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Should be a wild four years.

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jthtgrw33 said:
genetics play a big role in that matter,
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I don't know about aspergers (that might be primarily social) but there is plenty of evidence that autism is a neuro developmental disorder.
I don't think it's primarily genetic either because there's a strong factor on signals like parental age (which might be a proxy for parental health because people in America tend to decline in health rapidly with age), gestational diabetes, and maternal inflammation during gestation.
It is likely the uptick in autism is primarily due to declining health of the population at large. An unhealthy mother during conception and pregnancy can really fuck a baby up and set them up to fail.
From pregnancy through the first year is where a lot of infant brain development happens. So it's no surprise that maternal health would be a massive factor.
If RFK Jr is successful in improving metabolic health substantially, or if metabolic health screening (and proper advice not just calorie restriction which often doesn't fix core issues caused by processed foods) became the norm during fertility and pregnancy consults, I wouldn't be surprised if genuine cases dropped in the years and decades after.

Edit: In terms of proscription metabolic therapies are effective in children and adults with autism. It is not a cure but it decreases the negative symptoms and makes them more functional. More functional means they can contribute to society by keeping a job and living independently instead of becoming another social leech on gibs.
 
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Amelia Troonheart said:
I don't know about aspergers (that might be primarily social) but there is plenty of evidence that autism is a neuro developmental disorder.
I don't think it's primarily genetic either because there's a strong factor on signals like parental age (which might be a proxy for parental health because people in America tend to decline in health rapidly with age), gestational diabetes, and maternal inflammation during gestation.
It is likely the uptick in autism is primarily due to declining health of the population at large. An unhealthy mother during conception and pregnancy can really fuck a baby up and set them up to fail.
From pregnancy through the first year is where a lot of infant brain development happens. So it's no surprise that maternal health would be a massive factor.
If RFK Jr is successful in improving metabolic health substantially, or if metabolic health screening (and proper advice not just calorie restriction which often doesn't fix core issues caused by processed foods) became the norm during fertility and pregnancy consults, I wouldn't be surprised if genuine cases dropped in the years and decades after.

Edit: In terms of proscription metabolic therapies are effective in children and adults with autism. It is not a cure but it decreases the negative symptoms and makes them more functional. More functional means they can contribute to society by keeping a job and living independently instead of becoming another social leech on gibs.
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Like everything else that sucks and is your brain, it must have to do with autoimmune disorders telling your white cells to go balls deep on grey matter
 
Fuck Bankers said:
I thought it was a neat video by some sperg about one of Americas most important weapons.
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It's an interesting thought experiment but the thing is there are lots of ways to know if an F35 or a B2 or anything else is around. Aircraft don't fly alone and they typically have multiple roles. Bombers used to have escort fights to dogfight and today they still do have them for protection but as a real life example lets say we're using B2s to bomb Iranian nuclear sites. So it's not a peer fight but it's near peer as they have last generation Russian missile defense systems and radars.

In that scenario you'll have a screen of fighters screaming noise all around them to stop any kind of targeting and make even acquisition very difficult. It's not about knowing stealth fighters are there. Unless you're in some kind of niche first strike scenario they know the fighters are there it's about shooting them down.

Cool video though.
 
he who has thus come/gone said:
The left is just ignoring that and screaming "free speech!" But any actual thought would tell you that's retarded. Does al-Qaeda get to send immigrant "refugees" to distribute pamphlets encouraging people to become terrorists? Did the Soviet Union get to send agents into America to advocate for the overthrow of capitalism? Does the DPRK get to send people to America to encourage joining the DPRK military and fighting the West?
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Yes, of course they do.

I mean, a Russian company isn't allowed to put an anti-Hillary meme on Facebook, that's obviously not protected, but all that stuff you listed is perfectly fine.
 
jthtgrw33 said:
Nowadays, when you have kids with autism, parents coddle them to hell and back, making them even worse off and retarded than they would have been if you taught them the hard and practical way.
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You hit the nail on the head. Normatively intelligent kids with autism learn to mask their symptoms and function like everyone else, but when they are diagnosed as autistic the focus becomes on excusing their behavior and negating the consequences. Then the kids can be placed in special needs programs, or they find hobbies online, with other autists who make it seem socially acceptable to be weird and not adapt to wider society.

Low functioning autists are another story
 
I'm about to slightly MTI but fuck...boomers.
Its elections season were i'm at. Time where family start going tribal at each other's throat and nuance is out the fucking window.
All i hear is MUH TRUMP...MUH UNITED STATES.
They get bat shit feral if you tell them to focus on our problems then the neighbour yellow grass.
This orange bastard, power to him. He cucked mentally half the human population.
Our nation is not a victim, not the greatest, not superheroes, not perfect .... We can't fix anything, we are not a superpower, we are fucked.
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This got me yelled at.
Having to explain to boomers why keeping electing the same POLITICAL GROUP no matter who's retard the front runner, is the same shit that got us living like a 3rd world country .... got me a wordily beating.
They don't care if my generation can't raise kids or afford a living, a house or a car. Fuck them kids right?
Nor they do care that our culture is being erased by a gazillion Pakistanis and Muslim.
And our children and women's raped by the momos.
I want trump to burn the system. Not because it funny...Just by sheer tiredness of being told by those that are a foot in a grave, to hold ourselves by the bootstrap. That my generation are just whinny bitches, when we have to scramble and prepare for the upcoming boomer apocalypse.
I want the NWO and globalist cucks and hippie generations to watch the wealth they took for themselves and hoarded, burn to cinders.
They were the weak men that created hard times.

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A follow up to my post I made Wednesday Night

JP Morgan's Market Intel team thinks there no liquidity in the market. Basically, alack of liquidity makes it difficult to buy or sell assets without causing significant changes in their prices. This can lead to increased volatility.

Which brings us to escape clause: moments ago, the FT published an interview with Boston Fed president Susan Collins in which she said that "The Federal Reserve “would absolutely be prepared” to deploy its firepower to stabilise financial markets should conditions become disorderly, according to one of the central bank’s top officials" adding that the Fed “does have tools to address concerns about market functioning or liquidity should they arise”.

Great.... but - there is of course a but - Collins also said “markets are continuing to function well” and that “we’re not seeing liquidity concerns overall”.

In other words, the Fed has a liquidity put... there is just no liquidity crisis.

Only - even if one ignores the blow up of the basis trade which as we explained previously has soaked up all the market's available liquidity - there is a liquidity crisis according to JPMorgan.

Below we excerpt from a note published this morning by JPMorgan's Market Intel team, which quotes trader Marissa Gitler, in which she said that liquidity is now gone and that what happens next could be ugly.

While it’s important to take a fundamental stance on the macro environment, the declining liquidity picture is an important piece of the puzzle and it’s worth flagging. To put statistics around it: Top-deck bid-ask for ESM5 and TYM5 are both roughly -80% worse than the 20d market average. These are historically two of the most liquid contracts in global macro markets. The top-deck in UX1 is roughly -95% worse. There appears no recovery this morning either.

De-leveraging and deterioration of macro sentiment has morphed into a situation in which liquidity dynamics are now meaningfully impaired in liquid markets. The lack of liquidity could result in price moves that are outsized relative to the amount of flow that is actually going through. This is in BOTH directions – significant bounces can take place ‘on air’ while it could similarly lead to unruly market outcomes to the downside. This is important context as we head into risk events such as UST auctions, the FOMC Minutes, CPI, and, realistically, just every minute of the trading day now as we are subject to Tariff tape bombs.
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She concludes as follows:

Equity turmoil has been fairly transparent via the selloff in indexes globally, but yesterday [April 8] the conversation rapidly flipped from equities back into the fixed income world as UST yields surged meaningfully led by the long end. It’s pretty impossible for anyone to predict where we go from here (myself included), but deterioration of the broader liquidity framework is never a great setup for risk markets.
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So while the Fed may ignore warnings by entities - such as this website - that liquidity is gone, imagine a world where there is a full-blown funding crisis, banks are failing and the Fed is blamed for ignoring not just the all too clear signs, but also ignoring a warning from the largest US bank, JPMorgan.

That is not a world that Jerome Powell, no matter how much he wants to listen to Bill Dudley and crush Donald Trump, would want to be in.
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This is a Zerohedge article. So take it with several grains of salt.
 
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SpergioLeonne said:
Like everything else that sucks and is your brain, it must have to do with autoimmune disorders telling your white cells to go balls deep on grey matter
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I don't think so. We see plenty of adult onset autoimmune but I've never heard of adult onset autism.
Autism starts early in childhood (around the time you would notice a lack of social skills and where they'd normally be developing them further while interacting with other children) and is lifelong.
That suggests something is happening as the brain is developing.
My guess is that inflammation in the brain (in the mother but also in the developing baby) during crucial developmental periods messes with the processes to build those structures.
Once they're built there's a limited capacity to fully restructure them to normal, but ongoing brain inflammation and other issues can be addressed with metabolic therapies that can help address some of the negatives to ease the burden.
 
NSA Intern said:
Does he have another week ban or something then?
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Idk lol.
Amelia Troonheart said:
I don't think so. We see plenty of adult onset autoimmune but I've never heard of adult onset autism.
Autism starts early in childhood (around the time you would notice a lack of social skills and where they'd normally be developing them further while interacting with other children) and is lifelong.
That suggests something is happening as the brain is developing.
My guess is that inflammation in the brain (in the mother but also in the developing baby) during crucial developmental periods messes with the processes to build those structures.
Once they're built there's a limited capacity to fully restructure them to normal, but ongoing brain inflammation and other issues can be addressed with metabolic therapies that can help address some of the negatives to ease the burden.
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You're born with the tism or not at all. I have it. Some of my nephews do. It's genetic. I got mime from my dad.
 
Fuck Bankers said:
Is the f35 finished?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=m-b51C82-UE
Actually Locating Stealth Fighters with Cheap Cameras Without using AI or Radar in Real time....webm
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I watched this video now and my takeaway is that 100km range defeated/limited by fog, smog or cloud cover could be helpful for the north sentinalese people, but like, how are you supposed to rely on like a hundred cameras being calibrated well enough to give you data to hit something moving at Mach 1.6? A fraction of a second of discrepancy between the angle the system assumes the cameras to be at would fuck it all up. Better to go to a relative, like keep the horizon line in frame for a point of reference and try to be really specific about altitude, longitude and latitude

Maybe on a ship, it could be helpful for anti drone systems? All the camera mounts would be steel and somewhat precisely measurable
 
WelperHelper99 said:
You're born with the tism or not at all. I have it. Some of my nephews do. It's genetic. I got mime from my dad.
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I'm getting a diagnostic, not because ahaha autism quirky. But ahaha, i got failed by the adults around me...and now adult me can do something about it.
Not so fun fact SBS is linked to austim too. (pregnancy, labour, delivery and shaken baby syndrome can cause tism)
I'll stop showing power level.
 
Whatever is causing the autism I hope it's something as simple as the vaccines, so we can fix it. I've been dealing with autistics my entire life and I want them to stop existing.
 
SugarKane said:
I'm getting a diagnostic, not because ahaha autism quirky. But ahaha, i got failed by the adults around me...and now adult me can do something about it.
Not so fun fact SBS is linked to austim too. (pregnancy, labour, delivery and shaken baby syndrome can cause tism)
I'll stop showing power level.
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Have fun sitting in a room for five hours. Diagnostics are not fun.
 
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