Now see, strokes are a different matter. Studies from China (where naturally-occurring fluoride levels in some places can range from 1.2 to 4.5 mg/L, far exceeding the U.S. recommended level of 0.7 mg/L) have indeed found a correlation between very high fluoride exposure and stroke risk.
To fight forces like big oil, we need to be able to focus our efforts appropriately. Indiscriminately attributing everything to big oil serves their purposes as much as complacency does.
Those kinds of issues would come into play if they were trying to establish a correlation between two things—it’s notoriously hard to eliminate confounding variables, spurious coincidences, etc.
But it’s far more straightforward to establish a lack of correlation, which is what this study does.
I wouldn’t say it’s not bad because of a study and “experts.”
While there are always biased studies, the data in this case comes from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, a broad health and social sciences study conducted by the University of Wisconsin that’s been ongoing since 1957. You can access the data yourself here.
Everyone is dumb as shit now
That wouldn’t implicate fluoride, because not everyone was exposed to it. And the study indicates that fluoride exposure (on a community level, which would take into account soil and food) doesn’t make a difference.
Striking but physically inconsistent, since the grass appears to be lit by a second sun out of frame to the right.
Just need to replace the eagles with vultures.
Civil unrest is the one situation where corporations hope everyone forgets they exist.
Great article, but just a note: the post summary refers to “a new study”, but both the study and the article are from 2019.
The common element is that everyone adapts to society at large.
The 1920s—see The Adventures of Prince Achmed from 100 years ago.
There are churches where people have had round-the-clock vigils for over a century.
All cardinalities equal to or greater than that of the natural numbers.
Humans are to cats as cars are to humans: similar difference in weight and size, similar (if not greater) danger—but we walk around them because we’re used to them and we think we can predict them well enough. And because we’re often going to the same places.
This seems like the most likely explanation.
The “memory palace” (AKA method of loci) inspiration is a plausible source for someone with a non-technical background, and there’s evidence that it’s closer to how the brain actually indexes memories natively.
(Although my understanding is that it bootstraps the hippocampus’s hard-wired ability to remember the layout of physical locations—I don’t know that an LLM would have a similar ability out of the box.)
A post intended to detract from the general context it’s part of.
Plus the privacy issue.
If those were ever commercially sold, the first accessory would be an opaque back to put behind it.
Are you talking about the transparent hand terminals? I think that effect was just to make it convenient to show the screen and the face of the person looking at it in the same frame—I don’t think there’s much demand for that in real life.
The second law of thermodynamics.
This is the fear that induced me to get a gravity hook.