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  • rbn@sopuli.xyztoScience Memes@mander.xyzInfinite Suffering
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    19 days ago

    I go for option 1.

    In all programming languages that I know, integers have a maximum number. E.g., in C that’d be 2,147,483,647. After that, you would run into an overflow, resulting in either…

    • a crash (train stops, no more deaths),
    • death count suddenly turns negative (all people previously killed are suddenly alive again and even new people are generated out of nowhere) - until we reach the next overflow when people disappear and start dying again
    • or - if it’s an unsigned integer - death count resets everytime we reach the maximum limit

    So compared to option 2, we have a chance of stopping the death count. And even if the train keeps running, we have essentially option 2 but the same people only die very rarely. If we assume a cycle of 1 death per second and an integer boundary of 2,147,483,647, that’s just one death every 68 years per person involved. Seems more fair to me compared to 100 people constantly dying over and over again.


  • I’m a cis male in my thirties with a naturally pretty high level of testosterone. Still, I only grow only a rather subtle beard and it only started several years after puberty kicked in. I still have some bald spots without any facial hair. Be assured, having an enormous beard is not a prerequisite to be a man. If you still feel a strong desire for more hair, talk to a dermatologist. There are special shampoos to (slightly) speed up the process and as a last resort, there’s also the chance to transplant hair from elsewhere.






  • No one will bother you, if you take some fruits from a branch over the sidewalk. Especially in urban areas like the city centre. Still, legally it belongs to the tree owner.

    In the countryside, it may get you in arguments if you take fruits from one’s overgrown tree. But in the countryside there are plenty of abandoned or wild trees far away from houses, where you can pick all sorts of fruit.




  • If you search on Google Scholar for scientific articles on the topic, there are indeed several studies and even meta studies out there. I didn’t read all of them but only screened some abstracts.

    My first impression is that a potential negative effect of soy products seems to be not significant as there are several studies finding no or even the inverse effect. However, if you have certain preconditions don’t trust some random guy on the internet. I’d advise to get a second opinion from a doctor and also read through some of the studies in more detail.

    The pooled effect size from 10 studies indicated no association between the consumption of a vegetarian diet and depression (pooled effect size: 1.02, 95% CI: 0.84–1.25, p = 0.817). Further, the pooled effect size from four studies suggests that a vegetarian diet is not associated with anxiety (pooled effect size: 1.09, 95% CI: 0.71–1.68, p = 0.678). Due to insufficient data for stress, we were not able to pool the results.

    https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=de&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=tofu+depression&oq=tofu+depress#d=gs_qabs&t=1725946152211&u=%23p%3DJ2vxLhx2n6AJ

    Another study specifically focused on the effect of soy on pregnant or menopausal women. They came to the result that soy products may be even beneficial:

    Higher intake of total soy products, tofu, tofu products, fermented soybeans, boiled soybeans, miso soup, and isoflavones was independently related to a lower prevalence of depressive symptoms during pregnancy

    However, they also say that they are apparantly the first study with such a result:

    Our study is the first to show independent inverse relationships between intake of total soy products, tofu, tofu products, fermented soybeans, boiled soybeans, miso soup, and isoflavones and depressive symptoms during pregnancy.

    https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=de&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=tofu+depression&oq=tofu+depress#d=gs_qabs&t=1725945759423&u=%23p%3DRX3BHgjfAigJ

    Another one regarding depression among workers says…

    High intake of isoflavones has been reported to be associated with decreased prevalence of depressive symptoms. However, no prospective study has examined this association [before this study]. […] During 5065 person-years of follow-up, 276 (23.8 %) workers were newly identified as having depressive symptoms. Isoflavone intake was not associated with risk of depressive symptoms. After adjustment for lifestyle and dietary factors and baseline CES-D score, the multivariable-adjusted hazard ratios (95 % confidence interval) for the lowest through highest tertile of isoflavone intake were 1.00 (reference), 0.93 (0.66–1.31), and 0.93 (0.62–1.38) (P for trend = 0.70). Conclusions Our findings suggest that higher isoflavone intake is not associated with decreased risk of depressive symptoms among Japanese.

    https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=de&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=tofu+depression&oq=tofu+depress#d=gs_qabs&t=1725946393568&u=%23p%3D_5DnZSJyqMQJ

    My search in general: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=de&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=tofu+depression&oq=tofu+depress







  • rbn@sopuli.xyztoWikipedia@lemmy.worldExplosive rat
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    and were to be distributed near German boiler rooms where it was expected they would be disposed of by burning, with the subsequent explosion having a chance of causing a boiler explosion.

    If the plan was to disguise the explosive and make the Germans burn them along with the coal, wouldn’t it be smarter to disguise the explosives as coal? I mean that’s way less effort and far harder to detect.

    Why would you burn dead rats in a boiler instead of just tossing it away? Pretty sure they don’t generate much heat and smell rather bad.

    Furthermore, if the allied forces could get close enough to the boiler rooms to deposit these rats, why not just plant and activate the bombs right away instead of hoping for that rat burning scenario?