Nice catch. This was all one big psyop.

/s

and was very careful to bucket the demographics and causes of death to produce a desired impression that is not consistent with reality.

How different from reality? I’m not gonna put a huge difference in effort vs #1 and #2 causes of death. I think car centrism and gun violence are both pretty bad. The study changed my views from not thinking gun violence even on the radar for top causes of death of kids to now seeing it as one of the major causes.

Also that first paragraph of critique is pretty nitpicky.

Children -> Children and adolescents

Deaths by gun violence -> firearm deaths

This IS subtle lmao. Most people I talk to would not consider those different in casual conversation, and the first part comes from a meme.

I mean I care less about it being #1 than the fact that its so prevalent.

Just because it falls to #2 doesn’t mean it doesn’t matter anymore lol.

We still have WAY more gun deaths than your average country and it is enough to be one of the major causes of death of children here. It is enough that some years it becomes the #1 cause of death for children. Thats the take away for me. Especially when you compare to other countries.

I didn’t belive that stat at first.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10042524/

It is sadly true.

Lol let’s go.

Tea is easy to pretend it isn’t a vice. Just keep telling yourself its healthy. Even if it may be a bit more borderline at our levels lol.

No, but I’ve not learned how to cope very well so each one sucks.

It is fermented using a fungus that can leave gold spots on it. Often called “golden flowers”. I hear it taste a lot like puerh, but has its own uniqueness. Honesty I’m a little scared of it lol.

But I’ve not seen a bad review for it. Though its good to consider that this tea category is obscure, so maybe only big tea nerds ever stumble upon it.

Hell yeah lol. I hope you get some!

Since we are a few comments in, and can be sure few others are reading: have you heard of fuzhuan? Its another fermented tea category and I’ve only see great reviews online. Near every review has a comment being like “shhhhh, if this gets as popular as puerh then prices will rise”.

Its on my radar and I’m so curious about it. And tbh one of my favorite things is a big brick of tea. Fuzhuan often comes in 1kg bricks.

Thanks for asking :) WARNING: I got excited to respond. I’ve gotten into a Puerh kick lately. For those that don’t know, Puerh is a very dark fermented tea. My current one taste predominantly like leather with a hint of wood and dirt. High quality dirt. I adore this tea.

I’ve got a huge white2tea.com sampler order that hasn’t been shipped yet. I’m trying like 21 different teas spread across the following categories: white, ripe puerh, raw puerh, haungpain.

FYI haungpain is known as “Farms Tea”. It uses broken leaves and leaves lower on the tea plant that were/are considered lower quality. But I hear the lower leaves have a nice robust flavor, and most tea I buy tends to avoid the lower leaves. I’m excited to try it.

I’m thinking of reviewing all the tea I get posting them all on the tea community or something.

Wayyyyyyy too much tea

I’m not sure we can understand the information environment folks are livin in enough to be confident making fun of how they see things.

It’d be like going to North Korea and making fun of locals for being pro Kim Jong Un. It’s just a bit in poor taste.

Edit: grammar

Better late than never

I’m not saying everything can be ranked.

I understood your response to my last comment as a rebuttle to the idea that “any moral formula is shit from the perspective of another legit moral framework”

Therefore I assumed you thought that there is some way to objectively say, “killing people is better than not killing people.” Which even though I agree with it, I’ve found I can’t prove it without using an axiom that is just my feelings.

I think as a society we would need to understand consciousness to be able to have any hope of discovering an objective morality.

There is a gray zone, there is an acceptable zone, and there is a line, which always must exist, and when anyone crosses it, they must be removed from society.

I mean yeah I agree. It would be energy intensive to try and allow everything, so obviously we don’t allow anyone to do anything. That would be unstable. But that doesn’t prove that we have objective reasons for where we draw lines. It’s all just power and negotiation.

Preaching hate on innocents is not legally forbidden (well, depends on the country), but it is morally wrong.

I said something similar earlier. Glad we are all sane here.

I think objective morality gives blind spots because it can be a bit thought terminating. If you keep asking why something is good or bad, you’ll eventually find yourself at an assumption that isn’t really better than, “thats just what I feel”.

But also I get it if you don’t see it that way. I couldn’t make the phrase “good and bad are two sides of the same coin” be anything but a lie for a few years. And maybe I’m just crazy for having that make sense to me now.

But I really think that value systems and world views can’t be ranked in a vaccume. Therefore I don’t see any objectiveness.

Now hold up. We’ll start having too much fun with relativism if you keep talking like that.

But even being a relativist, I find being a utilitarian is really helpful for actually interacting with the world. It’s just that whatever formula you use will always be shit from the perspective of another totally legit value system.

All that to say: Yeah I agree, doesn’t matter if he thought he was Jesus. He was causing real harm to people.

I guess we are supposed to submit old charlie kirk posts?

He can have one day off for each famous right wing speaker merc’ed

This is my favorite one yet

Honestly impressed Wendy’s would consider serving such an item later

That author seems to post 3 articles a day. I mean they obviously arent researched passion projects, but that quota is wild. How much can you really understand in a third of a work day?

He’s a great agent. It was real savy of trump to buy a teen pageant and then publicly brag about molesting pageant girls. Great undercover work, that’d convince anyone he’s a pedophile.

(/s)