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There's nothing wrong with seed oils as long as they aren't rancid. Of them, canola has the best nutritional profile. I don't eat a ton of them but I don't fear them. There aren't actually many if any peer reviewed studies or meta analyses showing the supposed "inflammation" these seed oils cause. More likely cause of systematic inflammation is combining excessive fats and carbs together with a calorie surplus. Being fat itself causes most of the problems. Fats cause an insulin resistance effect on the body when combined with excessive carbs can lead to glucose spikes. People in western nations overeat, stuff like eating entire pizzas. Most established first world government health institutions such as the american heart association say seed oils are fine in moderation, because they are. If you want to be able to feed 8 billion people you can't feed them all on local whole food diets. You need preservatives and mass food production to efficiently produce food... that means lots of grains and seed oils as your base, and that's fine if people don't overeat. This obsession with "ultraprocessed" and "genetically engineered" foods is overblown in my opinion. They can be made healthy if done properly. I find most youtube content is sensationalized and designed to appeal to a niche audience. Most content creators are trying to monetize their efforts by catering to the algorithm. That's fine, but it tends to create echo chamber thinking and subreddit type cult movements. The vegans and carnivore types are the most obnoxious of them all... create an extreme diet and try to peddle it to the masses and force adoption.

I heard an ad for Trump shoes yesterday. Yes I already voted for him but the stuff he's selling is so cringe worthy, lol. It's humorous that people would actually buy this stuff. Makes me wish democrats didn't go out of their way to bring in as many migrants and print as much money as possible, because I really want a viable progressive or third party to vote for. Look at this stuff, lol... https://gettrumpsneakers.com/

The history of our species is filled with conquest and slavery. It's almost like it might be wired into our genetic makeup and maybe tribes have been warring with each other for territory for tens of thousands of years or more. Before the Europeans came along, Indian tribes in NA would fight one another. It was easier back before the era of mass information to propgandize and brainwash citizenry to try to justify wars and the best way to do that is to demonize entire nations/tribes/cultures or simply tell young solders that they fight or they die. There was tremendous peer pressure to not go outside the herd thinking because of our biological wiring. A person is only capable of knowing and acting for the most part in the way their culture raises and tells them to act until enough people in unison decide to rebel. Back when there were competing species of hominids around at the same time and homo sapiens won out, why do you think the others went extinct? I'm just pointing out that evolution is savage, and none of this stuff should really surprise anyone who's studied biology, natural selection, or the history of our species. Rather than obsessing on what we did in the past, we should focus on trying to do better in the future. Although maybe people need to look more at the past, because we always focus on small aspects of our nature to politicize a certain agenda, like "white man bad" because he enslaved blacks. More of the divide and conquer stuff. Human nature is true among our entire species, not specific ethic groups. Look back far enough in time and Romans were enslaving Vikings, etc. Yes, it's true Israel was created through the migration of jews at Britain's blessing in the early 1900's via a document known as the balfour declaration. Britain controlled a lot of territory outside it's home turf during their peak, and often didn't treat the natives that well. Australia has a rather unfortunate history with their natives that some probably already know. There are conspiracies that Hitler was actually making secret deals with zionist jews who wanted to get jews to migrate to Israel. This was known as the Haavara Agreement. There's quite a bit of fine details around that time period that don't often get brought up in historical context. History is written by the victors. "Ethnic cleansing" is par for the course for our species, that is to say, all the men on the losing side of the war, as the invaders take the women for themselves and the children get indoctrinated and assimilated into the new invading regime's cultural norms or eliminated.

https://www.isidewith.com/profile/5279637183/ballot/2024-presidential Sounds about right for me. I'm neither right nor left. I like to vote for the underdogs just to keep power balanced because I don't believe in large groups or organizations having too much power due to human nature,so I voted Trump. If they weren't letting in migrants at obscene levels and ballooning up the national debt with no sign they plan to slow any of these two policies, I might consider voting for democrats. There's just too many things about their behavior that lead me to believe they are actually the threat to democracy they blame the right for being. That said, any significantly large or powerful group or person can be a threat if they gain enough power, because of human nature. Everyone thinks they have the ideal vision of how a society should be and wants to try to force everyone else to live the way their utopian ideals present themselves out being... nonsense. The best we can hope for is gridlock to keep these people who want to force their vision on everyone else in check. I did find that both Vance and Walz were much more competent in their debate than either Trump or Harris was. Go figure. In any case...

I tend to think human nature itself will prevent any sort of utopian system from being long term sustainable. Our genetic makeup is simply too primitive yet, filled with a lot of evolutionary drives that are straight out of our past primitive nature... we are only 100ish years into having electricity... not enough time for long term changes to the genetic makeup absent genetic engineering. The best we can hope for is a system that works well for most and keeps us progressing as a species technologically and socially in a gradual manner. In a perfect system we allow people healthy amounts of personal freedom, freedom of expression, and the ability to question their reality and the system in which they are participating. Of course the big philosophical question is how much freedom do we give people? It could be argued they need to be told what to do, for their own good. That order versus chaos argument will always be the ones that pushes cultural movements going forward. Will our future be a dystopian nanny state where questioning the status quo is not allowed? There are those who believe that should be the case if it's the system THEY happen to agree with. If you ask me, this is dangerous thinking. What is the perfect system? Nobody really knows. I prefer to not be part of large numbers of individuals who join groups, especially large ones, whether it's religions, political parties, or whatever, who support causes or belief systems they wish to impose upon everyone else "for their own good." I'd rather be the outsider, analyzing these groups from an outsider perspective. I guess it's my inner Aspie/Autist.

Quite frankly men need sex to stay relatively psychologically stable and there's a growing number of men who lack the interpersonal skills to date women whether due to being on the spectrum or not being socially well adjusted. Society likes to shame these men when it's really not their fault, not really. Plus modern women are much more choosy these days because they no longer "need" men and many would rather be single than be in a relationship with a guy who's boring or socially underdeveloped, and plenty of us men are pretty boring. Having legal prostitution would fill a marketplace demand that would help keep men more stable in the end. Personally I find it fascinating that many on the extreme left have more in common with the religious right in their value systems. In reality the value systems are fairly compatible in pure theory, leaving their followers out of the mix. Neither side wants prostitution? They want the right to choose and have their freedoms but only on certain pet issues... on issues they don't approve of suddenly they are all for "banning" and "heavily regulating" ... not totally unexpected.

As long as people aren't forced or trafficked I'm fine with it. The whole social stigma around sex is largely due to cultural/religious creation combined with the fact there are transmitted diseases. If you can do a check for these diseases and certify the cleanliness of the situation why not? Thing is, just like with regular workers, the woman will do all the work and the corporation she's working for will take the lion's share of the profit, just like with every other corporation out there. Look at our closest genetic ancestors the bonobos they engage in sex as a form of greeting with one another. There basically is prostitution these days, it's called Tinder. Do I think people should be sneaking around on their spouses? No, I would rather not associate with liars, but unfortunately it's going to happen, it's wired into our DNA to behave this way. Better to accept our flaws and be candid about how we will behave the suppress and repress our natural urges. We should definitely be shaming liars though as a way to get them to change their behavior.

I'm a moderate. I don't visit here that much because I believe most people's leftist beliefs here are rather disconnected from reality. Personal development is supposed to be about waking up from the dream, in my opinion. I think the one thing neurotypicals do right is simply live their lives without worrying about politics or taking it too seriously. Of course they love drama and love to judge as much as us neurodivergents who frequent internet forums. Everyone wants to tell everyone else what to do, how to live, this and that. The drama of life. I mostly believe in individual self determination, no overbearing nanny state governments micromanaging everything excessively. Without bias here, I have to say Trump did terribly. She baited him. He took it. If he loses, it's his base's fault for nominating him, and his fault for not stepping back and letting someone else run. He's clearly a narcissist, but they mostly all are in the political space. Most average people trek on in spite of, and not because of, the people in charge in their respective countries. Power attracts those who seek it... our genetic makeup is not yet suited for a stage green+ utopia where we leave our evolutionary drives behind... our species hasn't evolved enough or been subject to genetic engineering. Regardless, it seems like more and more the republican party is the party of old angry white men shaking their fist at the sky that society is not the way "it used to be" .... if they aren't willing to adapt and grow with the times they will lose their relevancy which would be bad, because one party rule typically doesn't end well. I prefer gridlock. I look at both these candidates and say to myself "this is the best they could do? Really?" Chuckle.

He's never been a good debater but in my opinion she is winning the debate. I mean, I wish the right had a different candidate but I'm stuck with him, lol. I don't think he'll be able to salvage it. I suspected he'd go off the rails eventually. Ah well. I'm not that invested in this election.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. I don't personally trust human nature because I believe history repeats, and no it's not different this time. The crying call of the dictator is the belief that people are too stupid to make their own decisions, so central authority should make it for them. As an example... Between 160,000,000 to 200,000,000 people have been killed by totalitarian governments around the world. Some estimates are as high as 262,000,000. There is a correlation between mass murders and gun confiscation imposed by governments who knew that the only way they could continue to control their people and stay in power was by disarming them. And now anti-gun politicians, academics, news pundits, and uninformed people want our leaders to have the same ability to rule unopposed by disarming our citizens. Vladimir Lenin referred to them as “useful idiots”. A useful idiot describes a person who, through manipulation or not, is useful to a political cause that is not their own despite not fully realizing their role.” This makes them unwitting and useful pawns of propagandist. Examples of governments killing disarmed citizens is a very powerful rationale for the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. Our Founding Fathers knew what could happen if a government disarmed it's citizens. The Ottoman Empire in current-day Turkey achieved full gun confiscation in 1911. Between 1915 and 1917 approximately 1.5 million Armenians out of a total of 2.5 million were murdered by their government. This mass murder has become known as the Armenian Holocaust. There are reports that discuss the formation of “Butcher Battalions” composed mostly of violent criminals released from prison to kill the Armenian people. Armenians who were part of the Ottoman military and discharged were disarmed, placed into labor battalions and killed. Soviet citizens were allowed to have firearms until 1929 when private gun ownership was abolished. The regime of Joseph Stalin emerged at the same time that firearm ownership was outlawed. Tens of millions of Soviet dissidents and others perceived as threats to the government were rounded up and either murdered or placed in labor camps or prisons and forced to work, usually to their deaths. Stalin’s indifference for life eventually led to the purging of the Communist Party at the same time a total gun ban was instituted. Stalin once said during the purge “If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.” Sound familiar? Representative Eric Swalwell said something similar during the 2020 presidential race. He said: “If Americans fight against gun confiscation, Feds can nuke them.” How about Joe Biden's statement of warning Americans who support the Second Amendment they would “need an F-15 to take on the government". Another mass murderer of the 20th century was China’s Mao Zedong. In 1935 the Chinese government established gun control. According to the Black Book of Communism, an estimated 65 million Chinese people died as a result of Mao’s repeated attempts to create a “socialist” China. The Chinese people were killed by execution, imprisonment or forced famine. Mao Zedong famously said on at least two occasions in speeches “Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” Presumably that truth applied to gaining power by killing innocent people. In 1938 Nazi Germany under the leadership of Adolf Hitler instituted gun control about the same time he ordered the extermination of Jewish men, women, and children. Which resulted in the death of approximately 13 million people. Cambodia issued its total gun control edict in 1956, but the real problems did not begin until several years later during the regime of the Pol Pot. Between 1975 and 1977, his regime murdered as many as 1 million people in killing fields. The facts could no be any more clear when it comes to gun control and confiscation. The question is whether you trust human nature or not? I trust nobody.

I think it's a matter of having underdeveloped playful skills. People who are serious all the time because of lack of socialization in childhood, perhaps from being neurodivergent or autistic, but perhaps just not having many friends or parents that taught one how to "play" and instead defensive reactions were produced so the banter that normal people find stimulating just isn't there in some of us. Even on this forum (and most forums actually) the difference in people who are there to debate and intellectualize and those who are there to be playful and banter is fairly evident. Some are skilled at banter, some aren't. It's hard to change hardwired programming from childhood to large degrees, though it can be done, though the older people get the more set in their ways they tend to be. I sometimes worry when interacting with co-workers that I'm somehow "infecting" them with my too serious demeanor. I'm not mean, I'm just not playful. I encourage them to get their playful banter from others. In truth I enjoy my solitude, though I can feel the genetic cravings for companionship and being accepted by the "herd" inside my being, I learn to mindfully observe all these sensations and find my peace of mind.

I just found this content creator tonight and was looking for his chart and this forum popped up in google search, lol. By his definition I have an intellect at level 8 with an emotional/limbic response as low as level 1. Having the intellectual understanding of how I (and everyone else) respond to stimuli but having the cravings, impulses, or emotions control you and take you down a selfish, hedonistic route is obvious something that is harder to master for some rather than others. I know what I need to do, it's a matter of doing it and breaking the addictions. We are all genetic computer software shaped by DNA and culture. I would argue there's not much free will, even among people who have access to this content... they are still being "programmed" by a particular philosophy... who's to say that philosophy is "right" ... one's feelings? The release of oxytocin from a bonding reaction or using shrooms? Logic would dictate radical true love rules all, but in a matrix like this universe with these natural laws including evolution and natural selection, our species would eventually go extinct with such a philosophy. Ultimately it takes all types to drive a specie's evolution especially homo sapiens. Natural selection is savage and doesn't care about a specie's overall morality, if it's successful and passes on it's DNA to subsequent generations. His more recent videos go into why "doing whatever you want without anyone judging you" can lead to cultural collapse. Spoiler alert he references a lot of stuff regarding terms that aren't necessarily very popular among people here. I myself have gotten warned on this forum for posting about this stuff. Free speech is not free. I mean, given his youtube username is "hoe_math" it shouldn't be that surprising his content would have some of this. Honestly, it looks like he's using spiral dynamics to promote "that" type of material, if you get my drift... .that matrix reference we can't talk about. Still, his first video posted by the op was quite informative. Will strive to continue growing my aspie brain. Just another tool in the toolbox to try and understand this constructed reality, the known universe, this dimension, whatever it is, whoever created it, along with why we are here, probably just a video game for some energetic intelligence. Who knows.

New evidence suggests that a lot of rental firms are using the same app known as "Realpage" that suggests rent prices and that this could be a stealth form of collusion, despite vacancy rates going up the price of rentals has not come down. The government agencies have been investigating. https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/realpage-rent-price-fixing-probe-escalates-with-fbi-raid/475109 What's insane to me is that one investment corporation would own 85,000 apartment units. Is this consolidation of wealth into the hands of giant corporations going to pose ever more growing problems going forward?

The problems of wealth concentrating have been with us through most of civilized human history. The "middle class" is a relatively recent thing. There's no easy or perfect system to manage human nature, much less monetary policy. Here's another documentary on fractional reserve debt based banking: 24:30 in the video explains why the debt goes up at an annualized percentage rate, and will keep going up forever. By 2050 I would estimate the US National debt will be somewhere around $100-125 trillion and the purchasing power of the dollar will be probably 25% of what it is now, assuming the system doesn't implode by then. The fix for the interest problem is actually zero or negative rates, but that creates problems of it's own. It's all quite complicated and not even those who run the banking system have full control of outcomes, because of the chaos and entropy built into life itself and of course human nature, our genetic wiring.

Watch red pill content to unwire the "provider male" conditioning in your brain. SSM has some good stories. You don't want to be the first to say "I love you" and put her on a pedestal and let her have you wrapped around your finger. You might have "mommy issues" which is the male equivalent to a woman having daddy issues. There's nothing rational about romantic relationships... they are mostly based on evolutionary impulses. You can study our psychology to distill down our traits but for normies that spoils the "mystery" and the "fun."

If you are able to sleep for 6 hours, meaning your nervous system is healthy with good parasympathetic activation, it doesn't really matter as much if you maintain a consistent schedule. Even with a fixed bedtime there are some who suffer from insomnia for various reasons but most of them involve nervous system overstimulation.

Honestly I got tired of listening to both sides peddle their cult mania. The ones trying to force the vaccine were the ones who lit the match though. It's human nature to want to resist authority figures forcing you to do things. Honestly I've gotten like 5 or 6 covid shots by now and I'm fine. I get them with the yearly flu shot, but I was one who heavily criticized the masks and mandates, especially as it was clear that this virus wasn't particularly lethal. However, it will cause far more inflammation than it's vaccine will, and the anti-vax crowd is being fed a pile of misinformation by their right wing media sources. One of the major problems with social media is the polarization created by content creators who monetize people's emotions. Both sides took their polarized positions and began the attack like monkeys, each so insistent they were in the right. Dance puppets! There was also lots of pressure by people in government jobs who wanted to get paid to sit around and do nothing. Let's be honest here. Quite a bit of psychological damage was done to adolescents from the lockdowns in the school systems, something many of us predicted, but we were too worried about the morbidly obese and people in nursing homes, in which the lockdowns did little to help anyways. Damage was done to the supply chain, not only causing inflation from handing out money without an increase in economic output, but from producing input shortages from industries deemed "not essential" stopping production. Combined with the already underbuilding of homes in the 2010's and it was the perfect storm for the current housing price crisis. Now starter homes are being priced at $300K due to pandemic lumber and copper costs. I don't really blame anyone... people did what they thought was a good idea at the time, and used their emotions in a lot of their decision making processes. It was also big money printing scheme in disguise. The central banks in late 2019 had problems in the repo markets and had to restart QE. The pandemic gave them an excuse to print to oblivion, and they took advantage of it. Here in 2024 they are printing more than ever, with no signs of stopping, so don't hold cash dollars. Cash is trash. Stay invested. Stay in debt. Our government is in the process of debasing the US dollar with it's excessive government deficit spending, and it's only a matter of time before the bond auctions yield poor results, and rates rise to the point where the Federal Reserve restarts QE. Inflation and stagflation will be here to stay, because in my opinion they won't allow deflation... they won't create any laws to keep the middle class afloat, and wealth will continue to concentrate upward as the rich buy all the assets. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEBTN https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL

It's a fine goal but we still have our genetic limitations that get in the way. We shall see if we can overcome our own nature or not. Doing something like this will likely involve various levels of discomfort... changing people's cultural values to "evolve" them to what the state deems is "good behavior" ... hopefully they achieve a nice balance between personal liberty and control so we aren't controlled to the point where we stifle human creativity. There's also the matter of natural selection... stage green values tend to be incompatible with the harsh laws of evolution that run this physical reality, so it will be interesting to see them try to integrate all these variables. In nature, the Lions will still keep eating the Gazelles. These same instincts are wired into us. Good luck suppressing them.

I like Orgain plant based powder because it can be mixed in just water and still have thickness and good flavor/mouth feel. Whey proteins are objectionable to me mixed only in water. I use orgain powder as a self contained snack on breaks at work. Mix with cold water and enjoy. https://www.costco.com/orgain-organic-protein-and-superfoods-plant-based-protein-powder%2c-vanilla-bean%2c-2.7-lbs.product.100393228.html Currently on sale at costco for a couple more days. I've found the more I use plant proteins the more I enjoy them. I don't particularly enjoy whey protein. When I want high protein that's not a powder, I use cans of costco canned chicken (drained because they add sodium phosphate to it) $2 per can in store price for around 45 grams of protein per can... not too bad. https://www.costco.com/kirkland-signature%2C-chicken-breast%2C-12.5-oz%2C-6-count.product.100334960.html As for a "quality car" I like toyotas because I love Japan's conservative mentality where they focus on build quality and longevity. I have a 2012 Camry with the V6 engine that at 140,000 miles is not even halfway through it's life. If I was to buy a vehicle now I'd get a 2020-2024 lightly used Camry Hybrid and then get a comma 3x unit for it's self driving capabilities. These vehicles are bombproof.. the transmissions are very simple and will outlast the batteries, just about every component will last forever, and the batteries are warrantied at 10 years/150K miles and typically last much longer. I care little for status symbol items that the unwashed masses by to show off, but to each their own. People incarnate on this planet to experience the variety that comes along with the capitalist consumption hamster wheel. There's no right or wrong to it, it just is. DNA and culture program us to like what we like.

I had the opposite problem... I got insomnia and an overstimulated nervous system. All the content peddlers said to take magnesium... didn't help. I recently figured out that adding in calcium (in the form of calcium citrate) fixed the insomnia. Especially in people who don't eat dairy, added calcium important... basically it's this setup: 800MG/day calcium citrate 400MG/day magnesium citrate 200 mcg/day Vitamin K2 MK/7 1000+ IU/day Vitamin D3 3-5MG of Boron Make sure you are getting calcium in your diet. It's not something mentioned much by today's longevity content peddlers. It's the missing ingredient in those who take D3, Magnesium, K2.... D3 and Magnesium by themselves gives people insomnia. The body uses calcium to make tryptophan which is used to make melatonin.

My last addiction is still video games and screens, LOL. Habit change can be gradual. Set aside an hour each day to be mindful, to practice purposed relaxation. Sit in an empty room, do nothing, and observe the cravings that arise as your body is addicted to it's habitual state of arousal. I now have 2 videos to remind myself what I need to be doing that open when my web browser opens... despite the clickbait nature of the titles and screenshots they are actually good videos. Key takeaway from second video... just because something is "relaxing" doesn't mean it clears your "allostatic load" ... think hours binge watching TV series... you actually release cortisol and stress hormones engaged in stimuli like screens.

Seems like it's a combination of factors... large numbers of old baby boomers taking from social programs, still living in their homes, low birth rates, underbuilding of real estate, allowing people to "invest" in residential real estate, foreign investment, turning homes into rentals and AirBNBs. Housing is the real problem as far as costs go. I see lots of people spend money recklessly and they always have. A lot of items people don't have to overpay for, they choose to pay what is being asked.. that's on them. If people had impulse control and said "no" when something is being overcharged, the price would come down. If you own the latest $1200 iphone and then converse with me about how tight finances and living costs are... likewise if you have heated steering wheels on your $50K+ vehicle. You did that to yourself. I think there's too much emphasis on supporting the top and bottom and no political party anymore represents the middle. What really hurts morale where I work are the 5% of employees who abuse paid FMLA to get months per year off, and they never get fired for it, or the work from home types who hardly have any actual work to do. The average person who actually shows up for work is busting their butt for crap wages. If they are talking about lacking productivity why don't they start with the FMLA/disability users and work from home types, and maybe cut CEO and upper management pay and give more of it back to the employees. It may also be because much of the boomer's world was built on foreign low wage labor, and many of those nations are trying to improve their living standards, so we can't live like kings in our western nations as other nations try to modernize and strengthen their middle classes.

There has to be something in our genetic makeup that craves adventure and excitement especially women's genetic makeup, because it makes no sense to have everything provided for you, have a loving husband and family, and yet still want to die. It seems like our genetics are wired to want what we don't have, seek novelty, variety, adventure, and have "grass is always greener" syndrome along with a sense of purpose. If we do the same thing long enough or don't feel like we are "contributing to the tribe" we get depressed. I know many here don't subscribe to genetic reasonings behind behavior but to me genetics are everything, and if we could learn to distill every piece of DNA down to it's constituent function, eventually we could reverse engineer every behavior pattern and drive our species have and the reason behind it from an evolutionary perspective, and then do genetic engineering to make the perfect human being, free from our evolutionary shackles. Our brains are habit forming machines too and if a person gets stuck in the same pattern of thinking unable to escape thought thought/habit and emotion/reaction loops... I do think it's a bit silly to obsess over other people wanting to take their own lives. If you're not willing to fix them, let them take their lives. There's 8 billion people on this planet... the planet won't miss one. As others have mentioned, there is a component where people are "too comfortable" in life and you present them a life wrapped in bubble wrap with no challenge... or they are like my sister and spend their entire lives on government disability which enables them to never leave it, to never push themselves.... one of the areas I believe leftists go wrong, thinking that all "discomfort" should be eliminated from life, and that you can save everyone... that simply goes against the laws of nature. Trying to coddle and spoil people makes them hypersensitive and more prone to psychological conditions in some cases. Sometimes you just need to be thrown to the wolves and learn how to fend for yourself... in the long run that makes for a healthier species.

I like Lizi's stuff. Zeitgeist. A few standalone videos as well... also diddly. ASMR must be done with headphones, if you are not familiar with it... the higher quality the better, such as a pair of Sennheiser open back or equivalent. Here is one of the older ASMR videos that really started it all...

Could be anything really... microplastics, pesticides, drug use, smoking, eating lots of charred and burnt meat, pollutants in our food supply, stress. Personally I believe the main driver is obesity. They should measure the BMI of everyone getting these diseases. Our level of bodyfat is unprecedented compared to any time in evolutionary history. Also, many more people used to smoke in the past than they do now. My grandmother lived until 85 smoking 2 packs a day and she was never a person I would call "playful" either though she craved drama and worked hard. She was thin and stayed generally active despite her smoking. Genetics has a role, letting people breed who have sub-optimal genetics because we want to be compassionate, the society of coddling people, but mostly it's people are fat and don't move. It's really that simple. Anyone who chews tobacco is at enhanced risk of cancer of the mouth and throat as chewing tobacco is FAR worse than smoking it. Every single person I've known who is a long time chewer develops precancerous growths in their mouth... so if you are reading this, don't be a fucking idiot... stop chewing tobacco. Smoke it if you must. The synthetic polymer problem is not really anything anyone has really thought about yet... it's not just microplastics in food, but on clothing and fabrics that doesn't just end up as dryer lint, but often ends up in the air. There's no easy solution to this. Where I work I breathe in a cellulose based fiber called "lenzing" as part of my job... I often wonder if it's bad for me long term and I should find a different machine to work on. "Lenzing™ fibres are man-made from natural wood cellulose molecules derived from renewable sources and are eco-consciously manufactured with innovative and sustainable processes. At the end of their lifecycle, Lenzing™ fibres are fully biodegradable."