More Than Half of US Adults Will Have Cardiovascular Disease By 2050, Research Finds (cnn.com) 172
By 2050, 61% of U.S. adults will have cardiovascular disease, driven mainly by high blood pressure, according to new American Heart Association research. High blood pressure significantly increases the risk of heart attacks, strokes, and other dangerous cardiovascular problems. The findings also point to ongoing challenges with arrhythmias, heart failure, and congenital heart disease. CNN: In the research published Tuesday, the association predicts that 45 million adults will have some form of cardiovascular disease -- excluding high blood pressure -- or will have a stroke in 2050, up from 28 million in 2020. An aging population will be another force behind these trends, as the older you get, the more likely you are to have heart problems.
By 2050, 22% of the US will be over the age of 65, whereas seniors made up just 13% of the population 10 years ago, studies say. The median age in the US is projected to increase from 37 in 2010 to 41 in 2050, other research shows. The American population is also becoming more diverse, and communities of color tend to have a disproportionate number of heart problems. By 2050, people who identify as Hispanic will make up about a quarter of the US population, vs. about 20% today, and people who identify as Black will be 14.4% of the country, up from 13.6% today. The number of people who identify as Asian will also increase, from 6.2% of the population to 8.6%, according to US Census predictions.
By 2050, 22% of the US will be over the age of 65, whereas seniors made up just 13% of the population 10 years ago, studies say. The median age in the US is projected to increase from 37 in 2010 to 41 in 2050, other research shows. The American population is also becoming more diverse, and communities of color tend to have a disproportionate number of heart problems. By 2050, people who identify as Hispanic will make up about a quarter of the US population, vs. about 20% today, and people who identify as Black will be 14.4% of the country, up from 13.6% today. The number of people who identify as Asian will also increase, from 6.2% of the population to 8.6%, according to US Census predictions.
Elephant in the room (Score:2)
Funny they don't mention the most obvious health issue.
...laura
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Funny they don't mention the most obvious health issue.
...laura
Who's Laura and why is she a health issue?
So what? (Score:2)
The question is what *fraction* of the population will have CVD, and how does that compare to the past. In addition, how will the fraction change within each population group, if at all, thus neglecting the rise of certain groups over others. And, finally, how do they even make this prediction, and should I believe it.
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Well, the single biggest risk factor for CVD is having Type 2 diabetes. The second biggest risk factor is being obese. And the third biggest risk factor is hypertension. So given the widely publicized (and in one case visually obvious) trends, it's not hard to predict where CVD is going in the near future.
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Fraction??? Roughly two out of three U.S. adults are overweight or obese.
People can blame processed foods, but from my perspective the number one cause is America's car culture and its buildout of cities and suburbs to the point where most people have no choice but to haul their fat rear ends around in oversized, personalized rocking chairs.
Wall-E nailed it.
2050? (Score:2)
You mean half of U.S. adults don't already have cardiovascular disease? They must not have done good sampling because based on what I see on a regular basis the vast majority of people should already have it.
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That was sort of my feeling. I felt that with an aging population this was the expected result, unless they used a pretty stiff criterion for "what counts as cardiovascular disease". I know that statins are regularly prescribed to a HUGE number of people, and that's only one medication used to treat cardiovascular disease.
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Half of Americans die of CVD. That doesn't necessarily mean they have it full-blown until they're old.
But yes.
I am a trendsetter! (Score:2)
It's the food dammit! (Score:2, Interesting)
Obesity, metabolic syndrome, hypertension, diabetes, chronic inflammation, gut issues, skin issues, etc are all mostly caused by an absolute shit diet so far skewed from a proper human diet that it's a miracle people are surviving on it at all. I'm not saying diet is always the cause of these conditions, but in the majority of cases, probably so. In this day and age I can spend $16 for a single meal at Canes Chicken Fingers, or cook gourmet meal myself for $12, or cook a still decent meal for $5. Eating ou
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>Learn to cook and select good foods
Yep. It's not only better for you, it's less expensive. Stop eating out so much, especially fast food. Cook a few basic dishes. Drink water instead of sodas.
It's weird, but as my income has risen, I've spent less on food. Not as a percentage, as an absolute value. For the price of one meal at McD's I can make six or more decent dinners, they taste better and are better for me.
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Oh give me a break. A meal at McD's is $11. You're telling me you can get make a delicious, healthy meal for $1.83? Figuring in $.25 for fuel?
It's cheaper to eat out once you consider the cost of your time for cooking and going to the grocery store vs. dropping by a restaurant on your way home from work.
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I can. It's easy enough once you start thinking ahead - I don't buy single-serving packages.
In fact, I routinely eat lunches that cost less than $1/each. And they're definitely better than McD's, and they definitely take less time to prep than driving to a restaurant and waiting for the food to be ready.
Dinner tends to have more meats so it's over the $1/serving, but not by much. And a McChicken meal here is $14+tax.
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Unseasoned lentils and rice isn't a proper meal. Sure it's technically possible to get enough calories for less than $1, but realistically you wouldn't want to eat that way for longer than you had to.
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Anyone who believes eating out at restaurants is less expensive than eating at home is a fucking moron who should be under a conservatorship.
Your parents failed.
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I can eat healthy for FAR LESS than $11 a meal by shopping and home cooking from scratch....and I do.
Not sure why you list McD's at $11/meal and then start something bout $1.83???
Typo?
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A meal at McD's is $11. You're telling me you can get make a delicious, healthy meal for $1.83?
Yeah, I did last night.
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Now, "delicious" and even "healthy" are often in the eyes of the beholder, so let's just go with "home cooked". Also, let's shoot for ~800 calories for a non-breakfast meal.
Prices are via walmart website:
1 pd ground chicken $3.42, 600 cal
1 pd red beans, $1.87, 1040 cal
1 pd brown rice, $1.64, 3150
32 oz chicken broth, $1.37, 40
Seasoning Blend: $1.38, 88 cal (easier than trying to look up calories for fresh, non frozen stuff, it's a mix of onion, celery, red peppers, green peppers, and parsley flakes)
Total:
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You are overly simplistic in multiple dimensions. It's true that the correlation you point to exists, but saying it's "the cause" is just plain silly. It's *A* cause. One of many.
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"cook a still decent meal for $5"
No, you can't. The marginal value of the time spent cooking that meal is more than $5, before you've even acquired any ingredients.
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So? It's a wash. The marginal value of the time spent driving to McDonalds is still the same time spent.
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"The marginal value of the time spent driving to McDonalds is still the same time spent."
You are assuming that people are not going to places that are on their way home and instead go home then go back out.
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Some people spend their spare time hitting a golf ball.
Some people spend their spare time playing video games.
Some people spend their spare time doing bong hits and contemplating their navel.
So, tell me, which of these uses of time has the higher value?
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"and same amount of time or more to go eat out."
You're not the first person to think people get all the way home and only then go back out to pick up something to eat rather than placing a order to be picked up when they are finally done running around all day and are on their way home.
That doesn't make your assumptions any more realistic.
"you probably don't know how to cook?"
I cook every night. Your assumptions are 0 for 2.
In Homer's voice... (Score:2)
By 2050, 61% of U.S. adults will have cardiovascular disease
"I like those odds!"
Huh (Score:2)
Except for one subgroup.. (Score:3)
"By 2050, 61% of U.S. adults will have cardiovascular disease"... ...and virtually none of them will be people on a vegan diet.
One of the most effective ways to prevent and reverse CVD is to eliminate animal products from your diet. It's been proven over and over and over. Diabetes too.
No need for pills, other drugs or surgery.
It works, although people would rather continue eating the stuff that causes this, take the risk, and live on medication that makes their lives even more shitty.
Higher levels of activity certainly help, but I know fit people suffering from CVD, getting heart attacks and strokes.
But even sedentary vegans are mostly immune. Why is that?
Plus it's also very good for the planet.
"But bacon". *facepalm*
#unpopularopinion
Re:Grocery prices (Score:5, Informative)
This problem will solve itself. Thanks to greedflation and mega corps admitting they've been gouging for years https://www.washingtonpost.com... [washingtonpost.com] People won't be able to afford food.
If Target can lower prices on 5000 items and still post record profit quarters that's really saying something.
Yeah, that's not how that works. The most expensive foods today are still the ones that are healthy. Fresh produce, good quality meats/proteins, basically anything that isn't super processed and soaked in high fructose corn syrup. Cheap stuff is the ultra-processed HFCS laced body killing bullshit that they keep shoveling at us as "convenient." As people fall down the socio-economic ladder, they tend to go for the processed stuff. It does save time, sorta, but it kills you nice and slowly. So, middle and lower income families are getting pushed to eat even shittier through that gouging. It's not going to clear up because people can't afford "good" food. That's how we ended up here to begin with.
No good quality red meat (Score:2)
If you have arterial disease as determined by a cardiac catheterization, you are not supposed to have more than two servings of red meat, lean and high quality or not.
Just passing on what I learned from "a friend."
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If you have arterial disease as determined by a cardiac catheterization, you are not supposed to have more than two servings of red meat, lean and high quality or not.
Just passing on what I learned from "a friend."
I'd say it depends on the quality of the meat and how it was raised, but I know the traditional thing is to just say all red meat is bad. But fish, chicken, turkey, pork, and other proteins are still not exactly cheap.
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FWIW, there *is* significant evidence that red meat is bad for you. It's supposed to have something to do with the heme molecules ... and more than that and you get past what I understood.
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And yet..there are. LOT of folks doing the carnivore diet....nothing but meat...and they're losing weight, their bloodwork numbers are good, and they are been not only not having arteriosclerosis problems, but often showing signs of reversing it...
Same with keto diets too....both are ultra low carbs, and seems to show so
Re: No good quality red meat (Score:2)
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Just about everything has a downside. Saying that red meat has a downside should not be a surprise.
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https://www.health.harvard.edu... [harvard.edu]
Non-crap studies (Score:2)
The studies that McDonald's cheeseburgers and pizza are bad for you are on a firm scientific foundation?
Just saying, that when you are still breathing after your first heart attack, your nurse or the hospital dietician will engage you in a Come to Jesus moment abput what you should and shouldn't eat going forward.
Red meat is to be eaten no more than two times a month, and yes, pork counts as red meat, chicken should be eaten no more than two times a week, and a day's ration of meat should be "no bigger
Re: Non-crap studies (Score:2)
Red meat is to be eaten no more than two times a month, and yes, pork counts as red meat, chicken should be eaten no more than two times a week, and a day's ration of meat should be "no bigger than a deck of cards because a larger portion than that is just excreted by your kidneys."
Where the hell are you getting this from? That's not true at all. If your kidneys simply excreted the rest (this is an incredibly stupid statement for so many reasons) then you literally couldn't gain any meaningful weight from it. You're basically arguing, without realizing it, that you could get at most 300 calories per day from meat, and that's being generous. If this was true, literally if all somebody did was eat meat all day every day they'd turn into a stick figure within two months.
In fact not a thi
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Red meat is to be eaten no more than two times a month, and yes, pork counts as red meat, chicken should be eaten no more than two times a week
Meat-eating extends human life expectancy worldwide [adelaide.edu.au]
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I'd say it depends on the quality of the meat and how it was raised,
No one cares what you would say. Get evidence or gtfo.
If you don't have evidence, you're not scientific.
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LOL acting as though Warren Buffet doesn't eat McDonald's Stop acting like economics is the reason people choose the foods they do. They could make salads and vegetables nearly free and people would still pick the processed foods. People are delusional if they think that cost is the reason that people aren't eating more raw foods.
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More complicated than that. The cheapest way to eat is not highly processed foods, but staples bought in bulk. Think rice and beans bought in 50lb bags with an egg or two for protein on occasion. That's the way the poor in developing countries eat. The risk there tends to be lack of vitamins, though people who have land at their disposal (even a small garden) can often grow enough fruits and vegetables on the side to prevent malnutrition.
The highly processed stuff full of HFCS is a byproduct of what is prof
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It doesn't really take much time at all to boil some rice and beans. I think the problem is more akin to drugs. The sugary processed food gives you a cheap dopamine hit that rice and beans doesn't.
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Hell, I use a rice cooker with brown rice. It's hard to buy brown rice in bulk at prices close to that of white (which is odd since brown is actually less processed), but there's a lot of dishes out there that is basically "toss all this stuff into a pot, cook for 1-2 hours". There's recipes out there designed around rice cookers and such - put everything in cooker, hit button, come back to meal in 30-60 minutes. Takes like 5 minutes of prep.
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Do most of your meal planning and prep for the week once on Sunday. It then doesn't take much time during the week to heat/reheat a meal, and certainly not a lot longer than pulling out and heat a bunch of processed foods.
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Funny...we did JUST that when I was growing up, in fact, most of my peers family that were middle class did just that and no way it was a problem.
First, you watch the weekly ads for the various grocery stores in your area....shop and plan your meals around the sales.
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Apples are about $1/lb.
Rolled oats, aka "one of the healthiest breakfasts you can make," are $.94/lb from winco's bulk bin.
A loaf of bread, package of thin sliced ham, 1lb of cheese, a head of butter lettuce and a couple Roma tomatoes - enough to make a dozen healthy sammiches - will cost in the area of $1.50/sammich.
Calrose rice is $10 for a 5lb bag of Niko Niko, even less if you go to the bulk bin.
A can of kidney beans is $1.25.
The idea that non-garbage food must be sup
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Oh, don't get me started on the price gouging of the fast food places. Around here, you can go to a very nice sit-down restaurant and get a very filling meal for less than it costs to hit McDonald's or Wendy's. Subway is truly horrific. Prices are awful, and the quality is way down from when they had reasonable prices. Which is really sad, because they used to be one of the healthier fast options.
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Are you going boneless skinless there on those chicken beasts??
Where do you live..they're not nearly that much down here.
And frankly, get a good knife and when whole chickens go on sale, for like $0.89/lb or so...buy a couple of them...takes like 2 minutes or so to cut it into breasts, legs, thighs and wings....take the back and throw in a pot of water to make stock....
I agree with you in general...its m
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a bag of carrots goes bad in a week and has 300 calories. A bag of chips can sit in my pantry for months and has over 1000. Both cost about the same.
Carrots actually last longer than most veggies. We can usually keep them for about three weeks before they start getting that vague hint of no about them.
Chips are *TERRIBLE* for us. Not that I don't partake at all, but nutritionally, chips are about the worst food we've got. Dense in calories. Horrible with nutritional value. That works if you're a long-distance athlete. I've ate some truly awful foods nutritionally when attempting to make long days on the bike just for the caloric density. But people sitt
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No, they don't. I have about a pound left of a two pound bag of carrots I bought clost to two weeks ago which are as firm as when I bought them.
A bag of chips can sit in my pantry for months and has over 1000. Both cost about the same.
Where are you getting a bag of chips for $2? That's how much my 2 pound bag of carrots cost.
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I think it depends on how you store them, and what you consider bad. Unpeeled carrots stored in a good root cellar will last most of the winter. In a damp, resealed plastic bag I can belief a couple of weeks.
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Indeed. Carrots are one of those foods that keeping in a plastic bag generally makes them go bad FASTER. You can get months with the proper storage - and I'm not talking refrigeration. We used to have a potato bin with a carrot drawer. Both kept much better that way than in a fridge.
Re:Don't forget shelf stability & caloric dens (Score:5, Informative)
I used Walmart's prices where they have a 1 lb. bag of bay carrots for ~$1.50 (a 5 lb. sack of raw carrots is only ~$3.50) and 8 oz. bags of potato chips for ~$2.75. If you can find some potato chips that are as inexpensive as carrots I'd really like to know where I would be able to purchase them.
Re:Don't forget shelf stability & caloric dens (Score:4, Informative)
He just makes stuff up for all his rants. Read his stuff, it's amusing even though delusional.
Re: Don't forget shelf stability & caloric den (Score:2)
My favorite tortilla chips (can't remember the brand, don't care, I recognize the packaging) are two dollars at grocery outlet every day.
On the other hand two pounds of ruffles are like eight bucks now, fuckers. Those are my favorite potato chips, but I don't buy them any more unless they are on sale.
Shop at your grocery store, not Walmart. (Score:2)
Now, if you live in the South Walmart might be your only option, but that's a political problem, not a health one. You've got a monopoly because you kept voting for p
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Do that and keep your shopping to the perimeter of the grocery store (fresh produce, meats, dairy, etc) and avoid all the processes shit in the middle aisles and your golden.
Economical to eat and healthy for you, and fun to actually do some cooking.
Cooking is a great family activity...kids, spouses, etc....
It wasn't THAT long ago when this was common and most foods at home were cooking
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Stop dumpster diving for your food.
Store bought tends to last longer than free from the alley behind the restaurant.
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Americans are working more hours (Score:3, Insightful)
As for "go for a walk!" that's something doctors tell you in a desperate bid to get you to do *something*. It won't help you lose weight when you're slamming back cokes to make it through that 12+ hour shift. A long walk will burn a couple hundred calor
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If you need soda to make it through the day you're doing it wrong.
My health and attitude and energy levels rose dramatically after I stopped all soda and caffeine in general and replaced the soda with water.
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Conflating a lot of issues here. Someone can recommend that you skip foods laden with HFCS without being part of the corporate "system".
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Uh oh, rsilvergun using one of his sock puppets to mod down the painful truth.
Must've scored several accurate hits in that one. Don't worry, there will always be hordes of people better than you to blame for your life failures. Keep burning the mod points. It's your only hope yo feel better since you won't do anything to fix yourself.
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Also you should go for walks or exercise even if you have a great diet. Most people aren't going to be able to exercise themselves out of a terrible diet, but even people who are in poor health with awful diets will receive positive health benefits from something as simple as a daily 30 minute walk. A lack of physical activity can cause health issues even for people who have a good diet and aren't obese.
Perhaps we
Just because our CIA made other countries worse (Score:2)
Hey Mom how about instead of worrying about China we don't f****** dinner here in America?
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As for "go for a walk!" that's something doctors tell you in a desperate bid to get you to do *something*. It won't help you lose weight when you're slamming back cokes to make it through that 12+ hour shift. A long walk will burn a couple hundred calories. That's one (small) bottle of coke.
You seem to be fixated on the idea of limiting calorie intake / burning calories. You realise TFS isn't talking about weight loss. Regardless of the cokes you drink, going out and walking has positive impact on things like blood pressure.
There's more to health than your waistline.
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No, but many seem to still be able to find the money to buy the oversized pickup trucks they now need to haul their oversized rear ends around....
How do you know this (Score:2)
that regular exercise can offset the risk of eating processed foods and sugars?
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Well, it will offset it a little...I mean, better than NOT moving and eating that crap.
But more importantly...it is dead simple to avoid eating the fucking over processed foods and sugar, you know?
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Think of the child (Score:2)
Who isn't learning geometry in school and is then taught this subject by a parent who is a regular at Slashot.
Da faq? (Score:2)
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If an extra helping is bad for your health, you don't eat the right kind of food.
That's nice (Score:2)
You'll be dead by 60 from it. Maybe sooner. Have fun.
Eat more healthy, low-calorie-density foods (Score:2)
"Traditional weight-loss diets focus on decreasing portion size, but “eat less” approaches can leave individuals feeling hungry and unsatisfied. A more effective approach may be to shift the emphasis from restriction, which comes with a negative connotation, to a more positive message of “eat more” healthy, low-calorie-density foods."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p... [nih.gov]
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What universe are you in where your kids have 50 per class?
Oh wait, more of your made up stuff to virtue signal your nonsense points.
Who says to themself, "Wow, that geometry stuff is really hard, I need a soda and chips now!"?
What makes you doubly funny is you actually honestly believe these things you post. I used to think you were our local version of the Babylon Bee.
This one (Score:2)
The world is a much worse place than you've been lead to believe. I'm sorry if reality isn't matching your preferred world view, but here we are.
Also how the hell did you associate me, a pretty far left dude, with a shitty right wing billionaire backed version of The Onion? That doesn't even make sense
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What one? wtf are you talking about? Where is this alleged great school that has 50 kids to a class and 49 seats leaving someone standing? This is more of your make shit up story telling.
Better schools don't require kids to play musical chairs to get a seat. That should be part of the decision. Having grown up on both sides of the country and moved many many times more than most people I went to quite a few K12 schools in good places and bad and now my kid has been to several schools in other areas. N
Re:And half of America deserves it (Score:5, Informative)
2020, when only 300 people had vaccine problems. Cool story, bro. Even the CDC now says otherwise. Please keep up with the propaganda; you're behind, the Narrative has changed.
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There's no way to argue with such a well made, logical, and well cited point like yours.
You win! Congratulations!
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I chose the third option. Because I'm way smarter than you.
What you are is a shining example of Dunning-Krueger. You're an absolute imbecile who THINKS he is smart.
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Would an absolute imbecile who THINKS he is smart call himself iAmWaySmarterThanYou?
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CDC has a web site.
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Re:And half of America deserves it (Score:5, Insightful)
It's still better than a direct popular vote....otherwise, the country would be controlled purely by about 2-3 populous states, and not a chance of presidential representation for the rest of them. It wouldn't even be fly over land then....
You're a citizen of your state THEN a citizen of the United States.
Until a better way to keep it somewhat equal on the state level...keep the Electoral College.
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You're off by 450%. To get half the popular vote you'd need the most populous 9 states. And I'm not sure where you got the idea that those states are a unanimous hivemind.
Nobody deserves a miserable life (Score:2)
Oh, and I can't resist, non-swing state votes *matter*. The closer your election goes the more resources your opponent has to spend making sure your "swing state" stays that way. Swing states can and do shift all the time. Florida was sold blue until Gore fucked it up and Arizona & Georgia
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That's why my sig says to vote, and for whoever you want. You should have seen the hand-wringing about third party votes, with both sides convinced those people would have voted for them -- they definitely care about those votes. Usually there's no need to vote for someone you hate, like some were suggesting every single past election -- voting for someone you hate is only useful if that vote could help them win.
I expect I'll shortly be told that in the upcoming election (just this once, like every previou
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Salad and other veggies are too expensive?
Okey dokey.
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Lmao, eat grass.
Veggies are more expensive than McDonald's. Wow. Lolololol
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You're about to spend 30 minutes to an hour cooking, and then another 30 minutes eating. A person making $10/hr doesn't have time for that between jobs.
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The only thing "designed" about the food system were companies trying to find ways to sell you overpriced garbage.
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Well, most of the other 50% die of cancer, so really it's a 100% win regardless.