Schrödinger's faschist.

This reporting feels careless.

https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/article-902165

The study was conducted as part of Alon Levy's master's thesis in public health at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

I'm not saying masters thesis are not good work, but it's not peer reviewed the same way other research is (yet).

Researchers performed a meta-analysis, a statistical method that combines data from multiple previous studies, incorporating six longitudinal studies conducted in Israel, the United States, Brazil, Finland, and Denmark. Each study included testosterone measurements taken at at least three different time points. In total, data from 118,593 men examined between 1972 and 2019 were analyzed.

This is hardly representative of "worldwide".

Feels very

I spent too long making test tiles of clay coloured with mason stain but they will become data and I hoard that shit.

(I also kindly request trust fund info)

He was a hash dealer, not a drug user. Easy to confuse: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/globe-investigation-the-ford-familys-history-with-drug-dealing/article12153014/

Mayors did not have a lot of power until Doug gave some of them Strong Mayor powers recently: https://www.ontario.ca/document/ontario-municipal-councillors-guide/10-strong-mayor-powers-and-duties#section-3

Before then they were just one vote.

People should continue to vote for folks who do fuck all to stop bad things? Because they are better than those who do the bad things?

Um, or they could be neurodivergent.

I would not have understood that someone didn't want a factual answer if I was asked a question that had a factual answer. In fact, I get annoyed when people ask me questions they know I don't know. It has nothing to do with faster access to info.

Now you are thinking with capitalism

Almost every piece of information documented on the internet or used to train LLM is an approximation, or a simplification. Searching and LLM are very handy if you know exactly what you are looking for or you have some idea of what you don't know, but if you don't know what you don't know, things can go sideways easily if you are looking for extremely specific guidance vs just goofing around.

This is why apprenticeships are a thing. You can't learn everything from books or a classroom. It takes experiencing things and seeing what those approximations are and how they impact your decision making to help improve your trade. Even at that point, speaking to other experts is extremely useful. They can challenge your approach, or share how they do things where they are. Inevitably, some of those approximations are different.

In my work I talk to as many people as possible to solve a problem. Everyone's observations and hunches are different. 99% of the time I don't think they are lying to me, but two people can swear something totally different happened and it's just because their assumptions were different, or their memory is slightly varied.

Other reasons are because I care about people in my life and I want to hear from them. I want to know what they are doing and how they are feeling. It brings me joy to talk to my partner and friends. They are very funny!

Wow it's almost like parasocial relationships (that are part of why social media is so addictive) harm vulnerable people.

You still haven't told me what the socially expected reply was?

I don't need to manually pollinate. The cucumbers are doing really well this year. As I explained in another post we've had a very early heat wave and they went wild before the various things that usually end the season could take hold. It's like, perfect timing and the best seasons we've had in our 5 years here.

Oh, did you want to learn about hand pollination? Well, for cucurbits you need to wait until there is a male flower and a female flower in bloom at the same time. They usually start off with a lot of one or the other, but not both. Once you have both you can remove the male flower and rub it on the stigma of the female flower. You can pollinate more than one female flower with a male flower if you are careful. Make sure some of the pollen is actually landing on the stigma. I like to say "now kiss" when I do it but I'm silly like that.

This is from a zucchini but same thing.

I feel like it must be exhausting. Maybe I have less capacity for being perceived than the average but it's an tonne of emotional labour to reply the way they do.