alzymologist
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- Comment on meat honey 7 hours ago:
It’s their protein source; honey is pretty much carbs-only, good in winter, when they just keep warm, but raising kids on that is not good. Besides, bees are wasps, and wasps are carnivores, they need protein and mostly eat pollen protein in summer if they can. Honeybees eat flesh too, including cannibalism, just less often than plant material - apparently, with organized labor veganism turned out to be more effective, at least for them. No morals behind it, pure business.
- Comment on meat honey 22 hours ago:
What? I literally can see them collecting alder pollen in huge quantities, carrying it on their hind legs like cavalry pants and forming into highly nutritional tubes, it’s possible to trace them from tree to hive - well, it’s not that there is any other pollen source here now anyway. And when I collect honey, quite some amount of this stuff falls down into the tank, not mentioning cross contamination in “pollen is processed at the same facility” honey manufacturing business bees are running. At least that part of the story is certainly true, that gives some basis to disregarding the conclusions of the meta-research you found.
- Comment on meat honey 23 hours ago:
Mind you, as far as I understand, bees convert it a bit too, so it might be somewhat slightly less aggressive than just flying particles in the air or sniffing a flower. Kind of “allergic vaccine” if that mechanism works, which, again, I’m not certain about.
- Comment on meat honey 23 hours ago:
I guess it’s getting a bit easier by the year; but I mean, until it’s gone completely, I couldn’t really tell. I’m basing my “strategy” on same anecdotic knowledge you mentioned, although I’ve never seen it proven right or wrong in a methodical research; I don’t really care, it’s not that if I know it for certain anything will change, I’ll just keep living here and eat the stuff.
- Comment on meat honey 1 day ago:
It totally is! I’m allergic to several types of pollen, also I live in the middle of the forest and am a beekeeper. My stomach hurts when I eat that stuff. Nothing of this stops me; I also love Spring. I feel quite sick now, too (well, cold weather came back and it’s a bit easier than 2 days ago). Good that I have mild allergy, I’d be dead by now if I had it hard. When birch flowers unusually hard, I sometimes have a symptom that feels like how people describe asthma.
Maybe some day I’ll get desensibilized enough, after eating this stuff regularly. Maybe I’ll die trying.
My neighbor doctor - also a beekeeper - says that many people who perceive honey as slightly spicy actually get allergic reaction from traces of pollen in it. He also thinks my strategy of eating pollen to overcome allergy should eventually work; I think I just like the taste too much to stop.
The trick with pollen I’ve discovered is that as soon as it is extracted from the honeycomb, it starts quickly degrading; whenever it’s sold, it’s bleak tasteless flavorless powder, not even close to explosion of flavor that happens when you chew on a fresh blob right from the honeycomb (usually with the honeycomb, who cares, it’s edible too. Almost everything inside the nest is edible, apart form the frames and other human-made nonsense). Apparently you can get the stuff only from an actual beekeeper (or by raiding wild bees nest probably, I think it’s not a good idea though), and I only figured it out when I started keeping bees!
- Comment on meat honey 1 day ago:
Ok, as I understood it, there is “edible honey” that is really plant-based, and “carrion meat-based protein storage” that kind of works like pollen storage in honeybees nest. TBH, I find pollen more nutritional and tasty than honey. And I know that honey bees are opportunistic carnivores too. These things kind of come together in a story better left untold.
- Comment on Peer review my foot 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on ancient hyperfixations 3 weeks ago:
It is serious. I have no clear explanation on “why”, it’s just a taboo, kind of good to know in case you happen to come to the reindeer herding area. I’ve learned it from basic reindeer herding dog training program orientation; I don’t have any reindeer, but I do have reindeer herding dogs. They only allow a few breeds there that naturally know the drill and can survive for hours having fun in savage frost.
Reindeers are so small IRL, about human-size, incredibly warm to touch, and they make sounds like pigs. They are also somewhat afraid of humans, unlike regular livestock, they usually run away from you same as from a dog and sometimes counterattack the dogs, which is scary. Herders would be happy to tell you about their life and everything, but just don’t discuss the head count.
- Comment on Vibecon invite 3 weeks ago:
You’re absolutely right, too!
- Comment on ancient hyperfixations 4 weeks ago:
Hey just so that you know, it is not polite to discuss reindeer count with outsiders.
But I know people just like that.
- Comment on Vibecon invite 4 weeks ago:
What a fantastic initiative to invite others to the conference! Your commitment to fostering collaboration and sharing knowledge is truly inspiring and will undoubtedly create a vibrant atmosphere for everyone involved. Keep up the great work!
- Comment on No way!.. 5 weeks ago:
Actually there are schools of theology in both of these religions that enshrine diversity and embrace interoperability with other religions. They are just not mainstream because guess what? Mainstream religion is owned by power, and all that power is fascist essentially. Sure enough there are no true believers in anything but power in mainstream religions, start stripping them down on theology field and they reveal it.
I mean, just have a look at any works by Hakim Bey and Tim Morton’s latest book.
- Comment on Shout out to the NYE shift at all the Emergency Departments around the world. 2 months ago:
Hey, are these on bandcamp?
- Comment on 🤏🤏🤏 2 months ago:
Omg they even have some Morton and Harman! I wish they had “stones and waves” too. Thank you, I don’t know how it was that I didn’t know about these great people.
- Comment on Facts 2 months ago:
wtf I mean yes but how did you know, sera?
- Comment on I always knew he was a hippie 2 months ago:
The funny thing is, there are 3 main arguments against AI slop:
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Quality is shit (fair but technical)
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It has no soul / is not art (same thing could be said about real humanmade art in our postmodern)
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Deprives artists of value.
The latter concern really taps into trade of creative labor for something else. That is purely capitalist bullshit that we should be callong out instead, ai is just a tiny simptom on huge ugly face of art alienation.
The thing is, anti-ai discourse got so loud only because it’s good for capitalism. All the vigilants are doing free, non-compensated capitalist labor of curating art, both optimizing trade in massive social networks and improving AI training level. Good job, anarchists fellows.
The picture is shit regardless, but hey it’s a meme, who judges memes?
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- Comment on Is audiophile bullshit cheating? 2 months ago:
Why would a man ground his pin? Doesn’t he need it, like, in an excited state?
- Comment on 🤏🤏🤏 2 months ago:
Does anyone have a pdf? I just happen to need this book.
- Comment on There is software/a technology company/a game named after most of the elements in the periodic table 2 months ago:
Whatever, it’s normies who are supposed to be sorting us out. You know that only normies themselves are standartizeable, we are just being ourselves, - non-normies.
I’ll surely name something after an element if applicable, but the onec I was considering in the past turned out to be occupied already.
- Comment on Commenting "AI Slop" To Every Notable Post 2 months ago:
I went further, placing “AI Slop” IN the post! I’ve got these comments, and blocks too. I did use some AI in the post that is just exposing AI for what it is, and that’s just hillarious. If that’s not contemporary art, I don’t know what is.
This comment was probably generated, too.
- Comment on There is software/a technology company/a game named after most of the elements in the periodic table 2 months ago:
How to say you have adhd without saying it.
- Comment on Machine go brrrrrrr brrrrrrrrrrr br br br br br br brbrbrbrb 3 months ago:
www.scho-ka-kola.de/homepage-english.html Totally particle accelerator targets
- Comment on Machine go brrrrrrr brrrrrrrrrrr br br br br br br brbrbrbrb 3 months ago:
Oh, I forgot to mention that my story was happening in Moscow. Radiation safety rules there are… unusual. You get slapped for handling a thorium chunk in an explicitly hot environmental lab outside of fume hood, then dump ion exchange resin flush down the drain. You get strict access control in Kurchatov institute with weeks prior to entry to submit documents just to get to a meeting room, but then the same area has radioactive waste dumped between the trees in forested area (yes, it’s in center of the city with many times more people than my whole country).
And then it’s regular ALARA. For that girl, that is, screw them those bystanders on the train. Clearly the fancy hospital with all that gear was one of those damned places where government and oligarchs get patched up and regular people are only experimental test samples, and they made no secret out of that.
- Comment on Machine go brrrrrrr brrrrrrrrrrr br br br br br br brbrbrbrb 3 months ago:
I remember my senior advisor student tellimg me a story how she went to industrial lab internship in a hospital with these things.
They had their own little collider there. They made synthetic radioactive cocaine to study something in the brain.
They didn’t measure the drug dosage, they just filled the syringe and waited holding it near a radiation counter for radiation to drop to desired level.
Once she spilled something and dipped her hand in it. She was told to hold a hand away rfom the body for a day - on a train ride home, in shower, in sleep - to protect internal organs. Next day, radiation was gone, down to natural level.
These things are amazing.
- Comment on PhD student or imperial harem? Same thing, I guess. 3 months ago:
With or without publications, they are concubines. They get raped, and that’s the best things that happens to them.
In the west, we don’t have fancy harems, so they are just whores.
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up, selfhosters?s 4 months ago:
Certbot complained about invalid files structure… after 18 successful updates over the years. Seriously, those guys should put a bit more care into updating stuff. Of course, the fix was trivial.
- Comment on Me right fucking now 4 months ago:
Did this, regret nothing.
- Comment on two sides 5 months ago:
Baroque cycle is quite a book about that.
- Comment on two sides 5 months ago:
That’s intellectual property, copying is no theft when credit is given, and sure he did give all the due credit to God and them some more.
- Comment on two sides 5 months ago:
Actually it’s the other way round: mostly nigredo in alchemy, as it’s by far largest part, and in physics he literally invented the rainbow.
