Thank you for the info!

Just a reminder that Signal is not 100% open source since 2021. This means that we can no longer verify if what they say about privacy, security, etc, is true.

To my understanding the backdoor was opened in 2021.

we must depart from our totally-open posture and develop one piece of the server in private

[source: Signal]

It looks like this is a new (to me) feature I was not aware of and this is why I deleted the comment you replied to.

Since I consider this super important I would like to ask [email protected] to change the post description and ask for those who want to participate to follow the necessary steps as indicated by Signal (see here), before joining this group. Otherwise, it’s a problematic situation on so many levels imo.

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Please reconsider. You can join a group like that without giving away your phone number to a person you don’t know, asking for it online. See relevant comment in this comment section.

I will repeat stuff that are already present in this conversation because I consider this super important.

With Signal one has to share their phone number. Please don’t share your phone number with random people you meet online.

I really hope you manage to find out the root cause(s) of your pain/discomfort. It was lovely talking to you :)

I tend to agree with you about pain-killers, they can be a tricky thing. Sure, if you have a terible hangover and you take a pil every now and then, it’s one thing. Taking them often is another.

If you don’t know why you feel the pain, it can be a totally different story, especially if the pain, discomfort, etc is reoccuring. Pain can be like an alert the body emmits to make you aware that something is wrong, and needs your attention. Shutting down the alert doesn’t fix the problem. On the contrary, pain-killers can make you ignore it until it’s too late for it to be fixed.

With herbal medicine you first need to discover why you feel the pain and then try a few things in relation to the cause, not the symptom. If something works great, if not the solution is to go to the doctor to get examined. When (should I say if?) the docs tell you that you have this condition you can see what herbal medicine you can use to complement the suggested medical treatment, after talking about it with them. At least this is how I see things with what I learned so far.

(I seldom write that much. it’s a topic that I find so fascinating and I haven’t thought about for a while, so thank you for reminding me. And now I stop, I promise! hahaha)

For teas, the only thing I can tell for sure is that when I drink chamomile, I just fall asleep. For others, I am not the best person to tell because I drink tea rarely.

Tinctures, I started making them just a few years back, so I’m a quite new, but I do use them all the time. So, tinctures can be used to eliminate a symptom (ex. take X tincture to break a fever). You can take tinctures to prevent stuff / balance your system, for me this is extremely important (ex. X tincture in lower dosage boosts immune system, so you take it during winter not to get a cold). If tincture X doesn’t work for you, maybe Y would or Z, so in a way the more you use them, the more you know about what works for you.

And lets remember that the base of pharmaceutical medicines come from all the collected knowledge of the effects of plants for millenia. Consequently, there is a tone of scientific research on plants and herbal therapy. For example, here are several scientific articles about herbal therapy and multiple sclerosis. In the same time the scientific research is not enough because pharmaceutical companies prefer creating elements in the lab instead of harvesting them from plants.

Personally, I use both western medicine and herbalism. I don’t trust herbalists who tell you not to go to the doctor and stuff like that. I don’t trust doctors blindly neither, because scientists can disagree on diagnoses, cures, approaches, etc. Appart from genuine disagreements, some love too much what the pharmaceuticals offer them. Herbalists have very different opinions, so if I dare say so, you have to formulate your own and allow it to evolve with time. There are a lot of amazing resources online for that. I use some resources relevant to where I live, and for more general info I like this site a lot: https://www.herbalreality.com/.

This podcast is about organising, solidarity, and ways that bring people together. Legal action part of their repertoir, but they don’t just do that.

Personnaly, I found it very funny to read this specific sentence. Thank you for reminding it to me!

like a sort of evil lemon

Thanks a mil to both of you, @[email protected] for the trust, and @[email protected] for the tag and the kind words!!

This article from The Convesation talks about the same topic and has some insight that tell a very different story. For example:

These risks are why importing and even moving plant pathogens within the U.S. is regulated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, or USDA-APHIS, through the Plant Protection Act of 2000.

A scientist who wants to move a plant pathogen, either within the U.S. or from outside the U.S., must go through a permitting process with USDA-APHIS that can take up to six months to complete.

Even with Fusarium graminearum, which has appeared on every continent but Antarctica, there is potential for introducing new genetic material into the environment that may exist in other countries but not the U.S. (…)

And my question still stands.

Do you condemn Israel’s Genocide?

If you think that being vocal about the Genocide of Palestinians is driving people and support away from deserving ideas and causes, I have to ask you:

Do you condemn Israel’s Genocide?

I am not an expert on bees, but I’ve had long discussions on the topic with friends who are beekeepers. The more we talked the more I understood I knew nothing on the topic.

I can’t say I remember too many details from these conversations. Still, there is one thing that stuck with me: the fact that we say they have a Queen, tells more about us observing them and our frame of reference, than about the way they actually organise. In a way, it’s more about projecting a belief system, on what we see, instead of just observing and trying to describe it. Something like that.

The scientific community is not a unified body, so having scientists questioning any scientific model does not seem like a “wow” moment. But, when the discourse starts including strong vocabulary, admittedly I start questioning/researching claims. And I appreciate it when studies conclude by saying things like: cautious of interpretation is needed, or further studies are warranted, etc.

Apart from that, sure, maybe the LNT model needs some re-evaluation, maybe not - I dunno, time will tell. Still, to my understanding, one problem with ionising radiation is that the dosage received by people is not always as tightly controlled as needed for it to be safe, despite all efforts. Not even in work environments.

- If I got this right, from in table 1, p3 one could get to the conclusion that to decommission photovoltaics creates 7 times more CO₂ (more precisely g CO2e/kWh), than decommissionning a nuclear plant for decades, as shown above. It made me wonder how they arrived to these measurements. But the link to the study for the nuclear is dead (see Heath, Garvin A., and Margaret K. Mann. 2012). So this cannot be verified.

• Having a potential solution in the works for nuclear waste is very different from what you said, which was: Nuclear waste is not and has never been a real problem.

Bye-bye now

Edit: The strikethrough, because it looks like the decommissioning of nuclear power plants was not reliably assessed after all. To be more precise, this is the 2012 meta study that is used for the g CO2e/kWh from nuclear decommissioning, and that I had difficulty finding. It clearly states:

Decommissioning was not usually described in detail; when described, most seem to closely resemble only “immediate dismantling,” not full decommissioning (see the Downstream Processes section of the supporting information on the Web).

The lifecycle emissions of nuclear plants are similar to (…)

The link you provided talks about something more specific than what you just said. It’s about the Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Electricity Generation. This means that the decommissioning of a nuclear plant for example is not taken into account for these emissions, and it is well known that decommissioning a nuclear power station can easily take several decades (example from world nuclear news)

Nuclear waste is not and has never been a real problem.

The links I added above about France tell another story.

Edit: I looked a bit more into decommissioning and found the following from the International Atomic Energy Agency, and thought of sharing for easier visualisation

In terms of cleanness it is also incredibly clean.

I believe nowadays it would make more sense to compare nuclear to renewable energy, not coal. Apart from that it’s important to keep in mind the nuclear waste problem.

• France seeks strategy as nuclear waste site risks saturation point | Reuters
• Exposed: French nuclear companies dumping radioactive waste in Siberia | Greenpeace