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Literally, isolated hunter-gatherer societies still exist. You can literally go observe them. There are old people.

Going to argue that, meh, they have too much exposure to the modern world? Go look at early black and white photos from early western explorers in Africa, South America, etc. Guess what? Old people.

Societies have always had the old. They've commonly been considered "wise men" / "wise women", sometimes attributed as healers, those with spiritual power, etc. To repeat: once you hit middle age, your annual odds of dying are low. The problem is how many people never reach middle age.

I'll repeat: it is mathematically impossible for half of your population to never reach adulthood, and a quarter to not get based infancy, yet have your mean expected lifespan for an adult not be much higher than your mean life expectancy for the entire population.

The research was done on 12,000 Brazilian civil servants. Some used artificial sweeteners, and some didn't. Those who didn't are the control.

It isn't a perfect "gold standard" double-blind experiment, but a 62% difference in cognitive decline between the two groups is hard to hand-wave away by nitpicking about methodology.

You might be better off spending some money improving your viewing room, to reduce light glare on the screen. A decent soundbar will help with badly mixed audio too.

The producers don't want to accept that their movie is just some throwaway bit of media that often times people just want to consume so they can keep up with the story and get to the better stuff. They want to believe that it's going to be an experience people set up their home cinema for.

It would be very easy for them to provide a decent sound mix that keeps dialogue intelligible and limits dynamic range without sounding flat.

People get fed up of mediocrity and slow decline. The cycle goes like this:

1. Elect mediocre centrist/centre right who seems competent.
2. Things don't improve much for the average voter.
3. Vote for a right wing populist who promises to fix everything.
4. Populist breaks everything.
5. GOTO 1.

Yes. It's being reported by reputable news organizations, where "reputable" means they might selectively report and even distort, but don't just make stuff up.

An obvious solution is to split a blastocyst into twins, grow one to maturity, and grow the other for spare organs.

They do indeed. Most nerve agents, including Sarin and VX, work as acetylcholinesterase inhibitors, causing acetylcholine to accumulate in neuron synapses.

Atropine, the active ingredient in belladonna nightshade toxin, has the opposite effect of breaking down acetylcholine. It will normally kill you too, but it is an antidote to nerve agents.

I doubt if many of the C?Os from 1966 are still around to face the consequences.

Besides, it was likely an improvement over the pesticides it replaced. DDT wasn't banned for residential and agricultural use until 1972.

This just isn't true. Hunter-gatherer societies with limited interaction with the outside world still exist. Yes, without access to external healthcare, they have mean a mean age of 40 (or even lower!) is not uncommon. But that mean age is due to offsetting their high child mortality rates, not due to mass death in their 40s. Only about 60% of people in a typical early hunter-gatherer society reached the age of 15. Mathematically, to get a mean age of 40, when 40% of your population is dying before the age of 15 (and ~25% not even hitting their first birthday), your average adult must live well beyond 40. It is mathematically impossible to be otherwise.

The actual trend is that when you're born, you have a quite short mean expected lifespan. But that significantly increases when you pass your first birthday, and further significantly increases when you reach your teens. By the time you're in your late 20s, your risk of dying in any given year is quite low, and a person in their 30s has a typical mean expected lifespan in the 50s to 60s. A typical hunter-gatherer society will have some individuals in their 70s.

It's just a myth that most people died in middle age in early societies. That was the time in which they had the lowest odds of death. It's the young that were at great risk.

Our bodies attempt to hit a set point of energy usage per day. A consistent increase in your physical activity simply down regulates other internal processes so you end up spending roughly the same amount of energy had you not exercised.

Oh my god, I'm literally arguing with someone who thinks that calorie consumption doesn't increase when you exercise.

No, you're TOTALLY RIGHT! Your body sits around all day just THROWING AWAY ENERGY en masse, and exercise just causes it to stop throwing away energy! What on Earth was I thinking?

(And it should go without saying, but organophosphates also are extremely effective at killing bees)

Particularly due to Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) concerns - except that neonicotinoids appear to at worst be be a weak factor (if one at all) in CCD (CCD appears to be multifactor, but the strongest factor appears to be varroa; there's little correlation between neonicotinoid use trends and bans vs. CCD).

If you ban neonicotinoids, farmers tend to switch to organophosphates, and I have WAY more concerns about them. Neonicotinoids at least tend to be far more specific to insects, whereas organophosphates also tend to strongly affect mammals. Organophosphate-Induced Delayed Neuropathy (OPIDN) is very much a real problem.

It's not the record that is the issue, it's the clear upward trend: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.researchgate.net%2Ff...

That only goes up to 2020, but it has continued since then. The odd very hot year or two is no big deal, but when decade after decade there is an upward trend, that's a concern.