You mean, we apply plant language to them so they are also like plants? They are closer related to us though…

Thanks for sharing, otherwise I wouldn’t even have thought of this. It’s so infuriating :(

Severe obesity (body weight over 200 lbs.) or severe wasting

Wait what? I converted 200 lbs to kg and it should be equal 90 kg. This isn’t severely obese. I weigh much more and do stuff like bouldering.

Anyways, doesn’t even matter because it is important to also train on fat bodies. Because otherwise we face the same problems medicine has with ignoring female and black bodies. Most studies have just been on white, able-bodied male bodies. To actually treat all bodies with the best care, medical professionals should be trained on all types of bodies!

Wait what? Clovers are a species of Trifolium in the Fabaceae (legume family), but sorrel refers to the leaves of Rumex species in the Polygonaceae. What are you referring to?

Apiaceae are generally very hard to tell apart. Sure, the common hogweed is relatively easy to ID if you know the plant well enough. But there are sooo many species in this family that all have small white flowers and similar looking leaves…

Natural cave systems don’t have as many animals in them either, because there are just not enough nutrients around for larger populations to establish. (Exceptions are to this are caves where birds or bats nest in large colonies and there you can find huge populations of other animals feeding on the feces for example.)

I don’t think the spiders necessarily feed on pillbugs though. At least I haven’t observed that yet. I’d think spiders would either feed on other spiders or on any flying insects getting in the garage.

Oh and something new I’ve learned from Wikipedia about pillbugs:

They have also been observed eating wood supports in houses, making them a house pest.

Maybe check for that if there are so many in your garage?

Believe me, there are many other animals, you just don’t see them ;)

Still an ugly plant imo…

I mean, who said you have to watch it on apple’s streaming service. The pirated stream is just to clicks away anyways…

ETA: after having watched the first few minutes of the first season, I do have to wonder why they chose to portray T. rex without feathers? This doesn’t give me much confidence in the show and I feel like many such documentaries portray nuanced and complex things in a pretty one-dimensional way, giving the viewers the feeling that the show knows for certain what it is talking about.

Adding to what the others have said: I think Hossenfelder is also an example of chasing YouTube popularity. And apparently many people are really into this anti-science, right-wing stuff. It probably also aligns somehow with her own values, but I’m pretty confident that this is beneficial to her streaming business.

Your garage is like a natural cave and there are some species adapted to live in caves, such as various species of pillbugs, spiders, millipedes, … The isopod living in garages are mostly scavengers/detritivores, meaning they mainly eat dead or dying animals falling into your garage or other organic material they can find. They basically clean up for you.

Hm yes, I’m a very anxious person myself so that makes sense.

My theory for why I have to pee so often (not only lying down) is also that it was a strategy for me to cope with a very controlling household growing up where my needs were frequently dismissed or ignored.

Yes, that’s why I said lifespan. That’s what the cited paper is about and it even goes to great lengths to exclude deaths by battles etc. But well, you seem to have made up your mind and not being open to expand your perspective. Annoying, but ultimately your problem. For me this discussion is over, bye.

What you said about the nobility in medieval times interested me, so I looked into it:

In this paper they’ve looked at over 130,000 people in the European nobility between 800-1800 and found that there was an upwards trend in lifespan from around 50 to 60 years excluding violent deaths. So no, I don’t believe many people got 80 years old back then even though they had the best care of that time.

And what you say about our modern world regarding cancer rates etc is simply not something we’ve conclusively solved yet.

Well, modern medicine builds on top of natural remedies, but it has standardized it and brought it to a whole new level. People get incredibly old and survive many diseases thought of as incurable a hundred years ago because of modern medicine. Just looking at the similar ingredients in some medicine and nature is not helpful but naive.

Doing meditation or other relaxing exercise on my back is usually not so relaxing because of it :/

Same, if I lay straight on my back for just a minute my bladder will start to nag me to go to toilet and it doesn’t matter that I’ve just peed a couple of times in the last half an hour…

Ugh, at first they obviously sound pretty cool, but I feel like they are all about the aesthetic of changing the world, but with no actual approach to do so.

We relate to them because they had to stand by with their cannabis in their bag while the old white doctors came and put leeches on the son—the king’s epileptic son—when they had the medicine for that… In the same way, we have to stand back with our medicine and watch chemo and radiation sometimes kill people without the benefit of restoration from healing plants.

Nope, telling people with cancer just to smoke pot instead of actually doing cancer treatment is really bad and causes unnecessary deaths. Also, you aren’t like actual healers back then who had so much more experience in what they did.

We make medicine on a full moon and basically it’s more feminine for us to do it by moon cycle. Each product that we make comes with a sticker on the bottom to show what moon cycle we made it in. It’s a way of us coming together with the plant and Mother Nature and having that meditative time—being with the plant and making the medicine under the full moon. It just does something to us.

Like I said, it’s all about the aesthetic, not much else…

Big Pharma has caused a lot of heartache, and a lot of deaths, and a lot of unnecessary treatments where people have exacerbated their incomes and their financial ways of living—especially the poor, the marginalized, the people that can’t have access to this plant

Big pharma sure is evil, but instead of just blindly trusting in one plant to cure all and throwing all of medicine’s knowledge out we could also fight for systemic change and free medicine from the grasp of capitalism.

Depends to what kind of church you go to. There are really nice old churches in Europe and even when they have a mass it is pretty relaxing, because European church service is much more boring than it is in most churches in the US I’d think. Basically just a person speaking in a monotone voice for an hour and sometimes everyone sings slow, monotone songs.

You could also look at insect penises for a living, a very common way of identifying species in various insect groups ;)