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by sridca 7y ago
> Firstly, that's ridiculous, vegetarians are definitely a minority on HN. Pointless observation (I said HN has increasingly gotten vegetarian/ vegan [-biased], and not that vegetarians are a majority). > And secondly, that&
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> Most of us on the western diet, would do better to increase our consumption of veggies. Yet originally you phrased it as if it were a general truth, so as to (intentionally or unintentionally) have the effect of misleading your fellow
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by sridca 7y ago
> there is plenty of evidence as to the negative effects of meat on health - the higher fat intake, for instance, and the increased cancer risk. Please stop mindlessly spreading this nonsense. Meat is perfectly healthy. http:/&#x2F
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> Eating more veggies, on the other hand, yes much better. In what way exactly would "eating more veggies" be much better when meat is already the only nutritionally complete[1] food? [1] http://www.diagnosisdiet.com
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HN has increasingly gotten vegetarian/ vegan, so posting articles like this get downvoted en masse. Here's one more: http://meatheals.com/
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Food cooperatives are another option, which is what I increasingly use: http://www.lamauve.com/ They taste better than grocery store meat too.
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> Don't know why this is being downvoted The key answer is contained in my comment -- to wit: " yet apparently no one is willing to do that [fundamentally change themselves] ". Even most intelligently people, the demograph
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Hah, exactly. Capitalism is not perfect; apparently it is the better of the alternatives we have right now. In order to effect fundamental change, and find a better alternative to capitalism, each human being needs to fundamentally change t
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Given that your big picture conveniently ignores stress it is not "trivially true" after all. :-P
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If you are someone that drinks no more than 1-3 cups a day, then I see no pointing getting an electric grinder over a higher-quality manual grinder, like the Comandante C40.
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One does wonder how much central role does puberty (rise and decline thereof) play in these happiness trends. And note that arranged marriage is the norm over in India (thus explaining the inverse trend?).
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Why is Australia & Canada not in the graph?
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> Seems rather circular then to suggest I familiarize myself with him more Only because you wrote "Without knowing much about him" and you keep misunderstanding the nature of my critique. > ... if you can't even be both
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I'm not sure I'd trust a food activist to arrive at nutritional truths. I'd rather listen to someone with scientific background: https://www.diagnosisdiet.com/foods/
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Wal Thornhill: Black Hole or Plasmoid?(youtube.com)
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I'm not sure I'd trust a food activist to arrive at nutritional truths. I'd rather listen to someone with scientific background: https://www.diagnosisdiet.com/foods/
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> "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." Where does this come from? Why do a lot of people keep parroting it?
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All of these are assumptions (some cynical). But what is the actual reason Google is experimenting with projects in this manner? I wonder if Google is using their data-based approach here.
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Yup I did: > Just for starters, allowing your well-being [to be] dependent on being above some level in some social hierarchy is hardly considered being self-reliant. It may be hard for some not to lump self-reliance (aka. being autonomo
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I'm talking specifically about the life advice being dished out by Mr. Peterson. Given that you said "without knowing much about him" perhaps you should first familiarize yourself with what he is promulgating before continuin
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I have read parts of his book and watched some of his lectures, and would hardly characterize him as a person who is independent and self-reliant (which is what the word individualist refers to). Just for starters, allowing your well-being
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Neither an European nor an American here (born in India actually), and I too stopped reading for the same reason.
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Peterson only describes the masculine perspective on order vs chaos (and therein lies his bias). If you however include the moral and covert domains, order actually becomes feminine, as Ms. Arianna Stassinopoulos wrote: [quote]: ‘Women are
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> This book helped me a lot In what way did the book help you a lot? What do you now do differently in life?
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For those in the blank: https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/archives.html https://www.reddit.com/r/thelastpsychiatrist/
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by sridca 7y ago
That's a clever way to mention (suggest) Mr. Peterson and evade the downvotes. :-P Being an individualist I don't agree with his life advice one bit. Those that are not looking to settle down to anything less than perfect in life
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by sridca 7y ago
I use TransferWise, but their debit cards are not available in Canada.
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by sridca 8y ago
No; what's "wrong" -- to keep up with your phraseology -- is to treat sex as the be all and end all of living an awesome life (see the root comment of this thread).
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You'd be amazed how much of this so-called "biological curse" is software-based rather than hardware-based -- have you ever found yourself in the psychological state called "flow" where you momentarily forget about
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by sridca 8y ago
> your refutation See my comments on the distinction between need vs desire in this thread. > should be something that is a bit more in-depth than "you don't need to have sexual intimacy in your life to be happy That's

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