[-] Jack@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago

It used to be mostly smoking; now it's mostly eating animal products and processed food, and poor sleeping. The advice given for decades is still valid: only whole-plant food and water, lots of exercise, and proper sleep.

Possible reasons listed in article:

  • obesity,
  • metabolic syndrome (abdominal obesity, high blood pressure, high blood sugar, high serum triglycerides, and low serum high-density lipoprotein),
  • added sugar,
  • processed food,
  • ultra-processed foods,
  • consistently high blood glucose,
  • insulin resistance,
  • change in sleep patterns (children sleeping less, shift work and artificial light),
  • microplastics,
  • antibiotics.
[-] Jack@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 months ago

And greed, well you gotta be wealthy in order to afford giving God a nice juicy tithe. Also gotta be self sufficient.

According to Luke 16:13 Jesus said “You cannot serve both God and money.”

Mark 10:21 “Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”

[-] Jack@lemmy.ca 7 points 9 months ago

It may mean the user doesn't think their use is similar enough to the people who make the distro/DE, or trust the distro makers' decision making ability.

If a distros' makers think snaps are a good idea, or that the distro shouldn't by default show available security updates, or have a UI that hides how many open instances there are of a program unless you hover over an icon, or hides the titles of those open programs, or hides panels; then the way I use a PC is too different from the way they do - and there are likely more things in the background that we disagree with which can't as easily be changed like UI settings.

[-] Jack@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 months ago

Anyone know why Megaphragma mymaripenne's genus has "mega" in the name?

"mega-, megalo-: [...] big/great." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commonly_used_taxonomic_affixes#M

[-] Jack@lemmy.ca 9 points 11 months ago

“Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don’t fall out of the sky. They don’t pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents, and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses, and American universities; and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It’s what our system produces: garbage in, garbage out. […] If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you’re going to get selfish, ignorant leaders. Term limits ain’t going to do any good; you’re just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So, maybe, maybe, maybe, it’s not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here… like, the public.” - George Carlin https://piped.video/watch?v=cBrbXOmnW70

[-] Jack@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

It's like 99% of the Christians I've met have never read the Bible, or think no-one else has ever read it:

In Luke 6:29-30 "If someone slaps you on one cheek, turn to them the other also. If someone takes your coat, do not withhold your shirt from them. Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back."

Luke 6:35 "love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back."

Luke 16:13 "No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money."

Mark 10:21 "Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me."

[-] Jack@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

Becoming a biological parent means you're causing on average 58.6 tonnes of CO2e released per year for having that kid (it's an order of magnitude worse in rich countries). Wynes et al. 2017

By becoming a biological parent, you're contributing to the biggest and root cause of making the world unlivable due to anthropogenic climate change.

[-] Jack@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

be deprived of tax benefits, although it could still operate as an entity in Japan.

Religions fleece people who are too stupid to differentiate between reality and fairy tales. These are probably the same people who keep voting for politicians and parties that allow tax benefits for religions.

[-] Jack@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

No they're not - having a kid in an overpopulated world is 2 orders of magnitude worse in the USA.

  • 2.4 tonnes of CO2e released per driver per year with the average fossil-fuel powered car.
  • 1.2 tonnes of CO2e released for electric car users in most countries.
  • 117.7 tonnes per kid per parent per year. Wynes et al. 2017

Human overpopulation is not only the biggest contributor to push us over climate-change tipping-points, it's also the root cause of almost all other causes. It's also the root cause of unsustainable habitat loss and pollution. It's also the root cause of factory farming and industrial fishing, which causes more pain and suffering every year than all other atrocities ever committed in all of history combined.

[-] Jack@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

NPR has a text version of their site, see article at https://text.npr.org/1190627995

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