I propose a system of color-coded tin foil hats.

Genetics and luck are bigger factors than diet. But diet is statistically meaningful and something that we can control. So you'd be an idiot to ignore your diet.

If food has been changed from its natural state, then it is processed. Bake an apple pie, that's processed. You cooked the apples with added sugar and spices, perhaps in a crust made of flour and shortening.

Minimally processed would be like if you bought some shelled raw almonds. It's not completely original, but it's processed in a way that added no additional ingredients.

A classic example of processed food would be canned sardines. They have added oil and salt and are cooked in their can. They are not necessarily devoid of nutrition, but you as the consumer don't have a lot of control over their preparation and ingredients. You're buying them as a package deal.

Processed meats, is a whole other category beyond simply being a processed food. And the term can have a very specific meaning. For this context of this article, assume that processed meat being meat that is transformed through salting, curing, fermentation, smoking, or other processes to enhance flavor or improve preservation.

Ultra-processed food is a new category. It's a little harder to pin down because part of the definition is the intent to create food produces through intensive manufacturing processes. A signature trait of ultra-processed foods are ingredients that are taken from other foods. Generally purified at a chemical level such as lactose, modified food starch, casein, whey, hydrogenated oils, protein isolate, maltodextrin, invert sugar, or high-fructose corn syrup.

This reminds me of an episode of The Whitest Kids U' Know. In the skit was a chubby fellow that kept lying to his doctor about how many hot dogs he eats a day. (not actually that funny of a show - just relevant)

A New Jersey Italian hogie gets you 3 or 4 meats in one bite

Creation of new classes of people that have reduced rights, reduced ability to petition, and most importantly no legal authority to form a union; all part of standard practice here in America for well over a hundred years.

The exploitation of labor is not precisely equivalent to slavery. The hyperbole is useful for attention grabbing rhetoric, but falls apart when people start picking at the definition(s) of slavery.

Ultimately an illegal immigrant has more choices than a slave. They can walk away and go back to their home country. They could illegally immigrate to a different country (Canada?). I totally agree that people are being exploited here. But let's not throw the terminology of slavery around so much that it loses all meaning.

You can probably eat a tablespoon of sawdust a day without dying, perhaps as much as a quarter of a cup.

You shouldn't actually eat any sawdust though, it does you no good whatsoever.

citation required. Look very carefully at the claims I made. come back to me when your reading comprehension is beyond the link spam stage.

Skilling up gives you more flexibility in looking for a new job, or for growing into a new role at your current employer. Life isn't instant ramen that is finished after 90 seconds in the microwave. There's no set time for the pay off of your efforts in your own education and career growth.

Thankfully my own employer usually avoids that nonsense. But we are big enough to have developed a lot of in-house introductory courses and self-directed programs. Sadly, most of the commercial courses are total garbage and barely exceed what an 1 hour introductory presentation can cover.

Some employers are both very anti-employee and work against their own profit interest. Wasting money while also burning bridges with their employees. A lose-lose strategy for them, but sadly all too common in business. Where toxic corporate culture is tolerated and even lauded by the pointiest of haired managers.

You need processes and tools to do that, not a person doing it directly.

And this isn't a new problem that AI created, it's always been an aspect of software development on large projects.

No. you're incorrect. The requirement in California never took practical effect for school children. It was contingent on FDA approval for age ranges of K-6 and 7-12 before going into full effect. It was not until the start of the 2023 school year when the FDA approval for covid-19 vaccine for ages 12 and up was announce, prior to that it was available only under Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) and not mandated in California public schools.

Children in California public schools, depending on their vaccination status, were required to wear a mask or attend remotely. They were NOT required to vaccinate in order to attend public school in California. As such a requirement would violate the California State Constitution and probably violate some Federal statute or Dept of Education requirement (that's more complicated to look up)

So keep digging for your bullshit. I already looked this up and you're dead wrong.

The required vaccines for children to enter public school never included a C19 vaccine. It varies by state, but the required vaccines can include: Polio, Chickenpox, MMR, DTaP, HepB, HepA, Influenza, HPV.

And here's a infographic if you need a picture to understand the COVID-19 vaccine requirements better.

From 2019 to 2025, there have been no federal, state, or municipal mandates to vaccinate school children. Whatever outrage you have about vaccination of children is unfounded and living rent free in your head.

It's a waste of human life when people get into that garbage pseudo-science. But how much was their life really worth to the rest of us in the first place?

None according to my check ups. Those of us with a family history of heart disease tend to keep a very good eye on our heart health. And any small changes tend to show up on tests, especially something like the persistent inflammation of the heart. Inflammatory cardiomyopathy is a serious complication for us old farts with bad tickers and it's best to stay on top of it.

Inventing unfounded fears that isn't backed by data and more importantly, doesn't appear in my individual case, is paranoia at best and politically-driven fear mongering at worst. Please don't make human health a pawn in your warped political views.

This was not a zero sum game. Both the US and Soviet Union lost the Cold War.

The decline we see in the US today with regard to individual liberty is a direct result of policies established through the second half of the 20th century.

Putin wins because his country already lost, acknowledge its lost, and has to some degree recovered from it. Although they transformed into something far worse.