lurking15

> while the west is using its fossil fuel resources to shove crayons up its nose

what a bunch of empty invective

Wait so there was near universal outcry on the left about “Jan 6 insurrection” but assassination of public figures is actually fine if they have a low approval rating and allegedly negatively affect people’s lives? Guess what? Congress is lucky if 10% of people across the board think they AREN’T screwing up the country.

> they effectively subsidize residents

the universities are swimming in money, it's not an actual subsidy and in my experience ends up just crowding out native students

The worst metric obsession that defines things now is stock price, which really went into overdrive with the financialization of the 70s~80s. Of course financialization was downstream of the money supply and people seeking out returns on their savings in inflationary environments (modern economic theory that thinks never-ending inflation is just a law we must all accept and conform to), which is used a way to finance big government.

I feel similarly.

I'm not sure how this applies to what I said.

It's an outrage once you work at these companies and behold the sheer dysfunction and they're all getting paid wages native American citizens would take.

Ah got it. I think the idea of knowledge management is maybe misguided when applied to economics.

Knowledge in economic terms is much less definite because prices reflect subjective value.

I guess I see this as an attempt or yearning to discredit him, but following in the work that sprung from Hayek and friends, the motivation for his work is clearly curiosity and wonder about how does anything get done in the world without coordination, never mind the wondrously complex things that are created nowadays.

His conclusion is that knowledge is dispersed, represented in prices that arise from markets which is simply understood as cooperation. Knowledge may frankly be expressed as whatever enables and motivates someone to offer something on the market. If that's too vague for your taste, too bad.

The wonder is that uncoordinated, independent cooperation gives rise to such abundant and sophisticated products. Not only that it's in a system that expresses everyone's individual preferences and competing interests. Central planning fails spectacularly to do this, and there's no reason to believe that it ever will even with fantastic computational power.

Just going to take the time to indicate that this is a conspiracy theory, since conservatives are always lambasted with that term.

No disagreement from me regarding that.

> Want to know what food and housing was like before regulation? Read the jungle.

Not convincing since you're reducing the entire time period to The Jungle which was sensationalized fiction, effectively political propaganda.

But to your broader point, things improved directly from capitalism and markets. My reading recommendation? Deirdre McCloskey "Why Liberalism Works" on the absurd increase in living standards brought about through innovation enabled by capitalism, we're talking some 3,000% in average income over the course of time you're referring to.

I don't disagree per se, but it seems from reading the article that they're bemoaning the shortage of qualified doctors and how they're all spent cause they have to work within the confines of centrally planned subsidy prices.

Really they should be charging as high as possible directly to consumers until doctors are attracted into the profession. Cut out the middleman, there is no reason that routine expenses like a sick visit that gets routine labwork or medication need to be insured.

It'd be better to reroute the software developers that construct complex systems to SERVE ADS and addict people to scrolling.

I think people will hit a breaking point and it will be undeniable that heavy regulation and subsidization is the root of dysfunction and deterioration of most important aspects of life.

It's hard not to see the parallel between healthcare and education where the parasitic overhead has been completely unchecked and enabled by federal subsidies. There's a similar deal with food, housing and other areas. It's absurd the amount of money that has been spent by the federal government in these areas with so little to show, the average person feels not only a lack of progress but decline.

> For example, it'd be useless for me to follow a news outlet that downplays the importance of democracy.

You seem to be pretty strident and inflexible in your thinking, so at least you recognize that you're unable to read anything that challenges your rigid precepts and offers an opportunity to expand your mind or engage in a real exchange of ideas.

And please spare me the predictable response, because it's clear that you don't care about democracy exactly, like so many others nowadays, it's an amorphous stand-in that allows you to thoughtlessly discard opposition.

But "opinion journalism" isn't news, it's editorializing. So you accept news that is effectively propaganda as long as it's "independent" from the outlet ownership?

> so-called "independent" news outlet which has clear conflict of interest

If a majority of staff at a news outlet are liberal/progressive isn't that clearly a bias and hard to call independent?

I just notice that people tend to only call out institutional bias in one direction

> It was unscientific to impose any mandates for COVID vaccines whatsoever.

Not only was it unscientific, to the point that they had to censor their opponents and coordinate the institutions to shun any dissenting scientists and experts, the mandate was found to be blatantly unconstitutional.

Pure ignorance and stubbornness on their part.

If they admitted they were wrong, they'd have to do serious self-reflection and reform their worldview, it's insulation.

There's people that recognize you're right.

another unit test defense: they're the most accessible and inspectable in the sense that you have practically zero barrier of running it immediately in your IDE and stepping through if necessary

They do this with economic consumer price indices all the time. Swap out the stuff that people bought before with the new inferior alternative and call it even. You'll accept the garbage clothing and garbage food (bugs, soy crumbs, oat flavored water), cramped apartment, rushed doctor appointment, etc., and you'll like it.

Of course the root of the problem is inflation which is a result of debasement of the money, a consequence of unrestrained (federal) government spending.

Welcome to the Cantillon effect. Any country that debases the money (planned economy and socialist tendency) will find that the ability for average people to save the fruits of their labor becomes near impossible.

Happy to help!

In my research trying to help myself I've come to the conclusion that histamine intolerance is really more of a symptom of a larger issue. It seems to suggest SIBO or any other sort of inflammatory process in the small intestine. Reason being that dysbiosis (of which SIBO is just one sort) has multiple synergizing effects: not only that often the bacteria associated with dysbiosis will produce lots of histamine through fermentation activity (there's a certain klebsiella type I've seen implicated) but also the dysbiosis causes a cascade of issues that degrades the gut lining which increases the amount of dietary histamine that crosses into the body.

Otherwise I've seen histamine intolerance also suggestive of Crohn's, etc. where the gut lining is chronically damaged.

Like you said wine often reveals it for people, also vinegar, aged cheese, meat or seafood. It's funny that now that I know what to look for I notice when eating with people when they get a stuffy nose right after eating that stuff.

By "go nuclear" I'm assuming you mean antibiotics? That's the standard treatment for methanogen overgrowth now, prescribing oral neomycin which is some really strong stuff but apparently the only thing that seems to wipe out archaea.

Sounds like you've identified that histamine is an issue for you. Vitamin C will clear serum histamine, citric acid is bad since it's a fermented byproduct of black mold (likely triggers histamine release from impurities).

In my IBS journey I had a period where I had very strong histamine intolerance, and vitamin C (in the form of QBC vitamin, quercetin + bromelain + vitamin C) really helped stabilize me. Histamine intolerance often led to chronic insomnia, my heart just would not calm down at night.

Let me quote the OP:

> If there were effects, we'd have seen them by now.

You just authored a screed in response to me pointing out that there are effects.

Sharon Osbourne didn't just have mild nausea she now claims she can't put back the weight she lost that she didn't intend to lose.

> Gastroparesis is ... a slowing of gastric emptying.

I can't help but point out the syntax choice of internet snobbery. I'm not sure when people started sprinkling ellipses for dramatic effect because they seem to think it makes them authoritative but I think it's worth highlighting since it's such a reliable heuristic for internet troll.

very good examples pretty much every one I've come across, the over-engineered types one (add python typing to the list too) feels pretty spot-on and common

> “I’m too gaunt and I can’t put any weight on. I want to, because I feel I’m too skinny,” she went on before warning people, “Be careful what you wish for.”

She abruptly stopped after losing much more than she wanted to lose.

She looks ill frankly.

Sharon Osbourne almost died, and I've read about enough people having serious problems on them including gastroparesis and bowel obstruction.

I actually run elections. "Spreading democracy" is what Hillary Clinton, Victoria Nuland, Condi Rice and the rest of the bipartisan neocon gang does when they bomb countries into oblivion and leave behind chaos and death.