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And prescribed in homeopathy under the name Cicuta Virosa.

(https://plankhomeopathy.com/blog/cicuta-virosa/)


Im guessing nobody dies from this, since 30C is water.

The catch is that they’re also without any benefit, and they’re poorer to boot.


With less money to poison themselves with, then. Among those who don't know any better than to buy from homeopaths, that may make the difference.


Nice one.

Homeopathic snake oils are diluted so many times they pretty much guarantee there are no traces of original substance left (they believe the more times it is diluted, the more potent healing powers it gets). I think default is 30 times dilution, each time with ratio 1:100, so you're left with 1e-60 of original, so if you'd put all atoms from milky way (1e68) and start homeopathic them, you'd be left with number of atoms that make ie. a virus (influenza has roughly 1e8 atoms).


I had no knowledge of snake oil terms, so I was confused by the "30C is just water". So after reading your comment, I had to go look it up and came across this [0] with description of the terms. For anyone else ignorant of snake oils ;-)

[0] https://homeosource.org/how-tos-for-homeopathy/what-does-hom...


To be fair, the water used for dilution has orders of magnitude more of stuff already dissolved in it, if only from the person breathing on it.


Surely, you're not implying that someone making a snake oil would be doing so in a non-sterile environment without any kind good manufacturing practices being used. These things seem so trust worthy. I mean, even the government feels they need no regulations because they do it so well themselves.


To be fair, most probably don't actually bother with the original solute, and instead sell straight-up distilled water. Or just tap water.


Well to be fair that’s literally just water…


> Homeopathic medicines are prepared by potentization where the dynamic curative power of the medication is aroused, so homeopathic medicines produce negligible side effects.

Well, that makes me feel better.


Good news, the regular effects are also negligible.


To be fair, most of us tend to be dehydrated, so some beneficial effect is expected


The currency was devalued to bring the official rate in line with the black market rate. So anything imported is going to have a big jump in price. But also making Argentine products more attractive abroad. Inevitable, if Argentina is going to solve its economic problems.


It was ore complicated, because to import things there were a lot of rules and paperwork to get an authorization, so many things were already using the black market dollar. So some items will have a big jump and others a medium jump. (And a few a small jump.)


The Indian word for caste, "varna" literally means color.


It does not seem “color” is referencing skin tone here.

>The word appears in the Rigveda, where it means "colour, outward appearance, exterior, form, figure or shape".[4] The word means "color, tint, dye or pigment" in the Mahabharata.[4] Varna contextually means "colour, race, tribe, species, kind, sort, nature, character, quality, property" of an object or people in some Vedic and medieval texts.[4] Varna refers to four social classes in the Manusmriti.[4][5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varna_(Hinduism)

>The terms varna (theoretical classification based on occupation) and jāti (caste) are two distinct concepts. Jāti (community) refers to the thousands of endogamous groups prevalent across the subcontinent. A jati may be divided into exogamous groups based on the same gotras. The classical authors scarcely speak of anything other than the varnas; even Indologists sometimes confuse the two.[63]


Once you're in America the etymology is irrelevant. If it can tangentially relate in any way to race then it must be about race and viewed through a racial lens at all times.


To viruses and bacteria the human body is like a buffet table. If one virus is eliminated, another virus will evolve to take its place. Already we have acute flaccid paralysis, a disease with the symptoms of polio that is not caused by the polio virus. Although we can celebrate our successes, we shouldn't imagine we can eliminate all childhood diseases through vaccination programs.


The average Venezuelan cannot survive on what they can earn because of poverty and inflation caused by the incompetent and corrupt socialist government of Venezuela.


Why is soy milk any more confusing than peanut butter?


I know this isn't quite what you meant, but I know a dog by the name Chorizo, and every time I see a soy chorizo in a supermarket, I can't help but imagine him in a sombrero introducing himself in Spanish.

I agree with the actual point you're making — though I can imagine a DnD-style alignment chart with one axis for substance purity and the other for functional equivalence, such a chart has both soy milk and peanut butter in the "functional purity, ingredient rebel" corner.


Funny you should ask, because peanut butter is called peanut cheese in the Netherlands. Becaaaaaause:

https://www.tastingtable.com/893109/the-unique-history-behin...


Fun fact: it's not allowed to call peanut butter "butter" for the same reason.


The problem here is obvious. What if the patient has an adverse reaction to the drug? If they took a single dose, you can discontinue the drug. But you can't discontinue a multiple dose drug delivered in a single shot.


I don't see a problem here. As with most other drugs for which a time-release form already exists, you would start on the instant-release form until your reaction is known and your dosage is dialled in. Then your doctor is able to calculate the correct dosage for the time-release form -- often there is a guideline for conversion between the two forms which is distributed by the pharma company.


The sweet spot for Perl is any problem combining text processing with Unix system calls. It's a system administrator's idea of what a programming language should be. I feel the reason why Perl got a reputation as a "write only" language is because it's easy to write a simple Perl script, so people with no programming background wrote a lot of ugly code. It's simple to write clean, maintainable code in Perl with a little discipline.


I have more than a little background in programming, and I love Perl. But I definitely consider it 90% write-only. The remaining 10% are mostly libraries.

You can write clean, maintainable code in Perl, but the language simply isn't designed for that, it has other priorities. The whole "there is more than one way to do it" thing is obviously not how you get consistent code, first class regexes which are one of the biggest strengths of Perl are notoriously hard to read, and the "ugly" options tend to be the easiest to use. It is all great for getting stuff done quickly and efficiently, not so much for maintainable code.

Languages that favor readability will typically try to go towards the "one true way" of doing things, use more descriptive words in standard libraries, have an annoying "bondage and discipline" compiler, etc... Perl has little discipline built-in, so it has to come from the programmer, don't expect it to guide you to the cleanest way, but you can expect it to help you write everything in one line.


The number of applications for disability payments from Social Security has declined every year since Covid began.

https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/STATS/dibStat.html


Did you know there is a reduction in staffing for the SSA office and that creating an application is becoming more difficult?

Also, applications are routinely denied upon first submission and then worked on as an appeal that can span years.

Ask me how I know, I have been assisting a friend with a disability (not COVID related) to get assistance for over a year now.

So either there are applications still being processed, in appeal, or people are frankly struggling to navigate the submission process, especially with fewer SSA employees to get assistance from.


How do those payments work? Are you allowed them if you're also working?

Separate question: I vaguely remember that everything else made COVID more likely to kill, so how many people already on disability were killed, proportionately speaking?


Based on how the rules for disability goes, this isn’t surprising at all.


Reminds me of the poem by Ogden Nash:

A funny animal is the flea

You cannot tell the he from she

But he can tell and so can she


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