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He's read too much Yarvin and other neo-reactionary/Dark Enlightenment nonsense.

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under the leadership of Donald Trump, Elon Musk and Bobby Kennedy Jr.

You can't have both.

That's a real mess they've made there. Personally a sad day as I peer-reviewed a paper for the JHE once.

At least it means that we are moving to more open journals and away from this weird exploitative model:

Nature published an article back in March raising questions about the efficacy of mass resignations as an emerging form of protest after all the editors of the Wiley-published linguistics journal Syntax resigned in February. (Several of their concerns mirror those of the JHE editorial board.) Such moves certainly garner attention, but even former Syntax editor Klaus Abels of University College London told Nature that the objective of such mass resignations should be on moving beyond mere protest, focusing instead on establishing new independent nonprofit journals for the academic community that are open access and have high academic standards.

Abels and his former Syntax colleagues are in the process of doing just that, following the example of the former editors of Critical Public Health and another Elsevier journal, NeuroImage, last year.

I wonder if there is a place for the Fediverse there, perhaps with each journal/publisher being an instance.

Yeah, I don't see much that couldn't be added to Loops and the "ghost metrics" idea would be easy enough to add to most Fediverse platforms if it proved popular.

However, most of those features look like stuff they came up with in an afternoon to try and set it apart from TikTok while the main thrust is just to scoop up users as TikTok struggles with it's current issues.

Wouldn't address the importance of fibre, micronutrients and other benefits accrued from getting your vitamins from food. They say multivitamins just give you expensive wee. You are better off taking specific vitamins to cover any shortfalls. So with this article in mind, a Vitamin B complex pill would probably be a better idea. We Brits also need to be on Vitamin D at least through the darker months. I tale the latter all year, I am considering the former and would recommend something like a high strength cod liver oil tablet for Omega 3. Those three would cover a lot of the bases (to the point you wonder about the NHS banging them out at scale) but aren't a substitute for a balanced diet.

We need to be eating random things, not the same protein, carbs, and veggies that we know we like and buy on routine.

That's pretty advanced level stuff. A lot of the issues in the article would be addressed by people working to cut down UPFs and eating more fruit and veg. I can't say I eat a wide variety of food but I've turned my health around in the last few years.

There were also 2,630 admissions in 2023-24 where B vitamin deficiency (other than folate) was the main reason, up 15% on the previous year and more than triple the 833 in 1998-99, according to the NHS data.

Vitamin B12 or folate deficiency anaemia resulted in 3,490 hospital admissions in 2023-24, similar to the previous year but up fourfold from 836 in 1998-99, analysis by the PA Media news agency found.

My uncle got diagnosed with neuropathy last year (he was sent to be tested for Parkinson's) due to his terrible diet (vitamin B12 deficiency is a cause) and his brother and sister had Wernicke-Korsakoff's (vitamin B1 deficiency from boozing, my auntie died a month back from it) I am definitely considering a B complex supplement. Might get them to run a panel on my vitamin levels in my end of year blood test this year.

Everyone in the UK should be on vitamin D as we don't get enough sunlight half the year.

!neodb@lemmy.zip

I suppose we've had mild weather so far this winter but it was never going to last.

Yep, he has a terrible skin care regime. Lock him up!

Has he not suffered enough? No. They should invent some kind of crotch stocks, so we can all go and throw bricks at his nethers.

Isn't this what Friendica/Hubzilla does?

The Heartland Institute – one of the organisations involved in the radical Project 2025 agenda for a second Donald Trump term – has been at the forefront of denying the scientific evidence for man-made climate change, and received at least $676,000 between 1998 and 2007 from U.S. oil major ExxonMobil.

Heartland is known “for its persistent questioning of climate science”, according to Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, and it has received tens of thousands in donations from foundations linked to the owners of Koch Industries – a fossil fuel behemoth and a leading sponsor of climate science denial.

A Union of Concerned Scientists report in 2007 alleged that nearly 40 percent of the total funds received by Heartland Institute from ExxonMobil since 1998 were designated for climate change projects.

They seem very intent on selling us oil until the world burns. Not really sure what their plan is after that though.

You do know you can go into another room and read a book if your mum wants to watch her dancing show?

We're usually somewhere around the top 20. I think we're currently 21st by user numbers, 22nd by MAU. I'd usually class us as medium-sized, but as l.w is as large as everyone else combined you can really only class them as large.

!neodb@lemmy.zip is pretty much an everything database, so you can feed in films, TV, books, comics, music, etc and it can replace all the separate databases that have largely been bought up by Big Tech (often Amazon), like IMDb, Goodreads, etc.

It's originally Chinese, so English language reviews are thinner on the ground at the moment but a lot of people are enthusiastic about it and I am hopefully it'll soon take off.

Seems like a gap in the market. Lemmy.us?

Depends on if the despot is one of ours or not.

Usually if they aren't then the West is backing the overthrowers. The tricky thing here is we weren't backing any side so there will be a bit of a diplomatic scramble to figure out where the land lies.

Ultimately as we've happily worked with terrorists and despots in the past, we'll have no issues bending our "morals" to accommodate another one.

The real test will be the Kurds. Turkey couldn't openly support HTS but it's thought that they have al-Golani the green light as they were making no progress with Assad. Turkey won't want Syria to break up as that would be the start of a new Kurdistan so how will they deal with what comes next.

It'll also be interesting to see what the West do as he and HTS are currently designated terrorists.

But this trademark is clearly them establishing themselves as not-milk and plenty of vegan products term themselves like this (“No Steak Pie”) without issue, it’s only dairy products that this ridiculous standard applied to them.

I Can't Believe It's Not Butter seem to have no bother. Perhaps it's just Big Milk at work.