The only way I will ever watch this would be during hextube/tankietube movie night. Even an attempt to watch this alone (or worse, in the company of liberal family) would just result in me seething and then rage-quitting the attempt. But if I have y'all to point and laugh at it, and seethe along with me, it might actually be kind of fun.
edit: or what Magician said. I didn't know that was a thing.
You're right that fasting is beneficial in part because it temporarily cuts off the intake all the poisonous shit in a typical diet, but there are all kinds of other very real physiological and evolutionary reasons that people feel better and get health benefits from fasting. It's something that has been well known and commonly reported since long before microplastics and all the other modern poisons we're exposed to. Fasting is one of those things you can find throughout history and in all sorts of different cultures as a remedy and spiritual practice... and has been confirmed by modern medicine.
Another thing to keep in mind is that fasting actually wouldn't help a person feel better with respect to a lot of those poisons which are more of a slow, long-term detriment, where briefly stopping their intake before starting again wouldn't change your immediate experience. Since you mentioned lead, if a person has been getting small amounts of lead over long periods of time, suddenly not getting any lead for a couple days isn't going to make them feel any better in large part because lead gets deposited in the bones and will keep poisoning someone even after they stop consuming it. Lead also causes at least some irreversible neuronal damage, especially to people exposed in childhood which makes it so fucking insidious and evil that our overlords intentionally continue to allow it to be a problem in poor and minority communities. Fasting isn't going to make those lead-poisoned kids or the adults they become suddenly feel less lead-poisoned. But it might make them feel better for other reasons.
Yeah, that's not the reason. The gas that causes flatulence has essentially nothing to do with swallowing air. If you want to nerd out on her the next time she says that, see my response to CTHlurker.
That's pretty normal (but not true for everyone because of the uniqueness and individuality of our gut micriobiomes). The first thing to know is that your bowels aren't actually empty for quite a while after you stop eating, there's still plenty in there to process. For most people, what kind of marks the end of what's left of the food in there is when they have diarrhea about 2-5 days into a true fast. Even then, your gut lining is still constantly growing, dying, and shedding, just like your skin, and fasting can make that shedding happen faster and more efficiently. It's literally exfoliation for the gut, but that's not really relevant until it's been a few days since you've eaten anything.
What actually causes gas, as you probably know, is the bacteria in your gut processing what's in there. Your gas is the product of their digestion. They're still doing their thing to the remaining food (which again, there is still a substantial amount of for days into a fast) and your exfoliating intestines even when you're fasting. The thing to understand here is that when you fast, your gut micriobiome will change in response to the changed conditions it's experiencing. This takes some time to balance out, since your micriobome is an entire ecosystem of competing species adapting to that relatively sudden change. This temporary imbalance is the biggest (but not the only) reason for the increase in gas when you start fasting, as bacteria types that used to be in the minority are now in overabundance, like an algae bloom in a pond. People who eat beans all the time usually don't get gassy from eating a bean burrito for dinner since their microbiome is adapted to that, but someone with an unadapted gut will get major gas from the same burrito. Fasting can actually be a fairly similar scenario in terms of the sudden change.
Long story short, there's so much more going on here than just the volume of food you ate. Hope that helps.
Same, only I do it once every few months but the fasts are longer. Water fasting for a week+, when I'm not too depressed to make the commitment in the first place, does wonders for depression and anxiety. And weight. And general sense of well-being. There's good reason so many religions incorporate fasting as a spiritual practice. But rich bourgsie fucks will take, twist, and ruin anything cool like that, making it trite and part of their self-absorbed narcissism. Just like the silicon valley techbros did with psychedelics like DMT.
There should be text with a link right beneath the video that says "Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification" that will make it audible.
It's true, there's nothing technically wrong with the part quoted in the OP, but the context shows the point they're actually trying to make, which is that Iran is bad and so was their retaliation against Israel.
Watching people stumble over themselves in a rush to praise the Iranian regime for engaging in inter-state conflict that is unrelated to and has no material effect on the genocide in Gaza is predictable but still a bummer.
To begin with, it's just plain wrong to say that Iran's strike against the entity had no material benefit to people in Gaza, who got the most significant reprieve from the constant aerial bombardment of their homes in 6 months. And that's just the immediate effects to say nothing about how well this exposed the vulnerability of the paper tiger and what that means to other regional forces going forward. More to the point though, this person doesn't understand or care about anti-imperialism because they're too blinded by their "all states are inherently evil" dipshittery. It's the same kind of babybrained take as "Russia is just as bad as NATO." They said a lot more garbage but it's not worth getting into and bleepbloopbop covered some of it already.
This is only sorta-kinda true. Depending on your house and the species in question, a lot of spiders and insects you might find in it have just come in from the outside, making their way under door jams or all sorts of not completely sealed cracks and crevices. I often (relatively speaking) capture and toss out wetas in my place that I know just squeezed in from outside. It also doesn't really matter how many generations they've been there as long as it hasn't been so many that they've actually evolved to habitate in your house specifically. What matters in that case is the individual which may have been set up in such a way in your house that yeah, chucking it outside will be a death sentence. But that's really variable depending on the species in question, the conditions outside, where you end up putting it outside (example: out in the open where it will immediately get got by a predator, or in the kind of underbrush it's naturally suited for anyway), and all sorts of other things.
This trick ain't gonna work for everyone for the fourth time, it didn't even work for the second.
I think the trick will work just fine, and that it has been working just fine. Maybe not for everyone, but it's not meant to work for everyone. Look at how well they sold their proxy war in Ukraine back when they still wanted to. You're right that "anyone who is informed by analysis" will see through it immediately, but they're not the ones the propaganda drive is meant to ~~convince~~ reassure. I think it's pretty clear that most people in the west, even including a high percentage of those with real power, are informed much more by ideology and the prevailing paradigm in their circles than any kind of analytical or even honest reckoning of what's really happening. Or am I misunderstanding you?
Unless you're cleaning your cat's litter box on the counter you prepare your food, nope. Eating pork is the main way that people get infected.
indeed they are, and they're full of cringe.
I would bet anything that whoever made this garbage doesn't even know that's the Pakistani flag. They simply saw a star and crescent and thought "this means Muslims" and copy-pasted it in.