Tar_Alcaran

They absolutely exist in towns. If you go outside the more urban areas you’ll spot some.

No, it’s literally a sign in English saying “no foreigners”, or the slightly less confrontational “members only”. Those are usually the only sign in english.

It’s not quite as easy as “stop kissing corpses” though. It’s more like “don’t go near your loved ones as they slowly die in terrible pain”, which is very easy to say, but probably a LOT harder to do.

In the context of the article, I can only assume your point was “healthy food is expensive, that’s why people are obese”.

I don’t think it’s helpful to have a response like, “but have the poors tried eating less?”

No, my response was that obese people eating less will leave them with more money and less health issues. Eating canned/frozen vegetables is both less expensive and healthier than premade foods, and lasts longer so you can take fewer trips, saving more money.

Btw, kudos for deleting that other post! I’m glad you decided to actually read my post.

it’s nasty and bad for you.

Example number one. I agree it’s not as tasty as fresh, but often times the canned and frozen veggies have MORE vitamins and minerals than fresh, simply because the fresh one has had more time to break down.

most of it is loaded with sodium preservatives

You can just look at the labels and see that isn’t true. Hell, you don’t even need to get up, just check out Walmart brand canned or veggies online and look at the label.

and other chemicals.

Everything is a chemical. This is a meaningless propaganda phrase from the organic food playbook. You are literally proving my point.

is it better than not eating vegetables at all? sure

Uhhh yeah, if you can’t afford fresh vegetables, or its not available near you, eating frozen/jarred/canned is absolutely fine. It’s not bad for you in any way, and far superior to premade crap.

i was SHOCKED in college when I found out vegetables can taste good, instead of being disgusting mushy nastiness.

It’s nice to hear that you have the option of fresh fruits and veggies. I also take that for granted, but its important to remember many people don’t have that option. And they are just as susceptible to propaganda as you, so they don’t buy frozen or canned vegetables because it’s vaguely “bad for you” somehow in some undefined way. And they end up getting obese because they eat stuff that’s much worse.

We know that certain foods, particularly animal products, especially cheaper animal products, lead to cancers, heart disease, etc.

It’s very very difficult to get obese on a well balanced healthy diet composed of mostly vegetables.

But yet again we have yet another study uselessly pointing out a correlation which is unhelpful for actually solving public health issues

What do you mean? This is very helpful. It says that if you want to reduce cancer incidence, you should work to decrease obesity. If we only did science that produced direct results that require zero political action to be effective, no science would get done.

Besides, its not as if it’s a giant mystery what causes the obesity epidemic, it’s just that undoing that would mean some massive regulation in the food industry, changes to zoning, increases in public funding and a dozen other areas, and other things that aren’t a mystery, but are very politically unpopular.

continues to encourage the passing of the blame to those in society who have the least responsibility for their situation.

The paper absolutely does not say “Don’t want cancer? Don’t be a fatty!”. The article does do, but that’s not the fault of the researchers.

Their organs aren’t any bigger, except for maybe the steatotic liver

And the skin

Eating less 👏 always costs 👏 less than 👏 eating more.

Does this make the point more clearly? I think it looks pretty dumb, but you do you.

The organic food industry has done great damage to Western society by making people think you need to buy fresh organic food to eat healthy, when canned/jarred/frozen conventional food is absolutely fine as well, for a fraction of the cost.

Yes, you will need to spend some time preparing it, unlike fastfood. But it’s MUCH cheaper, less calorie dense and contains more micronutrients.

Might be because of translation?

It’s very hard to figure out a solution when you directly profit from workarounds

the curiously friendly relationship between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Why is that curious? I think it makes perfect sense.

I know zero pagans, Buddhists or atheists who would use that definition.

I don’t even know if anyone uses other than in a historical context when talking about the Roman Empire.

CJD can just… Randomly occur in people. It’s literally bad luck if a protein misfolds and then you suffer and die.

Kuru is like that.

Ask the vet you want to use to neuter him.

Seriously, don’t diagnose medical problems when you’re just some rando, ask a professional.

Honestly, International takes in the Netherlands are pretty much spot on. It’s mostly the expats living here who have crazy ideas.

The people shouting “it’s all gone” are wrong. But there is absolutely massive (self inflicted) damage done to the Russian economy that they won’t recover from in decades, if ever.

Russia is spending every last bit of Soviet Union legacy on this war, from military gear to population.

The question is how much more damage are they willing to take, and historically, the answer to that question has always been “I didn’t hear no bell”.

How would New York alone fund a war for 4 years and run a country and have an entire military. None of it makes sense to me how they are still fighting.

The glib answer is that Russia isn’t New York.

Russia can’t run out of money, they can just print more money. Unfortunately, that causes massive inflation, because you’re spreading the same amount of value over more coins, so each coin gets less value.

Russia was also very rich. They have absolutely massive oil and gas reserves, so they can sell products for cash, usually in dollars. And they’ve done that for decades. Sure, most of that money was private, but once the owner is found guilty of crimes against the state, its suddenly government money.

Russia also isn’t really one country. You should picture “Russia” as being Moscow and Saint Petersburg, and eeeeverything as their colonial holdings. All the money, political power and influence and resources are in the two cities, and everyone else is basically a pleasant.

Russia also used to be a lot stronger. The Soviet Union was much bigger and included all of Ukraine and more. During that time, they made an absolutely insane amount of weapons. There were literally multiple dozens of military bases that were just giant carparks full of tanks and guns. Many of those were made in Ukraine by Ukrainians.

That’s how Russia keeps going. They’re printing money to supplement their now empty Scrooge McDuck warehouse of money. They’re basically using destitute dirtfarmers as soldiers, using military equipment made during the cold war. And nobody important gives a shit because they barely consider them to be Russians anyway. And the people getting presses into the military have no idea what’s happening, because how could they?

Russia won’t run out of money, or tanks, or missiles. They’re just making more. They won’t run out of soldiers because it’s a huge country.

What will happen is that they run out of most things. And for a large part, that already happened. Advances have slowed hugely due to not having enough tanks and APCs. Logistics have broken down and they’re using horses in some places. Trained, professional soldiers have been rare for years already. They don’t even have radios so they’re using civilian stuff. But they won’t run out, they’ll just get less and less effective.

But an ineffective military of millions can still kill people.

The only way to fend off far-right parties is to elect governments that will actually take action to make people’s lives better.

Unfortunately, a LOT of people are just too stupid to realize what “better” is.

If you tax a millionaire 10 bucks, and give it to the poor, a large number of them will resent you for taxing “them” and paying “those lazy bastards”, despite you literally give them 10 bucks.

The US would already have been in recession if it wasn’t pumping hundreds of billions into the hugely unprofitable AI bubble.

This recent blockade at Hormuz is another move to pump the US economy, since the US produces a lot of oil, and is also selling at the very high market rate.

That regular people are paying for it is just annoying details.

Partly. But he also just realized that all his buddies sell oil at market rates, and market rates just skyrocketed. Every company producing oil in the US is making an absolute killing right now.