I’m sure they do but not without problems

E coli, anthrax, Lead, mercury, oil, piss, shit, fungus, spores, mold, fucking anything really. You have no idea what’s gone into the ground or what it contains. Even if it’s “probably” safe why not use a much easier already approved product that has 0 risk associated with it

Unless you are running it through some spectrum analyzer or whatever and have a process to then purify it, it’s a bad idea to just ingest something you dug up. And why bother not starting with already human grade ingestible material that you also probably have in your kitchen.

Harmful substances are many orders of magnitude smaller than the tiniest pill.

And no shovels required

Hugs friend all good

This is much better than an apology. Just start saying stuff like this instead of apologizing maybe? Might be better received ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yeah I know which is why Im confused why you seem to be disagreeinf with me when we are saying the same thing. So I’m repeating myself with different words to try to find where we are having a problem.

I was literally guessing that that might be where the disconnect was. I’m not a great communicator so apologies If I’m just too dumb to figure out whats happening at this point

What is your goal? What is it you think your words are going to accomplish? Canada isn’t the problem here, you are. Go talk to other Americans with this sentiment because they are the ones that need to hear this emotion from you.

What’s the point of the 2nd amendment it you refuse to use it.

Go read Howard Zinns book that was mentioned in good will hunting

Yes it’s bloody and people will die, but that’s the price you pay if you let things get to this point.

Remember you are already being killed. You’re being kidnapped from your homes. Your children are being separated from their parents.

What more needs to happen for you to think the 2nd amendment is supposed to be used?

And Carney gonna have a hard time winning another election if he keeps on his currently strategy so we might end up with PP anyway

I would expand “testing guesses” to repeatedly testing guesses. It’s a fundamental thing to be able to recreate the testing results, or it’s not science at all it’s just fuckign around lol

I wonder if thats because we know very little about how the brain actually works in regards to how the brain create thoughts. It’s so very much a mystery in many ways where thoughts are created

Well sure but you could use other household ingredient that aren’t contaminated with whatever might be in your soil.

It was intentional that i said it’s one way they already make placebos in pill form.

It entirely is only important if you care about hurting people and not just stealing from them.

Which you seem to since you are arguing over diabetes

Aspirin.

Was a tincture or tea of white willow used as a folk medicine for generations until it got studied and the compound in it isolated by Bayer

Cocaine.

Indigenous population would chew coca leaves as a stimulant for various reasons and someone figured found out about it, studied it, and found out how to isolate the active compound and now we have Cocaine

Opiates

Opium Poppy was used for centuries for a variety of uses, but mostly recreational in the form of opium, then it got studied and turned into some of the most effective painkillers we have. (Morphine, codeine, heroin are naturally derived opium compounds, some others are synthetic or a blend such as oxycodone, methadone, fentanyl, carfentanyl)

Edit: white birch bark(I’m not 100% certain this is the right tree, but it was a tree, please correct me if I’m wrong) found the correction in another comment

Um Clay would have an effect. Use powdered sugar and simply compress them into a pill. This is literally one way they do already make placebos in pill form. You can buy a pill press on amazon

I’m not sure why you are repeating what I said as if I didn’t already say that.

Yes, it’s known to have an effect. But the placebo itself literally does nothing. It’s not a placebo unless it is guaranteed to do nothing or it wouldn’t have any value to science with how they use it. Any effect is psychosomatic and NOT an effect of the placebo. Hence the term “placebo effect” this is incredibly important when testing to gather useful data.

I’m guessing you just misunderstood what I was saying since you seem to be repeating me, other than the distinction between placebo and placebo effect

I would say how doesn’t it?

A placebo is known to NOT work. That medicine has defined, understands and even utilizes the placebo effect is exactly in that definition.

The quote is from Tim Minchin. I think the track name is Storm.

It’s him talking to someone at a dinner party and he’s trying to bite his tongue when someone new starts talking stupidity, but it gets to a point where he breaks and goes off on a rent.

It’s a very well written and entertaining bit.

What what’s missing from the quote is something along the lines of “You know what they call alternate medicine that is proven to work? Medicine”

The whole point of the quote is exactly what you are saying that some medicines legitimately started as alternative medicines

Edit: i realize now it might not have been a quote at all regardless of how similar it is the that Tim Minchin bit

It’s unlikely for sure but not impossible as we have no idea what they actually haul in. They have been said to be worth 20-40 billion but they may be worth much more unbeknownst to us.

I also highly doubt it and said as much in a different comment

All true but it also assumes valve isn’t thinking post gaben

Building a fab now and getting the experience and expertise it needs to build next gen, such as abandoning silicon like the one article I saw said might be the direction things go in might be in valves orbit. Froml all accounts valve is highly profitable and could potentially weather the storm of upfront capital and growing/learning pains.

Also as I understand it valve doesn’t hire developers that don’t have a minimum of 15 years in industry related employment so if valve maintains its current hiring standards (and I’m not completely wrong or it has already changed), they VERY easily could poach all the experience they would need to since they would have the time. Might be a very exciting and enthralling opportunity to work for a gamer/pc focused fab.

I mean I doubt it but if they were thinking long term it would given them a comfortable time frame to do it in.

If turns out they already have the capital to self finance it all that wouldn’t entirely surprise me they could.

Imagine if valve put it’s money into making components like ram and storage just because the guys doing it already are hurting gamers

Sorry to answer a rhetorical question but I think it begins with education and empathy.

We don’t care about a cartoon, but if Pepe was a real person, then it’s a lot harder to just say erase them. And we are essentially seeing that with fascists and immigrants.

If problems actually exist it would be easier to discard the people causing those problems, than to challenge ourselves by confirming that the perceived problem is actually happening, to them rehabilitate the person causing the problems, and then forgive them for their trespasses. Because this requires risk, effort, and a developed sense of community, not tribalism.

It’s not easy to allow people who did “bad things” to walk around your friends, neighbours, family etc, once someone does something that is felt to be across a line. But we can if we learn enough. we can if we care enough.

That’s a tall order when the world is in a state of everything sucks, and is getting suckier all the time, we are all having our ability to spend resources, be it time, material, or money, to help those that need it, and also just doing anything that isn’t just trying to take care of ourselves.

It shouldn’t be a surprise that when you have the time and means to help a complete stranger, and choose to do so, it makes the world a better place. It makes it harder to build that hate towards strangers or just people that we don’t agree with.

But religion and the reigns of power have been in it a lot longer than anyone reading this comment have been alive, and is why building momentum is so necessary to change anything because it has to start pushing against those long held and abused powers, very hard to be a 1 person movement with enough juice to get things done. Possible but incredibly unlikely

Sorry I couldn’t find it, but caffeine and coffee can have opposite effects on a person. Iirc caffeine making you sleepy is a symptom of ADHD or autism(it could be something else entirely, it was a long time ago I read the article) but was a very strong indicator of the thing in the article. This assumes it wasn’t a junk article, the acidity of the coffee apparently can have an effect on your metabolism depending on what else you put in it. Cinnamon apparently had a noticeable effect on the results.

Again apologies for not being able to locate it, but Ill update this if I do manage to find the one I remember. It was pre covid when I read it if that matters