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conventionalWisdumb t1_jeaismi wrote

Reply to comment by DavoTB in TIL that Walt Disney World began as "The Florida Project". Dummy corporations were used, by Walt Disney Productions, to buy up 27,000 acres of land to avoid bursts of land speculation in the Orlando area. Early rumors assumed possible development by NASA, Ford, the Rockefellers, and Howard Hughes. by jdward01

Sorry, I’m trying to connect the dots: what’s the “hidden” side? It seems like you’re implying that Disney killed the Space Coast? I’m not sure that tracks. I’m from central Florida and very familiar with the way Disney operates politically and economically in the area, and I don’t see the connection you’re trying to make.

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conventionalWisdumb t1_jeai7vs wrote

Reply to comment by chinese_in_law in TIL that Walt Disney World began as "The Florida Project". Dummy corporations were used, by Walt Disney Productions, to buy up 27,000 acres of land to avoid bursts of land speculation in the Orlando area. Early rumors assumed possible development by NASA, Ford, the Rockefellers, and Howard Hughes. by jdward01

That’s one of my favorite movies of all time. I grew up in shitty apartments in Orlando and that movie hits home in the most kind and honest way. It truly is a cinematic gem.

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conventionalWisdumb t1_j92pdke wrote

Reply to comment by yohohoanabottleofrum in Religious Hermit Found Buried in The Fetal Position. The woman buried was living with septic arthritis and also advanced venereal syphilis. This would have meant she lived with severe, visible symptoms of infection affecting her entire body, and later on, neurological and mental health decline by Wagamaga

Hmmm… …seems like the origins are still being debated. This hermit dig does seem to provide evidence of pre-Colombian syphilis in Europe but it’s still ambiguous whether the disease we know it as today came to Europe via the Americas. A similar finding from a century or two earlier would be more conclusive though one could still make the argument that Vikings could have brought it to Europe though that seems like a huge stretch considering the first recorded outbreak was in Naples in 1494/5. The European origin still has many plausible hypotheses between it being confused with leprosy and the possibility that the outbreak in Naples was from a mutation of a precursor. So yeah…. …who knows.

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conventionalWisdumb t1_j9024vw wrote

Reply to comment by FiendishHawk in Religious Hermit Found Buried in The Fetal Position. The woman buried was living with septic arthritis and also advanced venereal syphilis. This would have meant she lived with severe, visible symptoms of infection affecting her entire body, and later on, neurological and mental health decline by Wagamaga

This is crazy early for syphilis in Europe so yeah she had no clue, no one did in Europe at that time.

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conventionalWisdumb t1_j901x8s wrote

Reply to comment by Wagamaga in Religious Hermit Found Buried in The Fetal Position. The woman buried was living with septic arthritis and also advanced venereal syphilis. This would have meant she lived with severe, visible symptoms of infection affecting her entire body, and later on, neurological and mental health decline by Wagamaga

That’s really early in the timeline for syphilis in Europe isn’t it? Is it a known thing that the Colombian Exchange came east prior to Columbus? I know small pox reached the Americas prior due to fishermen, never thought syphilis would have hitched a ride on the trip back.

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conventionalWisdumb t1_j7i2qz4 wrote

Reply to comment by Doortofreeside in A systematic review and meta-analysis has concluded that increased consumption of dietary carbohydrate intake is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease, stroke, and all-cause mortality. by Meatrition

Building on the response from u/the—larch:

Carbs and fats are processed by two different metabolic pathways and the carb pathway is more efficient so it is used first. You can then burn up the glycogen provided by the carbs while your body is slowly converting the fats which will feel like a blood sugar crash, so you eat more carb+fats. The process keeps going through the day and the fat has no where else to go except as triglycerides in your fat cells.

This issue can be abated if you’re willing to and can ignore the carb crash as a signal of hunger or if your carb source has high fiber as part of its nutritional matrix because the fiber slows down glycolysis. I would imagine we could potentially one day design a food with the ideal matrix where the ratio of carbs/fiber/fats provides the right amount of energy at the right time, but it won’t be as tasty as a donut.

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conventionalWisdumb t1_j0sj5j3 wrote

Reply to Disgusting odors trigger the oral immune system by burtzev

I have a small homestead with goats, sheep, pigs and chickens. I also have some sort of immunological condition that I’m going to go get tests done for tomorrow. I swear there are times when I’m super sensitive to the awful smells I am privy to with the animals where my nostrils feel inflamed and I start getting really fatigued.

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conventionalWisdumb t1_izdcjdp wrote

Reply to comment by feidxeno in A Swedish study of over 200,000 people who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 between March 2020 and July 2021 has found that women, people with asthma and those with previous mental health disorders are more likely to experience long-term effects of COVID-19. by MistWeaver80

I have chronic urticaria and last time I had COVID I didn’t have urticaria for around two weeks. Of course now I seem to have some form of arthritis which may be post viral syndrome.

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conventionalWisdumb t1_iyz2un7 wrote

Reply to Freshly finished- ‘Index Creek, Baring, WA’- 8x6” gouache! by bunkerbash

Beautiful work!!! There’s just something so lovely about gouache. Maybe it’s because I associate it with all the amazing landscapes Bill Waterson did in the Calvin and Hobbes strips I devoured as a kid. But I do think there’s something about the way the opaque color builds up while still laying flat against the paper. You have mastered it.

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