#Starvation

Reading about China's Cultural Revolution is useful when wondering how millions of people can be radicalized, seemingly overnight, by a skilled demagogue (1/x) The CR began a few years after
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CN weight loss surgeryI want to keep introducing into the conversation about puberty blockersthe fact that non-reversable stomach amputations (aka weight loss surgey) are performed on minors all the timeNone
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There are things that women can do, and men can't.There are things that men can do, and women can't.But, why does this matter?Because survival matters to us all. A short
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What a laughing stock the conservatives are making of our country. First O'Toole pretends to talk to Pfizer and co-opts them into his deception, Ford threatens them with "firecrackers up
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If you're going to read just one book on food and dieting, I suggest The Hungry Brain by Guyenet (@whsource). I think this book nails most of the causality behind
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*From Homeless to Humanitarian* Quick StoryI left my abusive family at the age of 18. I've worked ever since. Never asking for handouts. I've worked warehouses, for tax agencies, retail,
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I get the medievalists responding angrily to the recent viral tweet “what would you have already died of in the Middke Ages” because so many people regurgitate false tropes, but
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I've told this story before, but I once talked to an economist who, when she testified before Congress, used the phrase "market failure" and was immediately interrupted by an apoplectic
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When I was around 19 & roughly the weight I am now,I went to an endocrinologist bec my RD & I couldn’t figure out why I was my size given
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TW- weight lossIt's fatphobic to refer to weight loss as "taking care of yourself".It's also a total lie because weight cycling increases cortisol which contributes to all the diseases blamed
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Ok here goes: either we need to have wages that move with profits and actually increase for the working class, or there needs to be a robust social safety net.
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✴︎ reasons to lose weight 1. you’ll be less confident with how you look, you’ll always find things to criticize 2. you won’t be able to sleep because when you’re
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If you want to depopulate the population, you cant go to war with the people when they outnumber you 3Million to 1, so you slowly ease them into submission. Control
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1/ Socialism makes these mistakes:1. For some people to win, other people have to lose, economy is a zero-sum game, hence the "class struggle"; see Marx's labor theory of value;2.
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Starving E. coli, serendipitous discoveries, and awesome collaborators: a long thread on some of our latest work with @handuo_s and KC Huang @StanfordBioE 1/19https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.06.413849v2 To help understand t
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Thanksgiving:How it started How it's going The people on the left braved the open seas, disease, starvation, and death in hopes of freedom and
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