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That chart shows how good our health care is if you can afford it. Americans suffer higher death rates from smoking, obesity, homicides, opioid overdoses, suicides, road accidents, etc ...
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/why-life-expectancy-in-the-us-is-falling-202210202835

COVID-19, drug overdoses, and accidental injury accounted for about two-thirds of the decline in life expectancy, according to the 2022 report. Other reasons included heart and liver disease and suicides.

We look pretty good compared to Nauru.

 

That chart shows how good our health care is if you can afford it. Americans suffer higher death rates from smoking, obesity, homicides, opioid overdoses, suicides, road accidents, etc ...
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/why-life-expectancy-in-the-us-is-falling-202210202835

I no longer believe any statistics about anything from anyone.

Anyone using statistics is just trying to push a personal agenda.

 

I no longer believe any statistics about anything from anyone.

Anyone using statistics is just trying to push a personal agenda.

My favorite statistic: According to a statistic, 73.6% of all statistics are made up.

 

My favorite statistic: According to a statistic, 73.6% of all statistics are made up.

And the remainder are cherry-picked to support the narrative.

 

So ... if there's no truth in "official" statistics, who would happen to have the correct (or at least, the better approximation) data?

 

So ... if there's no truth in "official" statistics, who would happen to have the correct (or at least, the better approximation) data?

After the last 3 years, one has to be an idiot the believe any "official" statistics. There is no "correct" data -- only the agreed upon party line.

 

So ... if there's no truth in "official" statistics, who would happen to have the correct (or at least, the better approximation) data?

All you need is a bad apple to make good data stink. Statistics are not raw data, statistics are methods.

 

THE FABLE OF THE IMBECILE
"It is said that, in a small town, a group of people had fun with the local "imbecile", a poor man, of "little intelligence", who lived doing small tasks and begging.
Every day, some men would call the "stupid" man to the bar where they were and offer him to choose between two coins: one large, of lesser value, and the other smaller, worth five times as much.
He always took the biggest and the least valuable, which was a laugh for everyone.
One day, someone watching the group have fun with the "innocent" man, took him aside and asked him if he hadn't already realized that the bigger coin was worth less and he replied:
"I know, I'm not that stupid. It's worth five times less, but the day I choose the other one, it's game over and I won't be winning any more coins."
This story could end here, as a simple joke, but several conclusions can be drawn from this fable:
The first: those who look like idiots are not always idiots.
The second: who were the real idiots in the story?
The third: excessive ambition can ruin the source of income.
But the most interesting conclusion is:
We can be okay even when others don't have a good opinion of ourselves.
What matters is not what others think of us, but what each one thinks of himself.
The truly intelligent man is the one who appears to be an idiot in front of an idiot who appears to be intelligent!

 

 

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A loaded question.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/health/nu...getable-a-loaded-topic-for-debate/ar-AA1l9ipa
You Say Potato, I Say It’s a Vegetable—a Loaded Topic for Debate

 

Nightshade is a family of plants that includes tomatoes, eggplant, potatoes, and peppers. Tobacco is also in the nightshade family. Nightshades are unique because they contain small amounts of alkaloids.

Alkaloids are chemicals that are mainly found in plants. For something to be considered an alkaloid, it must contain nitrogen and affect the human body, usually from a medicinal perspective. Morphine and quinine are two examples of plant-based medicines that contain alkaloids.

Chris Voigt, the executive director of the Washington State Potato Commission, ate nothing but potatoes—and a little ketchup—for 60 days in 2010. He launched his all-potato diet in protest of the federal nutrition program for low-income women and children’s rule that allowed for the purchase of all fruits and vegetables—except the white potato. Voigt ate 20 potatoes a day to meet his goal of consuming 2200 calories.

Benefits of all potato diet.

“I ate every possible way you could cook them. Bake, fry, mash, roast—even juiced them,” Voight said. “Wouldn’t recommend potato juice.” He confessed to two accidental licks of peanut butter when making sandwiches for his kids. Over two months, Voigt said he lost 21 pounds, stopped snoring—according to his wife—and lowered his cholesterol.

And
Hmn? I didn’t know you could eat a potato diet only. I eat at least 2 a day mostly baked and hash browns.

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Hmn? I didn’t know you could eat a potato diet only. I eat at least 2 a day mostly baked and hash browns.

Potatoes' magic resides in their skins. It's the skin that's actually rich in nutrients. The rest is mostly starch.

 

 

It won’t be long before, thanks to electricity, men will only work six hours a day, five days a week. International radio broadcasts will be commonplace and millions will hear the finest orchestras and opera companies giving concerts right in their homes. The motion picture and the talking machine will be perfectly synchronized; while buildings and homes will be heated, cooled, and ventilated by electricity. Much of our cooking will be done on electric stoves equipped with a dial that will automatically start and stop the heating unit, so that housewives will be able to put their dinners in the stove, leave their houses, and come back and find their meals ready to put on the table. The labor of the farmer will be made lighter by electricity, and the power itself will be much cheaper than it is now, as well as available to many thousands who do not as yet enjoy its advantages. Now all this means that the world needs men who know something about electricity [and] of the creation and control of electric power. It needs all of us and will need more of us every year. The human race will always need electricians. Its very existence will depend on them. No one can limit the use of electricity. Electricity is energy and therefore can do anything energy can do. Electricity is energy and energy is the basis of civilization—and through it unknown horizons lie before us.

- Charles Proteus Steinmetz, 1915

 

It won’t be long before, thanks to electricity, men will only work six hours a day, five days a week. International radio broadcasts will be commonplace and millions will hear the finest orchestras and opera companies giving concerts right in their homes. The motion picture and the talking machine will be perfectly synchronized; while buildings and homes will be heated, cooled, and ventilated by electricity. Much of our cooking will be done on electric stoves equipped with a dial that will automatically start and stop the heating unit, so that housewives will be able to put their dinners in the stove, leave their houses, and come back and find their meals ready to put on the table. The labor of the farmer will be made lighter by electricity, and the power itself will be much cheaper than it is now, as well as available to many thousands who do not as yet enjoy its advantages. Now all this means that the world needs men who know something about electricity [and] of the creation and control of electric power. It needs all of us and will need more of us every year. The human race will always need electricians. Its very existence will depend on them. No one can limit the use of electricity. Electricity is energy and therefore can do anything energy can do. Electricity is energy and energy is the basis of civilization—and through it unknown horizons lie before us.

- Charles Proteus Steinmetz, 1915

Everything he predicted came true.

And many (of his political persuasion) want to lead us back to the dark ages.

 

It won’t be long before, thanks to electricity, men will only work six hours a day, five days a week. International radio broadcasts will be commonplace and millions will hear the finest orchestras and opera companies giving concerts right in their homes. The motion picture and the talking machine will be perfectly synchronized; while buildings and homes will be heated, cooled, and ventilated by electricity. Much of our cooking will be done on electric stoves equipped with a dial that will automatically start and stop the heating unit, so that housewives will be able to put their dinners in the stove, leave their houses, and come back and find their meals ready to put on the table. The labor of the farmer will be made lighter by electricity, and the power itself will be much cheaper than it is now, as well as available to many thousands who do not as yet enjoy its advantages. Now all this means that the world needs men who know something about electricity [and] of the creation and control of electric power. It needs all of us and will need more of us every year. The human race will always need electricians. Its very existence will depend on them. No one can limit the use of electricity. Electricity is energy and therefore can do anything energy can do. Electricity is energy and energy is the basis of civilization—and through it unknown horizons lie before us.

- Charles Proteus Steinmetz, 1915

The true electrical wizard.


Ford, whose electrical engineers couldn’t solve some problems they were having with a gigantic generator, called Steinmetz in to the plant. Upon arriving, Steinmetz rejected all assistance and asked only for a notebook, pencil and cot. According to Scott, Steinmetz listened to the generator and scribbled computations on the notepad for two straight days and nights. On the second night, he asked for a ladder, climbed up the generator and made a chalk mark on its side. Then he told Ford’s skeptical engineers to remove a plate at the mark and replace sixteen windings from the field coil. They did, and the generator performed to perfection.

Henry Ford was thrilled until he got an invoice from General Electric in the amount of $10,000. Ford acknowledged Steinmetz’s success but balked at the figure. He asked for an itemized bill.

Steinmetz, Scott wrote, responded personally to Ford’s request with the following:

Making chalk mark on generator $1.

Knowing where to make mark $9,999.

Ford paid the bill.