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The question is: Did veganism-induced nutrient deficiencies lead to this conspiracy theory nonsense, or were both the veganism and the conspiracy nonsense caused by the same underlying cognitive problems?

Several people have mentioned no kids. And statistically there is some support for that position; apparently having kids has a slight destabilizing effect on average. I've found the opposite, myself. When the wife is driving me insane (they all do this occasionally) I remember, she has given me...

The rules proposed in the OP are completely retarded and not worth discussing. But that doesnt mean we cant change voting rules. Here is my preference: Everyone 18+ gets to vote just like today. BUT the ballots now include 10 questions next to each candidate. These questions ask about that...

I dont know anything about your buttsex preferences and have never commented on that. Only pointed out that youre objectively, demonstrably wrong and that "personal experience" is a shitty basis for any argument on measurable things like biochemistry.

This is beautiful. Here it is folks, study it well. The anatomy of a feels based reasoner. Your "personal experience" is an anecdote. Its basically completely worthless and not even worth bringing up in conversation. Your personal experience is a biased, subjective perception of an...

Here is a fun thing I like to do. When there is a subject that can be addressed with hard evidence -- experiments and empirical measurements -- I like to start from the assumption that the PhDs who have been studying the subject for about 100 years have probably come up with some good ideas. I...

One of us agrees with the Nutritional Biochemistry textbook. One of us does not. One of us is about to go eat a delicious and nutritionally balanced lunch. One of us will eat gluten free free range bean sprouts or some shit. I'll leave you to figure out which is which.

It is *possible* to have a healthy vegan diet. Its not possible to have a vegan diet thats better than a optimum non-vegan diet. But thats all hypothetical because actual vegans on planet earth (at least in the US) have terrible diets. None of them get enough protein (0.35 g / kg body weight...

Except that theyve been clinically shown to basically have no effect in people with normal nutritional and health status. Other than that, sure.

11 years in, 7 years married here. Cant hold a candle to the 20+s that have already posted but this phrase struck home for me. I'm convinced this is one factor. I know a lot of serially divorced people who have openly said they stay married til it doesnt "feel right" anymore, as if feelings...

Yes, every man. Nothing to be offended over unless he gives in. Women should be happy about this. He interacted with a dozen women today that he wanted to fuck, but didnt actually do it. That means a lot more than if he just never encountered any women he wanted to fuck and thats the only...

No, that is literally the healthiest level of drinking you can possibly do. Far better than binge drinking and even significantly healthier than completely abstaining. Carry on.

Im confused; isnt smelling your own farts (in the South Park sense) exactly the kind of 'absorbed in your own self promotion and tribal signalling' that I'm complaining about?

It may be, I can be antisocial, but I think youre wrong to attribute it entirely to that. Great minds talk about ideas. Average minds talk about people. The least interesting minds of all talk about themselves. And thats what Facebook explicitly and all social implicitly is: talking about...

Youre obviously free to think I'm an idiot for not using Facebook among various other assorted reasons. But lets make the objections clear -- its not that Facebook is uniquely terrible. Social media is completely gay. Facebook just happens to be the most widely used platform. in 1998 if you...

If you like condoms youre gonna absolutely LOVE this new thing called "not having sex". It feels exactly the same but much less work. In fact, you can even do this in public. I'm actually not having sex right now. You gotta try this.

It is amazing what a positive impact this tiny little step has on your life. I deleted mine about 3-4 years ago. Its probably the best decision I've made in the last 4 years. All of a sudden, you're just completely free from the facebook idiocy. It disappears and never bothers you again. If...

I could be wrong but isnt it already the law that you have to come to a full stop when turning right on red? (I know its silly to talk about following traffic laws in the bike thread, but cant help it)

Exactly. It blows my mind people use condoms for more than random one night stands. Sex with a condom is like watching porn without touching yourself.

Its funny that whenever someone tries to make real world analogies to digital "theft" they're immediately self defeating. If you're able to make a perfect digital copy of my wife such that your interactions with the copy have no impact on the original, knock yourself out (within the obvious...

Exactly correct. There are valid arguments to be made about copyright infringements. But thats nothing whatsoever related to theft. Theft involves a loss and there is no loss here. (Copyright laws are bullshit as written but at least they are technically applicable bullshit)

No, thats a stupid position to take. When you steal something, the person you stole it from no longer has it. Thats the entire reason why stealing is wrong in the first place. Downloading movies is sharing, and sharing is a Positive Good. No one loses anything in the process. (No, "lost...

Speaking only for myself, its not that I dont trust the robots. I dont trust the unholy alliance of DMV and TSA that will be in charge of making the rules that programmers have to implement in those robots. I also fundamentally cant wrap my head around people not liking to drive and prefering...

Agreed 100%. Thank God my wife doesnt pull this shit. On the subject of sleep though, how about this -- sleep too fucking much. For myself, anything beyond 6 hours is wasted and I'd have to be drunk as fuck to sleep longer than that. I do understand some people need a little more. But my wife...

There are a lot of really nice places in Oregon, where you can park for free, public schools are good, and you can afford for your kids to have their own room. Probably within 30 minutes of your current location. It doesnt have to be like this.

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding you, but its not clear how having BigBrotherCam in the cabin makes it any less of an intrusion on personal liberties when the insurance company and federal government collude to tell me I'm not allowed to drive my own car.

You fuckers are deeply concerned about the privacy of digital info on your cell phones -- something I've come to accept but still cant begin to relate to -- but youre all ready to hand over control of your cars themselves to networked computers. Which would be fine of course except when they...

I have no problem with people choosing voluntarily to turn on the auto pilot. Thats awesome. I completely see the tradeoffs youre talking about. I only oppose the banning of human drivers that will follow. Thats all.

No, I'm not doubting your predictions about the pace and constraints. Sounds like you have some experience in this area. Actually I take great comfort in your predictions of those limitations. I dispute the notion that the American people will fight for their right to drive, when legislators...

Lets be clear that I'm not saying 100% of the population will be in favor of it. But I am saying 100% if robot cars enter the private market, there are enough Astros in this country that human drivers *will* be banned. I'll refrain from using the phrase "of course" if you prefer. But it will...

For a certain segment of society, walking and chewing gum at the same time presents a safety hazard. We must immediately ban walking while chewing gum, for the childrenz

See? The American people have lost their taste for freedom and happily sacrifice it for a tiny reduction in perceived risk. There is zero question that self driving will be banned. And when it is, Astro will immediately post saying "yeah self driving is fucking dangerous"

Of course human drivers will be banned if robot cars become feasible and reasonably safe. Its like some of you have just arrived in the US and think its still 1940 where the American population values liberty and independence. Its not. You're in the country thats banning large sodas and talking...

This wont happen in my lifetime, so its an academic debate, but an interesting one. When it does become a reality, half the country is going to be totally happy to sign over all their independence to the DMV and will push for outlawing manual driving. And the other half of us arent going to be...

This is a good example of the universal flaw we're all facing in our women: they treat emotions as if they were a real thing that should be included in cost benefit analysis, instead of made up bullshit that is literally 100% fictional and only exists inside their own heads.

This is a couple years old I guess ArcheAge | The ultimate fantasy sandbox MMORPG from Trion and XLGames I've been playing with this recently and finding a lot to like at low levels. 1. Free to play 2. Reasonably good art style on character graphics 3. Great environmental graphics 4. Huge class...

Spandex looks silly on superheroes, and they can fucking fly and lift buildings and shit.

How about shit she doesnt do? Like the dishes, laundry, cleaning up after the kids. (No shortage of time for Facebook and Pinterest!) You had one job...

My only quibble is why remove the Australians first. Have you met many Australians?

As someone who apparently wants to end funding for research, explain to me why we cant afford to decrease SS, Medicare, and Defense each by 1% in order to DOUBLE the research budget. We dont have to eliminate any programs, just tinker around the edges of budgets, to turn the US into a global...