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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • I got that diagnosis (high cholesterol) about 10 years ago. I decided to instead try going on a plant-based diet for a few years. That pretty quickly took my bad cholesterol level away down. I’ve been on a vegetarian diet now (that’s pretty heavy on fairly) for several years, and even though my cholesterol level has gone up a bit, it’s still not that close to where it was before.

    This situation won’t work for everyone, for various reasons. But from my experience it’s been a feasible alternative, at least in the mid-term. So I thought I’d mention it.









  • Disqualifying in a social sense? Unfortunately, yes I think it would be. It doesn’t matter how awesome your husband is, for a significant chunk of the American electorate, a candidate’s calibre is eclipsed by the voters’ prejudices. And there is a hysteria-level paranoia towards LGBT folks among these people.

    It took ages for a Catholic to be elected President due to evangelical paranoia about ‘papists’. And we still haven’t elected a woman, which is insane when you consider women make up half of the electorate. We did have a black guy elected twice, but that was due to a few mitigating factors: a) the timing was right (in the sense that he ran when diversity was seen as more acceptable); b) he was ridiculously charismatic; c) he was also half white; d) he was a Protestant Christian (despite what the ‘secret Muslim’ clowns kept screaming).

    IMO it sucks that someone’s orientation, ethnicity, gender, religion, or heritage still bars so many good candidates from running (because this isn’t just a case of the visible candidates like Harris, Buttigieg, or even the likes of Carson, Hilary Clinton, or Palin getting denied at the final hurdle; many candidates never make it close to running due to these biases). But this is the ass-backwards, self-immolating world we live in.