@nytdavidbrooks I love David but couldn’t make sense of this. They voted for privilege, funded by billionaires, who married immigrants. Not for a poor teacher and poor daughter of immigrants who showed the American dream is possible. 🤷♂️
Screenwriters say great thrillers have an all-is-lost moment (the debate); a charismatic, powerful, often rich villain who gets away with everything; a likable hero of humble origin who gets tapped unexpectedly to save the world.
I'd watch that movie. 🍿
@NutritionMadeS3 PEW said in 2010 that only 6% of scientists were republican and 51% were democrat. I imagine that divide may have sharpened after all the climate and covid denial.
@yaypie @PlantChompers Thanks! It was an adventure, that’s for sure. But hey, we found a previously undiagnosed congenital defect which can be fixed, so I’m happy. 😁
WHAT?! I had a stroke?! Me, the guy with a YouTube channel advocating whole-plant-dominant Mediterranean, Vegetarian and Vegan diets? Yet there I was in the emergency room with impaired speech. Should I have eaten fewer carbs, more meat? The med team discovered some answers…
@Plant_proof Heh. I’m at UC Berkeley today, thinking back on the demonstrations I watched in the 60s as a teen about the Vietnam war. My memory is we were more divided then than now.
@TheCarnivoreKid It’s a very old story. I had two low carb friends die of heart attacks at 38. In this interview, the head of the world heart federation explains why slender, muscular men are so prone to it: https://t.co/oayKRpVpNO
@elliot_monk@Plant_proof That's a very interesting paper, but they seem to be arguing that afforesting native grasslands is not the right thing to do, not that restoring forests is wrong, no?