In that case, I'd change my vote from "against UBI" to "For UBI". You see, to people today who already have decent house, cars, boat and other property, we'd use UBI to simply stop working. We, some of the most experienced and skilled workers, already have all the materialistic shit a person could want.
A reasonably-sized property tax will take care of that little "loophole". Want to keep owning expensive shit? Make an effort.
It was a disembodied hand, and it was markedly inferior to Carmageddon's mouse cursor. It was also a disembodied hand, but if you moved it quickly, it would cause blood droplets to fly all over the screen.
Those who seek power almost without exception (George Washington and Jesus Christ are the only two notable exceptions from history that spring to my mind) never stop trying to gain even more and will often go to insane lengths to obtain it.
Ah yes, good old George "Slave Teeth Dentures" Washington, AKA George "I Only Freed My Slaves In My Will Because I Was Done Using Them" Washington.
Just another "I'm better than those ordinary people" self-obsessed misguided elitist. Let me guess, your IQ is probably above 130, and you like to remind people of this fact, at every possible opportunity?
I subscribe to the established (by science!) fact that wheat agglutin is an insulin mimetic and to a greater or lesser extent this interacts with the stomach lining in not-good ways.
Citation, please.
You might have western metabolic disorder and then the carbs are bad for you. That's a different issue entirely.
Citation, please.
I could go and dig up the papers and analysis by smarter people than me that led me down this path of understanding, but it's Sunday evening, I didn't keep copious notes and I'm not going digging right now.
So you have plenty of time to write long posts, but not enough to post a few links to studies that back up your claims.
It was probably because you bought cheap-ass crappy PC laptops. Try a Thinkpad, Elitebook or Inspiron/XPS. Completely different level of quality to the average Acer, Asus and so on.
The schools were not "shackled into" anything. They were simply presented with a list of dietary requirements and told "cook what you want, but it must match or exceed these targets".
The schools that serve shit food are run by lazy, greedy and incompetent idiots.
Your parents are not supposed to be your friends while you're growing up. They're your parents, they make the decisions for you, because they (hopefully) know what's best for you. It might not seem that way, but there's a reason you don't get to eat ice cream for dinner every day.
If you just buckle under and let the kids win the arguments, they will turn into insufferable shitheads later in life, and not just in regards to food.
A lot of parents seem to have an aversion to actually imposing even a modicum of discipline and consequence on their kids, and it seriously fucks up the kids for the rest of their lives.
And no one is suggesting that you do. But broccoli (and cabbage and Brussels sprouts and others) have well-proven cancer-preventing effects, and so should definitely be a highly recommended part of a healthy diet.
I explained micronutrient levels and the nutritional value. You appealed to authority. You're basically telling me facts don't matter unless they're accepted by a specific person.
You have posted a lot of claims, but you have no actually provided any proof.
There is no direct correlation between low sodium levels and cramps, unless you regularly sweat out a lot of salt, by working (or working out) hard for extended periods of time, while only refreshing yourself with plain water. Athletes drink isotonic sports drinks to mitigate this, but it is absolutely not an issue for a normal person, with a normal level of physical activity.
You seem to harbor some deep-seating misunderstandings about nutrition.
Too little salt kills you. Enough to not kill you, but still too little is very painful. Too much has no measurable health enpoint effect unless a 5 ton block of salt lands on your head. The correlations are to proxies, not actual health outcomes.
"Too little salt" is absolutely not at problem for anyone living in the western world. There is more than enough salt in a regular diet already, even if you don't add any yourself.
Whole grains make you fat. Wheat agglutin is toxic to many and just slowly kills the others. The first recorded cases of cancer appear about the time and place that wheat agriculture began.
Please give some peer-reviewed proof that this is actually the case.
I'll quote someone who harbors the same misconceptions as you: "Wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) may be just as dangerous as gluten."
Which I do actually agree with, because both of them are completely harmless to humans, unless you you specifically suffer from celiac disease or gluten allergy. Odds are extremely likely that you don't. Trying to avoid gluten is simply a fad diet, and completely pointless for most people.
Veggies are probably ok, but they aren't necessary. Put liver, kidneys, eggs and fatty meat on the menu with salt and pepper at the tables and no one would be harmed.
Veggies are absolutely necessary in a healthy diet, especially veggies such as broccoli, cabbage and Brussels sprouts, which contain important compounds (phytochemicals, sulforaphane, indoles) that have been proven to reduce the risk of cancer.
In addition to this, veggies provide a good amount of dietary fiber, not to mention essential vitamins and minerals.
Yes, we should absolutely eat more organ meats, rather than "choice cuts", but to say that you should simply replace all other food (including vegetables and whole grains) with fatty meat and organs, is absolutely insane and ridiculous.
That is not a problem with the mandate for healthier food. It's a problem of schools being either too lazy or too incompetent to serve full meals that fulfill the requirements.
That's how I was raised, and it worked. There is hardly any food I will not eat, or at least try once, and I absolutely love cooking delicious homemade (and healthy!) meals.
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In that case, I'd change my vote from "against UBI" to "For UBI". You see, to people today who already have decent house, cars, boat and other property, we'd use UBI to simply stop working. We, some of the most experienced and skilled workers, already have all the materialistic shit a person could want.
A reasonably-sized property tax will take care of that little "loophole". Want to keep owning expensive shit? Make an effort.
That is not a flaw of socialism, it's a flaw of human nature. And very clearly seen in capitalism as well, for that matter.
It was a disembodied hand, and it was markedly inferior to Carmageddon's mouse cursor. It was also a disembodied hand, but if you moved it quickly, it would cause blood droplets to fly all over the screen.
No, I'm afraid I don't have the energy, due to my conventional, balanced diet. /s
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Those who seek power almost without exception (George Washington and Jesus Christ are the only two notable exceptions from history that spring to my mind) never stop trying to gain even more and will often go to insane lengths to obtain it.
Ah yes, good old George "Slave Teeth Dentures" Washington, AKA George "I Only Freed My Slaves In My Will Because I Was Done Using Them" Washington.
The Chromecast also uses ultrasound during setup or when authenticating in guest mode, to verify that you are connecting to the correct speaker.
Oh look at you, you're special!
Just another "I'm better than those ordinary people" self-obsessed misguided elitist. Let me guess, your IQ is probably above 130, and you like to remind people of this fact, at every possible opportunity?
I subscribe to the established (by science!) fact that wheat agglutin is an insulin mimetic and to a greater or lesser extent this interacts with the stomach lining in not-good ways.
Citation, please.
You might have western metabolic disorder and then the carbs are bad for you. That's a different issue entirely.
Citation, please.
I could go and dig up the papers and analysis by smarter people than me that led me down this path of understanding, but it's Sunday evening, I didn't keep copious notes and I'm not going digging right now.
So you have plenty of time to write long posts, but not enough to post a few links to studies that back up your claims.
Again: Citations, please.
It was probably because you bought cheap-ass crappy PC laptops. Try a Thinkpad, Elitebook or Inspiron/XPS. Completely different level of quality to the average Acer, Asus and so on.
That's on the schools for being too lazy or incompetent to make tasty meals that adhere to the dietary requirements.
The schools were not "shackled into" anything. They were simply presented with a list of dietary requirements and told "cook what you want, but it must match or exceed these targets".
The schools that serve shit food are run by lazy, greedy and incompetent idiots.
Taking advice from those kinds of people leads to "food products" like Soylent. Blech.
Your parents are not supposed to be your friends while you're growing up. They're your parents, they make the decisions for you, because they (hopefully) know what's best for you. It might not seem that way, but there's a reason you don't get to eat ice cream for dinner every day.
If you just buckle under and let the kids win the arguments, they will turn into insufferable shitheads later in life, and not just in regards to food.
A lot of parents seem to have an aversion to actually imposing even a modicum of discipline and consequence on their kids, and it seriously fucks up the kids for the rest of their lives.
What matters is getting calories into hungry kids.
And by all accounts, they are definitely getting those calories, hence the child obesity epidemic, which definitely needs to be taken into account.
you can't make your entire diet broccoli
And no one is suggesting that you do. But broccoli (and cabbage and Brussels sprouts and others) have well-proven cancer-preventing effects, and so should definitely be a highly recommended part of a healthy diet.
I explained micronutrient levels and the nutritional value. You appealed to authority. You're basically telling me facts don't matter unless they're accepted by a specific person.
You have posted a lot of claims, but you have no actually provided any proof.
First off, we're going to need some authorative, peer-reviewed sources on those claims.
Secondly, vegetables are a fad? Are you insane?
Maybe I payed too much attention in my physiology classes, but I know what the liver does in a body. There's no way I'm eating one.
And yet, it's so goddamn delicious.
Same thing with kidneys. I know that's where the phrase "boil the piss out of it" comes from, but I can't help but love a good steak and kidney pie.
fiber is unimportant at best and causes constipation at worst.
Only if you're in the habit of holding it in for way too long.
some people have as much as two weeks between bowel movements
Those poor people are basically torturing themselves.
"You should never resist the call to stool", holding it in only leads to problems like those you describe.
There is no direct correlation between low sodium levels and cramps, unless you regularly sweat out a lot of salt, by working (or working out) hard for extended periods of time, while only refreshing yourself with plain water. Athletes drink isotonic sports drinks to mitigate this, but it is absolutely not an issue for a normal person, with a normal level of physical activity.
You seem to harbor some deep-seating misunderstandings about nutrition.
Too little salt kills you. Enough to not kill you, but still too little is very painful. Too much has no measurable health enpoint effect unless a 5 ton block of salt lands on your head. The correlations are to proxies, not actual health outcomes.
"Too little salt" is absolutely not at problem for anyone living in the western world. There is more than enough salt in a regular diet already, even if you don't add any yourself.
Whole grains make you fat. Wheat agglutin is toxic to many and just slowly kills the others. The first recorded cases of cancer appear about the time and place that wheat agriculture began.
Please give some peer-reviewed proof that this is actually the case.
I'll quote someone who harbors the same misconceptions as you: "Wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) may be just as dangerous as gluten."
Which I do actually agree with, because both of them are completely harmless to humans, unless you you specifically suffer from celiac disease or gluten allergy. Odds are extremely likely that you don't. Trying to avoid gluten is simply a fad diet, and completely pointless for most people.
Veggies are probably ok, but they aren't necessary. Put liver, kidneys, eggs and fatty meat on the menu with salt and pepper at the tables and no one would be harmed.
Veggies are absolutely necessary in a healthy diet, especially veggies such as broccoli, cabbage and Brussels sprouts, which contain important compounds (phytochemicals, sulforaphane, indoles) that have been proven to reduce the risk of cancer.
In addition to this, veggies provide a good amount of dietary fiber, not to mention essential vitamins and minerals.
Yes, we should absolutely eat more organ meats, rather than "choice cuts", but to say that you should simply replace all other food (including vegetables and whole grains) with fatty meat and organs, is absolutely insane and ridiculous.
That is not the fault of the regulations, it is the fault of lazy and/or incompetent school managers.
This is also a Michelle Obama-approved school lunch, from Mirror Lake Elementary School in Federal Way, WA:
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That is not a problem with the mandate for healthier food. It's a problem of schools being either too lazy or too incompetent to serve full meals that fulfill the requirements.
That's how I was raised, and it worked. There is hardly any food I will not eat, or at least try once, and I absolutely love cooking delicious homemade (and healthy!) meals.