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Just look what it's done for them humans, billions of the buggers, wanna go star trekking but they still have to deal with religious fanatics, war, greed, mortgages, insurance, hatred, abuse, pharmaceuticals burying cures for treatment (how much are they making out of Covid, and what do they know about it's actual origin?), the list just goes on and on. Damn that, us monkeys have been going on fine for millions of years, just keep moving, eat, not get eaten, simple.
Progress, it's just a bandaid word for control and suffering.
Be a meandering monkey, you'll feel better for it XD
Technical info
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Camera: FujiFilm X10
Focal Length: 19.5mm, Macro Mode plus 52mm +4 Close-up lens
Exposure: ISO400, 1/280 @f/3.6, M 4:3
Lighting: Daylight and Yongnuo WJ-60 60-LED ring light
Processing: Photoshop CS3, ring-light reflection removed, added photo of circuit-board, one/zero background and film edge layers also photographed with the FujiFilm X10.
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Regras: Poste uma montagem contendo três tipos de fotos: Uma foto antiga. (De quando começou o hobby)
Uma foto atual, deste ano.
Uma foto que se orgulhe de ter tirado!
E marcar os amigos
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Uma foto antiga:
www.flickr.com/photos/135929470@N06/21707000919/in/datepo...
Essa foto eu tirei um dia depois dele ter chegado, e como podem ver ela é horrÃvel em todos os sentidos, qualidade péssima, posição do merek horrivel, angulo da foto então dfsjhbfvjhfvbdj
Ambas as fotos são da mesma camera, a do meu celular, mas até metade do ano, a burra aqui não sabia que o facebook fodia completamente com a qualidade das fotos, então eu sempre mandava as fotos pelo messenger e editava no pc xD
Uma atual:
www.flickr.com/photos/135929470@N06/37255466332/in/datepo...
Bom, eu postei essa ontem aqui xD tirei ela pensando justamente nessa tag. Eu ainda sou péssima, minhas fotos são em sua maioria horriveis, mas eu aprendi algumas coisas com o tempo, isso me alega um pouco! Uma pena que eu tenho uma evolução extremamente lenta comparado a outras pessoas xD
Uma que se orgulha de ter tirado:
www.flickr.com/photos/135929470@N06/28573631722/in/album-...
Acho que foi umas duas fotos antes dessa que eu notei a diferença da qualidade, e eu amei tirar todas as fotos que tirei nesse dia. Desde a montagem do cenario, até a forma como a Lachesis combinou com tudo!! Uma pena o vestido estar imundo rs fgbjbfgjfb *apanha*
Bom, é isso pessoas!! Essa é a primeira das varias tags que estou devendo xD Mas pretendo liquidar todas ainda essa semana!
To my eye this insect looks like it’s the family of the Southern Mole Cricket by the looks of the pattern on the end of the wings.
This hike began at South Lake on the Bishop Pass Trail September 8 and 6 days latter ended at North Lake. According to a more accurate account than I can generate we hiked 55 miles, gained 8,730 feet and lost 9,200 feet elevation. This area, part in Kings Canyon National Park and part in the John Muir Wilderness is about 20 miles southwest from Bishop, California.
Here is a brief summary of our route: South Lake Trailhead - Bishop Pass - Dusy Basin - LeConte Canyon - Muir Pass - Evolution Valley - Puite Creek Canyon - Humphrey's Basin - Piute Pass - North Lake Trailhead. We passed more than a dozen lakes some of which I will mention when I upload photos.
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Seen at Cowcaddens on service 17 is Glasgow Citybus MCV Evolution bodied Volvo B8RLE recently transferred from Dunoon.
The evolution of the Darlington - Durham - Newcastle service as represented by Northern 3501 (UTN501Y), a Mk2 Metrobus, United 808 (UPT808W), an ECW bodied Bristol VR and brand new Arriva North East E400, 7534 (NK15ACF).
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this photo is a mix of the artist: BLU
for more: www.youtube.com/charlywashere
video: EVOLUTION OF MEN
Rajout du massif des trois couronnes, de la villa dans la tempête et du bord d'océan. Evidemment juste les bases (j'ai tout à retravailler plus précisément)...Me restent les goélands, le ciel un peu plus intense à certains endroits et le couple de touristes chics à peindre en esquisse avant un retravail zone par zone. Objectif: recréer avec mon tableau une sorte de pseudo vieille affiche années 20-30 autour de Biarritz et côte basque. Pour garder l'esprit années folles mais avec mon style et sans doute des ajouts de feutres métallisés, de techniques un peu plus élaborées à certains endroits (vagues, personnages, textures bois). C'est du boulot mais je suis contente, ça prend forme progressivement...
Here's a classy looking geebeege truck from late 1916 or early 1917. You see, this is the problem with having the same design for twelve years. You can't tell what year it is, thus making the identification process slightly inaccurate. Not only was the Model AC a rousing success, but this geebeege body was also widely acclaimed. This geebeege truck used for collecting ashes and trash and used for collecting snow in the wintertime. It's kind of like that one company from Florida that advertised "Free Snow Removal" back in the 1990's. Except that company wasn't so successful in the snow removal business because it never snowed in Florida! You know come to think of it, it actually did this one time when the King was down there for a business opening with his college roommate Bobby and his cousin Paco.
So if you remember Paco, he's the richest guy in his little Mexican village, thanks to being in charge of Mexican affairs for Mari-Trade, the drug trading company owned by Elmigo del Rancho. What Paco doesn't know is that he's still poorer than a homeless man's toilet filled with dookie, but he's high all the time, so he doesn't even know where he is for the most part. Now this was 1992, and Mari-Trade had some deep competition, like that one guy Pablo Escobar and his gang down in South America. Man that guy was loaded! Luckily he's not around anymore these days to compete with Mari-Trade.
Somehow, Paco managed to make a huge successful coke deal with some gangsters in his village, with the help of Bobby, of course. Remember, the Internet was very new back then, so Bobby easily deterred the shipment of coke and traded it out with some used diapers from a geebeege barge in New York. Those gangsters must've had a sh*tty time without their drugs! Sorry, that was awful, but I'm the King, and the King can do whatever he wants. Now, the shipment came to Mari-Trade, of course, but it was such an overwhelming amount that Mari-Trade couldn't fit it in their storage facility. So, to make business, Rancho decided to expand Mari-Trade operations to Pompano Beach, Florida.
To start off the business, Rancho opened up a new convenience store. On the outsider's perspective, Rancho operated a franchise of Mexican convenience stores called El Seño, but in reality these were just cover-ups with loads of drug shipments across North America, particularly coke. Unfortunately for Rancho, his sister was going on a trip at the time and left her 2 young sons with Rancho. Of course Rancho doesn't give a crap about those two little Mexican jumping beans, so he left them in the back room of the convenience store. A few minutes later police responded to some screaming at the convenience store and found those two throwing coke balls and making coke angels! Turns out Rancho's nephews thought that it was snowing in the back room! What a couple of pendejos! Luckily, with Bobby's quick thinking, Rancho's sister got arrested, and Rancho wouldn't get caught until a couple months later. But that's a whole nother thing.
So it did snow in Pompano Beach. Now the King was there to help with the clean up, and knew of this one geebeege truck company that advertised free snow removals on their trucks. But for some reason when the King called for the snow removal service, all the dispatcher did was laugh at him. Man, they advertise some great offer only to be a hoax or something. Could've had the whole yard flying high with all that snow.
So they wouldn't collect for free, so all Bobby, Paco, and Rancho did was sit down in the pile of coke and started snorting. Man, they must've soared through the roof that night!
Coke and free snow removals aside, these trucks were very helpful in assisting with city works in removing real snow off the streets. Real helpful things, those geebeege trucks were back in the good ol' days. Oh crap, now the King is starting to sound like a redneck. You know the King once got into a fight with some redneck outside some geebeege truck yard. Maybe he'll tell you about that next on Evolution of the Kingdom.
The old Sandgate Post Office in suburban Brisbane now converted to a hotel/bar. I saw a postcard of it recently on flickr dated 1906. Hardly changed a bit!
Conclusion: Fasting and chemotherapy can work miracles. If you are on chemotherapy, fast three days before chemotherapy and one day after. I am not a doctor.
I recently wrote about one possible reason for the evolution of cancer, as a way to euthanase old-age palaeolithic persons who do not undergo periods of starvation, and are likely therefore to have been free-loading on the charity of their peers. In short I hypothesised that cancer may be a natural granny dumping mechanism.
But that got me to thinking about an even more puzzling evolutionary phenomena: why are there old people at all?
The average lifespan of palaeolithic peoples was about 33 years, which is just as it should be from a straightforward evolutionary perspective. If they started breeding at puberty then your average palaeolith would have had time to raise a few children and then die.
The strange thing is however that then, as till quite modern times, it was the high childhood death rate that suppressed average longevity. If a palaeolithic person reached puberty they lived on average into their mid fifties, way past the menopause and optimal male breeding potential. Further, with the agricultural revolution only a few thousand years ago, biblical and modern humans have palaeolithic bodies -- we have had time to evolve lactose tolerance and little else -- with the potential to live at least three score years and ten and four score if strong (Psalm 90).
Even if older palaeolithic persons were undergoing periods of near starvation and were not free-loading, they would have been consuming food which otherwise may have been gathered by their reproducing peers. So, why did evolution allow such grannies and grandfathers to exist at all? We could easily have evolved to self-destruct at 40. To a palaeolithic society living at the calorific brink of annihilation, the existence of post-breeding-age individuals would seem to be a tremendous calorific waste.
One can think of various 'nice' evolutionary-favoured tasks that post-reproduction-aged palaeolithic people could have performed, such as child minding or as a source of wisdom. I propose a task more tragic: older persons evolved as to function as in vivo experiments, commonly called 'guinea pigs'.
In any hunter gather society -- go out into the woods and try it today -- there would have been a lot of lean times. There would be very few apples, but a vast number of species of berries, bark, and beetles (and that is just the b's) with varying degrees of food value, nutrients, calories and toxicity. When (hunter) gatherers were lucky they found known fruits and roots to fulfil their dietary needs, but they were continually on the brink, regularly going without food, and faced with risky choices of culinary behaviour. "I have not eaten in a week. Do I try these berries or not? Do I give them to my children?"
Herein lies the great evolutionary value of the existence or granny and grandfather aged people like me. "Wait a minute son. Don't eat that. Don't give it to the little one. Let me try it. I will tell you in a day!" (When I think of all my ancestors that surely must have done this it makes me cry.) Societies which contained such individuals would continually increase the variety of gathered food sources and only lose the occasional non-breeding human guinea pig.
I reach this conclusion bearing in mind the miraculous research being carried out NOW on the synergy between chemotherapy and short term starvation in the treatment of cancer. The graph above left (Shi et al., 2012) shows tumour size in mice xenografted with human skin cancer. Cisplatin (CDDP), the most common chemotherapeutic drug, shows negligible effect in reducing tumour size. Short Term Starvation (STS) has a significant but small effect. Short term starvation combined with Cisplatin chemotherapy creates a synergy which seems nothing short of miraculous. 60% percent of the cancerous mice went into remission whereas no or negligible mice went into remission in the other two conditions. The same paper (ibid) also shows similar results, in vitro, with lung cancers.
Dr Valter Longo, the pioneer whose research on fasting lead to the discovery of this chemo-fasting synergy (e.g. Raffaghello, Safdie, Bianchi, Dorff, Fontana, & Longo 2010; Lee, & Longo, 2011), argues that fasting causes ordinary cells to go into hibernation mode, whereas cancer cells keep demanding more food. If in that period of starvation one consumes, or is injected with a toxin, then it is only cancerous cells that are killed. If one keeps fasting for about a day after the consumption or injection of the toxin, until the toxin has left ones system, then the toxin hardly effects normal cells at all.
This synergy between chemotherapy and no-calorie consumption suggests an explanation for both the existence of cancer, and the existence of old people. Old people get cancer. But many of them may be able to cure their own cancer if they undergo regular periods of fasting combined with the consumption of toxins. In modern society this experience is one that perhaps only cancer patients will undergo in the form of chemotherapy but in a (hunter) gathering palaeolithic society it would have experience that would regularly and necessarily have been faced. Going through that starvation plus toxin experience and coming out the other side, or not ("no, don't eat that...urk"), would have been evolutionarily favoured. So evolution worked out a way to create such individuals with that propensity: it created individuals that have a self destruct mechanism that is cured by starvation and toxin consumption. Palaeolithic societies that evolved to have older non-breeding individuals
-- Guinea Pig People (GPPs) -- to do the toxin tasting would have been able to gather and consume more food, breed more and continue the species. And here we are, thanks to all our GPPs.
In conclusion, it seems to me, a non-doctor, from limited research, fasting and chemotherapy can work miracles. If you are on chemotherapy, consult with your oncologist and consider fasting three days before chemotherapy and one day after, because it may cure your cancer, and makes perfect evolutionary sense.
Graph above: Figure 3A and 3B from Shi et al., 2012
Bibliography
Shi, Y., Felley-Bosco, E., Marti, T. M., Orlowski, K., Pruschy, M., & Stahel, R. A. (2012). Starvation-induced activation of ATM/Chk2/p53 signaling sensitizes cancer cells to cisplatin. BMC cancer, 12(1), 1.
bmccancer.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2407-12...
Lee, C., & Longo, V. D. (2011). Fasting vs dietary restriction in cellular protection and cancer treatment: from model organisms to patients. Oncogene, 30(30), 3305-3316.
Nowell, P. C. (1976). The Clonal Evolution of Tumor Cell Populations. Science, 194(4260), 23-28.
Raffaghello, L., Safdie, F., Bianchi, G., Dorff, T., Fontana, L., & Longo, V. D. (2010). Fasting and differential chemotherapy protection in patients. Cell Cycle, 9(22), 4474-4476.
The theory above - post breeding age persons are guinea pigs - is a little similar to the 'disposable soma' theory of the evolution of ageing at a societal rather than cellular level.
rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/205/1161/531.short
"Organisms that do not age are essentially in a steady state in which chronologically young and old individuals are physiologically the same. In this situation the synthesis of macromolecules must be sufficiently accurate to prevent error feedback and the development of lethal 'error catastrophes'. This involves the expenditure of energy, which is required for both kinetic proof-reading and other accuracy promoting devices. It may be selectively advantageous for higher organisms to adopt an energy saving strategy of reduced accuracy in somatic cells." (Kirkwood, Holliday, 1979)
Somatic cells are non-reproductive cells.
These non reproducing cells are argued to be disposable to facilitate greater "proof reading" and prevent "error catastrophes" in the reproducing cells. I am suggesting above that somatic people (non reproducing people) are there, and yet disposable, there to be disposed of, to facilitate "proof reading" (toxin tasting - "reduced accuracy" in diet) and prevent error catastrophes in the non-somatic, reproductive population.
Relatedly
Peto's paradox (there is no correlation between animal size and cancer rate)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3060950/
The assumption that there should be a correlation seems to be based on the assumption that cancer is a random occurrence in cells, so the more of them the greater the chance of cancer, as opposed to a more deliberate, non-random self destruct mechanism proposed here. Cancer is not random. It is a deliberate way of killing old people who do not fast be guinea pigs.