Nah. What it should be called is Gossip. Just like real gossip, but without the need for personal involvement.

You are overgeneralizing from one exceptional example. For many being a slave was a slow death sentence...and not that slow. Most never escaped from slavery. A few did. A very few did, and were later successful.

OTOH, it was less uniform than later "S of the Mason-Dixon line" (and even that was more varied that stories suppose).

You are failing to distinguish between "this particular slave" and "slaves in general". Slaves in general lead miserable lives. A few particular slaves lived quite well.

Slavery is unfair and immoral, but also widespread. It even exists among ants. This is because in many circumstances it is to the advantage of those who are powerful. And decisions are never made with the consideration of the goals of the slave as a primary desideratum. But this doesn't mean that it is never to the advantage of the slave.

That particular slave? Possibly. Slaves in general? ... No way. Ask one of the thousands of child slaves that died in the Athenian silver mines.

That's an absurdly inappropriate use of the word "necessity". "Inevitably" would be a much more appropriate term. And given human nature, I think "inevitably" is reasonably defensible, but the implication of "necessity" is unjustifiable.

"But the manufacturer said is was safe" is not really convincing without a supportive history. I've run into too many cases where one of the terms wasn't defined in the "obviously correct" manner. Or perhaps there are failure modes that aren't covered by "thermal runaway".

The argument about propane tanks is better...but when I lived with an external (butane) tank, it was placed at a considerable distance from the house.

You'd want it outdoors anyway, and separated from your house by a firewall. Storing large quantities of energy is dangerous.

Check out "adverse possession". Whether that *should* be recognized, however, was not what I was considering.

Nah. People have been eating bugs ever since before they were people. Making a dietary staple when there were alternatives would be something new, though.

OTOH, shirmp and crayfish can be thought of as essentially large bugs. And there are those that recommend fresh termites. (Mostly, admittedly, Chimps, but a few of those who study them.)

FWIW, if we didn't eat chickens there wouldn't be so many of them.

Saying that they have "no rights" is flatly unconstitutional. Saying they had no right to stay, or not right not to be arrested would be reasonable. But the first is a stronger political statement.

This was gitlab, not github.

FWIW, there was reasonable evidence that resveratrol might work. Nothing approaching the level of proof, but reasonable evidence. And other evidence that it was at least harmless. (I used that as an excuse [to myself] to have several glasses of red wine over the years.)

FWIW, I'm willing to believe that he believes in what he's doing. There probably is evidence for most of what he's pushing. It's just that most theories about how biology works, even those by experts, are false.

I wasn't interested enough to follow to read how he decided that the dog had become younger. I'm willing to believe that there are some measures by which that it true. But there aren't any good measures of age, except the calendar, and that's not that good, as different events cause people (and animals) to age differently.

Cinder blocks and bricks are a bad choice in earthquake country. I don't know what's wrong with timber-framed houses, but I do believe that a good foundation is more important than that choice...and I've seen some houses being built with extremely poor foundations. (They also weren't handling the materials in line with the manufacturers instructions.) This, of course, is extremely difficult to check on unless you watch the house while it's being built.

Intermittent fasting improves some measures and damages others. I think I read recently that it lead to increased heart attacks. Paleo diet is not well defined. (Different groups ate different things.) But avoiding complex sugars and foods high in carbohydrates is probably good. (OTOH some paleo groups at reasonable quantities of honey.) B-vitamin complex is something to ensure, because you can't store most of them internally. (I think you can with B12, but there's also the problem with digestive absorbtion of that one. Consider sub-lingual tablets.) I've no information on "red light therapy", but heat lamps are a traditional treatment for arthritis. And daily exercise is something that everyone recommends.