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Partial doses of cialis use is also a thing in the bodybuilding world
For those curious, be mindful that an all too common side effect of pde5 inhibitors like cialis is eventual tinnitus (even at low doses), which is not worth whatever you are hoping gain.
Firefly petunias need a lot of light. The entire plant (roots too) are literally burning precious energy 24/7 for the glowing. There seems to be a direct correlation between the light they receive and how long the internodes are from what I’ve seen putting them under grow lights. More light, shorter internodes.
Here in the Pacific Northwest various worm (caterpillar) larvae also love shredding them and eating through seed pods, and they are susceptible to downy mildew complexes which seem to become persistent within the plant.
They also are finicky about warmth, water and fertilizer.
They are a princess of a plant, not the next kochia or pigweed.
Honestly it would be more viable to take invasive weeds and hamper them by introducing glow genes.
Source: I have firefly petunias, I have seeds from hand pollenating them, and I have volunteer plants growing in the pot from seed I didn’t collect.
They are simply not guaranteed to glow because they don’t breed true. 3 out of my 5 volunteer plants glow.
Light Bio is actually pleasantly realistic in how amenable they are to non-commercial breeding. I may have even seen pollination instructions on their instagram (normally certain moths pollenate petunias, and without those you need to do so by hand yo be sure seeds take)
You can see some crossbreeding results in https://old.reddit.com/r/FireflyPetunia/
https://trustdecision.com/resources/blog/revolutionizing-ocr...
> Our internal tests reveal a leap in accuracy from 98.97% to 99.56%, while customer test sets have shown an increase from 95.61% to 98.02%. In some cases where the document photos are unclear or poorly formatted, the accuracy could be improved by over 20% to 30%.
While a small percentage increase, when applied to massive amounts of text it’s a big deal.
One workaround would be to add dummy timestamps. There seem to be a few options floating around, like https://github.com/mikaello/gpxfaketimer (never used, no idea how well it’ll work)
Unfortunately the classic easy external way it’s done isn’t the best fit for brain application, as it’s literally heating the body up in a sauna to a point where heat reactive proteins are generated. This forces the cancer to either open up various cellular transport mechanisms (announcing itself to the immune system) or denature (and die). This is repeated multiple times, and can actually be so effective and the doctor overseeeing the treatment needs to be careful not to kill off too much cancer at once if there is a large amount, due to the resulting necrosis.
However related to this for deep body use is using radiation devices or probes to heat tumorous areas deeper in the body, or outright use laser probes to not-quite-burn places. This can allow access to otherwise inoperable tumors. See Laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT)
https://www.barnesjewish.org/Medical-Services/Neurology-Neur...
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/17114-hyper...
Hyperthermia therapies are lesser known for some tragic reason, but they are FDA approved.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8DJ1a3sLIc
The article itself is worth a read too imo, I found the bits about toes for easier balance and jumping to takeoff energy efficiency interesting.
>In 1940, with the likelihood of America’s involvement in World War II steadily rising, the U.S. military approached Cohn about developing medical products from blood proteins to treat shock and blood loss in soldiers. Cohn’s team quickly invented methods to make blood albumin, which had a notable positive impact on soldiers’ survival from the earliest days of the American war effort. During the Normandy beach landings, many wounded soldiers were treated with Cohn’s albumin products. And, by the end of 1945, his Harvard team of scientists were so effective at turning lab discoveries into commercial-scale products that millions of Cohn’s blood products were used in all theaters of the war effort.
>sip and stare
There have been a few discussions over at level1techs where people thought they thought the channel was moderating them for some strange reason, only to turn out it’s YouTube: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/l1t-youtube-shadowban-shadow...
More than once I’ve made a comment, went to edit a spelling mistake, and got an error on save because my completely unobjectionable comment was removed 10 seconds after posting.
YouTube has a horrible comment automation wordfilter/AI that will silently steamroll comments in a way that makes Reddit and 4chan mods seem rational. The channel owners don’t even see the comments (and last I checked, they don’t show up in your comment history either)
YouTube comments are vapid, in part because anything high effort/quality is likely to get deleted.
What a fever dream.
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-figured-out-how...
In practice, what usually seems to happen is Microsoft will begrudgingly extend security updates for a few years after official EOS, because most people won’t switch over that quickly and having all those machines with unpatched vulnerabilities would be a bigger pain that potentially more expensive than just keeping on for a few more years.
But this is why I use security keys like yubikeys. Doesn’t matter if an attacker knows my main password for any number of reasons, there’s fuckall they can do with it without my physical key.
And even if they get into my vault and extract passwords, for many websites (in particular the most important ones) they’d still need to use my security key, they can’t just use the passwords.
Attacks are still possible (with browser session fuckery?) but much harder that yet another breach where a website was storing passwords in plaintext
Note, it’s best to not select “remember me” for Bitwarden: https://bitwarden.com/help/twostep-faqs/#q-why-is-bitwarden-...
It’s very difficult to actually take a picture of them to accurately show the level of glow. Either your camera is unable to focus on them, or it does too good a job at amplifying the low light, making them seem way more impressive than they are.
Fundamentally, emitting light has a significant cost in ATP, so it’s not practical to simply tell the plant to dump more energy into doing so. A smarter person than me might be able to estimate how many luminaries you’d get per some unit of ATP. Firefly petunias also need full sun throughout the day large or they get leggy and don’t do great.
There are a few things which could make plants as lights more conceivable:
1. Somehow fixing the release of luciferase enzymes to dark conditions only (currently the glowing is always active). I have bioluminescent dinoflagellates that only glow during the times they expect it to be dark, because that’s when they’ll release an enzyme when disturbed. In contract to my petunias, these are very bright, enough to read with, for a single second anyways.
2. Somehow modifying the cellular structures to allow more light to escape like actual fireflies. (https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/firefly-inspired-sur...) Currently much of the light is reabsorbed internally, and this only gets worse with pigments as shown with crossbreeding with other colored petunias. (https://old.reddit.com/r/FireflyPetunia/)
Both of these things are going to be extremely hard.
All that being said, yeah I’d love turning every plant in a park from grass to trees a glowing equivalent, but I’d not ever expect them to provide street lamp level of light. But if you have an area that becomes too dark to see the grass and aren’t going to put up lights anyways, then that’d be a perfect place for such plants.