You're forgetting the big one: that the system is designed to fail and create an uneducated unskilled worker class for the wealthy elite.

Why does it matter if it's fake if it looks good? It's like mp3... If you can't hear the difference (and you can't, despite any claims you may make to the contrary - it's physically and biologically impossible), why does it matter if it's compressed?

Intel makes a lot more than CPUs. Intel makes them itself.

AMD only makes CPUs. AMD pays someone else to make them.

nVidia only makes GPUs. nVidia pays someone else to make them.

So of course Intel spends a lot more on R&D. They are developing a much wider portfolio and they are making it all themselves.

Sitting on the toilet doesn't give you hemorrhoids. Straining, having a poor diet, and trying to "hurry it up" gives you hemorrhoids.

If you're on the toilet for a long time because you have a low fiber diet and have to strain to eliminate, you're probably going to have hemorrhoids. The phone you're using to pass the time more pleasantly is not what's causing them.

I swear to God, when did so-called "smart people" get so stupid?

Money has definitely changed the food pyramid over the years. Various lobbies, and all.

But to your points about vegetarianism/veganism, I think the reason most people who try these diets have poor outcomes on them is because they unwittingly end up eating more ultraprocessed foods that are actually worse for them than what they ate on their previous diet. Most packaged "vegan" options are just awful. Ultra-processed TVP is as bad for you as cured meat in the long run.

My wife and I are on a "mostly" plant-based diet, and we do it with fresh fruits and vegetables, not ultraprocessed "imitation" meats and other garbage like that. I eat between maybe 8 and 16 ounces of meat in a normal week, and it's fresh meat from a local farm, not packaged, cured, processed, dyed, antibiotic'd, hormoned meat. It makes a huge difference.

I would venture a guess that the high cholesterol problem came about with ultra-processing of foods in the 1960s and 70s. More chemicals, more industrial food manufacturing, less nutrition in fruits and vegetables due to monoculture and mega-chemical farming, etc.. A lot of the chemicals used in the ultraprocessing of foods are probably toxic and inflammatory, and cholesterol production and plaque buildup is one way your body can defend the epithelial cells in your cardiovascular system from these toxins in your blood. It just so happens that this can also kill you.

Now, here's the ultimate problem. There are too many people. Eating healthy food requires agriculture that is free of pesticides, herbicides, hormones, altered DNA, chemical growth stimulants, and ultraprocessing. The amount of land we have could not possibly produce enough healthy food to feed everyone, and it can barely produce enough garbage food to do it. So, good luck solving that one.

I came to the same conclusion years ago. American culture especially glorifies extreme behavior in literally all things. Anything you do, you must take it to a crazy extreme, or else you're not *really* an American, right? "What do you mean you can only eat a 32 ounce steak?!?!?" Or, "hey YouTube, today I'm going to tell you that eating meat every day for every meal is the most healthy diet out there! Don't for get to smash that like button and subscribe! And by the way when I don't want my data compromised, I install this Chinese VPN! It's great!"1

Nothing will kill you in reasonable amounts (and for you pedants out there, this statement is not meant literally, but requires some capability of higher level abstract thought to understand). If you do everything in reasonable amounts, you are probably going to be just fine.

The outbreak of refined sugars has really been the downfall of our health and well being. People can't seem to make the right decision here not to consume a quarter pound of sugar every day. If artificial sweeteners accelerate cognitive decline by 1.6 years, that is probably a better outcome than dying of diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, stroke, and the myriad of other diseases that come from over-consumption of sugar.

Who is so dumb that they a) watch YouTube and b) actually pay for it?

You can be the hardest working person in the company, but if you are not delivering results, then you can't expect raises, promotion, and career growth.

Hard work alone is necessary but not sufficient. Your hard work must also be fruitful and targeted towards career growth.

You might pull a mean espresso and deal with hundreds of customers a day. Hard work. But if that's all you're doing, you're going to be a dead-end barista forever. You have to demonstrate ambition and the willingness to expand in your scope of responsibility. Make your hard work more valuable.

Hard work was never what made anyone a financial success. It was always the "making your hard work more valuable" that did it.

Stop calling things loopholes that aren't loopholes. The de minimis exception is explicit law, designed with the express purpose of protecting small retailers. Getting rid of de minimis only helps Amazon and Walmart and the Billionaire class, while hurting small retailers and the working class.

Do you mean to tell me that the trillion dollar pharma industry does what's best for the financial interests of the trillion dollar pharma industry and not what's in the best interests of patients? No fucking way. I don't believe it.

Did you somehow forget that he tried not to leave the first time and staged a violent coup attempt to try to prevent the certification of the election results?

The team is only asking for 500K. This is chump change to any number of the major climate SuperPACs or ultra-wealthy climate megadonors. So, why are they sitting at only 33K raised? I'd think access to actual climate science and data would be important enough for someone to pony it up immediately.