A.C. Carpenter

@RT_com Lol, this house motherfucker doesn't need chains, he serves his imperial masters freely. Fucking cuck loser.

Obama: 'It's possible for me to be an admirer of George Washington AND acknowledge he was a slaveholder' — Obama 'That does not negate his greatness'

@MaddickKeith @DaniMayakovski Satan is not even mentioned in the Bible.

Esto es Kentucky (EEUU), una iglesia evangélica organizó una simulación de fusilamiento de inmigrantes delante de niños que acudieron a un campamento de verano. Puro amor al prójimo, excepto si eres negro, homosexual, inmigrante, comunista o musulmán, entonces toca fusilamiento.

AOC, Mamdani & DSA aren’t fighting for socialism. They’re fighting for social democracy—which is a band-aid that preserves capitalism by giving workers concessions that can be taken away. It also continues the exploitation & bombing of our working class brothers & sisters abroad.

“o ar condicionado está destruindo o planeta” enquanto isso estados unidos e israel no oriente médio:

@samhusseini That doesn't mean it isn't in the process of collapse right now. Objectively, observably, it is.

People have been saying the US empire is on decline since at least 1970s.

The memorial does have names on it, they had to fence it off to hide it from the public when the news came out, and now they've bolted panels over it so you can't see who it's memorializing it's like a Nazi time capsule resting for some future date with destiny

If 100 more 9/11s happened tomorrow, we would still deserve more.

Venezuela 🇻🇪 “They Changed My Daughter’s Last Name and Now She’s Gone” “They are stealing the children… they are taking the children who are found alone.” A desperate mother says her daughter was rescued after the earthquake, but when she went to claim her, she was allegedly told the child’s last name had been changed. The little girl has since disappeared. She claims that many children found alone are being taken, with their identities altered.

✨🇨🇳A Chinese manufacturer makes LED roller screens — this is absolutely awesome!

Probably one of the worst ways you could start your adulthood is by completely withdrawing from your education, career, and social life to go run around a lobotomization camp and get degraded by emotionally stunted grown men for 2 years

axios.com/2024/09/10/chi… Then what happened?

@DailyIranNews Fact.

BREAKING: Iran says it has no choice but to develop a nuclear bomb.

@SciFicommunist @RnaudBertrand LOL. Fucking coward.

@SciFicommunist @RnaudBertrand You are wrong. CPC is correct. Go be racist somewhere else.

This is one of the funnier cultural differences between China and the West: what we respectively see as "healthy food." In the West, healthy food tends to be raw, cold, and uncooked - think salads, smoothies, raw soups (gazpachos, etc.), cold-pressed juices, etc. In China, it's almost the opposite: raw and cold foods are generally to be avoided, especially if you have health issues or a weak constitution. What is seen as healthy is what we in the West could call comfort food: warm soups, congee (porridge), cooked vegetables, stews - everything soft, warm, and easy to digest. In fact, I'm probably underselling it: cold food in China, especially if you listen to the older more traditional folks, is seen as almost hazardous. Personal anecdote on this: one of the closest I ever came to having Child Protective Services (CPS) called on me with my kids was at an airport in China when I gave ice water to my then 2-year old daughter. I did it in front of a group of older Chinese ladies and I heard a collective gasp when my daughter started drinking, as if something genuinely awful had just happened. The ladies started lecturing me to the effect of "do you realize what you've just done? Ice water to a little child? This is terrible for her digestion! She'll get sick!" Believe me, this was the last time I gave ice water to my daughters in public in China 😅 Why this belief? It comes from Traditional Chinese Medicine (a subject I happen to know a fair amount about because I studied it and I built the largest TCM information website out there in English: meandqi.com). Without going too deep in TCM theory, the belief is that cold/raw foods force your body to work harder for digestion, effectively taxing your system instead of nourishing it. Over time this weakens your digestive system, leading to what TCM calls "dampness" and "phlegm". Ironically, still according to TCM, dampness and phlegm are also the primary explanation for obesity. There's a classic saying: 肥人多痰 (féi rén duō tán) - "fat people have much phlegm." Excess weight in TCM is understood largely as accumulated dampness and phlegm that the Spleen was too weak to properly transform and clear. Now I'm obviously not saying that TCM believes eating salad makes you fat. It does however slow down, essentially, your metabolism - which is the root cause of weight gain. Quite the irony. What does modern science have to say on this matter? Is TCM correct that eating raw cold foods isn't that good for you, or are we in the West correct they're the healthiest foods out there? It may surprise you that science supports the TCM intuition on pretty much every count. And not in a small way: the scientific consensus is basically that one of the single most beneficial things that ever happened to our species nutrition-wise was to learn to cook food. Take the book "Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human" by Harvard biological anthropologist Richard Wrangham: he argues that cooking made food dramatically more digestible, allowing our ancestors to grow bigger brains and smaller guts - eventually becoming us. In other words, what science says is that the most important nutritional breakthrough in the history of our species was for us to stop eating the equivalent of salad. And there are plenty of detailed studies on individual ingredients that back this up. For instance Wrangham in his book demonstrated that cooked eggs are over 90% digestible, while raw eggs are only 50-60% digestible. Another very famous study is this one by Cornell University (pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.102…) on tomatoes that concludes that cooking them considerably increases their nutritional value (more antioxidants like lycopene) directly contradicting the notion that raw veggies is more nutritious (that's the actual conclusion of the study, that it goes "against the notion that processed fruits and vegetables have lower nutritional value than fresh produce"). Or take this 1995 study on the effect of cold drinks on digestion (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13…), published in Gut, one of the world's top gastroenterology journals: cold drinks at 4°C significantly suppressed stomach contractions and disrupted normal digestive motility compared to body-temperature drinks. So those Chinese grandmothers lecturing me at the airport? Science is actually on their side! Now to be fair there doesn't seem to be much research on the long-term effects of cold and raw food consumption on metabolism - i.e. TCM's claim that it builds "phlegm" and chronically slows your metabolism down, contributing to weight gain. But I wouldn't be surprised if that one was eventually validated too. Overall conclusion: next time you're virtuously eating a cold kale salad and notice a Chinese grandma looking at you disapprovingly, maybe put the fork down and ask her what she recommends instead.