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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • Websearch “rugby + CTE”.

    Rugby is a full contact sport and has the exact same concerns that American football, fighting, and hockey have. There is no magic shield that protects rugby players from the consequences of repeat impacts to the head.

    Researchers are looking into high volume, low impact hits (rugby and American football) contributing to CTE just as much as lower volume, high impact hits (American football). Researchers are even looking at whether impact is necessary, even rapid changes in acceleration (hit elsewhere in the body causing ones brain to slosh around in the skull) piles up damage over the course of a sports career.

    Plenty of good hearted sledging to be thrown about various sports. Buying the propaganda that rugby isn’t a dangerous sport ain’t it.




  • I have read about 2,000 pages on ebook so far this year, which is an average month for me. And I listened to about 20 hours by audiobook. I do count audiobooks, and I listened to less in January than average.

    Split is about 75/25 fiction/nonfiction.

    I hold zero affection for physical books. Less than zero even. I’ve moved too many times. I have maybe 50lbs of textbooks, high school year books, and reference books for hobbies and that’s it. I would have to be ready to settle into a home for the rest of my life before I could bring myself to buy physical books, and I’m still way too restless for that.

    Enjoy your pulp books! I hope they’re good, even if “so bad and cheesy, they’re good”.