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Just stop breathing so much, you pansies.

Whew. Glad it’s not actually my fault.

Time to just let nature take Flordia back.

It’s kinda scary to think that an entire species could be in some weird chemically induced psychosis.

I guess that would explain all the craziness

Think about inflammation as being on a continuous line and everyone has a certain level of it. There are many things that will increase (e.g., air pollution, stress) or decrease (e.g., meditation, sleep) the level of inflammation. Even if there isn't anything that can be done to mitigate air pollutants once they're in the body, meditation would still be good to keep the overall inflammation from being as high as it could be.

Meditation doesn't impart its benefits in a cognitive space isolated from physiology. The distinction between cognitive and biochemical space is farcical. It's all manifesting via matter even if you don't know what matter is being perturbed.

Potential 7 point lower IQ from fluoride in water in the study that was held back in the US. Whatever amount air pollution is adding to that, especially if it's also a neurotoxin, is crazy.

Edit: https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/ntp/about_ntp/bsc/2023/fluoride/documents_provided_bsc_wg_031523.pdf

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You can theoretically scrub the air entering your home. But then you would need to spend the majority of time inside your home to mitigate risk amd being a shut in has its own health consequences. It's probably better to move somewhere with less pollution.

Not unlike. So not not like? Or not not not unlike?

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I have a personal conviction that trilobites still live in some isolated lake under the Antarctic ice sheet or some underwater cave.

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it would benefit us all if you did

From the article: A recent study published in the Journal of Applied Psychology found that individuals are more likely to blame themselves when casual conversations become difficult. The findings reveal that the self-serving bias you find in many other human activities seems to disappear when engaging in casual conversation. This insight may be helpful to those who experience anxiety during small talk.

Informal conversations involve complex interactions between individuals that require coordination of turn-taking, eye contact, the anticipation of upcoming content, and interpretation of previous statements. The number of participants, cultural background, and goals can vary, and finding a balance between small talk and more personal topics can be difficult.

Despite the benefits of deeper conversations for mental well-being, people often overestimate the awkwardness of such interactions. Conversations can be challenging due to their inherent complexity, uncertainty, and broad scope.

Surprisingly, there is a lack of research in this area, given how crucial social connections are to our health and how conversations play a vital role in creating and sustaining these relationships. Researchers are working to address this gap in the literature by exploring whether individuals have a negative outlook on their conversational abilities compared to other everyday activities.

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You find it suspicious that scientific evidence is used to generate policy? Arboviruses have been a topic of concern since the discovery of yellow fever.

This is still only in the range of Life As We Know It. We literally do not know the range of Life Other Than That, although it's suspected that it requires a certain range of chaos -- that is, a reasonably consistent range of energy transfer in a consistent environment.

Life seems to need environmental energy being used to create and perpetuate (and, probably, replicate) patterned formations. We don't know that it has to be water-based, or even chemical. Electromagnetic-pattern lifeforms could exist, for all we know, just for instance, so it may be that most life in the universe exists entirely within stellar bodies.

Or not. But we don't know. It could be that most life on Earth exists in the hot rock miles beneath the surface and isn't water-based at all.

Still, we're probably mostly interested in water-based life that's at least pretty much Life As We Know It. Unless deep hot-rock organisms ever breach the surface, in which case we'd be very interested in that, especially if they're quite large.

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If your environment is polluted on the outside of the home, could using air filters within your own home help with that at all?

I remember when I first saw predictions this would happen, back around 1990. Read an article that said "Learn the word arbovirus now, to save time."

It also said that the First World would suddenly make a real effort to find a cure for malaria. Made perfect sense. And then, suddenly, 'altruistically', First World funding for it went into high gear. The funding is good (Bill Gates still hasn't made even, but it's a good start), but the timing's a trifle suspicious.

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Interesting correlation, I would be curious to find out if seasonal pollen allergies also correlate with an increased Alzheimer’s risk.