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Cake day: March 11th, 2026

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  • It has long been known that certain bacterial infections like strep can cause horrible debilitating pain in your joints, most common I believe like knees and stuff, but other people like shoulders and elbows. Not just strep though.

    They treat it with cortico steroids, which are bad to take in high doses for long periods of time, which this is. Very very bad. Perhaps not as bad as horrible debilitating chronic pain.





  • Really, do you have a link for that, or I can look for myself I guess. There is a link between male pattern baldness and androgen which is a male hormone, all the hormones are interconnected with each other on feedback loops, so it’s not entirely out of reason to think estrogen could prevent it or whatever.

    That said, baldness is hereditary, and it is passed from your mother’s father, as I was taught in school, and it has checked out everywhere I have looked into it.





  • The fact of the matter is, the army gave up Maduro, that the US wouldn’t have attempted that op without buy in from venezuela’s military. Helicopters are vulnerable to multiple ground based weapon systems the US couldn’t reliably take out.

    The Venezuelan civilian leadership has since ousted many of their generals, probably because of this fact.

    They are far from controlled by the US, and it’s a very large country, near 30 million people in a massive area, larger than any State save Alaska, which is around 500k square miles while Venezuela 352k. Much of it mountain and jungle, (makes it harder to stamp out resistance.)

    All the US did was pressure their military leaders to try and coup them, then seemingly failed to back up the coup. We are forcing them to sell their oil to whom we say, there is that. But that is about the extent of it at this point.










  • States can determine how they apportion electors so that can be cured with ranked choice voting, something being passed and proposed by referendums in multiple states, including michigan soon. I know Alaska already has it.

    As to breaking up the big states, it’s neither here nor there. There is not a chance of that happening in a way that makes things better any time soon.

    Oh yeah, also a number of shitholy states in 2021 took the apportionment of electors from the popular vote, and gave it to their legislatures. So they don’t have to honor the popular vote anymore. GA is one.