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9dashline said:
That reminds me, whatever happened to Build Back Better and that Blue dot bs?
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Probably flushed straight down some red necks toilet to be blunt


Petrolicious88 said:
During the debate:

Trump: “We are very close to WWII. Kim of NK, Putin, and President Xi of China. They don’t respect him (Biden).”

Biden: “Want WWIII? You get that by electing him (Trump).”
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We are all going to forking die :S
 
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Oklahoma orders all schools to teach the Bible​

Oklahoma’s top education official has ordered all public schools in the state to teach the Bible and the Ten Commandments to their students in a move that critics claim violates the US Constitution.

Ryan Walters, Oklahoma’s superintendent of public instruction, announced the directive at a Department of Education board meeting on Thursday, requiring “immediate and strict compliance.”

He called the Bible “one of the most foundational documents used for the Constitution and the birth” of the United States. It is a necessary “historical document to teach our kids about the history of this country, to have a complete understanding of Western civilization, to have an understanding of the basis of our legal system,” Walters argued.

Every classroom in Oklahoma from grades five to 12 must have a Bible, and all teachers must teach from the Bible in the classroom, he added.

The announcement attracted criticism from civil rights organizations and groups that advocate for separation between church and state.

“Requiring a Bible in every classroom does not improve Oklahoma’s ranking of 49th in education,” State Representative Mickey Dollens said in a statement. “The state superintendent should focus on educating students, not evangelizing them.”

Critics also claim the new ruling is unconstitutional. The First Amendment of the US Constitution guarantees freedom of religion and bans the state from sponsoring or establishing any particular religion.

The Oklahoma constitution goes even further, stipulating that public schools be nonsectarian, and not benefit “any sect, church, denomination, or system of religion.”

The ruling comes after the Oklahoma Supreme Court earlier this week blocked an effort in which Walters was involved to establish the first publicly funded religious charter school in the US.

The state’s teachers’ union also protested Walters’ Bible order, saying that “teaching about the historical context of religion” is permissible. However, public schools cannot “indoctrinate students with a particular religious belief or religious curriculum,” the Oklahoma Education Association said in a statement.

The Oklahoma directive comes a week after the governor of Louisiana signed a law ordering all public schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms.

Days later, several families backed by civil rights groups sued the state of Louisiana, contending that the legislation violates the US Constitution and “pressures” students into adopting the state’s favored religion.
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all teachers must teach from the Bible in the classroom, he added.
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At least in Louisiana. You only have to display the 10 commandments.
 
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ACuriousPLAFan said:
Replaced with a more appropriate word.

In the meantime, this is probably the first time I genuinely feel bad for Trump. Interacting with a liar can be tiring, but imagine interacting with a literal living doll.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1806769850900979853
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He really bragged about acing the MMSE. When like every other important Chinese politician have doctorates.

Trump's cognitive level is a match for current day Hu Jintao at most.
 
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jiajia99 said:
Yet another building project of the USA that has failed to deliver. Now we know why people prefer China to be the ones to do building projects, not only is it structurally sound but it has no hidden agendas involved. Seriously Biden has been a wrecking ball for the US brand, to the point where it will simply never recover
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That's what some people thought about Trump. And yet here we are...
 
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What's the point of storing excess calories as fat if in a energy deficit you are gonna expend muscle instead of fat for energy? Unlike fat, proteins/muscles serve crucial functional and structural roles. Like the Diet Doctor put it: a man lives in the woods, collects timber in the summer and stores it for use in the winter, and when winter comes, he throws his sofa into the fireplace; it's nonsense. Contrary to popular belief, muscle loss is minimal (restricted to transition phase) because it is unsustainable and totally nonsensical from a biological perspective, unless you are in a state of extreme starvation in which lipids aren't available for burning. Imagine your body catabolizing your heart muscle for energy while there is several pounds of fat on your belly - totally makes sense (/s).


This calorie in / calorie out (CICO) model is a thing of the 1970's, outdated science because it does not account for the role of hormones. CICO model was replaced by the hormonal model. CICO is unable to predict stuff like fat loss in caloric surplus (i.e. by elevated thyroxine), or fat gain in caloric deficit (i.e. by elevated insulin which is very common). Exercise doesn't burn much fat either unless you're an athlete training 6 hours a day. A normal person running for an hour may burn 600 calories.. the equivalent of a 6oz hamburger.... but if said person has high insulin, the body will be forced to shutdown/limit other metabolic processes (i.e. cognition) to conserve energy because insulin does not allow fat burning.

Media and corporate entities have marred nutrition with pseudoscientific nonsense for ulterior commercial motives. Here's a real breather of what actually happens,
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The issue I have with guys like Dr. Fung and Dr. Lustig is that they're too focused on the process, and not on the results. For example, Dr. Lustig mentioned in his video that he'd use Metformin to help with weight loss because its mechanism of action is more targeted against what his understanding of the mechanism of obesity is. He was asked a question in that interview about how Ozempic promotes weight loss when it increases insulin secretion. He doesn't know. Dr. Fung has a ton of theories too, but how do they really pan out in real life? Take his hyperfocus on insulin for example, studies have shown that high and low carb diet make no difference when the protein is matched. The truth is looking at us in the face, we don't really know how weight loss occurs.

What happens with some of these academic types is that they're focused on a mechanism that they think they understand when they really don't, rather than focusing on the results. We know the correlation between high LDL levels and coronary artery disease, but Ezetimibe did not have the results of Statins despite its LDL lowering abilities. We know the body produces BNP in heart failure, and we developed Entresto to mimic what our body does and raise BNP, and it in fact did become a successful drug in treating heart failure, the first in ~20 years. These two examples show that drugs developed from a proposed mechanism is a good start, but in the end it's the results that matter because for many diseases our current understanding of their mechanism is simply incomplete. In the same vein as above, we do lose muscle mass relative to how much we exercise with every weight loss method known to mankind, that's just how our body works. It doesn't matter if it makes sense to you or not.

Having said all that, you know what has been shown to result in weight loss? Clorie in calorie out. Oh, and Ozempic.
 
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