Interesting Links for 10-02-2021

[andrewducker]

Disney Closing Down Blue Sky Studios, Creators Of 'Ice Age' (Nimona is cancelled, which is hugely frustrating)

(tags:animation business Disney )

Cops are playing music while citizens are filming to trigger copyright filters

(tags:copyright police transparentsociety OhForFucksSake )

Coffee seems to reduce heart attack risk (by quite a significant amount)

(tags:coffee heart health )

When She Says Woman, She Doesn't Mean Me (stories of sex work and how supposed feminists refuse to listen to the women who do it)

(tags:sexwork feminism )

Europe's oldest person survives Covid just before 117th birthday

(tags:age Europe pandemic GoodNews )

Comments

[dewline]

As I recall, Blue Sky Studios also had a hand in that Peanuts movie from a couple of years ago...?

:-(

Coffee and the heart

[agoodwinsmith]

I hit a paywall but found this:
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.119.006799

A meta analysis of previous longitudinal studies. "We investigated the diet domain in FHS (Framingham Heart Study), CHS (Cardiovascular Heart Study), and the ARIC study (Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities) to identify potential lifestyle and behavioral factors associated with coronary heart disease, HF, and stroke."

"Increasing caffeinated coffee consumption was found to be significantly associated with reduced risk of HF .... but not stroke." HF = heart failure

"Decaffeinated coffee consumption was significantly associated with increased risk of HF ..."

"All three studies showed a concordant inverse relationship between caffeine intake in 100-mg doses (1 cup coffee or 2 cups black tea) and risk of HF."

Definition from:

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/heart-failure/symptoms-causes/syc-20373142

"Heart failure, sometimes known as congestive heart failure, occurs when your heart muscle doesn't pump blood as well as it should. Certain conditions, such as narrowed arteries in your heart (coronary artery disease) or high blood pressure, gradually leave your heart too weak or stiff to fill and pump efficiently."

[cmcmck]

I recall a bunch of us at a conference arranging a breakfast for the local street working girls and having a lengthy conversation in which we came to the conclusion that certain feminists didn't think either of our groups contained any women.

They also seemed to believe that all trans women were on the game so we were actually the same sort of non people.

Interesting, that!

[andrewducker]

Yes. There's an authoritarian streak in there, where they can't imagine that anyone could make different choices to them.