There are already compostable alternatives to plastic bags being sold in stores like Target. I heard one of the issues is that people/companies refuse to pay more for them.

More antibiotics is not the solution. We need to be moving away from antibiotics, and drastically decreasing their use/overuse.

• While antibiotic resistance gets all the attention, the damage being done to our host-native microbiomes is arguably as big a threat as climate change, as the damage compounds over generations, and once it’s gone you can’t get it back.
• https://humanmicrobiome.info/antibiotics/

Overuse in humans is far more important than overuse in livestock.

This is not the solution. We need to be moving away from antibiotics, and drastically decreasing their use/overuse.

• While antibiotic resistance gets all the attention, the damage being done to our host-native microbiomes is arguably as big a threat as climate change, as the damage compounds over generations, and once it’s gone you can’t get it back.
• https://humanmicrobiome.info/antibiotics/

Doesn’t that mean that docker containers use up much more resources since you’re installing numerous instances & versions of each program like mumble and leftpad?

Doesn’t that mean that docker containers use up much more resources since you’re installing numerous instances & versions of each program like PHP?

It seems like docker would be heavy on resources since it installs & runs everything (mysql, nginx, etc.) numerous times (once for each container), instead of once globally. Is that wrong?

Instead of setting up one nginx for multiple sites you run one nginx per site and have the settings for that as part of the site repository.

Doesn’t that require a lot of resources since you’re running (mysql, nginx, etc.) numerous times (once for each container), instead of once globally?

Or, per your comment below:

Since the base image is static, and config is per container, one image can be used to run multiple containers. So if you have a postgres image, you can run many containers on that image. And specify different config for each instance.

You’d only have two instances of postgres, for example, one for all docker containers and one global/server-wide? Still, that doubles the resources used no?

It seems like docker would be heavy on resources since it installs & runs everything (mysql, nginx, etc.) numerous times (once for each container), instead of once globally. Is that wrong?

https://humanmicrobiome.info/faq/

It’s inconvenient for sure, but monopolies are worse.

It’s definitely convenient to have everything in once place, and Steam has way more features, but it’s good to avoid Steam becoming too monopolistic. We saw recently how badly that can go with reddit.

Despite the widespread worshipping of Steam and GabeN, I’ve had lots of issues with Steam and Valve over the years.

even a 5-10 year out-of-date medical professional has immensely more knowledge and safe ability to recommend therapy than a layperson

I know from a plethora of experience that this is wrong. It’s also way too broad of a claim. Laypeople knowledge varies a lot. I know first-hand of some laypeople who are actually top experts in scientific/medical fields and I know of people with medical degrees who promote themselves as experts in their field yet they spread harmful misinformation that severely harmed patients and nearly got them killed.

you’re not supporting your position by citing a forum instead of the actual primary literature that supports your position

I think this is poorly worded, but I think I still understand what you were trying to say. There is no reason for me to duplicate the forum post here. There are citations there. Copying them here doesn’t make them more legitimate.

Wow, projecting hard with that comment. This is a fantastic and well-cited article, and your comment does nothing to debunk anything in it, and you end with a baseless “you’re scientifically illiterate” comment. Amazing.

I’m not as confident as you are in the evidence-based nature/abilities of doctors. See https://forum.humanmicrobiome.info/threads/doctors-are-not-systematically-updated-on-the-latest-literature-what-t.27/

as to effectively use phage therapy you must identify the organism and then select appropriate phages which will kill the bacteria, which takes time that a sick patient may not have without antibiotics

Phage cocktails, FMT, etc… Also, we should get better at speeding that process up if we fund research for it, but we’ve been instead continuing to rely on antibiotics.

We also haven’t quite figured out how to keep our immune system from eradicating the bacteriophages

Citation? I don’t recall that being a thing… phages are ubiquitous in the human body. As much or more so than bacteria. They are the natural way bacteria are kept in check.

NYT undoing years of “finish your fucking course”

WITH CITATIONS.

“finish your fucking course” is wrong, and pigheaded people that refuse to review scientific evidence and reshape their opinions accordingly do a lot of harm and make it impossible for the scientific method to work and for the scientific community to update the public when the evidence and consensus changes.

Everything in here refutes and proves all your claims wrong

Not even close. You seem to be the only one playing games.

When you wipe out all of your microbiome, chances are it returns to normal in the following months after antibiotic treatment.

Harmful misinformation. A plethora of citations were already provided that debunk that claim.

You have to take the full course to prevent resistance from forming.

Harmful misinformation that is contradicted by the citation in the article and numerous other citations that I provided in the OP and my introductory comment.

If you let resistance flourish, then every single time someone needs to take an antibiotic it will be even more likely they develop a C. Diff infection due to the microbiota being wiped even harder.

This makes no sense. I’ll rephrase it to make it sensical and accurate:

If you overuse antibiotics, every time someone needs to take an antibiotic it will be even more likely they develop a C. Diff infection due to their microbiota being wiped out previously.

MRSA is actually covered in the cited links. Here’s one for example https://academic.oup.com/ofid/article/6/7/ofz288/5522275.

The gut microbiome regulates the entire body, including the immune system and other body site’s microbiomes https://humanmicrobiome.info/systemic. You can see what a great resource it is – very handy to provide categorized citations.

his website is not peer reviewed

Anyone is welcome to contribute and peer review it.