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Thanks, that does help to see it as good faith advice. I'd be totally on board with a framing like "If you're alone and unhappy or dissatisfied in life, social connection could lik…

Yeah, I've been trying to wrap my head around this recently. I always get a bit irked by the inevitable comments confidently asserting things like "humans are social animals, if yo…

I've seen that in some cases the definition of mental health will explicitly score against things like "lacks close relationships" or "does not seek companionship". So it always se…

Another vote for a folding stand + separate keyboard and mouse at desk-level. I'm always working outside the house, and once you can adjust to working on a single monitor it's been…

> They can't fight or flight so their defense is toxins. The very next sentence. Animals can run away or fight, so they don't have the need to develop other deterrents. I guess asi…

For what it's worth, I had a similar experience trying a strict AIP diet for a few months - some improvements in my autoimmune symptoms (some psorasis I've had since childhood), bu…

> I have a hard time to see any relevance in a life without children anymore. In my view, having kids is a great way to take off the existential pressure of life being meaningless,…

I think appetite itself has a lot to do with the nutritional density of what you're eating. I can eat 1000kcal of gummy worms and just be getting started, but 1000kcal of ground be…

I stumbled on this kayak "where can I travel?" map a few months back and it's been handy as a starting point: https://www.kayak.com/travel-restrictions I personally always double-c…

I'm not really one for parties or restaurants, but I really enjoyed the walkability of San Francisco when I lived there. It's something that I always miss anytime I'm staying in a …

I think your teenage pregnancy example is probably reasonable, I could see that being a big turning point in a mother's life, where things began getting tougher/worse. I guess my p…

I'd agree that it's not fully solvable by the school alone. But zooming out, I'd be inclined to say the "society that forced a mother to work 3 jobs to get by" failed. I imagine it…

Longer on average, yes, but I highly doubt healthier. I think we'd be in awe of the average health/fitness of a 30 year old hunter gatherer from 100,000 years ago, compared with th…

I think I'd be in the market for a new cult leader if they tried to pull that!

Seriously. If a group of vampires have been sucking so much blood that everyone's anemic, the solution isn't to have "universal basic transfusions" to make sure all the victims are…

Flowers aren't consumed for survival, i.e. "essential". I'm not sure how intervals of time has any effect on that.

> Beyond Meat has never claimed to be a healthier alternative to meat and it's a bit of a straw man to comment like they did. Not sure why you'd think that's a straw man when they …

I mean, RxBars are full of dates, which are basically pure sugar.

One thing that stuck out to me was you mentioned needing 10 more years of work to reach your early retirement goals. That sounds like a really long time to me, considering how nega…

> I know people who think automatic transmissions makes people worse drivers. Well, it's certainly a bit trickier to to respond to texts or browse instagram when you need two hands…

I think it's a pretty huge point that's overlooked, not just a quibble. If a group of kids were fed healthy, home-made meals all week and then get a piece of chocolate cake on Sund…

There's a lot more to achieving good health than macronutrient ratios. The plant-alternatives both 1) lack the abundant, bioavailable nutrients found in animal products and 2) incl…

Unfortunately chicken, like pork, is extremely high in omega-6 due to being fed unnatural modern grain-based diets.

> the typical meat based, western diet is strongly linked to all of our most deadly diseases The standard American diet is composed of 70% plant-based foods, which is the same rati…