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What did you get told as a child that you realised was a lie as you got older?
That you should base your diet on carbohydrates, and minimise fat intake.
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What did you get told as a child that you realised was a lie as you got older?
That you should base your diet on carbohydrates, and minimise fat intake.
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Fuck it, we'll do it live!
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From a non-American's perspective, I think part of the mistrust comes from Americans have been through high-profile lies perpetrated by government agencies.
For example, a more recent one in the last few decades is the Food Pyramid/MyPlate that was/is promoted by the US government's agriculture department. This has led to Americans in the late '70s/early '80s to start a war on saturated fat and cholesterol, and the rapid adoption of carbohydrates in the average diet. What has happened in the decades following is a rapid increase in metabolic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and mental illnesses — all of which were rare in human history prior to the '70s. While I'm glad Americans are waking up to the realisation of the mass brainwashing of what constitutes "healthy" food, I'm still upset that — due to the influence of America on the global stage — my own country has followed suit in adopting the US's dietary guidelines to the detriment of our own health.
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What is an extremely dangerous thing that we use daily?
Sugar.
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The Best Password Managers in 2024
Keepass + Syncthing is a great combination.
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What animals do you dislike for unusual reasons and why?
FYI, the reason why humans look so much like apes is because humans ARE apes (specifically, great apes).
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What opinions about the tech industry do you feel comfortable expressing here, but not in public/at work?
Neither Python nor JavaScript should be the primary language used in any production back end.
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What's some sex ed info you didn't know until embarrasingly late?
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you had to have sex at least once per pregnancy
Not with modern medicine!
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Honey
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Regarding your second point, you also cannot guarantee that small animals like rodents are not harmed in the process of harvesting plants.
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What is a gender neutral replacement for man, guys, buddy, etc?
"My fellow great ape"
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Steam Deck now has thousands more games than the Nintendo Switch
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Both are computers.
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The theory that we live in a simulation involves simulants running their own simulations; wouldn't that require impossibly more resources for the main sim?
Time doesn't have to be 1:1 between a host and a simulation. The host can take as long as it wants to render the next step in a simulation, and any observers within the simulated universes would not be able to discern the choppiness of their flow of time.
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Democrats need to pull themselves together and remember: Biden is still better than Trump
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Isn't the Democratic Party centre-right wing?
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A cool guide of commonly believed myths
Humans and dinosaurs absolutely co-existed (e.g. chickens). The misconception is that dinosaurs are extinct.
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You're the president of a democracy and your army just deposed a dictator with a war. What's your plan to rebuild that country, and what's your exit strategy?
Occupy it, commit war crimes, take its oil, then leave when it's politically/financially advantageous.
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Education
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You forgot to take away 1/3 of the loose M&M after giving it to them.
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The circle of life
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And non-plants like algae and bacteria.
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You have 5 minutes to hide a paperclip in your home. A detective has 24 hours to find it, If they don't, you get $100,000. Where are you going to hide the paperclip?
When you greet the detective:
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Honey
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And that eating fish doesn't count as eating meat...
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What popular product do you think is modern day snakeoil?
Dietary advice based on the food pyramid/MyPlate. Before the late '70s, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, and mental illnesses were all rare in the general population.
We need to be eating fewer carbohydrates, not basing our diets around them. We need to be getting most of our calories from fat, not demonising it.
Thankfully, we have people like Dr. Ken Berry, Dr. Chris Palmer, Dr. Anthony Chaffee, Dr. Georgia Ede, Dr. Shawn Baker, Dr. Paul Mason, Dr. Tony Hampton, Dr. Jason Fung, and others spreading this message.