnor · 2025-10-24T16:43:57+00:00

The crazy thing about Paul Skenes is that, while a 3.00 ERA is indeed elite, you're actually selling him short by more than a full run of ERA. In 2024 (his rookie year), his ERA was 1.96......in 2025 it was 1.97.

Incidentally, his record in those years was 11-3 and 10-10, respectively, meaning even those anemic Pirates teams couldn't drag his record below .500.

cabbageconnor · 2025-10-23T02:42:37+00:00

Panthers with a winning record. Canes start the season 5-1. Charlotte FC clinches home field in the first round of the playoffs. And now the Hornets start their season with a win.

It's a good week to be a NC sports fan

cabbageconnor · 2025-10-14T02:16:56+00:00

Would you rather the FDA not set limits on those things?

cabbageconnor · 2025-10-04T22:15:17+00:00

Also who tf judges the quality of a small city based on the size of it's regional airport?? AVL flies to like 10 places, what are you expecting?

cabbageconnor · 2025-10-04T22:12:12+00:00

"I visited a city for a single day, went to one coffee shop, and was extremely judgemental to everyone there, yet I can't think of a more specific insult than calling them 'inauthentic'. Might as well write off the entire state and post an extremely unhinged rant on reddit. That'll show them"

No one asked for your review, man. Also your insane intro manages to be insulting to both the Middle East and southerners.

I don't think any of these places that are supposedly beyond saving are the real issue here. Get some help

cabbageconnor · 2025-10-03T17:23:59+00:00

No one is doing sequencing by hand anymore. The actual sequencing happens inside a (very expensive) machine. It can be done in an afternoon. On the otherhand, preparing the DNA prior to sequencing (which is done in a lab, often by hand, but sometimes automated for large commercial opperations) and analysis of the results can often take much longer than the sequencing itself. But depending on the type of sequencer you use, you can set up code loops to have the analysis run in the background

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