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@nairndavid_ You were a slave?

2021 vs 2026 Atheist Christian Eating junk Eating clean No training Training hard Pleasure Purpose Slave Free Never felt this good in my whole life. Thank you Jesus.

@FanSince09 Why do you assume it’s horrifying to him? He seems pretty happy to be scuba diving in the Bahamas

Imagine like you live with a giant who you cannot communicate at all with. The giant will feed you and see to your basic needs in exchange for occasionally subjecting to horrors beyond anything your brain can even begin to comprehend.

@shubhampatilsd The other direction is much nicer, get to be on the sea side of the road

this friday, i biked 137 miles from san diego to north los angeles on a $80 bike i bought off craigslist no prior training or prep. my best use of free will so far

@Mid30sManhattan @dealwhoredan Ah yeah soho jazz brunch vs Mass, close enough!

Tried to go to Easter mass but they ran out of seats and standing room Next best thing: soho house brunch with a jazz quartet The libs have lost. Being WASPy is cool again

@_glorianas Because they can

flat earthers are so funny man "they're lying about the shape of the earth" okay why?

@yearncel If you’re not deficient you probably won’t notice a difference

Maybe it’s just me but over the years i’ve never felt an ounce of difference from any kind of supplement combination I can buy directly on amazon. All just seems like cope

The Talmud basically says “yeah nothing supernatural in our religion worked anymore after Jesus died for some reason” and then Jews still deny Christ’s divinity.

@EMichaelJones1 I don’t think we need to get upset that we weren’t invited to the Protestant service we weren’t going to go to anyway

Catholics should take the hint and leave.

@BrickFrog__ @Wtfveth @SlumRNA_Dog @Koalalogic741 Liberals are simply too educated to enjoy the kids cartoon movie. Sad!

@Wtfveth @SlumRNA_Dog @Koalalogic741 I like these movies. I’m just playing devil’s advocate. Also, let’s not act like ALL children’s movies are JUST for children. Many of them are rife with social commentary, especially Ghibli and Pixar movies. Don’t be so fucking obtuse.

Conservatives actually have children, so we got to delight in their giggles at the childish jokes and Easter eggs while progressives hate it because none of the characters trooned out

I think I speak for all of us when I say it would be so much better for politicians to say absolutely nothing than make these mealy mouthed mamby pamby vague PC nothing statements.

@upstatefederlst No test, keep em all out

What test will you apply at the airport to determine if she is pregnant or just fat?

If a foreign diplomat gives birth in New York, the child is not a US citizen. But if the diplomat illegally sneaks into the country and THEN gives birth, bingo! US citizenship! That’s how dumb our current interpretation of the 14th Amendment is.

Yeah, I got a six pack... of beer!

Paul, this is a strawman. The steelman argument is: A little added sugar to an otherwise nutrient-dense diet is benign, even helpful. The argument is not that everyone needs to eat the Standard American Diet, or mostly processed foods. Are you really going to pretend that honey is so much more nutrient-dense? There are plenty of traditional cultures that consume large amounts of white rice as a staple and remain healthy (parts of Japan, other Asian populations historically). Are we going to pretend white rice is so superior to white sugar? Nutritionally, they’re extremely similar: both are refined carbs providing mostly empty calories with minimal vitamins/minerals/protein/fiber. Glycemic index almost identical. The studies you cited are not convincing. “Sugar bad” PMID 32397233: This is an editorial, not original data. It notes that high sugar intake (in the context of a Western diet) can shift microbiota toward more Proteobacteria and less Bacteroidetes, potentially increasing inflammation and metabolic endotoxemia. It’s a general observation about poor diets overall. There’s no specific dose, no human trial, no mention of “a little added sugar” in an otherwise healthy diet. PMID 34201938: A narrative review. It focuses on excessive/chronic high-fructose intake causing dysbiosis, LPS leakage, and inflammation. But again, it’s about overconsumption, not moderate amounts in a nutrient-dense meal. Also, you really shouldn’t cite this when you advocate for eating plenty of high-fructose fruits. “Fruit and honey good” PMID 38906893: This one is a small human crossover trial (n=19). They gave 500 mL of either a plain sugar-sweetened placebo or diluted cloudy apple juice (iso-caloric and iso-sweet). The sugar drink spiked post-meal endotoxemia and TLR2 ligands; the apple juice did not. Cool finding—suggests the fruit matrix (polyphenols, etc.) can blunt the effect. But this is acute (one meal), specific to apple juice, and doesn’t address whole fruit, honey, or long-term use. PMID 35967810: A review of in-vitro, animal, and small pilot human studies. It highlights honey’s oligosaccharides as potential prebiotics that can reduce pathogens and boost good bacteria. Promising for gut health, but again, not a head-to-head trial vs. “naked sugar,” and mostly preclinical. Studies linking sugar to problems are confounded by poor overall lifestyles. There are virtually no high-quality RCTs on moderate added sugar in already-healthy, active people or athletes. Context and total diet matter far more. Just like you argued in The Carnivore Code for red meat: epidemiological studies that suggest sugar is bad come down to Healthy User Bias. Red meat eaters often ignore other standard health advice because they already believe what they’re doing is bad for them. So they’re also more likely to smoke, eat fast food, ride motorcycles, whatever the case may be. The same applies to added sugar. It’s a given that “sugar is bad.” But this is intellectually lazy without context. Sugar gets broken down the same as any other carbohydrate. Same citric acid cycle, same electron transport chain. Only thing lacking is the nutrients. That can be provided elsewhere quite easily. Is something so benign in moderation really worth demonizing when it’s consumed in the right contexts? Do you really believe that homemade organic raw milk ice cream would suffer so much by having white sugar added in place of honey?

Low resting heart rate is linked to increased rates of violent crime

@Deezus_Walks Bad takes on Cars 1, brother bear, treasure island, 101 Dalmatians, and potentially bugs life, finding Nemo, and cars 2 But over all good list

I have finished watching ALL 90+ theatrically released Disney+Pixar movies and this is the ordered tier list

@tautologer We didn’t have screw drivers or water bottles yet so there was no selection pressure

do we know why we didn't evolve something like this? dexterity seems useful and this doesn't seem higher energy cost. mechanisms too complex/fragile maybe? diminishing returns to increased dexterity in ancestral environment? x.com/Rattapoom_K/st…

Maybe some people were nicer about it than others, but I think everyone was making this same point to you for years: “and I had to start weighing the feasibility of my ambitions here more seriously out of a duty to our daughter. Does she deserve to grow up in a place that is collapsing? What is her future like here?”

I think some clarification is in order here: 1. I grew up in rural Upstate NY 2. I left for over a decade 3. Every time I came back home, it broke my heart to see how this place is declining -- yet the land is so beautiful and the houses are cheap. 4. I came back, not with any illusions about the culture here. I figured that maybe I could help make it better, and if nothing else, I could live cheap for a while after I got out of the military. 5. Within 6 months of leaving the military, I blew up online and wound up accidentally launching into a successful online writing career. It was totally unexpected. 6. On the fly, I tried to use my newfound online reach to attract people here, to promote this place, to try to publicly reflect on ways to improve not just Upstate NY but all of rural America. Some of my ideas were controversial, but the thrust was always oriented towards making my pocket of rural America thrive again. 7. Three years or so into that, we had a baby, and I had to start weighing the feasibility of my ambitions here more seriously out of a duty to our daughter. Does she deserve to grow up in a place that is collapsing? What is her future like here? Some of the more cynical commentators say that any negative experience I have here is me "reaping what I sowed." Some even revel in it as a form of "punishment" for my unspeakable crime: reminding American youth that rural America exists, and that maybe they could make a life for themselves here very cheaply, if they liked. But what I was actually trying to "sow" was a rebirth of my own homeland. It just didn't sit well with me that the place I grew up was just supposed to die and be abandoned, so I thought I'd try making it better. Why not try? I genuinely figured that since so many people are mad about high housing costs, and since remote work exists, maybe we could leverage the ultra-cheap housing here in deep rural Upstate NY to start up a kind of Renaissance. Seemed like maybe it could've worked out for everybody! Cheap housing for folks from unaffordable places, new life in towns that are literally about to become ghost towns, locals get to see their towns avoid total collapse, Churches filling pews again, etc. But I learned it's not quite that simple. Many of the problems here appear to be totally intractable. I found that the property tax situation is worse than I'd thought. And the locals may complain about decline here, but they also don't really want to see a Renaissance either. Meanwhile, though the general public may complain about housing, but they don't want cheap housing badly enough to move to a place like this. To be fair, Albany makes all of this worse than it has to be. But even if the NYS capital started making genuinely good legislation, you can't use policy to force a stagnant, parochial culture into being anything else. And you can't force the wider public to brave long winters, ceaseless overcast, and to take a risk on trying out a place on the far margins of the American mainstream just for cheap housing. So it goes. At this point, I'm simply glad to have tried it out. I did exactly what the "localist" types say to do: I came home. I tried to make it better. I sang the song of my homeland. I did this for about three years, and at the end of it, I've got enough equity to recoup 100% of my housing costs from while I was here. If I walk away, I can do so knowing I tried. I'm not one of those who left with his nose upturned at where he came from. From here, who knows. Maybe I do strick around, albeit without any pretensions of "solving the problem" here. Or maybe we head out to the Southwest, which has always felt more like home to me anyway. Hard to say. Big thanks to those of you who see this and have come along for the ride.

@WomanDefiner Someone put a bunch of graffiti on the Statue of Liberty!

The statue of liberty is getting bigger.