> I recorded an agent of the court committing perjury.

When is perjury not transcribed anyway?

Perjury according to Google: the offense of willfully telling an untruth in a court after having taken an oath or affirmation.

"I must have misremembered" "Oh ok"

Perjury is a joke, it's something that is used against citizens not against police officers or the like.

In any case, you have to prove that someone wilfully told an untruth. That's tough.

This "extremely small" argument falls flat, as is well known, pre-industrial levels were < 0.05 ug/dl. That said, I agree the result is suspiciously strong.

Source?

At 76, I think it's fair to say he just died.

I actually had no idea he was that old. Maybe he looked younger than he was because he had no wrinkles.

Nobody "just dies". Most "natural deaths" are still heart failure. The rest are other kinds of organ failure.

For a lot of people that die natural deaths they could have lived longer if they had kept fit. It just gets really hard to either do or justify when everything hurts and gets harder to do year over year. Or when you are confined to a wheelchair since your early 20s, were told you would only live two years, and then beat that prognosis 27 times over.

But if you are able, even small amounts of cardio exercise could dramatically extend your health and lifespans in old age.

It's true that an autopsy will show a cause of death for anyone. In that sense, you don't "just die".

But after a certain point, that cause of death starts looking pretty meaningless. Everything is failing at once; if you hadn't died of your actual cause of death, you would have died shortly afterwards from another one. In that sense, you do "just die" of old age.

In the UK, old age isn't a legal cause of death for people under 80.

It's called being colloquial, jeez

Yes, and given his adulthood-long health problems, it's a bit of a miracle he lived as long as he did. Amazing man.

Uhhh, are you sure about that? My ten dollar sleep mask from walgreen doesn't touch my eyes, I don't think it even touches my lashes. Meanwhile every mask I've tried buying online has fit terribly.

I think he's talking about literal dollar priced masks or giveaway sleep masks which are usually just a tiny piece of fabric around something more solid, which attaches to you by means of an elastic band; the band however resists falling/slipping by pushing on your eyeballs.

It sounds like your mask is a bit better, and probably more expensive that the parent means. I've gotten such cheap masks as giveaways and the few I tried were indeed unbearable for sleeping as it felt like someone was crushing my face.

In retrospect, I've been leveraging this effect constantly since early high school. I suspect this explains many people's poor sleep habits. Anyone else?

No thanks.

I mean, we already know the differences between 20- and 30- year olds from simple observation. So it's not really positive or negative.

What would you say the differences are, based on your observations?

Not my observations, observational studies.

Regardless of the exact reasons why plasticity declines with age, it's obvious that any fix is a long way off. I wouldn't take this news as positive, rather negative, actually, since it just means we have yet more work to do

Like, instead of saying "I always lamented the idea that as we grew older we generated less and less neurons" the GP can now say "I always lamented the idea that [other unknown mechanism behind declining plasticity]". Hardly good news.

The difference is when you call something a "red herring" you also point out why. Or if you invoke "occam's razor" you simultaneously propose a simpler explanation. Whereas Hanlon's razor comments like the one above literally do nothing except say "Hanlon."

Anyway, I don't think me and GP are alone in being irrationally annoyed by this cliche.