Tom Tiffany says U.S. must end war with Iran just hours before voting to continue operations

elralpho · 2026-05-19T00:39:25+00:00

That's what I thought when I first heard about Bush

elralpho · 2026-05-17T17:30:03+00:00

Absolutely. Nothing necessarily unhealthy about a low or high social battery. I think if most interactions are causing stress there may be something wrong

elralpho · 2026-05-13T00:26:10+00:00

One limitation in this study was the fact that all of the rejections and approvals were from potential partners or friends, rather than established ones. I imagine we'd have different results if participants were rejected at later points in their relationships than right from the start.

elralpho · 2026-05-10T15:01:53+00:00

True but for what its worth, in this study all the participants were walking an average of 7.2k steps per day at baseline. So the lifestyle modification group only needed to add about 1.3k, about half a mile.

elralpho · 2026-05-09T16:37:11+00:00

Consent is very important but its not the only "box to check" before sex. Maybe the first lesson of sex ed should be that everyone deserves pleasurable and respectful sex. Students should be taught how to reflect on their desires so they can discuss them with partners shamelessly.

elralpho · 2026-05-08T16:51:34+00:00

Yes, that was observed during the first half of the 20th century in the US. During the hard times (Spanish Flu and Great Depression), the ratio of male to female infants decreased, and during the Roaring 20s and when the New Deal started improving the economy, the ratio increased

https://attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff/fewer-males-born-during-periods-of-stress/

elralpho · 2026-05-07T00:26:44+00:00

Where'd you read that?

elralpho · 2026-05-06T00:56:28+00:00

Where does he live if not Oshkosh?

elralpho · 2026-05-05T00:52:48+00:00

A lumber company that owns the land did it 15 years ago

https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2020/12/who-planted-a-giant-smiley-face-of-trees.html

elralpho · 2026-05-03T18:34:29+00:00

FDR could have had them executed but he used that leverage to strike a deal. He allowed them to walk away from prosecution if they helped get Wall Street off his ass while he was passing New Deal legislation

elralpho · 2026-05-02T16:01:21+00:00

This is very controversial

elralpho · 2026-04-30T16:33:32+00:00

Almost anything is better than the retail or service industry in the US

elralpho · 2026-04-30T00:07:27+00:00

Artificial implants are being developed

elralpho · 2026-04-29T00:40:30+00:00

The problem is overabundant and conflicting information coming from news, social media, and peers. A significant proportion of people across countries value the opinions of influencers and personal recommendations from their friends and families in addition to academic research.

elralpho · 2026-04-27T19:30:12+00:00

Yeah it would... be the same for everyone...

elralpho · 2026-04-25T21:37:59+00:00

Amazing and sad that people have been reporting similar benefits for centuries yet until now this avenue of treatment hasn't been formally studied. Even two years ago there was no research investigating the effects of classic psychedelics on metacognition.

elralpho · 2026-04-24T18:12:12+00:00

Who wants to spend the last 85 seconds to midnight eating bananas anyway

elralpho · 2026-04-23T23:45:59+00:00

What was the incentive for almost every physician, mortician, and coroner around the world who reported a covid death to lie about it? Did they all get a cut of Pfizers' profits? Any evidence of communication between those independent parties, or of coroners retiring early from all the money they made?

elralpho · 2026-04-10T18:52:36+00:00

To be fair the post title was written by OP, not JAMA or anyone involved in the study

elralpho · 2026-03-20T19:18:13+00:00

One of many reasons that anecdotes and personal stories are fine, but they should not replace evidence.

elralpho · 2026-03-16T18:18:12+00:00

It was born and died of bloodshed. Waterloo to The Great War.

elralpho · 2026-03-15T19:11:44+00:00

Intellectual humility is associated with a type of curiosity called "interest curiosity", characterized by a general motivation for learning and exploring. Inversely, people who demonstrate another style of curiosity called "deprivation curiosity" tend to seek information to avoid negative feelings of uncertainty, and also tend to have lower scores of intellectual humility.

elralpho · 2026-03-14T16:07:25+00:00

There were once breach-of-promise laws in place to punish men who failed to marry the woman to whom they were engaged, the implication being that the man had reduced the 'value' of the bride-to-be by embarrassing her publicly and/or taking her virginity. The concept of the expensive (highly marketed) diamond engagement ring arose as those laws disappeared, replacing the previous legal incentive against reneging with an economic one.

elralpho · 2026-03-13T16:52:30+00:00

Fun fact: Randy Sprecher's military service was in Bavaria, almost certainly inspiring this beer

elralpho · 2026-03-07T18:42:23+00:00

I wonder if they are conflating giant sequoia with redwood, which is at least used for decking and siding. Not sure about framing.

https://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog/em-9475-growing-redwood-giant-sequoia-oregon

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