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Oakchair
“dogma always comes with a set of though-terminating clichés, which help believers hide their close-mindedness–mainly from themselves.” — Jeff Schmidt, Disciplined minds.
“That’s why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.” –George Carlin
“I do this real moron thing, and it’s called thinking. And apparently I’m not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.” –George Carlin
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The three most common types of skin cancer are Basal cell carcinoma, Squamous cell carcinoma, and melanoma.
Basal and squamosa have a 5 year survival rate of 95%-100% because they rarely metastasize and spread(1).
Melanoma is the cancer to consider if you’re worried about dying.
https://cancer.ca/en/cancer-information/cancer-types/skin-non-melanoma/prognosis-and-survival/survival-statistics
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(sun exposure is) “positively associated with melanoma survival”
A study was performed to consider if sun exposure was the cause of the association.
Results:
(Sun exposure was) “statistically significantly inversely associated with death from melanoma.” “HR = 0.4”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15687362/
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“Arguments against sunlight being a cause of
melanoma … will be made under the following headings: age dependence; sex ratio; distribution on the body; association with sun exposure; variation with latitude”
“there have been 14 case-control studies”
“In seven of these, there was found to be no statistically significant association between melanoma incidence and sun exposure 9–15 . In five of these, there was a statistically significant negative association between melanoma incidence and sun exposure”
“Melanoma is not caused by sunlight”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9920435/
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“We analyzed the CMM incidences at 5-year interval midpoints from 1955 to 2000 for European countries”
“we found CMM incidence increases with decreasing UV dose in Europe”
“in a controlled experimental” ” the percentage of animals having CMM actually decreased with increasing UVB doses, including those producing sunburns”
https://epublications.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1280&context=mscs_fac
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“The description is not the described; if you are caught in the description then you will never see.” —Jiddu Krishnamurti
“What we can’t change has to be a church, Paul. Get it?”– Nod by Adrian Barnes
“Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.” –George Carlin
canopy
Shadows on the Rock
Willa Cather
goodreads –
“Shadows on the Rock , written after Willa Cather discovered Quebec City during an unplanned stay in 1928, is the second of her “Catholic” historical novels and reflects her fascination with finding a little piece of France in eastern Canada. Set in the late seventeenth century, the novel centers on the activities of the widowed apothecary Euclide Auclair and his young daughter, Cecile. To Auclair’s house and shop come trappers, missionaries, craftsmen, the indigent—those seeking cures, a taste of France, or liberation from the corruptions caused there by the excesses of the French court. Set against these fictional characters, historical personages such as Bishop Laval, Count Frontenac, and others contend in the political life of the vast colony.”
Richard Holsworth
Photo: “An NYPD officer stands ready with the LRAD 500X at an Occupy Wall Street protest on November 17, 2011 near the city hall.. “The police are likely using it to communicate,” with the protesters, said LRAD Corporation spokesman Scott Stuckey in a telephone interview. “Megaphones aren’t loud enough to reach people over a large, crowded space, with lots of background noise.” Obama was conveniently out of the country during the crackdown but his press secretary claimed that the federal government was not coordinating the attacks…
“How Occupy Wall Street Ended: Clampdown by Obama that Trump Emulated”9
-The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund
Obama had a clear mandate to rein in Wall Street. Instead he shipped marginally progressive campaign advisers off to bureaucratic Siberia, while packing the key economic positions in his White House with the people who caused the crisis in the first place.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/idealab/lrad-defends-sound-cannon-use-at-occupy-wall-street
https://accuracy.org/release/10-years-on-how-occupy-wall-street-ended-clampdown-by-obama-that-trump-emulated/
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2009/12/13/obamas-big-sellout-president-has-packed-his-economic-team-wall-street-insiders
mago
Walk the dog, wag the tail, go down home. Who do you love?
Burned in sunshine cancer on the way, but no you say?
Tell that to my scarred face, veteran of all those rays from above
grace shines down amazing how we make shit up and call it true and it’s not just me and it’s not just you but it’s all around the world ooh ooh ooh
Apologies? For what? Insubordination?Contradictions? The mere audacity to challenge authorities or the opinions of others?
Flay me alive and hang the skin on the shed to dry and I’ll still be shedding tears.
Basta bro. Gotta keep it close and watch what you say
Hitting send maybe’s not the way
Fools rush in where heroes fear to go.
My mama never taught me better
Failed Scholar
/begin rant
Apropos of the ongoing crapification of society: I had to send a package today via Canada Post, total cost about $60. I bought one of their boxes and roll of bubble wrap to send it with. After putting the finishing touches on my packing job, I asked for some tape to tape the box up, and was stunned when the Temporary Foreign Indian Indentured servant that this Shoppers Drug Mart location seems to exclusively use to staff the place, goes and points to a roll of tape on the wall to sell to me, $3.99. Thinking he misunderstood me, I again ask for tape, explaining that they used to have rolls of it for people to use for sending their mail, it was always on those little black self-serve rolls with the cutter at the end, right next to the pens and the ‘stamp-licker’ thingy. Nope he tells me, they never had that, and if I want tape for my package I need to buy it.
Nickel and dimed to death over here, absolutely fucking infuriating. Truly the Canadian future we all dreamed of growing up. I was so pissed off I went back home and dug up my own tape.
It’s a small thing, and completely inconsequential in the grander scheme of things, but I was amazed at how pissed off the whole interaction made me. The whole episode one long line of crapification; shitty+expensive service with abysmal cut-rate foreign staffing, and squeezing you for money on every damn thing that used to be provided for free, basic ‘cost of doing business’ type of stuff.
What are the chances some American trained MBA D-bag was behind these sorts of policies? Magic 8-ball says “Signs point to yes”
/end rant