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2024-10-26 16:11:52

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Bitcoin is riskier
If you want to gamble on maybe becoming rich, that's the one to go for
Gold is more stable
If you want to preserve wealth, that's the one to go for

2024-10-19 11:59:47

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"clean" "water"

2024-10-17 15:57:58

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If I'm already muted I guess my reply doesn't matter
But for the record I'm quoting the abstract, not endorsing the study

2024-10-17 15:54:03

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I'm quoting the abstract....

2024-10-17 13:46:07

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https://youtu.be/j3plj_Xplus

2024-10-17 13:39:29

This study examines prospects of edible whole insect and processed insect-based food in Germany and investigates determining factors for acceptance...
The main results show a low willingness to try insects among Germans and the prevalence of psychological and personality barriers to consumption, such as disgust and food neophobia. Focusing on processed insect products is shown to be the most promising strategy to implement entomophagy, as an essential barrier to consumption is the visibility of the insects.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334618984_Eating_edible_insects_as_sustainable_food_Exploring_the_determinants_of_consumer_acceptance_in_Germany

2024-10-17 00:31:10

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Ron Paul would be enjoying his 5th term

2024-10-16 18:08:46

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/10/bretigne-shaffer/without-the-state-who-would-confiscate-the-generators/

2024-10-16 13:59:33

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Time is made up - it's just now

2024-10-16 12:09:42

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I think New Englanders have shown themselves to be more eager than Arabians to kill a goose laying golden eggs.

2024-10-15 18:46:32

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5 days!
It's amazing how quickly the human body can heal when it has proper nutrients and cuts out toxins

2024-10-15 18:14:18

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Why should soft tissue indicate that the fossil is recent, unless you trust the "scientific community" on that?

2024-10-15 12:47:14

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Some of that, also probably some pulling Argentina away from BRICS and towards Anglosphere

2024-10-13 02:08:50

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Please don't feed the pigeons

2024-10-12 17:16:14

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Why is that?
Shouldn't companies do whatever their core business is (manufacturing, agriculture, retail, etc) rather than leverage up to speculate in currency markets?

2024-10-12 15:13:24

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXFGRuBDOr4

2024-10-06 22:57:26

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most billionaires don't have a billion dollars
billionaires own companies
the companies mostly don't have dollars
the companies do have real assets (land, equipment, inventory)
if you want to steal the real assets and achieve some immediate benefit from them, you'd have to sell them
which you can't do because (again) most billionaires don't have a billion dollars
so you can kill the golden goose if you'd like
but you can't eat it

2024-10-06 02:41:28

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To quote Ron Unz (himself of Jewish origin): Nazism is Judaism for wimps

2024-10-05 23:13:13

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Clarence Thomas EZ
He's assimilated into anglo culture but Biden is Irish

2024-10-05 22:13:19

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As will those who do not question history

2024-10-05 18:43:27

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"after seeing the horrors of WW2, UK Jewish vets refused for it to happen again"
in 1936

2024-10-05 15:40:48

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UTXO per UTXO
aka Bitcoins are not fungible
aka Bitcoins are not money

2024-10-03 19:58:40

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Just Stop Oil

2024-10-03 00:13:44

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Brussels

2024-10-02 21:14:41

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The idea that A caught something from B is a theory
What is actually observed is clusters of illness
It could also be that you were all exposed to some toxin or shared some deficiency
Imagine some nearby field was spraying pesticides and you were all poisoned - it would look like you all got sick around the same time

2024-10-02 20:01:00

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I think there's a placebo effect
I think also once you dismiss nonsense ideas about sickness you naturally focus more on your diet & environment

2024-10-02 19:44:56

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58K day is my favorite holiday

2024-10-02 19:44:01

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"to fight viruses, we're going to make a genetic instruction that replicates itself" is such idiocy
it's like... have you literally never watched a modern zombie movie?

2024-10-02 19:32:57

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viruses weren't real

2024-10-02 17:15:09

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Are you also convinced by the "viruses don't exist" arguments?
I think if you examine germ theory & virology critically you're likely to conclude there is no possible benefit from vaccination
(and thus no reason to take or recommend them, regardless of any safety study)

2024-09-30 20:41:44

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what's the square thing at the top? butter?

2024-09-27 16:03:58

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IMO Bitcoin will die when fiat dies
Right now, much of the usability of Bitcoin is built on people being able to easily transfer it into fiat to pay their suppliers
Even if your supplier is Bitcoin friendly, is their supplier?
You need a whole circular economy to keep using Bitcoin in the absence of fiat conversion
(or assuming that in the event of fiat collapse much of the world returns to metal disks, you need a ready conversion mechanism between Bitcoin and metal disks)

2024-09-24 02:41:50

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woman

2024-09-23 13:11:47

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Pretty much

2024-09-21 22:23:08

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Yes
Blue zones = coastal zones = ocean trade = wealth = access to fish and meat

2024-09-18 15:54:46

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I like their 8 pillars but disagree strongly with the premise that government is meant to "distribute opportunity as widely as possible"
In any case, it looks like a bunch of normie liberals realizing the government is corrupt as hell

2024-09-18 15:47:26

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What Republic?

2024-09-18 04:02:43

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https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2014/05/30/early-adopter

2024-09-17 13:12:48

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Is Milei Jewish? I thought he was just a Jew-lover

2024-09-15 19:54:31

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Cartridges are cheap, good for barter if it comes to that, and definitely qualify as a "you'd rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it" item

2024-09-15 17:23:03

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I mean reality - that which exists. Nature.
I would call it God, but I believe you insist that God created Nature, so that might not make much sense for you.

2024-09-15 12:25:52

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yes

2024-09-15 12:17:06

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If you'd like to refute it, I think you have to explain why it's OK to lack any theory about how God came to be (or why he's always existed) but it's not OK to (more simply) lack a theory about how reality came to be (or why it's always existed)

2024-09-15 04:36:26

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If God exists because you (otherwise) don't know how the world came to be, you haven't discovered something about the world or about God. You have just given a name to your ignorance.

2024-09-15 01:26:08

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What caused God?

2024-09-14 19:02:27

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Against everyone except the Saudis... and the Israelis

2024-09-13 22:00:19

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(Currency(Fiat(Crypto(Bitcoin))))
(Money(Gold)(Silver))

2024-09-13 18:24:34

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Yes, of course, and I would not be willing to die for some random stranger.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Heatmaps-indicating-highest-moral-allocation-by-ideology-Study-3a-Source-data-are_fig6_336076674
The consequence of Christian, altruistic, self-sacrificial morality is the "liberal" heatmap in which everyone is expected to sacrifice himself for the Greater Spotted Newt.
The consequence of traditional (pagan) morality is that you care more about your grandma than Greater Spotted Newts (or for that matter Africans).
This may be confusing because "liberals" (in fact leftist) are "atheist" (in fact post-theist but still deeply religious and specifically Christian) and conservatives are "Christian", but Thomas Aquinas introduced a rational, worldly, Aristotelian element into Christianity which post-theist radical puritans (aka leftists) stripped out.
https://fvdb.wordpress.com/2010/04/20/the-duel-between-good-and-evil-aristotle-versus-plato-ayn-rand-versus-kant/
https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2007/09/how-dawkins-got-pwned-part-1/
Now one for you: Is it morally wrong to prefer your own grandmother's well-being over that of some random African? Is it morally wrong to prefer your own well-being over that of some random African?

2024-09-13 12:41:28

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More to the point, a moral code which glorifies the sacrifice of human beings (whether supposedly also divine or not) is twisted and evil

2024-09-13 12:38:32

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Yes

2024-09-13 05:59:49

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I view Jesus as a tragic figure - a man espousing a twisted (in my view, evil) moral code in response to a twisted situation (namely, overbearing religious authority conflicting with overbearing legal authority)

2024-09-12 17:32:58

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And how did you determine which "Evangelical Christians" were possessed of the truth?

2024-09-12 17:32:22

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The ultimate ground of my beliefs is experience - I set my leg on the ground and it proves to be solid. I then interpret these experiences according to reason.
Is there such a rock on which your church is built? I know they like to say there is, but is there really? Or is it just faith (meaning: a decision to believe in the absence of evidence or reason) ?

2024-09-12 17:30:04

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How did they know these books were legitimate scripture?
(and how do you know that)

2024-09-12 17:20:15

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How do you determine what is and is not legitimate scripture?

2024-09-12 05:35:07

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How do you know that Christ said that?
How do you know that Christ had the capacity to truthfully make such a claim (ie by virtue of divinity) ?
Presumably scripture, but then how do you know what is and is not scripture?
What is at the bottom of it, if not reason?

2024-09-12 04:22:24

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The Catholics like to talk about being guided by tradition and the magisterium rather than scripture alone, but ultimately how do you decide which tradition to follow? How do you decide what is legitimate magisterium and what is not?
For that matter, how do you decide what is legitimate scripture and what is not?
If it comes down to reason, then there is nothing bold about my move.

2024-09-12 04:17:04

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I personally have not regarded Paul as a Christian for a long time (and don't regard his letters as being comparable to scripture)
I also don't believe in ghosts or spirits in general, though, so probably my opinion is of little interest

2024-09-12 03:43:14

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This would seem to rule out Catholicism and Eastern Orthodox as valid Christian denominations

2024-09-11 18:39:23

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Would you please link the cholesterol scam article he describes?
I don't have Twitter and don't think I can view the comments without an account

2024-09-11 16:06:07

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I'm partial to the "two conspiracies" theory in which the US planned to blow a hole in the Pentagon and Israelis heard about this and decided to destroy the twin towers also

2024-09-11 14:56:34

Trying to find a date via app in the West and it's like... fat, black, fat & black, single mother, polyamorous, pro-choice...
It seems like the only reasonable women are Christian and I don't believe in ghosts

2024-09-09 15:13:15

signal or noise?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/professors-rally-academics-around-less-bad-candidate-trump

2024-09-08 02:53:24

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I listened to the Fridman/Trump interview. Trump definitely said there was cheating in the 20 election

2024-09-05 19:39:12

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the lack of crowd applause is surprising

2024-09-05 19:36:23

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Just frozen, but it keeps for a long time on the counter/shelf if it comes to that
I also have ghee which is totally shelf stable

2024-09-04 21:05:55

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Biden isn't even a boomer, he's older than that (born in 1942)

2024-09-03 22:23:56

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If OnlyStans manages to turn into a celebrity engagement engine rather than a porn site I will be stunned
I suspect that was part of the original vision before they realized that semi-personalized porn was a gold mine

2024-09-03 22:19:31

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KLR is a very small tractor disguised as a motorcycle

2024-09-03 20:18:08

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Orbot is an Android app (and thus also Chromebook) that makes a Tor connection into a VPN for your Android device
Basically you can take any app and route it through Tor by using Orbot

2024-09-03 20:15:15

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I call them to abandon delusion for truth
Is this love?

2024-09-03 20:01:41

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If someone gains physical access to my passkey they can use it to access my accounts (which are also password protected) regardless of whether they have some fancy way of copying it
I think this is a theoretical vulnerability rather than a real vulnerability
Maybe if I was a spy or diplomat or something I'd have to be concerned about Chinese customs cloning my key, but for a normal person if an attacker gets a hold of my key they're probably going to keep it rather than clone it

2024-09-03 18:34:00

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I don't believe that modern Jews are followers of the ancient religion (nor generally their descendants)
If you want a demonic religion, Talmudic Judaism is certainly a candidate.
They interpret everything to mean something other than what it plainly means. For example the 10 commandments are meant to be punishable by death, so they conclude "don't steal" means "don't kidnap a Jew" (since theft or kidnapping a gentile would not be punishable by death)
As the above makes obvious, they believe a different moral code holds with regard to the treatment of Jews and the treatment of gentiles, with Jews being favored above the "beasts with human faces"
Prohibitions on rape and adultery get interpreted as prohibitions on vaginal intercourse only, and anal rape of gentiles is considered acceptable (as the recent military incidents make clear)
As a funny meme I saw recently said, all of Jewish history is the Jews technically not violating God's laws and God technically not smiting them

2024-09-03 14:44:49

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Your link recommends Threema but also Signal Wire & Session (and is ambivalent about SimpleX)
And I don't see the numerical ratings you gave

2024-09-03 01:18:56

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https://www.naturettl.com/how-to-photograph-the-international-space-station/
Does this count?
I have serious doubts about the moon missions, but I think low earth orbit is probably real
(although there are some funny NASA bloopers that make it look quite fake)

2024-09-02 21:15:45

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totem?

2024-09-02 18:42:17

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with the kneeling chair my legs are lower than 90 degrees, so if your graphic is accurate it should reduce pressure

2024-09-02 01:10:21

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They built themselves a statue to commemorate their own generosity?

2024-09-01 15:32:33

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I'm also of the opinion that clips are a very niche product
I ride in zero-drop sandals

2024-09-01 14:12:54

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Let's do a little arithmetic
4 crematoria times 24 hours per day times 365 days per year times 4 years (already an over-estimate) divided by 2 hours per body = 70,000 people who could have been cremated at Auchwitz
Not 4 million, not 1.1 million

2024-09-01 14:08:30

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You're not fooling us any longer
https://www.icj-cij.org/node/203454

2024-08-29 15:18:50

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"Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way"
https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/politics-and-the-english-language/

2024-08-29 01:17:01

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Unfortunately I don't believe you because I get all my news from comedy sketches
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=rcC4i9WQctw

2024-08-28 23:17:20

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Everyone uses internet without a special internet tax to build out networks. Why can't other utilities function the same way?

2024-08-28 02:40:03

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Are we not part of Nature also?

2024-08-24 12:37:34

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I agree with that
However, I think in practice it would more closely resemble the ancien regime, with punishments like death and exile much more common. I think the "outlaw" system of the American West worked very well, with criminals denied the protection of the law (and thus subject to death or other injury). I also think in a sytem of private law there would be armed self-defense, and thus another avenue by which the death of criminals would become much more common.
Murphy seems to think that a private law system would become nearly pacifist, but I strongly disagree. The ability to be soft requires very strong security which in turn requires that somewhere along the line there is iron determination. We are seeing exactly that tension unravel in modern Europe and the Anglophone countries.

2024-08-23 22:31:26

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There is no scenario where nobody innocent ever dies. It's just not on the table.

2024-08-23 16:59:43

Was Stephen Hawking a genius, or a retard in a chair which other physicists used as a convenient mouthpiece?
https://web.mit.edu/fnl/volume/311/kausel.html

2024-08-23 15:07:16

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I do this also (try to relate concepts to each other) and I think it's responsible for my apparent intelligence

2024-08-23 03:01:34

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have they not already screwed up tremendously and publicly?

2024-08-23 02:59:40

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who is snooki ?

2024-08-23 02:51:29

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This (link) gives me a similar result in 10 minutes to what I would get from 45 minutes of zen (sitting) meditation
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=kbTkwMJExCc

2024-08-22 17:50:20

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astronauts training to perpetuate the space hoax

2024-08-22 17:49:42

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No
You eat the engine lubricant, I'll eat meat and dairy

2024-08-22 04:05:34

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The lefties are quite Christian, especially the atheists
https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2007/09/how-dawkins-got-pwned-part-1/

2024-08-22 00:31:43

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Lefties have it bad
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Heatmaps-indicating-highest-moral-allocation-by-ideology-Study-3a-Source-data-are_fig6_336076674

2024-08-21 23:24:25

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I don't doubt that you got sick, and that your symptoms loosely matched the constellation of symptoms described as Covid.
But the question, in your case and every other, is what caused the illness?
Some sort of microbial parasite smaller than a bacteria (and not observable with a light-based microscope) causing the illness is a hypothesis (not a theory, and certainly not an observation). However there is no scientific evidence to support this hypothesis.
Unless some evidence emerges to support the hypothesis, we should consider alternatives. Perhaps your family was poisoned via your food, water or air. Perhaps you were all exposed to some sort of radiation. Perhaps your family was all deficient in some nutrient (eg seasonal deficiency of Vitamin D due to low sun exposure).

2024-08-21 22:25:08

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How do you know that a subcellular obligate parasite caused your illness?

2024-08-21 22:05:07

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People get sick, our "germ theory" failed so it must just be a smaller germ
Same issue with particle physics - the collider doesn't find the particles we predict so they must be smaller than we thought

2024-08-21 21:39:09

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Our ancestors lost a foot of height and 10% brain mass when they started eating grain.
You implicitly admit the amount of sugar is what matters, and ignore the fact that modern processed food (including bread) has an order of magnitude more refined sugar than the foods of our grandparents.
If the "long" history of human grain consumption (a blink of an eye compared to our millions of years eating meat) shows the relative safety of grain, why does the short history of seed oil consumption (less than 200 years) not indicate a lack of such safety?