The headline left out something important from the article and posed a false dichotomy, a minority of harvested crabs are being used to develop medicines, and most of those are released and survive. The vast majority that are killed are being harvested for use as bait in commercial fishing. Seems like that's the obvious thing to cut back on to save the humans, the crabs, and the birds.
Big concern, especially with the case being tried in Florida federal court. This most recent case is filed in DC however, and the vast majority of people who live in DC are not very enamored with trump, to say the least.
As much as I hate meta/Facebook, don't get me wrong, I don't think these laws are right either. I don't think you should have to pay to simply provide a link to another website. This runs antithetical to the whole idea and structure of the internet. If they're taking the article or photos and republishing it on their own website that's different and they obviously should have to pay for that. The linking to news sites is actually good for news sites though and increases profit for publishers by driving traffic to their sites, it doesn't take profit away. The news publishers are free to have a paywall or put advertisements on the page being linked too and get revenue from that. This feels like publishers wanting to eat their cake and keep it too, they want big search engines and social media to link to their articles so the news sites get traffic and revenue from advertisements/subscriptions, and then they also want the search engines who created that traffic in the first place to pay for linking too? I think publishers are shooting themselves in the foot in the long run lobbying for these laws all for a pittance of cash.
This idea could also affect things like lemmy too eventually and make them impossible, if you need to pay to simply provide a link to a news story or other website.
Until recently the US preventative services task force had been recommendeding low dose aspirin to petty much everyone over a certain age for prevention of heart disease and ischemic stroke. They recently ended this catch-all recommendation for everyone above a certain age, but there are many situations in which a low dose aspirin is still going to be helpful for certain people. Low dose aspirin has a low risk of major side effects, but if what it's preventing is also rare then it might not be worth it for everyone. So it's no longer a catch all recommendation above a certain age, the decision needs to be made in conjunction with a patient's doctor based on their particular health situation and risk benefit balance. Age is another thing that may affect this balance, for instance this study was specifically looking at older adults where bleeding events are more common than in younger or middle aged adults, and shouldn't be generalized to all adults.
For secondary prevention (like someone already has evidence of heart disease or a past ischemic stroke), there's volumes of evidence showing it's benefit. Sometimes even two different antiplatelet drugs, like aspirin and clopidogrel, are even used together.
Very important stipulation here just so it's clear before everyone chucks their aspirin in the trash, this is a study on just giving low dose aspirin to people who are totally healthy. We know aspirin is helpful for ischemic stroke prevention for people who are at higher risk for strokes, including people who've had an ischemic stroke before. Many people have risk factors for stroke and cardiac disease. People should talk to their doctor about whether or not they should be on a low dose aspirin.
Fantastic classic 2d Zelda games. I prefer them to link's awakening honestly (though still love that game). Also if you finish one before playing the other there is a password system that interacts between the two games and unlocks more content. You can start with either one first. I kind of preferred playing seasons first but it doesn't really matter. Seasons is slightly more action heavy and ages a little more puzzle heavy in general.
In that case if the blocks aren't physical or natural resources only the analogy starts to fall apart a bit, since you'd have to consider productivity and what we define as being more productive. The computer or plow or any of a number of innovation would have created blocks that weren't there before. Hard to anticipate the future. I do think our definitions of growth, value and productivity are major issues. In the end the economy and society has to transition to growth being defined as progress toward true sustainability, or at least the closest thing to it that can be achieved on a finite world that will eventually end no matter what is done on am absurd enough time scale.
You misunderstand me, I agree, just trying to generate discussion. I think the grey goo consuming the universe is the horrible hellish end result of infinite growth and a good argument that at some point moderation, priorities, and a "good enough" need to be declared. Also maybe thinking instead of growth about transformation, that innovation and newness doesn't always have to mean ever increasing consumption. What "blocks" could be exchanged for other new and interesting "blocks" instead possibly. How could the blocks be better arranged?
Totally get the point and generally agree. To play devil's advocate though, what about intellectual property and artistic works? Is that theoretically an infinite or near infinite good? Or at least an unending one. Also space! Maybe we can eventually become grey goo, consuming the entire galaxy to propagate more things to consume the entire galaxy. Fun!
Harder to find evidence of historical attitudes, so not exactly sure when it flipped from the physician crusade of the 1800s against abortion, but here's a survey from 1991 showing broad support: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1781824/
I'd also be quick not to jump to conclusions and assume a doctor's unwillingness to break the law is entirely selfish with no regard to patient welfare. If they broke the law, after getting thrown in jail for murder and being unable to care for their own families and loved ones, they'd also be unable to see more patients, many of whom they would have been able to help and may not get help now. Doctors have many patients, not just one.
Unfortunately yes. Not you or many in this forum probably, but it's popular many places to portray LGBT rights as "colonialism" and the idea that the western world is "exporting same sex relations" to places such as Africa. Then taking that a step further and using the forces of anti colonial feelings and nationalism and turning them against LGBT people. When it should be clear to anyone paying attention that, if anything, it's homophobia that has been exported around the world, both historically and currently. Tons of examinations of the topic available, here's one:
https://www.aaihs.org/did-europe-bring-homophobia-to-africa/
Not to say that Africa is a monolith where every single pre colonial culture was super LGBT friendly or something, but just general trends.
The neurons you're born with stay with you for the most part. Most of their complex organization is formed through a series of one time events early in development that can't really be replicated and then stays with you for the rest of your life. You get shingles when you're older because the same neurons were with you that got infected by chicken pox when you were younger are still there. There's a few limited areas in the nervous system where new neurons might be formed, but in general neurons are life long cells so be nice to your nervous system. Most other cell types in your body are turning over as you said, including glia and other types of cells in your brain.
It was authorized by congress, specifically the heroes act. It gave the executive branch the power to "waive or modify loans" in reponse to a national emergency, and cornavirus was declared one. The law passed by congress explicitly gives Biden the power to do this. It'd a terrible ruling by the court. Not to mention the suing parties have no standing to begin with, and the suit never should have even gone forward on that basis in the first place.
It even got adapted as a short animated bonus episode to the Sandman TV show.