Great comment. So that is true but also a common misconception about the older soups or stews. It is common in modernity to braise or fry meat before adding it to a stew but that is because the complex flavors obtained through all day or multi day simmering are more labor intensive and therefore do not fit into modern industrial processes.

If you reread my comment i noted that it was 300 f and you said no it was much lower.

That’s a great comment. So we shouldn’t fry foods which combine fat carbs and protein. Those are mostly the invention of modern industrial processes beginning in the 1800s. Most cultures had fairly healthy ways of cooking foods prior to the 1800s. And soups and stews are universal dishes native to all cultures going back into antiquity and probably the invention of pottery.

I have a funny story. Ghengis khan, as he got older, began to think about improving his health. He sent for a man ( daoist) rumored to be an immortal. The man admitted he was not an immortal but he was very old. At least 70. The great khan said that he would like to live longer.

The Daoist replied:

“For starters you could eat less fried meat and boil it instead.”

The Khan’s response seemed plagiarized from a patient in a doctor’s office today and the world’s greatest conqueror, a bloodied steppe warrior, probably made the pinched face of a baby rejecting vegetables.

For some reason lightly burning food makes it incredibly delicious but it also releases dangerous compounds which oddly broadly increase cancer rates. I think even lung cancer risk increases. But we’ve known about it since antiquity and so few cultures ate them in large quantities until the modern era.

Are you using Celsius? Fahrenheit that’s near a sous vide temperature range and totally safe.

Regarding carcinogens, burning or browning anything is bad. But advanced glycation end products form when tou have the combination of carbs, fats, and protein plus dry heat.

Sorry to but into this convo but cooking at around 300 degrees f starts creating advanced glycation end products (age) which is a driver of inflammation. It’s always better to make stews or soups rather than fry in oil or air bake fat, carbs, and protein together.

There are different studies which show a shockingly high percent of the population are fools but the most compelling is the one by Cambridge Analytica which found a population cluster in Facebook’s massive amount of user data. They called this the average cluster.

The Republicans targeted this group in the 2016 election. Around 30 percent of the b population fall into this group.

That’s true, but how many leaks have you seen regarding the CIA’s operations in Venezuela?

https://www.wired.com/story/trump-cia-venezuela-maduro-regime-change-plot/

The US recognized a right-winger as the rightful president of Venezuela and even had most the US believing it. No leaks at all.

They’re going to use the cia. Trump would use proxy forces to invade under the guise of assisting a rebellion. He can find an opposition political leader, declare him the leader (in this case, declare Greenland to be soverign from Denmark) and then absorb greenland.

The US already attacked Canada using one of its propaganda tools: Facebook. This is cyberwarfare.

Facebook bombarded Canadian audience with right wing propaganda during the election.

https://themercury.com/news/national/canadas-election-offers-fodder-for-us-right-wing-influencers/article_f1adcc7c-4c18-569a-b875-01c222cc406a.html

Some have tried to argue that it’s actually facebook trying to get revenge for Canadian courts eliminating the cbc from social media feeds. Does that make any sense? They don’t care if canada doesn’t get news. They want that since they were curating those news feeds with stilted inflammatory content like many right wingers wanted in the first place.

They already answered this question. They would use procedural rules to prevent Canadian votes from mattering, the same as they have done in the US in many states.

Involuntary commitment decisions have to be made by a someone with medical or psychological training. In the past people were disappeared (there’s a movie about it called “The Changeling”).

But I think we need to make addiction one of the mental conditions that should lead to temporary mandatory rehab. I don’t think addiction is something people choose to be afflicted with and if there’s a chance they could be successfully treated it might be something they will look back on with some posititivity.

Ever try to water down a fountain drink with carbonated water? You can add 300% soda water and it still tastes sweet. But that overwhelming level of sweetness seems to stimulate appetite. And it’s one of many reasons why manufacturers use high fructose instead of table sugar. It’s slightly sweeter and more stimulating.

That is precisely the origin of reactionary movements. If we look at Weimar Germany, Francisco Franco’s Spain, and Portugal’s brief experiment with dictatorship, we see a pattern: elite squandering of public resources directly cause the sort of instability that leads to fascism.

Also, Liberal Democracies tend to be very permissive of reactionary movements, owing to a combination of elite preferences for wealth inequality, manipulation of public discourse, and weak democratic structures, which the fascists easily undermine and destroy.

Liberal Democracies tend to have “freedom of the press” which leads to a large number of voices influencing political discourse. The press are usually owned by elites. Elites prefer inequality because that is what allows them to own things. So we have many voices being heard but elite voices are the loudest. This leads to corruption and theft from public funds. In the case of the first rise of fascism, elites bankrupted the states of Europe by pursuing a pointless war. The US was able to abrogate a third World War because they forgave many war debts and instead chose to economically develop nations which had been ravaged by war.

Elite today are looking at US government indebtedness and are falsely swallowing the narrative that public entitlements are causing the problem, when the real issue is war debt incurred by the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars.

The natural response to a declining standard of living is to demand economic change. The fascists are not a movement of the poor, although they are supported by the poor. They are a movement of the ultra wealthy to prevent economic and social change.

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There are small language models out there that can run fluently on smartphones. I’m fond of StableCode as a coding tutor. My dream is to be able to speak to the tutor and see its code instructions without having to dig my phone out.

“Kinky” rape is basically just rape

A jury found him innocent of beating his girlfriend in 2015. He said that he was just really into kinky sex. The jury bought it. And here we are. Potentially hundreds of victims in.

https://nypost.com/2015/03/23/court-finds-sm-loving-lawyer-not-guilty-of-assault/

Going off what I’ve read, on the more severe end of the NPD spectrum you have malignant narcissism and anti-social personality disorder, which are widely regarded as being untreatable:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00030651070550020701

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12144-019-0147-1

A lot of research strongly suggests that narcissism is actually a personality trait.

All of the research indicates that people on the far end of the narcissistic spectrum cannot be treated. NPD seems to be rooted in personality rather than it being a treatable illness. Trying to treat them would be like trying to make an intellectual person no longer curious about the world around them.

Post modernism seems to be overly concerned with the human condition being like wet clay. Moldable into anything. But evidence suggests that some people can be selfish, sadistic and disagreeable because of evolution. No amount of therapy can make them less selfish. Pharnaceutical research suggests that some drugs can very briefly allow narcissists to experience empathy. But no therapy has shown to work reliably on extreme cases.