Was curious about the etymology so looked it up. Seems like half-loaf referred to the fact that it weighed 2 pounds, half the standard "quartern" 4lb round loaf which was typically sold in quarters.
Please only take this medication by prescription from a medical doctor. Even if these results are replicated, there is a huge difference between 12mg/day IV for 5 days under medical supervision and consuming a tube of apple flavored paste containing 6 grams of ivermectin. Ivermectin is neurotoxic at high doses and can absolutely kill you.
Pretty sure if your case of Covid is severe enough to warrant treatment, you will not be calling around looking for a second opinion just because your doc prescribed an Rx that might be “internet controversial”.
Frankly I trust my doctor more than I trust FB, YouTube, and the government.
Well… if we start from the premise I am desperate enough to throw reason out the window, then yeah, why not take horse dewormer, malaria drugs, fish tank cleaner, crystals and prayer?
Honestly…people who toss out the whole “horse dewormer” talking point should also refuse to take penicillin if your doctor prescribed it because they also give that drug to horses too.
It’s not just a “horse dewormer” folks, it’s a “people dewormer” that has also been used in anti-viral treatments as well. Argue that’s it’s not effective, but stop pretending that this isn’t a drug that is prescribed to people all over the world.
I would also add, before you argue that it's ineffective, please consider it in the context of its place in the "triple therapy". We use drug combinations to treat things like cancer and peptic ulcers because of synergies. My understanding is that the ivermectin and doxycycline help zinc to get into our cells and the zinc is what does the work to inhibit virus replication.
I think you are going to have a hard time convincing someone who only refers to ivermectin as a “horse dewormer” to think of it beyond whatever their summary talking points tell them. That is why the talking point is to try and mislead folks as it being only a veterinary Rx, they don’t have to go into details…just dump the misinfo out there.
BTW, I’m not arguing for or against it for Covid. I am just saying that if my doctor decided to prescribe it for me, I’m going to trust their judgement, because I trust them.
There's probably a proper term for this but it seems to me there's a lot of absolute-izing language being thrown around, on issues that aren't absolute. Eg, anyone not 100% onboard with immediately taking whatever vaccine is on offer is an anti-vaxxer. Anyone interested in searching out possible off-label uses of ivermectin might as well just cease and desist because we all know ivermectin is just for killing worms in horses.
It's designed to shut down any reasoned discourse or critical thinking and I'm surprised it's still working.
Someone said the exact same thing to me when HCQ was pushed with bad quality studies by certain doctors to Fox News hosts who then pushed it to Trump. Higher quality studies later found it wasn't useful. So there.
You seem to be confused. The studies which "later found it wasn't useful" were fabricated, as was discovered mere days after they hit the news. They weren't even plausible.
The initial studies were bad quality, they just removed the people who got admitted to ICUs from the treatment group. They were run by a doctor known to be a charlatan. They were pushed to Trump as a magic way to calm the people and market down.
I don't get why people like you think the world is so US centric. The world doesn't give a flying fuck about giving Trump a very slight lower chance of getting re-elected, much less kill their people and their economy for it. I don't see how studies across the world were fabricated, there's no reason for, say, India to kill millions of their citizens and destroy their economy by faking studies about HCQ when they don't hate Trump and may have even liked him.
You're the one that's confused, here's an analysis on HCQ from someone that has worked on drug discovery for decades.
And I don't think Trump pushed Ivermectin? If it works so well as you think, one would think the Democrats would be all over it so they can say Biden cured Covid and restored the economy.
The tax stuff in EU4 is the exact kind of modifier-based abstraction of extraction that the article is saying is all-too-common of simulation/strategy games set in this period. EU4 is one of the most "board-gamey" Paradox games with probably the most abstraction of the individuals you're supposedly ruling over. The tax system is truly one of the most bland parts of the whole game. Saying this as someone with many hundreds of hours in EU4, it's a game I used to really enjoy.
I have to second this recommendation and add my favorite video[0] of his, "Kick Me In The Asteraceae, with Helianthus annuus," about sunflowers. It's truly an informative and down to earth take on what can be a very stuffy and jargon-dense subject.
L-systems are a lot of fun. When messing around with pen plotters a few years ago with a friend, we implemented an L-system driven plotter and one of the more interesting programs we found to run on it was an aperiodic Penrose tiling. We ended up throwing a party with the plotter going and art supplies so folks could grab a copy and color them in. Some videos below of the plotter in action.
I’ve never been quite sure about my accent, but it’s probably closest to Australian English. The relevant sound change is /l/-vocalisation: syllable-final [ɫ] → [w] with accompanying vowel changes, and syllabic [ɫ̩] → [u]. So I have e.g. pool [puːw], wall [woːw], adult [ˈʔæɾʊwtˢ], peel [piːw ~ ˈpiju], apple [ˈʔæpʰu], middle [ˈmɪɾu].
Very interesting. After asking I wondered if there could have been some kind of velar connection but L-vocalization makes sense. Appreciate the in depth explanation with lots of examples from your idiolect.
These sounds are really close together to begin with, but in English, we don't actually use either of those sounds in word-initial position like the example recording, and so unless you speak a language that distinguishes these sounds in this context, they are going to be difficult to differentiate. Our word-initial voiceless stops (p, t, k) are actually aspirated stops, that is they are produced with a strong puff of air, while our word-initial voiced stops (b, d, g) are partially unvoiced and are actually somewhere between the t and d recordings.
Hold your hand in front of your mouth and feel the difference in pressure when you pronounce the first sound of the word "tune" versus the word "dune". This will let you feel that puff of "aspiration." Next, try putting your fingers over the front of your throat, (on your layrnx or where the Adam's apple is on men), and pronounce the sounds slowly. You may be able to feel the difference when your vocal cords start to vibrate as you say the "d" sound. In native English speakers this happens shortly after the pressure is released from your tongue, while in the English "t" sound, the vibration doesn't start until the vowel does. The "d" sound in the example from the chart has the vocal cord vibrations start immediately as the pressure is being released.
> Hold your hand in front of your mouth and feel the difference in pressure when you pronounce the first sound of the word "tune" versus the word "dune". This will let you feel that puff of "aspiration."
The aspiration will be even more obvious if you try speaking into a microphone.
It's definitely not 100% unregulated to produce your own firearm in the United States. It can be very very illegal to do so and it's a really dangerous piece of advice to be giving a bunch of hackers. You must obey state and municipal laws regarding your eligibility to own a firearm at all. The firearm itself must be legal according to your state law. In the entire country, you must apply to the DOJ for a serial number before completion of the firearm and you must have it permanently engraved or imprinted upon the receiver or a piece of embedded steel.
> In the entire country, you must apply to the DOJ for a serial number before completion of the firearm
This is incorrect and is itself "bad advice". You do not need a serial number from the DOJ if you are not selling. But as has been stated in the comments, CA does have more stringent local rules and I'll update my comment to reflect that. I also added a link that explains the situation.
You're correct on the facts here as they relate to federal law-- I was reacting to the post's previous mention that firearm manufacture for personal use was 100% unregulated by any existing law. You've since edited it to be much more accurate and my comment isn't necessary.
The serial number part of this comment is only true if you want to sell a firearm you've made. If you built it for yourself undersized is perfectly fine (at the national level).
You also only have to apply for anything unless you become a manufacturer.
In California you have to buy serial numbers from the government, even if the manufacturing is just for personal use. There's also laws that make it illegal to make guns out of certain materials, and any pistol/handgun is basically required to be single shot/bolt action.
I really don't see 3D-printed firearms as a threat. It requires expensive, specialized equipment and days of patience to produce a product that is almost universally inferior to a length of pipe, a block of wood, and a nail. Everything one needs to create an improvised firearm is available cheaper and with less scrutiny at the hardware store.
Despite all the fight over distributing models for this junk, Defense Distributed also currently sells a genuinely dangerous CNC product[0] that is designed to automatically mill out so-called 80% receivers.
If you're not familiar with U.S. firearm law, the part of a gun that's legally considered a "firearm" is the frame or "receiver" that houses the other components. If you sell or produce one of these frames, you are selling or producing a firearm, whether it's made of plastic or metal. Companies get around this by selling incomplete receivers that still require machining, and Defense Distributed sells everything you need to finish the receiver and commit the felony yourself.
I don't actually know if there's actually any evidence of crimes (beyond production) committed with completed receivers but what I do know is that it has much more potential to create an actually reliable and dangerous firearm than 3D printing.
You can finish an AR-15 80% lower with commonly available hand tools in a few minutes. I don't see how the CNC machine that automates this procedure is somehow "dangerous". It's just a smaller, cheaper, and more specialized variant of a regular CNC machine which anyone could already buy.
You're 100% correct-- I believe it's more legally dangerous to those purchasing it than physically dangerous. It just lowers the barrier of entry and creates a frictionless path where someone buys a bunch of products, combines them in the way they were intended and they commit a felony and get a reliable firearm. When combined with the rhetoric that doing so is patriotic or in support of your rights it becomes worrying.
It sounds more frictioned if anything. Both would be pretty simple detective work. "Shooter had gun and ammo. Shooter bought from Bob's Guns. Case closed." vs "Shooter purchased receiver, ghost gunner, guncotton, loading bench, cases and primers, and prefabricated bullets/lead and casts. Case closed."
Also ability to get ammunition. Black powder is easy to make but it's dirty and modern smokeless powder is more difficult. Never mind percussion caps. Without ammunition guns aren't much good, no matter how they are made.
There are a couple fairly recent designs for 3D printed guns that are useful weapons, certainly better than the pipe-wood-and-nail arrangement. For example, the Washbear PM522 and the Liberator 12K shotgun.
But as another poster pointed out, ammunition is a completely different matter and is really the gating factor in all of this.
You're right, I was hyperbolizing somewhat, and I honestly hadn't looked into either of those designs closely before. The Liberator12K looks like it uses a steel barrel, which makes sense. I'm surprised the PM522 works as well as it does but I guess if any fully plastic design is going to work halfway decently, it would be a .22 Revolver.
https://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/half