A lot of US govt propaganda being repeated here. In the past 24 years since Putin came to power, Russia has improved in every measurable way. The life of the average citizen, from median income to life expectancy to healthcare coverage to education to even little things like how the subways operate and the amount of (or lack of) trash on the streets, drug use, homelessness, violent crime... has improved. It is a society on an upward trajectory.

I'm a pretty old fart, so I was already an adult in the year 2000, and I remember life in USA vividly. Things over here have declined in every way possible since then. There are streets where I grew up in, where I used to go to school, go to work, and they are filled with human feces and drug addicts sleeping on the sidewalk. Median income (real income, adjusted for cost of living) has plummeted. Press freedom has completely disappeared in USA, whereby every newspaper is just a govt stenagrapher repeating what they're told. Entirety of Congress and the federal government are just bought and paid for agents of the military industrial complex and big pharma.

And yes, the US govt blew up the Nord Stream pipelines. Personally ordered by President Biden himself and carried out by US Navy Seal divers planting C4 during the BaltOps exercises, then remoted detonated later. Read Seymour Hersh's report.

is humans. The average human body generates more bio-electricity than a 120-volt battery and over 25,000 BTUs of body heat.

That was US government mantra drilled into the heads of the citizens of USA (including you and me) for decades and decades. China is evil and Russia is evil because they're evil communists.

Now that China has completely embraced capitalism and market economy and become so good at it that it's burying US corporations, China is once again evil.

It ain't all about cheap labor. Labor costs in China now are far higher than places where US corporations have a strong manufacturing presence such as India and Vietnam. The #1 driver of Chinese manufacturing domination is that they've become very, very efficient. It's the same story we've seen before, with the likes of Toyota in Japan when they were far behind USA in the 1950's, but kept learning and improving until they surpassed the stagnant US companies.

In the last 20 years USA has spent 12 trillion dollars dropping bombs on villages in the Middle East that benefited no one except the military-industrial complex and some senators in the payroll of Blackrock. Meanwhile in the same 20 years China has spent exactly zero dollars waging foreign wars. Instead they spent trillions on improving their infrastructure (see all those new roads and bridges?) and automating their factories with robots. In fact the amount of industrial robots China bought in the past 4 years since COVID is astounding.... it's higher than all of USA Cananda and EU combined. *THIS* is the biggest driver of how China manufacturing has become so efficient.

No. I do not. The polar deserts are becoming valuable real estate. I don't need to persuade anyone of anything. I need to secure property rights, build fences and buy guns to protect my claim from those who clued in late. I'm really just making conversation.

You are creating poverty for no good reason.

You are wrong. There is no evidence to support the assertion that climate change from fossil fuels is rendering the planet less hospitable. If you research the Paleocene Eocine Thermal Maximum, you will see that the opposite is true.

Reputable sources -- government organizations and medical groups -- have a long and distinguished history being completely wrong when it comes to nutritional science. Actually even non-nutritional medicine.

Ever since the USDA food pyramid was released in ~1973 and pushed to all schools and hospitals, recommending eating less fat and less protein and more carbohydrates/sugar (which are just glucose molecules and basically the same thing), obesity has risen every year until it reached our current insane levels (majority of adults are now obese?? wtf) Just watch any old footage of a shopping mall or a street corner from before 1970 and notice how thin people are compared to today.

And not too long ago every child who ever caught a cold or a flu was pressured into getting a tonsilectomy by their doctor. Because that was the established, settled medical science. They really thought it was beneficial to the patient. I think as recently as 1970's they were giving out tonsilectomies like candies on otherwise perfectly healthy children who caught a cold.

Well today virtually no one gets a tonsilectomy just because they caught a cold. "Science" finally realized that all those decades of giving out tonsilectomies did not do a damn thing for the kids, they still ended up getting colds and flu at the same rate and it didn't make them any less sick either. It was just a completely unneeded procedure brought about by poorly done research.

Anyways you have group A saying PUFA is good for you and another group B (younger generation of doctors and scientists) saying it's horrible. Pick your poison.

Here's a few links to videos that are helpful. Of course internet videos are not proof of anything, but they do present the case for group B and you are welcome to judge for yourself.

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Good question. I've asked this before myself.

PUFA is unstable. Light hitting it breaks it down. High temperature breaks it down.

In nature, PUFA does not exist naked in liquid form in a bottle. It only exists inside the liver of a fish (OMEGA 3) or bound up in the plant fibers of, say a walnut (OMEGA 6). In both cases the PUFA oil is protected by the living organism's cellular walls and its antioxidant defenses. Same as how piece of meat sitting outside will rot and decompose rapidly, but inside a living orgranism it will not rot because of the organism's defense against bacteria.

If you only eat PUFA oils directly from fresh fish or fresh walnuts that you cracked open yourself, then it would be healthy because the PUFA hasn't had a chance to get oxidized and break down. But if you were to bottle up the fish oil in a concentrated form and then let it sit for months, it will have oxidized noticeably.

As for PUFA oils that were extracted from plant fibers such as soybeans in a processing plant, it has already been subjected to extremely high heat (100* celsius+) and high pressure and petrochemical solvents. It's already oxided to all hell beefore the product even gets bottled up, before it even gets to the supermarket.

That is a plausible scenario... except for some solid research done in the 20th century that indicate otherwise.

There was a famous Norwegian doctor/scientist who visited the Inuit people living in Greenland in the 1930's. At that time, these people still lived the same way they've been living for thousands of years, eating the same things, and "modern" foods hadn't reached them yet. Literally every gram of fat these people ate came from animals, mostly seal meat. Seal is a mammal and seal fat is nearly 100% saturated fat. And what he saw amazed him. No heart disease found on anyone, not even the oldest village elder. Exact opposite of what "modern science" predicts, which is to say that saturated fat causes heart attacks and PUFA unsaturated plant-based fats are very healthy. What this guy observed in 1930 was the opposite... zero plant-based oil consumption, zero heart disease.

Ultra processing doesn't neccessarily mean the food is bad for you. But it just so happens, due to economics of making shelf-stable low cost packaged foods, that these ultra-processed foods all contain lots of sugar and lots of toxic oil. It's these two ingredients that are killing people, not the fact that the food is processed in a machine.

Sugar you all know about.It causes type 2 diabetes and metabolic disease which leads to obesity, and obesity causes a whole host of other problems (heart disease, cancer, fatty liver disease, etc).

But the other big problem, toxic oil, lots of people still don't get it. Toxic oil means soybean oil, cottonseed oil, rapeseed oil (AKA "Canola" oil), corn oil, etc. They are all very high in polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA), which unstable and oxidize rapidly and become toxins which then lead to heart disease over time. These oils are frankenfoods.... they do not exist in nature in the pure liquid that we think of. There's only a tiny amount of oil in a soybean, and it's all bound up in the fibers and it's hard to isolate and concentrate it. That's why industrial processes using high heat and hexane (a petrolchemical solvent similar to gasoline) are used to extract and concentrate the soybean oil. It's then bleached to get rid of the gummy residue and to get rid of the smell. All this processing breaks down and oxidizes the PUFA, which is already unstable to begin with. That means the bottle of soybean/corn/rapeseed oil you buy from the supermarket is already oxidized to all hell and is going to be a major source of inflammation and irritation to your arteries and other things.

The only reason companies use these toxic oils is because they're very very cheap.

Prior to the 20th century, before the invention of these cheap toxic PUFA seed oils, everyone ate butter and tallow and lard, and maybe olive oil in climates where olives can grow, and heart attacks were nearly unheard of. Then beginning with the invention of hexane-extracted cottonseed oil (which were first used as industrial lubricant and not even considered for human consumption due to their dubious origin), heart attack rates rose and rose and rose until by the late 20th century, heart attack became the #1 killer of adults in all the "western" nations that switched over to these cheap oils.

Monounsaturated fats and saturated fats are what you should be eating. It's not that these good for you, it's just that they are stable products and are not toxins and they are not bad for you and they don't cause heart disease. So don't eat oil thinking it's good for you, do the opposite. Avoid the toxic shit.

Back to the original point of the article. There are some ultra-processed foods that are not bad for you at all. Think of freeze-dried egg powder. No sugar added, no PUFA oils, just normal regular eggs that are freeze-dried in a giant vacuum chamber and then ground up into a fine powder by industrial grinding machines. It's highly processed, but also it's perfectly healthy to eat it. Because it's got no sugar and no toxic oil.

This is really bad for those species. It's reasonable to expect that, in a healthy species, there's going to be a few self-fertilizing mutant freaks born. But, when those self-fertilizing mutant freaks dominate the landscape because insects aren't doing the job and there's empty habitat for the freaks to expand into and dominate, it's inviting a blight to take them all out. And then, there will be very few flowers of the species to reproduce with the bees. There's going to be dramatic change.

They follow a book. Anyone can read it. It's not bigotry or racism to read the book and claim that it defines the people who openly claim to follow it.

They are sickly, inbred xenophobic and antisocial monsters. They believe they are the chosen people of God, and they have two standards of behavior, one for each other and another for Goyim, who have dirty blood and are no better than animals.

They sexually mutilate little boys, they have irrational eating disorders that stem from mental illness, they are predatory loan sharks, and they engage in lies, slander, theft, banditry, fraud, corruption, propaganda, blackmail, assassination, murder and genocide.

They believe that there are two races. The human race, and the Jews.

It's in their book.

Eighty years ago, the Japanese and the Nazis believed they were the master race and wanted to keep themselves inbred and subjugate outsiders. We, as a species, stomped them, and now they are decent, civilized and valued members of the international community.

The Jews haven't been stomped hard enough yet.

An interesting take, to be sure. I don't see it, at all, but maybe others will. https://www.youtube.com/live/U...

I have been using GCP/BQ heavily for 7+ years now and we're GCP native at my current company for nearly 5 years.

Google's penchant for deprecating products is a constant worry for me, particularly our insane reliance on BQ. While BQ StandardSQL is close enough, lifting and shifting to something like AWS or Azure's cloud warehouse tooling would definitely be a headache.

That said, with their deep integration w/GA4 reporting and continued development of BQ, I am guessing they make enough money (particularly after their 25% price increase for on-demand) that it'll stay around for another few years.

Fingers crossed because, honestly, I don't want to have to deal with management of our warehouse and BQ makes it easy for us not to worry about that at all.

The official app only allows you to block 1000 accounts. On a site with millions of users. They don't tell you clearly that's the reason; the app just gives an arbitrary error message in 99% of cases.

That's shitty design and operation intended to stop you from blocking all of their advertisers.