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Is Polymarket taking bets on this yet?

It seems that Betteridge's law of headlines applies here.

There are moments when it looks like the plan is quite literally to cause a mass die-off. White that seems paranoid at best, and very cynical at best... that is the obvious outcome of low vaccine compliance. We can see this from death rates before the vaccine era.

I agree this is how it feels, its like the evil and corrupt of this country are actively convincing huge swaths of the poor and uneducated to basically undermine and kill themselves. A good chunk of this thread is a handful of people so detached from the actual plot that they are hell bent on carrying on a vendetta against a doctor and scientist they've never met, because they feel like his advice to the american people personally wronged them in some unforgivable and most egregious way.

When people can’t distinguish between the opinions of YouTube or Fox News commentators and decades of scientific research, it’s hard to know what the rest of us can do except watch in disbelief and abject horror.


Comment of the year.

Reason # 10034 why I do not want a TV screen in my car or truck.


Fun take but if french fries are bad, what is the correct way to ingest potatoes? Why bogart the secret?


Boiled new potatoes. Use 150-200 g per person. Place in a saucepan, and pour just-boiled water on top to well cover them. (I always tip a bit of salt in, but I think it's just superstition on my part.) Apply max heat with your gas hob to bring back to a boil, then put a lid on, and simmer on min heat for 20-25 minutes.

Test for doneness by eye (if the skin has broken, they're probably done - possibly even slightly overdone, but it won't be a huge problem) and fork (when done, the fork will easily go in, with consistent minimal resistance, but actually they're typically ok to eat after 25 minutes even if they don't quite pass the fork test).

Serve immediately. Or allow to cool and eat later. Or then put in the fridge once cooled and eat cold even later. But whatever you do, don't add anything else (salt, butter, other seasoning, etc.) until you've eaten at least one without.


Any way that doesn't involve a boatload of oils is fine, I'm sure.

One of the things I'm surprised they didn't mention is cooling. Cooling converts the starch in rice, potatoes, and pasta into resistant starch (and it stays resistant when you reheat it because nobody really likes eating cold potatoes). Starch normally gets processed by the small intestine into glucose but resistant starch is digested in the large intestine, so glucose levels don't spike. There are a number of other benefits described in the articles below:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26693746/

https://hopkinsdiabetesinfo.org/what-is-resistant-starch/


They’re not bad, it just depends on how much you process them. Oven baked fries for instance, are not far removed from normal oven roasted potatoes. Par boiling and then deep frying them in fats will release more nutrients than you would get from a normal baker. Slicing paper thin and perfectly frying is an industrial process that most people can’t replicate at home.

I honestly think home cooked potatoes are going to be perfectly fine in most ways.


>Slicing paper thin and perfectly frying is an industrial process that most people can’t replicate at home.

It's baffling how for some people, the only way they can explain why chips are unhealthy is "industrial process", when the explanation is pretty obvious: thin slices means more surface area, which means more oil absorption and burnt bits. If you replicated the thiness at home somehow (which isn't hard if you have a mandolin), it'll be equally as unhealthy, maybe more if you factor in that your temperature control wouldn't be as precise.


Why would industrially or restaurant made ones be any nutritionally worse? Processing is processing no matter who does it and processing does not automatically make something less healthy or raw meat would be healthier than cooked.


Author explains some anti patterns with too much fat, so I'd guess baked or boiled with a dallop of butter or oil and little salt is a good approach.


You want to cook them at low enough heat to avoid forming any acrylamide.


Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew?


This is a little too on the nose.


Google is making both the comunications and the AI disable as arcane as might be legally defensible. They know what they are doing is wrong, so they are setting up their future legal argument for the inevitable class action lawsuit.


This is morally indefensible. The process arguments seem beside the point if the product is fascism.


I think this was a headline in the german Der Stürmer newspaper back in 1933.


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