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  • pancake@lemmygrad.mltoScience Memes@mander.xyzSerotonin
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    22 days ago

    Interestingly, malfunction of cortisol signaling has been very strongly linked to depression. High-dose corticosteroids can produce an array of mood effects, including depression and mania, as well as other psychiatric symptoms. Relatively recently, psychoactive steroids have been approved for postpartum depression.












  • pancake@lemmygrad.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlAnti Homeless Architecture
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    9 months ago

    Well, to be fair there are indeed enough houses… We kinda just assumed they would, by the grace of the market, end up distributed among virtually all people and at a fair price. The reason they never did and increasingly don’t is one of the largest unsolved problems in economics /s



  • pancake@lemmygrad.mltoScience Memes@mander.xyzSleeping Beauty Trolley Problem
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    9 months ago

    There’s a 1/6 chance that scenario B happens, but that scenario involves 10 people, and the only thing you know is that you are one person strapped to the rail, so the chance that you are strapped to the main rail is P(main) = P(B|abducted) = P(abducted|B) * P(B) / P(abducted) = 10 * P(abducted|A) * 1/6 / P(abducted).

    We can do the same for P(side) = P(A|abducted) = P(abducted|A) * P(A) / P(abducted) = P(abducted|A) * 5/6 / P(abducted). Then, P(main) / P(side) = 10 * 1/6 / 5/6 = 2. Since P(main) + P(side) = 1, then P(main) = 2/3 and P(side) = 1/3.

    Edit: typo




  • Palestine has attacked territory that was assigned to Palestine by the UN in 1947. The UN also makes it very clear that a country may lawfully recover occupied territory “by any means, including armed force”. UN laws are thus very clear: Ukraine and Palestine can recover territories by force. Now, that doesn’t mean you should support them in their struggle to do so, but if you don’t, it must be for some other reason (e.g., Israel taking over would constitute a huge strategic gain for the US, while Russia taking over would destabilize the world and thus benefit small or weakly aligned players).