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by Geodd
2015-10-22 06:42pm
Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
Topic: Breaking: Alzheimers disease the result of fungal infection
Replies: 23
Views: 6390

Re: Breaking: Alzheimers disease the result of fungal infect

Seems like a bit of a longshot, but it's a very testable longshot and I hope people get working on it asap.

That said, thank god I'm unlikely to be in the position of giving old frail people shit like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphotericin_B
by Geodd
2015-06-15 05:28am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Beware the shoe-stealing Jews!
Replies: 16
Views: 2361

Re: Beware the shoe-stealing Jews!

I thought the Jews just stole your children and your money. Sometimes, they also steal organs. And now, apparently, also shoes! Have a very nice day. -fgalkin Yeah... they actually did steal organs. http://www.nbcnews.com/id/34503294/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/t/israel-harvested-organs-s-withou...
by Geodd
2015-05-13 04:25pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Man refuses Obama care, now going blind. Blames Obama
Replies: 20
Views: 3323

Re: Man refuses Obama care, now going blind. Blames Obama

People obviously get sick because they are terrible. That's the real answer. Well that seems true in th is case. I've heard the same argument used against people without means to help themselves. One in particular was a conversation with a coworker who was complaining that one of his daughter's mid...
by Geodd
2013-08-31 06:43pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Antipsychotic medication
Replies: 11
Views: 13142

Re: Antipsychotic medication

Coming from a Disability Care background (as opposed to a user) I can confirm that Seroquel (is supposed to) have a sedation side effect, also has a limit on how long you're supposed to be on it before being switched to another medication (here in Aus). Speaking as a user, is this time limit limite...
by Geodd
2013-08-19 03:55pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Antipsychotic medication
Replies: 11
Views: 13142

Re: Antipsychotic medication

One thing you wrote leapt out to me, your doctor is prescribing Artene? tardative dyskenisa is only moderatly common with current gen antipsychotics and thats with long term treatment at high doses. I've never heard of antispasmodic meds being prescribed as a prophylactic. Frankly, and remember that...
by Geodd
2013-08-17 05:53pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Antipsychotic medication
Replies: 11
Views: 13142

Re: Antipsychotic medication

Well, I've been on three different antipsychotics. Zyprexa, Zeldox and Seroquel. Zyprexa worked great for me except one thing. People have reported "increased appetite", well for me the damn drug turned on my starvation mode, I could eat and eat until I felt physically ill and still be hun...
by Geodd
2013-02-26 09:48am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Preservatives in Lemon Juice
Replies: 8
Views: 3408

Re: Preservatives in Lemon Juice

Well, several of those preservatives do have fungi-static effects, but you need to keep in mind the concentrations. The preservatives are there to protect a 32 oz bottle of juice against some free floating atmospheric fungi, a job they no doubt perform well. When you dilute that bottle with a gallon...
by Geodd
2011-05-05 06:39pm
Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
Topic: Synthetic blood first
Replies: 19
Views: 2408

Re: Synthetic blood first

First reaction. Man, that's fucking cool Second reaction: Fucking Jehovah's Witnesses Better headline: " Science saves moron's life, despite her and her families best efforts The only bad thing that will come from this is that it will further the Jehovah's Witnesses quaint delusion that their r...
by Geodd
2011-03-12 07:08pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Earthquake off Japan
Replies: 973
Views: 131154

Re: Earthquake off Japan

I really doubt it's 1015 millisieverts/hour, that's shit-your-pants, Chernobyl firefighters numbers that you just wouldn't see without significant damage to the reactor core.
by Geodd
2010-10-19 06:24pm
Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
Topic: Virgin Galactic's VSS Enterprise's First Manned Glide Flight
Replies: 59
Views: 19840

Re: Virgin Galactic's VSS Enterprise's First Manned Glide Fl

In 1992 immediately after the USSR's collapse; the Energia system was still in a position to be restored to production -- it last flew in 1988; so where the fuck was the FREE MARKET buying interest in NPO Energia? Well the oligarchs basically in charge at the time were a bit busy with coke, whores ...
by Geodd
2010-10-18 10:40pm
Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
Topic: Virgin Galactic's VSS Enterprise's First Manned Glide Flight
Replies: 59
Views: 19840

Re: Virgin Galactic's VSS Enterprise's First Manned Glide Fl

RD-171 produced 1.7 million lbf for a engine weight of 20,900 lbs in four clustered combustion chambers. Each chamber ran at about 3,553 PSI. Yeah, the Russians never quite got a handle on the problems with combustion instability associated with very large combustion chambers. But to be fair, with ...
by Geodd
2010-06-28 07:54pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Are you arachnophobic?
Replies: 55
Views: 7728

Re: Are you arachnophobic?

This is my most recent encounter with a largish spider in my bedroom: 1: Sighting of the arachnid in question 2: Quick tactical retreat to kitchen 3: Psychological doping in form of a few glasses of scotch 4: Armored assault with vacuum-cleaner 5: Chemical assault with RAID 6 Possible victory 7: Str...
by Geodd
2010-01-29 02:28pm
Forum: Gaming, Electronics and Computers
Topic: Mass Effect 2 Gameplay
Replies: 556
Views: 57274

Re: Mass Effect 2 Gameplay

I was wondering why people were complaining about the planet scanning, I found it slightly boring but hardly gamebreaking. Then I found a video of the scanning on the 360, and holy fuck , the upgraded 360 scanner is like half the speed of the basic pc scanner. Yeah, I can see myself screaming at the...
by Geodd
2009-11-02 04:32pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Glenn Beck is fucking nuts
Replies: 48
Views: 7223

Re: Glenn Beck is fucking nuts

I've heard rants like this from two sources: The first was a drunken art student, desperate to justify his absurd choices when it came to higher education. The second was a psychiatric inpatient, granted the guy could find threatening iconography in a coffe stain, but damn if it didn't sound a lot l...
by Geodd
2007-12-07 06:16am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: More vaccines cause autism in the news
Replies: 19
Views: 1864

More antivax bullshit When asked if the decision to vaccinate or not could put a child in danger, Ryndland responded, "Absolutely. The vaccines sometimes are the straw that breaks the camel's back. The question is if the immune system is overloaded with too many vaccines over too short a period...
by Geodd
2007-09-18 01:18pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Mystery illness strikes after meteorite
Replies: 33
Views: 2561

Or it could simply be psychological. Wouldn't be the first time a spectacular event set off some funky herd behaviour.
by Geodd
2007-09-15 11:03pm
Forum: Science Fiction
Topic: Your favorite Sci-fi WMD?
Replies: 168
Views: 14673

Buster Machine 3

It was awesome, used a compressed jupiter as a warhead and blew up a good chunk of the milky way
by Geodd
2007-09-11 06:41pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: EU gives up trying to confuse British children.
Replies: 75
Views: 6587

I work in aerospace engineering, where both systems are adopted to useful effect. The simplicity of the metric system is often used as a virtue for promoting it, but to be honest if you can't handle the simple mathematics of using imperial units in your head then you probably shouldn't be trusted w...
by Geodd
2007-08-27 07:34pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Stopping a cat from shedding
Replies: 25
Views: 1996

Most cat allergies are from the hair [....] It's actually a cat's saliva that causes the allergic reaction (specifically, a protein that is also produced by the sebaceous glands in the skin) so the type of fur/hair/pelt doesn't really matter. Well, it does matter, kinda anyway. Since cats that shed...
by Geodd
2007-08-19 04:54pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Psychic Cat Found Dead
Replies: 41
Views: 4550

Not to piss on everyones parade, but did you consider the source of that article?
"The Standard of Excellence in Pseudojournalism"
Not to mention the overall tone of the article... This is obvious satire.
by Geodd
2007-08-12 06:53pm
Forum: User Fiction
Topic: Is there anything good on fictionpress.com?
Replies: 2
Views: 1414

I pretty much gave up on fictionpress a long time ago, I seem to recall this story, Grey, being quite readable
by Geodd
2007-08-10 02:48am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Johnson & Johnson sues American Red Cross
Replies: 28
Views: 2576

Honestly, shouldn't a fucking red cross on a white background be more generic than the word "aspirin"?
by Geodd
2007-08-06 01:11am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: How's the Abu Ghraib whistle-blower doing?
Replies: 18
Views: 2283

No, they don't, because all their lives these people have been indoctrinated that America and Americans can do no wrong, ever. When you confront them with evidence of wrongdoing, they ill get hostile, angry and defensive and accuse you of being anti-American. Yet it was an American soldier who repo...
by Geodd
2007-07-31 12:13pm
Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
Topic: Is Detoxification bullshit?
Replies: 94
Views: 8997

Wait a second, somehow I missed this part. ...and all those problems pretty well went away when she started on a Candida albicans-reducing exclusion diet. Incidentally, the reason why conventional medicine doesn't recognise candidiasis, unless it's so severe that the stuff is in the bloodstream, ma...
by Geodd
2007-07-21 03:27pm
Forum: Science Fiction
Topic: Quotl Vs Modern Earth
Replies: 6
Views: 953

Mind giving us some more information, maybe a few links?

Because I can honestly say that I have no fucking idea what you're talking about.