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New comment by sbxfree in "Disney erased FiveThirtyEight"

sbxfree — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:54:10 +0000

It feels a little disingenuous to call out your opponent's model failures when Silver's model on Live Election Night also completely bugged out showing Kamala as more favored as she lost state after state: https://web.archive.org/web/20241109030935/https://www.theda...

New comment by sbxfree in "Influential study on glyphosate safety retracted 25 years after publication"

sbxfree — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 21:57:08 +0000

to build on this further, glyphosate disproportionally targets bifidobacterium and lactobacillus (PMC10330715). It mimics what happens to the gut as people age (PMC4990546) and increasing bifidobacterium, in research, improves dementia symptoms. In the guts of people with allergies, ibs, asthma, and cystic fibrosis there are decreased amounts of certain strains of bifidobacterium.

In mice models, Alzheimer’s is transferrable via gut microbiota. (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-023-02216-7?fromPaywa...).

So to say it messes with the gut is no small thing.

New comment by sbxfree in "How did sports betting become legal in the US?"

sbxfree — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 01:18:55 +0000

Any modicum of research will show how dangerous this is. Despite warning against addiction, sports betting websites engage in dark patterns because whales are where the money is at. Your local bookie isn't engaging in AB testing to see how long before sending you free credit promotions will bring you back to their platform.