Oct 102022
 

Study links in utero ‘forever chemical’ exposure to low sperm count and mobility

The Danish study shows a link between PFAS chemicals, often used in plastic products including food packaging, and now found in *rain,* and drastically reduced sperm counts. This is a possible explanation for why the developed world’s sperm counts have crashed while the undeveloped world’s sperm counts remain fairly high.

It is unlikely that reduced sperm counts are the sole result of these chemicals, which mess with hormones. It would not surprise me that they also trash testosterone levels, another problem in considerable evidence these days. This would not be the first time that science has shown widespread problems due to chemicals in consumer products: tetra-ethyl lead in gasoline and lead in paint led to whole generations of kids being stupider and more violent than they should have been. And then there’s tobacco.

So what will be done about this? If the link can be firmly established, PFAS chemicals *should* be removed from the market. But I wonder about pushback: not so much from the chemical and plastics industries… but from the Alphabet People. If it is scientifically shown that the existence of everything from bog-standard homosexuals to low-testosterone “soyboys” to dangerhaired weirdos to a large fraction of those  feeling the need to transition are all influenced to an important degree by the existence of PFAS… then deleting the chemicals might be seen as anti-Alphabet People. If nothing else, the following generations should presumably have fewer Alphabet People. I suspect this won’t go over all that well.

The alternative seems to be a population crash in the developed world, followed by a complete takeover by the undeveloped world. I suspect that this, too, might be something that some people want to have happen.

 Posted by at 7:43 pm
Oct 062022
 

It baffles and distresses me to know that people who were born *after* the religious attacks of 9/11 are old enough to vote and join the military and be screwed over by the tax system. I didn’t see this now nearly year-old remastering of the Jules Naudet video of the first airplane impact until just now. This was one of the most astonishing things ever caught on video, now clearer than ever before.

Never forget. Never forgive.

 Posted by at 10:44 am
Oct 042022
 

As promised, I’ve set up a backup blog, using Bluehost. While it is also a WordPress blog, irritatingly, the same “theme” isn’t available so the other blog looks different from this one, as well as having a different blog-creation interface. Grrr. There also seems to be a fair gap between blog posting and the post actually appearing. Sigh. But, at least it seems to work.

So, for now, *this* blog will remain the “official” blog, with the backup blog being used as just a backup in the event that *this* one goes down again. Feel free to bookmark the backup.

*This* blog could go down again at any time due to Mystery Technical Issues. And there is always politics.

 

http://unwantedblog.com/

 Posted by at 8:31 am
Oct 022022
 

The blog was out for a day for Unexplainable Tech Reasons. Tech support gave up and said they couldn’t fix the problem – I couldn’t log in to either of my blogs, so I couldn’t edit posts, couldn’t make new ones. They gave no hope of the problem being fixed. And yet… here we are. Yay. They work now.

That said, I’m rather sick of the problems popping up with irritating regularity. So I want to examine options. One clear problem is that both blogs (the other being https://www.aerospaceprojectsreview.com/blog/) are on the same host, so if something mysteriously appears to plague one blog, it often plagues the other. I need to separate them.

I’ve tried – and hate – Discord, Facebook and Twitter. I *like* the WordPress blog, if for no other reason than I’ve grown accustomed to it. So what I might do is get new “Unwanted Blog” and “Aerospace Projects Review Blog” WordPress blogs, hosted elsewhere, then simply park a “this blog is now over yonder” post at the top of each of the legacy blogs. If someone has suggestions along those lines, by all means drop a comment.

Mood: annoyed.

 Posted by at 10:59 pm
Sep 302022
 

Sometimes you see things that cannot be unseen. So, rather than just go “bleah” and try to find some sort of mind bleach to wipe out an image you weren’t looking for but stumbled across anyway, try to come up with an alternate explanation for what you saw. In this case “polycystic kidney.” Don’t do a Google Image search for “polycystic kidney.” Seriously, don’t. It won’t improve your day. However, if you *do* do such a search, you will likely be met with a wide array of post-surgical photos of kidneys that have been removed. If you think about these things as currently residing within you, right now, at this very moment… you will not be happy. They will give you an uncomfortableness. However… an alternate approach is to think of them not as human organs that have gone very, very wrong, but as baby shoggoths straight out of Lovecraftian horror. It won’t make you any more comfortable, but at least … well, I dunno. There’s no real upside, I suppose, unless you are a movie or game designer tasked with creating a shoggoth. Cuz this will do.

You’re welcome.

 Posted by at 11:14 am