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There's two issues here, the actual food being wasted, and the packaging that needs to be trashed. Processing may cut down on the former, but it adds to the latter. And even with non- or minimally processed foods, like meats, they still have to put it on a styro skid and put cling wrap on it. It's hard to pass up 3# of broccoli at Costco when it's half the price of the grocery. But by the end of the week, broccoli has been in every other meal and everyone wants something else. I've tried to interest friends and neighbors in splitting some of these purchases, but it always falls apart.

And this is why I can't go longer. Two cats are putting out as much trash as four humans. They're our major source of recycled containers as well. But we forgive them.

My household started a diet at the beginning of the year that bans processed foods. Besides egg cartons, we've had very little packaging to throw away. I could easily go 3 weeks between trash pickups. It's been an eye-opener in a lot of ways.

Perhaps look into the differences between modern electrical applications and an electrochemical system like the brain. If this were true, we could predict that physicists would start reporting that remote locations keep popping up unbidden into their minds. Perhaps we could poll a few of the professionals we have here on site? I think your question is very much about whether remote viewing is real or not, because obviously you have jumped to the conclusion that there is a connection with quantum physics. What you're suggesting requires it to be real. Is there anything that makes you feel this way, some pattern that seems similar, or some connection that seems meaningful? One of the dangers of this type of speculation is that your brain will fill gaps in your knowledge with something that makes absolutely perfect sense to you if you let it. We're very good at puzzles and patterns, and we look for simple solutions even when none exist. Ultimately, I fall back on evolution when it comes to psychic phenomena. If any of it were true, if would confer such an advantage that we'd see more and more demonstrable evidence every generation. Yet, we see none at all.

It worked on Hilary. The Republicans and FOX enjoyed taking a hatchet to her. I'm sure folks will still be smelling smoke after Biden is acquitted a couple of times, after massive federal investigations conclude they didn't have the time to find enough evidence.

It seems clear to me from the report that the studies were discontinued because they couldn't test a source for the phenomenon, it wasn't enough of an effect to gain the attention of the military, and they couldn't really find an application that would motivate further investigation. Before I would assume it was real for even a second, I'd need to exhaust the other more mundane explanations. I know the methodology was claimed to be sound, but I also noticed they used National Geographic photos in the tests, so question #1 for the testers is, what did you do to remove the influence of NatGeo's signature style? Wouldn't I be influenced if I noticed that all the photos of "remote locations" looked like they came from a magazine (especially a magazine I was very familiar with)?

There are some almost universal fantasies humans hold, and the idea that there is a simple solution to every complex problem is definitely one of them. We're always searching for the easiest way to solve the puzzle, complete the pattern, and get the job done. It's actually a positive, efficient, and progressive way to approach problems, but in these instances I think we often let the fantasy get out of hand. Folks are fascinated by the prospect of being cured of their woes by a $2 pill, and by the idea that someone is preventing them from buying it.

Wow, can you imagine if that were true?! All that meticulous methodology, all that gathered knowledge, for all those centuries, down the drain! Everything we trust reduced to individual "logical beliefs"! A true hell indeed, since nothing could be relied upon. Oh, you must be joking. You scoundrel, you had me going there for a minute.

I think the entertainment format adopted by most information outlets these days, along with using single words to describe thorny issues so everyone assumes their own definitions, has made science seem difficult, overly nitpicky, and uninteresting by comparison. It's disgusting how sensational science writers have to be to remain popular, and I think many of these deniers are trying to "spice up" things that aren't intuitive to them, which seems to be a prerequisite for them ("If it doesn't make immediate sense to me, there's something wrong with it").

! Moderator Note I've split this discussion off on its own, since it's not based in mainstream science. When we take the time to discuss a topic here, we want the methodologies and information used to be trustworthy. We need the science, not hand-waiving, not incredulity. Please take the time to cite relevant studies to support your claims and assertions, and always try to provide evidence. I put this in Speculations to give you a chance to support your arguments. We normally Trash posts with such a low science to rant ratio, but now you have a shot at backing yourself up. The thread will stay open as long as you're trying to follow the rules.

Struggling actors often wait tables. I always thought pro wrestling was what struggling stunt people did between movies.

! Moderator Note We understand that mainstream science isn't for everyone. Your approach to learning, asking questions and ridiculing the answers, is perhaps not well aligned with our discussion style. It would be selfish of us to keep you here when you could be looking for somewhere you'd be better appreciated, if you're still of the mind to leave. Wishing you the best whichever way you decide. I'm closing this since it's not helping the person it was supposed to.

! Moderator Note A post violating rule 2.3 by encouraging illegal activity has been hidden.

! Moderator Note I can close it, but I'm curious why you want it deleted. Have you changed your mind about your arguments, or are you finding them too difficult to support?

Interestingly (or not), in commercial real estate the major shop in a shopping center that drives traffic for the smaller shops and keeps them from going out of business (drifting away?) is called the anchor.

This is actually a prerequisite. We don't allow people who know everything. You're very welcome here. ⚛️👨‍🔬

So is the real fight is about whether the chlorine water bath can be effective against the kinds of contamination one can expect from US chickens, or is it that the conditions in which US chickens are raised are unacceptable no matter how they're cleaned up after slaughter?

! Moderator Note I hope you don't mind me changing your title. "... a claimed physicist..." looks and sounds too much like "acclaimed physicist", which is not your intent, I'm sure. I'm substituting "an alleged" for "a claimed", but if you object I can change it back.

ravell has been suspended for 2 weeks for ignoring several warnings about the rules on linking offsite. Please don't make members go offsite or download data that you could easily copy and recreate here. If your aim is to persuade, show some respect for the rules.

Most of our labeling for chicken is misleading marketing anyway, like the claim "No added hormones or steroids". They put this on many packages, but the truth is you aren't allowed to use those things with chickens in the first place. They also use "cage-free", but I'm pretty sure only the layers are ever put in cages. Chickens for meat need room to walk around. Our regs for "free-range" labeling are pretty sloppy too. You can keep chickens in their houses most of the day and then let them outside for a bit and get away with calling them "free-range". The only chicken I'd trust is organic, since that has more restrictions on what they've been fed. It still doesn't regulate how they're housed though. And from what I've heard, since the law is you have to take the bird down to 34F within an hour of slaughter, most use either a cold water bath (with chlorine) or a blast of cold air. The former adds weight, the latter dries the meat out and lessens weight. None of that shows up on a nutrition label. I stopped buying chicken that had obviously been swollen with water a number of years ago. From what I've heard about the water bath process, it's not the chlorine that's the problem, but rather that it's a cheap way to mask cutting corners in production. The US doesn't have as strict regulations regarding how the birds are raised, and probably wouldn't need this step if the birds were better cared for while alive.

I don't know anything about wrestling, but a quick search shows the Hall of Fame has an executive division for promoters and others who contribute to the industry without being in the ring. Honestly, you don't need to go searching for obscure reasons why this man is a stain on society. He pretty much tracks mud everywhere he goes.

Fantastic way to catch up on all the movies you've missed if you live in Los Angeles. Or you could binge-watch a Netflix series every day. Unless, you know, you had other responsibilities. Average commute in LA is about 8.8 miles and takes 53.68 minutes. If you're wealthy enough to live in the surrounding hills, double or triple that. I suppose you could make that time work for you if your expertise can be expressed from the back of a limo somehow. Some people's expertise requires them to be in close proximity to what they're working on, like a basketball coach.

I'm trying to relate this to the OP, and failing. What point are you making with this article?

Aren't we still talking about forgiving the debt for the person who didn't pay their loan off? Wouldn't that have happened at a different time than the person who paid it off? I'm not sure how you're separating it. All those things are because of marketing. Ditto lugging around $200 textbooks in this day and age. If education were publicly funded, you could change the focus back to learning. I had hoped to make a point about how taxes for publicly funded K-16 education could take a previous college loan payment into account, and give the guy who paid his loan off a bit of a break. I sense you don't like all this socialist talk.

Probably, if it went down exactly as you put it. But if it was part of a program that was attempting to specifically address the predatory nature of the loans in your state as opposed to mine, probably not. It's easy to find private ownership models where public or state involvement is either undesirable or actively detrimental. Personally, I feel the same way about education and a public ownership model. Educating the public should be a publicly funded investment in ourselves, so the focus in schools is where it should be, and not on turning a profit for private actors. If we truly want to spread knowledge to our people, we should be leery of how a focus on profit skews that.