Want to lose weight? Poverty can help!
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I hope I won't be remembered for this quote. I'll choose my phrasing better in the future.
Ok, this sounds valid. But what would oblige them to stop them from delivering weapons if the ICJ rules it is a genocide? Is there any legal obligation, can they denounce the ruling?
If you mean acknowledge in a sense of civilian/political acknowledgement, then my issue with it is that it shouldn't be necessary to be this anal about some definition. It's splitting hairs on cut off heads. Supporting mass murder is wrong in the context of genocide as well as outside of it. It shouldn't be necessary to convince the governments that it is a genocide to convince them to stop supplying weapons.
(Preface: I am team genocide. I also live in Germany. Germany's politics are a disgrace, but I digress.)
What annoys me about this is that this discussion gets so much media attention and focus, while it doesn't matter in this very moment. I understand that there are implications if it will be defined as a genocide. But right now people are being killed every day en masse and they frankly give a crap about whether they died in a mass murder or terrorist attack or a genocide.
It reminds me of the early days of the Ukraine war when everyone was so obsessed with comparing Putin to Hitler (Putler is still a popular term) and the discussion was high on whether Putins actions amount to fascism or not, with a lot of internet laymen but also experts on that subject chiming in. When I asked a half Russian, half Ukrainian what their opinion was, their reply was something like "who the fuck cares? Call it a chicken pea pie, nobody cares, people are being killed, I don't give a crap. Somewhen in the future people will be looking back and asking the same question, but it doesn't matter right now." And it stuck with me.
If I understand correctly, the ICJ will rule again on the case in a couple of years (?), which obviously isn't relevant right now. It seems like the ruling would have an aftermath in retrospect but even if they ruled it were a genocide today, nothing much would change directly - but please correct me if I am wrong here.
But what definitely doesn't matter is what we think. What matters is what is happening. And it doesn't need a name to be evil and detrimental.
That's... Not how concentrations work.
If you eat a spoon of coconut oil the stuff in it won't magically appear only in the places in your body that are infected, let alone somehow find the yeast cell and cover it in a nice toxic film, all while avoiding being digested in any way. You're thinking of some pre programmed, intelligent coconut oil or, well, science fiction indeed.
C. albicans had the highest susceptibility to coconut oil (100%), with a minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of 25% (1:4 dilution)
Unless you eat 1/4 of your body weight in coconut oil this seems to be very irrelevant to human health.
He is, in a very weird and awkward way. My favorite story is how he called home from a work trip (it was somewhen before the internet, late 90s/early 2000s) and just told me to put my mom on the phone because Gorbachev wants to say hi to her. I delivered the message, having no clue who that guy is but I guessed some former classmate, while my mom was losing it and totally froze on the phone. Turned out my dad randomly met Gorbachev at a restaurant, befriended him, got drunk with him (well, my dad doesn't drink, but the other guy), and then he was so eager to call my mother that they picked up the phone of the restaurant/bar in Russia and called Germany via landline. Both yelled their souls out on the phone, I'm not sure they would have needed a landline to reach us.
Years later they passed each other at the airport, my dad thought of saying hi, but assumed he wouldn't remember him. But Gorbachev turned around, yelled my dad's name, and hugged him.
My dad is really not a social guy and has no friends but business trips bring out a weird ass impressive side of him.
My dad still does this. He yells into the phone (on speaker) as if he was screaming for his life. He's a successful businessman whose sole job is to talk to people and somehow convince them to work together or win a project over. I don't know how he does this by yelling into his phone as if he was shouting at strangers to call an ambulance. He also has hardly any knowledge of English and his German really sucks, yet he mostly works with these two languages. I don't know how he makes it work. And he hates talking on the phone because it stresses him out. But somehow addressing the fact he is trying to make crocodile dundee hear him when he uses a phone doesn't seem to be the answer to his stress.
He grew up in a remote soviet village with like one phone for everyone. My guess is the connection back in the days sucked and he never adjusted.
As an example, being under this kind of chronic stress will very likely raise your cortisol levels, along with other hormones and neurotransmitters. Cortisol is great in the short term, but long term it suppresses the immune system, which means people are more susceptible to infection and diseases. It might even cause cancer defense to go down and make patients more likely to have worse treatment outcomes and be more likely to die from cancer (iirc from a lecture each day on average your body develops 6 new cancer cells. That means each day your body manages to identify and kill 6 cells that, if they don't get detected, would cause cancer. You gotta have a good immune system to catch those cells. But please don't quote me on that number, it was a random thing the prof said.)
Other reasons why being poor or a minority would lead to being sick are ofc food (cheap food is low in quality, for example it is usually low in fiber, which has been shown to reduce the risk of colon cancer or diverticulitis - and, obviously, obesity, diabetes, cholesterol and therelike). Being a minority also means that medication that works well for white males will work differently and therefore possibly worse on you. Most clinical studies in the past have been done on white males, and they have a different expression and/or different "versions" of certain enzymes that activate/deactivate drug compounds. (This problem also hits women who are often avoided in studies because of risk of pregnancy.)
Not just that but "stress" in biochemistry/biomedicine could fill entire semesters full of lectures. On a hormonal, neurological, cellular level - stress is freaking fascinating.
Sour cream can also be UHT, we have a lot of unrefrigerated sour cream in our stores
Nice, I thought alcohol wasn't in the cards for you. In that case: cheers! And good luck on your health journey.
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Weren't you the guy who didn't eat for half a year?
Bro you can drink port wine again?
Or, you know, fight to see the system change hopefully within your lifetime and provide a better future for the generations to come. Because they will come, no matter whether you personally have kids or not. Your procreation choices are entirely up to you.
Yes, you are not responsible that someone else fucked up. That masses of people fucked up. You are not responsible to clean up the mess it caused. But, you know, you can still help.
Yeah this post must come from uncultured (but likely very popular) teenage girls, probably sophomores.
Source: I am, as well, currently whelmed in Europe.
As long as you don't have roaches or other pests you're fine. It's clean enough. Sincerely, a fellow parent
What do they do? I've been thinking of getting a cleaning person but I just wonder how much they can do if they come once a week or every other week.
Like, I don't think I have cleaned the windows in the 3.5 years I've lived in my previous apartment. And I absolutely do not want to waste money on someone cleaning windows more than once a year. I have to clean the kitchen every day at least once because I cook a lot and it's a dirty mess and otherwise there is just no room to cook. I need the dishes, so the dishwasher is running once a day. I also have to at least sweep the kitchen floor once a day. The apartment floor is constantly dirty so I sweep here and there all the time too. It's not very tidy in here, but we have a toddler and even if everything was super tidy it would stay that way for 15 mins max. Also it would take me longer to explain where stuff goes (we do have a lot of stuff) than to put it away myself or just surrender to untidiness. I don't care if some vase or decoration has dust. I have a lot of laundry and no dryer so I cannot wait for a cleaner to come and do my laundry every other week.
So the only thing that is left that I can outsource is maybe the bathroom. But it then seems ridiculous to have a cleaning person come in to just clean the bathroom. (This is actually the room I enjoy cleaning the most, but I rarely get around to doing it.)
I remember detoxing from alcohol and I could not even stand the smell of food for days and weeks. I felt like it will always be like that and I would never be able to eat more than 3 spoons a day. It felt like I would never have problems with my weight again.
So my weight loss tip is to just become an alcoholic and then stop drinking alcohol, you'll lose a crapton of weight, problem solved!