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There are no problems more easily dealt with given less money. One of the things money is critical for is misery avoidance. People talk about how "money can't buy happiness." Well,…

Looks like death. I'd be surprised if he's around in five years.

The solution to all of eye strain, hand strain, and ass strain is simply to take five minutes to leisurely walk around the block once every hour and half. You don't need an expensi…

Fructose is sweeter. It actually seems the taste of sweet alone triggers an insulin response that causes fat storage. Zero calorie sweeteners have been shown to cause fat gain.

Picking winning movies is apparently pretty much impossible. That was the whole point of the old Studio System; it allowed the movie makers to limit risk. The government broke up t…

I've heard there's malarkey to do with how they account for deaths and cures. If you survive a diagnosis for five years or something they count you as cured. In a lot of cases what…

> There's also a selection bias in your comment Please share all the slam dunks I'm unaware of. > leadership needs higher level political intelligence Subscribe to Foreign Affairs.…

> Teen birth rates where at their highest in 40's, 50's and 60's after all They were married 19 year olds, dummy.

> connecting bodybuilding with health Strength is perhaps the single best predictor of longevity and health. That's not to say vigorous strength training has been clinically shown …

> Washington may need a CIA For what? What have they EVER gotten right? This utterly failed 60 year experiment needs to be shut down. The actual intelligence functions should be ab…

Why are you "fine" with US covert/clandestine operations as long as they're done "according to process"? I contend our foolish interference overseas lead directly to the blowback o…

What makes you think they didn't get more stupid? The illegitimacy rate shot up. The savings rate fell a lot. Does whatever makes people fat also turn them into irresponsible paren…

> It's not very constructive or interesting to wrap up the whole problem in the word "stupid." It's highly constructive when the prevailing mode of discussing the issue blames publ…

> Food that is good for you is just more expensive than food that is bad for you. It's not a relevant difference. Sugar and rice are the absolutely cheapest calories, and they're n…

If you're poor and buying mostly fast food you're just stupid. Dare I say you're poor and fat because you're stupid. Convenience and time? You're going to do better healthwise and …

Sex Pistols were a boy band. A marketing creation.

> when assaulted, you are trying to do something "Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face." --Mike Tyson

No offense, but this is kind of a dumb question. A martial art is not much different from any other sport, programmer or not. Play tennis, box, what's the difference? My two cents …

> markets have all the information Markets do have all the available information. But no person or group of people can ever process all the information in a meaningful way. Only th…

That would explain why the nordic populations in the upper mid-west are similarly "happy"...

I don't follow your line about huge profits. The simple fact is coal, when measured in terms of energy content, is getting scarcer and more expensive. You can't look at state suppo…

The Nordic countries are ethnically homogeneous with rooted communities. They have high average IQs and very low crime. I'd read a lot more into that than anything to do with econo…

> get us out of the Great Depression ... WWII did, deficit spending did. Absolutely false. Personal well being continued to fall dramatically through the war. GDP went up because t…

I'm not sure I understand you. The point is no combination of any known substitutes are close to competitive with current fossil fuel usages. Coal is basically in the same situatio…

Bush style invasions and assertive control of shipping lanes are two very different things.