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fowtowmowcow··on New study: 70% of type 2 diabetes cases linked to food choices
"Of the 11 dietary factors considered, three had an outsized contribution to the rising global incidence of type 2 diabetes: Insufficient intake of whole grains, excesses of refined rice and wheat, and the overconsumption of processed meat. Factors such as drinking too much fruit juice and not eating enough non-starchy vegetables, nuts, or seeds, had less of an impact on new cases of the disease.

“Our study suggests poor carbohydrate quality is a leading driver of diet-attributable type 2 diabetes globally, and with important variation by nation and over time,” says senior author Dariush Mozaffarian, Jean Mayer Professor of Nutrition and dean for policy at the Friedman School. “These new findings reveal critical areas for national and global focus to improve nutrition and reduce devastating burdens of diabetes.”

Type 2 diabetes is characterized by the resistance of the body’s cells to insulin. Of the 184 countries included in the Nature Medicine study, all saw an increase in type 2 diabetes cases between 1990 and 2018, representing a growing burden on individuals, families, and healthcare systems.

The research team based their model on information from the Global Dietary Database, along with population demographics from multiple sources, global type 2 diabetes incidence estimates, and data on how food choices impact people living with obesity and type 2 diabetes from multiple published papers.

The analysis revealed that poor diet is causing a larger proportion of total type 2 diabetes incidence in men versus women, in younger versus older adults, and in urban versus rural residents at the global level.

Regionally, Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia —particularly in Poland and Russia, where diets tend to be rich in red meat, processed meat, and potatoes —had the greatest number of type 2 diabetes cases linked to diet. Incidence was also high in Latin America and the Caribbean, especially in Colombia and Mexico, which was credited to high consumption of sugary drinks, processed meat, and low intake of whole grains."

fowtowmowcow··on Will Powerful New Tools Finally Let Us Hear Alien Civilizations?
https://archive.is/xpdtO
fowtowmowcow··on Buffett says Apple is Berkshire portfolio's best business
I fail to see how Apple is his "best" company in the sense of it having sufficient 'moatyness'.

It's products rely on consumers continuing to find their products fashionable which in my opinion can change with the wind.

Additionally as Apple becomes more vertically integrated they risk becoming increasingly stuck in one position and less flexible if consumer desires change or competitive technology out performs Apple's products.

fowtowmowcow··on Intel OEM Private Key Leak: A Blow to UEFI Secure Boot Security
I'm not sure that they can of the key is proprietary to Intel. I think this would open up those projects to litigation.
fowtowmowcow··on The grid isn’t ready for 300M EVs by 2030
Microgrids are the future.
fowtowmowcow··on Can Supercomputers Make Socialism Work?
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/socialism

1 "any of various egalitarian economic and political theories or movements advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods"

3 "stage of society in Marxist theory that is transitional between capitalism and communism (see communism sense 2c) and is distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done"

I said in one form or another. Roads are a public owned means to distribute goods in America. Most of the world has socialist medicine.

fowtowmowcow··on Can Supercomputers Make Socialism Work?
Isn't socialism in some form or another what like almost the entire world already runs under?
fowtowmowcow··on A Paper That Says Science Should Be Impartial Was Rejected by Major Journals
"Of course, nobody wants to hire a racist. But that’s not what we’re talking about. "

Yeah I'm going to guess that's exactly what they want to be talking about.

fowtowmowcow··on I Decided to Go Offline
Common modern OS and software most likely won't play nice with this.

It's a good practice though develop focus and attention to one task at a time.

fowtowmowcow··on Sam Altman says era of remote work is over
Does it threaten it or does it just threaten what's so far been established?

Presumably less demand for space will reduce cost of that space allowing for smaller, newer, experimental businesses to be able to buy into that space.

Commercial space can become less about being a place to work or to store a bunch of products to sell, to places where people meet and hangout, to train and collaborate, and to build synergies between businesses that benefit from sharing resources.

fowtowmowcow··on Office Cubicle Manufacturing (1954) [video]
I think there's a big difference between manufacturing mobile homes and manufacturing homes or multifamily buildings like they to do today.

That is having frames built, wired, and drywalled, is better than building onsite. However mobilehomes are themselves no where near the quality in construction you expect for a permanent structure (that can appreciate in value rather than depreciate).

fowtowmowcow··on A New Theory for the Assembly of Life in the Universe
I think that their theory might go something like this when extended:

Whatever early state of the universe was in there was a huge set of possibilities but a smaller set assemble into anything and even smaller set can assemble into things such as atoms that have stable eletron orbits that can mix with other atoms giving rise to chemistry.

It's not saying this option is inevitable but some option is. We happen to live in the option that gave rise to atomic matter that self interacts allowing to assemble more complex matter.

Of course this doesn't include dark energy and dark matter which presumably doesn't interact chemically with the matter we are familiar with but none the less could still be a component needed/useful for life.

fowtowmowcow··on Mercedes EVs can go faster for $60 a month
I agree.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomedical_engineering#Trainin...

Looks like while there is not a particular license for BioE they can be licensed under other disciplines.

fowtowmowcow··on Mercedes EVs can go faster for $60 a month
You know what's also cool.

A mechanical engineer can lose their license if their work results in deaths.

A software engineer can't lose their license because they don't have one.

Perhaps a professional license may improve software development and thus better software in consumer products like cars where bad software design can result in deaths.

fowtowmowcow··on Mercedes EVs can go faster for $60 a month
Even with the best programmers and safety measures in the world NASA still had to update the space shuttle.

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/flyout/flyfeature...

fowtowmowcow··on America will soon see a wave of bank mergers?
Depends on the size of the bank. Obviously the government prints money when it needs to buy ideally it ain't just freely printing willy nilly every day.
fowtowmowcow··on African Workers for ChatGPT, TikTok and Facebook Vote to Unionize
You don't own anything because everything was given to you. You don't own the atoms that make you up. You don't own the air you breath.

It's all social constructs however through these constructs societies may be built, art fashioned, science discovered, tools invented. What's up for debate is the best means for which to accomplish that.

fowtowmowcow··on Are mental health apps better or worse at privacy in 2023?
This is actually massively incorrect and filled with a massive amount of assumptions but thank you for that.

I was an adult and my parents were abusing me and have proven throughout my life that they do not have my best interest at heart.

The hospital lied repeatedly to me and others and is as well documented and reviewed for it by many others.

fowtowmowcow··on Is Perpetual Motion Possible at the Quantum Level?
That's only one plausible ending to the universe, while perhaps favored, certainly far from being determined.

Then there's handwaving about given a large enough time scale energy should randomly concentrate enough to 'restart' the universe or something silly along those lines.

For myself I like the notion of the universe starting from a breaking of symmetry of whatever base form of energy the universe is built out of.

This allows for scattering of information, increasing diversity and complexity of the system, while also not adding or creating any new energy.

So if the universe can start in a place of equilibrium I'd imagine after heat death leads to a static state then 'restarting' is possible since it's happened at least once.

fowtowmowcow··on America will soon see a wave of bank mergers?
Okay Joe and Sue don't pay back their loan.

Either Beth now has to borrow for her house or business at a higher rate of interest OR we deflate the value of the currency (by increasing the money supply) to make up for the loss on the balance sheet.

Congratulations your civilization just discovered run away inflation.

fowtowmowcow··on America will soon see a wave of bank mergers?
Hard to collect money on unemployed and dead.
fowtowmowcow··on America will soon see a wave of bank mergers?
I ask again: What happens if the government makes a ton of bad loans that never get paid?
fowtowmowcow··on America will soon see a wave of bank mergers?
Who should set the rate on interest for loans?

Just one entity without any other consumer options?

What happens if the government makes a ton of bad loans that never get paid?

fowtowmowcow··on Half of America’s banks are already insolvent
If

Banks debt > money+interest lent out

At the same time then maybe the bank is insolvent

However all debt typically isn't all due at the same time just like money lent out isn't paid back all at the same time.

This stuff is spread and balanced out so that ideally the bank has little liquid assets it needs, it is then able to borrow and lend out the maximum amount of money it can.

That is if it can lend money at a higher rate than it borrows it's making money. Otherwise it ain't.

fowtowmowcow··on Are mental health apps better or worse at privacy in 2023?
American here.

Visited a psych ward once (because suicidal idealization was happening and I wanted/asked for help for the first time in my life).

Well if my experience in one of those facilities is not an uncommon one, then they are horrifyingly dehumanizing and actually cause harm to other people (this is what I observed).

A big problem in facilities is that the information they receive will determine more of what they will do/prescribe than what the patient is actually asking for.

I watched transgendered patients be purposely miss gendered by staff. Countless other patients being otherwise ignored or treated like anything they have to say doesn't matter because of where they are or the diagnosis that they have.

For myself I was told I was schizophrenic and prescribe meds with terrible side effects because my parents told that to the admit facility. No treatment for depression and anxiety was really given (which is what I was saying I wanted), I was ignored by the therapist and social worker assigned to me, and the contact that I wished to hear from was conveniently removed from my file.

Therapists and support staff in the public sector outside of a mental hospital are grossly underpaid, thus only the inexperienced and inept (with a few people that care too much for their own good) are the ones likely to be working in Federally funded health centers.

Mental Healthcare is a abysmal joke in the United States. Suicide is very easily a valid and top choice here.

fowtowmowcow··on Classic fountain pens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiZ9ifo4_4U

There seems to be a variety of suggestions and advice on using pens left handed on youtube.