AI NFT #52 Spring, Massachusetts. The researchers say similar studies are needed to better assess the role of alcohol in various conditions and #the effects of it #in their new study. "One #idea is to start with the low, relatively #young levels and then #look #at a much longer time #series. This can be #done in a variety #of different ways, e.g., to better gauge long-term #effects of alcohol and the effects of alcohol from birth #on brain function," says co-author Jrgen Weise (Wandsworth University), a professor in the department of neuroscience at the #University of Sheffield. Previous studies have also shown that drinking alcohol increases a person's risk of developing several cancers and other serious health problems, #including strokes. But alcohol has been shown to increase the risk of one or more conditions associated with #cancer #which also increase risks #of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's or other diseases that #increase the #likelihood of developing a particular disease. "Overall, our results would indicate that alcohol is #not simply a risk factor #for several health benefits," #said Weise. "It's also #important to note, as this article has been covered in media at least two days after the report was published, that alcohol is #not the only risk factor for developing a certain form of cancer. However, there could be several other other #health risks as well." In #a paper published in the journal Archives of Neurology, co-author David M. Gaffney (University of Colorado) published results https://www.instagram.com/p/CiEPSROKBC8/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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How does one examine the relationship between political institutions and the likelihood of genocide?
The relationship between political institutions and the likelihood of genocide is a critical area of study within political science. Understanding how political institutions shape societal dynamics and contribute to the risk of genocide is essential for preventing and mitigating such atrocities. This article examines how one can examine the relationship between political institutions and the…
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The clones really are a fascinating contrast to stormtroopers. And I don’t mean Finn and the First Order because they follow in the wake of The Clone Wars; I mean Imperial stormtroopers who dominated the Star Wars imagination first and the longest.
For decades, stormtroopers basically functioned like clones: they looked and sounded the same, even though we knew there were different people underneath the helmets they never took off; different faces, same personality.
Then actual clones basically inverted the model: genetically identical men used every opportunity to differentiate themselves, from their armor to their body modifications to their behavior; same face, different personalities.
The one place where the Venn diagram intersected was loyalty, but even then, they still inverted each other’s models. Clones designed to be unwaveringly loyal and obedient consistently questioned orders and their place in the galaxy. Meanwhile, stormtroopers from disparate planets and cultures unfailingly followed the orders of an impersonal Empire.
For all of Star Wars’s faults, for all the ways in which they dumb down or gloss over traditional scifi modes and themes, I can’t think of a more thorough exploration of cloning, the attendant questions of identity and free will, and the sociopolitical and metaphysical implications of a race of genetically identical men, of sameness in difference and difference in sameness, than the clone troopers.
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you wanted to be a good friend, because you loved your friends, but the truth was that everyone else somehow had a pamphlet on being normal that you never received. most of the time you learn by trial-and-error. you are terrified of the next big mistake you make, because it seems like the rules are completely arbitrary.
you've learned to keep the prickly parts of your personality in a stormcloud under your bed - as if they're a second version of you; one that will make your friends hate you. it feels feral, burning, ugly.
instead, you have assembled habits based on the statistical likelihood of pleasing others. you're a good listener, which is to say - if you do speak up, you might end up saying the wrong thing and scaring off someone, but people tend to like someone-who-listens. or you've got no true desires or goals, because people like it when you're passive, mutable. you're "not easy to fluster" which is to say - your emotions are fundamentally uninteresting to others around you; so you've learned to control them to a degree that you can no longer really feel them happening.
you have long suspected something is wrong with you, but most of the time, googling doesn't help. you are so-used to helping-yourself, alone and with no handbook. the reek of your real self feels more like a horrible joke - you wake up, and, despite all your preparations, suddenly the whole house is full of smoke. the real you is someone waiting to ruin your other-life, the one where you're normal and happy. the real-self is unpredictable, angry.
your real self snarls when people infantilize the whole situation. because if you were really suffering, everyone seems to think you'd be completely unable to cope. but you already learned the rules, so you do know how to cope, and you have fucking been coping. it's not black-and-white. it's not that you are healed during the other times - it's just that you're able to fucking try. and honestly, whenever you show symptoms, it's a really fucking bad sign.
because the symptoms you have are ugly and unmanageable for others. your symptoms aren't waifish white girl things. they're annoying and complicated. they will be the subject of so many pretentious instagram reels. if they cared about you, they'd just show up on time. you care, a lot, so deeply it burns you. you like to picture a world where the comments read if they loved you, they'd never need glasses to see. but since that's a rule you've seen repeated - "one must never be late or you are a bad friend" - you constantly worry about being late and leave agonizingly early. there are no words for how you feel when you're still late; no matter how hard you were trying.
so you have to make up for it. you have to make up for that little horrible real you that you keep locked in a cabinet. you are bad at answering emails so every project you make has to be perfect. you are weird and sensitive so you have to learn to be funny and interesting. you are an inconvenience to others, so you become as smooth as possible, buffing out all the rough parts.
all this. all this. so people can pass their hands over you and just tell you just the once -how good you are. you're a good friend. you're loveable.
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begging y'all to be mature if Nora doesn't make jerejean canon
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Poor leadership and party's likelihood of administrative collapse bring one wicket down for AAP in Punjab
Poor leadership and party’s likelihood of administrative collapse bring one wicket down for AAP in Punjab
Poor leadership and party’s likelihood of administrative collapse bring one wicket down for AAP in Punjab
Barely two months after the Aam Aadmi Party registered a huge victory in Punjab, and a new government under the comedian-turned-politician Bhagwant Mann was installed, Health Minister Vijay Singla was dismissed on Tuesday for suspected corruption. In dramatic events preceding his dismissal,…
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okay so that scene fucked
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mothafuckin' tanks bitch!!!! 💥👊💥
redraw of photo under the cut
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can you draw ragatha petting jax and him purring since rabbits can purr by rubbing their teeth together:)
How did you request my exact weakness like that
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they’re the worst to bring on missions together
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Whenever I see a post about Chief Hiccup (or watch Httyd 2, for that matter) I'm always reminded of how Stoick did not want his son to become chief the way he did.
Maybe it's because Stoick saw his reluctance to succeed him, maybe it's something Stoick went through himself when he became chief and he wanted to spare his son the pain, but he had a plan. He was going to retire. Step down and let Hiccup take over in his stead. That way, his father could ease him into this insanely big responsibility, could be there to guide him, help him with the tough stuff he knows Hiccup might have trouble with.
Except, then he dies at Drago's hands. And Hiccup ends up thrusted into a position a feared to be in. And yeah, he does it mostly alone, just as his father did before him, which is exactly what Stoick was hoping to avoid.
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Good for them actually, rise the fuck up, what took them so long
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I simply think if you’re going to have dogged devotion you also need to emphasize the “dog”
….. and also I like giant monsters
Original Synthetic Red Diamond design by @cherrifire and BigB design by @chrisrin
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MDZS rereads are always fun cause you never know what you’ll notice next.
For example we know that Lan Wangji is pouty for some reason at the archery contest, where he’s refusing to actually speak to Wei Wuxian again and it ends in the forehead ribbon pulling.
But has anyone else ever noticed that after spending most of the lectures calling him Lan Zhan because Lan Wangji won’t answer him otherwise, here Wei Wuxian first tries to get his attention by calling him “Wangji-xiong”?
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the grammys are bullshit but also i need paramore to be the first girl fronted band to win best rock album. and also the third ever woman to win best rock album ever
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Hello all. I have come to a wonderful and terrible realization.
Q!Badboyhalo. Vaguely established to be c!badboyhalo as well. Currently visiting a desert that is seemingly the afterlife, a blank slate of sand, whenever he sleeps and suffering from memory loss. Seemingly about to die and reset, starting anew and having to figure out who he was supposed to be in this grand life of his.
One could say he's lived too long, from certain perspectives.
Friends I have potentially bad news about the canon status of Utah in the QSMP
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