The tips about opioids and stimulants are also valid if you want to reduce harm while doing those kinds of drugs.

There’s a reason rich people prefer them.

Eww. I need bleach for my ears.

On a related note, I learned yesterday how Kennedy must have gotten his brain worms https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-do-people-get-parasitic-brain-worms-like-the-one-rfk-jr-had/

It’s important to take the right drugs, if you want to get rich.

• For example you should take marijuana edible and vapes. Don’t smoke the dried flowers directly.
• You should take prescription painkillers. Avoid heroin and black market fentanyl.
• Do not take Methamphetamine. Try cocaine instead.
• Hallucinogens should help across the board

^Disclaimer: This is not a serious comment. Don’t do drugs!^

Because it will be decreasing in value right after you buy it?

Practically the only time, Bitcoin isn’t at an all-time high is when the price is falling. That would be an even worse time to buy

Doesn’t the US even allow nurses to inject potent neurotoxins, as long as there is a doctor on the books that could theoretically be called?

How does inventing a 4th language help with that?

Are fats part of eating real foods?

Yes. Healthy fats are a natural part of real foods such as meat, seafood, dairy, nuts, olives, and avocados. These fats support brain health, hormone function, and nutrient absorption when consumed in their natural forms.

They are really pretending meat has healthy fat, lol?

If they had simply left out that single word, their advice on fats would have been pretty good.

I don’t think the election was between trump and Trump. That would be worrisome

Even that isn’t the problem.

He was already promoting anti-vacs conspiracy theories in 2004. The tapeworm was removed in 2010. I doubt he had it for that long

The new food pyramid is just as influenced by lobbyist as the previous one. Only this time it’s the life stock industry.

Plus anti-woke MAGA wants to distance itself from vegans as much as possible.

But also, lean, fresh meat isn’t that bad. It does have a lot of protein, with really balanced amino-acids. You don’t have to carefully combine grains and legumes, in order to not miss out on essential nutrients.

Meat also has a lot of bioavailable iron and vitamin B12. Both are important and usually insufficient in a vegan diet.

If you count fish as meat, it also has bioavailable Omega-3. Especially fatty ocean-fishes like salmon. If you don’t eat fish, you either have to eat microalgae-oil or severely reduce your omega-6 consumption (no chips for you. They are fried in sunflower oil).

In contrast to fresh meat, most processed meats are really bad:

• Cured meat has sodium nitrate. That’s a known carcinogen.
• Smoked meat has smoke particles. That’s another known carcinogen.
• Charred meat has charring. Another carcinogen.

And you also shouldn’t eat a lot of fat from land animals. It has a lot of saturated fats which, you guessed it, cause cancer.

That’s a terrible choice in a children’s book. Kids are supposed to learn how to read.

And English is an unusually difficult language for learning to read anyway. The spelling is completely inconsistent (who decided to fix the spelling during a great vowel shift?).

Is that AI, or did the illustraters deliberately misspell things?

To me that sounds even worse.

Yes. But how is that relevant?

Either the Democrats win the general election, then it’s irrelevant who the Republican candidate is, or they lose. Then the moderate Republican would be much better than the maga extremist.

I guess there could be some concerns about a moderate Republican swaying more independent voters?

No. To my knowledge, putting the means of production into the hands of the people was never a majority opinion. And democracy is important.

However, there are many social democratic policies that I believe have very broad support, and that still aren’t being implemented:

• Universal healthcare (e.g. through mandatory insurance with central price negotiations)
• Ban on pharmaceutical rebates
• Universal free preschool
• Free school lunch
• Incentivising local governments to zone more medium density housing.

Then there are other policies that I think would be really good for the US, but I am not sure the support is bipartisan:

• Tighter control on monopolies
• Unlimited sick days with a doctor’s note
• Minimum vacation days
• Raising minimum wage and implementing an automatic inflation adjustment
• Maximum weekly work hours
• Banning false self-employment
• Union protections
• Parental leave
• Free college admission

The latter category is also where I would place steps towards market socialism. For example federal laws that allow worker cooperatives (currently only some states allow them). And potentially even lowering the tax on worker co-ops compared to conventional companies.

What’s your opinion on those questions?

It’s pretty much the same in a parliamentary election system with an electoral threshold.

If the party you vote for can’t clear that threshold, you might as well not vote at all.

I guess your vote still has a slight impact, as it makes it harder for other parties that hover around the electoral threshold to get in. But I doubt that’s the impact you are going for.

Yes. I’m talking about an extremely directly democratic legislative system.

Democracy is supposed to put decisions in the hands of the people. But in our current system, that doesn’t seem to be the case. Germany is the 13th most democratic country. And still lobbyists have such a heavy influence that they might as well be considered our legislative.

Some people might be annoyed to be called for citizens’s assembly duty. But democratic participation is vital if we want a fair system.

The executive system would be slightly more technocratic than our current system. Expertise would definitely give candidates an edge.

For many posts the votes would mostly be cast according to morals. Like how I chose the green candidate, regardless of qualifications, for the ministry of transportation. I want trams and bike lanes. Not a transportation engineer that knows how to build even bigger parking lots.

But during a pandemic, I don’t want Spahn or Kennedy as health minister. I want someone like Lauterbach or Fauci. So maybe some technocracy is a good thing.

The government would be voted through instant runoff voting.

The legislative would combine several forms of direct democracy. Namely:

• Agenda setting initiative
• citizens’ assembly
• referendum