The OG skibidi toilet

Historically, is this how military coups are triggered?

I really liked your neighbourhood in Athens.

You checked with ipleak.net? I thought everything was working fine but when I checked using the ipleak torrent my IP address was fully exposed. I used the exact same configuration with Proton and PIA and everything was fine. There are a number of posts on reddit and github, etc, from people who have experienced the same issue.

It happened to me early last fall, and there were posts from the summer about it.

I don’t know. (but also, yes? Bittorrent traffic will use a port you specify?)

All I know is that I started investigating, tried all of the settings, and then found that someone mentioned they didn’t have the same problem with PIA so I switched to that. I’ve tested multiple times since and haven’t had an issue.

There it is. This whole thing was too suspicious

NordVPN wasn’t hiding my IP address when using bittorrent, so if you’re using it for that you should test if it’s working.

NordVPN leaks your IP address when using bittorrent and it doesn’t have port forwarding.

Is it just me or is this article terribly written? Everything is said in the most obtuse way possible (like the opening paragraph which actually doesn’t even make grammatical sense) and then jumps into a recounting of a rape, in some level of detail, without warning, and just ends the story with that.

I tried not to conflate absolute and relative risk. The numbers I was going with came from the link I posted, which was not from a science journalist, but from the US National Cancer Institute. Also, note that the comment you replied to was more about an off the cuff comparison of the risk between CT scans and drinking alcohol. It wasn’t meant to present scientific rigour.

Below is directly from the linked article, emphasis mine:

Using data from Australia, recalculated using US standard drinks, the recent Surgeon General’s Advisory reports that

• among 100 women who have less than one drink per week, about 17 will develop an alcohol-related cancer
• among 100 women who have one drink a day, 19 will develop an alcohol-related cancer
• among 100 women who have two drinks a day, about 22 will develop an alcohol-related cancer

This means that women who have one drink a day have an absolute increase in the risk of an alcohol-related cancer of 2 per 100, and those who have two drinks a day an absolute increase of 5 per 100, compared with those who have less than one drink a week. For men, the number of alcohol-related cancers per 100 is 10 for those who have less than one drink a week, 11 for those who have one drink a day (an increase of 1 per 100), and 13 for those who have two drinks a day (an increase of 3 per 100).

From the WHO article:

Ethanol (alcohol) causes cancer through biological mechanisms as the compound breaks down in the body, which means that any beverage containing alcohol, regardless of its price and quality, poses a risk of developing cancer.

Risks start from the first drop

To identify a “safe” level of alcohol consumption, valid scientific evidence would need to demonstrate that at and below a certain level, there is no risk of illness or injury associated with alcohol consumption. The new WHO statement clarifies: currently available evidence cannot indicate the existence of a threshold at which the carcinogenic effects of alcohol “switch on” and start to manifest in the human body.

So no, you’re wrong, it specifically says your example is not “safe”. They said “beverage”, but consuming alcohol laden fruit would fall in the same category. The same would go for many “non-alcoholic” beers which are <0.5% alcohol, and many other things like kombucha, baked goods, chocolate, etc. You can debate whether they’re correct or not, but they were very clear that tiny amounts are not safe.

Now, it’s all about risk. And the more alcohol consumed, the higher the risk of developing cancer. The question is at what point the benefits outweigh the risk. Benefits could range from vitamins, minerals, fiber and healthy compounds, to reduced social anxiety and other psychological factors.

I’m not a statistics expert, so very possibly bad wording or outright errors ahead.

Versus non-drinkers, 1 drink a day increases the absolute risk of getting cancer by 2% 2 drinks a day increases the absolute risk of getting cancer by 5%

(https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/alcohol/alcohol-fact-sheet)

Unfortunately, I’m having trouble finding the absolute risk increase for a single CT scan… But I think it is around 0.1%. This is based on the recent JAMA study that said that the scans from a given year (about 93 million of them) would it in 103000 future cancers developing.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2832778

A couple of takeaways: on an individual basis the risk of developing cancer from a CT scan is pretty low. On a population scale, its pretty damn high. Also though the increased chance is low (especially compared to the numbers above for alcohol) it’s actually pretty significant if you consider it takes just one scan.

Ballpark, you might be talking the equivalent of 3 drinks a month?

It’s an interesting question. I actually turned down a CT scan recently because it wasn’t clear what the benefits of knowing the results would be, versus this extra risk.

450ml of liquor per week isn’t light to moderate by most definitions?

If you read the one published by the WHO, It says “light” to “moderate” is less than 450ml, presumably meaning 450ml and over is considered “heavy” (which more or less lines up with 2 drinks a day.)

Generally, light is considered to be 1 drink a day, moderate is 1.5 and heavy is 2. So 1 drink a day is the cause of half of all alcohol-attributable cancers (according to the WHO).

Yes, recently (the past couple of years) the connection between small amounts of alcohol and increased cancer risk has been more thoroughly documented. Check the link from the WHO.

Party pooper: Consuming alcohol significantly increases your chance of getting cancer. To the point that it compares with asbestos, radiation and tobacco.

https://www.partnershipagainstcancer.ca/topics/alcohol-policies/background-statistics/

https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/04-01-2023-no-level-of-alcohol-consumption-is-safe-for-our-health

https://www.aacr.org/patients-caregivers/progress-against-cancer/americans-largely-unaware-of-link-between-consumption-of-alcoholic-beverages-and-risk-of-cancer/

https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/articles/alcohol-use-cancer-risk

A recent study counters that info a little bit (says there isn’t a link for some cancers) but it’s important to note that the study is still disputed. Also, cancer is on top of liver and heart disease, dementia and many other things that alcohol is known to directly increase.

You should do your best to reduce your alcohol consumption or cut it out completely - if you care about your health.

Very strange! No idea what it would be.

Not sure if it was fixed, but it currently takes me to a news article, and in that news article there is a link that goes to a video, not a channel.

Single socks

Fucking in an uncomfortable place?

Please, don’t remind him. He’s not looking at us right now.