@phoebeisg1nger I got rid of cable TV here in the US 20 years ago.
The IQ of everyone in the house increased quite a bit just from avoiding network and cable news.
Haven't missed it one bit.
For two hundred years in America, lobster was the food you were ashamed to be seen eating.
When the first colonists reached New England, it washed up on the beaches in drifts two feet high. There was so much of it, and so little skill needed to gather it, that it became the very definition of cheap. They called it the cockroach of the sea, and the word lobster itself traces back to an old root for spider. They ground it up for fertiliser. They used it for bait. They fed it to the pigs, and they fed it to the cat. And they fed it to the people who had no say in the matter: prisoners, apprentices, the enslaved, and indentured servants working off their passage. The story goes that some servants in Massachusetts had it written into their contracts that they would not be served lobster more than a few times a week. Historians doubt that clause was ever real, but the fact that the legend survives at all tells you how the meat was regarded. A heap of shells by the back door marked a household out as poor, and some families buried them rather than let the neighbours see what they had been reduced to eating.
In the 1850s, canned lobster sold for around eleven cents a pound. A pound of Boston baked beans cost fifty-three. The lobster was nearly five times cheaper than the beans.
Then the trick that runs through every one of these stories happened. The railways arrived and needed cheap food to feed passengers who had never seen the coast and did not know lobster was supposed to be shameful. The canneries shipped it inland by the ton. Scarcity crept in as the giant lobsters were fished out. And somewhere between the dining cars and the Gilded Age lobster palaces of New York, the cockroach of the sea was rebranded as a delicacy, the price was pinned to the prestige, and there it has stayed.
A pound of the stuff they fed to prisoners now goes for fifty dollars on a white tablecloth.
The lobster never changed. The only thing that climbed was our willingness to be impressed by it.
This woman was recording a vocal performance when her cat interrupted, stepped in front of the camera, and started singing in the exact same tone like, 'Don't forget who's the real star here.'
@SamaHoole Ancel key's Minnesota Coronary Experiment did not show saturated fats and cholesterol lead to heart disease - same as Key's other study the 7 country study, the study was buried for many years before being found. nor has the long running Framlingham heart Study.
Ancel Keys
>has data from 22 countries
>cherry-picks 7 that fit his hypothesis
>ignores France, Switzerland, West Germany, all of whom eat butter and have low heart disease
>publishes the result as "the Seven Countries Study"
>becomes the most cited nutrition researcher of the 20th century
>destroys the careers of any scientist who points out the missing fifteen countries
>creates the dietary guidelines that 350 million Americans and 60 million Britons will follow for the next seventy years
>watches obesity, diabetes, and heart disease climb every year of his career
>later quietly admits dietary cholesterol doesn't really affect blood cholesterol
>quietly retires to the Mediterranean
>lives to 100 eating butter, cheese, eggs, and red meat
>never apologises
>never recants
>never gives the careers back
>"the science is settled, don't question it"