@WilliamWallace I compare coffee with cannabis, which contains many cannabinoids besides THC. In the case of coffee, we don't say "coffeoid" because coffee contains so many phytochemicals in different families. The magic is definitely not from the caffeine, at least for me.
@Bitcoin_Teddy I tell my kids that pleasures are more satisfying when they are earned. Humans used to go to great effort and take big risks to gather honey, but now we can add sugar to anything. Instant gratification short-circuits the reward system.
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@glukianoff On the other hand, these men are desperate because of the poor and worsening conditions in the provinces, and one has to ask who is responsible for that.
@glukianoff "Murder" is a bit strong for the ~70% contract soldiers: while they are deceived about the details, they did take the money to fight, a big reason why much of the Russian population doesn't sympathize with them. The conscripts are another story.
@acurioushensman@glukianoff If this were true, then the invasion wouldn't have come as a surprise to just about everybody, including most Russians. There were other options.
@ErasmusBHarry@RJaroge@Noahpinion Non-libertarians overestimate the ability of democracy to control a large government and prevent it from being gamed.
@markkaplan20 Thanks for this. Eerily timely and familiar. ChatGPT mostly agreed.
@grok, if HbA1c is elevated, but other common indicators like triglycerides and fasting insulin look good, which additional measures would you prioritize?
1. fructosamin
2. glycated albumin
3. wearing a CGM
The story of the Russo-Ukrainian War is not the WWI aspects, or the WWII aspects, but the rapidly evolving drones, using new technologies like Starlink and AI. “Serious escalation” can mean only nuclear weapons, and in the past both Russia and the US have admitted defeat in wars of choice without going nuclear. Trump is not going to nuke distant Iran, and Putin is not going to nuke neighboring Ukraine.
Tocqueville deserves a Washington statue. Like Edmund Burke, the French writer was a foreign observer who got America, writes @Jon_Hartley_on.wsj.com/44iANHG
@P_Kallioniemi The World Cup games have a gazillion examples of cultural exchange (most famously between the Mexicans and South Koreans), all of it inspiring. Are you sad because Norway and Sweden got to go to the championships, but not Finland? Consolation: Russia didn't get to go either.
@slantchev John Mearsheimer, like Jeffrey Sachs and several other vocal American "experts" on international relations, doesn't speak a single foreign language, let alone a Slavic language. Maybe in the future AI will translate transparently and help them use original sources.
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