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FourPacketsOfPeanuts

@ FourPacketsOfPeanuts @lemmy.world

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  • Postcard

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  • fear the czar

    You know the Soviets killed the last Czar in 1918..

  • Argentina says it will pull out of World Health Organization, mirroring Trump’s move last month

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  • Has Perry Bible Fellowship vibes. What's this from?

  • Got myself some energy monitoring Zigbee plugs and made an interesting discovery

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  • Have you considered putting your gaming pc in one of the storage freezers? /s

  • Why aren't all of you as vocal about Trump as you were Biden and Harris?

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  • Rather alarming number of people I've encountered in the UK have a view something like "it's horrible, but they brought it on themselves". These don't seem to be straightforward horrible people. As they would also say the Holocaust and Armenia and Rwanda (etc) were evil.

  • Arab countries flatly reject Trump's Gaza takeover proposal

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  • If that were true then why agree a ceasefire at all? If hostages were disposable then it would serve his purposes better to sabotage negotiations, blame Hamas, and continue destroying Rafah.

    As it stands there appears to be at least some elements in Israel that count retrieving the hostages to be more important.

  • Why I am not impressed by A.I.

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  • It's predictive text on speed. The LLMs currently in vogue hardly qualify as A.I. tbh..

  • Trump's Gaza plan will be seen as flying in face of international law

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  • Not so impossible. Jordan already said it would consider dumping Palestinians over its border to be an act of war - a war it says it would lose but would fight anyway.

  • Arab countries flatly reject Trump's Gaza takeover proposal

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  • Surprised this got announced while there are still hostages to release tbh..

  • What are some examples of 'common sense' which are nonsense?

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  • Make sure it's a blind test ;)

  • What are some examples of 'common sense' which are nonsense?

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  • The visual difference of the minimoon and supermoon is not that great, see here but hold your phone at arms length. This is the maximum difference (taken 6 months apart) that the moon ever is relative to itself. In practice, from one night to the next or one month to the next the difference is barely noticeable.

    When people say "the moon was huge tonight" what they are generally seeing is the moon illusion

    The reference to seasons is badly worded, but what I was referring to is that the earths seasons have nothing to do with how close to the sun it is

  • What are some examples of 'common sense' which are nonsense?

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  • no, it's not. it's a meta analysis of multiple double blind studies. multiple

    “For the children described as sugar-sensitive, there were no significant differences among the three diets in any of 39 behavioral and cognitive variables. For the preschool children, only 4 of the 31 measures differed significantly among the three diets, and there was no consistent pattern in the differences that were observed.”

    if you did the same with cyanide you would be able to conclude that "taking cyanide and being dead is positively correlated" even if there were other causes of death. in this wide summary of multiple double blind experiements, there is no correlation between sugar intake and child behaviour. that's not to say kids don't act up and get hyper, but it's other causes, most signficantly parents just underestimate how hard kids find it to regulate themselves when having treats of any sort (non-sugar included) or being in a party atmosphere with friends.

  • What are some examples of 'common sense' which are nonsense?

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  • I listed it because it's one of the things I would sworn by too having seen it first hand. However when you conduct a double blind experiment, kids still get excited at parties / treats / days out / when their friends are over when there's no sugar in the treats.

    https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/medical-myths-does-sugar-make-children-hyperactive

    In otherwords as parents we massively underestimate how excited or crazy kids can get just because they're excited and not because of something in their bloodstream..

  • What are some examples of 'common sense' which are nonsense?

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  • No. At least, it's not the general cause of 'middle age spread'.

    The base metabolic rate refers to how your individual cells respire when at rest. And a brain cell in 20 year old respires much the same way as a brain cell in a 45 year old. Same for all other organs. There is a gradual decline but it's on the order a single percents.

    Organs and tissue at rest respire at different rates, so some of the change people notice is due to change in body composition. Muscle at rest burns twice the calories as fat however this is still only a minor contribution.

    Base metabolic rate doesn't vary much at all. The vast difference in daily calories consumed as one ages is general activity level.

    Overall metabolic rate = base rate (varies a little on body composition) + calories burned in general activity (varies a lot)

    People typically are less active between 20 and 40. This is not just sport but also lifestyle. People become more efficient in their habits as they age. They drive instead of biking or walking. They sit in the sun on holiday with nice food and wine rather than dancing all night. Etc

    Lifestyle choice is the primary cause of excess calorie intake and 'middle age spread'. Not "my metabolism that I can't do anything about".

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    A Coup Is In Progress In America

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  • My history might be dusty but I don't think Hitler ever said he intended to become a dictator before people voted for him. His subsequent deception once in power is what you might refer to as the coup.

    Trump on the other hand..

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    A Coup Is In Progress In America

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  • It is a coup if people vote for it?

  • What are some examples of 'common sense' which are nonsense?

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    • that putting the thermostat up higher will heat the house up quicker (edit: I have in mind a bog standard UK home thermostat)
    • that sugary sweets make kids act "hyper"
    • that the moon's apparent size is due to how close it is to earth (same for seasons and the sun)
    • that your base metabolic rate slows as you age and is primarily responsible for you putting weight on in middle age

  • It's so insane it doesn't feel real

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  • The fear of having your press pass removed is real. We saw this last time.

    FWIW: the BBC are reporting it and they are usually reserved about reporting foreign news until there's confirmation

  • What is a figure of speech you like in your language?

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  • We’re not here to fuck spiders

    Borrowing this one

  • Why do some people in the USA assume all immigrants are illegal and should "go back to where they came from"? Shouldn't that logic apply to all non-Native Americans?

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  • Assuming that all non-white people are illegal immigrants is called "racism". (Stupid too, but mostly racism)