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  • One would argue that obesity is tipping the scales on the side of American deaths.

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  • It never was, outside USA/NATO propaganda. I have been saying that since 2022.

    And I say that being someone who thinks that Putin is a crooked psychopath who should not be trusted. But also not the USA state or China and others. But I can be objective enough. Like American news say that North Korea is a serious threat and they have what? 2 or 3 dozen nukes at most and Russia has over 1000+ and they are joke? Nothing to worry there?

    All that was needed was to be realistic and a honest look at the assests in question nd on the board. So many Ukranians died for what was essentially an USA proxy war as a way to weaken Russia. They got used just for USA interests, just like the USA and Taiwan and Russia and Trasnistria.

    In the end, no super power likes to have another super power's ally that will be used for military bases at their border. Imagine if Mexico suddenly startedto get hyper chummy with Russia. Would they care, or maybe Cuba... Again.

  • Quite true. Found a photo of a young boy being ran over. It is terrible, looks unreal. Not sure if I should post it here, so see if you can search for it, it is a human pancake.

  • And soon... it will be 4.1%!

  • But we do need meat to survive. There are a number of nutrients we cannot get from plants. Including among them B12. Maybe fish then?

    Well let's fact check this:

    https://www.ars.usda.gov/news-events/news/research-news/2019/study-clarifies-us-beefs-resource-use-and-greenhouse-gas-emissions/

    "The seven regions' combined beef cattle production accounted for 3.3 percent of all U.S. GHG emissions (By comparison, transportation and electricity generation together made up 56 percent of the total in 2016 and agriculture in general 9 percent)"

    3.3% of total USA emissions? In what planet is less 3.3% huge? I would say that we need food over lots of others industries. Also, apparently if you feed cattle seaweed, it reduces emissions. At about 1/4 I have read between 1/5 to 1/3. Look it up, this article says 80%+ which seems too high.

    https://phys.org/news/2021-03-seaweed-supplements-livestock-methane-emissions.html

    Anyway, what about rich people, Bill Gates, Bezos, movie stars and politicians using private jets everywhere on a whim? How come that never really gets touched on or heaviy pushed in the news media? Which clearly use at least about the same or more per capita. What about something as wasteful as the cruise ship industry?

    How bad are cruise ships for the environment?

    https://theweek.com/environmental-news/1024392/how-the-cruise-industry-is-pivoting-to-sustainability

    Traditional diesel-powered cruise ships pump out massive quantities of toxic emissions, experts say. While the entire shipping industry emits "2.9% of globalcarbon dioxide emissions," cruise ships "produce more carbon dioxide annually on average than any other kind of ship due to their air conditioning, heated pools and other hotel amenities," The Associated Press reported, citing a study from the European Federation for Transport and Environment.

    It seems weird that people do not focus on this but on an actual food source. We do not need cruise ships and crazy private jets as mich as we need food. Not to say that Big corps are not assholes, big pharma, big oil, big sugar, all are, among others.

  • Best way, try to be as self-reliant, both as an individual and as a group/family/friends. So it helps to have the same mindset. Quality will always beat quantity in this regard. Not to mention will help make you more content. Ignore happiness, it is a short, fleeing feeling that marketers will exploit. Contentment lasts. Seek that. Worth noting my background was in Marketing before I walked away from it.

    So, minimize consumerism, keep it reasonable, ethical and try to grow or make most or at least part of your food. The more the better. Learning how to cook well is a good start. Highly limit social media in general.

    I stopped watching TV/cable over a decade ago. I am amused and minimally horrified at ads online and on TV these days. Social media is little different. I would rgue it us far more harmful to your psyche. Especially if you spend too much time on it or to younger minds.

    Use uBlock on FF derivatives and you will never see ads. That alone is very worth it, specially over time.

    Saving up can be done with things that have value, focus on real world assets. Never too early to start.

  • Also, YouTube is a removed to run, hardware wise, they must have farms upon farms of servers everywhere, on top of CND infrastructure. Do not envy their bandwidth bill. Few out there can or could compete, even if they wanted to.

  • No seed oils. No ultra processed food or drink, or to an utter minimum. I mean, I will always eat a pizza or a bag of chips or something at some point. So, it balances out. Little sugar, since it is already everywhere.

    Make everything at home, if possible.

  • Looking at the post at face value, and joke aside, it sounds that it was a one way conversation for 30+ minutes, non-stop.

    Esoteric knowledge can be interesting. A sure-sell selling point about you to a stranger on a first meeting it ain't.

    "Hi, how are you? ...Good? Great. Let me go on for 30min. on a topic you may care or not about and do so uninterrupted, and if you don't like it, I will make a quippy post online about it, okay? Like, for sure people will take my side. Win/win."

  • True. When it comes to knowledge about coelacanths, never settle.

  • What do you mean? Would a kid lie about their sex? Why mental health issues? Abuse? Clout? Trolling? What about if they are just confused? They would not become sex offenders or found guilty of anything for a honest mistake

  • Ironically, RoundCube is now owned by Nextcloud.