elffys

Why wouldn't you want to know? My life in a motto.

[elffys @elffys]

@elsathora if you see a firetruck or Semi truck (seh-my) go by, hold your fist up and pull down twice. make eye contact with the driver if you can.

[elffys @elffys]

@elsathora you will find pure america pretty much everywhere on the 4th... if you're in a small town, find one that has a lake, as most of them will do fireworks on the water. big city, RESERVE a rooftop spot. city is more likely to cater to booze. small town more likely bbq/community.

[elffys @elffys]

@elsathora either way, your should experience warehouse retail...Sam's Club or Costco lol

[elffys @elffys]

@elsathora there's a place called Sam's Club, that sells it by the gallon. my sister told me once that it was the closest to the best restaurant ranch she's ever had. Small town places, or home in the wall places are more likely to make their own rather than use Sysco foods.

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

Jon Stewart urges Democrats to ditch the rule-following and take a page from the Republican playbook: start exploiting loopholes

[AskAubry 🦋 🐆🦝 @ask_aubry]

The way they see women as incubators.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

We want it that way.

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

"The ages most represented among the dead were five to nine-year-olds."

[AskAubry 🦋 🐆🦝 @ask_aubry]

Remember to STFU.

[Overheard @realoverheardla]

People in LA canceling plans:

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

@SkyNews ‘Killed in Gaza’ — are you fucking kidding me?

She was *murdered by Israel* when they fired 355 bullets into the car her and her family were in, before murdering the rescuers who tried to save her.

[Seyda Ipek - #FreePalestine @sheydaipek]

People love to ask, disingenuously,"Why don't Palestinians protest peacefully?" Here's an elder, protecting children, non-violently. Israeli soldiers killed him in revenge. There's nothing Palestinians can do that Israelis will find peaceful.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

my life changed when i learned some house spiders can't survive outside so now i just catch them and release them in a friend's home

[AskAubry 🦋 🐆🦝 @ask_aubry]

Research by Edinburgh University’s Childlight institute ‘highlights alarming trends in child abuse. 1 in 10 men committed sexual offending behavior against children 1 in 20 said they would abuse children offline if no one would find out.

[Brad Stulberg @BStulberg]

This statement from Dr. Casey Means is full of so many falsehoods I don't even know where to start.

Here is a small sampling, with my responses in bold.

“I did not learn that for each additional serving of ultra-processed food we eat, early mortality increases by 18%."

I've easily had 1000 bags of chips in my life. If this is true, it means my mortality risk has increased by 18,000 percent. That seems unlikely.

"I certainly did not learn that medical error and medications are the third-leading cause of death in the US."

This is a lie. The third leading cause of death in the US is accidents, and the majority of those accidents are car accidents and falls. Medical errors are, of course, a real cause for concern but they are not the third leading cause of death in the US.

"I didn’t learn that 95% of the people who created the recent USDA food guidelines for America had significant conflicts of interest with the food industry."

Nobody gets sick from following the USDA guidelines, which are to eat around 2000 calories, focus on nutrient dense food, and limit sugar-sweetened beverages. There is an entire nutrition grift to demonize the guidelines but the guidelines are pretty solid! The problem is nobody follows them, for all sorts of reasons.

"I didn’t learn that professional organizations that we get out practice guidelines from, like the American Diabetes Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics, have taken tens of millions of dollars from Coke, Cadbury, processed food companies and vaccine manufacturers like Moderna."

This is why the scientific community requires conflict of interest statements. (Unlike in Dr. Means current work, where she is selling a continuous glucose monitor to healthy people and telling them to stress out and obsess over their blood sugar.)

"I didn’t learn that just five nights of sleep deprivation can induce full-blown pre-diabetes."

Running a marathon can induce full-blown kidney disease. So what? The body normalizes after. All sorts of things can lead to all sorts of effects. This is more fear-mongering.

"I didn’t learn that if you address these root causes that all lead to metabolic dysfunction and help patients change their food and lifestyle patterns … we could reverse the chronic disease crisis in America, save millions of lives and trillions of dollars in healthcare costs per year."

This is surprising. I learned this at the University of Michigan and nearly everyone I know who recently attended medical or public health school learned this too. We also learned the solution is not medical devices, shunning modern vaccine technology for no good reason other than unfounded tribal fear, or cold plunging and taking supplements. The solution is to improve social determinants of health across the population. Everyone knows this. But it's hard to do.

Listen, ultra-processed foods generally aren't good for you (with some exceptions, such as Coca-Cola at mile 22 of a hard marathon) and physical activity and sleep are both really good for you! But the amount of wild claims, us vs. the "establishment" boogeyman thinking, and of course, contrarian thinking on everything, and sewing vaccine skepticism are all just signs of a grifter who wants to sell their product.

It's sad but impossible not to see.

[AskAubry 🦋 🐆🦝 @ask_aubry]

I feel sorry for those young women today who could have been spared cervical cancer if not for vaccine misinformation.

[Imani Gandy is at BlueSky Now @AngryBlackLady]

omg

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Nam Yoon Su talks about homophobia towards queer content in South Korea:

“It’s the same love story with only a difference in gender. I hope you can see it as something ordinary. (...) But the fact that [the show] is released only on OTT, shows that Korean society still has some ways to go.”

[Dzintra - Author @DzintraSullivan]

If I'm ever known as the 'one that got away'.

Just know it was from an asylum.