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It can be frustrating how studies always lump in processed meat with unprocessed meat. Unprocessed meat is nearly google-proof, since every media outlet is busy broadcasting the ev…

But why would you do that? I think it's just calorie density and behavior. You might just as well have eaten a bucket of ice cream as fast as you could. I.e. before your rising blo…

Even artificial sweetener leads to craving carbs in my case. As for the "gut punch" though, sounds like gastritis or something. Unless you're being metaphorical. For me, water help…

That also sounds like the opposite of xenophobia. And the US befriended China for important strategic reasons starting with Nixon. If they underestimated anything it was the abilit…

I'd expect there to be a high correlation. People willingly choose to spend less time with friends and devote themselves to activities when the choice is easy because those activit…

Depends how they got that way. Will they pay for it? Perhaps they made an unwise investment and should have paid for more rights. I have seen the case where someone buys a parcel f…

Yes in that the situations they refer to account for all investment of any kind being "a bad thing", while I criticize certain govt policies. But other than that, same page yes.

Financial leveraging is risk. You can lose your principal. Investors pay for building new homes too. Speculators do need to get burned periodically to correct bubbles though. Espec…

Are these houses or apartments? I don't see a problem with these real estate developers that are building and managing large apartments complexes themselves. Seems like they're doi…

But equity is supposed to go up in value because of profit and growth and whatnot, not just in price. That's why you buy it. At least in a normal universe. They still need to know …

US culture doesn't trap people in minimum wage jobs their entire lives. Even fast food places have raises and promotions. Maybe you're being hyperbolic there? It does generally req…

I wouldn't call infrastructure the root problem when people are murdering others. My point was the murders are evidence that there's psychos down there. Hence people want more cops…

I would have thought Singapore had more policing in all respects versus US cities. Also the subway stories are probably more about general fear of whatever criminals are apparently…

But if you fight against overzealous enforcement you will necessarily be shielding some bad actors along with the good. Not that I'm personally against the SEC (and other agencies)…

We have something exactly like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopkeeper%27s_privilege

The return policy was the reason I started buying stuff (besides books) from Amazon in the first place. Initially it was just computer components where alternatives commonly had re…

Doesn't everyone use words to mean what they want to mean by the words?? I seriously though your post was a defense at first. Why would their rule not protect you from liability al…

Coding is not a great example. It can be fixed silently and the error disappears, unlike published claims. And I'd say you're making an analogy that is extreme. The corrections we …

> They were not an attempt to fool people. That's exactly what they are. The whole reason People started pushing them was to pursue an agenda to affect developmental psychology. Pe…

> Why make people feel bad when its so easy to make them feel good? Isn't the answer to this question point of the thread? Participation trophies aren't just about tokens. Everyone…

The etiquette is if someone catches you in a real mistake, you should thank them (yes it can be hard, etiquette isn't always the same as reacting naturally). After all they could h…

Sure if your goal is to get something from a person then you should use another tactic. People have always had egos and taken criticism personally. Often it becomes an argument. Bu…

Sometimes the plane will be too full and you'll get required to check your overhead bag. So you can't count on it for fragile/valuable stuff. In my case I bring a cloth handbag stu…

Herd behavior, very common in finance certainly. I guess because they can profit from momentum even when the market ends up going nowhere over the long term.