medgremlin

Peanut butter, nice bread, and hoarding shiny little trinkets.

I have my suspicions about how they calculated that and there was a bit in there about how freeze-dried coffee has the most fiber in it. I think it is much less than they are claiming for most of the preparations that people usually consume. Don't get me wrong, there are definite social and ritual aspects to coffee that aren't replaceable, but this trend of trying to insist that everything has some kind of physiological health benefit is seriously misguided. If you want a hot drink with actual proven health benefits, plain green tea without sugar or milk or anything is your best bet.

Did anyone else see this headline and immediately jump to Ghost in the Shell?

"0.47 to 0.75 grams". The daily recommendation for fiber is 25 to 30 grams. You're better off with a caffeine pill and some oatmeal.

Organ transplants for infants typically come from other infants. The ones that have organs to spare are the ones that are functionally dead for other reasons. I used to work at a children's hospital in the ER and I've seen multiple infants end up brain dead from trauma and someone had to ask the family if they would donate their child's organs to save other children.

I didn't say they paid no taxes at all, but I was explaining how the bottom 50% of earners in the country pay very little, if anything. The 19.3% is the bottom 19.3% of earners in the country, not a percentage of the bottom half.

I would argue that if you get everything (or most of your withheld taxes) back on your return....that means that you effectively didn't pay federal income taxes or paid very little. If you get most of your withholding back every year, you could look at how you filed your exemptions on your I-9 and increase the number to the maximum allowable. I know some people that put the maximum allowances so that no federal tax is withheld from their paycheck and they just pay the balance at the end of the year when they file their taxes instead of getting a return.

For Youtubers, I wish H. Bomberguy would post more often because I've seen him cited as some people's animus for de-radicalization. Abigail Thorn of Philosophy Tube was another good "male role model" prior to her transition and a lot of viewers commented about how she gave them a better model of masculinity to emulate (particularly ironic as she turned out to be trans). I think FD Signifier is a good example for young black men in particular, and Devin of Legal Eagle is a fine example of a successful professional for those that are more business-minded.

They just try to slide it under the radar by not showing the taxes on your payslip because you're more likely to look closer at that than your receipt from the grocery store.

And that's not even getting into state income taxes, Medicare taxes, and Social Security taxes. Those all have different brackets and some states are more regressive than others. There are states like Texas that don't have income taxes, but they make up for it by taxing everything else through things like sales and property taxes.

Of note: sales tax is always the most regressive taxation model, and tariffs are basically sales taxes on steroids.

For something very relevant to health: cooking, knowing how to measure food, and how to read a nutrition label. Obesity would be much less common if people were able to cook their own food more often, and knew how to actually measure out accurate portion sizes.

I totally get that time, upfront costs like cookware, and access to decent ingredients are MAJOR factors in whether or not someone can learn how to cook, but anyone can and should know how to read a nutrition label and know how to measure accurate portion sizes for the things they eat. If you are trying to lose weight or work on healthy habits, a food scale is infinitely more valuable than a body weight scale. Most people do not know what 28g of chips looks like.

The bottom 50% of Americans make less than $40k a year. They do pay some federal taxes, but with the standard deduction, the 19.3% of working Americans that make less than $15k a year don't pay any federal taxes. The standard deduction goes up to $22.5k for a head of household (i.e. a single working parent). Given that the federal minimum wage still works out to $15,080 a year, that means a full-time minimum wage worker doesn't make enough to get hit with income taxes.

Edit: Here's a wikipedia article with the numbers I pulled and the tax bracket info is on the IRS website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_States

He posted this to his own instagram page. He's been unable to train at all for about 6 weeks during the surgery recovery phase. He has a video on youtube talking about his experience with surgery. But, as you'll see in the comments from various physicians and other healthcare professionals, he actually had a particularly bad experience and there were some problems with the way the surgeon and the anesthesiologist handled things. I used to work in a plastic surgery clinic and I was appalled at what he described.

I think it's really good that he's open and honest about his steroid usage and about the realities and reasoning for his surgery. It's probably good for folks overall if they get an honest perspective from someone who has done these medical adjuncts to body building as opposed to only ever listening to people who haven't had problems and have never done steroids. (And the chumps that lie about their steroid use and surgery can go kick rocks. Fuck them.)