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A quotation from Montaigne

If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
 
[Si vous ne sçavez pas mourir, ne vous chaille, nature vous en informera sur le champ, plainement & suffisamment, elle fera exactement cette besongne pour vous, n’en empeschez vostre soing.]

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essay (1588 c.), “Of Physiognomy [De la Physionomie], Essays, Book 3, ch. 12 (3.12) (1595) [tr. Frame (1943)]

Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

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Seth Goldstein

Has Taylor Lorenz Lost All Sense Of Sanity And Decency?

I can’t believe Taylor Lorenz! I expected more from her. As a journalist and as fucking human being.

I guess was wrong to think that highly of her.

Just because you think something, doesn’t mean you say it out loud!

https://www.mediaite.com/news/taylor-lorenz-openly-celebrates-joe-bidens-cancer-diagnosis-hopefully-he-rots-in-hell-and-rests-in-piss/

She really gives journalism a black eye.

I’d be shocked if she doesn’t lose subscribers to her newsletter on this.

And of course she only posts this on the cesspool that is XTwitter and nowhere else like Bluesky or Mastodon. Those she’s probably get more blow back.

Look, former-President Joe Biden’s approach to the Israeli-Palestinian war/genocide was questionable at best, despicable at worst. But as a journalist, Lorenz should realize that she should be more eloquent in how she expresses this opinion. Hell, kept it to herself.

And before anyone says that I’m saying that because she’s a woman, let me stop you right there. I think anyone and everyone needs to stop being so vile. Lorenz has complained about how she’s treated, I wonder why she’s treated the way she is?

I’m not condoning those people’s behaviors or hers, but my God, Biden just got terrible news and this is what she says? Good grief.

Look I’m putting my money where my mouth is, I’m unsubscribing from her newsletter and making sure I’m not contributing anymore.

People have been cancelled for less. I’m not saying she should be, but wishing someone ill when they get a horrible cancer diagnosis is shitty.

I’m hot under my collar about this also because, my Grandfather dies at 80 from prostate cancer. So her rhetoric stung!

What do you think?

Taylor Lorenz
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MikeDunnAuthor

Nearly HALF of all children in the U.S. died by the age of 5 in the early 1800s. By the early 2000s, it was less than 1%.

What changed?

Scientific progress! Vhaccines, antibiotics, pasteurization, chlorinated water, and the data to support regulations that would keep adulterants, pollutants and Germs out of the food and water supplies.

Now all of that is changing, thanks largely to the anti-science agenda of Trump and RFK Jr., as well as some trends that began before their tenure.

TB, which killed nearly 1 in 7 people in the U.S., is now relatively rare, thanks to antibiotics and screening. Though it's also making a comeback, with some multi-drug resistant strains. The WHO estimates that drug resistant super bugs could kill 10 million people a year by 2050 if urgent action isn't taken, something that is much less likely to happen in the US, with the slashing of science and research funding under Trump. However the problem precedes both Trump and RFK, stemming from years of overuse and misuse of antibiotics, primarily in animal agriculture, but also due to doctors misprescribing them for viral infections and due to patients not completing their course of treatment.

Smallpox, which killed 80% of all children it infected, no longer exists, thanks to vaccines. However, measles was gone, too, until antivax hysteria over the past 20 years caused many parents to forego vaccinations for their kids. Consequently, we're now seeing an uptick in measles, mumps, rubella and pertussis. As well as polio in many parts of the world.

Pasteurization kills many germs that spread through milk, including diphtheria, typhoid, E coli, salmonella, listeria, etc. It also kills bird flu. But many Americans, including RFKJr., keep pushing the false notion that raw milk is safer and healthier. Pasteurization, named for the scientist Louis Pasteur (who, incidently, had dyslexia and dysgraphia), is believed to have saved millions of lives, not only by keeping milk free of deadly pathogens, but also by extending its shelf life, thus providing greater access to this nutrient-rich food for children.

Federal regulations and monitoring have reduced the amount of adulterants, toxins and pollutants in the food and water supply, significantly reducing mortality. In the 1800s, tens of thousands died from cholera in the US, including Presidents Polk & Taylor, due mostly to fecal contamination of the water supply. Though water-chlorination is not currently under attack by RFK, he is calling for an end to fluoridation, which has helped keep millions of low income kids from getting cavities and losing their teeth. And RFK has been bragging about swimming with his grandkids in contaminated rivers, as if to condition us to embrace further deregulation and attacks on public health.

statista.com/statistics/104169

StatistaUnited States: child mortality rate 1800-2020| StatistaThe child mortality rate in the United States, for children under the age of five, was 462.9 deaths per thousand births in 1800.
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JD

A few years ago, I started keeping a paper running journal for 90% vain reasons. When I die, whatever online system I use will just … linger. No one’s gonna know it even existed. But half a shelf of notebooks? *Someone’s* gonna have to do *something* with them, and maybe they’ll open one and be like “whoa, Uncle J did some *really* stupid shit!”

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vk3kri

So I'm writing the code for my weather station upgrade, and I do a quick check on whether the cumulative counter for the tipping bucket rain gauge should be int(16bit) of long(32bit) . Looking at Melbourne's avg rain fall, it looks like int will last 33 years.
Short pause. - Hmm I'll probably be dead by then .
Short pause. - Well that's two bytes saved.

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#COVID19vaccination and short-term #mortality risk: a nationwide self-controlled case series study in The Netherlands | medRxiv medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/20 “We found a 44% lower relative incidence of all-cause deaths in the first three weeks after the primary vaccination compared to more than three weeks after vaccination (IRR 0.56, 95%CI 0.54-0.57). (1/3)

medRxiv · COVID-19 vaccination and short-term mortality risk: a nationwide self-controlled case series study in The NetherlandsExcess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic partly exceeded COVID-19-related deaths, indicating that other causes may have contributed. We conducted a retrospective data-linkage study including all Dutch inhabitants to investigate the impact of COVID-19 vaccination on excess mortality using a modified self-controlled case series method. We found a 44% lower relative incidence of all-cause deaths in the first three weeks after the primary vaccination compared to more than three weeks after vaccination (IRR 0.56, 95%CI 0.54-0.57). This lower incidence was consistent across vaccine types, doses, genders, age groups, and individuals with or without prior SARS-CoV-2 infection or comorbidities, and for non-COVID-19 related deaths. For booster vaccinations, the relative incidence was similar (IRR 0.49, 95%CI 0.49-0.50). In comparison, we observed a 16-fold higher incidence of all-cause deaths in the three weeks following a registered positive SARS-CoV-2 infection compared to more than three weeks after infection (IRR 16.19, 95%CI 15.78-16.60). A lower relative incidence of short-term deaths following COVID-19 vaccination support that COVID-19 vaccination is not associated with the observed excess mortality. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest. ### Funding Statement This study was funded by the Dutch public funding agency ZonMw, grant number 10430252220010. ### Author Declarations I confirm all relevant ethical guidelines have been followed, and any necessary IRB and/or ethics committee approvals have been obtained. Yes The details of the IRB/oversight body that provided approval or exemption for the research described are given below: The IRB of University Medical Centre Utrecht waived ethical approval for this work. This study does not fall under the scope of the Dutch Medical Research Involving Human Subjects Act (WMO). It therefore does not require approval from an accredited medical ethics committee in the Netherlands. However, in the UMC Utrecht, an independent quality check has been carried out to ensure compliance with legislation and regulations (regarding Informed Consent procedure, data management, privacy aspects and legal aspects). I confirm that all necessary patient/participant consent has been obtained and the appropriate institutional forms have been archived, and that any patient/participant/sample identifiers included were not known to anyone (e.g., hospital staff, patients or participants themselves) outside the research group so cannot be used to identify individuals. Yes I understand that all clinical trials and any other prospective interventional studies must be registered with an ICMJE-approved registry, such as ClinicalTrials.gov. I confirm that any such study reported in the manuscript has been registered and the trial registration ID is provided (note: if posting a prospective study registered retrospectively, please provide a statement in the trial ID field explaining why the study was not registered in advance). Yes I have followed all appropriate research reporting guidelines, such as any relevant EQUATOR Network research reporting checklist(s) and other pertinent material, if applicable. Yes All data are available within CBS Microdata and can be made available under strict conditions: Microdata: Conducting your own research https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/our-services/customised-services-microdata/microdata-conducting-your-own-research#:~:text=Microdata%20are%20linkable%20data%20at,strict%20conditions%20for%20statistical%20research [https://github.com/isabelslurink/SCCS\_COVID19\_mortality_paper][1] [1]: https://github.com/isabelslurink/SCCS_COVID19_mortality_paper
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