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  • HelixDab2@lemm.eetoRPGMemes @ttrpg.networkNew lore dropped
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    1 month ago

    IIRC, it takes around 100 generations to see a significant shift in skin pigmentation due to evolution. For humans, that would work out to about 1700 years for people that were moved from the Nordic regions to sub-Saharan Africa to develop dark skins (assuming that there were no other factors in play).

    Evolution can take what seems like a really long time.



  • It’s because otherwise your ice cream will freeze as hard as a rock. If you make your own, you probably won’t use any.

    You could probably make your own ice cream that was perfectly safe for cats and dogs. I think that goat milk is better for cats? You certainly couldn’t use any artificial sweeteners though; real cane sugar or honey only.


  • Honestly, it probably wouldn’t have made a difference. The ‘Bernie Bros’ that voted for Trump were largely a myth, not really enough to swing the election, and he’s far enough left (as far as American politics go) that it probably would have ended up with Trump winning more votes from Dems that claims to be centrists.

    Aside from that, he’s far enough to the left of most Dems that he probably wouldn’t have been able to get the Speaker to introduce any legislation he favored, so it would have been the same kind of compromise bullshit that Dems always fall for.

    Now, Gore? If SCOTUS had let the count proceed instead of calling it for Bush prematurely? Yeah, the world would be a very, very different place.


  • Grapes are toxic to cats (and dogs). Onions and garlic are both toxic, and will absolutely kill your cats. Ice cream usually has small amounts of antifreeze in it; it’s safe enough for humans, but not safe for cats. Raw chicken with bones can be given to cats if it is finely ground so that there aren’t any bone shards or fragments. You can get frozen turkey and chicken chicks from raw food suppliers, and those are safe enough for cats to eat because the bones are mostly too small to harm them. (Raw food is not suggested for most cats; it’s hard to get it balanced so that they aren’t malnourished in some way. A very, very few cats will do better on a raw food diet if they have something like IBS.) Lots of common house plants can be deadly to cats too. One I know off the top of my head is everything in the lily family.


  • People that have been found in peat bogs are almost always heavily infested with intestinal parasites, and fecal material found at archeological sites show significant signs of parasitic infections as well, because even once we cooked food we often didn’t have acceptable food safety (or, y’know, refrigeration). Truth is that cats in the wild just constantly have tons of parasites and get sick a lot, and sometimes die from it.




  • Due to the way writing credits work, how writers get paid, etc., posting this in public pretty much guarantees that it won’t get made. Studios are very adverse to risks of lawsuits, about, say, “Studio X stole an idea that I had for a film, and didn’t credit or pay me”.

    If you think you’ve got a great idea, for fuck sake, write up a script, get an agent, and shop it around. Don’t post it online.


  • Injections all the way. (I am not trans, but I’m familiar with TRT protocols).

    First, injections are easier to dial in blood levels. Pills may not come in the doses you need, and may not be readily split. It’s fairly easly to add or subtract 1mL with depo estradiol; if you needed to, you could even dilute it to get finer control, but that’s best done by a compounding pharmacy.

    Second, pills tend to be hard on your liver. I know that, in the case of anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS), they’re methylated in order to avoid first-pass metabolism by the liver. Methylating is necessary to allow them to act properly–if they’re matabolized by the liver, then you get none of the therapeutic benefit–but methylating makes them really harsh on your liver, and can, in extreme cases, cause cirrhosis. (That’s much more common in body builders that are taking massive doses of drugs, rather than people that are taking them under the guidance of a doctor. Buuuuuuut one of the potential serious adverse side effects or oral estradiol is jaundice-yellowing eyes and skin–which indicates potential liver problems in some people.)

    Last, pills are generally a daily or multiple times daily dose. Biological half lives of oral medications tend to be under 12 hours (unless there’s some XR version that I’m not aware of), so missing a day can significantly affect your hormonal levels. Injections–like estradiol cypionate–have a biological half life of about 5 days. If you inject weekly, you quickly end up building to a fairly stable blood level.