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The establishment is so disconnected from the lives of the every day person, which is the main issue. It's the economy, stupid. The stratospheric stock valuations that help the wealthy individuals who run the system doesn't put food on the table for the working class person as the politician buys his or her 7th property. It's not about progressive ideals as much as it is about a political party of elites showing off their lavish lifestyles with policies that don't help their constituents. The west is increasingly turning to a plutocracy, with a left wing that is really only left wing in name only in my opinion. It was able to sway just enough voters to switch "sides" as if the other side will solve any of their problems. It's not dead... it swings back and forth and big money buys which ever side has the power at the time. Of course I'm always willing to admit I'm wrong and trying to get past this anger over the "money printing" they did and try to see things from their perspective. I'd love to sit down and have a conversation with a central banker on monetary policy.

Morality is a human construct. Plenty of people have been attracted to their cousins. It's not exactly an optimal genetic strategy given what we know about science and genetics, but it happens. Don't forget all the dynasties that practiced inbreeding to keep their bloodlines pure and produced individuals like Tutankhamun. I wouldn't get one pregnant, because well science... I'd rather have optimal genetic offspring. If you don't get them pregnant, and nobody finds out, then it's nobody's business.

I've found most black labs love eating ice as a treat. I'm just going to eat common sense food, not too many carbs from processed grain type items (hot pockets, pizza, pop tarts, donuts, soda, etc) ... I don't care about the "seed oils" too much. I try to pick high oleic oils when I can but if I have to use some mayo made with soybean oil, so be it. Here's a chip they carry where I work I will eat on occasion, because it has signficantly more potassium than sodium (most potato chips made with potatoes should be high in potassium) but also because they make it with high oleic sunflower oil. I mean, I don't really think omega 6 is causing systematic inflammation and killing people slowly any more than any other food or breathing itself does, but might as well cover my bases. This is a rare example of "junk" food that I eat. Hopefully in time all industrial seed oils are replaced with high oleic versions. Right now it comes down to patent expirations combined with economies of scale and overall demand. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Boulder-Canyon-Potato-Chips-Jalapeno-Cheddar-1-5-OZ/116049920 https://www.sunflowernsa.com/oil/High-Oleic-Sunflower-Oil/ The nutrition label is sideways. Sigh.

Any change the the body's homeostasis such as sudden changes in temperature, environment, etc can cause stress, even if you don't psychologically perceive it to be stress. Sometimes people paradoxically get sick when they are most relaxed also, because the body is finally given a chance to relax and "let go" from life's stressors and will then go into rebuilding mode.

For the most part, we act to fulfill our genetic imperative in a matter acceptable to "society." That means for a man to be his best with the ultimate goal of trying to get a woman to want him and have his babies. How society goes about it varies somewhat culture to culture but most people don't necessarily fight for causes, nor are they into politics. Personally I think the people who think they are so much "smarter" than everyone else because they see themselves as "enlightened" or "intellectual" or whatever are deluding themselves. I used to be one of them... oh 95% are sheep, so it's easy to dismiss what they have to say... nonsense. These types can become dangerous in time because they then think it's their job to impose their values on everyone else, whether they're part of the red, blue, orange, or green cults. To a degree it's human nature to take a self centric view and believe one's own values are best though. It's another thing to yet be forgiven via radical acceptance of what is... our shared flawed genetic nature. Miniature pieces of computer software/hardware with societal and genetic programming, part of a larger whole yet diverse and unique with our own perspectives. We do have that polarity in us as Breakingthewall said, our higher self can get hijacked by our lower selves... it's like in yellowstone when Rip says "no more women in the bunkhouse" ... if you're familiar with that storyline, enough said. Not even billionaires are immune to human nature. Some of them probably mastered it well to achieve the wealth they have. Plenty of people have been taken to the "train station" to amass their fortunes...

Grass finished steaks just doesn't taste as good either. The fattening process from the grain gives the meat the marbling that gives it what would be considered a USDA "prime" grade which can not be achieved on grain finished meat, at least not easily. The only real difference between grass and grain finished is what the cows eat the last few months. Granted feed lot conditions are not the best in some cases. Still it produces the best finished product. To a degree the cows enjoy gorging themselves on an all you can eat buffet of sugar, just like humans do as our BMI has reached record highs. https://www.reddit.com/r/Butchery/comments/193r22n/grassfed_vs_nongrassfed_vs_grainfinished/khbnxmv/ https://hagancattleco.com/blogs/news/which-beef-is-better-grass-fed-or-grass-fed-gran-finished Another interesting bit of information: "Utilizing grass forage as the primary source of feed also increases the carbon footprint because forage diets produce more methane gas emissions from the animal’s digestive tract than high-energy grain diets. Methane is 28 times more potent, trapping heat in the earth’s atmosphere as carbon dioxide. Generally, the grain-finished cattle will reach market in 12-16 months with an average carcass of 832 lbs. It’s grass-fed counterpart will take 20-26 months to reach market with an average carcass of 638 lbs. According to the USDA’s per capita beef consumption data, this means that a grain-finished animal can feed approximately 10.4 people as opposed to a 8 for the grass-fed animal. Sara Place, an assistant professor of sustainable beef cattle systems at Oklahoma State University has stated: “The combination of a higher-energy, lower-forage diet, less time spent on feed in finishing and heavier carcass weights translate to a 18.5% to 67.5% per capita lower carbon footprint.” The numbers support that grain-finished animal practices are more sustainable and reduce environmental impacts."

When you actually can get yourself to sit in a room of your own volition for more than a day (I'm not talking about time between work but actual days off) the emotional shit that floods to the surface and the reset in dopamine that occurs can make the most mundane things come alive again. People really have been drugged into a state of apathy with all the screens, food, drugs, stimulating chasing, hedonism. Leo's older video on the happiness spectrum really rings true. Anything is fine in moderation, but can you go without it for a week without intense cravings or succumbing to doing said activity? If not you are addicted. Practice "open focus" while sitting in a room for hours/days but you need to have better programming in place to replace the old habits. Things like new hobbies and visualization are helpful.

They are programmed by their culture and media machine just like any other country. To a degree with the rise of social media they can see through the programming depending on how many of the bother to try but human nature is human nature. People in nations generally try to keep to themselves and live their lives in spite of their leadership, and not because of it. Most people aren't cause fighters, they just want to get a job, have a family, and enjoy the simple pleasures. If they have a property they can afford, food on the table, and the occasional vacation, they are generally satisfied enough. I believe many opposed the war, just like many Americans do... don't fight the banker's wars... the money printing machine that profits off the civilian casualties that come along with war... as Guns N Roses said, it "feeds the rich while it buries the poor." "Your power hungry selling solders in a human grocery store..." I don't believe most average people actually support their nation's wars without massive propaganda and basically being told they are going to fight or go to jail/die if they don't. It's all about control. Psychopathic leaders gain power and demand obedience. People can go along with it or if it doesn't affect them, kind of ignore it. (american middle east meddling)

It really is the most efficient way to not waste anything though, that's the problem. The land can't sustain animals free ranging, especially when so much of the land is used to grow corn to make ethanol for cars. It's an inefficient use of land and manpower to have chickens all free range, and even if you let them, often they spend most of their time in the barn anyways because it's protection from the elements and predators. As morally questionable as modern farming may be, corporations want to be efficient... they literally do use all parts of the animal, and if we want to make affordable mass market meat for every grocery small grocery store on the planet, there's not really an easy way to avoid it. I would argue we should get rid of ethanol for vehicles and use that land for cattle feed or increased grazing/free range, and then we can stop growing things like Alfalfa (used as cattle feed) in california using that precious water and have more land resources to produce food instead of fuel. I try to buy "certified humane" eggs when at all possible, and most beef cattle is not kept in pens, they mostly graze outside. It's dairy cattle that are kept in pens, chickens for eggs (if they are not "certified humane" not to be confused with "american humane certified"), and pigs. Don't really eat much pork personally. That area in the great plains where it's too hilly to farm, like western south dakota, drive out there and you'll see the large numbers of beef cattle grazing on the land. https://www.quora.com/Why-are-some-dairy-cows-kept-in-barns-instead-of-out-on-pasture If they really wanted plant based meat consumption to increase they should have subsidized impossible and beyond like they subsidize the farm industry as a whole during Biden's term. Unfortunately because it's not "natural" and considered "processed" neither side (vegans or meat eaters) wants to embrace this (in my opinion) decent meat alternative, and it's too expensive to really consider replacing meat with without a subsidy to cut the price in half (or more)

It's a natural cycle to have these forests in semi arid areas burn down every hundred years or so.. if you hike out in the black hills or in Wyoming/Montana as an example you can see all the dead stumps and vegetation from man intervening and putting out the fires, so if they get going, they can get big. This is not a sign of the end times, or major climate change (though the climate is warming due to increased atmospheric CO2) it's just this bad because they put fires out for long enough there's lots of tinder on the forest floor, and if you build in a fire prone area there are risks and it just takes a small fire and some wind to get it moving. Best wishes to the victims. This will put a strain on our already tight housing supply not to mention the skyrocketing national debt as I'm sure they'll print a few trillion to bail out the insurance companies and anyone uninsured, which means more inflation, more quantitative easing, and more of the same from the status quo. These events can make people realize just how tight a line we weave having a stable society and how lucky we were to have so many decades of relative prosperity and calm in a reality designed with entropy in mind where stability can become unstable more easily than people realize. Building a utopia and maintaining it is not easy.

Meat eating is simply part of our evolutionary nature. We evolved during the paleolithic era consuming meat. Many animal species eat other animals. The moral argument is one that is really just man made.. yes animals suffer but they suffer in nature as well, often in far more cruel deaths than having their throats cut by man to become a ribeye. There's no easy answer because we don't want rainforest cut down to grow more cattle for south americans but at the same time we can't and won't force veganism on the planet. We really don't want to keep growing the population in my opinion... those people like Musk who say we should keep breeding, the planet can handle 30 billion people, in my opinion contribute to the problem. Prepping 3 lbs of ground beef to grill into burgers as I speak. Unlike many I would eat insects or various other meat related compounds if they managed to make them taste good. Not going to live off grains and vegetables however.... my diet is lower carbohydrate.

We also use farmland, quite large amounts of it, to grow corn which we turn into ethanol which fuels vehicles which I'm rather questionable is actually a good thing or not, and they're going to push E15 soon over E10. https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/us-corn-based-ethanol-worse-climate-than-gasoline-study-finds-2022-02-14/

David Hawkins warned about the spiritual ego but it seems like a lot of people into spiritual self help have large ones and rather than focusing on radical acceptance, they'd rather turn into political activists. Just my two cents. I'm not without problems myself, working on them for sure. None of these gurus wanted people to see all the evil in the world and be negative and nihilistic.

I mean, if the government wants to badly enough they're going to slaughter their own citizens, and for what? To implement some "do as I say" top down authoritarian style of governance from some "utopian" dictator? Communism will never work as long as it's based on an autocratic system where only a few individuals control policy and the people have no voice or vote. It becomes dependent on benevolent leadership which given human nature is the exception, not the rule, given the type of people who tend to seek power. One could practice radical acceptance of what is... if it's my time, it's my time... we live but a blink of an eye in the relative age of this planet and universe anyways... just don't stick me incarnating in a North Korean dystopia where life is brutal for no other reason than to appease the dictator. In such an extreme example they break your soul from birth, taking away any desire you have to fight back.

I appreciate you bringing this up and it's also the reason I believe in the right to bear arms because of human nature and I don't trust Human Nature and human nature needs checks and balances to keep power and wealth from concentrating too much. If you have a dictator coming to power it's helpful to be armed. If the populace is not armed then they're powerless to do anything about the situation and this is the entire reason the founding fathers put the Second Amendment into the constitution. They were aware of human nature because it hasn't changed much in 250 years or 2,000 years. That said, I would argue that we should have better regulations in place to make sure only stable well-trained people are using them and I would probably raise the age to 21 because people mature a lot slower these days. However that's not going to happen anytime soon and I'm okay with that.

Sorbitol is in all sorts of low carb foods and maybe causes a little gas. It's a low glycemic alternative to sugar. It should still be consumed in moderation because the liver turns it into fructose. Then he equates the cellulose gum with the cellulose on your legs. I stopped watching at that point. Cellulose is an insoluble plant fiber found in all sorts of plant based foods naturally. There is an app called "yuka" my father uses to screen out toxins that rates things to weed out the worst offenders. There are certainly certain additives to be worried about still in some foods, but this content is nonsense content, like most content found on social media.

That seems to be human nature. The old generation are always the ones who talk about how great the "good old days" we're and how things are going to hell, while the young generation embraces the change. That's part of the reason change is so difficult when for example, the 80 year olds that have ran things for the past 40 years are still in office. That said, change for the sake of change isn't always a good thing. Humans are creatures of habit though... routines we develop in our youth tend to persist throughout adulthood... "it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks."

This is what it looks like when you stumble through life blindly ignorant and just get lucky by the way. Ever since I saw this footage I saved it.... not to derail the thread or anything.

Social media is creating not only echo chambers but sensationalizing life so people see extremism everywhere, and not the boring 95% in the middle that is average daily life. It's mostly done because of the algorithm, because it makes money and nets subscribers. It also can create resentment as people show off the most lavish aspects of life that are out of reach to most. Proper perspective is important in this regard. Life is not Reed Timmer screaming his head off as he drives the dominator into an F4 tornado. (If you haven't seen his Cole, OK footage it's really good)

It only seems limiting because we are at this point in our genetic and technological development, and not some other time. Humans, especially in the age of social media, lack patience and want everything now. They also lack the perspective of being able to see things from someone else's point of view, or the view of context on how life used to be experienced in the past, or how it might in the future. We can only experience the "now" and the "now" is what determines our feeling state so that's where we derive a lot of our context on life. It's like blaming the slave owner in 1800 for owning slaves or blaming the aging boomer for being a racist when those were cultural norms at the time. It's silly to blame people for past actions based on cultural mores at that time, yet people in the here and now do it all the time. You learn from the past, you don't sit and brood over it, or blame people now for the actions of their ancestors and demand reparations. Undeveloped people do this. Give it another 100 years, or 500.... assuming we don't invent a self aware AI that destroys us before we reach that point. We are not doing the things you suggest because we haven't reached the right level of development to do so. Nature is savage if you really observe life on this planet... just saying. Tough pill to swallow by those hipster progressives who talk about nature being "pure and innocent" and mankind being the evil ones... it's actually the opposite. It's mankind trying to play God and re-write the laws of nature to benefit their "morality."

Mankind are not good or evil, we just are. We act based on our evolutionary impulses derived over a couple million years of evolution. The fact we can conceptualize good and evil and define morality is an amazing trait, but not everyone is going to share that morality because for example, a certain percentage of the population are born psychopaths, or with the drive to kill (not a fan of using TV series as example of life but everyone loves Dexter, the serial killer who kills other serial killers) .. why are crime dramas the most popular TV series out there? The real solution to the problems of our species will come from science and genetic engineering, in my opinion. That assumes you can trust the people doing the engineering, and trust those in charge to do it properly. We need to re-wire the DNA of our hardware programming first. Otherwise we have too many neurotic animal traits left within our genetic makeup. That or massive cultural brainwashing from birth in a sort of autocratic system where people are forced brainwashed with "utopian values" but good luck with that. That or time, thousands of years more evolution, but with the way technology is progressing we are going to break this simulation before that happens. Overall I'd say you will never save everyone... the best you can hope for is a society that works best for the most individuals, which western society mostly does okay. I've often thought about visiting China and spending time there just to see how a supposedly better managed dictatorship functions. My exposure to China is limited to watching "The China Show" and then watching people like "Because I'm lizzy" who show the positive side. Autocracy is really leadership dependent more than other systems, and they can't be a stage green because as morally nice as greens are, a society run by them would collapse. Green values can't work in a vacuum. They violate the laws of nature. That aside, I agree with you... mankind is not inherently "good" ... then again no species acts out of "goodness" they do it because it benefits the propagation of their DNA in some way. "Good" can do this, but it doesn't mean everyone is programmed to do this. Nature is perfect balance to keep any one species from dominating, until humans came along that is. Nature is also full of suffering and competition along with death... it's everywhere if you care to look. It's amazing we've managed the level of self regulation that we have given how we used to behave even 50 years ago much less 150 when we'd move into an area and shoot every animal we saw. Progressives have done a good job making sure our base nature doesn't totally rape this planet, but even then that's because it's within our DNA to behave this way. Still have a ways to go because we still have a consumption driven society where central bankers want people to buy new things because economic activity is necessary to keep economic systems from imploding with all their unfunded liabilities (social security, paid maternity leave, "free" health care, etc) That said a lot of the geopolitical talk in this thread is outside my scope of understanding. It's all just our genetic programming acting itself out on the global stage. I asked the AI chatbot Gemini the other day whether an alien species would be compassionate and share our morality or not and got an interesting response I agreed with. Everyone here assumes morality is a trait inherit to life when it really isn't. Good thing interstellar travel is so difficult. I guess the creators/engineers of this video game knew what they were doing in that regard. Lots of different planets each inaccessible to one another in which we can try out a different "game" with infinite variety, infinite diversity, but not necessarily morality. Assuming an alcubierre drive is even possible, an alien species would probably have mastered their base impulses and genetic engineering before they ever had the ability to invent one and probably not go out with a goal to conquer other planets with sentient species, given how many planets they'd have to choose from that are uninhabited by sentient life. (99.9% of them)

My favorite video on nutrition is actually by this content creator who I originally thought was just kind of click baity but he actually puts out some quality content. Basically humans have been cooking our food for a very long time since we discovered fire so I'm going to pass on the raw food diet personally. The argument could be made that processed grains are mostly causing our health problems but as long as you aren't overweight and don't have blood sugar spikes even grains are healthy enough. Remember we evolved in scarcity and now we have a culture of abundance so rather than being starving trying to find food were all engorged in food with evolutionary impulses to eat and most of us weigh far more than we need to.

This is really where we should start our colonizing efforts before trying places like Mars or one of Jupiter's moons or something like that it's much closer and we can access the same water resources not to mention give ourselves some protection from the solar radiation due to the crater that's there which I guess is called Shackleton crater.

I mean this largely describes the western power structure today....they are wealthy as it is but its still not enough...we keep privatizing the gains and socializing the losses. These wars are just as much an excuse to print more money as anything. Our leaders rob the bank because our genetics.

When I think of it, I think of people who treat cops like asses, in order to try to prove a point and "exercise their rights" and then act surprised when the cops act like dicks in return. I get their point, but there's something called balance, and treating people like you would want to be treated. They should go to Mexico or South America and try that stuff and see how far they get. In the end we are all participants of the society in which we live...