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sholomar replied to Peter Zemskov's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Create policies that help the majority afford to live rather than use gaslighting and psyops to enrich the ruling class. Basically you have to change human nature. As that takes evolution or genetic engineering, remember enlightened masters tend to preach radical acceptance, not getting caught up in world events... Its okay if it happens, its okay if it doesnt. -
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China's done some impressive things. Autocracy can work with the right leadership. Democracy can falter when you have the illusion of choice but both sides are mostly corrupt career politicians looking to pad their net worth and thus are mostly bought out by wealthy interests. I mean, it's human nature you'll never have perfection. Even at it's peak the US was making questionable moral decisions especially with foreign policy. You have to manage human nature the best you can and that includes all our genetic propensities that the greens and others shame people for having, but that's not going to change without genetic engineering. All stages below yellow like to moral shame other stages as if they can help being who they are programmed to be.
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Not everyone wants or has the capability to go into business for themselves or play the game to evade taxes, hide assets in trusts, by multiple properties, create multiple LLCs, and game the system for their own benefit. If jobs don't pay living wages just because they are low skill, we will never truly get above orange. We were making progress, then the pandemic hit and the price of houses suddenly doubled in 3 years, without the corresponding needed wage increases, pricing a growing number out of the system, nevermind the cost of living in other countries. Forget the fact that the average person doesn't spend their life pondering philosophical issues, and the limitations of our genetic makeup. Getting a society to push green will be an undertaking itself, especially on a global scale.
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Ceylon cinnamon is lower in Coumarin... don't consume tons of cassia cinnamon. There are also heavy metal concerns in some brands. Went through a cinnamon phase now just use it once in a while. Berberine can achieve some of the same effects more powerfully.
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Asking google Gemini to spell "big boobs" ... I mean that, or asking questions about autocracy, North Korea, modern monetary theory, and other geopolitical systems and forms of government to get the chat bot's perspective on the issues. Also general nutrition questions.
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Sounds healthy. A lot of people get too much steady state cardio. Really not a lot of volume is needed, but higher intensity with less volume is healthier in the long run. People tend to overthink exercise... we are brainwashed by the current exercise regimens and machines that we have by the fitness industry today... just lift heavy shit with good form and control the weight when you do it. Not rocket science. Bodyweight shit can be good enough for most people. A pull up bar can take care of quite a bit on it's own.
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Looking at the breakfast cereal aisle it's amazing that the vast majority of these were marketed as health foods. That said it's also added MSG that makes processed foods so addictive... think Sun Chips, Crackers, Hot Pockets, and the like. Starting to get a nice carotenoid glow from all the tomato paste and carrots consumed the last month. About ready to cook tonight's veggie heavy meal.
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sholomar replied to PurpleTree's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Most mammal species will take free handouts when they're give them... I find it amusing nobody's willing to acknowledge there was a US stock bubble and thinks it's normal to have 30% year over year gains in the market or that the stock market actually benefits the average working person when the cost of living in the US is among the highest ever under these asset bubbles. Not left or right, just watching the circus play out and watching human nature and chuckling at all this drama. The top and bottom suck from the middle, because that's human nature. Privatize the gains and socialize the losses. No matter what "side" you are on human nature doesn't change... we are often our own worse enemy, or our genetic makeup is. It's most amusing to me watching the older generation, the wealthy, and those with assets lose their marbles over an asset bubble that might be popping, at least for now. Welfare for the rich. Give it time and they'll do more quantitative easing, and bail out the hedge funds, unfortunately. -
I personally am enjoying the prospect of deflation. It's the last 4 years mostly that the middle class have gotten priced out of a good life, and it's mostly down to all the money printing, quantitative easing, and excessive government spending. All the valuation indicators suggest we are in a massive bubble, but everyone is stuck in this fairy tale, stocks are undervalued, ra ra let's keep pumping up the asset bubble mode. It's crazy to watch. Enjoying the show, regardless of the outcome. Some valuation metrics: https://www.multpl.com/shiller-pe https://www.multpl.com/s-p-500-price-to-sales https://yardeni.com/charts/margin-debt/ https://www.gurufocus.com/stock-market-valuations.php https://www.gurufocus.com/economic_indicators/150/sp-500-dividend-yield Literally every metric suggest massive bubble, like 2000 level or 1929 level valuations. In order to continue to current trajectory of stock market rise would require continued mass injection of liquidity into the system. Asset prices have far outperformed wage growth and the top 10% own 93% of the US stock market value as it is. Do you think this trickles down? https://mronline.org/2022/10/04/trickle-down-economics/ https://inequality.org/article/stock-ownership-concentration/
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It's a tax on people's addictive tendencies, similar to phone games like clash of clans that lure people in and get them spending hundreds of dollars. Do we ban things "for people's own good" or let them experiment and learn from their mistakes? I really don't know, LOL. Sometimes I wish there was more control over our nature exerted on us by the state, but can see myself or others rebelling at that control and then black markets form anyways. People only tell stories when they win. Unless you're card counting or doing table games with skill, statistically speaking the house always wins.
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sholomar replied to Something Funny's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
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Used as a form of control. See North Korea.
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I used to make kefir from kefir grains, but overall I find that probiotics don't really do that much either way. More useful is adding fiber to the diet, such as buying store bought greek yogurt and mixing milled flaxseed into it. The fiber, ALA, and Protein in the flax is more useful than the probiotics in the yogurt, which tend to not colonize the gut to any significant degree over time. They simply can't compete with the existing microbiome suited to the environment of our guts.
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Our populace is too well informed for a large segment of the populace to simply allow their children to be sent off to fight in another banker's war to enrich the corporate machine to defend one cokehead over another at this point. I'd encourage everyone to not allow their children to be drafted to defend Ukraine. Pointless war defending a nation that is little better than Russia run by a questionable individual who suspended the 2024 election to remain in power. Let's not forget it was their threatening to join NATO that encouraged Russia to start this war in the first place. There is blame to go around. Try to see things from the other person's perspective.... would we want a competitor nation installing a regime right on our doorstep?