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Yes, and lots of people in lower income countries do so using a Bluetooth keyboard.

Bless you for trying anyway. They’re truly precious, and I appreciate holding tiny sleeping babies takes absolute priority over photos.

I’m going to need more of these. Many more.

I don’t think you’re wrong about the inflammation, because naphthoquinones are anti-oxidants, and anti-oxidants are anti-inflammatory.

So, when dopamine or whatever else oxidizes into quinone form, they go and cause damage. This is “oxidative stress”, a term frequently co-opted by snake oil merchants, but it’s a real thing. When your body experiences oxidative stress, it triggers inflammation. Anti-oxidants help prevent oxidative stress by converting things like dopamine quinone back to catechol form, so they aren’t wreaking havoc. Converting it back to catechol also means it can do what dopamine is supposed to be doing for you. So you get both less inflammation, and the usable dopamine you need, which helps your ADHD.

Inflammation and oxidative stress is also a self-perpetuating cycle - inflammation will cause oxidative stress and vice versa. So how much of your experience might be from reducing inflammation and how much is from having higher concentration of usable dopamine is not easy to determine - if it is any of this at all.

There are some very benign experiments you can try with your diet if you’re interested. Natto is one of them, increasing the amount of leafy greens you eat like spinach (with a source of fat at the same time) is another, ideally alongside other colourful fruit and veg. If those also make you feel better, it may well be the quinones. If they don’t, it could still be the quinones, but something else might be contributing from the lapacho or your body. I do know from my own experience that when my diet has a lot of diverse fruit and veg that my symptoms also reduce, but… It’s hard to keep that up, for obvious reasons, so I’m actually interested in trying this tea myself.

Just don’t accidentally take your ADHD meds within 30mins to an hour of eating fruit high in Vitamins C, especially citrus. It won’t kill you or anything, but there is undesirable interaction.

science is not that interested in it after they made “cure for cancer” claims

I wouldn’t be so sure about that. It seems β-Lapachone is still being very actively studied for its anti-cancer properties. It’s clearly not a silver bullet, but almost nothing ever is.

ADHD studies are just not as attractive a research topic, especially compared to cancer, so despite the link between ADHD and oxidative stress / inflammation being relatively established, I doubt lapacho will be studied for this anytime soon.

The theobromine another person speculated might be part of it, but then you might experience similar from dark chocolate.

My speculation is the quinones and ortho-quinones; they’re anti oxidants. Dopamine and serotonin both oxidize into quinone forms. In the quinone form, it seems they inhibit dopamine transport and slow cellular energy production, along with damaging some other stuff along the way.

But by introducing quinones from dietary sources, those steal the oxygen back from the dopamine quinone form to revert it back to its original catechol form.

Plant quinones aren’t hugely bioavailable though, and are not water soluble (they are absorbed in the small intestine), so it might not be this at all, especially because tea, or maybe it’s only partly this.

Given that you have a “temperamental” gut though, it could be affecting absorption of the other many quinones in lots of different foods. Perhaps have a look at how many different kinds of Vitamin K there are in foods and how much you get in your diet of each. (Ever tried natto? It’s an acquired taste though…)

but my trust in the scientific method is very strong

There’s trust in the scientific method, and then there’s actively dismissing what your body is signalling. If you want to get hardcore, try ruling out your water intake hypothesis by brewing a different kind of tea for a few weeks. Try ruling out your good mood hypothesis by actively forcing yourself to make the tea when you’re feeling shitty. Or asking your partner (if available) to brew it for you. Don’t get dangerous with the experiments, of course.

Science is the best we’ve got, but it’s not all-knowing or infallible.

I think he’s saying that the call for “order, authority and economic freedom” is something out of the Nazi playbook, which it is. But if that’s the case, he really should have used at least a few more words to do so.

I’m expecting a Reichstag fire rather than relying entirely on the last election rhetoric. For those who have never read about the 1933 German election, I recommend doing so soon.

Notice there is no double sig in there. Also note that Rodnovery is a neopagan religion, associated with nationalism. It’s the Slavic equivalent the Norse pantheon fetishism you see in the West in the form of Odinism.

You should assume they’re Nazi symbols because they are, even if Nazis stole a lot of symbols from everyone else. The sig was first adapted into the double sig in 1929 to be used as the Schutzstaffel logo

The problem is, it’s not just Hegseth.

It feels very 1933 outside all around.

Speaking in north-west France on Saturday to mark the 82nd anniversary of the D-day landings

“Sadly, today, different European beaches are stormed by different, dangerous ideologies … Beaches in Spain, Italy, Greece and Bulgaria, boats and men arrive. When will European capitals do something about that invasion, or is it too late? I pray not, and I believe not,” he said.

Jesus, he said it literally to the French in the American cemetary.

“Speech on immigration” really undersells the actual Christo-fascist hate speech that this is. France should start doing something about the invasion of dangerous ideologies by deporting Hegarty and banning re-entry.

I don’t appreciate having my photo posted without my permission, Isaac.

Sure, but they had an entirely different belief system, and those examples are up to a millennium later. Even the more voluptuous Graeco-Indian female statues from Gandhara got intricate drapery.

It’s possible that it is a more modern idea that we’ve attributed to being much earlier, that does happen a lot, but I’m inclined to think it’s not entirely baseless.

We know for example that the nude Aphrodite of Knidos by Praxiteles caused enough of a stir to become a tourist destination, and even she had a conveniently positioned hand covering her goods. Kore statues always had clothes on too, unlike their male counterparts.

I could maybe buy the possibility that almost all of the nude women sculptures were stolen and later destroyed, either intentionally or accidentally, but that doesn’t quite work either. To not find any older nude sculptures in modern times, plus the odd detail that none of the nude ones we do have (copies, admittedly, and I don’t know all the statues either) have anything other than Barbie-smooth instead of even a delicate line suggesting labia… seems odd for an art culture that progressively got more caught up with hyper realism.

They did get nuder and more realistic with time, but we’ve got nothing from the archaic period without at least a skirt on, usually more.

What neat little creatures. The Green eye also is bioluminescent. Have 3 short videos: https://www.mbari.org/animal/strawberry-squid/

Phrasing. But yes, some of them - they seemed to prefer making plaster and metal fig leaves thankfully. Michelangelo wasn’t thrilled about being told to change his work either. Some of them were whacked off earlier than the Catholics, and some were whacked off by the Vatican even as late as the 1850s in “The Great Castration”.

Many of the lost appendages were accidental though, natural disasters and the like did a lot of amputation and decapitation, to the point where there are entire catalogue methods for mismatched heads on statues.

I wish I had both any cool ancient things and any basement to put them in. I think the oldest thing I own is maybe 100 years at best.

I think I’d be terrified to own anything much older too, conservation is hard.

The penis thing is pretty hotly debated, but savagery comes pretty close to my understanding of the theory you mention. It’s not a hugely different concept from some of the manosphere stuff you find today though.

Basically the idea was (it’s theorized) that thinking with your dick leads to making hasty and bad decisions, but you want to be like the cool smart intellectual philosopher rhetorician dudes ruling society who are strong enough to control their urges. You want to be the civilized powerful master strategist, not the uncivilized weak-willed destructive glutton. So… because art needs to be about reality and be educational (there’s no place for that creative abstract shit), we’re going to de-emphasize the body part associated with urges that are difficult to control. These are powerful rational dudes afterall.

The biggest difference with modern manosphere bullshit is maybe the part where they shrunk the pps on the ripped marble dudes to make that point. Instead we get… social media statue and peacock “science” analogies.

I think Nemesis is Roman, but probably a copy of a Greek statue. I might have chosen to forget because the “restoration” work on her head breaks my heart - but I know that’s a common problem. Such a pity because the drapery is gorgeous.

Looking at this Diana/Artemis, who was much luckier than most statues by having her original head reattached, you can see how different it is. The proportions make much more sense.

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Photo of a marble statue of Artemis (aka Diana), which lives at the Louvre. Artemis is mid-step reaching for an arrow in the quiver on her back. In her other hand she’s pulling on the antlers of a small deer that she has caught. She’s wearing a short and practical belted tunic (chiton) appropriate for hunting, functional sandals, and an equally pragmatic hairstyle with her wavy locks in an up-do. Her arms and legs are neither skinny nor super muscly, they’re very average looking. But, being a goddess, she’s got a tiara. Not an ostentatious tiara, a simple solid tiara. A utility tiara, if you will. And being a female goddess, you can still see her nips pushing on the intricate drapery of her chiton. She’s clearly got some sex appeal carved in, but the statue is of a capable person who is independently getting shit done.

I love her because she basically looks like the kind of woman a modern conservative commentator would condemn for subverting gender roles. Also with a proportional head.

Diane de Versailles - Louvre catalogue

Very. Different people have different bodies.

Even if the premise were undebatably true that being fat is an avoidable consequence by eating all of the “right” things in exactly the “right” quantities, which greatly oversimplifies the immense complexity of how bodies function, the target of intolerance should be:

• The companies that pump out garbage masquerading as food
• The regulatory environment that allows those companies to do so
• The systems which deprive people of the time, finances and ability to access adequate nutrition or medical support

By buying into anti-fat-acceptance, you:

• Place the entire burden of systemic issues on individuals who don’t have the power to fix them, and who have their own unique circumstances
• Go to bat for exploitative companies
• Enable damaging ableist tropes about superficial aesthetic ideals

I hope that helps!

Guess they’ve never seen all of the statues of Athena, Artemis and Aphrodite. You don’t get as many nude female statues because it was usually considered obscene for women to be naked in public.

But the Greek male statues were fully nude and depicted ripped mortal men because they were made in line with Aristotle’s idea of good art being educational. Those were arguably the marble version of “git gud, scrub”.

If there were more male “perfect” body statues at the time, which we can’t establish because many have been lost over the millennia, it might actually be evidence that men were considered less attractive and they needed more body shaming to fix it?