@bryan dementia would suck, but I'm hoping they'll have that figured out by the time I get there. They seem to have some pretty good leads. Shingles is strongly linked to cognitive decline, for instance, and I guess the vaccine protects against that.
@bryan survivorship bias survives on survivor anecdotes. My grandmother, a lifelong smoker, died when she was about 60 from lung cancer. No dementia, though, she had that going for her. Entirely aware all the way to the end.
@swelljoe My grandmother quit smoking when she was 70-ish. She stated her habit of smoking daily at 12. Anyway, at 70, she was taking care of her mother at the time. Her mother (my great-grandmother) spent the last 10 years of her life with dementia.
The experience made my grandmother decide she’d rather be dead than “talk like a fool”. So she started to smoke again. She passed many years later and never had dementia.
Hyperlink Roundup 10! I'm proud I made it this far! Several blogs and articles I've read since the last Hyperlink Roundup. Another good-bye to Firefox and some self-hosting media server posts.https://basic.bearblog.dev/hyperlink-roundup-10/#linux #bsd #blogs #smallweb
@thatgiga anagrammando..."e li arse" "ai lati" o meglio visto che giocano in casa è più corretto : "ai lati" contro "e li arse” *LMML [*non è un numero romano]
@carneade io ci ho creduto quando ho visto che coinvolgeva 44 paesi. Probabilmente non riusciranno ad entrare a consegnare i beni, ma sicuramente hanno costretto e costringeranno i paesi coinvolti a mostrare le vere facce. E, soprattutto, smuovono un po' le coscienze e costringono le persone a parlare del problema. Meglio di un silenzio di morte come è stato per questi ultimi anni. Almeno, questo è quello che spero.