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Is healthy food a luxury for low-income households in the United States? - Marginal REVOLUTION
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Ideally, food stamps would be restricted to food that isn’t refined poison. But here in America we have the freedom to buy and eat refined poison.

But it isn’t advertised as refined poison. It’s advertised as a healthy part of a balanced breakfast (which is a deceptive way to say “we are legally required to ask that you dilute this poison before consumption, even tho we know you won’t”). But here in America we have the freedom to lie to the poor so that they’ll buy our cheap poison.

The simplest solution might be to get the FDA to look at contemporary inflammation rates from foods they already approved back in the Leave it to Beaver days. Once they realize the gluten hipsters aren’t making it all up, hopefully we’ll be able to roll back the industrial agro insanity a bit before things get worse.

mitigatedchaos

> when you’re a gluten hipster because your body is the original gluten hipster and you’ve been known to give in to peer pressure from gut neurons, and you’re also an artificial color hipster, and an artificial flavor hipster, and an MSG hipster, and so on, until you eventually just distrust any product with indecipherable ingredients on general principle, avoiding the majority of all junk food unintentionally with the exception of tortilla chips

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Actually, have other people noticed that taking ideologies to weird extremes is a Thing among thirteen to fifteen-year-olds?  Because that’s definitely something I’ve noticed.  Like, I once new a thirteen-year-old girl who claimed to be uncomfortable watching two women dance together because it “promotes lesbianism,” which is…not something most Catholics believe, I’m pretty sure?  (They weren’t even, like, slow-dancing, it was some kind of Scandinavian Traditional Cultural Dance that only women did).

Has anyone else observed this among The Youths?

random-thought-depository

I think age tends to make ideas more nuanced, because you get more experience and the real world is complicated.

13-15 is when people develop something like an adult political consciousness, and you know what they say about new converts being the most fervent believers.

isaacsapphire

Heck, I totally did that in my youth. I boycotted LL Bean for promoting lesbianism and objected to CCM for having a beat when I was 13 or so *embarrassed emoji*

I got better, in some cases pretty quickly, but that was my nadir.

mitigatedchaos

Haha, I never had ideological extreme phase, and was contrarian against arbitrary non-conformist teenage rebellion aesthetic as a teenager.

I’m probably at my most ideologically extreme right now, even though it’s orthogonal to the existing factions.

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@silver-and-ivory

do you make the drawings yself
(they’re actually really good)

Yeah, I draw the stuff in the #the mitigated exhibition tag.  I use my old tablet and CS4.

It’s not my primary specialization.  Regular artists, with another thousand hours of practice or more, can do a lot more a lot faster.  I could produce some of what others produce as speed paintings or similar, but it would take me about 10-20x as long, possibly longer.

Then again, do I even have a primary specialization?

Anyhow, I recommend that everyone practice drawing a little, as it’s a useful tool for self-expression and communication.

It would be interesting to see other artist takes on the Union Girl character.

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at least I can claim to have consistently opposed the idea of invading Iraq since before it was even suggested, on the following eminently sensible grounds:

- you know Bush will fuck it up
- and whoever replaces Bush won’t do it any better
- seriously the only way to make Iraq a worse place would be to bomb it
- no it won’t make a wave of progressive democracy sweep across the region
- you idiot

mitigatedchaos

I was too young to be all that politically conscious at the time.

I realized what a mistake it was by the time I could vote, and voted accordingly, though I didn’t participate in any sort of anti-war protests.  The anti-war protesters are not my people.

Of course, then the guy after him allowed the destabilization of Libya and undermined the idea of the U.S. making agreements that offer any protection if one doesn’t have nuclear weapons.

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Anonymous asked:

what's your type, and how do i accomplish my new life goal of becoming as similar to it as possible?

Based on previous relationships, my ‘type’ is subbish bisexual nerd women who I can talk to for hours on end (at least at the beginning).

My first girlfriend and I spent a lot of time together, hmn, let’s call it developing video game content piecemeal.  Also worldbuilding.  Lots of worldbuilding.  And various other things.

But that isn’t necessary in specific.  That’s just something that happened.

Like, I could name out an exact list of traits and so on, but these things aren’t usually cut and dry like that.  They have to be felt out a little.

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Anonymous asked:

This is not intended to be as condescending a question as it reads, but I was wondering if you've studies public policy in university or if you have any qualifications relating to policy or political theory?

My major in university was originally Political Science, and then Political Science/Philosophy/Economics, before I switched to Computer Science, after I started selling some software/3D trinkets, so to speak.  I’ve taken classes in international law, comparative politics, intellectual property, economics, and so on.

But my education in those fields is incomplete, and I’m not entirely well-suited to them.  

This is a wildcat politics blog.  I have no blogging license, nor sanction from the establishment.

I’m not approved by your mother, your progressive liberal friends, or the New York Times.  I’ve been compared to Neoreaction, I cannot be cited in arguments, and even if you wanted to cite me, my identity is a deliberate mystery - though I suppose that last part isn’t new in politics.

Of course, what did the Establishment get us?  The Iraq War?  Meddling in Libya and in Syria?  Migration crisis in Europe, and then refusing to acknowledge the issues it causes?  Housing shortages paired with high immigration?  And what advice do they offer the cities of the interior, but to wither and die?  

Some benefit, they may have gotten us, but something better than them must exist somewhere, or some time in the future.  Liberal Democracy, in its modern incarnation, is not the end of history, but Democracy means that we all practice politics.

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@poipoipoi-2016

In response to that last, I’ve heard enough stories about my paternal grandparents to really want divorce to be a thing that happens more often, but at the same time, I heard enough stories about Grandma and her six husbands to be deeply suspect of divorce.

I realized that something related showed up in my life. There was a guy I knew online. Black guy living in a city. His step dad had him working at his small business, and it interfered with his ability to complete school. Then he was of age, and the step dad tried to kick him out, but he didn’t have a job, so he was sneaking into the house to avoid ending up homeless. His resume was terrible, just a few cobbled-together, unformatted paragraphs. I would say “shouldn’t they teach resume writing in school?” but even if they did, the terrible step dad might have had him working or something so that he wasn’t able to attend or complete that! But he was a decent guy, and had a good work ethic, so I went through carefully building a resume with him, and he got a job soon enough after and was able to move out. It’s no wonder he had been depressed earlier! And, like, in between then, we got advice from my ex-girlfriend’s partner, who has lived the low-class life, on how to try to keep him out of the street at night until he could move out.

But how many guys like him are out there, even in this country, you know? Who don’t have a hand-me-down laptop and a connection to a bunch of random nerds who know how to write a resume for him so he can get a stable income?

So I can’t really be a true GOPper, but also the risk with the step parents stuff is real.

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Some sides I’m on haven’t fully materialized yet, but they will.  My blog description contains more than one metaphorical truth about which sides I’m on, that should be easy enough to guess at.

But on second thought, let’s do a reading of the blog description for anyone who thought it was just flavor text.  (Not you, Anon-kun.  I know you’re a very smart man of many talents, which is how you can send so many asks to so many people on this website.)

Type-19 Paramilitary Cyborg. - This is more aspirational than anything, but also I support the right of American citizens to obtain human augmentations under the 2nd amendment, subject to certain restrictions.

Wanted time criminal. - Likes to wax poetic about non-existent possible futures.  Future shocked by the 2016 election.

Class A-3 citizen of the North American Union. - Two-sided: 

1. In the future, the government may introduce multiple classes of citizenship in order to handle the fallout of immigration issues.  Also, if the formation of a North American Union happens, entering the Orange Timeline may have only somewhat delayed it.  Progressively larger international unions is the current way forward for both Liberal Capitalists and Leftists.

2. Actually, to bolster Nationalism I would deliberately create a tiered citizenship system if I were Technocratic Dictator of the United States of America Central Director of the North American Union, based on a series of tests and a period of National Service which would be used for survival training and martial education to make the nation even harder to invade and help communicate the idea that citizenship isn’t something free that you just give out.

Also, as you might guess, it indicates where I happen to live.

Opposed to the Chinese Hyper Mind-Union, - Using cybernetic technology to make a hivemind is Bad, okay?  I don’t care how equal it supposedly makes you.  This is one possible nightmare future for China, which is actually even more of a nightmare for the West than the National Technocratic Black Dragon timeline.

the Ultra-Caliphate, - Islamic Theocracy may be Culturally Diverse, but it’s a plague upon mankind which wishes to enslave us.  For now a wide unification across multiple polities isn’t feasible, but that may change as conditions change.  Now with cybernetic implants to enforce Islamic Law.

Google Defense Network, - Let’s not explicitly make corporations with massive surveillance networks and armies of autonomous killer robots the State, okay?

and the People’s Republic of Cascadia. - Originally the Free Peoples’ Republic of Cascadia - apostrophe positioning deliberate.  If we took campus Commies and campus SJ seriously and they created a state, it would be a ludicrously oppressive disaster constantly insisting that the outgroup can’t be oppressed, so therefore it’s impossible for us to oppress them.

National Separatist, enemy of the Earth Sphere Federation government and its unificationist allies. - If Open Borders becomes popular, the balance will shift towards a unifying global government, and that government will insist on controlling everything as far out as the Moon.  This is almost inevitable with open borders, and will come out of crisis management treaties and a need to control criminals as they cross national borders.  It isn’t an accident that power has been centralizing in the EU.

Its enemies may become known as National Separatists, and it will oppose them on the grounds that they are bigoted anti-[dominant economic mode] racist X-ophobic terrorists that are identical to Hitler.  To expand its power, the ESF will leverage whatever means it can get away with, particularly economic, to pressure hold-out countries into joining.

However, the median quality of government on Earth is not America or Western Europe, but probably more like Brazil both in competence and in corruption levels.  This isn’t an accident, institutions and culture both matter a lot, the causality for them doesn’t run purely from economic development to nice culture and good institutions.  The formation of a world government is actually really, really bad.  It must be strangled before it ever gets a chance to breath, here in the youth of our timeline, the first half of the 21st century.

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