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The literature search identified 415 articles; of these, 15 ecological studies were included in the synthesis. The random-effects meta-analysis showed a consistent protective (or inverse) association between lithium levels/concentration in publicly available drinking water and total (pooled β = −0.27, 95% CI −0.47 to −0.08; P = 0.006, I2 = 83.3%), male (pooled β = −0.26, 95% CI −0.56 to 0.03; P = 0.08, I2 = 91.9%) and female (pooled β = −0.13, 95% CI −0.24 to −0.02; P = 0.03, I2 = 28.5%) suicide mortality rates. A similar protective association was observed in the six studies included in the narrative synthesis, and subgroup meta-analyses based on the higher/lower suicide mortality rates and lithium levels/concentration.


Thank you for using "turgidly" as such. You've given me a new appreciation for the term.


Do you know any specific instances of the times it has done great harm? Asking out of genuine curiosity.


"Drug-Resistant E. coli Bacteremia Transmitted by Fecal Microbiota Transplant"

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1910437


I know it's overused and incorrectly applied, but I can't get past the thought that the people doing this have a silent, burning mentality of "Rule 1: You don't talk about fight club!"


I'm in the same boat. In my case it's especially disturbing because prior to this whole gestures broadly thing, we had nuanced debates on many topics. Now, he just dismisses everything as 'narratives' if he disagrees with it.

Sadly, it seems to be based on the propaganda style I've seen out of authoritarians in general. It doesn't hurt 'their side' to break everything down to narratives, because at the end of the day, you just have to swallow the current one and you don't have to think about it again.

In another way it seems almost like a form of burnout. Like 'fuck this, I'm settling on cognitive ease from now on'.


What are the effective implications of this?


It's just a UART; you can use the UART to debug the device in various ways.

On Pixel devices, the UART is not configured or brought up by default in locked production mode (as things should be), but by unlocking the device and then using `fastboot oem uart enable` you can flip the bits to turn it on. On early Pixel devices it was on the headphone jack and on newer ones it's on the SBU pins.

By default I think it's still configured as the kernel console in the kernel command line, so once it's enabled it will show the kernel debug output and present a TTY. But of course you can subsequently configure it to do whatever you'd want a UART for: kgdb for kernel-debugging, earlier stuff in the bootloader, and so on.

So, the implications are just: there's a convenient debugging interface available to you that turns on if you unlock the device and ask for it.

On Chromebook devices there's a more complicated and fancy debugging system where the SBU pins can be muxed to the security processor's USB host interface by presenting a debug cable called a SuzyQ, which presents a whole suite of debugging facilities. This used to be used quite frequently for unbricking purposes.


On the newer pixel phones (starting with the ones containing the titan chip) you can also mux the SBU pins to the security chip USB interface with "fastboot oem citadel suzyq".

And BTW, the SuzyQ cable is nothing more then two pull up resistors and a USB hub connected to the normal usb D+/D- pins on one port and the SBU pins on the 2nd port. Nothing fancy about it, people have even made their own (minus the hub) by soldering some wires and resistors to a usb-c breakout board. Google has also published the schematics for it:

https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/ccd/951-00273-01_201806...


Been wanting to play with the citadel interface. Last time I looked at it there was 0 public information, but that was years ago. And if there still isn't, then it'll be a good excuse to RE

Also, the titan chip has been around since the Pixel 3 I believe, so "newer" might be a strong word :)


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Why was this downvoted? It's a fair question and it wasn't stated as fact.


Because an accepted answer to that specific question is invariably a link/reference that the asker could have searched for (and posted if they think it's useful for the discussion) themselves directly, instead of putting that burden on the rest of us and amortizing everyone's attention. It's entitled and lazy.

Alternative example: "I wondered what the rules actually say about web search and it is indeed not allowed: (link)"


Non-expert here, but I think any imperfect mass distribution with any attractive force would lead to a rotation. Which would mean, essentially, as soon as any imbalance happened in the early universe, some rotation was inevitable.


Definitely not "always" and "in every way".

Random example. I buy a meal made by a professional chef and have it delivered. It's more convenient and it's a much better meal than I could make. It's more expensive, sure, but that's not 'in every way'


That example actually underlines parents point. Because, yes, delivered food is convenient. However, at least in my experience, delivered food from a professional chef is always inferior to what I'd get if I actually visited the same restaurant. Yes, packaging has improved and fried stuff isn't as gross at it used to be, but it is still not the same level of quality compared to actually going there.


Yeah, if you break it down further into the set of all possible options, but it depends what my criteria/realistic choices are. If I'm not going to or can't leave my house, then the more convenient option is still the better one.

My exception was to the terms "always" and "in every way".


But within the same example its not as good as if you ate the exact same meal freshly served - things won't be as hot and certain textures will be lost in delivery (eg crispy things going soggy)

You mentioned a chef which is less specific but I generally consider restaurant food less healthy than what I'd cook for myself due to differing incentives which is another dimension for convenience


Indeed, but that's a different choice than the original. If leaving my house isn't an option for me, the subsequent options entailed are then off the table, so to speak. The OP said "always" and "in every way", and I was pointing out that there are many exceptions, depending on many factors.


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