Patrick Heizer
@PatrickHeizer
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Biomedical engineer, permaculture farmer, husband, and father.
Frederick, MD
Joined December 2009
In Oct 2021, my wife & I started a permaculture farm in Maryland. This is our 3rd annual report. Truly thankful to everyone that has supported us. I'd be extra appreciative of likes/RTs/comments. Spread the power of small, local agriculture! Link below:
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@michael_nielsen @paulg And I'm not even saying it'll be outright malicious (I think most parent-teenager relationships are positive sum!) just that different objectives and trust coming into conflict can create a lot of strife that I'm not sure we're prepared for.
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@sean_from_earth I have strong faith that the adults in the room will squash this immediately. If not, I hope we all enjoy the immediate global recession!
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Another small preview of the next Counterpoint newsletter, which I've been working on while my daughter naps.
I have the nagging feeling that there's going to be something very obvious about AI once it crosses a certain threshold that I could foresee now if I tried harder. Not that it's going to enslave us. I already worry about that. I mean something subtler.
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@AstrusDastan @morgancheatham There isn't some endless supply of uncontaminated blood out there. There is what there is and the blood donation system is already regularly undersupplied. If you need a blood transfusion, you don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
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@AstrusDastan @morgancheatham If someone needs a blood transfusion, some microplastics are the least of their concerns.
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@discountpicasso @morgancheatham For sweat: you'll have to look into any specific compounds you are interested in. Excretion levels vary. For blood: if you have X amount of substance per 100mL of blood, and then you donate 100mL of blood, you've removed X amount of the substance, by definition.
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Attacking, ignoring, and eventually overriding the judiciary is quite literally a textbook part of how democracies fail and shift into authoritarianism.
If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal. If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that's also illegal. Judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate power.
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@silvopasturist Drake, you have proven yourself scientifically illiterate on this subject over and over again. The mRNA vaccines are both safe and effective and your denial of that only reflects poorly on you.
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@an1lam @kenbwork I can confirm there has been at least one other. It was how a lowly philosophy major taught himself immunology.
During college, I got a job in an immunology lab despite not majoring in a biological science. Asked my PI how I should go about learning immunology. He said, "Immunobiology by Charles Janeway." I bought & read it. Apparently, no previous undergrad hire had ever done this.
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There are very strict vaccination requirements on transplant recipients because organ transplantation requires immunosuppression, making patients vulnerable to pathogens. If you are concerned about mRNA vaccines, there are other types of vaccines available.
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@brndsil You should've heard the hollering from the lady coonhounds when we first brought him back into town.
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