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Cake day: June 27th, 2023

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  • Idk why we’ve reached the point where anyone saying they’re anything but an atheist has to specify that they aren’t a bigot

    The main issue is that the cohort of people with megaphones broadcasting their spirituality is virtually entirely comprised of profiteers.

    Like all such parasites they follow the pattern of establishing out groups for you to despise, simply because it drives engagement better. Same reason all major social media now attempts to shape you into a being of hatred and impulse. It keeps you stressed and activated so you jump at the opportunity when they offer to let you spend money to blow off some of the steam.

    Bigotry as a phenomenon has many origins, but wherever it springs from it ultimately doubles as an inherently appealing strategy for those who wish wring dry their community.

    At any rate, as we all sit here dying around the same poisoned watering hole, we see these profiteers dressing just like us while actively dumping the poison in. Ashamed, we feel compelled to proclaim, “I am not them! They only wear my clothes!”

    Spirituality is an incredibly comfortable and practical “clothing” for many people. You’re absolutely correct in drawing attention to how bad it sucks that the people who embrace that comfort now feel pained to differentiate themselves from the abusers who pervert their fashion












  • It’s more insidious than that. In general, meat forward diet influencers are entry points into the conservative pipeline. You start out seeking to improve your health and very quickly end up exposed to jordan peterson types who will ominously warn you of the “normalization of inadequacy” among the general public and suggest progressively more conservative content as a pathway to achieving your full potential.

    So in essence, though he may not seem to directly benefit, by highlighting these types of diets he knows plenty of people will hop on youtube or whatever and get algorithm’d right back into the broader MAHA/MAGA sphere




  • I was reading some breakdown recently, forget if it was the CDC or whoever, but basically they found that the vast majority of Americans were totally good on vitamin D when tested despite survey results indicating people didn’t get enough from their diet generally. This was attributed to sun exposure

    Then I looked it up and in many cases you get your full dose of vitamin D from the sun in literally a few minutes lol. Honestly I think the whole supplement industry in general is just a very successful scam

    Edit: found it, section of note is vitamin d intakes and status.

    evidence suggests that the majority of people have sufficient serum concentrations of vitamin D based on the thresholds set by the Food and Nutrition Board

    If your doctor literally told you to take it then that’s great. The constant fear mongering among the general public about supplements is the scam

    https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminD-HealthProfessional/




  • The first recorded ski jump was <10 meters in the early 1800s. 60 years later the sport began to grow more popular, and they could hit 20 meters.

    The record has basically crawled up from there one or two meters at a time. We’re now at 254.5m, only 4 meters further than we were eleven years ago