Thank you! I mean, I’m not happy about these events, but thank you for making it a bit easier to stay informed.

Sauce for that? Not doubting, want to check it out.

Better put a /s on that friend.

Meaning no offense to any of the posters here, but these mostly feel like classic Ask Metafilter DTMF replies.

I hope OP finds a solution, but we are just internet people making guesses about a big life decision without enough context.

Are you me?

I think most modern exegesis of that verse rather tightly constrains it to rabbinical law, bearing in mind that the Sadducees and those upstart Pharisees (of which JC was one) were battling out questions of the law at the time JC was doing his thing.

So just saying I think you’re right. Otherwise, no football on Sunday for many multiple reasons!

Oh yeah for sure; a very good principal. But this Bluesky poster in particular gets a lot of argument from folks who have not done any research or are outside of their fields.

So I don’t want to be “that guy.” I learn enough listening to their (often long) replies.

Black cabs in London are alive and well, but I fear The Knowledge is not long for this world.

This Gen-Xer says the kids are all right. Zoomers gonna save us all (hopefully with some help from a few of the olds).

~Don’t kill spider friends please~

Can confirm that this person (I still don’t know, or care, their gender) knows A Great Deal of Stuff. I don’t always agree with their conclusions on medical issues, but not going to argue with them given their indeed insane research skills + anecdotal evidence. I may be on Bluesky too much.

Matters may dramatically reverse once she’s (nearly) of of menopause and your testosterone takes a nose dive. Be prepared!

Yeah alas the subreddit for it did a lot of the heavy lifting for me - they took apart every study (I helped) and had some good sidebar (or was it pinned, been so long I cannot remember) info to counter the “dumb reactionary shit.” I am pretty sure the sub got baninated, but I haven’t been back to reddit since I rage quit after the API debacle.

When I first started vaping in 2011 (after smoking two packs a day for decades), there were a lot of solid, research-based web boards, but I think social media killed them, as it did so much.

I am someone who used to do medical research for a lot of money. I’ve interviewed chairs of FDA committees, trial designers, and active trial leads on phase III (mostly) research in pharma and biologics. I still have access to PupMed via my old friends.

My guy/gal/nonbinary pal: pls see the references in this https://medicpro.london/2025/05/08/vaping-and-popcorn-lung-separating-fact-from-fiction/ Diacetyl has been widely banned since 2014 in all but the most trash Chinese vape juice, and quality vendors never used it in the first place.

Also the supposed cases of popcorn come from one source. Some dude in California who cut his cannabis juice with it, and in every single case the kids that got sick were using his juice in vape pens, not actually vaping. It’s Friday night here and I’d rather not track the story down but if you really want it I’ll find it.

As a former life long smoker, vaping (which is the front line treatment for cessation in the UK) saved my life. Now, however, the shops pushing disposable vapes with super high nicotine salts on to kids - which is illegal almost everywhere - they need to die in a fire. The kids don’t get hooked on "vape;’ they get hooked on nicotina because those damn things are the equivalent of smoking two or three regular cigarets in one puff.

That was a good read, well done! I’d be interested if you ever reconsider Startpage. I’ve had good success with that on my work computer.

Data? No, because there is none. And I have read every.single.study. They are all fucked in some way or another whether it’s methodology or the stats or the sample size/composition. Not a single real in vivo study. None. There is exactly one researcher in Greece doing decent work, and that’s it. I took a career change from my previous and now present career and worked in pharma and biotech research.

Cyprus will never, ever let Turkey ascend to the EU while they continue to illegally occupy 1/3 of Cyprus.

Ascension votes must be unanimous. I don’t know why anyone at any time thought Turkey might join the EU.

Not sure what you mean, but you seem to engage in good faith so have an updoot thingy.

What ever on earth makes you think they are halting exports, especially of crude? I can show you on a map where they are and where they came from right now.

Just because they have l local shortages doesn’t mean they have stopped exports.

When you buy crude/products you often put it into storage, sometimes large amounts, and wait for the market to bounce up (or your other forward positions/hedging to clear). The crude and products exist: they are just not being used in the local market. In the case of Russia, to maintain funding for their war time economy.

Whatever, if you actually want info, DM me, I’ll connect on LinkedIn and share images and docs.