onacloverifalive t1_j1u0zsg wrote on December 27, 2022 at 11:29 AM

Reply to comment by ibrahim0000000 in Grateful for my freedom in America! I escaped religious persecution in Egypt! by ibrahim0000000

Thanks for your story. It reveals quite specifically what a tremendous source of distress and destruction religious fundamentalism can be even within a small family or community.

onacloverifalive t1_ivp5b94 wrote on November 9, 2022 at 4:20 PM

Reply to comment by zlimK in Researchers have developed a deep brain stimulator that never needs its batteries changed because instead of a battery, the new device converts the motion of the user’s chest as they breathe into electricity by giuliomagnifico

They could just incorporate induction charging through the skin and you’d almost never need to change the battery again.

onacloverifalive t1_isn3vhm wrote on October 17, 2022 at 5:33 AM

Reply to If strep A can produce necrotizing fasciitis, how come strep throat with any cuts on your mouth and tongue does not translate to it? Is it because the saliva has antibacterial qualities? by 4_max_4

It’s not just where I’m the tissue you get the bacteria but that’s part of it. All of us are transitioning from a cohesive and robust organism to food for life that decomposes other life.

Aging progresses that process, but also so does vice like smoking and overeating to the point of uncontrolled diabetes, both things that damage the micro circulation, and it happens in some parts of the body more severely than others, especially the feet.

Feet are commonly injured physiologically by poor health and physically by traumatic injury which allows the bacteria an opportunity to enter the deep tissues. Tissue with poor circulation doesn’t clear bacteria well. Tissue with high glucose doesn’t have good immune function and is rife with nutrition for bacteria.

Put that all together- injury, poor circulation, and the right bacteria, and that part of the body becomes food and begins to decompose- this is necrotizing fasciitis, and the only effective treatment at that point is to physically remove the tissue from the organism by debridement or amputation, antibiotics alone will never be sufficient because of the reasons described.

Throats tend not to develop necrotizing infections because the circulation is more robust there even in healthy people. It can happen though when people have severely bad dentition and deep seated chronic infection, and if that occurs the medical term eponym is Ludwig’s Angina.

onacloverifalive t1_iry5ycn wrote on October 11, 2022 at 10:21 PM

Reply to North Carolina Lake Sediments Show Decades of Coal Ash Contamination: An analysis of sediments from five North Carolina lakes near coal-burning power plants has found that coal ash pollution of surface waters has been more persistent and widespread than was previously known. by thinkB4WeSpeak

So Duke energy pays an annual dividend of 10% to investors/shareholders no matter what.

Several years ago (2015) Duke got hugely fined ($102,000,000) for dumping coal ash into local water systems. The fine stipulated they weren’t allowed to pass the cost of the fine on to consumers in North Carolina where the fine was levied.

So Duke passed the entirety of the fine into the energy costs of their South Carolina customers. 10% dividend paid out as usual despite taking a massive loss that year. I guess big business never loses.