Lol, there are several comments on this post specifically talking about castration. Simply highlighting one aspect of the paradigm does not mean you condone the other, nor does it mean people are ignoring it.

Sexual violence against women is spoken more about because it is much more common than with men. One out of five women are victims or rape or rape attempts, comparatively only one out of thirty-one men have experienced the same. The same goes for cattle, as the vast majority of cattle are females.

Simply stating that fact does not mean people do not care about sexual violence towards men, nor would someone who cares about the suffering of animals condone the morality of the practices in the meat industry when it comes to male cows.

I would say that’s an example of perfect being the enemy of good. If someone is making a conscious effort to moderate their consumption of meat then how can that be a bad thing when compared to the vast majority of people who make no effort at all?

Any amount of effort is better than not trying at all. Plus, is wager that the majority of people transition into vegetarianism/veganism, and this may be the first step of that journey. Why would anyone be critical of these people when there are people whose main caloric intake is meat?

There seems to be at least some level of neglect.

Especially since he is claimed to have quite a bit of alpine experience compared to her. That’s really what brings the liability of negligence to the whole scenario.

Alpine hiking at night is already incredibly dangerous, but not ensuring the person with the least amount of experience has the correct equipment and knows how to use it is just wild.

I wonder, though, did she not have a phone? Was there no reception, or why did she not call or signal for help herself?

Well the confusing thing is that they had helicopters overfly them multiple times as they made their climb and both failed to signal and continued their way to the summit. The person on trial claims that she was doing fine until right after the last flyover and then suddenly started to get worse.

As someone with a mild amount of cold weather experience… I don’t really believe this at all. If I were a betting guy I would wager that she was already suffering from the mental affects of hypothermia. You can enter a super suggestive state the colder you get and your mental faculties and decision making ability rapidly deteriorate to the point where you can get lost and just start walking in circles.

Were there other ways to make it through the night?

She did have a bivy sack that could have provided at least a decent amount of shelter, but he didn’t help her set it up before he left her on the mountain.

Tbh it really seems like he was purposely trying to endanger her, or at very least is a huge piece of shit that didn’t care about her well-being. This would be like a scuba diver taking an amateur on a night dive, not teaching them how to operate their regulator, and than abandoning them a hundred feet underwater in the dark. It really is criminal.

Trump is incredibly different from everything in your lifetime. You either haven’t been paying attention, or your a frog in a pot and just didn’t notice the temperature rising.

Did you miss the part where I said worse…?

things were never super great under either party but your country didn’t collapse either. So you’re expecting things to go on like that for the rest of your life.

It has been in perpetual decline for decades. Trump didn’t just happen overnight, nor will America be ghosted overnight, Empires die slow deaths.

It rhymes with guys like Putin, Erdogan, Mussolini, and Hitler.

Not a fan of Putin or erdogan… But I think falsely conflating them with Mussolini or Hitler is a bit much.

Americans won’t stop him because of the false sense of complacency.

Fascism is rising in all western democracies as a response to late stage capitalism. It’s not inherent to America, nor is from a false sense of complacency.

while Americans stick the sand, the rest of the world is noticing. And we don’t see Trump as the cause of the problems, he’s a symptom of the rot in American culture.

Yeah… I don’t think the fascist movements ballooning all over Europe have been made aware they appropriating American culture.

all hoped you would just vote for the black lady and things would have indeed gone back to normal. But that didn’t happen. Americans either voted for fascism or were complacent about it as you are.

Lol, who said I didn’t vote for as you said “the black lady”?

Trade will be routed around the US. Alliances with the US are just paper now, they’re meaningless. The US will be isolated as Spain was under Franco.

I’m willing to bet the corporations in your country still care more about money than they do about policy. America still has a bunch of capital to swing around and in the end that’s really what liberal democracies care about.

I think nations should boycot America, I just don’t really expect them too.

You could’ve just voted in primaries and got some people in power that would tax the wealthy.

When did I say I didn’t?

The US is the wealthiest country in the world, just the wealth didn’t trickle down as Reagan told you it would. But if you thought being a wealthy country with a population indoctrinated into apathy on wealth distribution was bad?

Do you think everyone in America shares a hive mind or something?

The US is fucked and the rest of the world is trying to distance itself from you before it all collapses. But go on and keep thinking everything is going to keep on as it always has.

Again… What do you think everything progressively getting worse means? What do you think a “collapse” actually means? How exactly is a country like Canada going to shield itself from a collapsing America when America is by far its largest trading party?

If you think this problem is just in America, or that canda doesn’t have a problem with income inequality… I really don’t know what to tell you. This is just what happens to any nation who bases their economy on the idea that infinite growth on a planet with finite resources is possible.

My point of contention is largely that the issue isn’t with the will of the voters, and that the direction of policy is largely directed from the top down.

Most American progressives are vastly more progressive than their representatives. It’s just that the DNC’s leadership is filled with thirdway democrats who refuse to support anyone left of center.

Edit: just reread you original comment. I misread it the first time round and thought you had said it was as far left as the people were willing to go. My bad.

Americans expect a lot from their Presidents. But the real problem is Congress.

I mean it’s definitely both… Congress has empowered the executive to an incredible degree, and this has been rarified by the judiciary.

Plus, most people ignore most elections other than when electing a new president. So your presidential candidate has a huge influence over the makeup and political agenda of Congress.

Okay, but the reason we have had centerist presidents is because that’s as far left as the people running the government and the media were willing to go.

Eh… That’s debatable. The modern democratic party being center right is kinda a byproduct of Thirdway politics. Which was largely popularized by the party leaders itself, specifically by the Clinton’s.

Bill Clinton rose to power by advocating for compromise as a way to get through the growing gridlock in Congress. This worked for his career, but it gave the Republican party a huge amount of influence over defining what that middle ground was. They would work with Democratic candidates with policy that served their purposes and completely ignore the ones that served anyone left of center.

This had the overall effect of not only controlling policy in congress, but actually being able to vicariously control the opposition. As time went on the only people who reached seniority in the DNC were those who would compromise with the rnc to create a “mutually” beneficial policy.

Don’t worry… Our next president will be a center right candidate and be declared both a rabid leftist and simultaneously the saviour of democracy. They’ll only predator drone strike a few weddings, thus securing their Nobel peace prize. Everything will return to normal, with just a little shift of the Overton window to the right. But hey, at least it won’t be Trump and full on fascism…

All sarcasm aside, the older I get the more headlines give me dejavu. I can remember article like this after the Gulf war where I felt like other countries were actually stepping away from America’s lead, and then the Clinton’s rose to power to make things better. Then Bush v2 and Afghanistan and then Obama promised to make it all better. Now we have trump and I’m beginning to wonder what kind of centerist compromise the Democrats are cooking up.

History may not repeat itself but it sure does rhyme, and seemingly the tune it does it to just gets worse every iteration.

While I applaud any government for attempting to better the environment, I really wish this project was done with more forethought.

Unfortunately they have done this forestation primarily with fast growing poplar and willow trees, making a vast monoculture that wont likely last in such a harsh climate for more than a decade.

Without the natural biodiversity that supports a living Forrest ecology, it only takes one disease or pest to wipe all that effort. In the end it might do more harm than good when considering the amount of ground water something like this will take out of the water cycle.

He’s always been like this, in the past he’s just had handlers that managed his image. I think around 2015 he fired his secretary mommy that had been controlling his worst behaviors for over a decade.

Isn’t this like a slam dunk for Weddings legal defense? The FBI doesn’t have legal jurisdiction to operate outside of the US… Isn’t this basically admitting to violating his 4th amendment rights?

I was speaking in relative terms in regards to expansion. Relative to something like the US’s use of the Monroe doctrine, China’s handling of the south China sea is pretty mild.

While they are heavy handed in the scope of modern time…they aren’t exactly having their version of Teddy Roosevelt invading Cuba or anything.

I think the valid complaints you can levy towards China are similar in respect to any nation that is becoming a dominant superpower. I think the problem that most people are having is that they weren’t around when the US or European powers were securing their own hegemony.

Pretty much any developing superpower is going to have an issue with nationalism, historical revisionism, and eyeballing territorial/cultural expansion. I am Korean and have had quite a few Chinese friends. Of those friends opinions can vary greatly depending on where their from and when they migrated. What I can attest too is that recent migrants from the mainland tend to be very nationalistic and have some very worrying opinions about history compared to the Chinese people I grew up around. Particularly that China is basically the motherland of all East Asia, and that all East Asians are basically estranged children that should be folded back into the greater body of China.

I would argue that China is doing this with a much gentler hand than the US or Europe did historically, however it still sticks out due to how those types of actions are viewed through a modern and western centric lens.

It really depends on your activity level and what your goals are. To quote from your own source "If you’re actively building muscle with strength or resistance training, more protein can help,” said Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, a Tufts University nutrition expert. “Otherwise, you’re getting enough.”

Most Americans are getting enough protein in their diet because most Americans are less active than they should be and are already eating more than they should be.

Diets should be built around an individuals needs, though fiber is one of the things virtually no one is getting enough of unless your eating like 5 cups of lentils everyday.

Japan et al is a very societally conservative country and considers the typical right-wing mob/sheep mentality preferable to the left’s constant debates.

Eh… Kind of? In my experience most people under 40 in Japan are completely apolitical. Like to the point where they wouldn’t really understand the difference between the left and right.

They have some of the worst voting turnout in the world, and the older class typically makes all the decisions in regards to government.

They are socially conservative, but mostly because the younger generations are completely disconnected from politics.

Lol, so your claim is that people with excessive cholesterol levels require it because they are making more brain…?

No is claiming you shouldn’t have any cholesterol in your blood, just that there isn’t reason to have an elevated amount.

If your body actually needed the excess lipids being produced it wouldn’t be saturated in the blood, it would be getting used.

The body literally makes it because you need it

For what?

People with high cholesterol live longer…

I don’t think that’s really a conclusive study. It only focuses on people who are already 80 or older and ignores the majority of people who suffer from cardiovascular issues that don’t make it to their eighties because of it.

From this study you could also conclude that people who have a natural resistance to high cholesterol live longer.

Youd wanna lower arterial plaque so cholesterol doesnt get stuck?

Plaque forms when cholesterol lodges to the walls of arteries. This happens at a greater rate when you have more lower density cholesterol in your blood.

An arterial calcium scan is the best indicator for heart disease etc. Not cholesterol

But calcium buildups are formed from clacified plaque, which is made from cholesterol…

If all forms of high cholesterol were really beneficial Americans would modern day Methuselahs.

Kinda a crazy move considering that they were charging 8k for “fsd” before, and are moving to a monthly subscription of a hundred bucks a month.

You would have to own your Tesla for six and a half years for them to make the same return. My guess is that the hundred dollars a month is just the initial price which will drastically inflate over time. That or they are just going to raise prices by 8k and still charge you a subscription cost anyways…

I feel like 10-15 years ago Waffle House was a really decent greasy spoon diner for the money. I remember being able to get an all star special for five bucks. I just looked it up and they’re wanting $13-14 now…

Yeah, there was a website that had all the unedited transcripts and some recordings from crashes. I don’t think I remember reading any real prayers, that’s unless you count something like “oh God, oh god” as a prayer. Mainly just a lot of swearing and a mix of panicked or resigned statements. Most are just a couple sentences long, seems like most crashes go from fine to catastrophic very quickly.