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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • Okay… I tried reading the linked paper in the article linked and from this:

    The projected cancer cases and deaths in 2050 were derived through demographic projections, assuming that the 2022 estimated rates remain constant. The projections were calculated every 5 years (2025, 2030, … 2050) by multiplying the 2022 age-specific rates with their corresponding population projections for the target years (2025, 2030, … 2050), with the projected population extracted from the United Nations world population prospects.

    It sounds kinda like the cancer increase is mostly due population growth. It’s not “The Earth’s crust will be 90% carcinogens by 2050” it’s "We expect a lot more people, so that means there will be a lot more old people, a lot more obese people, a lot more people who smoke and drink, and a lot more people exposed to air pollution.

    I mean, the per capita cancer rate has been pretty steadily dropping in the US for the past two decades even before COVID decimated the elderly.






  • the only lasting 9/11 memory i have is when the budweiser ad with the kneeling clydesdales came on during the super bowl and i said “those horses are praying to mecca” and my friend’s uncle got so mad that he had to go in the backyard

    That’s hilarious.

    Also god damn I’m old, 9/11 happened when I was in college.