• Dave2@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    I can’t claim that they mean this (for I have no who that is) but “mitochondrial challenge” reminds me of oxidative stress which does cause physical symptoms.

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      That was my thought as well. No way this is what he meant. He’s almost definitely just saying whatever seems like a confusingly almost correct enough thing to cover for the fact that he’s completely hamstringing the FDA and CDC so they stop looking too hard at the things big pharma and big agriculture are doing (and even worse, what they’re doing together) but it wouldn’t strike that vague “something is kinda right about this” vibe if there wasn’t some truth to the fact that yeah we are drowning ourselves in plastic and cheap dopamine fixes. On the subject of fuckery they’re up to together, I remember reading a CEU on antimicrobial stewardship that said agriculture is a major contributor to the development of antimicrobial resistant pathogens.

      It made me remember back to watching (I think it was) Food inc in highschool: there was a guy who owned an actual real deal free range chicken farm. His butcher shop was actually open air, which the bigger factory farm tried to report as unsanitary. When actual swabs were taken, his setup was cleaner just because he was sanitizing all of his tools between each butchering. If there first chicken over the factory belt has e. coli, now they all do. So instead of slowing down and doing things in a way that doesn’t spread pathogens as easily to begin with, they just feed the chickens a shitton of antibiotics. And overusing antibiotics leads to antimicrobial resistance.

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    seems more likely he’s just seeing the utter despair of young humans realizing what kind of world they have been born into.

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      Tbf, the earth is still quite beautiful, its the homo sapiens, particularly the homo sapiens with other homo sapiens obeying their every command (politicians… military/police)

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        sure but i just read an article about the atlantic jet stream coming to a halt in the next 50-100 years, so i guess smoke em while you got em or some such phrase.

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          You read too much news. The news is designed by the ruling powers to make people lose hope and thus make people more easy to subjugate.

          If you lived in WW2 or the US-Soviet Cold War, you would’ve thought the world was ending.

          Hey you know that the Earth is eventually gonna get sucked into the sun (or flung out into space, not quite sure which is which) and everything here dies, right.

          Everything is temporary.

          One of the leading theories of the universe says everything will end in “heat death”. So, with knowledge of this, do you just decide to give up since “everything is meaningless”?

          Fuck that lol. We shouldn’t be alive, the odda s arent even in out favor, but we are. So, TAKE THAT, STUPID UNIVERSE.

          I’m alive and being alive is a rebellion, its rebellion against the universe.

          P.S. I was born under the Once Child Policy of mainland China. I wasn’t even supposed to be born, since my parents already had a child (aka: my older brother). But guess what, I’m alive. So, take that, CCP. Sometimes, I have existential thoughts about the "what if"s, like “what if I was never born”. But you know what, fuck that. On this timeline, I’m alive. My life is inherently a rebellion against authoritarians, its a direct contradiction to the CCP’s policies. I shouldn’t be worrying about a timeline that never happened, and similarly, we have to stop resigning ourselves to a failure that hasn’t happened yet, its never too late to try to fix it.

          For some pespective, even if the all the polar ice caps melt and we detonated all nukes on earth, Earth would still be more habitable than, say, Mars.

          So, do what you can to stop climate change, don’t be too sad about it, everything eventually dies, just try your best. Be a rebel against the universe, be a rebel against authoritarians.

          Do yourself a favor, and live long enough to see the demise of tyrants, and then keep on living to piss on their graves :D

          (edit: typos)

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            One of the leading theories of the universe says everything will end in “heat death”. So, with knowledge of this, do you just decide to give up since “everything is meaningless”?

            Tbh, that argument doesn’t really hold. Human lives are short and our experienced history is also incredibly short. “The past” as in the part of the past that we can actually experience as human beings is less than 100 years. We can’t fathom how freaking long 1000 years is, even though it’s just 40 generations, let alone something that might happen in 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 years (that’s 106 zeroes).

            Climate change related disasters are happening right now and will intensify a lot during the next 50-100 years. I likely live long enough to watch the climate keeling over, and my kids and my grandkids will live right through the worst of it. That’s something entirely different than saying that the universe will suffer the heat death in a time frame so long that we can’t even understand the number in any relevant context.

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      Everything RFK tries to understand is buried in a grain of truth. Yes, poor diets and sedentary lifestyles lead to younger and younger people with inflammatory diseases, which used to be a thing in obese elderly people. Inflammation is the result of release of reactive oxygen from immune cells, which is coming from mitochondria. No, mitochondria are not the cause, and in fact keep us all alive and free of disease.

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    So he’s hinting that he has now discovered where autism comes from, conveniently passed from the mother’s side? Checks out…

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      It’s likely keto/carrnivore diet talk. Wouldn’t be surprised, if the meat industry paid him to ban vegetarian diets in schools, alongside implementing a primarily animal based diet as baseline recommendation.

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    RFK had a book published some time back in which he reveals he doesn’t believe in germ theory. Germ theory. This should have automatically disqualified him from doing anything that gives him decision making powers dealing with health, and medicine.

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      Also why he swims in sewage. And, no one has called it germ “theory” in 200 years. It’s like evolution is not a theory, labs use it every day.