Didn't he already outline his plan in that early 2000s documentary?

That's not a Pittsburgh left, it's PA in general. I moved from FL to the Philly burbs a little over a decade ago and that was one of the first differences I noticed. The second and third were live bait vending machines and township maintenance trucks overflowing with deer roadkill (plywood sides and hooves everywhere).

Okay, so not an outlier. I dropped a couple of inches of waist and maybe 15 lbs. going keto. I'm now I'm 5-10 and 160lbs, but was not obese before. I also dropped triglycerides from "you're going to die tomorrow" to normal and brought up my good cholesterol to normal levels. Everything they can measure in a blood test got better. I've been eating this way for ~7 years. No problems with muscle mass. I have more endurance and strength than I had on a more traditional diet. Energy level is more consistent, I sleep better, the acid reflux went away (and comes right back if I have a big carb meal so I know it wasn't weight), and I'm not fucking hungry all the time. Stuff I didn't even realize was a problem got better. Bacon, eggs, butter, sausage, a little cheese, and nuts are the staples in my diet.

Not saying it's for everyone (the wife does terrible on a high fat/low carb diet), but some folks do really well on it.

I don't have grocery bills plotted against inflation, but my grocery bill runs 6-700 a month for a family of 4 and has since 2011 (so saith Quicken). From my limited data, it doesn't seem like it cost more, just changed what we bought. Maybe the pork chops I had for dinner cost more than box of pasta and jar of sauce, but the eggs and bacon I had for breakfast were cheaper than the cereal and fruit, so it's kind of a wash. Pork, chicken, various nuts, eggs, butter, lots and lots of bacon. These things are not hard to find or cook. No personal shopper or chef required.

I had similar results as gosand, but it's not for everyone (the wife does terrible on high fat/low carb). For me it made a tremendous difference in everything they can measure about my health and I'd never go back. It's a shame that for decades a diet that could really help some folks has been demonized.

If that's true, they're doing it wrong. I have Ting, running off Sprint's CDMA network. I've swapped phones on the same account back and forth a half dozen times in a single day for testing. All I used was a web form. It just a couple of minutes each time to activate. No call required and certainly not $20 worth of effort for them.

It must be more than just having a urea injection system. I have a 2014 Passat with a urea injection system and it's one of the bad ones. Supposedly it's not in the 40x the legal limit bucket, but still somewhere around 15x the legal limit.

It's worse than you think. Zipcodes are for the convenience of the postal service. They do not follow municipal boundaries. You have to get more granular than that.

Go back and watch the originals again. There are shots in there were it's just two folks talking in front of a matte painting. The technology changed, but not the technique.

Having moved from FL just a few years back I have a hard time believing this unless you were living entirely in your parent's basement. This is slashdot so that is certainly a possibility, but hardly anyone has a basement in FL so I'm just confused.

Like it's only 50! Sales taxes can change along county and township boundaries. What is actually taxed changes too.

I've got some family and there's some coworkers that are big into the home schooling. All the kids are very polite, great at spelling bees, but they think Genesis is a science textbook and they have some serious disconnects from reality. It's really pretty sad.

I remember in the early nineties when the Circuit City car audio installation department employed all those otherwise out of work recent EE grads. Good times.

Where do EE majors work now? The wife is looking for work.

A modern human needs 2k calories a day when they work a desk job. When I worked construction I was eating around 5k calories a day and weighed 140 lbs at 5'10". I suspect the life of a modern human in the time of the Neanderthal was probably more on the construction end of the calories required spectrum than the sits around with a laptop end I enjoy today. Still not the 7k you mention above, but not as much of a difference.

Not so much anymore. I work for a big company who a few years ago did a lot of off shoring (not outsourcing, they were employees of the company) to India. We learned a few lessons, including that it's not really the bargain management expected. There's good, there's bad, but it's no free lunch. Now Romania is the new India. I expect the outcome to be the same.