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@feelsdesperate @FreeRealmGoblin That's because municipalities in Florida have to cover public costs that most states do. The spending is still there, it's just not visible in the *state* budget in particular.

@FreeRealmGoblin Because we don’t go along with a retarded leftist like this? One of the best things about Florida is its low budget and slim public sector.

I would rather drop $200 billion of gold bricks into the ocean than give it to teachers.

Went down the rabbit hole on this. A Nobel Prize-winning immunologist noticed in 1907 that Bulgarian peasants were living past 100 at unusually high rates. His explanation: they ate yogurt every day. His name was Élie Metchnikoff, and he ran the Pasteur Institute in Paris. His lecture made front-page news. Parisians lined up to buy Bulgarian curdled milk. Drugstores across Europe and the US started selling Lactobacilline tablets, basically the world’s first probiotics. But his original theory was partially wrong. The specific bacteria in yogurt (Lactobacillus bulgaricus) don’t actually survive in the human gut. A Yale researcher proved that in 1921. Should’ve been case closed. It wasn’t. In 2021, Stanford ran a clinical trial published in Cell with 36 healthy adults over 10 weeks. One group ate about 6 daily servings of fermented foods (yogurt, kefir, kimchi, kombucha). The other ate high-fiber foods. The fermented food group saw their gut bacterial diversity increase, which is one of the strongest predictors of overall health, and 19 inflammatory proteins in their blood dropped. Including interleukin-6, a protein tied to Type 2 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and chronic stress. The high-fiber group? Zero of those 19 proteins decreased. That same year, a Keio University and Broad Institute team studied 160 Japanese centenarians (average age: 107) and published in Nature. These centenarians had gut bacteria producing a bile acid called isoallolithocholic acid, basically a natural antibiotic so new to science it had never been described. It kills drug-resistant bacteria, including C. difficile, a gut infection that hits roughly 500,000 Americans a year. A 2023 Nature Aging study of 1,575 people in China, 297 of them centenarians, found the oldest participants had gut microbiomes that looked younger than people decades below them. More bacterial diversity, more beneficial species, fewer harmful ones. The yogurt meta-analysis data across 12 cohort studies: each additional daily serving is linked to 7% lower all-cause mortality and 14% lower risk of dying from heart disease. Metchnikoff called it 119 years ago. Fermented foods reshape your entire gut ecosystem, increasing the diversity of bacteria living in your intestines, lowering chronic inflammation, and building a biochemical environment where your body fights off disease on its own.

@AdleyLamarKing GMGM was not good

Did the capitals just suck ass at drafting before the Ovechkin era

@sleepy_devo @whooith The entire foundation of trans inclusion in sports rests on the concrete actions of both athletes and scientists, over the course of 20 years, making a dedicated effort to continuously search for ways to make their inclusion as fair as possible.

@whooith data i've seen says 5+, and i guess i hang out in more radical spaces than you because i've debated morons who actually think it's reasonable for untransitioned males to be competing against women on a professional level

No one thinks you should be able to jump into sports immediately.. who is feeding this bs to you? almost every trans person I know agrees that we should follow the proper channels, which almost always is 2 years on HRT which brings trans women more in line with cіs women, if not worse than cіs women. I didn't take you for an idiot but you have proven me wrong. also using 4tran language like gigahon? "im not transphobic" lmao shove off.

@admcrlsn And moreover, the fact that people ever felt the need to constantly project a much higher degree of consensus speaks to this being very sensitive to swings in public support.

@admcrlsn What this says to me is that all of the pervasive talk about "80-20 issues" over the last few years isn't true and there's still a real reason for these issues still existing in some form of contention.

Searchlight did an extraordinary job with this polling. This is not an easy issue to test, and this is an excellent resource for candidates and the public. I was deeply saddened by a lot of the results. But harsh truths are still truths. It’s critical to know where the American public is at on these things so we can figure out the best path forward on codifying protections on anti-discrimination/safety, persuading the public, and determining the most effective strategic path forward in advancing the cause of trans rights.

Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild. A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten room-size air conditioners running 20 hours a day. One tree on the west side of a house cuts energy bills by 12 percent within 15 years. The bottom photo is worth more, costs less to live in, and sells faster. This has been documented by the University of Washington, Clemson, Michigan State, and the USDA. The data is not in dispute. Removing those trees saves the builder roughly $5,000 per lot. Concrete trucks need twice the dripline radius of every standing tree. Utility trenches need flat ground. A bulldozer flattens 200 lots in an afternoon. Preserving trees adds weeks and thousands per home. So the developer pockets $5,000 in savings and the buyer eats $50,000 in lost value for the next two decades. The person making the decision and the person paying for it have never been in the same room. The Woodlands, Texas is the proof of what happens when they are. George Mitchell bought 28,000 acres of Houston timberland in 1974 and preserved 28% as permanent green space. He forced McDonald's to build behind the tree canopy. That McDonald's became one of the highest-volume locations in Texas. The first office building, designed to reflect the surrounding forest so you couldn't see it from the street, leased completely. The Woodlands median home price today: $615,000. Katy, a comparable Houston suburb that clear-cut: $375,000. Named #1 community to live in America two years running. Fifty years of data. The trees are worth more than removing them saves. Developers clear-cut anyway because they sell the house once and leave. You live in it for 30 years.

@TylerCWhitmore Parasite or Moonlight

If the last 10 Best Picture winners were all nominated in the same year, who would get your vote?

@Cor01965 @ohbricki There are over 100x more trans people than there are ICE agents

Claims that transgender-inclusive bathroom policies increase crime have fueled years of legislation, but research consistently shows no link between inclusion and safety risks. Instead, transgender people face higher rates of harassment and violence in public spaces. This article breaks down the data, exposes common myths, and explains how fear-based narratives continue shaping policies that do not reflect reality.

@Capitals We shall call him "4-piece"

Where were you when Cole Hutson scored his first career goal in his NHL debut during the McNugget Minute at Capital One Arena

@MishKonn @NornQueenKya @iloveairbagged Not to any significant degree, no, and definitely nowhere even close to what that image shows.

@TheNot @NornQueenKya @iloveairbagged I played the game. She was pretty uglified for the second one.

NVIDIA presents DLSS 5

"crypto and tulip farming" is a very funny bit

@NateSilver538 @RubenGallego One of the saddest experiences of my life...

@RubenGallego Have you ever had the misfortune of trying the Mexican food in Germany

How hot could it be? It’s Mexican food in New York City.

@MishKonn @NornQueenKya @iloveairbagged You know that the image of Aloy on the left was edited to make her look worse and wasn't in the game, right?

@NornQueenKya @iloveairbagged Hate to break it to you but if DLSS 5 removes feminist bullshit like “challenging beauty standards” (which Aloy is 100% a victim of), give me it.

@HistoryBoomer People are awful at judging pretty much anything that isn't directly happening in their own lives, and even then it's not amazing. The vast majority of general public understanding of current events and socio-political trends is just propaganda of some form.

Every year for over twenty years (until last year) a majority of people have said that crime is worse than it was a year ago. This while crime has been steadily falling (until the 2020-22 spike). People are awful at judging how bad crime is.

@bohumilo @avidseries Yes there is a relationship, in the sense that when real crime is lower a greater amount of crime fear porn is necessary to maintain the desired degree of fear needed for public manipulation.

@avidseries But don’t you think there might be a relationship between the “crime fear porn that dominates right-wing Twitter” and the fall in crime?

In 2024, the US murder rate was among the lowest it's been since the late 1960s, the property crime rate was the second lowest it's been since 1960, and all types of serious crime but rape were much lower than they were in the 80s. But crime fear porn dominates rightwing Twitter.

@determinatus @padaddlel @sleepy_devo No, but they've certainly been making up the majority of the oil imports for a long time. The fact that catastrophic collapse came quickly after cutting off the majority of oil imports would point to that being the key point of dependency.

@TheNot @padaddlel @sleepy_devo Do you think Venezuela has been their only trade partner since the embargo or

"cuba is just as advanced as america and shows socialism can work" mfers on suicide watch

@AndyMasley The point is to be thinking "it's really easy to use cool things to justify terrible things, isn't it?"

Yeah I apologize for thinking Paul Atreides was cool. I know the whole book is about how messianic leaders are bad. When he nuked a mountain and rode a worm through, I should've been shaking my head the whole time saying "Not cool, not cool at all"

@determinatus @padaddlel @sleepy_devo OK, but if they're dependent on another communist nation then how were they entirely dependent on capitalism?

@TheNot @padaddlel @sleepy_devo Yes, and those oil shipments had been dwindling since the mid 2010s as Venezuela’s oil industry deteriorated (partially due to sanctions, mostly due to mismanagement and underinvestment). They didn’t just suddenly stop getting tons of oil this year, it’s been dropping for years.

@determinatus @padaddlel @sleepy_devo Haven't they been getting their oil from fellow socialist country Venezuela?

@padaddlel @sleepy_devo >be socialist nation >be entirely dependent on capitalism Many such cases