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For a second I thought these were places to escape the country from … you know, for reasons.

in case you weren’t aware, Reason is a right-wing publication whose foundation is primarily funded by one of the Koch brothers

honestly I think it is less about health or safety and more about the disgust people feel - it really might just be irrational and nothing more

72 million voters voted for Trump, that’s not equivalent with embracing Trump’s hatred. Trump’s base is bigoted and hateful, but that doesn’t mean every voter is. A lot of them seem clueless, by all accounts. I think a lot of them were just voting against the incumbent because they were upset about price gouging and inflation.

is there a history I don’t know about? lol

Adoption isn’t an option when there is a miscarriage. Women are dying because miscarriages can’t be properly dealt with due to anti-abortion laws.

Example: https://www.propublica.org/article/josseli-barnica-death-miscarriage-texas-abortion-ban

MSNBC was reporting that Harris lost support among the youth compared to Biden in 2020: Biden had a 24 point lead among voters age 18 - 29, and that was cut in half to a 13 point lead for Harris.

Among young men, Harris had only a 2 point lead, but among young women Harris had a 36 point lead - so it was heavily dependent on gender.

Moving away from age, it was also surprising that Biden had a higher margin with women than Harris ended up with. Biden’s lead with women outstripping Trump’s lead with men, but Harris’s 10 point lead with women was matched with Trump’s 10 point lead with men.

Her steps to the right might earn her votes from the educated white neoconservative crowd, I don’t think moving further to the left aligns her with swing state voters even if I wish that were the case.

Meanwhile the kids where I am shout “Vote Trump” and have never heard the Hollywood Access tape because they were children when it came out. It’s a mixed bag.

psh, don’t bad-mouth nihilists

The video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWZAbKU-JzE

It sorta went the opposite for me, when I first started with a vegan diet I abstained from all substitutes and eventually I learned to use them to recreate foods I thought I wouldn’t be able to eat again.

ah yeah, good points - I’m just always wary of the way health fads misrepresent problems, e.g. organic foods being somehow a part of the solution for climate change, etc.

that makes sense, especially as sugar is not particularly filling and refined carbs are less filling as well - so it’s easier to accidentally eat too much

Still, the focus then would be on the metabolic impact and how refined the food is, theoretically something could be ultra-processed and not have too much sugar. Seems like the wrong kind of categorization, if that makes sense.

that’s helpful, thank you.

I guess a real question is whether there is anything actually bad about being ultra-processed, and what non-arbitrarily determines what is ultra-processed and thus bad?

That does assume the kid has the time and resources to hang together a costume even if homemade. I was maybe a preteen when this happened, so that may have played into some adults’ hesitancy to give me candy, but also looking back I just think the people in the neighborhood I was in had bad values. I also had zero time for a costume, I wasn’t planning on trick-or-treating at all, and it was only because my friends were kind enough to invite me anyway.

But I would give candy to teens, adults, or kids regardless of whether they have a costume or not. :-)

Are you, in your estimation, intelligent?

No. Particularly I get the impression other people get things faster than me, and I seem to have to do more cognitive labor than my peers. I guess I would ask what “intelligence” is, that seems like a difficult thing to quantify or answer.

Are you wise in the way you apply that intelligence? (interpretation yours)

No, I generally consider myself unwise. (It takes me a long time to learn from my mistakes or change self-destructive behaviors, etc. - it often feels like I have trouble “adulting”.)

Do you view yourself as unique and individual, or as a data point on the spectrum of humanity?

Both, how else could it be? (We are both subjects and objects, unique but usually only slight variations of a theme.)

The only time I went without a costume as a kid was because I lived in a dysfunctional household and I was super stressed and didn’t have enough time or support to plan a costume - so I threw on an oversized coat and went with my friends; some adults tried to give me trouble and refused me candy, and that was a bummer because I felt like I had failed … anyway - I guess my point is that maybe some kids are being lazy or something, but you don’t really know.

I personally would definitely give kids candy regardless, but I wish people would actually trick-or-treat where I live, it makes me so sad that nobody does.

I see propublica, I upvote