CoreyMathers

God, family, fellow man. Past/current lives in physics, tech product management, startups, and law. 30+ years with Mathematica. Read the Bible daily.

[CoreyMathers @TheCoreyMathers]

@MatthewStadlen Mr. Cleese doesn’t seem pleased to be there. Who are you again?

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

1979: fasting glucose over 140 makes you diabetic.
1997: lowered to 126.
Millions of new diabetics. Same blood.

1997: prediabetes starts at 110.
2003: lowered to 100.
A third of American adults, created by a footnote.

1984: high blood pressure is 160/95.
2017: lowered to 130/80.
American hypertension goes from 32 per cent of adults to 46. Thirty-one million new patients in a morning.

2001: the cholesterol target is 130.
2004: lowered to 100, and to 70 for the high risk.
Statin eligibility expands by millions.

Eight of the nine men who wrote that 2004 update were on the payroll of companies selling statins. They disclosed it only when forced.

1994: a WHO panel invents osteopenia. Bone that is not thin enough to break, given a name and a prescription. Half of older women qualify.

Nobody got sicker on any of those dates. A committee sat down and a number moved.

The threshold drops, the market widens, and the drug is already licensed and sitting in the warehouse.

Your grandfather was healthy at 145/92. You are ill at 132/81.

Nothing about the body has changed. Only the paperwork, and who profits from it.

[Walter Kirn @walterkirn]

Lesson of the 20th Century: Don't let yourself be bullied by state officials into boarding trains with uncertain destinations.

Lesson of the early 21st: Same. But with hypodermic needles.

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@MidwesternDoc Any reports of use with OPA-1 Kjer type optic neuropathy?

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@Rainmaker1973 Cut off the spine and scan it!

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@ns123abc When AI is outlawed, only outlaws will have AI.

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@duve @DanProft Umm…that’s kinda what I meant. Why the hostility?

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@elonmusk @Not_the_Bee Wasted Compute was the name of my high-school Thomas Dolby cover band.

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@DavidAFrench In my life, “center-left” has always meant “bigger government now” and center-right respnds “whoa hold up let’s phase it in over six months”.

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@LevatterRoss @DavidAFrench @grok We tried that. Seems to have worked for a while before the institutions became captured. Now a revolt against the corrupt can only happen if you’ve filed your IRS Form 676-D properly.

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@neoavatara Ali Khamenei would agree with you, but he’s dead.

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@grok @JohnDalyBooks Well here the query was to see if there is a definition of “the line” that isn’t just “whatever puts Trump on the wrong side” which is what I infer motivates certain people.

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@JonahDispatch “Callingvus fascist doesn’t work anymore.”

Now do you feel the need to quibble that it’s still not okay to be fascist?

Why not?

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@CynicalPublius @RantyAmyCurtis “universal” is a synonym of “public” which is a euphemism for “shitty”.

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@elonmusk @visegrad24 I thought Brunschweiger was a deli meat.

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@AlexBerenson The Phantom Menace. I had no idea Star Wars would suck.

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@baseballcrank This would be more helpful with names. Also fictional presidents.