The symptom of what? Bad genes? Because plenty of people have genetically high cholesterol that doesn’t do anything for you besides cause you to have a high risk of cardiovascular disease later in life from years of elevated cholesterol.
> Somehow that trait was evolutionary helpful (groupwise, not necessarily for a single being)?
There’s plenty of people that have degenerative diseases with no perceivable benefit that are “evolutionary” favored due to genetics just working out that way. What does Huntington’s disease provide? Its a dominant gene, doesn’t typically effect people until they’re 30 or 40 past their prime child years.
> In general just lowering _any_ cholesterol without understanding _all_ the cons and pros won't cut it.
Pros: it significantly decreases long term of risk of cardiovascular disease later in life
Cons: the medications have to be taken daily forever, I guess.
This is just an argument from nature. If you have very high cholesterol, there’s no good reason to not lower it to sub-problematic levels.
Overall populations don't have flawed genes... Before jumping on statins and such it's important fixing underlying cause and even then try to get actual data my having imagine to get soft plaque.. not cacb score which is only relevant in later stages
High cholesterol could be from high glucose/insulin damaging arteries
Or could also be from weight loss
Simplest fixes are
- eat low carb
- don't eat all day intermittent fasting
- walk after eating to lower spike
- eat olives which protects lining of veins and arteries
- avoid seed oils
- pick antiinflammatory foods and supplements
- take l-arginine and similar supplements, sunlight, green veggies, no mouth wash, exercise to increase nitrogen oxide production... Breath through nose as well
- exercise to increase good cholesterol
- sleep well and keep cortisol low (stress)
Cholesterol is needed for hormones, brain, everything... I believe statin are linked to Alzheimer
Which makes all the positive comments about rednote hilarious. It's like two proles in 1984 talking one another about how they're gonna defect from Oceania to Eastasia because citizens are treated just so much better there!
Again I note the distinctive lack of self-awareness from the demographic that is moving away from TikTok to a communist country value harboring app like RedNote
The Rednote or "Xiaohongshu" in Chinese is literally referring to the Mao Zedong's propaganda book the modern counterpart being "Xi's Book of Thoughts"
It's frightening how much young Americans hate their own country and the values that have allowed them this much freedom.
Do you think mayyybeeee this hate stems from how young americans are treated and a complete lack of representation? Red note censors stuff about Chinese politics, they are surprisingly accepting of LGBTQ etc, and it's nice to talk with people from other countries you don't normally have interactions with. It's really not that hard to understand.
If perfect topology interferes with shipping, it's overrated.
I could think of some mechanics I could add to Tentacle Typer (my indie game) if I had 3d models of the top 2000 most used nouns. I could decimate vert soup meshes into something usable for all of them in a weekend.
Rigging would take longer. Quick and dirty pass I could do it in a month. Complex animations I wouldn't even try, but Brownian motion on some bones would breath a lot of life into things for basically no effort.
Like it or not, this kind of thing will get absorbed into some workflows eventually.
Same, and I say this having been making 3D reconstructions of a whole street. One should not underestimate the power of current 3D modelling tools, and modularity. The latter allows you to divide and conquer a scene by creating a set of models that can be repeated, and making different materials as needed. This is the biggest gain traditional modelling has. Not only does this make the art asset creation faster, it makes a very optimized scene.
