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Wednesday, September 27. 2023

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Lots of Dunkin Donuts in his neck of the woods

I'm a Harvard researcher - this is why buying 'organic' food is a total con

Another expert weighs in....proably right, but whatever

"Trauma": Don't talk it out

‘Emotional support Barbies’ can improve adults’ mental health: psychologist

I guess I need one

Depression risk spikes for those who eat these unhealthy foods, study finds: ‘Not a coincidence’

I doubt causality

Why Is TED Scared of Color Blindness?

Stuart's Wednesday Potpourri

Widespread Mass Looting Overnight in Philly

San Francisco Prepares to Clear Homeless Camps after Court Clarifies Definition of ‘Involuntarily Homeless’

Anthropology groups cancel all-female panel defending biological sex as ‘necessary category’

'Our education system has collapsed': Giordano weighs in on dismal proficiency levels. 'Rather than fix the problem, they redefined it in order to meet the new normal of what they call it.'

James Carville rips far-left Democrats on Bill Maher podcast: ‘Most stupid, naive people you can imagine’

Sheesh

Nearly Half of Democrats Believe Free Speech Should Be Legal ‘Only Under Certain Circumstances’

It takes a British minister to clearly call out migrant madness

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Dunkin is expanding like crazy, they have three new locations opening in my immediate area, which is a small market. One is in a quite rural area crossroads where a bank branch closed, it is opening next week as a new Dunkin location.

#1 Cloyd on 2023-09-27 10:46 (Reply)

Depression risk spikes for those who eat these unhealthy foods, study finds: ‘Not a coincidence’

Sad food for sad people.

#2 Mike Anderson (Link) on 2023-09-27 11:11 (Reply)

Statistical studies are ripe for misinterpretation. Unhealthy foods is almost impossible to define. I often hear the phrase processed foods when what they really mean is foods with various chemicals in them. OK, I get it these multisyllable names for things in your food are scary. But the government requires, as they should, that everything added to your food is in the ingredients list and we are simply unprepared to recognize something that is good or bad based on it's strange name. But have you ever seen the list of chemicals in an apple? It is actually a scary list and it's on the internet somewhere if you search for it. But it isn't on the label!!! Does that fact alone make an apple good for you but a box of Mac and Cheese bad for you? The mac and cheese is required to list those scary chemicals and the people with food biases use that to scare you but with no more knowledge of the risks than a 1 YO baby. It is all pure BS.

#2.1 OneGuy on 2023-09-27 12:30 (Reply)

Don't be obtuse; dietary denial is a bad look. Mac and cheese in a box is pretty much the definition of sad food.

Compared to an apple, how many different recipes call for boxed mac and cheese as an ingredient?

#2.1.1 Mike Anderson (Link) on 2023-09-27 13:01 (Reply)

Mac and cheese is the exact opposite of sad food. Some might call it the definition of comfort food. Whether from a box with atomic-orange powdered cheese or baked from scratch, it's all good.

#2.1.1.1 jack walter on 2023-09-27 14:19 (Reply)

When you're a kid, true. When you're a grown-up, you might as well apply it directly to your butt.

#2.1.1.1.1 Mike Anderson (Link) on 2023-09-27 14:27 (Reply)

You seem unable to tell the difference between knowledge and biases. You think there is something wrong with Mac and Cheese. Prove it! I doubt that you can and in fact it would be foolish on your part to try. Usually people with food biases prefer to stick to their sketchy sources; some author or Youtuber. But to actually prove a particular food is bad for you is no small task. Because, typically, it isn't! Good luck. I will await your elucidation. Might go make some Mac and Cheese with bacon while you ponder your witty response.

#2.1.1.2 OneGuy on 2023-09-27 15:08 (Reply)

It's cheese and carbs. Kiddie food. OK once in a while, but those carbs will get to you eventually.

#2.1.1.2.1 Mike Anderson (Link) on 2023-09-27 18:42 (Reply)

I honestly don't get the whole anti-carb thing. You do know it is a part of your minimum daily requirement and it is recommended that you consume 45-65% of your total calories in carbs. I eat whatever I want, I mean I eat 3 or 4 desserts for dinner if I want to and yes Mac and Cheese for lunch and chocolate for snacks and cookies by the pound. I'm 80 YO, not over weight, when does it catch up with me?

#2.1.1.2.1.1 OneGuy on 2023-09-27 23:57 (Reply)

re Widespread Mass Looting Overnight in Philly

What happens when there are no stores left to loot?

#3 feeblemind on 2023-09-27 11:25 (Reply)

Like Chicago, they will likely propose government stores where the looting is funded directly from the taxpayer trough. We are starting to resemble the old Soviet Union.

#3.1 indyjonesouthere on 2023-09-27 11:36 (Reply)

Philadelphia will look like this video from Berkley. A college town with no stores is mindboggling to me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv89eQqZ_6Q&t=611s

#3.2 John Fisher on 2023-09-27 18:10 (Reply)

"Don't talk it out"

The real problem is that some people need constant attention/drama. For them a crisis or a personal trauma is a win/win. They get sympathy on which they thrive or they get opposition on which they also thrive. It doesn't matter which; argue with them and they are in their glory and their anger is fulfilling. Sympathize with them and they bask in your adoration. They are mentally ill and you are put on earth to feed their ego. If you don't they will get angry with you, provoke you to force you to respond angrily to them and that feeds their ego. You can't win; they can't lose. Bottom line is don't play, walk away.

#4 OneGuy on 2023-09-27 11:37 (Reply)

Sounds like a certain troll we're all familiar with. There's a reason the saying is "Don't feed the trolls."

#4.1 Jerryskids on 2023-09-27 13:07 (Reply)

I'm surprised the description I gave doesn't perfectly fit a lot of people you know. I suspect this particular mental affliction affects 10%-20% of people and probably worse for women than men. or perhaps more obvious with women than men. But maybe you are lucky and everyone you know is like Mary Poppins.

I actually think it is an interesting personality. They crave attention and will be endearing to strangers and new acquaintances to suck them into their web. Then it is the "woe is me" gambit which if it works is carried on until the "mark" cannot stomach it anymore. But if you criticize them suddenly they switch to the "bitch" mode which almost seems to satisfy their neediness more than the sympathy mode. Perhaps you have really chosen to take my advice and walk away and therefore you don't get to experience the full measure of their craziness.

#4.1.1 OneGuy on 2023-09-27 15:15 (Reply)

When I encounter people like this, I've found a useful tool is to experiment a bit and see whether they show any interest in solutions. I might offer a bit a help, and find out whether they can engage in a civil discussion of whether the help is welcome, and what difference it might make, and whether they could react to the help in a way that improves the situation. A red flag is a ready-made list of reasons why the help isn't welcome, won't be effective, etc., and right back to the "woe is me" talk. Time to disengage. They're more interested in their problems than in any solution.

Now, if what they really want is just a moment of respite in which someone says, "Wow, that's something hard you're facing," it's a kindness to listen.

#4.1.1.1 Texan99 on 2023-09-28 08:52 (Reply)

Re: 'Our education system has collapsed'

Yet another thing the left (liberals, leftists, demonrats) have ruined.

#5 mudbug on 2023-09-27 12:37 (Reply)

The Dunkin coffee is very good but it is a little expensive and donuts are a construct of the white male patriarchy.
I pick some up when it is on sale on the close out endcap and use by dates are your friend.
Undocumented reparations in the Philthy hole?
Stop by the Liberty Bell, don't mind if I do, sell it for scrap.
Everyone is cashing in on the controlled demolition.

#6 Historic Poop Emoji Czar on 2023-09-27 14:19 (Reply)

Just 6 Percent of New S&P Jobs Went to White Applicants in The Wake of George Floyd, Analysis Shows

QUOTE:

The analysis, based on data reported to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, shows that S&P 100 companies added 323,094 new jobs between 2020 and 2021. Of that total, 302,570 of them—94 percent of the total increase—went to "people of color," defined as blacks, Asians, and Hispanics, the analysis found. Together, those groups make up just 40 percent of the U.S population.

. . . "These numbers are extraordinarily stark," said Dan Morenoff, the executive director of the American Civil Rights Project, which litigates reverse discrimination cases. "It’s very hard to imagine this could be legally defensible."

https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/just-6-percent-of-new-sp-jobs-went-to-white-applicants-in-the-wake-of-george-floyd-analysis-shows/

#7 feeblemind on 2023-09-27 14:30 (Reply)

QUOTE:

Why Is TED Scared of Color Blindness?

Hughes makes some valid points. Addressing social problems through class can often be effective, while perhaps resulting in less societal friction. However, the reality is that official colorblindness doesn't address the core problems, as people aren't colorblind, political leaders (such as in North Carolina and Alabama) continue to gerrymander to limit minority power, and systemic racism still has significant impacts on society.

"For it is obvious that if a man is entering the starting line in a race 300 years after another man, the first would have to perform some impossible feat in order to catch up with his fellow runner.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

#8 Zachriel on 2023-09-27 14:38 (Reply)

Imagine if a court were to rule that the state MUST gerrymander to to create a certain number of guaranteed "white" congressional seats. Would you be all in for that?

There is a better solution and one that would be more consistent with Democracy; state wide elections for all federal and state positions. No more gerrymandering either for or against the current in or out race.

#8.1 OneGuy on 2023-09-27 15:19 (Reply)

OneGuy: Imagine if a court were to rule that the state MUST gerrymander to to create a certain number of guaranteed "white" congressional seats.

Oh, was Alabama guilty of generations of oppression against whites?

OneGuy: state wide elections for all federal and state positions.

Propostional representation could avoid many of the problems with the present "first past the post" election system, which tends to make third parties nonviable.

#8.2 Zachriel on 2023-09-27 15:45 (Reply)

"Oh, was Alabama guilty of generations of oppression against whites?"

Actually, NO! Alabama is a state without free will. But let's assume you meant to say Democrats in Alabama. OK! You got a point. So how many non-Democrats do you want to punish for what some (mostly dead now) Democrats did in the past??? Or would you rather have equality? Because... "I have a dream..."

#8.2.1 OneGuy on 2023-09-27 16:12 (Reply)

OneGuy: Alabama is a state without free will.

Alabama is an institution established in 1819.

OneGuy: So how many non-Democrats do you want to punish for what some (mostly dead now) Democrats did in the past???

It's not individuals being held to account, but Alabama. Keep in mind that you are defending Alabama providing whites more representation than their share of the population.

The Fifteenth Amendment guaranteed the right to vote, and granted power to Congress to enforce that right. The Civil Rights Act was enacted to enforce that right. Section 2 explicitly does not require proportional representation by race. However, it does state that if the totality of circumstances demonstrate that political processes are not equally open to members of a protected class it would constitute a violation of the Act. The court found, "Under the Court’s precedents {including Gingles}, a district is not equally open when minority voters face—unlike their majority peers—bloc voting along racial lines, arising against the backdrop of substantial racial discrimination within the State, that renders a minority vote unequal to a vote by a nonminority voter."

#8.2.2 Zachriel on 2023-09-27 16:32 (Reply)

"Keep in mind that you are defending Alabama providing whites more representation than their share of the population"

Actually it is the other way around, you are defending giving black voters more representation than their share. One person; one vote. I think it is racist to try to carve out a black or white or hispanic voting district, don't you???

Gerrymandering was invented by Democrats. Gerrymandering is extensively used in many states to assure a "black" representative.

#8.2.2.1 OneGuy on 2023-09-27 17:39 (Reply)

OneGuy: I think it is racist to try to carve out a black or white or hispanic voting district, don't you???

Actually, the issue is whether Alabama can continue to illegally carve out additional white districts, as the court found.

#8.2.2.2 Zachriel on 2023-09-27 17:47 (Reply)

"Actually, the issue is whether Alabama can continue to illegally carve out additional white districts, as the court found."

LOL! And their answer was... wait for it... to carve out another black district! Tada! I'm thinking you are clueless.

#8.2.2.2.1 OneGuy on 2023-09-27 18:04 (Reply)

OneGuy: And their answer was... wait for it... to carve out another black district!

Alabama was caught breaking the law—again. It’s called redress per Gingles.

#8.2.2.2.2 Zachriel on 2023-09-27 19:09 (Reply)

Ahhh! The "law". What you mean is some liberal unconstitutional judges interpretation of the law.

#8.2.2.2.2.1 OneGuy on 2023-09-27 23:58 (Reply)

OneGuy: Ahhh! The "law". What you mean is some liberal unconstitutional judges interpretation of the law.

The Fifteenth Amendment IS part of the U.S. Constitution.

#8.2.2.2.2.2 Zachriel on 2023-09-28 07:37 (Reply)

"However, the reality is that official colorblindness doesn't address the core problems," Every explicit and implicit concept in your assertion is unproven. Some are unprovable nonsense. But in fact, the more reasonable position is that official colorblindness addresses far more of the problems far better than any other alternative.
Your preferred solution, cultivating an ever stronger racial consciousness among collections of individuals grouped according to immutable physical characteristics and an accompanying sense of racial grievance and privilege among a minority seems an exceedingly odd candidate for integrating society and encouraging black success. It sounds like a recipe for a further decrease in social cohesion, less racial integration and assimilation, and ultimately, the ghettoization of blacks while whites, Hispanics, Asians, and Africans are well assimilated and contemptuous of blacks.
But I'm sure you're convinced you know better.

#8.3 James on 2023-09-27 17:20 (Reply)

QUOTE:

It takes a British minister to clearly call out migrant madness . . . Nobody entering the UK by boat from France is fleeing imminent peril.

British leaders have already said they would like to return refugees. The rule has been that refugees have to stop in the first safe haven. However, with Brexit, there is no longer an agreement in place to return them to those safe havens. And while Brexiteers claimed they would be able to dictate policy, it turns out that there is little reason for the E.U. to cooperate on this issue.

#9 Zachriel on 2023-09-27 14:48 (Reply)

There are small islands around GB. Ferry the illegal migrants to one of these islands and use the navy or coast guard to guard them against escape. Once a day come in with a boat with some supplies and an offer to return any migrant that choose to a free ride back to their home of birth. Problem solved.

#9.1 OneGuy on 2023-09-27 15:23 (Reply)

OneGuy: Once a day come in with a boat with some supplies and an offer to return any migrant that choose to a free ride back to their home of birth. Problem solved.

So, your solution is to lock up and perpetually house and feed families of refugees, many of whom can't safely return to their home countries.

#9.2 Zachriel on 2023-09-27 15:47 (Reply)

"So, your solution is to lock up and perpetually house and feed families of refugees, many of whom can't safely return to their home countries."

YES! Exactly! They ARE criminals and should be locked up. Perpetually if they prefer or they can opt for the free ride home. Sending "your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free" home is the most humane thing we can do for them. BUT, if they prefer we should hold them in jail until they die. YES! That is the exact solution!

#9.2.1 OneGuy on 2023-09-27 16:16 (Reply)

OneGuy: They ARE criminals and should be locked up.

Many are refugees. Under British and international law, they have the right to refuge. Nor are children criminals. Have you determined the cost involved?

#9.2.2 Zachriel on 2023-09-27 16:34 (Reply)

Almost all of them got to GB through France. This automatically means they are NOT refugees.

But why should GB or the U.S. Kowtow to some globalist idea of what should happen to refugees. Send them all home. Keep doing it and hold them in lockup until it is done. Screw the whole refugee scam. Lock them up until you can get them back to their home country.

#9.2.2.1 OneGuy on 2023-09-27 18:08 (Reply)

OneGuy: Almost all of them got to GB through France. This automatically means they are NOT refugees.

If they fled oppression, such as in Syria, then they are refugees and can’t be humanely returned there. They can’t be returned to France, because Britain canceled the reciprocal agreement with Brexit. Britain needs to enter a new agreement with the E.U., but the E.U. is in no hurry to do so. Children are not criminals, in any case.

#9.2.2.2 Zachriel on 2023-09-27 19:16 (Reply)

English Channel migrants: Where they're from and what they're escaping

#9.2.2.2.1 Zachriel on 2023-09-27 20:35 (Reply)

Doesn't matter! Send them home... hungry.

#9.2.2.2.1.1 OneGuy on 2023-09-28 00:00 (Reply)

OneGuy: Doesn't matter! Send them home... hungry.

Under current law, they are given refuge. It's doubtful most Brits or the British parliament would support the draconian policy of returning people to places where they are likely to be imprisoned, tortured, or killed for political reasons. But go ahead and make the argument. Maybe, they'll change the law.

'Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.' -- Matthew 25

#9.2.2.2.1.2 Zachriel on 2023-09-28 07:43 (Reply)

I'm one of those that don't believe organic food is actually (measurably) better for you. But we do rinse all of our produce with a special wash that's made for it, strips residues off that you're better off without. I pretty much rinse all food before cooking it.

But you know, if a person thinks organic food's better for them, then they ought to do it, hey? Even if it's a 100% placebo effect, the whole point is that it makes you feel better. Isn't that the objective? If you feel better, more healthy, then there's considerable evidence that this contributes a lot to your overall long term health.

Back in the 1970s health food fad / craze, where people were eating brown rice and no dairy and no meat, and lots of leafy green stuff, there were comics that noted that you don't live any longer on this diet, it just seems longer.

#10 Aggie on 2023-09-27 15:03 (Reply)

Once again, I have to shake my head at the Open Borders problem. The US has open borders and has been encouraging pretty much anybody from anywhere to Come! Come!, by studiously and indirectly taking no action to stop them, and in many cases, facilitating their ingress to avoid checks and measures. And we are not supposed to object; we are allowed to notice. For now.

The same thing in the EU and the UK. Endless waves of people. No records of criminal activity, no records of educational background, no records of immunization, a horde of empty slates bringing the lottery of human misery to the civilized world.

In all of these cases, there is little to no control of the illegal immigrants. Few background checks, instances of known terrorists or criminals or sexual predators, on known lists slipping through the cracks, so that we know the quality of background checking is low, where it has happened at all.

Missing in all of this is a clearly-articulated stated plan, a set of objectives to share, to understand the shape of the strategy. We are left to guess - and those guesses are all unpleasant ones.

The problem has continued to slowly become worse over - what? - 10 years? More? Now it is the size of something that cannot be ignored, and yet it is not discussed and put forward for action by any elected official in a ruling party. How much longer must the population continue to pretend that it isn't noticing something badly wrong, intentional inaction on the part of the elected and unelected leadership in the entire developed world? Do they get to just do stuff without our approval, and in spite of our objections, overrule our voice?

#11 Aggie on 2023-09-27 15:38 (Reply)

We are slouching towards WW III in Europe. Events precipitating that war are cascading everyday, not always reported on, in fact almost a MSM blackout of those events. But at this point in seems inevitable that NATO will become involved with boots on the ground in Ukraine. There is about an equal likelihood that Russia will go first and put boots on the ground in a NATO country first, probably Poland. And it is even far more likely that NATO or U.S. navy or air forces will fire on or be fired on by the Russians resulting in casualties. None of this is a stretch, everything stated is likely not just possible.

Either before or after these events it is possible, as in 50:50 chance that a "tactical" nuke will be used by either or both sides. Tactical seems to mean "something" less than Armageddon and sounds better, but it isn't. Think of it like the phrase "GUN!" yelled by law enforcement just before half a dozen officers empty their 17 round clips of 9mm into the body of the perp holding a cell phone that was perceived as a gun. Once "that" happens all control of the situation is gone. Once a "tactical" nuke is used both of the nuclear armed countries WILL empty their clip of nuclear armament into the dead "body" of the other. Not "just" Ukraine... No! The U.S., Canada, Europe, England, Russia... It will be (likely will be) a little more slow motion than those six cops but it will be every bit as inevitable.

WW III is likely to start before our next presidential election AND it is likely to go nuclear AND it is likely to be "triggered" by a "tactical" nuke followed by some hours as each side scrambles to assemble what must be assembled and to disperse what should be dispersed.

#12 Anon on 2023-09-27 16:46 (Reply)

And we will find out which 'non nuclear' powers in Europe are a quarter turn of a wrench from being nuclear powers. I'm sure there are a couple.

#12.1 John Fisher on 2023-09-27 18:13 (Reply)

'Anti-Racist' Tech CEO 'Beaten to Death by Black Male Career Criminal Who Was Released Early From Prison

QUOTE:

EcoMap Technologies CEO Pava Marie LaPere, a self-described “anti-racist” and Black Lives Matter supporter who spoke out against the “criminalization of Black bodies,” was allegedly beaten to death in her own home in Baltimore on Monday by a black male who was released early from prison under the criminal justice reform policies she championed.

https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=63992

#13 feeblemind on 2023-09-27 17:36 (Reply)

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