rastinza @rastinza@qoto.org

@Violet
Yes, you are

@doctormo
Cool, but I've never seen those anywhere.
@antifaintl

@colinsmatt11
People will keep consuming alcoholics despite your negative opinion.
@antifaintl @doctormo @galena

@colinsmatt11
I, as a user, prefer urinals over toilets.
It is quicker to use, you don't need to enter a separate room and you don't have to fiddle with the toilet cover if that is there; you generally don't have to push any button to flush it.
Moreover, it's overall more gratifying to use a urinal.

As a toilet maintainer I guess urinals are easier to clean and more durable, since you have less moving parts.

A better design for general toilets already exists: Turkish toilets are the best design in my opinion.
They don't take much space, are easy to clean and in theory could need less water to flush.
@antifaintl @doctormo

@GiudyCorda
Italian culture is: andare in Germania e guardare solo per terra, così da poter tornare in Italia e sostenere che anche lì hanno le buche.

@antifaintl
It makes no sense having separate toilets at this point.
If you do have separate toilets, then it makes sense enforcing people to use those based on their sex and not on their gender.
If you have unisex toilets, then this does not matter at all.

If I see a woman using an urinal I will laugh.

@GustavinoBevilacqua
Se lo fai almeno mettiti 1312 come numero però

Hay ido a Noia ayer por el concierto de Baiuca
Me gustó muchísimo!
El solo problema es que volvió a casa a las 5 y empiezai a trabajar esta mañana a las 8

@GustavinoBevilacqua
Eh, ma così non puoi dire cose del tipo "io ti ho fatto ed io ti alcolizzo"
@Lilithh @0ciX_reloaded@mastodon.bida.im

@Lilithh
E poi chi ti porti in giro per i bar?
@0ciX_reloaded@mastodon.bida.im

@GustavinoBevilacqua
Tocca piano la minaccia

@GustavinoBevilacqua
Lascia stare, fai girare il coso del #GustavinoRatio e vedrai che in poco tempo è impossibile
Ti saluto appena tornato da Noia, che a dispetto del nome è un bel posto
@Guardamiinfaccia@mastodon.bida.im

@climagic
It's great he took it on him to fix this issue and I'm very thankful, but I wouldn't have such a sensational title; except maybe something like: "AWK, one of the founding softwares of Linux gets unicode support after over 40 years"

@Yaku
Io lo uso, però da solo, non ho mai provato a condividere i documenti
@caosorganizzato @gp

@Mek101
As an Italian I feel obliged to say that I agree
@onlmaps

#cancer #medicine #malaria

I made a few approximate calculations to estimate the importance of finding effective cures for cancer.
These are very rough estimates based on uncertain data, but definitely help understanding what we're trying to do and the importance of it.
I compared cancer with another disease: malaria.
There's no particular reason as to why I chose malaria, other that it's quite a widespread disease that causes a lot of troubles in certain places.

At the end of the toot I link all the sources I used, so that you can replicate the calculations if you wish; if you're going to do that maybe search for some better data, I didn't do any extensive research.
All data is referred to 2019, so we can exclude any effects due to covid limiting access to cures.

The cancer mortality rate changes with age, most people who die of cancer have more than 70 years.
Cancer deaths under 14 years: 0.40% of the total
Malaria deaths under 14 years: 56.81% of the total

Cancer total deaths: 10 million
Malaria total deaths: 558,000

Cancer deaths under 14: 40,000
Malaria deaths under 14: 317,000

So, as you can see cancer kills many more people than malaria, almost 18 times as many; however most of those people have more than 70 years and the global life expectancy is 73 years, thus it is not decreasing the length of life of people significantly.
Malaria kills much less people, however most of the people who die of malaria are children below 5 year, thus malaria kills most of the people 65 years before they would be expected to die.

Even though malaria kills less people than cancer overall, it kills almost 8 times more children below 14 than cancer.

I believe this rush in investing to find a cure for cancer to be stupid.
It would be nice to find a cure for cancer, but I believe there are more important diseases to cure in the world.
Unfortunately, most of the money and even public research is focused on cancer and not other critical diseases.

Sources:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/malaria-death-rates-by-age?country=~OWID_WRL
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cancer-death-rates-by-age?time=latest&country=~OWID_WRL
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/malaria
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaoncology/fullarticle/2787350
https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy

#research #protein #proteins

Is there any expert of proteins?
I need help understanding protein flexibility and what are the main determining structural features.
Ideally, I'd like to be able to roughly estimate the flexibility of a protein using its structure or sequence.

@Canageek@cybre.space
Wow, in my university it was unlikely even a PhD would have access to such expensive stuff
@modulux