Big food companies pushing carbs while funding anti-low carb diet studies have nothing to do with it.
Funding anti-low carb studies? Personally I advocate for lower carb diets in general but do you have evidence for that claim?
Study: 77% of young Americans too fat, mentally ill, on drugs to join military
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Re: Study: 77% of young Americans too fat, mentally ill, on drugs to join military
#72And then you have those with higher education and critical thinking capabilities who wouldn't ever join the military... That aside, these stats are not surprising. Anyone from outside the US knows just how bad the education system is within. With red states outright banning books and knowledge, that number may just continue to climb.
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Re: Study: 77% of young Americans too fat, mentally ill, on drugs to join military
#73And then you have those with higher education and critical thinking capabilities who wouldn't ever join the military... That aside, these stats are not surprising. Anyone from outside the US knows just how bad the education system is within. With red states outright banning books and knowledge, that number may just continue to climb.
Curious, which bannings you are referring to? I thought this was a thing of the past.
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#74The fact that this guy says that membership and veteran numbers are low is utterly insane. No where on this planet will you see more military bumperstickers, wounded warriors, etc than in the US. It wild how visible the military is in America, but apparently that's not good enough.
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#75And then you have those with higher education and critical thinking capabilities who wouldn't ever join the military... That aside, these stats are not surprising. Anyone from outside the US knows just how bad the education system is within. With red states outright banning books and knowledge, that number may just continue to climb.
Curious, which bannings you are referring to? I thought this was a thing of the past.
Honestly, your comment makes me wonder if there is any kind of site or project keeping track of that (because there should be), because I saw a headline recently but can't remember any specifics.
Searching 'book banning' on news.google.com still returns a lot of results with towns still doing it.
I think what I was actually thinking of though, was I think Mississippi (I think) deciding to defund all libraries in retaliation for the library suing over book bans.
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
Regarding #1, you can get a waiver for past cannabis use if you weren't a habitual user (by self admission) and never faced any legal action (distribution, possession, etc) in regards to cannabis. If you have ever distributed any drug (even so far as splitting the cost of drugs with a roommate) you cannot enlist. The enlistment screeners are surprisingly effective at getting people to admit things they did over a dec…
>If you admit to ever using LSD or psychedelics, even one time, you will be automatically disqualified from serving in the military or law enforcement (go figure). Is this documented anywhere? I have gone on a psilocybin retreat and have considered a career in the air force in the distant future.
For 3 letter intelligence agencies I think it was 10 year statute of limitations... This may have changed
Re: Study: 77% of young Americans too fat, mentally ill, on drugs to join military
#771. "Drug use" probably includes soft drugs like cannabis. 2. Basically any diagnosis of a mental health condition, like ADHD, will block military service. This is true even if symptoms are well managed without medication. The rise of diagnosis of these conditions combined with digital records means a lot of people are prohibited to join due to mental health that would have been overlooked in previous decades. 3. This…
I think the decade long wars in the middle east are a huge part PR wise, but theres more to it. The military is a shitshow. The messaging alienated it's core recruitment base, namely white and black teenagers and young men. It alienates young American men in general, but those demographics in particular are historically the core of America's fighting force. Having to balance domestic recruitment PR to be politically…
For what it's worth, the software industry is also a shitshow.
Re: Study: 77% of young Americans too fat, mentally ill, on drugs to join military
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
Interesting footage of US soldiers doing drills on LSD. It's really strange that someone learned about LSD and decided to see how well people can march in a parking lot while under the influence. Whoever designed the experiment really didn't understand LSD. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbSEU8Hv4lA
The whole point of that experiment was to see how a military unit behaves on acid. Why shouldn’t they be marching the soldiers?
Is this a thing that requires testing? Do they have units run drills on all common recreational drugs? I could see some merit in evaluating stimulants, but what is the expected gain from most anything else?
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#79I wonder how much of this is due to outdated assessment criteria. If drone and remote control is the future of warfare there may not be too much need to do 20 push-ups on demand - the fat kid staring into the computer screen could quite feasibly the warrior of the next war.
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#80Joining the military means giving up most of your civilian rights laid out in the Bill of Rights, in exchange for pay and training. Historically, this has often been a pretty good deal for those without other economic options. However, if you think the country's leaders are going to send you off to get killed in poorly thought-out and reckless adventures for dubious reasons, then giving up those rights starts looking…
What do you mean regarding Ukraine? Do you mean the US should have persuaded Ukraine to give up some of their land?
I don’t fully understand what you mean with ‘negotiated settlement’.
All I know is these ‘negotiating’ strategies don’t work with tyrannical regimes. Germany tried and failed. Trying to bring in China into the world economy also didn’t seem to make them give up their hunger to swallow Taiwan.
The mindset of these dictators is different… see Bill Browder’s writings on this subject.