Wrong. Relationships were more important for survival back then. A person that can't form close relationships among the group is a liability

No, you're being way over the top. The title says it MAY be linked to those things. It's not even remotely a definitive, misleading claim

I have never been to America, but I hear the space you have there is vast.

in Britain, we have 1/6th of the American population, crammed into 1/56th of your land mass, so we still have almost all of our population within a 4 hour drive of one another. in the UK, I'd definitely say it was different to the states, purely because our cities are so much more compact that we can get mostly everything we need within walking distance of our homes, but people just refuse to walk a couple of miles if they can drive there instead, and when it gets to the stage where they're driving to the fish and chip shop at the bottom of the road, it's hard to avoid concluding laziness is endemic here. the UK also have the fattest population in Europe, which Is odd because we are some of the most densely populated cities in Europe.

Here's a cheat code for bullshit - just match up two mysteries and imply/state they are related

Examples:

• gut biome is a mystery & autism is a mystery therefore autism is caused by the gut biome!
• microplastics are a mystery & gut biome is a mystery therefore microplastics but impact gut biome
• quantum particles are a mystery & consciousness is a mystery therefore consciousness must be a quantum effect
• quantum particles are a mystery and autism is a mystery therefore autism is caused by quantum entanglement

So why is it such a big deal now? Why can't people collectively just accept weirdness as a character trait or something and move on? you know, like the old times.

Perhaps it's the rising standards along with education. Being literate isn't enough anymore?

Because the high caloric food that humans naturally crave is now cheap and readily available.

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Or “lazy” or “ill-disciplined” ☹️

I read this book earlier last year and it really put perspective onto the time I spent in Afghanistan.

I recommend the book, it's a bit more extensive. The documentary was a real dissapointment honestly.

To be fair JSOC has plenty of legitimate scandals on their hands. Talon Anvil for the army side, canoeing and whatnot on the navy side. I didn’t watch that documentary or read the book but I wouldn’t say that JSOC is some kind of squeaky clean organization. They definitely have a high bar for entry but I think people forget that war is war while others get a little too comfortable with that fact.

Are you serious?

Poster says we have far less diversity and choice in our diets, and we can only find twenty vegetables at the store to buy.

I said that is far, far more variety than ancient people had.

Why is this difficult for you?

Yeah I watched this doc as naive teenager and was shocked and angry afterwards. But then over the years I learnt jsoc isn’t the secret organization he made it to be (let alone their leader at the time General McRaven who gave that famous university commencement speech that has like 10million views on YouTube now).

Why don’t you watch it? You may come away feeling differently.

Sorry but what is the point you’re trying to make by the increased variety then, if not the more diverse nutritional component?

Internalized imperialism go brrrr

God watch over that man. his life must be in incredible danger.

I am not trying to be opaque. I just don’t want to mischaracterize anything and I hope people who are interested, actually watch the documentary. I use the word “internal” because the theory is that the rise in C-sections are causing infants to not have the interaction with the Microbiome from the birth canal, and it could affect them in unseen ways.

Ok, but this has nothing to do with the variety argument at all.

I feel like I need more background. It's an interesting new field. I don't really understand the internal microbiome and what factors affect it. Does the gut microbiome change the internal one?

I think the point is that broadly speaking the nutritional value of say corn or wheat or whatever vegetable you choose is diminishing over time as we selectively breed or modify the genetic makeup to fulfill our greatest desire… yield for profit

As is Reddit

Scahill also helped launder Sy Hersh's lies. He was briefly useful as a reporter when he broke the Blackwater stories. Since then, he's been all-antiamerican all-the-time. Very similar trajectory as Snowden.

Thanks for sharing your experience. The title of the post says “…may be linked…” not “…is linked...” And since you haven’t watched it yet, you may learn something!

I find microplastics and forever chemicals a much more compelling argument for a cause, but the truth is that its undoubtedly a combination of many factors