Beyond Meat is way worse than red meat. The saturated fats argument oscillates significantly based on other nutrients in the diet (for instance a diet high in saturated fat as well as other unsaturated fats triggers metabolic and hormonal changes that are desirable)

At the link below, you'll find that the saturated fat content is somewhat the same, but it doesn't get into what sort of saturated fats, as hydrogenated vegetable fats are much worse (create more inflammation) than animal saturated fats.

However, they diverge rapidly when you get to sodium.
https://www.health.harvard.edu...

Also, the other nutrients (B12 etc) are ADDED to the fake beef to make it comparable in nutrient profile to real beef, but those additives are generally less bioavailable than the sources in real beef. The artificial heme is also kinda weird, as it requires GMO yeast to produce, which might trigger unsuspected allergies.

TLDR; Meat substitutes are less healthy, contain more calories, and have a less balanced nutrient profile which causes lower bioavailability. Instead of wasting our time with fad money making propositions we should be looking at better crop rotation strategies (including livestock grazing) which would lower our dependency on fossil fuel fertilizers, shipment, etc.

This 10000%. It's all a sham when you require accounts to be tied to physical devices.

From whence do you gather water? From whence do you gather your food, fiber from clothing etc?

The allowance of rights to the rural is part of the economic exchange for the resources that make cities possible. If those rights flow in the other direction then serfdom and slavery follow, as can be demonstrated by the current state of many places where urban appetites are outsourced to remote locations. Or if you prefer more antiquated examples, history is replete with them. Not only that, the destruction of wetlands, and other resources. Just recently a major city wanted to reduce the flow of a local river to increase their access to water for drinking and recreation... while they were constructing a large, completely artificial kayak park. Literally, the small river would have run dry for at least 3 months of the year so people can fuck around in their kayaks. In this particular example, it's even more egregious as they have a large river to access, but it is too polluted and silty (due to poorly managed construction) to be used for such a purpose.

The ruralite generally seeks fewer restrictions on personal freedoms, as less government intervention is expected. My water is from a well, or from rainwater catchment. During the growing months 85% of my fruits and veg come from my property. About 25% of my protein comes from wild harvest, another 50% from personally owned livestock.

We require freedoms, rather than restrictions.

Sorry to reply to my own post, but I remembered the term for systems that I described. Urban Macrocephaly.

It's undesirable, but looking into history, it appears to also be inevitable. The development of such primate cities is ameliorated by technology, but the impetus in their formation continues through politics and influence. Luckily, for those in the US, it appears that real estate speculation and capitalistic rapaciousness in the city center may be forming another protection against such a thing.

>> That's called "the local government". Honestly, I have no idea what fictional "lifestyle demands" the urbanites could be pushing on you. Are they forcing you to live >> in an apartment block against your will?

Attempts at obtuse gun laws, especially for those that live in areas with large fauna that can be quite aggressive.

Attempts at obscene fuel tax hikes at the federal level without offsets for things like renewable power generation (we have a solar array and a couple of small windmills), including the potential restriction or taxation of large motor vehicles (like my Silverado 3500) again without offsets unless your a mega agri corp.

>> Absolutely hilarious! This is spectacularly rich coming from someone from a country that was *literally* enslaving millions of people even while this supposed
>> protective mechanism for minorities was already in place. Clearly the efficiency of this mechanism in preventing this slavery you mention was zero.

Nothing is perfect. It DID prevent certain events AND DID start shifting the political power even while some of the Northern states still allowed slavery. That's also a pretty damn old example.

Given that my family came to OK in the 1830s due to the Cherokee Trail of Tears (note: I know the Choctaw also refer to their clearance as a Trail of Tears) I am well aware we should always be wary of anything that accretes power to the federal system. Removing the EC accelerates that slide.

To those who point to the Senate, I agree but anything that can put the states into opposition and reduce the potential for the separate branches from aligning makes me happy.

No. The electoral system prevents people like me, who have chosen to live in a rural area so that I can enjoy clean air, sunshine, no traffic noise, and possibly farm or raise livestock from people who live in highly urbanized areas.

Urban political goals do not map to rural lifestyles. There should be a means to prevent the majority from inflicting their lifestyle demands on those who are not like them.

Oh right, it exists. It's called the electoral college.

There are plenty of historical examples when the urban oligarchy practically enslaved the rural minority for profit. Modern day China, the Scottish Highland clearances (where people were forced off of ancestral lands to populate the cities so that factories would have enough workers),etc. Just because you believe the oligarchy would serve your needs does not justify you attempting to minimize others.

Given that the CharaChorder interprets characters and corrects or shortcuts to words without the direct input of the typist, I would assume that it would be banned just as using swype entry methods would be banned from typing competitions. You aren't actually typing, you are entering data but using a completely different mechanism.

Definitely a cool idea, but I expect it to have limited impact on the market as the keyboard itself is not truly a limitation on productivity except for (perhaps) transcription or dictation. I certainly don't type code at a speed that interferes with my thought processes, an macros within the IDE handle things that are repetitive and those can be dropped as a macro on a programmable keyboard like the Dygma. (Which I use.)

Definite clickbaitery.

Much less food in general... I can't even look at the egregious mountains of food that I ate in my 20's without feeling queasy.

Having similar symptomology, I found that I had neglected the deeper cardiac effect of sustained cardio exercise. I went from a similar BP, probably for similar reasons 6'1" 300lbs @ 18%BF (caliper and float method, would like to get a DEXA scan but getting on their schedule is not easy these days)

Going from 180/110 to 130/95 and now back to my pre-40's normal 120/80 took 1hr of cardio on six days of the week in addition to my normal weighlifting. I alternated swimming with weighted pack hiking for 8 wks. I have backed off to 4hrs of cardio per week for an add'l 16wks with no upward tick in BP. I have a buddy who is an endocrinologist who said this might be related to training the muscles of the body to be responsive to high load/high pressure scenarios... whereas extended cardio exercise can cause an increase in cardiac vascularity while decreasing over all cardiac muscle volume this somehow triggers growth factor sensitivity in cardiac muscle.

Also if you participated in the DHEA/Androstenedione days {I avoided it out of fear of testing in the military, but my brother was ALL IN} you may have jacked your HPTA, which can be correct with low dose clomifene or exogenous T therapy.... My brother's BP went DOWN after 3 mos of TRT, though much of that was probably the loss of fat, but in males high estrogen can do weird things like cause arthritic symptoms in the hands, water retention (upward affect on BP) and other crap I certainly don't want to know about.

No other dietary changes or behavioral changes were needed. I still only sleep 4-6hrs per night and eat 1.5lbs of red meat per day, 8-12 ounces of fish (oysters/sardines/herring/salmon) per day and whatever veg or dairy can be found. My cholesterol levels are near the bottom of the low range for all values except HDL, and I am pending back a blood test that is supposed to differentiate between 'sticky' HDL and 'good' HDL. (Learn something new every day.)

Things to consider.

When you combine them as a whole, it makes quite a lot of difference. Consider a car analogy? Depending on the combination of attributes:

The passenger's compartment is 1% more comfortable
The trunk is .75% more spacious
The ride is .05% less noisy
The all-wheel independent braking is 7% more safe
The engine is 10% more powerful
The gas mileage is 0.4% greater

The price is significantly lower and the car itself is easier to maintain as the components and engine compartment are designed to be worked on.

Which would you drive?

I've seen people working on the tray table with their laptops and the laptop gets the screen bent, cracked or similarly damaged, which is why I don't use the tray table to work anymore. This guy is obviously a dick, altering the function of the chair is pretty fucked up.

It is, however, ridiculous that we are in this situation while flying.

I'm not as tall as you 6'1" and lack of distance between the back of the seat and the back of the seat in front of me on United is such that I often had to man spread or sit at an angle... which is ridiculous.

Perhaps the reason that it is so unclear is that people have muddied the waters via political shenanigans. One method of categorization was once , Caucasoid, Negroid, Mongoloid... That's pretty close when you consider that NA and SA indigenous peoples are descended from and migrating populations from Northern Asia 15K yrs ago (though some new evidence pushes this back to 30K yrs).

However, there are reasons to subdivide these larger groups, and there reasons to do so. Certain genetic disorders have clustered in certain phenotypes either by chance or by adaptive advantage. Hemochromatosis is an example, in it's less expressed forms it can be advantageous in colder climates, and positively horrible for hot climates. I'm sure that there are reasons that certain genetic disorders that cluster in the Semitic peoples created an advantage. (Of course this is NOT always true for a genertic disorder, for instance the Hopi and Finnish both have high incidence of Type 1 Diabetes, for the Hopi the last theory I read was that this was due to inbreeding due to the small reservation population.)

In any case, the hesitance to group people by performative characteristics has been politically radioactive for a long time, which cripples the ability of people to establish a vocabulary.

Um. No. Despite the ugly formatting, you can see that China won the most Gold medals. However, the US won the MOST medals. (And do the math on the per capita production of athletes. :[ )

Luckily for China, most of the sports involved in the summer games are objective, so the golds would be in less dispute than ice skating or some such. However, that is an unusually strong showing for China, coinciding with host nation status. Any non-biased observer can note that the Olympics are a political body more than an athletic body these days. Whatever the case. Please be more precise. Any Olympian will tell you, when being honest, that the difference between Bronze and gold is the tiniest puff of wind, a little grit in the circle, slightly less sleep. For strength athletes, the big win is the Olympics, but legends are born in the Worlds.

If you do ever have the chance, watching athletes in person at that level is literally poetry in motion. That same awe inspiring lost in the beauty of the thing will catch you. Especially discus, shot, and pole vaulting. It is insane.
Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 China* 48 22 30 100
2 United States 36 39 37 112
3 Russia 24 13 23 60
4 Great Britain 19 13 19 51
5 Germany 16 11 14 41
6 Australia 14 15 17 46
7 South Korea 13 11 8 32
8 Japan 9 7 9 25
9 Italy 8 9 10 27
10 France 7 16 20 43
Totals (10 nations) 194 156 187 537

Unless, they are survivors of multiple interplanetary wars (not probable, but possible) and they have adopted a no tolerance stance to other intelligent life beyond a given tech threshold.

This is easily possible, look at modern civilization and how quickly it slides backward when contention for resources arise. Similarly, an organized empathetic single planet civilization who is attacked (to their perception) without provocation adopts an aggressive defense stance, or even strikes back and puts the aggressor into war causer jail... then that civilization builds a more internally solidaristic outlook and strikes back with even more vigor (e.g. WWII Germany).

The evolution to the destination is different, but the outcome reduces to the same equation.