tripu @tripu@qoto.org

My recommended first step towards a saner, more productive public conversation about #drugs: stop talking about certain (legal) drugs as if they were not, in fact, “drugs”

#BasketballAndSports #alcohol #DrugLegalisation #news #media

You're looking at the rendering of a digital photograph of a piece of furniture featuring the sculpture of a helmet featuring a human face

https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2022/64930929

#MyYearInBooks #GoodReads #books

#rtmstats #RTM

“Having kids”

https://blog.tripu.info/kids/

@rdviii

Yes, to some extent we know why men die ~6 years earlier than women. Yet the relative influence of all factors (biology, lifestyle choices, societal expectations, forms of violence) is unclear.

I think that more research is needed to resolve that.

And that regardless of what the primary causes are, more attention and resources should be devoted to closing that gap — relative to what is spent on equivalent gender differences working in the opposite direction (eg, the wage gap, women in #STEM, female representation at the top of organisations). There is a huge imbalance there.

@rdviii

I am always amazed by this: average life span decreasing in ~7 months makes headlines, but a much bigger difference, that between men and women (10× larger) is usually mentioned in a sentence buried in a paragraph towards the end of the article, with no signs of alarm or displays of curiosity about the reasons for the gap or about what's being done to close it…

> _“Men and women saw a similar decline in life expectancy last year, but women are living, on average, until over 79 years old, which is about **six years longer than men**.”_

@anthropoid@101010.pl Indeed!

TIL about [cluster headache](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_headache)

> _“The #pain […] is usually described as burning, stabbing, drilling or squeezing. While #suicide is rare, those with cluster headaches may experience suicidal thoughts (giving the alternative name ‘suicide headache’ or ‘suicidal headache’). […] The disease may be the most painful condition known to medical science. […] #ClusterHeadache is probably the worst pain that humans experience. […] Women with cluster headache will tell you that an attack is worse than giving birth. So you can imagine that these people give birth without anesthetic once or twice a day, for six, eight, or ten weeks at a time. […] Their pain was so severe that several of them had to be constantly watched for fear of suicide. Most of them were willing to submit to any operation which might bring relief.”_

#qualia #HedonisticImperative #consciousness

In 🇪🇸 #Spain?

Gift #EffectiveAltruism this Christmas!

https://ayudaefectiva.org/regala

#AyudaEfectiva

@duncanmak @rauschma That's what I think, too: that a well designed standard would have worked better than React-centric and idiosyncratic JSX…

@rauschma I guess it's spelt “JSX” nowadays.