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by sjwalter 5y ago
I've made similar comments before, but this is a neutered attitude. Needing some studies before you agree or disagree with something as fundamental as healthful eating. You can do your own scientific studies by changing your diet and f
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by sjwalter 5y ago
True, oil is processed food. By that same argument, all cooked food is processed. The animal fats I eat are from my own farm, processed by me, lard rendered by me. I realize not everyone can do this, but quality control (and lack of preserv
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by sjwalter 5y ago
IMO this is attacking it from the wrong angle. What I want is a change to insurance industry regulations to make it so fat people and sedentary people can start paying their fair way and not be subsidized by those of us who maintain their h
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by sjwalter 5y ago
The parent comment "should reduce oils" is silly. Oils as a category are hugely important to good health. Presumably, eliminating the bad oils is the way to go. The way I do it is to have a palette of base ingredients for each of
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by sjwalter 5y ago
There's another conspiracy theory about the most influential powermod for over a decade, /u/maxwellhill. The account was a mod of some of the largest subreddits out there, and regularly made posts that hit the front page. The
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by sjwalter 5y ago
Guy who answers, "maybe" to the query, "Can you light this bulb with a battery" seems the only to actually be able to do it. "Maybe" is the answer to almost all y/n engineering questions.
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by sjwalter 5y ago
Many, if not most, of the pre-modern civilizations of the world were to some degree or another vision-seeking. Ayahuasca is a psychedelic. If people were never at all seeking altered states of consciousness, that would be surprising. Though
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by sjwalter 5y ago
I might be a paranoiac here, but I prefer to keep a somewhat-permeable whitelist instead of a blacklist. Make sure 2/3ish of my calories come from healthy animal proteins (I raise pigs and chickens and trade meat and eggs for beef, so
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by sjwalter 5y ago
I don't think that solution makes any sense. To me, the solution has to be trying to get people to eat healthier things via education. I mean, the "incentive" is feeling good, looking good, being fitter and more capable. One
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by sjwalter 5y ago
I run a chicken farm so I'm biased but for my family I grow out a bunch of birds to be bigger than typical (9-10lbs). Roast one of these and it sits in the fridge providing sandwich meat for a week, plus the occasional plate of hot sau
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by sjwalter 5y ago
But if you're under 60 and yourself fit and healthy, you'd probably not even notice if you caught covid and recovered. Everyone getting fitter is a huge collective win. Even outside the context of a pandemic--fat people have a hug
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by sjwalter 5y ago
> the farmers would because it would be cheaper As a person who just became a farmer at the start of covid, I think this is a mistaken conclusion. Farmers are, in general, not out there a/b testing concentrations of herbicides or pe
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by sjwalter 5y ago
This is hilarious. "Actual science", presumably meaning, "peer reviewed paper". Science is not some elitist endeavor. It is available to all of us, to observe the world around us and form hypotheses and discuss them and
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by sjwalter 5y ago
Supposing I'm wrong about that. Are you saying farmers should drive teslas?
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by sjwalter 5y ago
It's like voting--if you know game theory, you know that voting is a waste of your time. If I spent all my life avoiding "car dependence" at all, much less with the goofy fervor of the virtue-signalling green crew on the inte
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by sjwalter 5y ago
I didn't say I agree with it. And I disagree the world would be worse. The world would be much less filled with stress. Everyone here seems so insanely focused on carbon emissions that anything rural is like verboten--THINK OF THE CAR
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by sjwalter 5y ago
The universal principle of Kant's categorical imperative is likely this. Something like, take actions that were the principles behind them applied to and adopted by all of society, that society would still be one you'd like to liv
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by sjwalter 5y ago
There is no reason for me to get the vaccine at all. I'm not at risk of contracting covid. That's the overriding reason. It's a pharmaceutical I do not need. That the push is being made so insanely is just another reason to a
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by sjwalter 5y ago
Speaking from my own point of view, the reason I'm not getting the vaccines is in large part driven by how obvious it seems that the push is not about public health. For one bit of the large body of evidence of this, that restrictions
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by sjwalter 5y ago
If you're talking about CDC's data tracker, which does report that 35mm figure ( https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#cases_casesper100k... ), then this is misleading. 35mm cases have been confirmed using
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by sjwalter 5y ago
Hospitals have been built and staffed for estimated peak capacity forever. Slack capacity is extremely expensive. Here's an article from 2018 about LA County's makeshift flu hospital tent, which they built because the flu season w
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by sjwalter 5y ago
>Kids dying in the streets... Uh, wat? Which kids are dying from covid? This level of hyperbole is insane.
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by sjwalter 5y ago
Does your logic extend to "you've declined to lose weight and acted like being obese is nothing to be concerned about, so we're going to not admit you to the hospital"?
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by sjwalter 5y ago
There are many of us. https://mulligan.farm
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by sjwalter 5y ago
>vaccine immunity is superior Here's proof that's totally wrong: https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-37... Most recovered COVID-19 patients mount broad, durable immunity af
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by sjwalter 5y ago
>dangerously delusional LOL "For over 5% of these deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned on the death certificate. For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 4.0 additional conditions
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by sjwalter 5y ago
So, in case you haven't been paying any attention, the data from the UK and Israel, some of the most heavily vaccinated places on earth, are showing pretty clearly that the vaccines are not long-lasting, and not robust against the delt
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by sjwalter 5y ago
Totally bad take. A frequently-touted bioethics claim is that it is the individual taking the risk, so the individual's benefit and outcomes is what matters. Any call for "civic duty" is a violation of bioethics. Further, if
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by sjwalter 5y ago
This kind of gaslighting is why nobody trusts authority any more. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/protests-and-trump-r... Just one of MANY stories why BLM protests are so much less risky than, e.g., Trump ralli
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by sjwalter 5y ago
Eat well. Sleep well. Exercise daily. Are you seriously saying you can't figure out how to do these things without bullshit "studies"? Get some weights. Ear high-quality meat. Sleep 8 hours. Tweak as necessary. That gets 90%

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