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- Submitted 1 year ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 9 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
This is a conspiracy theory, not unlike the theories you will hear on the right. I’ve never heard anyone on the right equate soy with Asian or other cultures.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Well, in American there was Bernie Sanders.
It’s a confounding thing, that so many people will vote for leaders who straight-up tell them that they will make the world a worse place for them (Reagan, Trump, Thatcher).
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Nobody’s head is going to explode. Most conservatives are well aware that soybeans are an American croup and are even proud of the fact. They just think that the soybeans should be served to cows.
Vilifying people you don’t like is no way to establish understanding or communication.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
This itself is a conspiracy theory. I’ve known a lot of right-wing people, and none of them made a connection between Soy and Asian cuisine. They don’t like tofu, in particular, because they didn’t grow up with it and see it as some weird, hippy thing.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Hi (Waving from left bubble) !
I agree. I don’t think anyone is thinking that hard about the “Asian” roots of soybeans. And people on the left are just as hung up on their identity politics as people on the right.
There is a strong association between Tofu with hippy culture, even though there really isn’t such a thing anymore. I guess if you don’t want heart disease by the time you’re 40, you must be a hippy.
- Comment on What does cigarette smoking do for people? 1 year ago:
No. Smoking is way more personally dangerous than alcohol, except for auto accidents. Tobacco hurts you in so many different ways – with sagging skin, lung cancer, emphysema, heart disease, stained teeth, strokes, hypertension. Also, alcohol addicts only represent about 10% of the drinking public, whereas about 90% of smokers become chain-smoking addicts.
And, as I mentioned, smoking often kills people a decade short of retirement. Drinkers, on the other hand, often reach old age.
Not justifying alcohol, but there are so many downsides to smoking. But you can’t explain that to an addict.
- Comment on What does cigarette smoking do for people? 1 year ago:
I have a folding bike that was originally meant to be part of a Marlsboro rewards program. Apparently smokers weren’t all that interested in exercise. Who knew?
- Comment on What does cigarette smoking do for people? 1 year ago:
Yes, where I worked they generously gave you a 10 minute mid-morning break. Unless you were a smoker, and “needed” to slip out 5 minutes every hour. I often wondered if I could get away with just “smoking” a straw.
- Comment on What does cigarette smoking do for people? 1 year ago:
Most of the smokers I’ve known don’t even get close to 80, and are often very sickly when they do. Two family members that didn’t make it to 60. A healthy looking co-worker who dropped dead in the parking lot. A former boss who didn’t get to enjoy more than two years retirement.
Cigarettes are the only consumer product that, when used as directed, kill their consumers.
- Comment on You arent stuck in traffic, you are the traffic. 1 year ago:
Be the traffic you want to become.
- Comment on I wonder how many fires have been started because people have left the pizza box in the oven while trying to keep it warm 1 year ago:
As long as the temperature is below 451F/233C, there should be no danger of fire.
Pro Tip: Keep masking tape in the kitchen. If you do something weird like storing a pizza in the oven, put a piece of masking tape over the oven dial as a reminder. Masking tape is good for putting a date on things going into the fridge too.
- Comment on NASA-inspired airless bicycle tires are now available for purchase 1 year ago:
How are they for coming off ? The various reinforced tires I’ve tried (randoneur, gator, 25mm) are really hard to put back on. Like you peel the skin off your hands trying. I’ve notice that most tires, even cheaper ones, don’t give you trouble for the first 500 miles. So have gone back to a medium grade tire that doesn’t require special tools to replace.
- Comment on Why doesn't the United Kingdom rejoin the European Union? 1 year ago:
You only needed a slim 50% to split? Not like a 2/3rds majority?
- Comment on Pro-biotic and anti-biotic are both considered good things. 1 year ago:
Regardless, I stay away from both irregardless.
- Submitted 1 year ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 46 comments
- Comment on Do Multivitamins actually do anything? 1 year ago:
I’m sceptical. That would be an extremely unethical test. And it would only prove that too much of something can kill you. Did you know that people can even die from drinking too much water?
- Comment on Do Multivitamins actually do anything? 1 year ago:
An egg a day instead of a multi-vitamin? And then you get high cholesterol.
- Comment on Do Multivitamins actually do anything? 1 year ago:
I think multi-vitamins are more important as you get older. Your body simply doesn’t absorb as much of the vitamins in food as it does when you’re younger. So all that advice “Just eat a healthy diet” isn’t quite as true.
- Comment on Does The US President have a better chance to win a second term with or without Kamala Harris? 1 year ago:
Biden can’t win the election without Harris.
Keep in mind that U.S. elections are not popular elections. You have to look at key swing states. Technically, none of the other 43~ states matter much because their outcomes are already statistically pre-determined. It doesn’t matter how much people like Biden in California or New York, if he loses key states. For instance, Hillary Clinton had twice as many popular votes in California as Trump in 2016. But those extra 4 million extra votes didn’t matter to the outcome because California is just one State.
For example, Michigan is a key electoral state. It is predominantly a red state. But Barak Obama won it two elections in a row because minorities from the densely populated areas, especially Wayne county, turned out for him. Those same minorities did not turn out when Hillary Clinton ran in 2016. They came back … just barely … when Biden ran with Harris as VP. This same story is repeated in Georgia and Wisconsin – both swing states that usually lean heavily Red.
So, to sum up. It doesn’t matter how much people in red states hate on Harris. Their election results have already been factored. What matters is how she is perceived in key swing states. While some red state voters won’t vote for Biden because they fear he might keel over, other swing state voters will … for exactly the same reason!