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Ugh. My first job was rewriting foxpro. Bad memories.

Gemini is the least stupid/most neurotypical model family IMHO. Works great for me

100% business gun.

Always nice to know how someone really feels about a country that has made them very rich.

I'm friends with a payment docs writer. Holy crap are payments complicated.

Yes, Stripe is extremely good at what they do. Payments are complicated.

Crown and Red Bull (tastes better) is my order if I want to drink and dance.

Blah. It's a regulation problem. Allow powerful trucks to be small again and they will. Perverse incentives are a bitch.

Doesn't really matter. Elon just has a good track record of delivering value for investors, and will move mountains to make it happen.

I'm generally going to avoid betting against Elon.

Fantasizing about saving the universe is a good thing, actually.

Star Trek (TNG onwards) gets this right.

White people doing anything good is actually bad. Duh.

/s, but I think I'm accurately describing the viewpoint you're responding to.

Historically, that has been true about rockets.

Have you met hardware guys? This is not how they operate, in my experience.

Sounds incredibly simple to me. One-shot.

You can absolutely avoid glyphosate in your diet. This is obviously some sort of emotional issue for you.

Call it (pun intended) a smell test. I have cited a study that shows biomarkers of gut inflammation strongly correlated with glyphosate exposure. Perhaps you should have read it.

I have raised a flag. Lowering your exposure to a novel chemical agent that directly impacts a massive and poorly-understood symbiotic system within the body isn't a bad response. Glyphosate exposure certainly isn't beneficial, so I'll treat it like Pascal's wager: avoiding this has more upside than downside.

Can you attack the methodology or data instead of the author?

Maybe you should see if you adjust to the bran flakes, cut them out if you don't improve, and see if there's a difference? All sorts of things can disrupt gut biomes, and I think ancestral diets are an interesting area of study. Gut inflammation is absolutely rampant.

I'm not trying to make a complete argument, I'm trying to raise a flag. This issue is not well-studied and has very large corporate sponsors who would like to keep selling Roundup-Ready™ crops. One particular measurable function is inhibition of the shikamate pathway in many different bacteria (the majority of the volume of your gut flora is affected).

Here's a decent paper that shows an adverse effect: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10330715/

I understand that this is the realm of crunchy weirdos, but thinking holistically doesn't mean you need to lobotomize yourself.

Here's another paper examining some brain effects of chronic gut inflammation, which could be reasonably inferred as a potential consequence of long-term glyphosate exposure: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10661239/

Well, I didn't intend that as a conversation-ender, but it is true. This particular substance inhibits a particular function of certain gut flora that seems important. I think it's safe to call that significant.

Here's a decent one: 13% of the UK reports gluten intolerance symptoms, and only 7% of Germany does. The UK allows pre-harvest glyphosate desiccation, Germany doesn't. I would be happy to bet that the trend continues past my quick Google search.

We know that it's really important to neurological function, which is enough reason to be careful.

The mechanism of action of glyphosate inhibits several important amino acid production processes in the gut. I'm simplifying here, but not having glyphosate in the food supply would be a good thing for the gut, and the science agrees on this.

Glyphosate for field prep also doesn't really come through in food, it's much worse with the pre-harvest desiccation.

The best-reasoned criticism of glyphosate is that it disrupts the gut biome (this is a fact). I suspect that many "gluten allergies" are actually gut biome problems from glyphosate-desiccated wheat.

That really does put it in perspective. Wow.

Yawn. We're a remarkably peaceful country. We should kill more of our criminals, though.

As an unabashed American, guns are amazing and an insanely important part of our national culture. Any attempt to diminish this is an attack on the culture of America. We are a nation of dangerous freedoms and matching individual responsibility. In order to maintain a functional country without ruining what makes America special, we need to simply actually enforce laws and I'll take apart in making our national culture one to be proud of again.

I have been watching footage from the Apollo programs recently, and while the types of people who made that possible are very much still around, we need to encourage that sort of thinking once again. Dangerous freedoms, radical Liberty, complete responsibility.

Yeah, no. I have shot 3D printed firearms with the head of the FPC, the most active gun lobby organization in the country.