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M00n_Slippers t1_jectoo2 wrote

Reply to comment by Brewcrew828 in Firearms deaths involving preschool-aged children had increased at an alarmingly high rate in the United States in the past decade, but state laws may help curb shooting deaths among young children. by Wagamaga

Wow, okay. I see you've clearly chosen the Republican side. You can pretend you're a fence sitter but you're on the side of guns, book bans, anti-women and lgbt rights, and so-called 'states rights' AKA the ability to be racist and homophobic without anyone to stop you. You made yourself out to be moderate but you're clearly not, my mistake.

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QristopherQuixote t1_jecmvs3 wrote

Reply to comment by Stampede_the_Hippos in Automated enforcement of water conservation rules in Fresno, California led to a decrease in summer water use and violations of conservation rules (relative to households subject to in-person inspections). This program massively increased consumer complaints, ultimately causing its cancellation. by smurfyjenkins

Guess you missed the pejorative use of the word. Your arrogance and misplaced sense of superiority deserved no better.

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Brewcrew828 t1_jecmcg0 wrote

Reply to comment by M00n_Slippers in Firearms deaths involving preschool-aged children had increased at an alarmingly high rate in the United States in the past decade, but state laws may help curb shooting deaths among young children. by Wagamaga

I don't have to choose a side of the fence to sit on.

The waters are already muddied. Neither party would bring anything of substance to this country even if they had a majority, as I have already said.

There are only two reasons I would vote. One is to protect my ability to defend myself, my friends, and family. The other is to cut down the federal government and return more power to the states. I've held those beliefs since high school 8 years ago. I voted for Trump his first term and the only reason I did it was for the Supreme Court nominations. The minute we get a liberal Supreme Court is the minute my first issue becomes crippled by the opinions of people who know nothing about my way of life or the people who live in my area.

I vote when my interests are at risk.

You said that the Democrats want to change this country? How EXACTLY do they want to do that? So lets say they address the issues that I've outlined. What else comes along with that? My ability to defend myself will be stripped from me. Millions of people will be paintbrushed by the Democrats never ending need to push everything through at a federal level spitting in the face of the founding fathers and directly neglecting the 10th amendment. Those are only the things that I care about. You can ask someone who actually supports Republicans for more, and yes, their opinion is still valid because they live in this country too, and chances are they don't live in your state. You already know the issues with the Republicans, I don't need to point that out to you.

To choose either is to punish this country. I'll have no part in it. I'd rather have status que than see the hell hole either side would create.

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QristopherQuixote t1_jeclk1d wrote

Reply to comment by AlanzAlda in Automated enforcement of water conservation rules in Fresno, California led to a decrease in summer water use and violations of conservation rules (relative to households subject to in-person inspections). This program massively increased consumer complaints, ultimately causing its cancellation. by smurfyjenkins

Yes. I read several and the improvement is between 12 and 30% reduction in accidents. This is particularly true when speed limits are enforced.

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AlanzAlda t1_jecinvl wrote

Reply to comment by QristopherQuixote in Automated enforcement of water conservation rules in Fresno, California led to a decrease in summer water use and violations of conservation rules (relative to households subject to in-person inspections). This program massively increased consumer complaints, ultimately causing its cancellation. by smurfyjenkins

Are there any studies showing a safety improvement with automated enforcement? I was pretty sure it increased the accident rate..

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Brain_Hawk t1_jechvp1 wrote

Reply to A systematic review and meta-analysis finds yoga has a moderately positive effect on the improvement of depressive symptoms but also their severity. by empty-ego

Ok so first. Frontiers is trash..I'm embarrassed I ever published therein. Also what does it mean "improvement of symptoms but also their severity"? How is improving symptoms not the same as improving their severity, or am I misreading that?

And the language in that abstract. Wow. Relapse rate that cannot be ignored indeed. I suspect a non native speaker, for which I feel so much empathy (science.is so hard, imagine doing it in a.sdcond language!!) But that passed review and editors. Very non scientific language in the abstract.

Results ok maybe interesting. Bigger question toe is how it compares to other interventions (I'll admit didn't read that much!) To.some extent, doing nearly anything might improve depression. Sonia yoga better than, say, joining a lawn bowling league? Is it the yoga or the social, etc aspect.

Though one hopes many such studies on yoga had appropriate active controls so mayne im guilry of that thing where people dismiss research via a false belief the researchers lacked basic competence.

I should quick read it but I'm in a Lyft and.almost home, the science day is done :)

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M00n_Slippers t1_jech96e wrote

Reply to comment by Brewcrew828 in Firearms deaths involving preschool-aged children had increased at an alarmingly high rate in the United States in the past decade, but state laws may help curb shooting deaths among young children. by Wagamaga

Most of the democratic party would actually like to do something about it, but unfortunately Republicans are in charge and a couple of Democrats are just corporate stooges and will vote for whoever pays them the most, such as Joe Manchin and Kirsten Sinema. People are like, "Democrats had the majority in the House before, why didn't they do anything then?" Because it was a very slim majority, and some of those democrats were corporate trash, even if they ran as Democrats. I wouldn't describe the whole party like this, but even just 2 or 3 was enough to stop so much stuff going through. I don't consider myself a democrat. Until a few years ago I had voted for republicans just as often as democrats, but you can't be wishy washy about this and sit on the fence and say 'they are both bad' because that attitude just make it worse and muddies the waters. That's what the Republicans count on. You've got to choose a side. Fence sitting doesn't fix anything.

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KetosisMD t1_jecg432 wrote

Reply to New research (N=70,190) shows higher pro-inflammatory diet increases the risk of depression in U.S. adults, by maxwell-cady

The new index, an empirical dietary inflammatory index (eDII), is based on 8 pro-inflammatory components (red meats, processed meats, organ meats, other fish, eggs, sugar-sweetened beverages, tomatoes, and refined grains) and 8 anti-inflammatory components (leafy green vegetables, dark yellow vegetables, fruit juice, oily fish, coffee, tea, wine, and beer or other alcohol beverages).

Not a fan of their definition of inflammatory.

Booze and juice ? Garbage

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maxwell-cady OP t1_jecc7sh wrote

Reply to New research (N=70,190) shows higher pro-inflammatory diet increases the risk of depression in U.S. adults, by maxwell-cady

The abstract

Objective: We aimed to evaluate whether depression is associated with increased risk of dietary inflammatory index (DII) or energy-adjusted DII (E-DII) and whether the association is partly explained by insulin resistance (IR).

Methods: Base on the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2005–2018. Univariate analyses of continuous and categorical variables were performed using t-test, ANOVA, and χ2 test, respectively. Logistic regression was used to analyze the relationship between DII or E-DII and depression in three different models. Mediation analysis was used to assess the potential mediation effects of homeostatic model assessment-IR (HOMA-IR).

Results: A total of 70,190 participants were included, and the DII score was higher in the depressed group. DII score was related to all participant characteristics except age (p < 0.05). After being included in covariates (Model 3), participants in the highest quartile of DII score have increased odds of depression (OR: 1.82, 95% CI: 1.28–2.58) compared with those in the first quartile of DII score. And, a significant dose–response relationship was found (p-trend <0.05). No interaction between DII and HOMA-IR was observed in terms of the risk of depression, and HOMA-IR did not find to play a mediating role in the association between DII and depression. Similar results were obtained for the association between E-DII and depression.

Conclusion: Our results suggest that a higher pro-inflammatory diet increases the risk of depression in U.S. adults, while there was no evidence of a multiplicative effect of DII or E-DII and HOMA-IR on disease risk, nor of a mediating effect of HOMA-IR.

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