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> Years after the movie’s release Spurlock admitted to being a lifelong alcoholic, despite claiming otherwise in the documentary. Alcohol abuse can easily explain the liver damage, and alcohol withdrawal during the filming of the documentary also explains the sudden mental health problems he was experiencing.
Hmm, I'm not sure what to think with this new information.
I really enjoyed the documentary when I watched it as a kid. But I did remember thinking it was weird he puked so early in the film. I brushed it off as "everyone is different", and forgot about it.
But it is your right to assume what he works on from reading his tweets and leap from that to how this is an American cultural thing tho.
Could see how the people of the Aegean could produce myths like Atlantis when they themselves were invading Egypt and most likely became the Philistines of the Old Testament, aka Goliath’s people (local greek pottery discovered there, as well as descriptions of helmets etc lend credence to Philistines being the invading Greeks)
On the "influencer" side, you also are seeing more and more people talk about how cheap houses in beautiful parts of Japan are, how easy / difficult it is to buy and live in one of them, etc. Come to think of it, are these covert advertisements by the Japanese government to get more foreign immigration and capital?
A tangent: if an article's title is a question, the answer, vast majority of time, is either "no", or not a clear answer at all. I'm sure articles that answer the title with "yes" exist, but I cannot even remember one.
> Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." [0]
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
> China, India, Indonesia, Turkey and Zimbabwe were the only countries that both added new coal plants and announced new projects. China accounted for 92% of all new coal project announcements.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/coal-burning-capacity-cli...
> And a Harvard spokesperson told me that admitted legacies tend to have higher median test scores and grades than the rest of admitted students.
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/04/legacy...
Class of 2025 student profile:
> Legacy students also had a higher average SAT score than non-legacy students, at 1523 for legacy students and 1491 for non-legacy students.
https://features.thecrimson.com/2021/freshman-survey/academi...
I don't remember the specifics anymore, but basically there were far fewer trees per acre in the area that did not have fire suppression, but the trees were far healthier / bigger as they did not have to compete for resources. While the trees in the fire suppressed area were smaller and made for a less healthy ecosystem.
For example, nat gas prices in the US are usually cheaper than the price in Europe. For the last year, due to recent events, the price differential has been a lot bigger too.
on top of that, there are contracts. So Japan might pay a different price to Europe, but that might be because they bought a contract 12 months ago for today's price
Sports was usually one thing that was more inter-class, but that was it.
One can treat it as a primer on double-entry accounting as well.
Personally I feel Thai and Lao are harder to tell apart (I've resorted to: Lao is more curvy, Thai uses more straight lines), and also how to tell apart Czech from Slovakian, or Danish from other Nordic languages. Of course there are other ways to tell where you are, and if you only rely on written language you will not become a great player.
I'd watch GeoRainbolt[1] and all the pros that play in his tournaments.
Still had a good chuckle at someone commenting "This is one of those threads that just never dies" on a post with fewer than 40 comments, though.[0]
> Ekwaru et al recently reported on more than 17,000 healthy adult volunteers participating in a preventative health program and taking varying doses of vitamin D up to 20,000 IU/d. These patients did not demonstrate any toxicity, and the blood level of 25(OH)D in those taking even 20,000 IU/d was less than 100 ng/mL.
> The evidence is clear that vitamin D toxicity is one of the rarest medical conditions and is typically due to intentional or inadvertent intake of extremely high doses of vitamin D (usually in the range of >50,000-100,000 IU/d for months to years).
[0]: Holick, https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(15)...
[1]: Ekwaru et al, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25372709/
What does "points his mock armies at the same employee" mean here? Any examples?
Going to be interesting to see how the other companies that raised big A and B rounds in the past one to two years fare.
Sometimes if I can get started on _something_, I can kick start the working. But if I don't, this is the fallback
Though he became Prime Minister for the last time at the young age of 76 in 1951, he was plagued by health problems. He suffered many minor strokes and at least one that left him partially paralyzed for some time. He only stayed on as PM as long as he did because his successor was sick as well (Anthony Eden).
Don't know about you, but I would rather live a healthy 70 years than live 90 years but where the last 20 years are plagued with illness and thus lower quality. In that light, I try to minimize the bad habits that may result in poorer health and thus lower quality life in my later years. Not saying I'm a saint, but I don't need to drink every day or even every week. Currently I'm mostly dry. Saves a lot of money too!