objetovoador

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by objetovoador 4y ago
> Is it possible maybe the problem is they are just a bit too entitled on average, and when things don't go perfectly they can't cope? Precisely. The world has never been safer or as rich, and it seems like my generation is ext
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by objetovoador 4y ago
> The reason why families need two incomes nowadays is that our standards for what's "needed" have grown Nope! It happened almost instantly after Bretton Woods system collapsed. And that wasn't because our living stan
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by objetovoador 4y ago
Well I've got confirmed dysbiosis (GBT) from overprescribed antibiotics and from my experience, and reading up in those communities you're so contemptuous about, I get the sense that gut dysfunction manifests in seemingly random w
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by objetovoador 4y ago
> Stop being such a lazy thinker. The world is complicated. Please don't ad hominem and strawman instead of engaging my arguments. > [...] relying on the reader's brain to conjure up a couple of salient instances like Iraq a
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by objetovoador 4y ago
I never said we need to burn down government. That's a very large strawman you just argued. I'm saying that successful government is limited in nature. And that overgrown government usually not only fails to achieve its goals, it
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by objetovoador 4y ago
This is very conspiratorial and generalizing. Everyone paints the right as conspiracy crazy but the left usually gets away with discussing their own conspiracies unchallenged. Marxism (along with all the other anti-capitalist tropes) is fun
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by objetovoador 4y ago
> Note that "leaky gut syndrome" is pseudoscience; there's no such thing recognized by the medical community. What is real is leaky gut, or intestinal permeability. This seems like oversubtle reasoning that cruelly dismiss
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by objetovoador 4y ago
> Good will, honesty, and, proper information hygiene do not scale What does that say about "democracy" and collectivist politics more broadly?
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by objetovoador 4y ago
Limited in scope, it’s an important ideal, hard to ever achieve. The more an organization expands its scope, the more certainly it will not only fail to achieve its goals but do great harm.
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by objetovoador 4y ago
> only now they aren't even beholden to democracy Except practically everyone considers our representatives next to useless - look at congress’s approval rating. That’s why if anything local government is the most important. It’s th
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by objetovoador 4y ago
> It appears this is just the way the system is set up. The wisdom of limited government is that any sufficiently powerful political organization will be corrupted and abused. There is no force worse than corrupted political power. Busin
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by objetovoador 4y ago
> Either you're completely broken and it's so obvious what's wrong with you that you barely need a doctor, or you're partially broken in which case doctors know very little and rely on experience, murky clues, and the
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by objetovoador 4y ago
I mean it in the context of people who have joint pain that’s not from injury. And yes endotoxins are linked to joint pain: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31653850/
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by objetovoador 4y ago
> That isn't what a meta analysis is. I'm not trying to be cruel[...] That's why he didn't call it a meta-analysis but instead said "It’s more of a meta analysis in my mind of all the different studies and anecdo
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by objetovoador 4y ago
IIRC inflammation is linked to endotoxins produced by bacteria in the gut. Apparently curcumin has a good reputation for helping people with inflammatory conditions like that. And it's been proposed that it yields positive benefits by
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by objetovoador 4y ago
That's what happens when central planning is used to warp...erm, I mean organize...an economy.
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by objetovoador 4y ago
But you're saying raw milk shouldn't be consumed. Though raw fish is fine?
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by objetovoador 4y ago
Should we ban sushi or raw seafood?
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by objetovoador 4y ago
It's pretty much inconceivable to most people that Fauci committed gross malfeasance, but the evidence has only grown over time. It's the sort of thing that would melt minds and violate the sense of reality for far too many people
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by objetovoador 4y ago
So we've still got high inflation, and the fed seems like it's only got so long until it'll resume pumping money into the economy.
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by objetovoador 4y ago
> It’s silly theater. Like a lot of medicine was and is. can you at least explain why it's "silly theater"?
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by objetovoador 4y ago
> you can't really call it "wrong" I can call censorship wrong whether private or public, thank you very much. And I can agree and actually support their rights to do it as a private company. There's no contradiction
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by objetovoador 4y ago
> education-influenced tendency is more of a positive systemic bias than a negative one If anything, there's evidence that education has a negative influence in ways you may not expect. I seem to recall Germany being the birthplace
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by objetovoador 4y ago
So you're admitting that basically this entire sector of the economy is a monoculture, but downplaying that there's any negative systemic bias cause that's somehow just a deterministic function of geography.
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by objetovoador 4y ago
If an organization is overwhelmingly of one political orientation, that's just inevitably systemically biased right? Unconscious bias happens for everyone, I don't care how sophisticated someone supposes they are.
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by objetovoador 4y ago
In many culture war debates there's a consistent theme of ignoring and/or discounting absolute figures and monomaniacally focusing on relative figures.
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by objetovoador 4y ago
> If all of the big social media sites appear to be "left leaning" > [...] your calibration is off Big social media moderation is systemically biased, for instance, Twitter is/was staffed overwhelmingly (at times almo