Trains are too woke /s

I think the north east corridor Acela line claims to be high speed, its a bit faster than standard Amtrak I guess. I think there’s also a line in Florida

You can either start with a general Internet search for doctors and read their reviews and check if they accept your insurance. Or start with your insurance company’s list of providers (which may be out of date) and then go read reviews for doctors. If possible, I highly recommend non-profit/university-affiliated doctors offices, and especially stay away from anything owned by private equity…they try to squeeze as much money out of patients and their employees as possible.

In the US, doctors aren’t allowed to share info about their patients with anyone without the patient’s permission. However, there are lists out there for people who try to circumvent controlled substance laws.

Wicca/paganism/Earth-based traditions tend to be matriarchal and use names like Earth Mother, Ancient Mother, Gaia, etc to describe the most powerful deity.

A lot of things marketed as soaps these days are really detergents that contain sulfates and can be very harmful if swallowed.

Stick to FDA approved medicines. Medicine like tums use this strategy to decrease the acidity. Other medications block the stomach’s ability to become acidic.

If you have heart burn that won’t go away or chronic acid reflux, see a doctor

Agreed, a lot of the time I’m in need of a super charger, there’s a line to use it. The demand is there and it’s not like EV owners can easily switch back to gas

“more heat pumps, more now”

The City Nerd channel on YouTube and Nebula discusses this issue a LOT. Trains are by far the most cost effective method of transporting large numbers of people and goods.

Here’s a video discussing costs of car use

Here’s one on the cities with the most affordable housing and transportation costs. As he explains housing and transportation costs are directly linked to each other.

Agreed! I get this with my Unitarian Universalist church community. UUs don’t require anyone to believe a certain scripture, but we have a shared set of principles, like valuing democracy, science, and nature. The community aspect and music program are great by themselves, and our minister’s sermons have been a great source of motivation to keep fighting for what we believe in.

Depends on your demographics a bit. Dictatorships like to scapegoat ethnic minorities or other out groups (see Pinochet’s, Mao’s, Pol Pot’s, etc extermination of scientists and educators) for society’s problems. These groups of people tend to experience much greater intensity of oppression under dictatorships than already present in the US. This tends to change culture on a fundamental level because most people actively try to fit in with the in group to avoid becoming a target themselves.

While present to some degree in our current system, another core characteristic of dictatorships is that self enrichment for those in power is the primary driving factor for decision making. Dictators don’t need to pay lip service to making decisions for the greater good. You see this especially prominently in dictatorships in developing countries with valuable resources… The dictators and their close friends take all of the wealth from resource extraction for themselves and everyone else lives in extreme poverty. Yes we have wealth inequality already, but it would be accelerated even more. You could see even highly skilled professionals having a hard time making ends meet (or in jail for being too smart and having “ideas”), and even more homelessness, potentially even wide scale famine.

In terms of geopolitics… Our relationship with allies would become about how the relationship personally benefits those in power.

You shouldn’t be able to smoke outside an ER anyway… People come through there with life threatening problems and need all the oxygen they can get

Why are you interested in the keto diet? Are there specific goals you’re trying to accomplish? It’s a tricky diet that is best done with medical supervision.

I highly recommend Harvard’s Nutrition Source for science-based nutrition information. They use accessible language and have recipes too!

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“Scientifically Processed” lol. When ultraprocessed was a selling point