Stupid article aside, a large filling breakfast being good for you and the whole âbreakfast is the most important meal of the dayâ is a complete and utter lie invented for advertisement.
The point wasnât to skip breakfast, it was that a big one isnât necessary. Have a piece of toast, have a giant breakfast or none at all. Itâs usually fine to follow your bodies need if youâre hungry or thirsty. Itâs just that some people think itâs important to have a big breakfast, which is a untrue. A small refreshing or nurishing one is much better in many cases.
Nope, the placebo effect can have physical effects and be genuinely curative. The level to which this is the case is highly variable from patient to patient, but it is inaccurate to say that is limited to improving sensation and perception of illness. Not to mention, in many cases the malady being treated is one of perception, for example, in pain management. And alleviating pain in itself has downstream positive effects on disease progression and patient QOL.
Actual chronic pain sufferer here. If I had a dollar every time placebo and positive thinking was prescribed to me, I would have enough to maybe hire a doctor who wonât systemically downplay or dismiss my pain because of my age and gender.
I hope you do, because no good peer-reviewed studies ever produced the results you are talking about. I urge you to show me which ones you are talking about.
And you should learn to look closer. Maybe get more that a couple of words out of headline, you know, how scientificly minded people are suppose to be.
You are literally spouting out of your ass. There are multiple peer reviewed papers which show how the body can regenerate itself through placebo effect.
Itâs real and verified just like grass. Go touch some. You are way out of your depth here.
QED is actually the opposite of a conspiracy theory channel or organisation. Theyâre very pro science and critical thinking, and spend a lot of time debunking conspiracy theories and pseudo-science.
Iâve got no skin in the debate in this thread, I didnât watch the actual video and have no opinion on the validity of what you or the other posters are saying, Iâm just pointing out that I think that youâre wrong to dismiss the channel as a source, even if you disagree with the claims made in that specific video.
My random conjure if anyone cares:
I see it like many ârealâ medicines that alleviate symptoms. Sometimes the symptoms are the ones causing the issues, EX. a fever to kill germs can kill braincells. But like any medicine that alleviates symptoms, it can also hide problems. So I see it as a case by case thing.
The thing here is that some medicine doesnât really heal either. Paracetamol is just a pain suppressant, and ibuprofen partially suppresses it while accelerating blood flow and thus reducing inflammation, which is why itâs used for sore throat, to avoid more friction and let the throat heal by itself.
Aleviating pain is sometimes what your body needs to start focusing on healing itself. Itâs not a miracle but it works when it does.
Say8ng that placebo effect doesnât heal you isnât really that revealing, plenty medicine doesnât either and thatâs okay, thatâs not their objective.
Lemmy.ml removed the ability to create communities to (I believe) encourage using other instances. You can create a community on other instances still - like lemmy.world, for example.
The longer I stayed on Lemmy.world, the more I realized how counter-productive everyone migrating to the biggest, most popular instance was. They should be actively encouraging new users in the Fediverse to explore
I actually made a new account today on .ca for that reason. I have had a .world account for two months now but theyâre having some growing pains so I figured Iâd do my (tiny) part to help distribute the server loads a little better.
Iâve been floating between .ca, shitjustworks, dbzer0 and kbin for the last few months before I settled on .ml. I like being given the choice of what content I want to see, on the platform that I like most
Pigs are resistant and it doesnât matter to any animals unless they are eating brains. All of the smarmy aasholes in here commenting âwHaT aBoUt PrIoNsâ are embarrassing themselves.
Itâs a bot from kbin that started posting yesterday. Some lemmy instances temporarily blocked the community it was coming from until the kbin admins fix it.
Linux is their bread and butter when it comes to servers and machine learning, but thatâs a specialized environment and they donât really care about general desktop use on arbitrary distros. They care about big businesses with big support contracts. Nobodyâs running Wayland on their supercomputer clusters.
I cannot wait until architecture-agnostic ML libraries are dominant and I can kiss CUDA goodbye for good. I swear, 90% of my tech problems over the past 5 years have boiled down to âNvidia sucksâ. Iâve changed distros three times hoping it would make things easier, and it never really does; it just creates exciting new problems to play whack-a-mole with. I currently have Ubuntu LTS working, and Iâm hoping I never need to breathe on it again.
That said, thereâs honestly some grass-is-greener syndrome going on here, because you know what sucks almost as much as using Nvidia on Linux? Using Nvidia on Windows.
Yeah they don't hate Linux, they just have their own priorities. That said I'm running Nvidia+Wayland happily, for desktop they have worked a lot more on Wayland this year, the upcoming driver fixes a bunch of things, and my distrib handled driver installation and updates, I never have to think about it.
I cannot wait until architecture-agnostic ML libraries are dominant and I can kiss CUDA goodbye for good
I really hope this happens. After being on Nvidia for over a decade (960 for 5 years and similar midrange cards before that), I finally went AMD at the end of last year. Then of course AI burst onto the scene this year, and Iâve not yet managed to get stable diffusion running to the point itâs made me wonder if I might have made a bad choice.
Itâs possible to run stable diffusion on amd cards, itâs just a bit more tedious and a lot slower. I managed to get it working on my rx 6700 under arch linux just fine. Now that Iâm on fedora, it doesnât really want to work for some reason, but Iâm sure that it can be fixed as well, I just didnât spend enough time on it.
It just makes no sense to me though, how is it sustainable for nvidia to not have great Linux kernel support? Like, let the kernel maintainers do their job and reap the benefits. Iâm guessing that nvidia sees enterprise support contracts as an essential revenue stream, but eventually even enterprises are going to go with hardware that Linus isnât giving the finger to right? Am I crazy?
Sometimes itâs weird to look back on middle school, and the teachers who brought our generation up as young kids being told about the future. Iâm an adult now, and I feel like an adult now, but in a way it feels like Iâm still a part of that group of dumb and naive kids. It doesnât feel that long ago at all. But the reality is that all of us are now pushing 40, and our time there is now wholly irrelevant, and weâre so far removed from those years that itâs fucking wild. A lot of those teachers are probably dead now.
I donât know how to articulate what it is Iâm meaning to say here. Itâs just weird that we were kids so recently. I donât feel like my life has gone by all that fast, but middle school to 40 somehow did all the same. I feel my age, and I feel as though Iâve lived to my age, but my memories donât feel distant whatsoever. It feels like that was nine years ago.
Just like I feel like I was still living at home with my dad a few years ago, but Iâve been living in another country away from my parents for 7 years now, and my dad had been dead since last May.
Condolences for your dad. 42 here, my dad is showing his age majorly now.
Looking back I know I lived every single hour but huge leaps of time are just gone. Like, entire jobs I worked for years I have maybe a half dozen memories. On top of that our work product is gone, the company is gone, the building is gone, the entire industry is changed⊠itâs like it was all a dream. I definitely understand the old man looking at a city and saying, âthis was all orchardsâ. I used to think it was a wistful phrase, but itâs also an expression of disbelief. When we were embedded it all seemed so important. But it all shuffled off with zero fanfare. It really changes how you experience life, and thatâs how I âfeel oldâ.
Your dad simultaneously saw you as the baby who slept securely in his arms, the child he saw through junior school, the teen who he tried to help steer past his own mistakes and the adult he wistfully spoke of with pride
Imagine how good he must feel to know that you remember him this way.
I lost my last grandparent this Easter. She was much younger then my other grandparents. The 3 of them would be over 120 years old now. Iâm a millenial, Iâm 40.
I took my kid to the doctor, and when we left she asked if we could go visit the places I grew up and went to school. Drove by my grade school but didnât stop in, still in session. Went by my junior high and there was my science teacher, she was probably a few years from retirement.
I said hi and we talked for a bit, told her âno, not a parent, you were my teacher almost 30 years agoâ, and she got a huge smile on her face and was really happy one of her students recognized her and talked with her for a while.
Made the trip worth it, but I am glad she didnât remember me. Was a shithead kid in junior high, but I think we all kind of were at that age.
i originally wanted to point out how ironic it is that a .world user wants to talk about site culture, but considering that you arent even capable of writing the word lemmy, its probably pointless.
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