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Dylan MacKay
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Dad | #T1D my pancreas is on my phone | Assistant Professor of #NutSky and Chronic Disease | Newfoundlander in Winnipeg | Deutscher | Clinical Trialist | ADHD | he/him | Old man playing Rocket League | views my own
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In coordination with the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research requesting disaggregated confidential information on Tri-Council funding programs, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation have decided to play the old government is wasting your money on Science games (not linking to it)
Tax dollars funding questionable academic studies: CTF Hundreds of thousands of dollars being spent on studies examining gender politics in Peruvian rock music, and gender identities of teen Harry Potter fans
November 4, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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The majority decision makes sense and is fair, too broad too restrictive
"The offences with which they are associated cover a very wide range of circumstances,” she wrote. “They capture both the well-organized offender who, over the years, has accumulated thousands of files showing prepubescent victims, and the young 18-year-old offender who, one day, keeps and views a file showing a 17-year-old victim that was sent to the offender without them having requested it"
November 3, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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And no having chatGTP explain a decision to you doesn't count (he has previously talked about how he likes to use the AIs) and yes he did imply they should be killed see headline below, which I know child pornography is horrible and indefensible, but our justice system is very flawed
Bury you under the prison’: Kinew blasts Supreme Court rejection of minimum sentence for child pornography
November 3, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Perhaps Premier Kinew should actually read and think about a court decision before saying the first reactionary thing that pops into his head. ie implying you think more people should be injured or killed in prison. What about wrongful convictions? #MBpoli
www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
Kinew said convicted offenders who access child sexual abuse images and video should face even harsher punishments than mandatory minimum sentences. “You shouldn’t get protective custody. They should put you into general population, if you know what I mean.” “Skinners — this is the worst,” the premier continued, using a prison slang word for pedophiles and sex offenders. He said he sides with conservatives — Ontario Premier Doug Ford, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre — in denouncing the top court’s ruling.
November 3, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Nice
The stop stop he is already dead scene from the Simpsons, except with white text that says keep going
October 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point
October 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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My responses to the conclusions. Did it? Do they? Is it? What does "underscore mean to you? No it doesn't.
Conclusion This study investigated the daily dietary intake of various NNSs and added sugars among participants in the TPLS. The findings of this study contribute to the limited body research on child health in Asia by integrating data on sweeteners with genetic information. Although further research is required with larger sample sizes and consideration of genetic heterogeneity and environmental influence to validate this study’s results, the current findings enhance the understanding of the role of artificial sweeteners in pediatric weight management. Furthermore, the findings underscore the influence of genetic factors on sweetener preferences and obesity. Overall, this study offers valuable insights that can assist in developing targeted dietary interventions and personalizing nutrition plans aimed at combating obesity in children.
October 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Also I don't know about you but I read this and seem to know less about how they did the analysis afterwards. Like 27 SNP (I think), all the different types of NNS (by 24hre recall) and bunch of co-linear outcomes, all the adjustments and nothing about false discovery and a p value of <0.05
Furthermore, both full and reduced models were used to examine whether the interaction between sweetener intake and genotypes exhibited a synergistic or an antagonistic effect. A P value of < 0.05 was considered significant. By reviewing previous studies and selecting candidate SNPs based on established quality control criteria, the verification process involved several steps: ensuring sex concordance, optimizing call rates for both markers and individuals (typically exceeding 98%), excluding SNPs with a low minor allele frequency (MAF < 1%), assessing Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium (HWE) using a p-value threshold of 1 × 10⁻⁶, removing individuals with heterozygosity deviations exceeding ± 3 standard deviations (SD) from the mean, and excluding related individuals with a pi-hat value greater than 0.2, which indicates second-degree relatives or closer. The statistical models used in this study included a priori confounders identified using the TPLS data and NNS-FFQ. The following a priori confounders were adjusted in all models: parental education level, family income level, breastfeeding status, birth weight, gestational age, and exposure to secondhand smoke. Mean differences in continuous variables between the sweetener intake group and the control group were compared using Student’s t test. The primary outcomes and key exposure related to sweeteners intake and genetic variation were categorized. For instance, participants were classified into groups based on “nonconsumers, low consumers, and high consumers” of particular sweeteners and investigated differences in overweight vs. nonoverweight status. Consequently, logistic regression analysis was employed to investigate the relationship between genetic variations and sweetener intake. Interaction terms were included in the logistic regression model to investigate the effect of the interaction between nutritional intake and genotypes on sweetener consumption.
October 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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I don't have the willpower/capcity/desire to deep dive this paper, but on a light read through I just want to know what happened to those 2 kids...
Initially, 2,428 participants were recruited, but 128 were excluded due to missing NNS intake data, leaving 2,300 with available dietary data. After excluding 80 more participants with missing BMI data, the study population consisted of 1361 girls and 661 boys, with a mean age of 10.39 years.
October 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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It is the least aroused pass of all time from me
A headline above a picture of Sam Altman with the headline "ChatGPT creator denies sister's childhood rape claim" A headline above a picture of Sam Altman which says "Sam Altman says ChatGPT is getting into erotica by the end of the year"
October 15, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Feast of Thanksgiving !
A table full of dishes served family style, with deep fried turkey, salt beef, peas pudding, boiled dinner (carrots, turnip and cabbage), garlic mashed potatoes, savory dressing, sweet potato mashed topped with marshmallows pecans, and Yorkshire puddings and cranberry sauce A plate with deep fried turkey, salt beef, peas pudding, boiled dinner (carrots, turnip and cabbage), garlic mashed potatoes, savory dressing, sweet potato mashed topped with marshmallows pecans, and Yorkshire puddings topped with turkey gravy A flight of pies, one lemon meringue, one apple and one pumpkin
October 13, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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So I have recently (a week ago) switched from a very low dose semaglutide to a very low dose terzepatide, and there may be something to the fact that GIP seems to enhance glucagon when blood sugar gets low, because at least for me the low end has disappeared... #T1D
A graph of time in range output from a android artificial pancreas system showing 0% time below range for the last 6 days
October 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Please do not say "actually linked" when you are trying to translate an association based on nutritional epidemiology
"Our study shows that low- or non-sugar-sweetened beverages were actually linked to a higher risk of (fatty liver disease), even at modest intake levels such as a single can per day,” Liu said.
October 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Ex-Manitoba Premier Heather Stefanson named to Forthlane Board who do money stuff for people with capital in Canada and the Cayman Islands.... winnipegsun.com/news/ex-mani...
Forthlane Partners provides outsourced chief investment office services and tailored wealth management solutions to families, individuals, and mission-driven organizations in Canada and the Cayman Islands. The firm’s board includes both management and independent directors, a structure it says reflects its commitment to strong governance and accountability.
October 2, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Lunch
A picture of a Crusty Bun Sunflower bread toast topped with aged white cheddar and Winnipeg back yard grown orange tomatoes with some fresh black pepper on a small Research Manitoba branded cutting board
September 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Yeah no shit, wow the top 20% pay more than >50% groundbreaking discovery Fraser Institute, the people at the top are the ones with the money to pay for things, tax fairness is not everyone paying the same amount of tax, it is about fairly distributing the relative burden of taxes.
High-earning Canadian families pay over 50 percent of all taxes in Ontario, Alberta, B.C., and Quebec: Report
September 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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A screenshot of a tweet from @dylanmackayphd from back when twitter was cool that day "People with type 1 diabetes #T1D can sometimes seem aloof and unapproachable. I want to let you know it isn't because we know we are so hot (we do), it is because we are really busy trying to stop our bodies from killing us. "
September 26, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Probably not going to be able to enter the US these days I guess, but if the Kneecap decision is any indication maybe I'd have the trouble getting back into Canada too
A plain white guy with some tattoos wearing a Keffiyeh snap back hat and a FC St. Pauli Anti-Fashist t-shirt
September 20, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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The "if those kids could read they'd be very upset" meme, where the quoted skeet is being shown to the kids
September 15, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Grocers in Canada are scamming more than just bread prices...
Apples Honeycrisp at Safeway listed as Product of Canada A Honeycrisp apple with a product of USA sticker Apples Ambrosia at Safeway sign says Product of New Zealand Apple with Ambrosia gold stick product of USA
September 14, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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I see the Hippopotoman made it to Winnipeg wildin...
A photo of a hippo ottoman, a hippopotoman, on a hard wood floor, taken from the front A photo of a hippo ottoman, a hippopotoman, on a hard wood floor, taken from the side A Instagram post from @Winnipegwildin which a snip of the Winnipeg Free Press article "Winnipegger's viral tweet prompts product name change" by Malak Abas @Winnipegwildin instagram post of one of a screenshot of an old twitter post that says "the fact that this is not called a hippopotoman is a huge failure..." With a photo of a hippo storage ottoman for sale in brown for $99 CAD
September 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Everyone trying to retcon Charlie Kirk post-merc should need to be made to list the horrible things he stood for, and then you need to remind those people of the paradox of tolerance. There are some things that are not up for debate.
A cartoon outlining the Paradox of Tolerance by Karl Popper "Less well known is the paradox of tolerance: unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.—In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be most unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right to not tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law, and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal."
September 13, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Yay, burning tax payer cash to green wash fossil fuels....fml
The Alberta-Based Pathways Plus carbon capture project
September 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Talk about a turning point in this article...
www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...
Seconds before he was shot, Kirk was being questioned by an audience member about gun violence. "Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years?" an audience member asked. He responded: "Counting or not counting gang violence?" He was then shot.
September 11, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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I grew a bunch of different types of melons this year and honestly I did not know you could have ripe cantaloupes that were snack size like this...
A cantaloupe, cross section that has the seeds scooped out, but small, like the size of a baseball, on a wood countertop with a spoon next to it for reference
September 3, 2025 at 8:49 PM