Worse than I thought.
False dichotomy fella.
False dichotomy, bad tankie.
Explain thyself
Grayzone is tankie nonsense. Pushes pro-Kremlin conspiracy theories and plays down the Uighur genocide.
Cost of living has forced me to reduce spending on such things and I can't be the only one. Which is a shame of course.
Quite right, an important distinction.
Thanks for checking the figures, I think I used CIA factbook when i did it with some assumptions. Usual caveats apply, rich kids won't get drafted, birth rate has seasonal variations, assume everyone lives to at least 18 etc.
Either way, the supply of meat is more than capable of weathering these losses. Not forever of course, but unless the casualty rate increases sharply and soon, then Russia can maintain this.
Our good friend Potholer54 did a great video on Graham Hancock and his ancient apocalypse bullshit
https://youtu.be/zU-wQVAqQnk?si=2u_DBST1CxqdlTfB
It's a real injustice that it's pretty lucrative to peddle horseshit for a living.
If you run the numbers of the back of an envelope then Russia has approximately 3,000 men turning 18 every single day. They won't run out of meat anytime soon.
If they have to constantly be moving then that dramatically shortens their mission time and sacrifices stealth.
If that's the plan the current design looks far too rigid, they'd need to adjust their cruising speed based on payload to ensure consistent depth keeping. How would they lurk without floating up?
Studies that self select their cohort and don't include adequate controls are more susceptible to bias than those that do otherwise. Evaluating studies based on their susceptibility to bias is a vital part of the systematic review process.
You can read more about it here https://www.ohri.ca/programs/clinical_epidemiology/oxford.asp
They all use the same Newcastle-Ottawa system to score studies based on their likelihood of bias in the exact same way the Cass reviews do. The method you described as a joke.
Engine position below com, bow profile looks like it'll try to push itself out of the water, ballast tanks what are those? And they want 50kph submerged?
The dinky torpedoes are cute I suppose.
Damn here's another "joke" about contraceptives and bone fractures
https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD009849.pub3/full
And one another abput yellow fever and HIV
https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD010929.pub2/full
And influenza vaccines in cancer patients
https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD008983.pub3/full
And there's another 96 on the first search tab alone!
Just what are those clowns at the Cochrane Library up to eh?
Well ok fair. The mockup isn't rendered, seems they were at an expo last year with it. As for the specs? I remain skeptical.
No money for the "Aye Write" book festival. £67k to pay some wierdos to spaff on stage.
That's a new goalpost. It's being used by Cass exactly the way it's supposed to by scoring studies based on their susceptibility to bias.
If you'd bother to read that similar systematic review on postoperative inflammatory bowel disease you would have seen the exact same usage.
So strange that everyone waited over 20 years and 100's of systematic reviews in medicine and science before, serendipitously, discovering that the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale was infact no good during these two particular reviews into trans care in the UK.
Just what are the odds?
Don't abdicate responsibility to someone else, you've clearly got a firmer grasp of the issue than the editorial board of the British Medical Journal. You would be neglecting your duty as "part of the scientific community" to abdicate responsibility on such an important matter.
Indeed the whole medical establishment must be told about the critical flaws in the Newcastle-Ottawa scoring system before other medical scandals are allowed to happen. Imagine having that on your conscience.
Seen the "98% of studies were ignored!" one doing the rounds on social media. The editorial in the BMJ put it in much better terms:
"One emerging criticism of the Cass review is that it set the methodological bar too high for research to be included in its analysis and discarded too many studies on the basis of quality. In fact, the reality is different: studies in gender medicine fall woefully short in terms of methodological rigour; the methodological bar for gender medicine studies was set too low, generating research findings that are therefore hard to interpret."
NHS England to review seven specialist services after staff share misgivings privately
Appendix 4 in the Cass Review revealed that 6 out of the 7 adult GDC clinics currently operating in the UK refused to collect or share their patient followup data. If you want better care for struggling LGBT kids, you need the data.
The mighty Hitch and one of his great orations. I often wonder what would he think of the world, such as it is, in 2024.
Murdo Fraser said the force had ‘serious questions’ to answer
We might be living in topsy-turvy world when Murdo Fraser has a point. Honestly, the whole idea of the police keeping "hate" notes on you when you haven't committed a crime is pretty dystopian.
The Scottish government’s legislation is frankly unworkable. I worry it may stifle honestly expressed, contentious views, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
If even the Guardian won't get behind your Hate Crime Act, maybe it's worth having a wee think about it?
MSPs vote for controls as it emerges another hen harrier has vanished in area ‘notorious’ for persecution
Grouse Moors will need to be licensed? About time.