In developed nations, most of us get way more vitamin D from enriched foods and such than we need.
That hasn't been entirely proven. Just because we don't get rickets doesn't mean that 400 IU/day is an optimal level.
It seems kind of suspicious that (given sufficient sunlight) your skin will synthesize about 10,000 IU per day and then stop manufacturing it. Depending on the strength of sunlight and your skin color it might only take 20 minutes to generate 10,000 IU.
If we've quite clearly evolved to produce more than order magnitude more vitamin D than the current dietary recommendations it's reasonable to wonder if the recommendations are missing something.
I mean so long as the UN, Nigeria, Mars, etc, are passing laws, who are you to say which websites follow which laws?
That website can say whatever it wants but if someone tries to convince me that I have any obligation to follow Martian law that person will promptly told to go fuck himself.
I'm pointing out the absurdity of claiming to prosecute individuals under "UN law". Appealing to US law makes sense if the servers are located in the US or the users to be prosecuted are under US jurisdiction.
Appealing to "UN law" makes as much sense as appealing to Nigerian law or Martian law.
The culprit isn't necessary public education - it's the implementation of it that is practiced in the US today. Gatto has plenty of good things to say about public education as it was implemented throughout most of the 19th century and before.
If you're familiar with the founding principals of the public education system this isn't a surprise. Schools were intentionally designed by early 20th century psychologists to reduce creativity and increase conformity.
If anything, it's surprising that it took this long before this effect started to manifest.
At which point is it socially acceptable to take up arms and execute said tyrants? Or perhaps even just to take up arms and mobilize citizens with the intent to do so?
At least in the US you have absolutely no recourse against someone who independently (not an employee, etc) develops one of your trade secrets. They can even patent it themselves and force you to pay a license fee!
That's the trade off between patents and trade secrets.
The objective was to make the population educated enough to be trainable but not enough that they might ask awkward questions like, "Why I don't I open up my own shop and make these products for half the cost since I have an idea that would make the same product twice as effective?"
Seriously you need to read up on history for yourself. Eugenics is a core tenant of progressive theory, never mind the propaganda generated for the benefit of the useful idiots. This list of names should get your started: Margaret Sanger, Marie Stopes, H. G. Wells, Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, Emile Zola,George Bernard Shaw, John Maynard Keynes, John Harvey Kellogg, Linus Pauling, Sidney Webb.
If you think that progressivism is incompatible with oligarchy then I've got a bridge in New York that you might be interested in buying. What do you think that rule by a small group of enlightened elites is if not oligarchy?
Many, many people have gotten themselves trapped into paying off student loans for the rest of their lives for a degree that is inherently worthless. Expect a lot of denial of this truth contained in this article because for some people the idea that they sold themselves into debt slavery for nothing is too much to bear.
To a large degree the war was started by (mostly) well meaning people at the end of the 19th century who had just lived through the Industrial Revolution and concluded that interchangeable, standardized humans would revolutionize society (for the better) in the same way that interchangeable, standardized components revolutionized manufacturing. Back then the 20th century's two biggest examples of progressivism, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union had not yet seen the light of day. This is back when most people believed in a neat, orderly universe created by the watchmaker god. All living things could by precisely classified into a uniform hierarchy. Their view of the universe did not allow for chaos, quantum physics and ring species. As it turns out, they were wrong but the less-well meaning elements certainly aren't going to let go of the power without a fight (or a collapse).
Today's overlords don't really have much choice. The machine was built in the beginning of the 20th century and there's probably no way to shut it down until events run their course.
I'm afraid anymore to walk to the end of the platform and look down the subway tunnels. I'm afraid to take pictures of bridges. I'm afraid to be just plain curious, because it's apparently abnormal and suspicous. It's getting ridiculous. And it's going to come back and bite us in the butt.
You say this as if it is an unintended, rather than intended, consequence of how our society is organized.
while governments continue a downward spiral into meaninglessness.
Meaninglessness? I think not. Governments serve a very important and vital function of protecting the corporations by enacting laws and regulations that serve as a minor annoyance to mega-corps but an impenetrable wall to potential small businesses and individual competition.
On top of that once a mega corp becomes "too big to fail" they are allowed to tax the citizens via bailouts.
Yeah, because our knowledge of schooling in the 19th century is so complete and accurate.
Don't project your own ignorance onto the rest of the world. Just because you can't be bothered to do any research don't assume that no one else will either.
Public education was key for all those who weren't already on top of the social ladder.
Of course that's how the bill of goods is sold, but what were the architects of the public school system saying when they built it?
In our dreams...people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands. The present educational conventions fade from our minds, and unhampered by tradition we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or men of science. We have not to raise up from among them authors, educators, poets or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians, nor lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we have ample supply. The task we set before ourselves is very simple...we will organize children...and teach them to do in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.
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That hasn't been entirely proven. Just because we don't get rickets doesn't mean that 400 IU/day is an optimal level.
It seems kind of suspicious that (given sufficient sunlight) your skin will synthesize about 10,000 IU per day and then stop manufacturing it. Depending on the strength of sunlight and your skin color it might only take 20 minutes to generate 10,000 IU.
If we've quite clearly evolved to produce more than order magnitude more vitamin D than the current dietary recommendations it's reasonable to wonder if the recommendations are missing something.
That website can say whatever it wants but if someone tries to convince me that I have any obligation to follow Martian law that person will promptly told to go fuck himself.
Unfortunately you're probably right.
I'm pointing out the absurdity of claiming to prosecute individuals under "UN law". Appealing to US law makes sense if the servers are located in the US or the users to be prosecuted are under US jurisdiction.
Appealing to "UN law" makes as much sense as appealing to Nigerian law or Martian law.
Really? The UN wishes that it had jurisdiction over individual behavior but that doesn't make it true.
The culprit isn't necessary public education - it's the implementation of it that is practiced in the US today. Gatto has plenty of good things to say about public education as it was implemented throughout most of the 19th century and before.
If you're familiar with the founding principals of the public education system this isn't a surprise. Schools were intentionally designed by early 20th century psychologists to reduce creativity and increase conformity.
If anything, it's surprising that it took this long before this effect started to manifest.
That's why accountants fight the Fair Tax so fiercely. If it were enacted they'd all need to go find honest work.
I know you didn't ask me but Tom Baugh has a lot of helpful information on just this subject floating around. I particularly recommend the "A Nation without a Country" series. (part 2) (part 3) (part 4) (part 5) (part 6)
At least in the US you have absolutely no recourse against someone who independently (not an employee, etc) develops one of your trade secrets. They can even patent it themselves and force you to pay a license fee!
That's the trade off between patents and trade secrets.
All this article affirms is that reducing chronic stress makes people healthier.
Stress evolved to be an acute reaction to a specific stimuli. When your stress reaction becomes chronic your health suffers.
Ergo anything that reduces your stress response will improve your health.
I expect that people who had some type of forest phobia would not receive the same benefit.
Fixed to remove extraneous Marxism.
Keep your home computer run at home with SSH listening to a non-standard port (80 or 443 are good choices).
If you're going to be using Windows computers in China take a USB thumbdrive with you with a copy of PuTTY installed.
Forward ports 53 and 3128 and set your web browser proxy and DNS settings appropriately.
Seriously you need to read up on history for yourself. Eugenics is a core tenant of progressive theory, never mind the propaganda generated for the benefit of the useful idiots. This list of names should get your started: Margaret Sanger, Marie Stopes, H. G. Wells, Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, Emile Zola,George Bernard Shaw, John Maynard Keynes, John Harvey Kellogg, Linus Pauling, Sidney Webb.
If you think that progressivism is incompatible with oligarchy then I've got a bridge in New York that you might be interested in buying. What do you think that rule by a small group of enlightened elites is if not oligarchy?
Fuck Glenn Beck.
Go read some history for yourself.
Many, many people have gotten themselves trapped into paying off student loans for the rest of their lives for a degree that is inherently worthless. Expect a lot of denial of this truth contained in this article because for some people the idea that they sold themselves into debt slavery for nothing is too much to bear.
What about the wives of men who go to the strip club along with their husbands?
To a large degree the war was started by (mostly) well meaning people at the end of the 19th century who had just lived through the Industrial Revolution and concluded that interchangeable, standardized humans would revolutionize society (for the better) in the same way that interchangeable, standardized components revolutionized manufacturing. Back then the 20th century's two biggest examples of progressivism, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union had not yet seen the light of day. This is back when most people believed in a neat, orderly universe created by the watchmaker god. All living things could by precisely classified into a uniform hierarchy. Their view of the universe did not allow for chaos, quantum physics and ring species. As it turns out, they were wrong but the less-well meaning elements certainly aren't going to let go of the power without a fight (or a collapse).
Today's overlords don't really have much choice. The machine was built in the beginning of the 20th century and there's probably no way to shut it down until events run their course.
You say this as if it is an unintended, rather than intended, consequence of how our society is organized.
Meaninglessness? I think not. Governments serve a very important and vital function of protecting the corporations by enacting laws and regulations that serve as a minor annoyance to mega-corps but an impenetrable wall to potential small businesses and individual competition.
On top of that once a mega corp becomes "too big to fail" they are allowed to tax the citizens via bailouts.
Government makes all this possible.
Don't project your own ignorance onto the rest of the world. Just because you can't be bothered to do any research don't assume that no one else will either.
Of course that's how the bill of goods is sold, but what were the architects of the public school system saying when they built it?
If doing this prevented a person from ever reproducing would it qualify?