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The current medical consensus is that "there is no safe level of consumption of alcohol" and that "the risks of even moderate drinking outweigh the benefits" (referring the health benefits related to moderate drinking of alcoholic beverages like red wine)

However like anything else everything is harmful dose dependent, following the same logic would they argue that there's no safe exposure level of sunlight? Is there no safe level consumption of yogurt because it has traces of alcohol?

As comparable example to demonstrate a double standard of medical organizations is high mercury fish, the FDA lists yellow fin tuna as a good choice of fish and recommends fish consumption including options like lower mercury like skipjack tuna atleast 3 times a week, but a couple of beers on Saturday is too much? Especially considering that unlike mercury, alcohol isn't something that accumulates in your body eventually causing brain damage among other problems if the concentration gets too high long-term, alcohol is processed like a macronutrient and gets utilized and the byproducts disposed of instantly.

To me this makes at least lower alcoholic concentration beverages are a way safer option than mercury containing fish. This also applies to many unregulated store bought drugs like ibuprofen and Benadryl that many people sober or not will take on a daily basis that can not only damage organs of you take too many at one time but can have effects when taken long-term even in recommended doses but those two drugs are rated at a specific threshold rather than just zero.

To put this into conclusion, there's a threshold for everything and alcoholic beverages are no different.

Can you be healthy and consume alcohol?

Well some countries and regions with well established drinking cultures like Japan or blue zones like Sardinia have exceptionally high life expectancies, even in China alcohol is so well tolerated that public drinking is legal, common and culturally accepted meanwhile countries where alcohol consumption is completely illegal and far less common outside of tourist destinations, even rich countries like Saudi Arabia and Qatar or others like Indonesia do not have particularly high life expectancies but have a average life expectancies and that's easily related to their outstanding migrant workforce, they also topple on many of the same health problems observed in the majority of the world today such as heart disease including diabetes which is actually most prominent among muslim South Asia and middle east countries.

I still say though that alcohol can be a slippery slope and has still resulted in social problems, but that does not mean every drinker or every volume of drinking should be assumed as the same.

There's also marijuana and THC containing products, the consensus is than no amount of THC will result in a medical emergency. Are they really sure about this or is this easily just corporate interest interception? Because hospitalizations resulted to THC overdose are still prominent.

For years throughout the work places I've been in I've seen guys, even guys who weren't particularly attractive manage to be able to strike up conversations daily with many the girls at work and form genuine relationships but whenever I take whack at it I feel very unwelcoming vibes and they are very disinterested. I'm not even overweight or old, I'm in relatively good shape (but not quite muscular). So how come it's so easy for them but practically unattainable for me? I'm just tired of always being alone and being awkwardly isolated all the time.

It just all seems like it's either AI or they just found a very realistic actor to play as him in every scene. Like they straight up had him in a suit with a poster board pointing with a stick at whatever Internet personality he didn't like, almost as if it's all just a sketch. Like how would they manage to get him to partake in this film to begin with? with him knowing that it would only be directed at smearing his character even further, maybe he did it for money?

I gotta say if this is legitimate he just can't be very bright at all. Also the villain vibe of this was a bit out of pocket, the title and the film itself makes it out like he was some mastermind CP producer or something when all he was, was just a fat loser who got caught getting catfished by a group of guys pretending to be a kid and he lost is online career and fanbase over it.

I got into this jig for while when I was 19, bored and had no friends. Back then I've heard of refences before to "toilet wine" or prison wine so I got curious and looked into it, needless to say instead of throwing mashup fruit, bread and sugar into a bag I decided to stick with the basic welches, sugar and baker's yeast method. Good times, one of those times I threw up alot probably because I just kept the lid on loose as my air locking mechanism but good times nonetheless.

Reddit today is a bit of a hyper authoritarian far left winged circus. One time a 6 year old account of mine got perma banned because I watched some freakout vid of a Karen, and I just typed "Damn, she sent from ma'am to tran in split second". The morning after I woke up with my comment and "karma"(popularity) points down voted into the negative hundreds, suicide hotline messages, later all followed by a permanent ban for "promoting promoting identity based hate" or whatever.

Which I found pretty flabbergasting considering all the antisemitic, anti-white or anti-christian posts and all the incitement of violence against ice agents or tesla dealerships that pass on this to forum with flying collars.

I just want to be able to post my own personal jokes without hypersensitive pyschos trying to crucify me and to get around the mod approval BS whenever I want to get something off my chest. The closest thing I know of is kiwifarms but that forum is kinda incoherent to look at (like the now dead 4chan) and is reserved mostly for gossiping and lolcow content.

Edit: I don't really get you attackers and down voters, this is a subreddit for people to discuss reddit alternatives for the same reasons, clearly this subreddit isn't for all of you and you all clearly love reddit, so why even bother being here or did you all just come here to antagonize?

I acknowledge that there's issues moving to states that lean too far in either political direction, like in California for example you have many politically extreme weirdos and zoning laws that make it practically unlivable with tweakers at every corner. How about Texas, Utah or Kansas? That's also pretty self explanatory.

I want a place or state where I can go to a dispensary if I want to, that's green and luscious, not too cold, no brutal summers like what I've put up with here in New Mexico, not so many thugs, a place that's affordable to live in.

From what I've seen according to my research so far, Missouri might be a good place, recently I vacationed to Colorado Springs for a few days, I liked the vibe there a bit but I'm not too sure if it's affordable. I'm just looking for something new.

Does it have the be the synthetic blend from Ford or will some mobile1 from Walmart do?

Well for alot of us at least we jump from a very authoritarian raising under strict parents and the school system to long work hours, financial debt, countless obligations often just to maintain essentials and a rapidly declining body in ratio to the time we spent developing under a short leash, all under a society that was deliberately structured to serve the rich and the egos of politicians. From the beginning we only wanted freedom but we never quite get there.

Today I was watching a video tour of the carslbad cave in New Mexico and in the video it showed a group of bats flying in a circle up in the ceiling of the cave.

I thought to myself, there was a very small chance of me being born human looking at it statistically assuming incarnation was random, I might as well consider myself lucky. So what exactly stops a human being from being reborn as something such as a bat in a cave, a bird, or an insect? And how does an animal get born as a human? The only theology I'm aware of that even half-ass answers that question is the hindu caste system.

I just don't understand why this is a thing because it violates basic logic itself, as far as I'm concerned the flat earth theory model presents a large flat earth with a miniature sun and moon moving in a circular path over head.

If this were true the sun would be visible at all times regardless of how far away it moves and it wouldn't be reflecting light all the way off of other planets. And not to mention that every single object observed in space is not a flat disc and any object large enough appears to be a perfect sphere and all stars are large with sphere planets revolving around them and are not miniature light bulbs circling overhead giant flat disc planets.

But somehow this isn't all just a trolling scheme and it's not only regurgitated by kids or random rednecks working at Walmart, some of these flat earth advocates seem to be somewhat sophisticated and have a lot of money and technical knowledge which they use to run extensive experiments trying to prove the earth is flat. It just doesn't make any sense.

This question has been floating around with me for awhile, I just can't think of any other reason why he chooses to ride that trike over a casual two wheeled bike without training wheels that he could probably ride faster from his house to all the stores and restaurants he wants to pig out and make videos at. It looks like despite being 22 years old he doesn't have his driver's license, which in my opinion is a failure of his own parents.

Also how strong is he by any chance? Because I don't know where to view his workout videos, you'd think a guy as big as him could lift a lot but on on a YouTube video from a lolcow coverage channel I got a brief view of what looked like he was benching 75 pounds.

This question has been floating around with me for awhile, I just can't think of any other reason why he chooses to ride that trike over a casual two wheeled bike without training wheels that he could probably ride faster from his house to all the stores and restaurants he wants to pig out and make videos at. It looks like despite being 22 years old he doesn't have his driver's license, which in my opinion is a failure of his own parents.

Also how strong is he by any chance? Because I don't know where to view his workout videos, you'd think a guy as big as him could lift a lot but on on a YouTube video from a lolcow coverage channel I got a brief view of what looked like he was benching 75 pounds.

https://www.melvinkonner.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/Paleolithic%20Nutrition%20NEJM%2085.pdf

While this is an old study, it was an inspiration for what became the Paleo diet and is based on the observation and research on in hunter and gatherer tribes, their ecosystems and fossil records.

Our African paleolithic ancestors consumed an estimated average of 392 mg's of vitamin C daily, and keep in mind a whole mango only has 60 mg.

Wild african herbivore adiposity averages just 3.9%, meaning they average at 3.9% body fat meanwhile domesticated livestock animals of today have a higher fat profile because of their breeding and modern feeding methods.

An adult hunter/gatherer with an caloric maintenance of 3,000 calories is estimated to have consumed an average of 333 carbohydrates a day, 45 grams of fiber and only 71 grams of fat.

Tubers, roots, beans, nuts and fruit were commonly consumed.

The dark ages are defined as a time of extreme censorship and theocracy in the name of religion, usually it's referred to early christian Europe in between the establishment of the Holy Roman Empire and the Reinassance where everything was theocraticized and outlying art was censorship under christian theocracy.

Today, hundreds of years after christian predominant societies already progressed into the reinassance most theocracy exists in the Islamic world and religious based censorship has a strong presence within it. A good example of this is Saudi Arabia, in Saudia Arabia the Simpsons was forbidden to air on TV for it's reference to Christianity and other religions and for its scenes including pork and alcohol consumption, dog ownership and western culture. So an exact copy of the Simpsons called Al-Shamshoon without those traits and further editing to reflect arabic culture was released, same characters and basic plot but everything and everyone is muslim.

There's also the education system, schools and universities, public or private in muslim countries operate under sharia law and will include muslim teachings as well as segregate genders often by having single-sex classes and this can be observed if you look at class photos taken at schools and universities in countries like Saudi Arabia or Indonesia among others, there's also Afghanistan as we all know that since the takeover by the Taliban forbids girls from attending school past elementary.

Subjects such as science tend to be taught differently than they would everywhere else, an example like evolution, they may teach evolution but only propose it to the students as a controversial theory and leave out the human evolution part out of the curriculum entirely, subjects like the big bang, like evolution also are only taught in ways that correspond in Islam.

Sexual development takes place in childhood and adolescenthood rather than at birth which means an environment where a child is raised will not only have a significant impact but be the very psychological field where it takes place but in muslim countries boys and men are depraved of female influence or stimulus because that the woman and most girls are covered head to toe with veiling and often their faces are covered as well with veiling outfits such as burqas and niqabs, so they don't really get to see what women look like at all and that leaves them with only two other counterparts in the picture with them, males or some of the prepubescent girls and on top of this issue there's no dating in the muslim world because all marriages are arranged and any dating or interaction with the opposite sex peers during or past puberty is forbidden.

Since everybody's sexual attraction is a product of their environment, who else is left in the picture to set that example in their life for them? Other men or prepubescent boys and girls.

Evidently this can be observed in Afghanistan and Pakistan where they have "flower boys" who act like male strippers that replace of women for arousal and coincidentally child marriages are a thing too.

Sometimes though extreme christianity contributes to this type of problem as well. Like in circumstances where boys or girls are sent too all single gendered schools, you know because the parents view curious boys checking girls out or vise versa as evil and yet they view homosexuality as being a sin as well, talk about punishing people for something they created.

I guess nature and reproduction itself might as well be considered a sin too right? Because offspring are always born because of lust in end.

There's also examples the Duggar family where not just one but multiple of the men in that family were convicted of either CP or child sexual abuse cases likely as a result from an upbringing where they were sheltered away from "sinful" society where they only or mostly knew the opposite sex as being their younger sisters.

I've already posted about this topic before about Muslim men learning to be sexually aroused by female veiling because it was their only introduction to the opposite sex but this is the other side of this issue that needed some recognition.

Is homosexuality itself an issue? No but when it's caused by man made circumstances and gets punished with death if acted upon it and when gays are forced into relationships they won't be able to enjoy or want to be in becomes part of an issue.

Sexual development takes place in childhood and adolescenthood rather than at birth which means an environment where a child is raised will not only have a significant impact but be the very pyschological field where it takes place but in muslim countries boys and men are depraved of female influence or stimulus because that the woman and most girls are covered head to toe with veiling and often their faces are covered as well with veiling outfits such as burqas and niqabs, so they don't really get to see what women look like at all and that leaves them with only two other counterparts in the picture with them, males or some of the prepubescent girls and on top of this issue there's no dating in the muslim world because all marriages are arranged and any dating or interaction with the opposite sex peers during or past puberty is forbidden. Since everybody's sexual attraction is a product of their environment, who else is left in the picture to set that example in their life for them? Other men or prepubescent boys and girls.

Evidently this can be observed in Afghanistan where they have "flower boys" who essentially act like male strippers that replace of women and coincidentally child marriages are a thing too.

Sometimes though extreme christianity contributes to this type of problem as well. Like in circumstances where boys or girls are sent too all single gendered schools, you know because the parents view curious boys checking girls out or vise versa as evil and yet they view homosexuality as being a sin as well, talk about punishing people for a problem their government or religious society created.

I guess nature and reproduction itself might as well be considered a sin too right? Because offspring are always born because of lust in end.

There's also examples the Duggar family where not just one but multiple of the men in that family were convicted of either CP or child sexual abuse cases likely as a result from an upbringing where they were sheltered away from "sinful" society where they only or mostly knew the opposite sex as being their younger sisters.

I've already posted about this topic before about Muslim men learning to be sexually aroused by female veiling because it was their only introduction to the opposite sex but this is the other side of this issue that needed some recognition.

Is homosexuality itself an issue? No but when it's caused by man made social problems and punished with death if acted upon it and where gays are forced into relationships they won't be able to enjoy or want it becomes part of an issue.