Originally about tariffs and watches ... now just political rambling

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About 60% of the calories in eggs are from fat—much of which is saturated fat. Eggs are also loaded with cholesterol—about 200 milligrams for an average-sized egg. That’s more than double the amount in a Big Mac. Fat and cholesterol both contribute to heart disease.

Everyone should remove eggs from their diet. You're welcome.
Just some perspective...

https://www.mayoclinichealthsystem....of-health/is-it-healthy-to-eat-eggs-every-day
 
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I have PM’d a generous offer although the watch is worthless.

Yasou!
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Sorry Mate, but your offer is not enough, I do think that it is worth more than one bottle of ouzo...
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. I’m not hiding anything lol, it’s like being honest is a bad thing, but using insinuation is ok? One member said “and there it is” or something after one of my responses, like I am the one hiding 😂.

Ridiculous hypocrisy.

I suspect we have much in common, including our deserve to improve our neighborhood and make the lives of the less fortunate better. We do disagree on methods and leaders, but I try not to doubt a person's good intentions, until they demonstrate otherwise.

Perhaps you were only repeating what you heard others say, but you referred to Kamala Harris with misogynistic and rascist tropes. I assumed you knew what you were saying, but if you did not, then respectfully, consider why that is offesnsive. Honesty was never an issue.
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I suspect we have much in common, including our deserve to improve our neighborhood and make the lives of the less fortunate better. We do disagree on methods and leaders, but I try not to doubt a person's good intentions, until they demonstrate otherwise.

Perhaps you were only repeating what you heard others say, but you referred to Kamala Harris with misogynistic and rascist troupes. I assumed you knew what you were saying, but if you did not, then respectfully, consider why that is offesnsive. Honesty was never an issue.

Thanks for the message, genuinely.

There was zero intention of misogyny or racism, I was merely pointing out the foolish marketing expenditures and policy. These were facts. I hope that clears things up.

EDIT: I try to think for myself, I make my own opinions. I am not repeating anything here. I supported Biden, I support Trump. I want the best for my country.
 
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But we also have our positives . I have no regrets about keeping chickens and encourage anyone with kids to consider them, albeit with eyes wide open.
My dad kept chickens for a few years and as the eldest child one of my jobs was feeding them, looking after the day-old chicks in spring and helping to dispatch them when the time came [*].

But the "eyes wide open" reminds me of another story. I was brought up in a very old heavy industry area called The Black Country. When I was a young apprentice in a steel works the old guys would tell us about living there many decades before. Every one of the tightly-packed terraced houses for the workers would have a small brick pen in the back yard. Each spring a piglet would be purchased and live in the pen, being fed on household scraps. When late autumn came a butcher would visit and slaughter the full-grown pig resulting in meat, fat, blood pudding (yum, yum), edible offal etc which could be preserved and last for months or a year. In fact there was a saying that you could eat every part of a pig except the squeal.

Many years later I visited the living museum at Coalbrookdale, site of the effective first blast furnace for smelting iron, to where some old Black County houses had been transported and rebuilt. One of the live working exhibits was candle-making demonstrated by a young American lady who did not know the role of the pens in producing the tallow to make candles. Her response to my reference to the houses right next-door and explanation was "Ohhhh, gross!!".



[*] Little bastards would peck my bare legs when I came into their pen with a bucket of food, so I was very pleased to help send them to their Deity and then eat them.
 
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I suspect we have much in common, including our deserve to improve our neighborhood and make the lives of the less fortunate better.
During past disagreements, people would conclude with "we have more in common than differences". I don't believe that anymore.
 
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During past disagreements, people would conclude with "we have more in common than differences". I don't believe that anymore.
I still have some hope, but I certainly see your point. The rise of ordered populism is likely the death of that sense of common goals...
 
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I assume this is a gentler term for authoritarian populism.
It is a form of it, yes.

Ordered populism rests on the belief in a corrupt elite, and the idea that power needs to be wrested from this elite and returned to the people. Oriented toward authoritarianism, ordered populism emphasizes obedience, hostility toward outgroups, a desire to turn back the clock to a time of greater order in society, and a search for a strongman type to lead the return to a better time.

Nothing about ordered populism serves the public interest. Instead, its anti-democratic nature makes it incapable of solving the problems that spawned its rise in the first place. Ordered populism is xenophobic, mistrustful of science and journalism, and unsympathetic to equality and gender issues. Arising out of fear and anger, ordered populism is ultimately unhealthy for Western democracies and their societies and economies.
 
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It is a form of it, yes.

Ordered populism rests on the belief in a corrupt elite, and the idea that power needs to be wrested from this elite and returned to the people. Oriented toward authoritarianism, ordered populism emphasizes obedience, hostility toward outgroups, a desire to turn back the clock to a time of greater order in society, and a search for a strongman type to lead the return to a better time.

Nothing about ordered populism serves the public interest. Instead, its anti-democratic nature makes it incapable of solving the problems that spawned its rise in the first place. Ordered populism is xenophobic, mistrustful of science and journalism, and unsympathetic to equality and gender issues. Arising out of fear and anger, ordered populism is ultimately unhealthy for Western democracies and their societies and economies.
Sounds familiar.
 
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Sorry Mate, but your offer is not enough, I do think that it is worth more than one bottle of ouzo...
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OK, ouzo & a tahini pitta, a tub of hummus, 2 bottles of Keo (large)…..my final offer!
Just found a half bottle to sweeten the deal.
 
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OK, ouzo & a tahini pitta, a tub of hummus, 2 bottles of Keo (large)…..my final offer!
Just found a half bottle to sweeten the deal.
The Metaxa makes my mind spinnnnn...and the Keo....Dude!!
Let me get back to you....

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...But the "eyes wide open" reminds me of another story. I was brought up in a very old heavy industry area called The Black Country....

Many years later I visited the living museum at Coalbrookdale, site of the effective first blast furnace for smelting iron, to where some old Black County houses had been transported and rebuilt. ...

I had to look up Coalbrookdale. I thought at first it might have been Wales. About 15 years ago we stayed in a small inn north of Swansea, and visited what I think was the South Wales Miners Museum. Coal was king, but it was a tough life from our outside perspective. Much respect.
 
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The Metaxa makes my mind spinnnnn...and the Keo....Dude!!
Let me get back to you....

😁

I just looked up Ouzo, I believe it is like similar to Raki. I lived in Izmir TK for a couple of yrs and love that stuff.
 
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I just looked up Ouzo, I believe it is like similar to Raki. I lived in Izmir TK for a couple of yrs and love that stuff.
Yepp!
And lethal drinking them in the sun...!
 
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About 60% of the calories in eggs are from fat—much of which is saturated fat. Eggs are also loaded with cholesterol—about 200 milligrams for an average-sized egg. That’s more than double the amount in a Big Mac. Fat and cholesterol both contribute to heart disease.

Everyone should remove eggs from their diet. You're welcome.
1980's called, they want their science back. 🙄
 
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1980's called, they want their science back. 🙄
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall,
T'was no surprise that Humpty did fall,
For he was loaded with cholesterol!
 
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During past disagreements, people would conclude with "we have more in common than differences". I don't believe that anymore.

I think most people do have a lot in common, but that doesn't mean that "small" differences can't cause massive issues in communication. Regardless of what you have in common, how do you communicate with someone that makes statements that they refuse to back up with reasonable data, and meanwhile rejects any data that they don't agree with? When they choose to reject definitions and supplement their own definitions to back their positions? That's a tough one. An acceptable standard of intellectual honesty should be a cornerstone of society, not something that only a portion of people practice. It's only one minor difference, and yet drops a wall between groups of people trying to communicate or share ideas.

To Archer's point about ordered populism- which is essentially socially organized behind "new world order" type conspiracy theories that perhaps were the foundation for things like QAnon and infowars- would we even be here today if the United States (and to some degree, the entire world) had a standard for how much intellectual dishonesty was too much?
 
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…would we even be here today if the United States (and to some degree, the entire world) had a standard for how much intellectual dishonesty was too much?
So long as there is advertising to sell something, there will always be intellectual dishonesty.

If we really knew the truth about most things, we would not buy or vote for them.
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1980's called, they want their science back. 🙄

Those egg council creeps got to you, didn't they?