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sleep apnea is more common in people who are fat.

society decided for some reason that this meant that being fat causes sleep apnea. its often difficult to get referrals for sleep apnea treatment if you are fat, because some PCPs will tell you try losing weight first.

turns out!! having untreated sleep apnea causes weight gain in a not-insignificant number of people. it also makes it fucking impossible for many people to lose weight.

my husband worked out the same amount before he got a cpap as he does now. there have been no major diet changes either. yet he has been losing weight -- and gaining muscle tone -- consistently since he started using a cpap in january.

also, his blood pressure -- which was high, which docs blamed on his weight/diet -- went down significantly within one month of starting cpap treatment, before his weight changed significantly.

ANYWAYS. this is getting long. two final thoughts.

- I Want To Strangle Medical Fatphobia With My Bare Fucking Hands

But anyway cotton can be grown in lovely natural shades of greens, reddish-brown ochres, and browns, all of which deepen with a good boil in water with a bit of washing soda thrown in.

Anyway, scientists DID figure out how to grow colored cotton. They genetically engineered it to be bright fuckin pink, and they didn't "just find out" about it, they already knew which is literally what inspired them to attempt the thing they just accomplished. Begging y'all to stop pretending that scientists don't know things, don't have interests, don't grow up in farming communities or have family who taught them this. Scientists are people. Do you seriously think people who use genetic engineering to make eco-friendly pink cotton don't know anything about textiles?

Anyway. Bright pink cotton without dyes, because science is awesome

Yes. CSIRO scientist Doctor Colleen MacMillan led the team that figured this out. They used tobacco plants for testing because of the genetic similarity. Basically if the tobacco leaves produced colors when injected with a bit of the experimental genetic material, the scientists on the team already understood that the color change would affect cotton bolls as well.

They grew bright red and bright yellow in a petri dish.

And yes, Doctor MacMillan knows lots of things. Here's a list of some of her publications.

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stinky thing

(And mistakes happen with no real way of knowing unless it's obvious; i once saw a Wikipedia article for a plant marked as red and it's either I waste time reading the whole thing to make sure the mark is correct or scoff at it, mark it as neutral yourself, and wonder if you were right. Now apply this to stuff like YouTube channels or people who post a lot or whatever where trying to find the source is unreasonable.)

And on top of aaallll that, if someone is actually transphobic but like hides it well or whatever, they can install Shinigami Eyes themselves, mark themselves as neutral or green, and most people who use the extension will blindly accept it because they're told the extension helps catch transphobes and people who actually support trans people, because there's no mandatory "put the source/quote here" option, there's no history to see how someone's been marked, there's nothing. The system is designed for people who are honest and of complete sound mind and judgement, and who are not petty and do not make mistakes, which is not how people work, so its only function is to give "vibes" which you cannot verify if they are accurate.

(And mistakes happen with no real way of knowing unless it's obvious; i once saw a Wikipedia article for a plant marked as red and it's either I waste time reading the whole thing to make sure the mark is correct or scoff at it, mark it as neutral yourself, and wonder if you were right. Now apply this to stuff like YouTube channels or people who post a lot or whatever where trying to find the source is unreasonable.)

And on top of aaallll that, if someone is actually transphobic but like hides it well or whatever, they can install Shinigami Eyes themselves, mark themselves as neutral or green, and most people who use the extension will blindly accept it because they're told the extension helps catch transphobes and people who actually support trans people, because there's no mandatory "put the source/quote here" option, there's no history to see how someone's been marked, there's nothing. The system is designed for people who are honest and of complete sound mind and judgement, and who are not petty and do not make mistakes, which is not how people work, so its only function is to give "vibes" which you cannot verify if they are accurate.