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Ghost Leviathan posted:Comes up in the R/relationships thread a LOT that people will food allergies constantly have to deal with SOs/in-laws/family members trying to 'test' them and mess with their food or force them to eat what they've repeatedly stated they're dangerously allergic to. I am “intolerant” of basically anything from the ocean. It hasn’t tried to kill me yet, but it does make me quite sick. I used to say that, because it felt weird saying I’m allergic when I am not, and the amount of insane poo poo people would do was appalling. Now I just tell restaurants I am allergic and that helps a little bit. My girlfriend’s Vietnamese family has absolutely no time for it, though. They aren’t specifically trying to test me, they just don’t want to change the food they grew up eating for me. Fair enough, I just started eating beforehand and bringing snacks. It also means I can’t stick around for the all day parties.
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FlamingLiberal posted:The most disturbing thing about that post is that I might run into Laura Loomer at some point since that is not that far from me Your chances of running into Laura Loomer are low, but never zero.
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Main Paineframe posted:She doesn't support this particular group. She supports many other political positions and movements that they also support, but she doesn't support this one specific anti-Semitic group. Also, she suggests that they might secretly be Feds false-flagging to make the whole movement look bad. I mean, isn't Laura Loomer the one (well, one of the ones) with multiple videos of her trying to hit on neo-nazis and getting shot down? I could swear she tried to hit on Richard Spencer at one point but it might just be one of the other shithead neonazi brigade.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Yes I believe that was her. She's on camera saying "See, I have an Ashkenazi IQ and big tits" to a very uninterested gangly neonazi. It's pathetic. But yeah, people can excuse anything when they are in deep enough. Oh, it's not that hateful. Well, it's hateful, but it's not directed at me. Ok, it's directed at me, but it's a fringe group. Ok, it's a sizable group, but they are being manipulated by the feds.
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Zombie Dachshund posted:At the high school where I teach, I have in recent years had several kids go vegan, permanently or temporarily. I’ve been heartened that other kids don’t give them a hard time much. (They do argue about the ethics of it, but these are teenagers; they’ll argue about anything.) And when they bring in food for a special class or advisory, they’re always good about bringing something that the vegan kid can eat. So the kids are all right, etc etc. Yes, The Game Changers: https://gamechangersmovie.com As for me, I'm still setting new personal records on my bike ride segments and I'm going to be 67 by the end of this year,
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PhazonLink posted:i wonder if the regressive jewish snowbirds in FL think they wont be leopard face eaten. I try to show this to Pro-Trump jewish friends and there's always some bizarre conspiracy they have to explain it. Heck, I've known a orthodox guy (accountant) who just semi-retired to Israel and he things BDS is a bigger issue in the USA than the Nazis. His theory is that the USA will start preventing jews from moving to Israel. You can't reason with people who have come to a conclusion by means other than reason.
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VideoGameVet posted:Yes, The Game Changers: https://gamechangersmovie.com A quick googling suggests this appears to have an absolutely terrible reputation for promoting pseudoscience. Who funded it? edit: god, I loving hate netflix. Its "documentaries" have basically been an open spigot of sewage into viewer brains. Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 00:26 on Sep 5, 2023 |
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Buckwheat Sings posted:I know Loomer most likely has a mental issue, but it's crazy how hard she leans into this stuff. Bitter infighting among racists and fascists is extremely common. Being toxic is what they know how to do.
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What I'm seeing going around the Twittersphere is that one of the Nazis praised Biden for sending weapons to Ukraine, so the right are screaming about the Nazis being Biden supporters. Despite them actively being there for Desantis. I almost wonder if they know that they are hated by everyone and go out of their way to seem pro-Biden in order to sway public opinion in the opposite direction. But I don't think they are that smart.
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the GBS musk thread has musk on another weekend ket bender and him thinking he can recoup his 44$ billions from suing the ADL. so there's some sort of anti-Semitic talking point being pushed through the regressive media network. my tealeaf reading is regressives know they continue to have no other solid attacks against biden or dems and are going to the most evergreen classics, anti-Semitism. though the holiday roll out means they also dont think its a good project so whatever.
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VideoGameVet posted:I try to show this to Pro-Trump jewish friends and there's always some bizarre conspiracy they have to explain it. Israel and Neo-Nazis have had a pretty hosed up symbiotic relationship for a while now.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Comes up in the R/relationships thread a LOT that people will food allergies constantly have to deal with SOs/in-laws/family members trying to 'test' them and mess with their food or force them to eat what they've repeatedly stated they're dangerously allergic to. I know I'm a little bit late (and this is a derail topic), but I too have noticed the constant onslaught of posts where people care deeply, deeply, about what someone is eating. It's insane. If you asked me, I'd report that no human being could possibly care about the dietary preferences of another, but it comes up All. The. Time. It's almost like there's some evolutionary directive we've inherited by accident where seeing someone in your tribe eating something foreign is against the health of the overall group. Anyway, don't mean to keep this topic alive but Reddit actually has an archived story of the one worst, and I mean WORST, example of disregarded allergies of all time- never to be challenged. https://rareddit.com/r/JUSTNOMIL/comments/7qmed5/you_can_come_over_again_when_you_bring_me_my Link is ultra NSFL.
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Discendo Vox posted:A quick googling suggests this appears to have an absolutely terrible reputation for promoting pseudoscience. Who funded it? My partner was watching something about the longevity of Okinawans on Netflix the other day and I absolutely lost it at how unscientific it all was. Just some dude making poo poo up based on feels and presenting no evidence whatsoever. He wasn't even consistent with his bullshit - he started by saying "There are far more centigenerians in Okinawa than in Hokkaido so what is the reason for that?" and then less than 20 minutes later is talking about how Japanese people sit at low tables on mats, unlike the lazy westerners with their arm chairs. Edit: since I'm legally mandated to participate in the derail, I will mention that I personally know that vegan, and she is probably the most annoying person I have ever met. But it's not because she's vegan. It's because she's thoroughly insufferable and is like that about everything to the point where my other vegan friends make fun of her about it. Hell, her wife complains about it. Her Facebook page reads like PETA propaganda. People who make [thing] their entire identity always suck, but they suck extra hard for people who happen to like [thing] because they get lumped in with those people. Double Edit: people lying about food because they don't believe you is also a thing that drives me insane. I'm not a picky eater at all but I hate bananas for some weird reason. I don't want to hate them - every once in a while I'll try something with banana in it just for shits and it always ends up being terrible. My ex wife, knowing this, put half a banana in my smoothie to "test" if I could tell and of course I could and I lost my poo poo. That was the first time I'd ever seen someone do that and I was just dumbfounded that someone could. To this day, I won't let my current partner give me something to eat without telling me what it is first. The part of me that trusts people in that way is dead. KillHour fucked around with this message at 04:41 on Sep 5, 2023 |
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KillHour posted:My partner was watching something about the longevity of Okinawans on Netflix the other day and I absolutely lost it at how unscientific it all was. Just some dude making poo poo up based on feels and presenting no evidence whatsoever. The amount of absolute horseshit "documentaries" on Netflix and Amazon Prime really is something else. My partner and were talking about this recently like I used to like watching documentaries but even just seeing what pops up or gets recommended to me now almost turns me off from the entire genre. It's not like bad/quack/malevolent documentaries never existed before but the firehose way algorithms pick this stuff for you really has me second guess. KillHour posted:Double Edit: people lying about food because they don't believe you is also a thing that drives me insane. I'm not a picky eater at all but I hate bananas for some weird reason. I don't want to hate them - every once in a while I'll try something with banana in it just for shits and it always ends up being terrible. My ex wife, knowing this, put half a banana in my smoothie to "test" if I could tell and of course I could and I lost my poo poo. That was the first time I'd ever seen someone do that and I was just dumbfounded that someone could. To this day, I won't let my current partner give me something to eat without telling me what it is first. The part of me that trusts people in that way is dead. I loving hate poo poo like this. Not exactly the same but I have a friend who as a kid had some food allergies that their parents didn't think were real and so they just, like, kept putting said stuff in their food and fortunately they are alive today but it but it sucked and permanently hosed up their body to a point where now as an adult they have to stick to an extremely strict choice of foods. Like how the gently caress was that helpful.
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Neo Rasa posted:I loving hate poo poo like this. Not exactly the same but I have a friend who as a kid had some food allergies that their parents didn't think were real and so they just, like, kept putting said stuff in their food and fortunately they are alive today but it but it sucked and permanently hosed up their body to a point where now as an adult they have to stick to an extremely strict choice of foods. Like how the gently caress was that helpful. No, it's not exactly the same. It's much worse. Holy gently caress CPS should have taken that kid away.
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KillHour, could you go into more detail on your banana hate? Can you tell if it's a texture or a flavor thing? I'm curious about the etiology. On the subject of allergens and current events, FDA recently implemented the requirements of the FASTER act, a bill modernizing food allergen labeling, which among other things adds sesame to the list of major food allergens. A bunch of companies in the baking industry (including whomever is supplying Chick-fil-A, Culver’s and Dave’s Killer Bread), being absolute assholes, responded by deliberately adding small amounts of sesame to all of their products rather than declare it as a cross-contamination risk. This appears to be a deliberate strategy by the industry trade group, the American Bakers Association, part of a pressure campaign to try to force FDA to accept "thresholds" for food allergens rather than clean their manufacturing lines. In the interim, of course, the sudden addition of sesame to all these products means there's way higher risk of exposure for people with allergies who used to be able to safely eat them. CSPI (who were one of the animating forces behind the FASTER act) filed a petition with FDA to get them to stop this practice, but the agency has (imo correctly) responded by saying they really don't have a way to prevent it. https://www.cspinet.org/sites/defau...-%207-26-23.pdf The raw sociopathy of deliberately contaminating an entire category of foods with an allergen to try to force an exception in the law is mind-boggling. Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 06:33 on Sep 5, 2023 |
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MSG sends me into double heart rate fun. As in my normal resting pulse of 45 to 55 going to 95-110 or even higher. I don't feel bad when this happens, but it scares me. And as it turns out this does happen to some people. Worse, restaurants don't always know they are using it.
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Thorn Wishes Talon posted:whatever happened to that one bill that was supposed to regulate supplements in the US? The proposal to require public listing for dietary supplements failed- however, the passage of the Modernization of Cosmetics Regulation Act in last year's budget bill will implement a similar requirement (and many other needed requirements) for cosmetic products, which FDA and advocates will hopefully use to renew their pressure on dietary supplement regulation. A lot depends on the makeup of Congress following the next election- the more Democrats, the more possible reform becomes. The industry as a whole is currently pretty weak in Congress right now, but there needs to be enough people in office that actually want to pass laws for change to happen. The situation is also shifting due to other major changes: a) FDA's rulemaking on homeopathic products needing to prove efficacy (though the agency isn't enforcing it aggressively as I hoped, choosing to exercise "risk prioritization"- I think they're letting most of the industry shut down on their own before they bring a hammer down on the rest). This will sap one of the alt-med markets that indirectly supports the dietary supplement industry. God, I long for the day there are no more homeopathics. b) The infant formula crisis has driven a reorganization of FDA's whole food regulation program. It's too soon to tell whether this is an improvement, but the dietary supplement office is getting moved and the enforcement people will be theoretically closer to the policy people, which is a good thing. It's definitely better than another proposal floating around, which is that Congress should split FDA into a food entity and a drug entity. The alt-med people would love that, because they'll try to get their products in the food organization, which would make them impossible to regulate adequately. c) FDA is also seeking new regulatory authority and basically a new legal framework to regulate CBD products (the ones that aren't lawful drugs); the root argument is that a lot of these products basically can't satisfy the fundamental safety requirements for other products regulated by the agency. As a result, under existing authority, they ought to be illegal. Instead, FDA is arguing they should treat them sort of like tobacco products- entirely harm reduction, because the products are innately harmful, and more harmful than any purported benefit. I'm a lot less sanguine about this, because it could open new forms of regulatory capture. All of this is still in the context of FDA 1) needing like 10 times its current budget to perform its duties adequately, and 2) still doing its job better than just about every other equivalent agency on the planet. Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 09:01 on Sep 5, 2023 |
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Discendo Vox posted:A quick googling suggests this appears to have an absolutely terrible reputation for promoting pseudoscience. Who funded it? my girlfriend and i watched such a documentary on netflix just last weekend. synopsis: "In the four-part series "Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones" (streaming now on Netflix) Dan Buettner, the explorer and best-selling author who has studied Blue Zones for 20-plus years, takes viewers on a journey to regions with the highest number of centenarians, or people who live to 100..." it was about as stupid as you can imagine. in one episode they are on Sardinia and they conclude that one of the reasons there are so many centenarians there is because the main village on the island... has hills that people walk up and down everyday. like okay, maybe it's not pseudoscience per se, in the sense that exercise does improve life span! but the show itself dumbed things down to an insane degree
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Discendo Vox posted:KillHour, could you go into more detail on your banana hate? Can you tell if it's a texture or a flavor thing? I'm curious about the etiology. Not the OP but I too have an irrational hate for something similar: avocado. I’m not allergic to it. I’m not a picky eater. I mean I am now kinda cause I’m vegetarian, but before there was basically nothing I’d say no to even weird poo poo like insects as long as it was prepared. But avocados are just one food I won’t and can’t eat. The smell of it makes me gag. If it’s in my sushi I can immediately taste it and I have to try not to throw up at the table. I can’t tell you what flavor avocado has because the only flavor I’ve ever known for it is “makes me want to throw up.” Guac? Gross. It’s probably not a texture thing because from what I can tell it’s smooth and oily. If it’s in shampoo I don’t notice prolly cause I don’t smell it. And I loving love durian so E: like KH I also try it every now and then thinking maybe I’m overreacting or maybe THIS TIME it will be good and I won’t want to throw up. Nope. Still the same. Boris Galerkin fucked around with this message at 10:55 on Sep 5, 2023 |
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Boris Galerkin posted:Not the OP but I too have an irrational hate for something similar: avocado. I’m not allergic to it. I’m not a picky eater. I mean I am now kinda cause I’m vegetarian, but before there was basically nothing I’d say no to even weird poo poo like insects as long as it was prepared. I'm not a fan of avocado, but my aversion isn't this strong, and I know exactly what the source of my aversion is - the texture. I have very little sense of smell (hyposmia), so texture is very important to me in foods. Avocado is basically like eating green Crisco, and very good guac is only slightly better. That said, I still eat it occasionally - when it's on a plate served to me at a restaurant, or when there's guac at a party. Not because I love it, but because it's healthy and having a varied diet is generally a good thing.
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Boris Galerkin posted:Not the OP but I too have an irrational hate for something similar: avocado. I’m not allergic to it. I’m not a picky eater. I mean I am now kinda cause I’m vegetarian, but before there was basically nothing I’d say no to even weird poo poo like insects as long as it was prepared. I'm close to like this with onions. I love the smell of a good cooked onion, and my parents swear on their undug graves that I would fight them for the onions off of their burger when I was little, but at some point I developed an aversion to them and as soon as the combination of that flavor and crunch registers in my mouth, I can't stop gagging. I'm fine with onion powder, I'm fine with french fried onions (probably because I'm not sure they legally qualify as onions at that point), and I'm ok with the onions in something like vegetable soup where they're so soft they have the consistency of baby food, so I'm pretty sure it's just a texture issue for me. It was so bad for awhile that I wouldn't even eat pizza with sauce on it unless I knew for a fact that their sauce didn't have anything more onion-y than powder. Didn't help that of course my mom didn't believe me, since after all, I used to love onions, so she'd constantly try to lie to me on nights where she made spaghetti or something else with red sauce, swearing up and down there were no onions, only for me to show her on the label where it said ONIONS quite clearly on the ingredients, and the small pile of onions I picked out of the sauce as I ate. To this day, I have to check the ingredients before I buy practically anything to make sure there's no onion in it.
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Back to USCE: CNN Exclusive: Special counsel election probe continues with focus on fundraising, voting equipment breaches CNN posted:Special counsel Jack Smith is still pursuing his investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election a month after indicting Donald Trump for orchestrating a broad conspiracy to remain in power, a widening of the probe that raises the possibility others could still face legal peril. It's a long article and not behind a paywall, so I won't quote the whole thing. We all knew Smith's investigation wasn't done, but this isn't an angle I'd seen discussed before. It makes sense though - when money is involved, following that paper trail almost always yields results. In this case, it looks to be Powell's grift using her nonprofit.
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Discendo Vox posted:KillHour, could you go into more detail on your banana hate? Can you tell if it's a texture or a flavor thing? I'm curious about the etiology. I think it's the smell because I can immediately tell if something has banana by the smell. Cooking/baking it makes it worse because it brings out even more banana flavor. It's not the texture because I like plantains just fine. I just had a sandwich with smashed plantains instead of bread and it was good, but I don't like banana bread at all. There is some specific chemical in bananas that is extremely strong tasting/smelling to me and I do not like it. I did willingly have a few sips of smoothie with some banana in it yesterday because it was like 95 degrees out and I tolerated it, so in small amounts I can deal with it if I have to. It would just have been a million times better without it. Boris Galerkin posted:Not the OP but I too have an irrational hate for something similar: avocado. I’m not allergic to it. I’m not a picky eater. I mean I am now kinda cause I’m vegetarian, but before there was basically nothing I’d say no to even weird poo poo like insects as long as it was prepared. Ugh yeah this sounds like me (but maybe even more intense). I don't love avocado - I'm pretty meh about the flavor. But I feel bad for you because unlike banana, avocados are in fuckin everything now so good luck avoiding them. KillHour fucked around with this message at 13:34 on Sep 5, 2023 |
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Main Paineframe posted:*Words about an obviously mentally unwell Laura Loomer* I am honestly concerned that Laura Loomer is going to end up dead in a shallow ditch because she keeps doing the equivilant of slathering barbecue sauce on her face and running towards the face-eating leopards. Hell, I'm honestly surprised she's still alive at this point. Does anyone know why she's constantly chasing after the one group of people who's defining moment is "Murdered literally millions of Jewish people en-mass"? I know she did some other dumb poo poo in the past for attention (she was the one that handcuffed herself to Twitter's door, right?) but her chasing after neonazies who all want her and her people deader-than-dead always seems downright self-destructive.
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Randalor posted:Does anyone know why she's constantly chasing after the one group of people who's defining moment is "Murdered literally millions of Jewish people en-mass"? I know she did some other dumb poo poo in the past for attention (she was the one that handcuffed herself to Twitter's door, right?) but her chasing after neonazies who all want her and her people deader-than-dead always seems downright self-destructive. Well I think the general sentiment among the right is that (neo-)Nazis aren’t actually racist or want people dead, they just want a safe space for their own let’s not think about or talk about the logistics of that happening. Also, the real Nazis are the ones their grandpas fought in WW2. It’s also easy for people to think that someone’s racism doesn’t apply to them or affect them because they’re one of the good ones.
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Boris Galerkin posted:Well I think the general sentiment among the right is that (neo-)Nazis aren’t actually racist or want people dead, they just want a safe space for their own let’s not think about or talk about the logistics of that happening. Also, the real Nazis are the ones their grandpas fought in WW2. It's mostly that they agree on almost everything except for a tiny little quibble over who's considered white. Which is an odd sticking point since basically all the other hated 19th Century Europeans are considered whites in good standing.
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Gort posted:Who funds Laura Loomer? Nobody, which is why you hardly ever hear about her and why her stunts are all so pathetic. She may have gotten some donors for her senate (?) runs, but her whole career has been chasing and failing to find the kind of money people like Milo Y had early in the trump years. Her origin story was standing up and yelling at people doing Shakespeare in the park, hoping she would go viral.
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Loomer is the end stage of the right wing version of  poisoning. She assumes that every single genocidal monster she runs into is just another fringe outlier while obviously all the people who matter agree with whatever the gently caress she decides her politics are today. Also she agrees with them on literally every topic except the ones personally inconvenient to her.You do not need to feel sorry for her, she literally has every chance to turn back to the point of parody. She chooses to do this, every day, she buys into the blatant lies and the rationalisations because she considers it obvious that liberals are the real racists and Joe Biden is the new Hitler.
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Randalor posted:I am honestly concerned that Laura Loomer is going to end up dead in a shallow ditch because she keeps doing the equivilant of slathering barbecue sauce on her face and running towards the face-eating leopards. Hell, I'm honestly surprised she's still alive at this point. She isn't chasing after people who want to kill Jews. She's chasing after people who want to kill Muslims. There's certainly some overlap between those groups, but she'll happily disavow the individual people and groups that focus specifically on anti-Semitism. She just dismisses them as a tiny lunatic fringe. And while anti-Semitism among white supremacists is certainly more prevalent than she thinks it is, it's not necessarily universal either. There's plenty of white nationalists who're just fine with Jews, or even admire the success of the Jewish-nationalism project known as Israel. Neo-Nazis aren't the only people out there proclaiming white supremacism; America has its very own home-grown traditions there, don't forget.
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