teslabox

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by teslabox 9y ago
> The solution is for government programs to tax me and people like me to provide simple things that can help break the cycle of poverty. It'd be even better to end institutionalized racism, institute a mass pardon program, and pay
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> After San Francisco installed some awful LED lamps on my street, I’ve taken to wearing orange safety glasses when I walk my dog, and if I had to drive with any regularity I would consider wearing orange glasses to drive at night. Thank
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> Really just screw public school in general. The whole place was 95% waste of time followed by a "congratulatory" piece of paper. John Taylor Gatto (and John Holt, and many others) say "wasting time" is the whole poi
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Doctors want to bill insurance for as much as they can. Insurers don't really care about medical costs either, because the percent they keep as profit grows as they spend more. Patients are the victims in the trench warfare between doc
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> This is really just a troll comment where you put everyone in a group group under one umbrella. There is criticism of the Gates Foundation too: http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Gates_Foundation_Critiq...
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The Medical Guild didn't have much to offer in the early part of the 20th century. The Osteopaths [possibly] had much better results at their hospitals during the Great Flu of 1918, for example. Science started to make some progress fi
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From the article: > Rockefeller upheld the family’s philanthropic tradition, giving away more than $900 million during his lifetime. In 1940, he joined the board of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, established in 1901 by h
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> Now, an AAMC-accredited education, on the other hand, provides a lot more parity out of the gate when it comes to opportunity. The medical guild used The Flexner Report (1910) [1] to eliminate opportunities for people to train as docto
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What could you grow in your area that isn't corn and soybeans [c&s]? How does the profitability of c&s compare to, say, silage? I was friends with a grass fed beef farmer in teh college, and learned from him that many weeds are
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Glyphosate/Roundup is basically the amino acid glycine with a phosphorous structure tacked on [0]. Glycine is the simplest possible amino acid. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyphosate#Chemistry One theory is
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> I'm always worried about my eyes getting worse, and they have been, year after year. Sometimes people's vision prescriptions are too strong. I started going to a 'developmental optometrist' about 12 years ago. While
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I had a package 'fall off the truck' a few scans after it entered the USPS system. A month later it scanned at a Chicago sorting center, and was delivered a few days later. Another recent package was said to have been delivered, b
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The phenomenon is called 'lipid peroxidation'. The search term 'drying oil' is also helpful.
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I try to avoid eating vegetable oil. I understand that the polyunsaturated oils are preferentially stored to protect the body from these unstable oils. The Center for Science in the Public Interest needs to eat some crow.
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> He doesn't address the concern that this particular Executive Order victimizes a broad swath of minorities for no justifiable reason other than to please a large section of society. This point was addressed in his prior blog post
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> Same for milk. I can drink German milk without problems but American milk gives me stomach problems. There are many different kinds of 'American milk'. A primary difference is what the different farmers feed their cows. A few
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> Could it be one reason that, with less obesity, French people are more healthy to start with, so they require less care? French people eat fine cheese, and other fine foods. Americans are fed imitation cheese, and told that it's b
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My favorite domain that I own was inspired by the macklemore song "Thrift Shop" [1]: http://SwindledAndPimped.org/ . Originally someone had registered the .com, but they let it expire after Macklemore's song w
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> Oils, fats, nuts should be primary components of ones diet. One is not like the others. Refined vegetable oil is not appropriate for human consumption. Butter and coconut oil are not refined with hexane, or steam deodorized, and are st
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Interest is the largest single expense of any debt-financed infrastructure project. Ellen Brown, author of Web of Debt [1], has advocated a public infrastructure bank for several years now. [1] http://www.webofdebt.com/
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These are all good points about supplements vs. food. > Now I do selectively take two supplements: D1 and EPA+DHA niacinamide helps protect us from having excess amounts of the polyunsaturated oils in circulation. These aren't so st
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I think it is usually better to get one's nutrients from food, but Niacinamide is one supplement that I take regularly. A friend finds that it reduces her need for tobacco. There are lots of nutrients in the foods that aren't in s
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> They found that when they fed older mice drinking water with a high dose of a natural compound called nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN), which is found in [...] This is basically Niacinamide/Nicotinamide, a form of Vitamin B3. I u
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I experienced dyslexia once. I'd assumed an odd posture and tried to read - it was almost like my neural pathways got short circuited. I don't try to read like that anymore.
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Who will cast doubt on the safety of starch? After all, starch, as long chains of glucose, provokes twice the release of insulin as sugar (50/50 glucose/fructose). Sugar is mostly safe, as long as one's liver is healthy. Soyb
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The water towers on top of NYC buildings tend to not be maintained especially well: With their quaint barrel-like contours and weathered cedar-plank sides, rooftop water towers are a constant on the New York City skyline. And thou
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Malcolm Gladwell (author of Blink, Tipping Point, etc) has an interesting podcast about Leonard Cohen's song, and how it took a couple of fortuitous happenings before the original was reinterpreted into a popular song. http:/&#
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> Be careful, sarcasm, facts, or the inconvenient truth can cause downvotes. Is there a way to figure out a comment's ratio of upvotes to downvotes? Sometimes I see my comment's score oscillating...
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> Obesity rates have tripled in 3 decades, I don't think we can blame Soylent for that, but clearly something major has gone terribly wrong with the industrial food system We can blame the paint industry and the cotton industry for
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My father was tired of having to run the dryer 3 times to get his clothes dry. The local independent applianc store guy said "I sell speed queens", and showed the difference between cheap washers and Speed Queen's home produc

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