Kevin Spillane

San Diegan by way of West Berlin, Hawaii and Sacramento. Republican by way of Reagan and Kemp. Dedicated to a bigger tent. Go Padres!

[Kevin John @heykevinjohn]

The Sacramento Kings fired Mike Brown 18 months ago.

He’s now an NBA Champion.

I stand by my initial statement…he wasn’t the problem in Sacramento.

[BostonWriter @bostonwriter]

More American adoration. I love it and I’m so grateful for these people sharing their stories.

[Ken Gardner @KenGardner11]

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[Luke Coffey @LukeDCoffey]

National embarrassment

[CCP IS ASSHOE @CCPISASSH0E]

I can’t get enough of Europeans experiencing America. This couple received challenge coins at a bar in Texas! ♥️♥️♥️

[Kevin Spillane @SpillaneCa]

More ice cream actually reduces risk of diabetes! Now try to tell me there is no God!

[Dalton (Analyze & Optimize) @Outdoctrination]

Ice cream is actually one of the healthiest foods in existence, judging by a multitude of recent research articles.

There was a very highly publicized article that came out in 2018 out of Harvard.

It was for a student's dissertation, he found that ice cream was inversely associated with heart disease.

The nutrition department and the student himself tried repeatedly to "make the association go away" with different analysis, and checking his work.

But it didn't.

Not only was ice cream reported as beneficial,

it was actually one of the most beneficial dairy products analyzed.

With up to a 12% reduction in heart disease risk for having >2 servings of ice cream per week.

This wasn't the first study to find benefits of ice cream, and it also wasn't the last.

In a 2013 meta analysis of studies, they also found a protective effect of ice cream on diabetes.

You can see the bias against ice cream, as they don't even mention it in the main page.

That's despite ice cream showing one of the BEST results of any food studied for diabetes risk.

Another study from 2014 showed the same thing.

Again, this is a meta analysis, not just one study. They are pooling together all of the studies on ice cream and diabetes and still finding this.

The best result of any dairy food studied - here with a 32% reduction in diabetes risk.

The bias against ice cream is very strong in these studies.

A 2016 study once again showing the same benefit of ice cream for diabetes risk.

They say that the study above (Chen et al) showed "attenuated association" once diet collection information was stopped after hypertension or high cholesterol diagnosis.

They argue that this means that the association is invalid.

But not only did they not try to dismiss any other food studied like this, but this is just objectively not true (see above - there still was an association).

They also buried their results on ice cream in the supplementary tables so it didn't even make the paper.

That's probably because they didn't like the fact that once again, ice cream intake was inversely and strongly associated with diabetes risk.

So you really can't argue that there was some kind of agenda in favor of ice cream here.

More recent studies show the same thing.

A 2019 paper again showed a lower risk of diabetes with increased ice cream consumption.

And again, they put this information at the very end in the supplementary tables to try to hide it.

Finally, the most recent study in 2024 showed the STRONGEST association for ice cream's protective effect on diabetes.

There was a linear dose response.

That means more ice cream = less diabetes, straight up.

In fact, there was a 50% reduction in risk for having one serving per day.

Which, as you could guess by this point, was the greatest risk reduction of any dairy food studied.

Why would ice cream actually be good for you?

My main guess is the unique protective fats in dairy, that are abundant in ice cream.

◇ C15
◇ C17
◇ CLA
◇ TVA
◇ TPA

are fats almost exclusively in dairy fat, and all have unique effects.

◇ Mitochondrial enhancing
◇ Anti-inflammatory
◇ Anti-thrombotic
◇ Lipid lowering
◇ Fat burning
◇ Cancer preventing

I've covered these all at length in other content.

Of course, this is all observational.

This is simply seeing what people eat and then seeing what happens to them. It's not an experiment. That is definitely a limitation.

However, when you see the same association, consistently, across decades, regardless of analysis and confounding adjustment, you probably have something real.

This is not to say everyone should go and immediately pound gallons of ice cream for invincibility.

But... it does mean having reasonable amounts of ice cream is likely good for you.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Sepsis kills more people in American hospitals than heart attacks. 350,000 deaths a year, and the reason is brutally simple: the early warning signs are almost invisible.

A slightly elevated heart rate. A small temperature shift. A lab value drifting in the wrong direction. Each one looks like noise on a busy ward. By the time the pattern is obvious to a human, the patient is hours into a cascade toward organ failure, and every hour of delayed antibiotics raises mortality.

Tampa General built a system on Palantir's Foundry that watches roughly 1,000 inpatients continuously. Vitals, labs, medication records, clinician notes, all scanned in real time for the pattern no single nurse can see across 12 beds at 3am. When risk crosses a threshold, a rapid response team gets paged. Humans still make every treatment decision. The software just compresses detection from hours to minutes.

The results since 2022: overall sepsis mortality cut in half, 48-hour deaths down 68%, length of stay down 30%, roughly 900 lives saved. At one hospital.

Now run the national math. There are about 6,100 hospitals in the US. If even the 500 largest matched these numbers, you'd be looking at tens of thousands of lives a year from a single use case. The treatment for sepsis hasn't changed. Antibiotics and fluids, same as decades ago. The entire gain comes from starting them earlier.

The hardest problem in medicine was never the cure. It was noticing in time.

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

A light show honoring Antoni Gaudí has just lit up Sagrada Família.

It felt like the tallest church in the world, for a moment, let its impossible beauty be seen by its creator.

[Jim Geraghty @jimgeraghty]

See, you just don't get creative ideas like this with a "Vice President Doug Burgum."

[Liam Donovan @LPDonovan]

Incredible. And just the beginning.

[Will Saletan @saletan]

.@RepDonBacon says @SpeakerJohnson pressed Republicans to vote against aid to Ukraine.

"He lobbied pretty hard... The Speaker whipped against us, so that's why he drove that number down...He says he's pro-Ukraine, but the actions speak louder than words." https://t.co/Gkuulx5iUV

[Gilad 🇮🇱 @gilad73]

Love this picture. Synagogues in the US stayed open 24 hours to pray for the troops on D Day.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

After 8 billion doses (yes 8 BILLION, not a typo) Covid vaccines are at this point one of the most tested medical interventions in history and one of the safest ever

[alex kershaw @kershaw_alex]

The free world erupts in joy at the news that the Allies have landed in Normandy. In Amsterdam, Anne Frank notes in her diary that the best thing about the invasion is the feeling that "friends are on their way." Millions of Europeans dare to hope for freedom, at long last.

[Jane @JaneFranklin99]

Normandy veterans Henry Rice and Ken Hay - both 100 - on Sword Beach once more. @ForcesNews #D-Day

[Sophie Pedder @PedderSophie]

D-Day commemoration, Omaha Beach, June 6 2024

Zelensky arrived, the crowd applauded. And then this happened:

🇺🇸 veteran: You’re a saviour of the people

Zelensky: No, no, you saved Europe

🇺🇸 veteran: My hero

Zelensky: No, you are our hero

🇺🇸🇫🇷🇺🇦

[Hugh Hewitt @hughhewitt]

If you haven’t yet seen “Pressure” —the new film about Ike’s decision to “go-no go” on June 1 though 6– it’s excellent way to understand the stakes and the challenges of the greatest seaborne invasion in history. In theaters now.

[Taiwan Freedom - 台灣自由 @TaiwanFreedom89]

Never forget Tiananmen Square.
#8964

[80's & 90's Throwbacks @80s90sJukebox]

Ferris Bueller took his "Day Off" 41 years ago today. June 5th 1985. Happy Ferris Bueller Day #80s

[Luai Ahmed @JustLuai]

In honor of Pride month, here’s a list of countries in the Middle East that recognize same sex marriage:

1. Israel