philosaurs

Recovering over-analyzer. Tinkerer. Accomplished nerd.

[Miles Cranmer @MilesCranmer]

This is an insane paper and I love it

https://t.co/DP8OR5NJf2

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@xresearchbot @elonmusk voter id

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I'm not a huge MMA fan. I watched this to support "women's sports" with my daughter, who is very athletic. We watched 3 hours of BRUTAL men fighting, all of whom were super gracious and kind towards each other. Then we got this 15 seconds. The climax. This is why nobody watches women's sports. If you want to know why they're paid less, it's this right here.

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I'm not a huge MMA fan. I watched this to support "women's sports" with my daughter, who is very athletic. We watched 3 hours of BRUTAL men fighting, all of whom were super gracious and kind towards each other. Then we got this 15 seconds. The climax. This is why nobody watches women's sports. If you want to know why they're paid less, it's this right here.

[philosaurs @philosaurs]

I'm not a huge MMA fan. I watched this to support "women's sports" with my daughter, who is very athletic. We watched 3 hours of BRUTAL men fighting, all of whom were super gracious and kind towards each other. Then we got this 15 seconds. The climax. This is why nobody watches women's sports. If you want to know why they're paid less, it's this right here.

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I'm not a huge MMA fan. I watched this to support "women's sports" with my daughter, who is very athletic. We watched 3 hours of BRUTAL men fighting, all of whom were super gracious and kind towards each other. Then we got this 15 seconds. The climax. This is why nobody watches women's sports. If you want to know why they're paid less, it's this right here.

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I'm not a huge MMA fan. I watched this to support "women's sports" with my daughter, who is very athletic. We watched 3 hours of BRUTAL men fighting, all of whom were super gracious and kind towards each other. Then we got this 15 seconds. The climax. This is why nobody watches women's sports. If you want to know why they're paid less, it's this right here.

[philosaurs @philosaurs]

I'm not a huge MMA fan. I watched to support "women's sports" with my daughter, who is very athletic. We watched 3 hours of BRUTAL men fighting, all of whom were super gracious and kind towards each other. Then we got this 15 seconds. The climax. This is why nobody watches women's sports. If you want to know why they're paid less, it's this right here.

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I'm not a huge MMA fan. I watched this to support "women's sports" with my daughter, who is very athletic. We watched 3 hours of BRUTAL men fighting, all of whom were super gracious and kind towards each other. Then we got this 15 seconds. The climax.

This is why nobody watches women's sports. If you want to know why they're paid less, it's this right here.

[philosaurs @philosaurs]

You may be right in this instance. If so, it’s an overreaction on my part to the content of the post, but not to the post overall.

I’ll elaborate. This account, like many I’ve followed over the years, has devolved into just reposting or (at best) quoting some bit that sounds vaguely interesting. By itself, the content of this post is not terribly interesting. We’ve discovered similar proteins in the past and have a reasonable model for how they can form absent life as we know it (yada yada). Is there real insight here? This reposter offers nothing there.

What the hell is this account doing? It is clearly karma farming, with no insight or real content, and that pisses me off. They’re posting towards an algorithm for impressions and little more.

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@elonmusk @tetsuoai Meanwhile… I’m still sitting here using Claude and OpenClaw with grok. Any idea when the rest of us will be enabled?

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@BowTiedYukon In the rolling hills of Appalachia, I would have been all over that in the 80s. I also probably woulda died, but damn it would have been fun.

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@NickJFuentes It’s absolutely exhausting

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@nayibbukele Can we please clone you or make you president of more countries?

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Everyone I know who has felt the need to squeal “I’m too good/important for you” has turned out to be a massive fraud or, at the very least, wildly overstating themselves.

I started watching @OMGTheWhyFiles years ago with my son, largely because at the end of most episodes, he actually debunks or casts doubt on most of the topics he covers. It’s great to teach simple critical thinking and to not always believe the hype. And the episodes are fun. Hecklefish is hilarious.

Why on earth would you dunk this guy and his show like this?

[philosaurs @philosaurs]

This nicely illustrates why we should all own our healthcare ourselves. Can’t trust doctors, not because they themselves aren’t trustworthy, but because they operate in an overworked and malfunctioning system.

My own health only improved once I took ownership of it.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The year is 1950. Your doctor lights a cigarette and tells you smoking is fine. He read it in a study. He is telling the truth about having read it. He does not know, or is not saying, that the study was funded by the tobacco industry.

The year is 1958. Your doctor tells you to eat less fat. The evidence is contested. The contestation is not in the public messaging. The food industry has been helpful in clarifying which findings deserve attention. Some researchers who published contradictory data have been quietly defunded. Ancel Keys is on the cover of Time magazine.

The year is 1962. Your doctor prescribes thalidomide to your pregnant wife for morning sickness. It has been approved. The FDA gave it the green light in Europe. Twelve thousand children will be born with severe limb malformations before anyone in an official capacity acknowledges the problem. The families are told the drug was safe. The drug was approved. Both of these things remain true.

The year is 1972. Your doctor prescribes Valium. Britain is in the grip of a benzodiazepine wave that will last two decades. The dependency risk is known internally. It is not shared. Your doctor is not lying to you. He was not told either.

The year is 1999. Your doctor prescribes Vioxx for your arthritis. It is newer than ibuprofen, well-tolerated, and Merck has a study showing it works. Merck also has internal data suggesting it roughly doubles the risk of heart attack. This data will not reach your doctor for four more years. Fifty thousand people are estimated to have died in the interim. Merck eventually settles for 4.85 billion dollars. No criminal charges are brought.

The year is 2002. Your doctor prescribes OxyContin. Purdue Pharma trained its sales representatives to tell doctors the addiction risk was less than one percent. That figure came from a letter, not a study. The letter was about patients with terminal cancer on short-term doses in hospital settings. Your doctor is a GP with a patient who has a bad back. Nobody draws a distinction. Nobody is required to.

The year is 2008. Your doctor checks your cholesterol. Your LDL is elevated. You are prescribed a statin. Nobody mentions that the number needed to treat for primary prevention is approximately 250. Nobody mentions that the muscle deterioration you'll notice over the next two years is listed as a rare side effect rather than a documented pattern affecting a meaningful percentage of patients. The trial that informed the prescription was funded by the manufacturer.

Now it is today.

Your doctor has new guidelines. New studies. New consensus.

He is confident.

He has always been confident.

The confidence has never been the problem.

The confidence is, in fact, precisely the problem.

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@Logically_JC Voters fall for this often, to raise the taxes in hopes of fixing things. Who doesn’t want to save the children?

But that money never makes it to the children. These laws, like your post, all entirely about self enrichment through deception.

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@visegrad24 Literally after it’s all over 🤦‍♂️

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@TheDemocrats This post is a great example of why I left your party,
We do.

You are retarded for suggesting otherwise.
And not a serious party for addressing any real issues.