ProgressiveKnife [none/use name]

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  • ProgressiveKnife [none/use name]tomain*Permanently Deleted*
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    That second one is specifically an N95 mask plus a surgical mask. The one I linked did just the N95 alone and then also the N95 + surgical mask on top of that.

    The evidence suggests that placement of an SM on one type of FFR improved inhaled breathing gas concentrations over the FFR without SM; the placement of an SM over an FFR+EV probably will prevent the EV from opening, regardless of activity intensity; and, at lower levels of energy expenditure, EVs in FFR do not open either with or without an SM.

    They even specially mention this in the results section. And in the conclusions saying

    "The differences in inhaled gas concentrations in FFR+Surgical Mask and FFR-only were significant. The orientation of the SM on the FFR may have a significant effect on the inhaled breathing quality and breathing resistance, although the measurable inhalation and exhalation pressures caused by SM over FFR for healthcare users probably will be imperceptible at lower activity levels."


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    Revealing your hand pretty hard here. It's literally about aesthetics to you. Stop calling yourself an ML if you abandon scientific thought as soon as it becomes inconvenient for your un-scientific feelings.


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    You're fucking removed, holy shit. Get off this site. You literally didn't read it and I'm sure you think "statistically significant" means "obviously bad."

    They wear masks all the time, you fucking dip. You're literally blinding yourself to fit your narrative.


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    Literally no proof included here that masks increase CO2 levels in this. You just assume this and orientate everything else around that, which is obviously fallacious. One would assume that Asia would have covered this already, and yet I haven't heard of this phenomenon happening there.

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7132714/

    And this study literally says: "Long-term use of respiratory protection did not result in any clinically relevant physiologic burden for health care personnel, although many subjective symptoms were reported. N95 compliance was fairly high."

    "CO2 levels increased from a baseline average of 32.4 at the beginning of the shift to 41.0 at the end of each shift. There were no changes in nurses’ blood pressure, O2 levels, perceived comfort, perceived thermal comfort, or complaints of visual difficulties compared with baseline levels."

    "An interesting finding from this study is that, although the nurses did not experience any clinically significant negative physiologic effects from wearing respiratory protection, they reported many subjective symptoms. For example, perceived shortness of breath increased over time when nurses wore any type of respiratory protection. Although physiologic measures of heart rate, O2, and CO2 did not reflect a difficulty with gas exchange, nurses reported feeling more short of breath the longer they wore respiratory protection. Other subjective symptoms also increased over time, including complaints of headache, lightheadedness, perceived exertion, and impeded communication. When wearing an N95 with mask overlay, nurses reported feeling more nausea and had more visual challenges than when they wore only an N95. Although these symptoms do not represent life-threatening conditions, they are unpleasant and may affect health care personnel’s willingness or ability to tolerate long-term N95 usage that would be necessary during a disaster."




  • I think the weird counter-point some of the anti-vegan people (on here and elsewhere) try to make is they think liberals care more about dogs than they do human life. It's not about them caring about animals, they only know to think about these actions in terms of guilt. Much like how they guffaw when journalists are attacked by cops during the riots because it's obvious a journalist covering a riot isn't there to aid the protestors in anyway, so the attack on them is basically impossible to justify, violence against dogs like this is basically impossible to justify because dogs can't break laws. It's not that they deserve to be killed less than black people, but liberals being pseudo-pacifist idealists look for guilt and purity first and the surrounding context of environement, power relations, etc. second. Some will actually look at the latter and end up with the correct stance, a lot won't though. Chuds don't at all, obviously.


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    4 years ago

    Thanks for posting this. Actual dialectics instead of the vague analytical marxism shit that keeps getting pushed on here to try to mix anarchism with marxism. Reeks of opportunism and ignorance.





  • I'm wondering what the venn diagram of people who say "its symbolism was ham-fisted" and people who are abject liberals is, because it really seems like people just don't like political statements in anime. Although I have my own criticisms of the film, the negativity with which people talk about to the point where they seem to dissuade people from viewing it is bizarre. It's like one of the biggest anime films ever in terms of animation, spectacle, technology, etc. and would be worth watching for just that, but people get hung up by a lot in it. It's not even that out there or unique to be causing such a reaction.


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    They did like a questionnaire interview/ranking of the Green Party candidates and it was opaque in how it was ranked and no one even knows what the fuck a "International Department of Citizenship" is. Just like, what the fuck is wrong with these people who keep finding themselves as subreddit mods (r/Canadaleft) and forming these bullshit groups? Why can't they do anything properly? You see some of that weird "growth" culture shit from the mods here too. It's like applying capitalism to left-organizing. It's alienating and weird. Fucking talk to people and organize organically, none of this techbro "grow the movement" shit.



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    Calling my broad-left Canadian coalition "The International Department Of Citizenship" and organizing solely on Discord, Matrix, and Reddit. Every post made has comments asking "but what about decentralization?" This is what imperial core internet-leftism is in Canada. They can't even be bothered to organize offline or do anything that isn't buzzwords stolen from US political discourse.