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"Even when temperatures reached 118°F, which stressed both the trees and the research team, the trees were able to prevent overheating, especially the trees from the hottest locations from the lower Colorado River," Schuessler said. "However, experimentally limiting water leveled the playing field, and trees from all four populations suffered from a combination of heat stress and drought."

🤔 I wonder what the water is used for.

I don't disagree, I'm just pointing out that hydrogenated fat ("margarine") is a problem.

https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-021-01961-2/figures/1

Multivariable-adjusted hazard ratios of total and cardiometabolic mortality for 1-tablespoon/day increment in cooking oil/fat consumption. Forest plots show the multivariable HRs of total (a) and cardiometabolic (b) mortality associated with 1-tablespoon/day increment in butter, margarine, corn oil, canola oil, and olive oil consumption. HRs were adjusted for age, sex, BMI, race, education, marital status, household income, smoking, alcohol, vigorous physical activity, usual activity at work, perceived health condition, history of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and cancer at baseline, Healthy Eating Index-2015, total energy intake, and consumption of remaining oils where appropriate (butter, margarine, lard, corn oil, canola oil, olive oil, and other vegetable oils). Horizontal lines represent 95% CIs

are very energy dense food sources.

Doesn't mean that it's a good idea. When you feed food to food, you waste a lot of food. That's the meat, dairy and eggs industry. Conversion ratios vary, but they're terrible and, by the simple laws of physics, can't beat just eating plants.

universal purpose vegetable based butter

That is what did happen, but it turns out that hydrogenation causing trans fats isn't good for health. Fun fact: ruminant milk, especially from "grass fed", can contain up to 10% trans fats because the bacteria inside can do a natural hydrogenation too.

Vegetable oil is the best option for calories, but it's also boring, so the staples for food security have been: grain flour + vegetable oil + sugar.

Here's some relevant history: https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/naval-blockade-of-germany/

and a more modern article tied to the same topic: https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/troy-vettese-do-not-let-them-eat-meat/

Don't talk about it, not even online.

Neither is meat or butter

The Venn diagram:

Yeah. It's a small dilemma :)

https://www.osnews.com/story/141227/mozilla-begs-courts-to-allow-google-search-deal-for-firefox-to-continue/

And it's coming from inside the IMF house.

Here's a fun one:

Neoliberalism: Oversold? -- Finance & Development, June 2016 https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2016/06/ostry.htm

Finance & Development, June 2016, Vol. 53, No. 2

Instead of delivering growth, some neoliberal policies have increased inequality, in turn jeopardizing durable expansion

Milton Friedman in 1982 hailed Chile as an “economic miracle.” Nearly a decade earlier, Chile had turned to policies that have since been widely emulated across the globe. The neoliberal agenda—a label used more by critics than by the architects of the policies—rests on two main planks. The first is increased competition—achieved through deregulation and the opening up of domestic markets, including financial markets, to foreign competition. The second is a smaller role for the state, achieved through privatization and limits on the ability of governments to run fiscal deficits and accumulate debt.­

[...]

•The benefits in terms of increased growth seem fairly difficult to establish when looking at a broad group of countries.­

•The costs in terms of increased inequality are prominent. Such costs epitomize the trade-off between the growth and equity effects of some aspects of the neoliberal agenda.­

•Increased inequality in turn hurts the level and sustainability of growth. Even if growth is the sole or main purpose of the neoliberal agenda, advocates of that agenda still need to pay attention to the distributional effects.­

[...]

Austerity policies not only generate substantial welfare costs due to supply-side channels, they also hurt demand—and thus worsen employment and unemployment. The notion that fiscal consolidations can be expansionary (that is, raise output and employment), in part by raising private sector confidence and investment, has been championed by, among others, Harvard economist Alberto Alesina in the academic world and by former European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet in the policy arena. However, in practice, episodes of fiscal consolidation have been followed, on average, by drops rather than by expansions in output. On average, a consolidation of 1 percent of GDP increases the long-term unemployment rate by 0.6 percentage point and raises by 1.5 percent within five years the Gini measure of income inequality (Ball and others, 2013).­

In sum, the benefits of some policies that are an important part of the neoliberal agenda appear to have been somewhat overplayed. In the case of financial openness, some capital flows, such as foreign direct investment, do appear to confer the benefits claimed for them. But for others, particularly short-term capital flows, the benefits to growth are difficult to reap, whereas the risks, in terms of greater volatility and increased risk of crisis, loom large.­

[...]

Moreover, since both openness and austerity are associated with increasing income inequality, this distributional effect sets up an adverse feedback loop. The increase in inequality engendered by financial openness and austerity might itself undercut growth, the very thing that the neoliberal agenda is intent on boosting. There is now strong evidence that inequality can significantly lower both the level and the durability of growth (Ostry, Berg, and Tsangarides, 2014).­

Probably default search engine?

One of the reasons I've been boycotting imports from Türkiye for years.