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The video discusses how major food companies, like Nestle and Kellogg’s, control public perception of food health through misinformation campaigns, similar to practices used by the tobacco industry. It highlights the prevalence of ultra-processed foods in the American diet, their health risks, and the manipulation of nutritional guidelines by these corporations.

Key Points

Corporate Misinformation Campaigns

Food conglomerates are accused of executing misleading advertising practices, equating their health claims to tactics previously used by tobacco companies, aiming to create a dependency on their products.

Health Risks of Ultra-Processed Foods

The video emphasizes that ultra-processed foods constitute over half of the American diet and are linked to chronic diseases, including heart disease and diabetes, by exploiting food science to make these products addictive.

Sabotaging Dietary Guidelines

Food companies are financially influencing the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee to prevent guidelines from recommending reductions in the consumption of ultra-processed foods.

Addiction and Hyper-Palatability

The relationship between hyper-palatable foods produced by these corporations and food addiction is explored, with evidence suggesting these foods are designed to be irresistibly appealing, leading to overconsumption.

Historical Ties with Tobacco

The video reveals the historical connections between major food companies and tobacco corporations, showing how strategies of misinformation and manipulation of public perception have shifted from tobacco to food.

Call to Action for Truthful Guidelines

It stresses the importance of reforming dietary guidelines to prioritize scientific evidence over corporate influence and urges for immediate change to improve public health.

Learn about amortization based spending from economist Ben Mathew on the Rational Reminder podcast: The Lifecycle Model vs. Safe Withdrawal Rates (SWR) - youtube.com/watch?v=-2Ul4bdHkXE

To treat obesity, Hippocrates, the “father of medicine,” suggested the following:

[o]bese people and those desiring to lose weight should perform hard work before food. Meals should be taken after exertion and while still panting from fatigue and with no other refreshment before meals except only wine, diluted and slightly cold. Their meals should be prepared with sesame or seasoning and other similar substances and be of a fatty nature as people get thus, satiated with little food. They should, moreover, eat only once a day and take no baths and sleep on a hard bed and walk naked as long as possible. - Precope J. Hippocrates on Diet and Hygiene. 1952.

In this quote we have :

• Eat fat to lose fat
• One Meal A Day (Intermittent Fasting / Time restricted Eating)
• cardio, and walking.

https://youtu.be/mIY7eWSH_Qs

March 14, 2025 (Ep 120: Australian Edition) | China Task Force Circumnavigates Australia | Australia and its Maritime Trade | Chinese Maritime Expansion | AUKUS - Australia, United Kingdom, United States Submarine Agreement | Australia's Strategic Sealift Fleet

In this episode, Sal Mercogliano — a maritime historian at Campbell University (@campbelledu) and former merchant mariner — discusses with Jen Parker 5 issues facing Australia today in the maritime sector. Jen Parker is an Expert Associate at the National Security College of the Australian National University and an Adjunct Fellow in naval studies at the University of New South Wales Canberra. She hosts and produces the Maritime Matters podcast and is a 20-year veteran of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).

00:00 Introduction
01:58 Chinese Naval Task Force Circumnavigates Australia 
04:07 Australia and Trade 
07:50 Chinese Expansion 
10:41 AUKUS 
18:47 Australia Strategic Fleet 
25:55 Going Forward & Conclusion

github.com/ben9583/uber-eats-button

US Defense Tanker Rammed, On Fire & Abandoned March 11, 2025

In this episode, Sal Mercogliano — a maritime historian at Campbell University (@campbelledu) and former merchant mariner — provides an update on the collision between containership Solong and US flag tanker Stena Immaculate off the Humber River on March 10, 2025

00:00 Situation of the Stena Immaculate & Solong on March 11, 2025
04:16 Establishment of a 2-mile Total Exclusion Zone
07:15 Did Solong Intentionally ram Stena Immaculate?
09:47 Replay of Collision
11:23 Macro Version of Maritime Traffic Replay
17:09 Crowley Statement 
19:57 Conclusion 

WTF is going on in the US Vessles? This is like the third event in a month

https://gist.github.com/ishad0w/9ae183447fedb669ed02338e9357dcc4

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i'm flabbergasted. They are non-transitive dice!

Tadashi Tokieda's Numberphile video on non-transitive dice: youtube.com/watch?v=zzKGnuvX6IQ&t=0s

singingbanana's video on Simpson's Paradox: youtube.com/watch?v=wgLUDw8eLB4&t=0s

GitHub repo with this visualization's source code: github.com/carykh/Non_Transitive_Dice

great conversation about cardiovascular risk

Mac Retina displays are about 215DPI, but here was have a gaming monitor at 240hz, OLED at 166PPI, not bad at all!

Pixel Pitch 0.15525mm

only downside is brightness maxes out at 450cd

https://www.sven.de/dpi/