winston smith

Not a stranger in a strange land.

[winston smith @ChanceStarkin]

The question was unanswerable. They both knew it. Poilievre was the joke.

[Coffey4Canada 🇨🇦 @CanadianCoffey]

Rogan is laughing at him, not with him.

Pierre is too dumb to realize it.

[winston smith @ChanceStarkin]

Don't swallow your tongue. We would be devastated.

[Ken Ham @aigkenham]

Does the Bible give us an age of the earth?

Over the years, I’ve heard the objection over and over again that the Bible doesn’t give us an age for the earth—that’s what science is for! I usually respond a bit tongue in cheek by saying I’m glad it doesn’t, or it would have been outdated the very next year!

But then I go on to explain that the Bible doesn’t give us an age for the universe—it gives us something better: a birth certificate and a detailed chronological history.

You see, Genesis 1 is clear that God created everything in six, literal 24-hour days. That means the universe was six days old when Adam was created. We then have detailed genealogies in Genesis 5 and 10 that don’t merely provide the names of the fathers from Adam to Abraham but also their ages when they had their sons. This means anyone can easily add up the time that elapsed from Adam to Abraham (about 2,000 years). Since the Bible gives us the details to figure out Abraham lived about 2,000 years before Christ and we know Christ walked on this earth 2,000 years before us, we can determine that there’s been about 6,000 years of history.

So, no, the Bible doesn’t say, “The earth is 6,000 years old.” Earth wasn’t that old when the Bible was written anyway! But it gives us a “birth certificate” we can use to figure out how much time has passed since the beginning.

(And, just as an aside, this birth certificate is why most people in the West believed the earth was just a few thousand years old until relatively modern times!)

[winston smith @ChanceStarkin]

Attacking a vegan is deflecting to an easy target. Humans are omnivores and we have choices. Why generate methane that affects the well-being of everyone? For a steak! Why do it because you do it? Do we really want more slaughterhouses?

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

>be vegan, sure we're gentle herbivores
>"our teeth are made for plants"
>the canines beg to differ
>"fine, flat molars for grinding leaves"
>eyes face forward, hunter's hardware
>"our guts can't handle meat"
>stomach acid hits pH 1.5
>strong enough to melt flesh, vulture-grade
>"early humans lived on fruit"
>the bones come up butchered, two million years deep
>"surely the brain grew on plants"
>it tripled from the day we started eating meat
>"a natural diet gives me everything"
>everything but B12
>no plant on earth makes it
>you buy it in a pill so your nerves don't pack in
>the cold realisation lands
>you're the deadliest predator this planet ever built
>and you're having the side salad

[winston smith @ChanceStarkin]

Nobody cares what you believe. What we know is that their is no truth of God unless the proof of God is produced. I presume this is the attention you seek.

[Trevor Sheatz @TrevorSheatz]

The culture wants us to stay quiet about the truth of God. We must stand firm on his word regardless of what it costs us. Our allegiance belongs to Christ alone.

[winston smith @ChanceStarkin]

If the shoe fits, wear it.

[Darwin to Jesus @darwintojesus]

If atheism is just a lack of belief in God… then why are you saying people that believe in God are insane?

This would be like me saying I don’t believe there are an even or odd number of atoms in the Milky Way, but anyone that believes there’s an even number is insane.

That makes no sense.

If believing “the number of atoms in the Milky Way is even” makes on insane then clearly the sane answer is that the number is odd, right?

[winston smith @ChanceStarkin]

Oneupmanship evidencing that Christianity is a blood support.

[Against Atheism @AgainstAtheismX]

Atheists: "A person can't sweat blood, Christianity is a myth!"

*HEMATIDROSIS*

"An exceedingly rare condition where a person oozes or sweats blood from intact skin. It is (...) often triggered by extreme physical or psychological stress."

There are no mistakes in the Bible.

[winston smith @ChanceStarkin]

Submit to a lie detector test?

[Danny @Truth_matters20]

Create a rock so heavy that He cannot lift it.

Atheists think that's a "gotcha" question.

[winston smith @ChanceStarkin]

It's as real as any fiction can be, as real as that "photo."

[Against Atheism @AgainstAtheismX]

The Bible is real.

All of it.

[winston smith @ChanceStarkin]

As you say, there is no one Mediterranean diet. But you smear them with a broad brush. How does it all matter to you since everything is only good if it's cow? It does look like self-promotion with photo ops. Eat what you want and let others do likewise.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The "evidence-based Mediterranean diet" is the most profitable work of fiction Harvard ever published.

There is no single Mediterranean diet. The sea touches twenty-odd countries that agree on nothing at dinner. What you're sold is one pyramid, drawn in 1993 by an American food charity, the Harvard School of Public Health and the WHO, built specifically to replace the USDA's. A committee in Massachusetts sketched how it imagined a Greek peasant ate, and the world bought the cartoon.

And they caught that peasant mid-fast. The foundational data came from Crete around 1960, a population so devoutly Orthodox they fasted 180 to 200 days a year. No meat. No dairy. No eggs. For half the calendar. One of the main dietary surveys ran straight through the 48-day Lenten fast. They recorded Cretans eating about 35 grams of meat a day and called it the Cretan diet. It was Cretan Lent.

The pyramid's authors swear the fasting changed nothing. They would. The British Journal of Nutrition later called that same Orthodox fasting cycle a "hidden characteristic" of the Cretan diet the original study never bothered to account for.

Then watch what the marketing does to the rest. The whole grains you're ordered to eat sit beside the white bread, white pasta and white rice on every real table from Naples to Valencia. The olive oil poured over everything is pure fat. And airbrushed out of the brochure are the lamb, the fish, the offal, the full-fat sheep and goat cheese, the thick yoghurt, the eggs and the cured pork these people have actually eaten for centuries.

So the famed diet of longevity is a 1990s American drawing of a hungry man observing Lent, stretched across a sea no two shores of which eat alike, with the meat and the cheese hidden behind a wall of lettuce.

Nobody in the Mediterranean has ever eaten it. That was never the point; the point was the front page.

[winston smith @ChanceStarkin]

Raspberry or blackberry tree?

[winston smith @ChanceStarkin]

What could be more virtuous than drinking milk that is intended for a calf?

[Gubba Homestead @GubbaHomestead]

We should stop calling raw milk, RAW milk, and should start just calling it what it really is…milk.

And instead, we should call the milk at the store what it really is…PASTEURIZED milk.

Then the conversations can go:

“Wait, you drink PASTEURIZED milk? Don’t you know that heating it destroys necessary enzymes for vitamin and mineral absorption, so your body is confused on what to do with it?? Most likely leading to intolerance?!”

In my opinion, this would be beneficial, so people can actually start discussing the truth of what their food really is and how it works in the body.

Being scared of germs in “raw” milk? Please…

[winston smith @ChanceStarkin]

Nothing like a day when things commonly known are presented as a revelation.

[ⁿᵉʷˢ Robert F. Kennedy Jr. @RobertKennedyJc]

Extra virgin olive oil is the ultimate cheat code.

Anti-inflammatory & heart-protecting

Loaded with polyphenols that fight cancer & aging.

Ditch the toxic seed oils. Cook with it, drizzle on everything.

One tbsp a day = longevity in a bottle.

Buy quality!

MAHA

[winston smith @ChanceStarkin]

Absolutely. But usually with additions for fun.

[winston smith @ChanceStarkin]

Curry powder and/or other spices, they aren't free but a little can go a long way. FYI: a curry doesn't have to be hot. Add a grain, rice for example, and you'll have a complete protein too.

[Chef 👩🏻‍🍳 @chefsevenn]

What can I put in canned green beans to improve their flavor? I hate them, but we're on a budget and have plenty of them.

[winston smith @ChanceStarkin]

Keep trying. It's so cute.

[Noahs Ark Scans @noahsarkscans]

Archaeologists have discovered ancient settlements beneath the Black Sea.

Places where people once lived now lie hundreds of feet underwater.
Even secular researchers acknowledge that large areas of land were flooded as sea levels rapidly rose after the Ice Age.

The debate isn't whether the flooding happened.

The debate is how much flooded and how fast it happened.

It's interesting that some of the world's oldest flood traditions come from this very same region.

Funny how the deeper we dig into the ancient world, the more evidence we find of a global flood.

[winston smith @ChanceStarkin]

We don't know those people. Are you a doctor?

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Patient: My blood sugar's high.
Doctor: We'll start you on metformin.
Patient: Could I just stop eating sugar instead?
Doctor: You won't be eating sugar. You'll be eating wholegrains.
Patient: And what do wholegrains break down into?
Doctor: Glucose, eventually.
Patient: Which is?
Doctor: ...sugar.
Patient: So I'd be eating sugar.
Doctor: It's a slower sugar.
Patient: But still the thing my blood already has too much of.
Doctor: The medication handles that.
Patient: Or I could just not eat the slow sugar?
Doctor: That's quite hard for people to stick to.
Patient: Harder than injecting myself for the rest of my life?
Doctor: ...
Patient: I'm only asking why we're mopping the puddle instead of turning off the tap.
Doctor: ...
Patient: Doctor?

[winston smith @ChanceStarkin]

Whatever the cow drinks, and I'm going to skip the contents this time, the cow is innocent but it does emit lots of methane and eating them requires slaughterhouses.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The cow stands accused of drinking the planet dry. The headline number is 15,000 litres of water for a single kilo of beef. A monster, apparently. Let us settle her bill, line by line, and see what the planet is actually owed.

Line one, the big one: rainfall. That 15,000-litre figure is what hydrologists call a water footprint, and for beef more than 90 percent of it is green water, meaning rain that fell on the grass the animal ate. Rain that was going to land on that hillside whether a cow stood on it, a sheep stood on it, or nothing did. We are billing the animal for the weather. Strike it out.

Line two: the blue water, the stuff that actually comes from taps, rivers, and aquifers, the water humans genuinely compete over. For beef this runs to roughly 50 litres per kilo as a global average, and in rain-soaked Britain, where cattle drink the sky and graze unirrigated grass, the figure for a kilo of beef carcass is around 67 litres. A bucket, give or take. The honest consumptive figure for beef lands somewhere between about 300 and 1,300 litres a kilo, not fifteen thousand.

Line three: what she did with the bucket. She drank it, ran it through, and returned almost all of it to the field as urine, dung, and breath, where it rejoins the same cycle it was always in. Water is not consumed the way petrol is; it is borrowed and handed straight back, very slightly warmer.

For perspective, a single glass of dairy milk carries a water footprint of about 126 litres, and a glass of the almond milk sold as its virtuous replacement about 74. Both, like the beef, are overwhelmingly green water. Rain. The same rain.

So the final, honest invoice for the planet-draining beast reads: a bucket of borrowed water, returned to sender, plus a very large charge for rain that fell on a Welsh hill of its own accord.

The 15,000-litre number is, in the main, a bill for the sky. Send it to the sky.

[winston smith @ChanceStarkin]

No. It is evidence for the possibility though.

[Creation Ministries International (CMI) @creationnews]

Does water on Mars = evidence for life?

[winston smith @ChanceStarkin]

But don't you interrogate and immediately bury everything that isn't cow? But don't worry, you've probably never eaten brown rice. You can't even cook it.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Brown rice is what you order when you want the waiter to know you have made peace with joylessness in exchange for health points. The arsenic is the twist nobody puts on the menu.

Rice has a problem unique among grains. It grows in flooded paddies, sitting in standing water for months, and it draws arsenic out of the soil roughly ten times more eagerly than wheat or barley. That arsenic concentrates in the bran, the grain's outer layer. White rice has the bran polished off. Brown rice keeps it, because the bran is where the fibre and minerals live. It is also, inconveniently, where the arsenic lives.

A 2025 analysis found brown rice carries around 24% more total arsenic and 40% more inorganic arsenic, the form classed as a known human carcinogen, than white. You upgraded to the wholegrain and quietly upgraded your carcinogen dose along with it.

Then the ecology, which nobody ever pins on rice, because rice looks so very innocent. Those flooded paddies are anaerobic, and the microbes thriving in them belch methane on an industrial scale. Rice cultivation produces something like 10% of all human methane emissions and roughly a fifth of agricultural methane. Cattle get filmed for documentaries about their burps. Rice quietly produces a tenth of the world's methane while flooding entire landscapes and hoarding arsenic, then takes its place in the salad bar wearing a wellness halo.

Cows are dragged through the climate courts every week. The rice paddy, doing serious damage of its own, sits in your grain bowl with the expression of something that has never done anything wrong in its life. Curious, isn't it, which foods we decide to interrogate.

[winston smith @ChanceStarkin]

It's a liver because it makes you live. If that's not right it should be.

[Dr. Ammous @AmmousMD]

80% of your cholesterol is made in the liver.

So according to the cholesterol-heart hypothesis, your liver is trying to kill you.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

A statin