So the study does actually address that , and found that indeed people who didnt eat the sugar in those first 3 years tended to consume less later in life.

Annecdotally (which isnt evidence!) that rings true to me. My mother was pretty strict on no sugar and minimal salt (in the 1970s the thinking on salt linked it a lot closer to heart disease than current thinking does which has de-emphasized that a little), and nowdays I pretty much never put it in my food and shy away from sweet food, and use pretty minimal salt.

With all that said, the study does mention that children exposed to less sugar in early childhood appeared to have longer telemeres and that there is likely the smoking gun on the early childhood / sugar link, as theres a pretty well established link between telemere length and cancer succeptibility in late life. Essentially the telemeres are the caps on the end the genomes, and the longer they are, the better protected the ends of the genome are from copying errors. Its also closely associated with the hayflick limit (essentially how many copies a cell can make before it shits the bed).

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."

Wait. No. I guess *they* won instead.

Doesn't matter if Biden was slowly going senile, he hired good competent people and had a grasp of issues which Trump NEVER did - it's way more about the team you form and the connections you make; plus he managed to get a lot done in an impossible mess he had to clean up. It was going way better than I thought possible, I didn't expect as much as he accomplished. It is easy to break everything; hard to fix it when 1 side is actively trying to destroy anything that might help; simply because politics is more important than doing anything good. Everything is a lie / projection, it was never "America First" that is just old fascist propaganda they recycled. The biggest victims of their graft is their fascist supporters.

Biden would probably have stepped down at this point and the 1st woman would be president which is the only way that is happening; the USA will be gone soon so that will never happen. It is certainly no longer united; and some people will be delusional after it is obvious; like COVID etc.

At what point is it actually gone? The clever way is to hype the corpse as being alive -- Rome took 100s of years to die and it's not clear exactly when; the constitution has been reduced to a meaningless word, Christ is gone from American Christianity, facts are just an opinion, etc. It's all messaging for emotional appeal and the words have lost meaning which is the most important point from 1984 is how language controls thought... so important he made an appendix for the book to explain it! When a fiction book adds an appendix it's a huge indicator that shouldn't be overlooked!

At some point that turkey that fell out of the car...is not edible...after it gets lost in a swamp for a few hours... some will say-- just wash and cook it longer, it's still good! it's still good! If you learn about KGB subversion, you know we've passed the point of no return and the collapse will happen - it's just a matter of how fast Agent Orange can accelerate it. The poisoned culture will infect all attempts to correct making them ultimately a lost cause. Nobody truly knows how to cure a diseased political culture like Russia and exporting their social disease is their greatest weapon. It's what they've used against the USA primarily and Putin was at one point in charge of it then he took over and super charged the effort way beyond the cold war levels. It's certainly extremely cheap but very slow in effectiveness. Trumps such a natural, it's like he was engineered in a lab or heavily trained when he visited Moscow. (I think he is a mentally ill asset they know how to control.)

Even on a phone, if you're playing an album, you're playing an album. You search for it once, not over and over. A 15% increase in fatalities, if this isn't just noise that will regress to the mean after more data comes in, would point to people being distracted for an extended period of time... you know... by actually listening to the music and paying attention to that instead of to their driving.

But without decent public transportation or reliable eyes-off autonomous driving, we're going to continue to waste money and human life on distracted driving.

While I would love to believe that getting the word out with public service announcements to improve the public's general awareness of the risks of distracted driving, or actively reworking our training and licensing programs. The cynic in me knows in my bones that most people think they are above average drivers, and that people will feel that raising the requirements to get a license is somehow unfair.

Conservatives, finally the cry bully, snowflake victims they always wanted to be deep down. They have controlled the media for decades, Roger Ailes literally created the unending, incessant propaganda formula and part of it is acting like liberal are at the helm of everything still. It's all just a game after all.

VAT is a regressive tax too. Utter dogshit policy to be expected of the center-right ordoliberal governments that dominate EU economic politics.

Having to also predict solar yields increases overall prediction error. Shading from dust, smoke, clouds, squall..etc can cause substantial temporary and local changes in solar output not realistically captured by weather forecasting.

This is a fundamental misunderstanding of what decarbonization means. It's not about meeting current demand with renewables it is about shifting off-grid consumption of hydrocarbons to the grid. This requires massive reductions in cost and massive increases in grid capacity. You can do a lot on the margins with solar but from the modeling I've seen the benefits are self-limiting. As solar capacity increases you saturate supply and then you saturate ESS. There is no long term / seasonal technology akin to filling natural gas storage tanks for winter consumption and without it there is no realistic economically feasible avenue for decarbonization via renewables.

Adding renewables increases overall energy costs despite solar power being cheap. This is the exact opposite of what is required for decarbonization. It is actively harmful.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/m...

Nuclear is a far more realistic option for decarbonization than solar. We don't even have the technology to support an economically feasible grid that runs entirely on renewables. Cherry picking temporary supply issues with whatever you don't like doesn't speak to anything meaningful.

I don't get that. When costs go up, wages go up. There's no reason not to include minimum wage in that scheme. Yes, it's a kind of rat race - that seems to be the nature of economies. My old sig seems relevant here: "The Economy is a giant Ponzi scheme whose most pitiable suckers are the youngest among us and the yet-unborn".

I also think the experience of many Europeans contradicts your contention. People working in food service industries in some countries there enjoy paid vacations which some US tech workers would be jealous of. These people have decent lives, leisure time, and good healthcare.

Things are similar here in Canada, although probably not as good as in Europe. Our policies and expectations have been pretty heavily shaped by America's. That may change now that the US has jumped the shark and is busy making itself irrelevant to the rest of the world.

I think there's lots of evidence that a minimum wage which follows wages in general results in durable, worthwhile benefits to a society.

This doesn't make any sense. You may have misread or misunderstood what was said.

Maybe he hates lefties because he fundamentally thinks they are like him?

Yeah well it's not your fucking local supermarket.

Unfortunately it is mine. There are local smaller shops I also go to but it's proven pretty handy you know?

Hello from South East London. This is actually my local big supermarket.

Fuck those guys. Yeah this is one of the ways in which the UK is indeed a bit shit. This is not something I mind discussing as long as I'm not being lectured/hectored by someone divorced from reality. That's surprisingly common on the internet but I digress.

Without reference to other countries, yes the UK is a bit shit in a number of regards. This facial recognition obsession combined with a jobsworthy passing of blame and a Lovell system which only works for the wealthy and powerful is one of them

Why was my first thought about this "bwahahaha"? I mean, they'd never activate this without permission - right?

I wonder how soon somebody will come up with some kind of random "stirrer" to mask occupants' movements.

Or maybe for a Vice President? For Vance, the capitalized versions of "al bundy" and "ai bundy" are both appropriate.