Nerdy Keith

@Strega……I walk a min of 10K per day (Yes, 7k is sufficient), run 5k 3 times a week (ok sometimes only once…) and can “dead hang” for 3 minutes on a bad day. I seldom eat meat, mostly fruit, nuts, porridge and Indian vegetarian.  5k yesterday was 26:05…..seldom do I eat processed foods :-). And I am 60…….

Here is a free app that you can use when shopping;

https://yuka.io/en/

I have started to use it but only on foods I suspect are highly possessed.

Review here. #It accepted a bullshit email.

From August 1st I am going to forgo any added sugar in my diet.

A doctor in Ireland is warning  about glycerol in colorful slushies.

There are plenty of names that disguise the sugar hidden in foods.

@jakelafort – I am a coward too when it comes to the midday sun. Anything over the mid 20’s and I am indoors.  Was I chopping chilies? No, just applying sun-cream. Now I can’t read for the next 30 minutes. Silly Billy. SF 50 good, SF 496 bad. If the logocracy takes hold in the mid 2020’s, I am sure you will be on the front line of the resistance,…[Read more]

Here is a recent story about humans ‘helping’ Mother Nature with genetically modified mosquitoes.

Have a great week!!

“If your belief needs protection from questions, then it wasn’t knowledge to begin with.”

Me…

Not worth a new topic, so I’m putting it here.

@Enco – This is just another day of government plodding with a different boss.

I can’t make a very strong argument against that. But this time, while it is a different boss, it is also a new form of plodding. Collapsing the FDA will be a mistake. Reforming it should be the priority. It should have happened a lot sooner, but meaningful reform can…[Read more]

On Friday, during an interview on CNBC, the House speaker, Mike Johnson, claimed that President Trump was among the most popular people to ever occupy the Oval Office.

The president is the most maligned and attacked political figure in the history of American politics. There’s no question about it, but he’s also the most resilient. And you see…[Read more]

In 1946, George Orwell described good writing as “picking out words for the sake of their meaning,” a practice that dictionaries catalyze and writing programs stifle. Writers consulting a dictionary make a choice — writers guided by an app like Grammarly have their choices made for them.

Where Grammarly says, “Stay on-brand with consist…[Read more]

That sign is wrong on one point and only half-right on others.

Yes, but it is still the contents page from the “How to become a Dictator” handbook. The extreme right are all wrong.

You’re very welcome Strega!

Have a great week everyone!

@Jakelafort, I am sure that if I walked into a sociology class today, the professor would first ask for my preferred pronouns, then remind the class of the intersectional power dynamics of punctuality, and only then ask if I agreed with the modernized version of the statement that now asserts that “A system is a cohesive whole shaped by bounded r…[Read more]