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Why is this redacted. FDA observations should be published in real time so that end users can make judgements and watchdog groups can evaluate and grade companies, batches, and products.

That would be a better role for most federal agencies. If states want to make mandates that require adherence to some standard, that is more in line with the original constitutional role of states.

I cannot say for certain, but I "feel" that these types of issues crop up quite often and are only publicized when certain corporations do not make the proper lobbying donations to certain people. Limiting the lobbying potential to a state level may prevent my "feeling".

Wolf Richter rips on this article pretty hard:

https://wolfstreet.com/2023/06/12/ive-had-it-with-stupid-stu...

> Park Hotels failed to pay off a $725 million interest-only non-recourse mortgage that matured last November. The mortgage was secured by two run-down mega-hotels in San Francisco, the 1,921-room Hilton San Francisco Union Square and the 1,024-room Parc 55 San Francisco.

> Park Hotels only owns the properties. The hotels themselves are operated by other companies, and when Park Hotel defaults on a mortgage and walks away from the property, it means ownership of the property will change. That’s all it means for the hotel. The operating company remains the same.

> Park Hotels has been a catastrophic nightmare for retail investors. The misdeeds that sank Park Hotels’ shares didn’t happen on the streets of San Francisco – as the company ridiculously alleged – but in the C-suite of Park Hotels and on Wall Street. And its investors and now the holders of the CMBS are getting ripped off.

> She said that in 2016 she asked archivists across the country if they had any copies of the film. She heard back later that year about one museum, the Eastman, which had a decaying copy in a vault.

> The Eastman had listed the film in its extensive online archives but the museum has so many reels that it hadn’t paid attention to “The Oath of the Sword.”

Who considered this film "Lost Forever"? It appears to just have been rare and largely forgotten. It is not listed here: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/7,200_Lost_U.S._Silent_Featur...

In the left column, if you click on the hospital name, it will show the history.

I have been doing some digging and unfortunately cannot find data prior to mid 2020 for most areas. This site https://data.statesmanjournal.com/covid-19-hospital-capacity... has information pertaining to capacity since then, for an incredible amount of hospitals.

Looking at the data for the available time period, I am not able to confirm your statement.

In the United States, hospitals were not overflowing with patients and the curve was not flattened. It followed roughly the same curve and wave pattern of the 1918 pandemic. Hospitals were furloughing staff in massive quantities. Ohio tracked and published hospitalization rates and I followed them daily. There was never 100% capacity usage.

> 1. Can we really sweep away all the evidence of asymptomatic spread because of a "special PCR test" years after the fact? We had a lot of good reasons to believe this at the time, and none of them are engaged with here.

What evidence are you referring to? The article seemingly contradicts this in the following:

> In June 2020, Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, head of the World Health Organization’s emerging diseases and zoonosis unit, said that transmission from asymptomatic people was “very rare.” This conclusion was based on a number of countries doing very detailed contact tracing, she said

Point #2:

> that means that symptomatic people were going out in public and spreading it.

That is precisely what happened. There were many reports of "outbreaks" that were traced back to very symptomatic people that attended parties or duties and infected large groups.

> either because they did not understand their symptoms or didn't care. So what do you do, other than require masks by default? What does this change?

There were many reasons people did not comply with the directives. Some right, some wrong. Requiring masks, social distancing, etc. for everyone would make sense even if asymptomatic people cannot spread the virus, given that some people are going to ignore their symptoms and expose others. This assuming masks and distancing work, the directives were legal and/or moral, and the virus was not going to get around to everyone eventually anyway and harm the same amount to the same extent.

People lied, ignored, and obfuscated the truth about their symptoms and contributed to the spread of the virus. People also lied, ignored, and obfuscated the truth about the nature of the virus and contributed to bad policy.

I switch to DDG from brave when I want to do an image search. Brave forwards image searches to either Google or Bing based on your choice. Even if DDG is getting their images from those sources, I still prefer the DDG image search UI.

> That's the unfortunately prevalent "TikTok"-level version of the history.

It is also almost verbatim what I was taught in an Ohio school in the 90s.

> Valenzuela-Toro looked at the size and morphology of sea lion skulls collected between 1962 and 2008 in central California and now held at the California Academy of Sciences

"As the California sea lion population got bigger, so did the collected skulls", is what I read. I cannot find the method of collecting the skulls from the paper or the one paper I was able to read that this paper sourced.

If humans were hunting, poaching, or collecting dead animal skulls, there could very well be some influence on the size of the skulls from their desire to hunt/poach bigger game and or collect a bigger specimen than they previously collected/hunted/poached. If I was out collecting for grins and giggles, and I had a sack full of skulls, I would likely throw out the small ones to fit a bigger one than is in my sack or larger than what I have at home.

Another possibility is that they collected larger skulls because there is more pressure on the larger animals as time progressed in the study period, creating a larger supply of the larger skulls. On average, the animals may in fact be smaller.

I have been curious lately if red light can cause hair growth externally, would it be something to research for internal "hair" growth. Getting light to the inner ear, would be difficult since it is encased in bone.

There is a grammatical error on this page: https://usegrasp.com/how

> We will more social features in the future.

This should have some verb after "will".

> how/why did the Republican Party decide to keep that colour scheme?

According to the Tampa Bay Times, the colors are fairly recent and largely a result of media depictions of electoral maps. It is not an official choice by the party.

https://www.tampabay.com/things-to-do/visualarts/the-origins...

Yes. Except twice a day when I drive by the city dump.

Reading this was like reading my biography with the exception of covid nose. I on the other hand gained better sense of smell after a routine gallbladder removal surgery. I smell some fragrances for hours or days after the person has left after just a brief interaction. I am smelling things I never smelled before.

> When people search, we believe they’re really looking for answers, as opposed to just links

I believe this as well for most people and most searches. I, however, am not most people. The vast majority of the time I want a link to sites that have what I am looking for. This is my biggest gripe with search engines and has been for a very long time. I used to be really good at finding pages I wanted by punching in the right words in the search. At some point in the mid 00's Google changed everything and I have failed to adapt fully.

With the Bank Term Funding Program, people who moved or previously kept monies in large banks have less incentive to do so, until 2024 when this program is scheduled to end. That is, if they think 25 billion is enough to prevent more runs, and the FED/treasury/FDIC will not greatly expand that in the event of another run.

That would put a lot of responsibility on the user. It is analogous to keeping medical records yourself and taking them with you to the hospital every time you visit. In the event of a fire or other catastrophe, your credentials would be lost forever, correct?

Either way, I usually do not want to login or be prompted to login to sites I visit. When I do want to login, either via Mutual TLS or by entering my credentials, I would like to have a hotkey I can push that brings me to the login page, pushes the login button, or inserts my TLS cert.

I will give you a few examples.

The week before my diagnosis and severe attack, I was eating a fatty diet. I was at the office and noticed my stomach feeling slightly queasy. I had just that week brought a box of fridge magnets into the room I work in. This was the first time I had a box of them around me. I could smell the off gassing. I assumed this was the problem, since that was the new thing around me. I removed them and seemingly had relief, until the attack. Placebo...

Ten years ago I would visit my parents house and eat fatty meals. I usually had a slight queasiness when I was there. I did not like going to their place. My subconscious mind had taken the queasy feeling and turned it into disdain. They had mold issues. I blew it off as a reaction to that. I know for certain some molds cause a reaction in me, but it is just puffy eyes in the morning after sleeping in a moldy/mildewy place.

I went to Denver and did some hiking in the mountains. After eating a meal in town, I was quite sick. It felt much like a cold/flu without the respiratory symptoms. I blew it off as altitude sickness. I am not a doctor...

My mother has similar stories. Her first bought she associated with a cat that was in our basement. The cat was gone and her problems persisted. She then began to associate her symptoms with mold. The mold was removed and her problems persisted. She then began to blame it on gut bacteria imbalance triggered by her breast cancer and or treatment of. In the end, she had her gallbladder removed in the E.R. after a stone was lodged in her bile duct. She sleeps great and has more energy than she has had in decades.

These atypical symptoms are not easy for a person to diagnose intuitively. Erroneous associations were easy because our diets are not consistent and the symptoms were not immediate or as severe as something like a broken bone.

As far as sensitive skin is concerned. Laundry detergent and soaps come to mind as irritants. I get spots and itches from dairy.

> if there's any alternatives to gallbladder removal that you've considered

There really is no alternative. The gallbladder is not necessary and when any issues arrive, it is generally removed. I did a lot of reading on that. I could not find any medicinal or herbal alternatives to break up stones.

> I'm curious about other symptoms

It is possible my sense of smell was affected. The days after the removal, I noticed I was smelling things that I had never noticed before. This is still happening a year later. The anesthetics used may have caused this though. One symptom that may have been gallbladder was what I thought was hypoglycemia. I had not been diagnosed, but between meals I frequently would get some slight weakness/anxiety and somewhat trembly. I would go into detail about my sleep pattern, but it was so sporadic toward the end and spinal issues contributed to it as well. Throughout the years though I had trouble getting to bed at a decent time. This was not as significant when I was eating "healthy". I did not notice it correlating to my eating at the time.

> whether other members of your family have had similar procedures

My mother found the source of her similar and more pronounced issues about a year after I had mine diagnosed. She had many similar issues for about the same amount of time. She ended up in the emergency room with a gallstone in her bile duct that had to be removed via endoscope once they got the inflammation down. Many people die from bile stones every year. My two brothers are toughing it out.

> Why did it take 2 years to have it removed

I was eating a very very low fat diet at first and managing fairly well. I was also trying to save money for surgery. As time went on, I could barely function and was going to get it removed no matter what the cost.

> What was the recovery like

The surgery was uneventful. I popped right out of sedation. I attribute this to my body's reaction to the scopolamine patch administered right before surgery. It is used to prevent vomiting. One of the potential side effects is tachycardia. I was wide awake and full of energy from 1pm(after surgery) to 11pm. My family was dumbfounded. When I tried to sleep, I couldn't. I began to realize this was abnormal and removed the patch to see if that would help. Thirty minutes later I was asleep. I was able to sit stand and lay the first night, being careful when changing position not to cause a hernia. The second and third day, if I recall correctly, were the most painful. This was only while laying flat on my back though. In a more upright position I managed to sleep fine. I understand a little now what it must be like to receive a penetrating wound.

The surgery was on a Thursday. I was back at the office the following Tuesday. The small incisions(4) occasionally gave me pain and I was afraid I might cause a hernia for about 3-4 weeks. I still feel a slight tingle/itch at two of the sites. I also still feel very mild pain from my non existent gallbladder when I am really hungry or when I have eaten too much oil/fat.

> The most important question is how you associate the symptoms with gallbladder

I knew the typical symptoms of cholecystitis from reading long before I associated it with my own symptoms. My father had typical symptoms and had his removed when he was about 26. He ate fast food and fatty food almost exclusively! My symptoms were atypical. Only in hindsight am I able to pinpoint some of them. I had one typical symptom, but it was not there during my acute attacks, which I described in my earlier comment here. I had so many symptoms that were gradual as I grew older or not severe enough for me to think it was abnormal. I had no idea how bad I was. (I may have misinterpreted your point in this response.)

> Is it based on your experience before and after?

Almost exclusively. My "food poisoning" episodes were, retrospectively, clearly my gallbladder. It was very easy to associate these to the gallbladder once I figured out I had a problem. The smoking and climbing stairs issue went away immediately when I stopped eating fatty food prior to surgery. My sleep was immensely better immediately following the surgery. My energy level was profound following the surgery, even compared to as much as six years before the surgery, before I knew the cause. I am relatively healthy otherwise, so there was not much to decipher. I am acutely aware of what my body feels. I am proficient at diagnosing computer hardware problems and apply the same style testing when it comes to fixing myself. I do not try multiple tests at the same time. This makes it easier to narrow down the cause of issues.

Can you elaborate?

It took me nearly 20 years to realize it was dragging me down, which is now known to be common in my maternal genes. I had a night after dinner with fever, queasy, lack of urination, and upset stomach. I was subsequently affected with stomach and bowel pain and inflammation when I ate for a couple days. About a month prior to this episode, I had a slight sharp pain on the right side under my rib cage(typical location for male gallbladder symptoms). At the time I figured this was due to a misalignment in my spine(quite typical for me at the time). I put together the current condition(associated with food intake) and the previous pain to conclude that I needed to have my gallbladder checked. I went with the least invasive, lowest false negative, and least expensive check first, an ultrasound. Thankfully(more on this later), it showed a polyp near the base of the gallbladder.

With my symptoms and ultrasound report, I was a candidate for removal. Two years after the described episode I had it removed. I opted out of pathology and let the surgeon open up the gallbladder and report to me. He found no polyp! It was full of stones. They varied in size from a grain of sand to 7mm. The ultrasound technician was correct in their assessment of the image, however, the image was misleading.

Every one of my siblings and my mother have suffered for years without any of the typically significant acute symptoms of cholecystitis. One of my brothers suffers occasionally like I did, but every single test for gallbladder issues comes back negative. Anecdotally, I ran into a person who had all tests show negative gallbladder issues, yet had it removed to see if it helped. It cured her bowel issues.

Prior to my knowing what the issues were(20 years), here are the symptoms I can 100% associate with my gallbladder problem. Walking up stairs caused increased heart rate and fatigue after smoking a cigarette. Occasional slight queasiness after eating meals(they must have been high in fat). Rare episodes of fever, nausea, bowel discomfort after a meal that I wrote off as food poisoning or altitude sickness in one instance. General malaise.

My mother and I both were very aware of some of our symptoms, but it was incredibly easy to associate them with other things we had come in contact with. Mold and fragrances are two that come to mind. When I was eating "healthy" I noticed significant improvements in my energy. At the time I didn't realize the "healthy" eating I was doing was low fat. That low fat was reducing inflammation in my gallbladder allowing me to get proper rest. Not eating dairy(maternal genes as well) is reducing inflammation in my gut, allowing me to get proper rest.

Good luck and godspeed!

What I needed was sleep. In order to get that sleep, I had to have my gallbladder removed. Once that was done, I had to stop eating dairy. Now I can sleep again. I feel much much younger.

I cannot believe how long I was going on listlessly, unknowing that my laziness was a side effect of health issues.

This headline is backed up by overbroad metrics. Life expectancy, infant/maternal mortality, rate of avoidable deaths, and multiple chronic conditions(perhaps because of obesity they say) are how this author determined the US still has the worst...

Obesity actually might account for most of these problems. This article is brief and uninformative. The author overtly implies that guaranteed health coverage is the answer. I disagree.

From the FAQ: "These maps are based on simplified noise modeling and cannot be used to evaluate noise levels in individual locations or at specific times and should not be used for regulatory purposes."

Keep in mind that if you are looking for "Hi-Resolution" images of Israel, the results may be limited by the Kyl Bingaman Amendment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyl%E2%80%93Bingaman_Amendment

I switched to dvorak from querty. At the time, the only typing I did of any length was in chat on Diablo 1. I have never felt so impotent as when I was frantically trying to convey information in game during that early period. Trying to keep up with conversations in the channels was very frustrating.

I improved my wpm not by switching to dvorak, but by learning the new layout without looking at the keyboard while I type.

I use archive.org a ton and support them for what they are doing.

I support the Randolph Bourne Institute for their antiwar views.

Before I donate to a new organization, I always check their IRS forms("copies of returns") if they are in the USA at https://apps.irs.gov/app/eos/

This form gives a general idea of how funds are distributed.

Maybe in 2,000 years: https://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news,414643,in-a-phar...

I am with you. Obviously, it would be better if it had not happened from our perspective, but I am not going to lose any sleep over it. Visitors to the caves 30,000 years ago defaced the natural beauty. It is reveled and studied today. The parents or elders might have castigated them for vandalizing sacred grounds or admonished them for wasting time with such worthless endeavors. Today, we do the same.

Banksy largely gets a pass and is celebrated. In 1,000 years or 50, someone might be selling this new imagery on a t-shirt.

I found a fossil upper palate and strange humanoid teeth in Ohio during my teens. Sadly, it is lost forever. Considering it might be a rarity here and possibly significant to science, I wish it had never disappeared. I occasionally lose sleep over that. It meant something to me. That cave art means something to others. I can empathize in that context.

Liability, standard of care, patient happiness, insurance compensation, and stupidity all come to my mind when considering why they do it.