Boy, is it hard to return to first principles for anyone now. Just my little student room contains thousands of laws I'm not familiar with yet vaguely dependent upon.
This reads like the prelude to 90% of all zombie movies - cheating death by injecting virusses, starting in the UK. It even includes a fever and neurotoxicity as side effects.
Yup. Turns out, the organs in the body have a purpose, and without them the body can't work :-)
I.e. zombies are magical creatures, even less plausible than godzilla.
I also curmudgeonly think that Game of Thrones lost its appeal when it stopped being about political intrigue and became yet another silly magical zombie movie.
Zombies aren't the only magic in Game of Thrones. They're fantasy novels.
If it weren't for the zombies, the political story would just be about people fighting each other for advantage. The zombies add a tension between that and a common cause, since the threat faces them all; much like the world we live in today.
The political intrigue was interesting. The zombie apocalypse was a singular lack of imagination - how many zombie movies has Hollywood produced? 200? 300? There are even multiple miniseries about zombies. There's simply nothing interesting about them.
Even Lord of the Rings just had to bring in a zombie army at the end, but fortunately didn't spend much screen time on it.
The only one I like was the Jason and the Argonauts one where the hero fights a group of skeletons. The herky-jerky Harry Harrison animation is a pleasure to watch. And it was original.
The "zombie army" in Lord of the Rings was in the book Return of the King, published in 1955. The first big, modern zombie movie was Night of the Living Dead in 1968. So I don't think you can blame them for being unoriginal. Also I'd say they were more ghost than zombie, in both book and movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYEvmnTghPk
> I also curmudgeonly think that Game of Thrones lost its appeal when it stopped being about political intrigue and became yet another silly magical zombie movie.
So the very first scene of both the books and tv show?
They never starve to death, or even weaken. They're not impaired by not having a stomach or a circulatory system to provide energy.
The dullards who fight them never think of putting them in a hamster wheel and generating perpetual electric power.
Besides, the zombie armies never seem to have any logistics to keep them supplied with brains, or any support logistics at all. There's a reason why predators never evolved armies.
(Ok, army ants are predators. But they evolved logistics!)
Edit: AFAICT both sides are "technically not wrong", homomorphic to the basic "free speech" argument, "it's technically not illegal".
I'm a bit flabberghasted that no one has constructed an ironclad technological solution to this wishy-washy dance of weak arguments, backed up by rhyme but not reason. Proof verifiers should come to politics.
Google Maps for Android provides area-based offline maps, with a time limit that is not enforced.
It's been very useful to me personally, not sure what's unusable about it. I find the online version less usable because it nags me about GPS and obstinately only stores search history online, coupling it to the global Google Activity History setting.
If you have a GIS system, that is able to use Google Maps as the basemap, you still don't have the ability to save it for offline use. The APIs/libraries/license agreement with Google that these GIS systems use won't allow that.
Not that other providers (Bing, Here, etc) are any better. Your only way is to download OSM data/obtain local ortophoto and make your own tiles.
Is navigation working off-line now? Last time I checked, it didn't. And Google Maps, even on-line, are quite bad at being a map, with the completely unreliable way of rendering street labels. I've used Google Maps off-line in a pinch a few times, but it wasn't too pleasant of an experience.
(Call me entitled, but I don't think it's too much to ask of an off-line map to offer point-by-point navigation and searching through the DB of addresses and POIs in the off-line map. When you can't do it, I get the feeling someone doesn't want you to use off-line mode, and is purposefully overcomplicating things.)
All those things (except display of some street names) work for me offline on my Android phone, but only for driving directions. You have to save an offline map manually first, somewhere in the settings or sidebar.
I found CBD to provide temporary relief - I think my depression was inflammation related. The world is still dark and compressed but also comfortable, like the dark corners fill with algae and the ground with grass.
What ended up working was improving my oral posture and articulation using ortothropics and self-developed speech exercises (the important part is having designed the exercises yourself). Suddenly it's vastly easier to maintain correct spinal alignment and breathing. Depression is just an emotion again.
I supplement fish oil, gradeschool-tier mathematics and meditation, from Vigyan Bhairava Tantra.
The entire endocannabanoid system in humans is interesting. If you think about it less than 100 years ago hemp and CBD oil was in our diet. Almost like we evolved with a system for it.
Hemp is a weed and was growing prolifically all over the US until the 1920's and 1930's, when it was outlawed. Free range cattle still is a big thing but was even larger then. Most of the beef in the nation consumed hemp, and the people consumed hemp 2nd hand by eating the domestic and wild animals that grazed on this wild growing weed
It isn't hard to extrapolate that humans have been digesting the weed and cannabinoids for a long time and it is an integral part of the human system
Of course you can say humans and the plants evolved parallel and they arent related. I have no evidence to prove otherwise but typically when you see similar systems in the same ecosystem they are related.
> Hemp is a weed and was growing prolifically all over the US until the 1920's and 1930's, when it was outlawed. Free range cattle still is a big thing but was even larger then. Most of the beef in the nation consumed hemp 2nd hand by eating the domestic and wild animals that grazed on this wild growing weed
1. The link you provided states that hemp contains varying amounts of CBD, and does not claim that cattle have ever consumed any CBD.
2. Even if cattle do/did consume CBD, the link does not claim that any of that CBD is passed down to humans consuming beef--there's no evidence in that link that beef from cattle who consume CBD contains any CBD.
> It isn't hard to extrapolate that humans have been digesting the weed and cannabinoids for a long time and it is an integral part of the human system
> Of course you can say humans and the plants evolved parallel and they arent related. I have no evidence to prove otherwise but typically when you see similar systems in the same ecosystem they are related.
1. I don't buy the claim that "typically when you see similar systems in the same ecosystem they are related". Proving such a claim would require a wide survey of a bunch of ecosystems to prove a hypothesis that doesn't really build toward any theory: in short, this isn't even a good hypothesis, let alone a hypothesis which is likely to have been tested.
2. Even if we accept hypothesis 1 is true, that doesn't show what the relation is--it doesn't show that humans have been digesting cannabinoids. There's lots of evidence that cannabinoid receptors are involved in hunger and metabolism, and while I won't claim to fully understand that, I think we can agree that humans need to eat to survive, so there are some pretty clear reasons for the cannabinoid receptor system existing in humans that have nothing to do with cannabinoids originating in plants. Also, humans aren't the only species with cannabinoid systems. It's just as possible that humans or another mammal are integral parts of cannabinoid survival than the inverse.
I can certainly appreciate the romantic aesthetic of a plant coevolving with humans to expand our minds or some such, but the fact that it's such an aesthetically pleasing hypothesis should be recognized as bias, making me doubly skeptical.
2. You should post links that contain evidence for your claims, instead of links that don't.
I'm sorry to be glib here, but surely you can see the problem with telling ME to go find evidence for YOUR claims, when you can't even be bothered to find evidence for your own claims. Given that you aren't presenting any evidence for your claims, I think it's highly likely that no such evidence exists, and I'm not going to waste my time searching for evidence that likely doesn't exist.
Beating a dead horse a bit: the link you've posted still does not say that cannabinoids have ever been part of the human diet.
I strongly suspect that I've actually read more on this subject than you have, as you've failed to mention Michael Pollan's Botany of Desire, which actually explores the coevolutionary history of humans and marijuana. Although Pollan still doesn't make the claims you're making about CBD oil, he does at least survey some evidence for coevolution between humans and marijuana.
So you have read enough to see but you need some sort of proof aside from the fact humans have been using it as feed for as long as history has been recorded ?
Given the fact humans didnt even know they had the endocannabanoid system until the 90's I am not surprised there isnt technical evidence showing the correlation.
Common sense should prevail here, but you are correct... even though the cannabanoid receptors are one of the most populous receptors in the brain and folks using CBD oil have been reporting all sorts of interesting reactions to it ( I personally can tell you it relieves pain from nerve damage ). Nothing in the links I posted directly correlates anything.
Odd how the money in the cotton industry lobbied and killed the hemp industry isnt it?
Trivia ... US Constitution is written on Hemp Paper
It is true that paper, and a very large proportion of fabric, were made from hemp until William Randolph Hearst orchestrated a fear campaign about "devil weed" to create a larger market for his timber holdings.
There was quite a lot of resistance to paper made of wood. It was acidic, so turned brown and crumbled in a short time, and was generally of lower quality than hemp paper. The quality problems have been addressed, since, but wood still takes quite a lot more processing to make into useful fiber.
Can you elaborate on oral posture and articulation? I have a major snoring (apnea) and breathing issue due to dentistry mistakes (taking out teeth when I should not have as a kid) and my face caved in which compresses my breathing. This is my theory at least. I am curious because this is the first time I hear about the concepts you brought up
The most important thing is to have the tip of your tongue (almost) touching your teeth and then gradually increasing the amount of tongue-to-roof-of-mouth surface, beginning it the front - your current limit is where it blocks nasal breathing. This stimulates horizontal (forwards) bone development vs. vertical (downwards) development.
A "drill" I can recommend is writing out words a defined number of times (pick a number you like between 10 and 100), as you write also pronounce them without letting your tongue lose contact with the roof of your mouth. This may feel very unnatural at first. If you don't like the result just recycle the paper.
There's also the habit of sucking or pulling in your tongue - don't do that. I think it causes jaw clenching. If you want a fast way to get rid of that, invent metaphors for it and then watch yourself do it automatically in social interactions.
Also check out ortothropics, it's the emerging science of facial development through oral posture. They have a large collection of instructional material on YouTube.
There are basically 2 schools of thought on oral health:
1) The establishment/western orthodontics school where teeth are the root of the problem so are moved around or removed in order to achieve flatness in the face profile. Maintaining results might require wearing a retainer for life.
2) The holistic orthotropic approach where misaligned teeth are a symptom of other issues. It emphasizes myofunctional exercises (for tongue and cheek posture), osteopathic adjustment to realign skull sutures, neck posture and breathing exercises to train the body to regulate its CO2 during sleep. The results are permanent since the patient's efforts help drive bone growth in the palate and changes in the jaw joint.
I sucked my thumb until I was 9 which left me with a severe overbite, then had braces and headgear for 8 years as a child (luckily had no teeth removed) but it left my mouth too small. I am a late bloomer, probably 10 years behind my peers. I began weightlifting in my early 20s and basically have a different body type now than I did in adolescence, so my jaw grew and constricted my throat, which caused sleep apnea for at least 10 years. I've been chronically exhausted most of my adult life and didn't know why. That led to poor self image/self esteem and chronic melancholy/depression although I have never been diagnosed or taken medication for it.
I got fitted with an A.L.F. appliance about 9 months ago and the results have been nothing short of miraculous. I'd say my throat has opened by 1/4 inch or more, my skin has cleared up, my eyebrows have grown back, even my digestive issues have improved dramatically. And to top it off, I just look healthier/happier and feel more attractive in public because I used to have a gummy smile with no teeth visible at the sides and a recessed chin (which are the main causes of babyface).
For anyone reading this, I'd be very wary of orthodontic treatment that requires extractions or headgear. Get a second opinion, and opt for a Herbst device, A.L.F. or D.N.A. appliance instead. Invisiline is fine. Also look on youtube for exercises to improve your jawline, such as chin and tongue frenulum stretches. The most important exercise I've found is to keep your tongue suctioned to the roof of your mouth and learn to swallow with it up like that. The constant pressure of the tip of your tongue above your front teeth causes the nerves to stimulate bone growth to provide room for your top teeth. Then the bottom jaw conforms to the top, which can cause the bottom teeth to spread and straighten as well. But really, find a myofunctional therapist because this is only the tip of the iceberg. You can usually train with them remotely.
My theory for why this is not mainstream knowledge is that there is not as much money in a simple wire and holistic treatment/exercises as there is in orthodontics.
Do you believe that animals have meaningful conversation? Or that humans do?
Does the universe speak? If it did, would you know?
Do you understand its language? Can you hear it?
There's also something else: nothing.