What is so bad about chlorhexidine?
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LOL! I don’t think women’s clothing is less itchy (my husband’s isn’t any itchier than mine), but even if it were, that advantage would be totally negated by most women having to wear a bra.
Yes, exactly. From a bit later in the article:
“The causes of this distrust are complex and diverse. They include psychological traits that predispose some people towards paranoid worldviews; institutional failures, such as telling noble lies to manage public behaviour and dismissing legitimate ideas as conspiracy theories; and feelings—often justified—of exclusion from positions of power and influence.”
See also https://iai.tv/articles/misinformation-is-the-symptom-not-the-disease-daniel-walliams-auid-2690:
”Nevertheless, the model of misinformation as a societal disease often gets things backwards. In many cases, false or misleading information is better viewed as a symptom of societal pathologies such as institutional distrust, political sectarianism, and anti-establishment worldviews. When that is true, censorship and other interventions designed to debunk or prebunk misinformation are unlikely to be very effective and might even exacerbate the problems they aim to address.To begin with, the central intuition driving the modern misinformation panic is that people—specifically other people—are gullible and hence easily infected by bad ideas. This intuition is wrong. A large body of scientific research demonstrates that people possess sophisticated cognitive mechanisms of epistemic vigilance with which they evaluate information.
If anything, these mechanisms make people pig-headed, not credulous, predisposing them to reject information at odds with their pre-existing beliefs. Undervaluing other people’s opinions, they cling to their own perspective on the world and often dismiss the claims advanced by others. Persuasion is therefore extremely difficult and even intense propaganda campaigns and advertising efforts routinely have minimal effects.”
Huh, whatever it was, it appears to have been solved; the link works like it should now. I haven’t changed anything on my end.
Today when I allowed the site in the viruschecker, Firefox said:
>Secure Connection Failed
>An error occurred during a connection to www.secretorum.life. Peer received a valid certificate, but access was denied.
>Error code: SSL_ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED_ALERT
>The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
>Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.and I could only choose Retry, which didn’t work.
After telling the viruschecker to allow www.secretorum.life too, I got the same message, but this time Firefox allowed me to go there anyway, and of course there doesn’t look to be any problem. Maybe there is a wrong setting somewhere...
My viruschecker thinks Life on the Grid: Terra Incognita is dangerous, and says I shouldn’t go there...
62 seconds.
68-year-old woman
take a 45-60 min. walk every day
go to fitness bootcamp 2x/week
Oh yes, of course. I was only talking about the people Stephen mentioned, “who have no care for the truth and will say whatever they think will make them look good in the short term or give them immediate pleasure”.
They’re bullshitters.
“Both in lying and in telling the truth people are guided by their beliefs concerning the way things are. These guide them as they endeavour either to describe the world correctly or to describe it deceitfully. For this reason, telling lies does not tend to unfit a person for telling the truth in the same way that bullshitting tends to. …The bullshitter ignores these demands altogether. He does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.”
—Harry G. Frankfurt, On Bullshit
Nitpick: in the help text, “effect your beliefs” should be “affect your beliefs”.
conscious
Typo, should be conscience
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
—Isaac Asimov
Heart shall be bolder, harder be purpose,
more proud the spirit as our power lessens!
Mind shall not falter nor mood waver,
though doom shall come and dark conquer.
—J.R.R. Tolkien, The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son
Make sure the names are written in big, bold letters, so they can be read from normal talking distance. Give people a thick marker to write with if you have them write their own names.
I’d love to know more about this.
Thank you! I was already eating pretty healthy, but now I’m replacing milk yogurt with soy yogurt, and eating fewer eggs and more bread with nut butter. I already don’t eat a lot of meat, but I’m also replacing meat with tempeh in one more meal.
DF decreases estrogen (which could cause cancer)
There’s your negative effect: DF may be partly responsible for my low sex drive.
>The question is whether future humans will even bother trying to carry Earth animals with them or not?
Of course we will bring our pets! I don’t know about other animals though. If it’s up to me, mosquitoes will get left behind, for one.
Those side effects don’t seem so bad. I’m not planning to put it in my ear; I don’t get any irritation or allergic reactions, and the way I’m using it (applying a toothpaste containing it around my implants after brushing my teeth, as prescribed by my dental hygienist) doesn’t seem to discolor my teeth either. 4-chloroaniline and hexamethylenediamine do look scary though...