I tolerate them in my digestive tract; but I avoid them. They do no good. I think it is better to have some sugar, rather than to consume the fake stuff

People who eat and drink the most artificial sweeteners are often in some other groups also correlated to faster mental aging

Netanyahu seems to have be the closest to the violence. Not the most prolific. He has probably killed over half a million, directly and indirectly ,over his long career .

But while others have killed more ; they are more removed from it, more intermediaries, less day to day involvement with the actual victims .

I think the best web page is a photo with a page of paper of handwriting : several photos if one has a lot to say.

Today’s bandwidth and powerful computers can easily handle it

I was fruitful and multiplied, its hard to organize a large migration of people, some of whom want to stay.

I will travel, but am rather tied to this area, even if I do not see it changing for the better in my lifetime

I agree with mastodon, even though eventually Texas will enact similar legislation forcing me to use a vpn to read it

Putting a device on airplane mode removes the distractions. If I play a video game while the lecture is going on, well that is on me, or the lecture, or both.

My comment here is only about the pattern of political violence in the USA since the 1700s.

Personally, I think a socialist revolution in the USA would save more lives than cost. I think this could be proved using logic and science.

But, for all its guns, and suffering, the USA is politically stagnant. It is strongly resistant to change. Scattered violence would remain just that, and in itself could not be productive. At this point violence would only be counter productive for improvement of the working classes.

So, that leaves zero options.

I think the only way forward is evolution of the social networks to allow a replacement for local politics. Sparking interest in local communities again. It is only through social connections not yet existing, online, can there be hope for most American citizens. Or a solar flair knocking out the internet for all in the USA. Either will help change the social order

That could explain some the last few decades, but not earlier

It is one of my unanswered questions of American culture: the low amount of political violence against elites of any political organization.

Political violence against the poor has always been a staple. But somehow it does not happen against the wealthy unless it’s their own doing it.

I’m ignoring the handful of high profile assassinations over the last 250 years done by poor people, often mentally ill.

I tend to eat very little red meat now, maybe once a month. I used to eat it every day

I myself am a victim of the modern diet, and lack of exercise. I almost died of high cholesterol and other related factors, before I started to eat better and be physically active.

I’m a firm believer in a varied diet, and that most people should have a less meaty intake.

Just, we are designed to be hunters and eat red meat

Primates in general are designed to eat red meat. Chimps, our closest cousin, go on regular hunts against other primates, and eat them

Mice do not eat that much meat of other mammals.

Giving an over abundance of it, for a long time, will shock the mouse.

She has a well earned reputation of sounding in private just like in the video . I’m sure the video is not her, but it was really accurate in tone; which is why it’s getting traction

If it was good enough for my parents, it’s good enough for me!

Soon to be a few trillionaires and a thousand billionaires

Maybe you jest, maybe not, but scams and bad actors will be a required milestone for popularity

I wonder if both the cold cloud and a supernova happened at the same time?

Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.

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