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Darth Ender

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nemolomen said:
Oh so no unfounded unrealistic expectations then? But probably Wednesday?
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We try not to do extended forecasts as climate change has made the weather too unpredictable in the forum. More than a day out, could get an Apathy front coming in ....or a rage storm sparked by a high pressure of streaming videos. You just can't know that far in advance.

And we use the top of the line Floppler 9000 sensor. Able to detect the minutia of poor release impacts before all of our competition.
 

nemolomen

nemolomen
Darth Ender said:
We try not to do extended forecasts as climate change has made the weather too unpredictable in the forum. More than a day out, could get an Apathy front coming in ....or a rage storm sparked by a high pressure of streaming videos. You just can't know that far in advance.

And we use the top of the line Floppler 9000 sensor. Able to detect the minutia of poor release impacts before all of our competition.
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:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
 

nemolomen

nemolomen
HAHAHA, bask in the glory mere mortals, I mean here's this cat who owns a ship...

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Rubbernuke

Rubbernuke
nemolomen said:
That may be. The entire world is bound by the ravages of time.

I concur.

Yeah, I'm not talking about "breakfast" cereals and the like.

I'm descended from farmers who typically ate eggs, meat, fried potatoes and buttered toasted bread for breakfast not because they could buy it, or even wanted to, but because it was handy, being on the farm.

But that's all besides the point. I'm mostly interested if any of this is as enticing to @Rubbernuke, re: his emigrating comment, as the ice cream for breakfast bit was.
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Although I'd regret it, I'd love ice cream for breakfast :D Some cereals are so loaded with sugar and colours you might as well go the whole hog!
 

Boomtrooper

Boomtrooper
Rubbernuke said:
Technically we are- a lot of cell structures are made from cholesterol in humans and I imagine animals like chickens. Its only when there is too much floating about in your blood it gets crazy.
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And since most of the circulating cholesterol is manufactured by the liver and genetically controlled, it's not surprising that the scientific literature on dietary cholesterol as a risk factor has failed to show up major findings. Certainly evidence against saturated fats (but due to a pro-inflammatory effect, not cholesterol) but the evidence on dietary cholesterol continues to be a bit of a media myth...
 

Rubbernuke

Rubbernuke
Boomtrooper said:
And since most of the circulating cholesterol is manufactured by the liver and genetically controlled, it's not surprising that the scientific literature on dietary cholesterol as a risk factor has failed to show up major findings. Certainly evidence against saturated fats (but due to a pro-inflammatory effect, not cholesterol) but the evidence on dietary cholesterol continues to be a bit of a media myth...
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It does have a bit of a tick tock bad / good / bad thing going on, just like chocolate, wine, cheese etc.

But a fresh egg, poached to perfection on some home made toast is a golden joy for breakfast.

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Several Puffins

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Boomtrooper said:
And since most of the circulating cholesterol is manufactured by the liver and genetically controlled, it's not surprising that the scientific literature on dietary cholesterol as a risk factor has failed to show up major findings. Certainly evidence against saturated fats (but due to a pro-inflammatory effect, not cholesterol) but the evidence on dietary cholesterol continues to be a bit of a media myth...
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Media science understanding is absolutely dire, and there is always room for an attack on fat people. We released a paper that involved a signalling lipid guiding metastases and the media team repeatedly tried to turn it into "fat people responsible for their own cancer".

Frankly social understanding is bad too. I remember a lot of BBC articles about Chinese people's beliefs (while I was living there) that were just horse leavings, they can't have talked to anyone to check.
 

Boomtrooper

Boomtrooper
Rubbernuke said:
But a fresh egg, poached to perfection on some home made toast is a golden joy for breakfast.
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That's just food pr0n right there.... 😏
Several Puffins said:
Media science understanding is absolutely dire, and there is always room for an attack on fat people. We released a paper that involved a signalling lipid guiding metastases and the media team repeatedly tried to turn it into "fat people responsible for their own cancer".
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THIS is just one of the many things that annoys me so much... media outlets run by arts grads try to "interpret" science to make it as inflammatory and attention grabbing as possible... the cholesterol argument generally is such a typical example - most of the population thinks cholesterol "furs up the arteries" like fat in a kitchen drain because it would be too difficult to explain the whole inflammatory pathway leading to atherosclerosis and platelet aggregation.
It would be refreshing if science journalists were mostly scientists! One of the many reasons I have a soft spot for Ben Goldacre...
 
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