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@amuse @Mr_Husky1 They’re cuckoo clock weights.

@Mr_Husky1 Weights for a grandfather clock...

Nope, not ornaments. My friend is going through the house where her grandma and aunt lived their whole lives and finding weird stuff. Apparently these are solid and very heavy; too heavy to hang on a tree. What are they

@grok @ideamage @SamaHoole What about pork lard?

Avocado oil is often recommended as the healthiest for deep frying due to its high smoke point (around 520°F) and stability from monounsaturated fats. Alternatives include ghee (clarified butter) or beef tallow for their heat resistance and lower oxidation. Refined olive oil works well too. Choose based on your diet—moderation is key.

1866: Cotton seeds are agricultural waste. After extracting cotton fiber, farmers are left with millions of tons of seeds containing oil that's toxic to humans. Gossypol, a natural pesticide in cotton, makes the oil inedible. The seeds are fed to cattle in small amounts or simply discarded. 1900: Procter & Gamble is making candles and soap. They need cheap fats. Animal fats work but they're expensive. Cotton seed oil is abundant and nearly worthless. If they could somehow make it edible, they'd have unlimited cheap raw material. The process they develop is brutal. Extract the oil using chemical solvents. Heat to extreme temperatures to neutralise gossypol. Hydrogenate with pressurised hydrogen gas to make it solid at room temperature. Deodorise chemically to remove the rancid smell. Bleach to remove the grey color. The result: Crisco. Crystallised cottonseed oil. Industrial textile waste transformed through chemical processing into something white and solid that looks like lard. They patent it in 1907, launch commercially in 1911. Now they have a problem. Nobody wants to eat industrial waste that's been chemically treated. Your grandmother cooks with lard and butter like humans have for thousands of years. Crisco needs to convince her that her traditional fats are deadly and this hydrogenated cotton-seed paste is better. The marketing campaign is genius. They distribute free cookbooks with recipes specifically designed for Crisco. They sponsor cooking demonstrations. They target Jewish communities advertising Crisco as kosher: neither meat nor dairy. They run magazine adverts suggesting that modern, scientific families use Crisco while backwards rural people use lard. But the real coup happens in 1948. The American Heart Association has $1,700 in their budget. They're a tiny organisation. Procter & Gamble donates $1.7 million. Suddenly the AHA has funding, influence, and a major corporate sponsor who manufactures vegetable oil. 1961: The AHA issues their first dietary guidelines. Avoid saturated fat from animals. Replace it with vegetable oils. Recommended oils: Crisco, Wesson, and other seed oils. The conflict is blatant. The organization issuing health advice is funded by the company that profits when people follow that advice. Nobody seems troubled by this. Newspapers report the guidelines as objective science. Doctors repeat them to patients. Government agencies adopt them into policy. Industrial cotton-seed oil, chemically extracted and hydrogenated, becomes "heart-healthy" while butter becomes "artery-clogging poison." 1980s: Researchers discover that trans fats, created by hydrogenation, directly cause heart disease. They raise LDL, lower HDL, promote inflammation, and increase heart attack risk more than any other dietary fat. Crisco, as originally formulated, is catastrophically unhealthy. This takes 70 years to officially acknowledge. Procter & Gamble's response: Quietly reformulate without admission of error. Remove hydrogenation, keep selling seed oils, never acknowledge that their "heart-healthy" product spent seven decades actively causing the disease it claimed to prevent. Modern seed oils remain. Soybean, canola, corn, safflower oils everywhere. Same chemical extraction process. Same high-temperature refining. Same oxidation problems. Just without hydrogenation so trans fats stay below regulatory thresholds. These oils oxidise rapidly when heated. They integrate into cell membranes where they create inflammatory signalling for months or years. They're rich in omega-6 fatty acids that promote inflammation. They've never existed in human diets at current consumption levels. But they're cheap. Profitable. And the food industry has spent a century convincing everyone they're healthy. The alternative, admitting that industrial textile waste shouldn't have been turned into food, would require acknowledging the last 110 years of dietary advice was fundamentally corrupted from the start. Your great-grandmother cooked with lard because that's what humans used for millennia. Then Procter & Gamble needed to sell soap alternatives and accidentally created the largest dietary change in human history. We traded animal fats that built civilisations for factory waste that causes disease. The soap company won. Your health lost.

@ClownWorld This should be outlawed. In the meantime, anyone know where I can pick one of these up?

This is beyond creepy. These masks should not exist

@heckyessica @MJTruthUltra What is this so hard for people to accept? If I lost my spouse and she had been working on some project, I’d be elated that it had continued success and growth after she was gone.

@MJTruthUltra I think Candace needs to move the fuck on from harassing the woman Charlie chose. You can be excited that your husband’s mission is so successful. He lost his life spreading that message, so joy that he is still spreading it makes complete sense.

Dear Lord, My heart has so many mixed feelings about this… Candace Owens released a Leaked Audio call with Erika Kirk enthusiastically talking about TPUSA Merchandise Sales and Donations skyrocketing just 11 days after her husband was assassinated “I think we’re at like 200,000 merch sales.. we hat 50,000 hat sales — we had 300,00 new donors.. that is a blessing in itself. My wife is sitting here listening with me and she too felt it was very odd to hear, but says every person has their own way of grieving. I’m just at a loss for words. I don’t know what to think, and obviously people on that call felt the same way. What do you think? Clip rumble.com/v74y7bi-erika-… Candace Full Show m.youtube.com/watch?v=A39g5o…

@MalcolmFlex Beck gotta Beck

Carson Beck waited for the most Carson Beck moment to make the most Carson Beck play of all time.

@HBTFD1 @HamDawg115 We could always hope!

BREAKING: Kirby Smart has found His next DC at the University of Georgia!

@EndWokeness Looks more like a vigil mourning Trumps 3rd term

BREAKING: Congressional Dems just held a candlelit vigil to honor the 5th January 6th anniversary

Yes, you knew it would happen! Venezuelans now doing the Trump YMCA dance! 🕺🎶🎶🎶🕺🎶🎶🎶🔥🇻🇪

@TheAmaterIcono @CollegeFBonX The game is in Athens 🙄

Which playoff team are you most confident in winning this week?

@CollegeFBonX Go Dawgs!

Whoever you stop on will make the college football national championship. Tell me who you got and who is winning

@Washin1L @ImMeme0 Burger > nothing

@ImMeme0 Yeeah fuck a burger or pizza party…..this ain’t elementary…….the owner made another billion off your back……here’s a burger good job keep it up 👍🏿

Amazon employee, unhappy with the food being served by the company, films himself grabbing what appear to be burgers and throwing them into a garbage bin. Thoughts?

"I'm never gonna sing that trash." Nolan McGill is an instant Georgia legend. No Rocky Top. All Dawg.

@uglytruck3r Structural and Civil Engineer here. The bridge and the pillar are fine.

Do we have any bridge experts on here? 😳

@mattgaetz @nypost Same! 😂

@nypost Just here for the ratio 😂

Disgraced ex-Rep. Matt Gaetz sports unbelievable jacket to Department of War briefing

@dom_lucre Well, women aren’t pastors so we can start there.

🔥🚨DEVELOPING: Prominent Pastors Hope and Ron Carpenter are goin viral after wishing everyone a happy Thanksgiving.

@Ken_FiveSolas You can watch the show AND read the Bible. They’re not mutually exclusive. It simply adds a little substance AROUND the stories in the Bible, not to the stories in the Bible. It helps you remember that the people portraying these biblical figures were human just like us.

My advice to everyone is not to watch The Chosen, forget that it exists, and continue to read your Bible.

@forestfrank I’m about to have a good day!

Good morning America 🇺🇲🙌🫶💛

When @mtgreenee does an interview with @TuckerCarlson in my guest bedroom. My mom is on it tonight! 💯