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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.

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.

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.

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/

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.

Used as a form of control. See North Korea.

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.

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?

Having a well fed and stable populace means more consumption and carbon emissions but overall cleaner rivers and overall landscape as you climb the spiral dynamics ladder and fulfill maslow's hierarchy you're more likely to become altruistic and want to work on causes like cleaning up the planet rather than focusing on survival. From this comes increased technological innovation which will eventually tackle the carbon problem and the whole situation is eventually resolved. It won't get resolved if humanity is stuck in survival mode, which it will be if a large segment of the population are surviving on little. There's a difference between being lower class and being in poverty though, or having a culture that is a cesspool of pollution, such as India, Bangladesh, or Pakistan. Having a stable middle class is key.

Sound like the place I should be living. I get tired of the excesses of the US and people spending recklessly and then getting a bail out from the perpetual money printer. I'm a boring person though. I can see the disadvantages of this overly fiscally conservative mindset and risk aversion though.

Too much screen time is the plague of so many human beings, but we are addicted like a drug.

There's no logic in continuing to funnel hundreds of billions of dollars to "defend Ukraine" when Russia is a nuclear state and has a rather large stockpile. Better to try to come to some sort of deal, even if it means some land concessions, to end the fighting and conflict. People think Putin/Russia plan to invade other countries and take over Europe, which is silly. They're not going to do that. Putin shouldn't have started the war, but he needs some sort of deal to "save face" ... should he be punished for starting the war? The question is not should he be, it's whether you think you can do it with his nuclear stockpile. How do we achieve peace without a dragged out war that goes another 5 years and ultimately leads to Putin using nukes when he runs out of troops and we've ended up destroying how many more cities and cost how many more lives?

Best video I've ever seen just about about what makes her obsessed, or at least what they look for, something an autist who likes it blunt rather than all the mysterious bullshit advice you get from most people will be able to digest.