Now that the dust has settled. How many people speak Ukrainian in Ukraine and where? I found these two maps but I assume both are radical and incorrect?
I was talking to a Ukrainian refugee at a bar last night and she told me how Ukraine was switching their writing system from Cyrillic to Latin. I asked her why Ukrainians wanted to abandon their ancestral east Slavic script and she said that Ukrainians are not actually Slavs. Is this true?
Look at this picture messenger took of mercury.
It's so bare, empty, devoid of anything.
And this thing have been floating in space for billions of years.
Why everything but earth is just empty, bare and desertic?
I'm done, Bernd.
I'm deadly tired of eternal depression and anxiety. I've been living like this for 14 years. I've started to get therapy including medicine but it has no effect on me. And every year the situation becomes worse and worse and I can do nothing to ease my pain.
I've been changing dogtours, tried many strategies for treatment and everything fails. It seems like my bipolar disorder is resistant and can't be cured. In fact, there's no cure for it at all. And the option to ease and control it is unavailable for me.
I wish I wasn't a pucci and went on the last trip for all my savings. Somewhere in the south, like Thailand or Cambodia. Spend the last months in heaven on Earth before I finally go to hell like my life isn't one, he-he . But I won't. I'm a coward. And how can't I be? 14 years of anxiety. Sometimes, I even envy Nikiter. Imagine how many adventures he has ever experienced and still has. He's even a political refugee, unironically, lol. My life is grey without a single interesting event and I'll never even get enough courage to kms in a wonderful place. But I'm already dead inside.
Holy fuck. Holy shit. My fucking god.
I came inside, I fucking came inside. I'm fucking stupid. Why did I fucking came inside...
I don't want to be a dad. I'm so fucking retarded. I wanna die.
Pay up wyt boi
-$5 million to every eligible Black adult.
-eliminating personal debt & tax burdens -guaranteed annual incomes of at least $97K for 250 years
-homes in SF for just $1 a family
>>25614872>gets to have sex>with none of the drawbacks, like never ending cuddling, having to watch girl movies or meeting her parents>still complain
I'll never understand the Bernd mindset.
Every female that fails at life at getting top 1% men invents story that she was raped as child and that those are source of all her problems
Does anyone falls for this shit anymore?
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Bernd
Tue, 11 Mar 2025 11:37:11 GMT
No. 25615295SÄGE!
good thread
Bernd
Tue, 11 Mar 2025 11:47:46 GMT
No. 25615359SÄGE!
seriously good thread
Bernd
Tue, 11 Mar 2025 12:10:44 GMT
No. 25615446SÄGE!
astonishingly good thread
New research shows bigger animals get more cancer, defying decades-old beliefBernd
Tue, 11 Mar 2025 03:27:21 GMT
No. 25613625
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[Kohl]
https://theconversation.com/new-research-shows-bigger-animals-get-more-cancer-defying-decades-old-belief-251287
A longstanding scientific belief about a link between cancer prevalence and animal body size has tested for the first time in our new study ranging across hundreds of animal species.
If larger animals have more cells, and cancer comes from cells going rogue, then the largest animals on earth – like elephants and whales – should be riddled with tumours. Yet, for decades, there has been little evidence to support this idea.
Many species seem to defy this expectation entirely. For example, budgies are notorious among pet owners for being prone to renal cancer despite weighing only 35g. Yet cancer only accounts for around 2% of mortality among roe deer (up to 35kg).
Peto’s paradox is that bigger, longer-lived species should have higher cancer prevalence, yet they don’t seem to. Back in 1977, Professor Sir Richard Peto noted that, on a cell-by-cell basis, mice seem to have much higher susceptibility to cancer than humans. This has led to speculation that larger species must have evolved natural cancer defences.
Several examples of these cancer defences have since been identified. For example, Asian elephants, a species with notably low cancer prevalence, have over 20 copies of a tumour suppressor gene (TP53) compared to our own lone copy. However, scientists are yet to find broader evidence across a range of animal species.
Our new study challenges Peto’s paradox. We used a recently compiled dataset of cancer prevalence in over 260 species of amphibians, birds, mammals and reptiles from wildlife institutions. Then, using powerful modern statistical techniques, we compared cancer prevalence between the animals.
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caption: Large species have a much greater risk of getting cancer (solid line), but faster evolution rates reduce that risk (dashed line).
We found that larger species do, in fact, have more cancer compared to smaller ones. This holds across all four major vertebrate groups, meaning that the traditional interpretation of Peto’s paradox doesn’t hold up. But the story doesn’t end there.
At first look, our findings seemed to be at odds with another long-standing scientific idea. Cope’s rule is that evolution has repeatedly favoured larger body sizes, because of advantages like improved predation and resilience. But why would natural selection drive species towards a trait that carries an inherent risk of cancer?
The answer lies in how quickly body size evolves. We found that birds and mammals which reached large sizes more rapidly have reduced cancer prevalence. For example, the common dolphin, Delphinus delphis evolved to reach its large body size – along with most other whales and dolphins (referred to as cetaceans) about three times faster than other mammals. However, cetaceans tend to have less cancer than expected.
Larger species face higher cancer risks but those that reached that size rapidly evolved mechanisms for mitigating it, such as lower mutation rates or enhanced DNA repair mechanisms. So rather than contradicting Cope’s rule, our findings refine it.
Larger bodies often evolve, but not as quickly in groups where the burden of cancer is higher. This means that the threat of cancer may have shaped the pace of evolution.
Humans evolved to our current body size relatively rapidly. Based on this, we would expect humans and bats to have similar cancer prevalence, because we evolved at a much, much faster rate. However, it is important to note that our results can’t explain the actual prevalence of cancer in humans. Nor is that an easy statistic to estimate.
Human cancer is a complicated story to unravel, with a plethora of types and many factors affecting its prevalence. For example, many humans not only have access to modern medicine but also varied lifestyles that affect cancer risk. For this reason, we did not include humans in our analysis.
Fighting cancer
Understanding how species naturally evolve cancer defences has important implications for human medicine. The naked mole rat, for example, is studied for its exceptionally low cancer prevalence in the hopes of uncovering new ways to prevent or treat cancer in humans. Only a few cancer cases have ever been observed in captive mole rats so, the exact mechanisms of their cancer resistance remain mostly a mystery.
At the same time, our findings raise new questions. Although birds and mammals that evolved quickly seem to have stronger anti-cancer mechanisms, amphibians and reptiles didn’t show the same pattern. Larger species had higher cancer prevalence regardless of how quickly they evolved. This could be due to differences in their regenerative abilities. Some amphibians, like salamanders, can regenerate entire limbs – a process that involves lots of cell division, which cancer could exploit.
Putting cancer into an evolutionary context allowed us to reveal that its prevalence does increase with body size. Studying this evolutionary arms race may unlock new insights into how nature fights cancer – and how we might do the same.
Joanna Baker, University of Reading, George Butler, UCL
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i realized why i'm such a good natured, hard-working, calm, patient person irl
its because i masturbate to child porn. it releases all frustrations and make me be able to go about my day calmly and relaxed
meanwhile, average normie can be extremely tense, ready to blow at any little problem, or lazy, because they dont see any reason to keep going
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I have noticed that my over all dispotition is strongly related to how my feet and digestion feel.
When my feet hurt I and slow, short with people, and don't feel like doing much of anything.
When my digestion is all fucked up I lean towards random flare ups of rage and depression.
Meanwhile when my feet feel good I am hyperactive, friendly, energetic and eager to be helpful.
And when my digestion is normal I am stoic and unflappable.
Has Bernd ever though of writing a textbook?
I can't think of a more monumental form of immortality in lieu of children or violence. It will be fed into LLMs iterating for generations.
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We will, together, write out text. What is the introduction? What is the dedication?
Bernd
Mon, 10 Mar 2025 17:28:46 GMT
No. 25609668SÄGE!
>>25608386
I did it too, and at a time I was more or less much much less prepared to do so. I haven't looked at it in a while, it's been over a decade since I finished. I could probably make something much better and in a lot less time now and I don't really do any writing like that
For me it's about being really really good at abstraction and being able to be proficient enough with language to be able to roll shit off my mind effortlessly, and also being able to structure a plot in a way that's effective + creative, for a good product, sort of like if you've ever rearranged paragraphs writing an essay for school to fit the right order and the teacher ends up saying it was awesome, things like that
Everyone is capable of writing a book and everyone should try in their lifetime
>Has Bernd ever though of writing a textbook?
Thought about and quickly dismissed the idea.
Maybe one day in my retirement I will make a detail martial arts and self defense manual of all the knowledge related to the subject condensed into a book, for when I am too old and broken down to properly teach through doing.
But as far as academic text books, no. Such a project would be boring and utterly pointless.
What do you think is real IT skill other than writing strings your team leader tells you to do?
Networking
Cloud maintenance
What
Btw edingburgh is epictime of evropa mappeqrance from gook perspective
Is there any more majestic cidy than edinburgh? I bet you cant name one
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WallahBernd
Tue, 11 Mar 2025 09:13:21 GMT
No. 25614725
My next destination for holidays will be edinburgh
It feels so cozy like world of warcraft
Im like the little goblin exploring stormwind ))