yes

intellect is often in conflict with good health

I believe it's discharged basically half directly into the venous system in the neck, the other half goes through the lymphatic/glymphatic system and ultimately also the venous system in the neck. That being said, that's just based on our very crude understandings and I'm sure there are other pathways.

I wonder why we didn’t recommend vitamin D during Covid?

There were a few soft recommendations. Specifically I remember an ER doctor in 2019 saying vitamin D seemed to be a differentiator in the sample of cases he was seeing in the ER (everyone was starting to panic) and the CDC walking it back as unsubstantiated. I mentioned it at work, then 10 days later my boss's boss asked me where I had heard it, because he had heard the same thing.

There have been a number of people on HN who have attributed any measurable COVID benefit of Vitamin D, to a confounding variable, as recently as 3 months ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44705486 The Big Vitamin D Mistake

One of the best treatments is interferon. It's something you will also produce yourself, with therapeutic effect, if exposited to sunlight or the infrared light used in red light therapy. Here's a video about it, from a continuing education provider: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRkxH56LqCo

Vitamin D therapy doesn't have such an effect.

Because the right people couldn't make money off of it - same reason that a lot of beneficial treatments were not recommended or flat out defamed.

Find a device capable of Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) or just type TENS into amazon

I wonder if a columnar database like DuckDB might be better suited for CRDT Local-first solutions, using batched writes to mitigate

Kuzudb was actively working on their cloud/enterprise solution and talking with people signing up for it. Wonder if the timing is related

They were cut with a morgul blade, that wound would’ve never healed without elvish medicine.

Thank god for the notwithstanding clause or we wouldn’t live in a democracy but instead rule by unelected judges.

The notwithstanding clause is about ensuring Parliament remains supreme.

It is not, there is no tradition of parlimentary supremacy in canada like britian has. The courts do strike down laws invoking the notwithstanding clause for being unconstitutional.

If you exclude Quebec,laws invoking the notwithstanding clause have been struck down by courts more often then they have succesfully been used.

The globe used to fall on the conservative side of things, now honestly the Toronto star is more to the right than the globe. Both got bought by new owners in the last decade and it shows.