When was Twitter ever far-left? I don't recall a time when it was calling for public ownership of the means of production, overthrowing capitalism, working class uprisings or any other far-left platform...
Ever notice how people refuse to accept that their view on politics has a leaning? That a leftists' idea of what constitutes far left might require tankies (ie. accounts that advocate violent imposition of communism/socialism by an external force like Russia or terrorism), whereas for rightist far left might mean as little as limits on enforcement of immigration rules.
Just yesterday there was news about a protest in a cinema in Paris, where the police essentially invaded, and yes, beat people attempting to stop them into the hospital, and arrested "the core" of the protest. The police's story is that a small group tried to set the cinema on fire (very French of them, I must say, what's a protest without something on fire?), which is kind of confirmed by them arresting like 0.1% of the protestors, showing torches they found on the protestors, a big scorch mark on the floor, plus they let the protest continue. Of course, on the internet the only intention of the police using, granted, a LOT of force (as soon as they saw the torch, according to the police statement), preventing protestors from setting an old wooden Parisian building with more than 1000 people inside on fire was to protect Israeli aggression/colonialism (there was an Israeli concert happening) ... For now the newspapers and TV are a bit more on the sane side, but every year that passes more and more newspapers are joining the lunatics on the left or right (and truth be told, mostly on the left)
Have you ever asked yourself why native french doctors leave the system?
If the system would function normaly, without corrutpion and ran by meritocratic politicians this wouldn't happen.
Immigrants are not the solution, but the side effect of a corrupt system.
The majority of immigrants are also a taxpayer money sink, compared to native populations they eat up disproportionate amount of taxpayer money (wellfare), so the net effect of immigration is actually negative.
Humans have eaten complex carbs only for the last 10k years since agricultural revolution. Before that, outside of a small part of Africa, there physically wasn't enough carbs available to say that they made any substantial amount of our diet.
Most ancenstral carbs were uber high in fiber, and very low in glucose (starch) and fructose.
I've taken courses in primitive wilderness survival, and one of the staple foods was grass seed.
Also lots of roots are edible with cooking, and it looks like we've been cooking for about a million years. Then there's wild rice, cattails, beans, berries, all sorts of stuff.
I agree that most wild plants are high in fiber and low in sugar, but there are are a lot of complex carbs to be had, if you have fire.
What's possible depends on where you are. But for example:
> Pontzer, an evolutionary anthropologist who studies modern-day hunter-gatherers, says traditional diets vary widely, and the vast majority of them include a high percentage of carbohydrates.
> For instance, the Hadza, a hunter-gatherer group in northeast Tanzania that Pontzer has studied for the past ten years, spend their days walking eight to 12 kilometers, climbing trees and digging for root vegetables. Their diet consists of various meats, vegetables and fruits, as well as a significant amount of honey. In fact, they get 15 to 20 percent of their calories from honey, a simple carbohydrate.
> The Hadza tend to maintain the same healthy weight, body mass index and walking speed throughout their entire adult lives. They commonly live into their 60s or 70s, and sometimes 80s, with very little to no cardiovascular diseases, high blood pressure or diabetes—conditions that are rapidly growing in prevalence in nearly every corner of the world.
> Because humans initially evolved in Africa, where wild animals generally lack appreciable fat stores (2), it seems clear that they consumed a mixed diet of animal and plant foods, given the apparent limitations of human digestive physiology to secure adequate daily energy from protein sources alone (4).
> Hunter-gatherer societies in other environments were doubtless eating very different diets, depending on the season and types of resources available. Hayden (3) stated that hunter-gatherers such as the !Kung might live in conditions close to the “ideal” hunting and gathering environment. What do the !Kung eat? Animal foods are estimated to contribute 33% and plant foods 67% of their daily energy intakes (1). Fifty percent (by wt) of their plant-based diet comes from the mongongo nut, which is available throughout the year in massive quantities (1). Similarly, the hunter-gatherer Hazda of Tanzania consume “the bulk of their diet” as wild plants, although they live in an area with an exceptional abundance of game animals and refer to themselves as hunters (18). In the average collecting area of an Aka Pygmy group in the African rain forest, the permanent wild tuber biomass is >4545 kg (>5 tons) (19).
> Australian aborigines in some locales are known to have relied seasonally on seeds of native millet (2) or a few wild fruit and seed species (20) to satisfy daily energy demands. Some hunter-gatherer societies in Papua New Guinea relied heavily on starch from wild sago palms as an important source of energy (21), whereas most hunter-gatherer societies in California depended heavily on acorn foods from wild oaks (22).
> In nature, any dependable source of digestible energy is generally rare and when discovered is likely to assume great importance in the diet. Animal foods typically are hard to capture but food such as tree fruits and grass seeds are relatively reliable, predictable dietary elements.
You can also find equally anecdotal cases of people who “healed” migraine with exorcism, trephanation, and blunt-force trauma, but that doesn’t mean it’s caused by demons, swelling brains, or remaining conscious and alive.
The science says susceptibility to migraine seems to be related to hormonal shifts and there’s plenty of reason to believe it runs in families; though dietary changes might help reduce the symptoms and therefore treat some of those susceptible to migraine, it’s not a panacea and it’s definitely not causal.
This depends heavily on which EU country you are: some EU countries have great and cheap healthcare, others have shit and cheap healthcare with 6+ months of waiting time and you can't find even a personal doctor in the public system (which you are forced to pay anyway for).
I would say that maybe half dozen of countries across entire Europe have this stereotypical good quality public universal healthcare. Even Germany starts experiencing bottlenecks. God have mercy on you if you need help from doctors in Poland, Romania, or Hungary. You will wait, you will be humiliated, and you will pay a lot of money multiple times. Basically you need an assistance of healthy and capable person to guide you through the corrupted system.
Nothing ever happens in isolation. Thinking that the only change is more vit D is reductionst. There could be billions of other interactions changed across the plant due to a "simple gene change for vit D".
I remember one mice or rat study which shown that feeding GMO grains to mice cause liver or kidney issues, while non-GMO did not.
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