Telorand

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Telorand , to Texas in Texas Oil Billionaires Start a Spinoff PAC

Yeah, but I’m going to turn out to vote anyway and encourage everyone to do the same. They might still win, but it won’t be because I gave up.

Telorand , to Texas in Texas Oil Billionaires Start a Spinoff PAC

A good point. But I don’t think he won based on popularity. He won, because he’s got an R.

Just seems like a weird guy to make the focus of your PAC

Telorand , to Texas in Texas Oil Billionaires Start a Spinoff PAC

Sure, but my point is: how is this going to turn into votes? These would be state races, and Ken Paxton is unpopular. Seems like a loser issue to hang your hat upon.

Telorand , to Texas in Texas Oil Billionaires Start a Spinoff PAC

Does he think Ken Paxton is popular or something? Because we all know he’s a criminal.

Telorand , to Texas in [KXAN] Sen. Ted Cruz in statistical tie with 2 Texas Democrats

Not in Texas, it wasn’t. Here, it was abysmal—46%, down seven points from 2018, and that’s with fucking Abbott on the ticket.

The total number of voters was higher, but the percentage of voters was worse.

Telorand , to Ask Science in Can placebo effect really help you heal faster and cure physical illness ? If so won't someone who works out too little but believes in himself too much get jacked beyond comprehension ?

Additionally, working out causes muscle micro tears (from what I understand), which is part of the mechanism for building muscle. Like you said, no amount of imagination will produce the physical effects of exercise.

Telorand , to Ask Science in Is the "Tromatz" bioelectric wave toothbrush legit, or snake oil?

I’m not an expert, but I clicked on the link to the studies and got this jargle:

At PAIST (ProxiHealthcare Advanced Institute for Science and Technology), our in-house research laboratory, we continuously expand our research on…

Emphasis mine. This is a huge red flag. Additionally, they don’t have basic links to the studies in reputable journals. You have to email them to get the studies, which makes me suspicious that it has any kind of objective peer review.

I did find this 2016 paper, however. No idea if Science Direct is reputable. The notable section is this:

For the biofilm treatment, an electric signal with increased total electrical energy, 0.25 V amplitude sinusoidal signal at 10 MHz with a 0.25 V DC offset, was applied in combination with low doses of the antibiotic gentamicin (10 μg/mL) for the BE.

They’re essentially trying to do the same thing here, with Fluoride being their analogous antibiotic. The electricity at that frequency is supposed to break up a protective “biofilm” the bacteria produces, ostensibly allowing the fluoride to do its work.

However, I fail to see how it’s significantly better than just brushing your teeth, which is what the brushing is supposed to do. Furthermore, what happens to plaque? Or the dead bacteria? Does it just stay on your teeth?

The inventor is a PhD Electrical Engineer, so this just seems like an over-engineered toothbrush to me.

Telorand , to Texas in [Chron] Texas Republicans' abortion laws impacting 2024 elections

I can’t remember where the poll is, but I saw a breakdown of that vote by recent moves to Texas vs. established Texans (5+ years), and 57% of the recent moves voted for Abbott, and 52% of established Texans voted for Beto. Coupled with the Republican voters in Texas, it was more than enough to swing that election (plus, turnout was abysmal at, like, 24% overall, iirc).

Now, a sizeable number of those recent moves came from rural California. Texas was their Conservative dystopia they wanted to live in; but notice I said “was.” Florida has become the new dystopia for Conservatives, so I think Texas Republicans’ days are numbered if they keep on this anti-bodily-autonony kick.

Telorand , to Texas in Texas group pulls 23 books about slavery from plantation

It’s like these people get to the “ashamed of your past” stage and don’t move on to “learn from it” like most people.

Sorry you feel bad about your ancestors being slavers, lady. Maybe try cleaning up your family’s name by making a good legacy, instead of being the same kind of revisionist asshole trying to justify slavery by any means necessary.

Telorand , to Ask Science in Why are we so concerned with oxygen production yet we never hear about nitrogen production, though we actually need 78% nitrogen vs 21% oxygen to survive?

I’m not a biologist, doctor, or chemist, but my guess is “no.” We have evolved to use oxygen to create energy within our cells, not some other gas.

I would hazard an additional guess that it’s not a simple matter to just swap out the oxygen molecules for something else. Carbon monoxide binds better and more readily to our cells, yet that mixture would asphyxiate you.

www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/…/breathing-benefits

The cells need this oxygen to make the energy your body needs to work. When cells make that energy, they create the waste product carbon dioxide.

Telorand , to Ask Science in Why are we so concerned with oxygen production yet we never hear about nitrogen production, though we actually need 78% nitrogen vs 21% oxygen to survive?

See my reply to someone below.

Telorand , to Ask Science in Why are we so concerned with oxygen production yet we never hear about nitrogen production, though we actually need 78% nitrogen vs 21% oxygen to survive?

Here’s an interesting post about the different formulations and pressures required to have breathable oxygen mixtures.

…stackexchange.com/…/could-we-breathe-an-atmosphe…

Based on OP’s question, we don’t care about nitrogen, because it’s not strictly necessary for our survival.

Telorand OP , to Ask Science in [Mycology] Are yeasts analogous to each other, to the point they can be used in food interchangeably?

I wonder, if someone were to explain the actual science behind it, if people would still want to buy it? Because this is not sounding any better.

Telorand OP , to Ask Science in [Mycology] Are yeasts analogous to each other, to the point they can be used in food interchangeably?

They talk around it and try to couch it in scientific jargon, it sounds like they’re using it to produce lactic acid only, so no alcohol, which is then sterilised and filtered to death before being used as an additive.

Seems like a lot of work to make sour beer, but I have no doubt these will sell out in no time regardless, due to the provenance.

And this all assumes that they aren’t just lieing about it.

And I had to ask, because it sounds a lot like a recipe for snake oil.

Telorand OP , to Ask Science in [Mycology] Are yeasts analogous to each other, to the point they can be used in food interchangeably?

One of the most important aspects of these brewers yeasts versus regular bakers yeasts or wild yeasts (like a sourdough starter) is that they can thrive in higher alcohol environments, allowing them to convert more sugar into alcohol…

And it was this aspect that I learned about just a few days prior that led me to question the whole thing. For the purposes of making what average people would consider beer, it seemed like you couldn’t just swap in whatever you wanted.

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