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  • Nick Fletcher, a Conservative member who represents part of Yorkshire, in northern England, called for a debate about “the international socialist concept” of 15-minute cities, which, he said, “would take away your personal freedoms.”

    Yeah right, like the freedom to have people, places and stuff u need out of reach.

    Nice read OP, thanks.

  • The organic grow book is probably the best book I 've come across. I tend to favor plants (and fungi) that I will somehow consume, so their health is my first concern. Both the information and the way it is presented in this book, especially if it is your first contact with it, is great. Here you can take a peak on the table of contents and intro of the book.

    It might not help you picking plants, but it will help you keeping them healthy and identifying issues. And much much more than that.

  • I can remember a time when I was a kid, that one of the most recent chicks got to feel so accustomed to my presence that it would follow me around when I was near and let me pet it. So it was easy for me to pick various insects and provide instant snacks, probably tastier than what the rest of the flock was getting. This is also how hen's teach little chicken (few days old) how to locate food when they are young. After it grew a little, when it spotted me, it used to behave like a dog does when you return home. It sprinted towards me, made silly (to my perception) noises and examined me tilting it's head. This picture reminded me of those sprints and made me smile.

  • Not sure why, but the previous one made me smile. When I think about it, I believe there's two reasons why.

    First, that the previous looked more like an actual insect. It clicked in my mind instantly as an insect and then I noticed all the cute details.

    Second, I think the angle was different. After being stung from bees a lot, some of them on the face, this angle makes me feel that it's about to land on me. The previous angle (if I remember correctly) made me feel like I was an observer of the insect going about it's life, whether wasp or bee, no feeling of threat.

    Not sure if I describe it properly, maybe just the usual old vs new and force of habit..

  • From the article..

    The country has recognised same-sex unions since 2015 but stops short of full marriage equality.

    &

    Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the Prime Minister of Greece, has promised to legalize same-sex marriage in a huge step forward for LGBTQ+ rights. “Same-sex marriage will happen at some point and it’s part of our strategy,” he said during an interview with Bloomberg Television in Athens on 4 July.

    But in reality, as @strangerloop@beehaw.org pointed out, in recent elections 12.76% of the voters went with far right (3 parties, one of them directly supported by convicted criminal party with many Nazis in their line-up) whose views on the subjects are clearly against.

    And, even though same-sex unions were recognized in 2015, when the relevant legislation was put into a vote, the party that is now in government (40.56% of the voters) voted against the same-sex unions (31 voted no / 18 voted yes / 27 were not present).

    So, even though this sounds like good news and I hope it is actually true, it looks more like part of their communication strategy on the media rather than part of an actual agenda for the future.

  • I’ve seen multiple times about “having to write an essay to be allowed in”

    I am not really active on any other nodes. I am new in the concept of federated lemmy instances and completely out of touch with mastodon or any other social media based on similar principles (I only check beehaw announcements in situations like yesterday), so I have not witnessed this (or maybe most of what @Gaywallet@beehaw.org refers to in the OP). But I felt conflicted in the opposite direction when I decided to sign up after having read the documents. After a couple of weeks of lurking and watching the application of what is described in the documents I actually wanted to write an essay in the sign up form and I tried quite hard to keep it short ("It will be read by a real person"). After more than 2 decades in various online communities and platforms, there simply are way too many reasons that justify what I was feeling. Which can simply be summarized as "I am really very happy I found this community".

  • True, but it isn’t just about fast or slow.

    This is true, as @shreddy_scientist@lemmy.ml pointed out it's all of it, both the kind and the volume over time. What I wanted to challenge with my comment is the misconception that many of the adaptations, which affect our metabolisms, triggered by physical exercise are no longer accessible when we get older. Which is not incorrect, but the degree to which I notice this belief being held to, usually is. Also, as far as exercise goes, strength or skill training might decline noticeably (depending on the level each one of us took advantage of our youth) with age, but endurance training, if done properly, will not, at least not significantly or very early. In the context of the original post and article that focuses on CVD, this is quite optimistic.

    If you examine proper running form it makes sense to see people in their fifties and sixties running good times on marathons and ultra-marathons. So it is a habit that can support quite good health conditions even later in life. Also, on the same note, another inspiring example from an endurance training perspective.

    But this is where my mind went when I read your sentence about habits sustaining a persons health, mostly because I tend to think that our bodies are designed to move quite a lot and food comes second to activity, to assist and support the adaptations and to fuel the movement. Your last examples make me think that you were referring to eating habits alone, so I probably misread your original comment, sorry :-)

  • Also, human metabolism changes with age, so the habits that have sustained your health for the past decade may not continue to work in the future.

    While this is certainly true, I feel the need to say here that the first time I looked at the contestants of an ultra-marathon event near me I was surprised to find that there were people well over their fifties participating. I mean, at least as far as this habit goes, their metabolism can't be very slow..

  • Lastly, one unique aspect of the study is the focus on only protective foods, i.e. a dietary pattern score that highlights what is missing from the food supply, especially in poorer world regions, but this does not negate the importance of limiting the consumption of harmful foods such as highly processed foods.

    For what it's worth they mention this at the section "strengths and limitations" near the end (bold is mine) and it's quite a long read.