And, playing the devil’s advocate, if you die in your early 60s due to long-term sustained malnutrition that is better for the economy than if you live until you are 80.
They got to do everything they can to prevent them from having to pay back those social security loans they took out and never paid back.
Many vegetables today are either sweeter than their predecessors or less flavorful or both.
Corn, for instance, grows so fast under modern fertilizers that the internal cells split during the growth process.
Their stalks are weaker but their yield has more than doubled since the 80s.
If you want to learn more about that, I can highly recommend the book The omnivore’s dilemma. It’s fascinating how modern agriculture is so completely divorced from what most people think it is.
Yep. I have been working on that for my next vacation, get an MRI and some actual diagnoses to bring to my PCP so that they’ll actually do something.
We weren’t a badass superpower when that happened. We were just in a place where the actual superpowers of the time were unable and unwilling to spend the money needed to defend Mexico from us.
I would gladly go to a doctor and have my issues dealt with if I could.
I have good insurance.
I have money, although not a lot, but enough to go to the goddamn hospital.
Every time I go to the hospital with a complaint, they basically told me it’s all in my head and send me on my way without running any diagnostic tests, analyzing the specific issues that I’m talking about, or finding out any more information than whether or not I have insurance.
Then when it’s all said and done, I get a bill for $1,000.
This has happened to me the last three times I went to the doctor.
I have nodules in my throat. I have giant lumps under my skin, my urine smells like maple syrup even though my blood sugar is Rock fucking solid. I have issues with losing weight that aren’t directly related to my diet.
I have depression, I have skin issues with fucking eczema that do not respond to any over-the-counter treatment. I have a deviated septum. My xiphoid process is literally broken and free-floating in my chest. My coccyx is the size of a fucking grape.
I have an entire litany of issues and I have told multiple doctors about this in person and asked for help and assistance, and not once has a single doctor ever offered to do so much as draw my fucking blood for a test.
If I do not DIY my own medicine I cannot receive treatment for any of my issues. No matter how many times I have asked for help, my pleas for help have always been ignored and I’ve been charged $1,000 for them on top of insurance three different times.
If you know how to fix this where I can get qualified competent medical assistance with my issues before they snowball together and murder me, please tell me how because I cannot solve this.
If we tried to take over say Canada and Mexico for instance, being the easiest targets, the rest of the world will rise up against us.
Sure, we have a huge military and a lot of nukes, but they have nukes also and a hell of a lot more money and manpower.
The only way we can win would be to launch a preemptive nuclear strike against the eastern side of the planet and assuming that we don’t get nuked back to the Stone age in return immediately launch a strike against Canada and Mexico while the rest of the world is cleaning up after the shit we started.
9 times out of 10, almost everyone in America dies, and the rest get to spend 150 years paying back for the damages.
1 time out of 10, we become king shit of a hell hole of our own creation.
Statistically speaking, eventually we’ve got to encounter at least one virus that is beneficial for humanity. I say we keep going
You do know that the lifetime salary for a former president is something like $400,000 a year right? That alone prevents him from being classified as dirt poor, not only that but all of the under the table deals he pulled off as president I’m sure are ensuring that he retains what any normal American would consider to be a substantial amount of wealth.
Although, I do agree with your contention that he is very likely not a billionaire anywhere except on a sheet of paper somewhere, and chances are either he or somebody he employs wrote that sheet of paper specifically to ensure that it said he was a billionaire, so my bad.
How long do we have to listen to the ramblings of a psychotic old billionaire before somebody finally gives him his night night pills and tells him to shut the fuck up.
2/3rds of the select people they polled, which incude jimmy down the hall and 2 other random people.
Why do we give stupid shit like this airspace?
Honestly some plants grow so fast they simply do not have time to extract the nutrients from the soil and fertilizer that they used to.