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smurficus103 t1_j4wi2eu wrote

Reply to comment by fitandhealthyguy in [OC] US Opioid overdose deaths from 1999 to 2018 by hcrx

Cdc published new 2022 stats on opiates, it's around 30 per 100,000. It's overtaken diabetes, liver disease and kidney disease. I think it's underneath alzheimers and stroke is ~38 per 100k in 2021

Deschedule and sell controlled doses at Walgreens OTC. Tell your friends!

Edit woops its 2021

In 2021, 106,699 drug overdose deaths occurred, resulting in an age-adjusted rate of 32.4 per 100,000 standard population in the United States.

Opiates are like 22 per 100 000, so, demoted down below diabetes https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db457.htm

And overall deaths https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/images/databriefs/451-500/db456-fig4.png

This one seems to include current data on overdose deaths https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/drug-overdose-data.htm

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smurficus103 t1_j2ctz30 wrote

Reply to comment by Erlian in We have all the resources we need to solve the world's greatest problems, so long as we can rise above our tribal instincts. by IAI_Admin

Excellent points.

As far as making water and electricity cost moar, removing subsidies might go a long way.

I'm really hopeful we can produce more locally with 3d printing and solar panels and such. Re-use old panels and old EV batteries to drop off the grid as much as possible.

My orig point tho... we need more power. Power is light in the dark, heat in the winter, food, clean water, whatever people need.

But, you're absolutely right to be concerned with the distribution of that power... right now subsidies take from the average, while large corporations feast on that infrastructure

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smurficus103 t1_j2bfi9p wrote

Reply to comment by CanuckAussieKev in The nut that defeated its nemesis by tchuruck

There are certainly derivatives of acceleration. Jerk is change in acceleration over time. It didn't seem particularly useful for stress calculations, though. I read pretty deep into impulse without much insight into what loading i should use to calc shit. Did some vibrational fea mostly for fatigue life.

This sounds like a fatigue and probably some shitty quality metal

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smurficus103 t1_j17d79c wrote

Reply to comment by radiodigm in Physical activity before COVID-19 infection is associated with less severe outcomes. In a study of 194,191 adults with COVID-19, those who were consistently inactive were 191% more likely to be hospitalized and 391% more likely to die than those who were consistently active. by glawgii

I think this is the right choice, i often wonder about causation vs correlation for weight and vitamin D. These are easy for people to quantify (bmi and vitamin d levels) and point to for health, and exercise's scope is growing as a free of charge preventative maintenance for all kinds of diseases (Alzheimer's too)

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smurficus103 t1_j17ccjj wrote

Reply to Physical activity before COVID-19 infection is associated with less severe outcomes. In a study of 194,191 adults with COVID-19, those who were consistently inactive were 191% more likely to be hospitalized and 391% more likely to die than those who were consistently active. by glawgii

"categorized patients as consistently meeting physical activity guidelines (≥3 assessments of at least 150 minutes per week of physical activity), consistently inactive (≥3assessments <10 minutes per week of physical activity), or some activity (3 or more assessments in between these requirements).

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smurficus103 t1_iyde18t wrote

Reply to comment by RabidMortal in Psychological richness is 1 of 3 primary components of a good life, along with eudaimonia (meaning) and hedonia (pleasure). A psychologically rich life has varied experiences and perspective-changing moments that make life interesting. by Iaskquesti0ns

I heard a bit of metaphysics, myself: if reality is a simulation or physics determines everything ahead of time, you're just walking through the motions and nothing is of consequence. However, if there is some sort of randomness generated in your brain, you can change and move the world with your actions, giving quite a bit more meaning to what you do and say.

Intuitively, if you didn't drive that truck full of food, people would go hungry. But, if you're brain is a computer that somebody programmed, you can know that and still feel like a robot doing the "right" thing, the best you can, according to programming

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smurficus103 t1_ixn5x7i wrote

Reply to comment by NOLA_Tachyon in For the first time, astronomers have observed how certain supermassive black holes launch jets (outflows of ionised matter) of high-energy particles into space by The_R3venant

You're right, i tend to think in more classical physics and not GR, but it's still fun to contemplate... ya know, could some magnetic generation inside of a black hole rival the force of gravity? Particularly if you don't think of these things as singularities and instead objects with a bunch of stuff happening inside that collectively are enough local energy density to always bend light into orbits

Dont get too excited by this article, they say it's probably a coincidence at the end of the article https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2020/06/25/shocking-new-observation-merging-black-holes-really-can-emit-light/?sh=35cd33a417bf

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smurficus103 t1_ixm1un7 wrote

Reply to comment by PingouinMalin in For the first time, astronomers have observed how certain supermassive black holes launch jets (outflows of ionised matter) of high-energy particles into space by The_R3venant

I guess imagine the black hole as something larger than a star, spinning fast, with violent collisions from stars it eats, generating a huge magnetic field, like a dynamo, and burping out a bit of xrays? It's kinda fun, but, yeah, who knows.

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