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  • Science is already well perverted by trade groups hiring organizations to commission studies to start backwards from it is safe to put out flawed conclusions lobbyists get policy makers to accept as valid and allow big money their practices.

    Worse though it will become the system has been fundamentally broken since before most of us were born. Pfas, atrazine, roundup, a million other poisons are dumped and used systematically with the science of these cynical researchers to wave around.

    It is all getting worse already. Watersheds are near all sullied to some degree at this point, many of which are on centuries long water cycles, there is no unpoisoning many, just as water is becoming scarcer and overused more by monied interests.


  • 30 some states have votor sponsored ballot initiatives, and most of those ammend state constitutions so it takes supermajorities of often 3/4 of state lawmakers to change. Some red ones increased pass threshold to 60 pc though.

    But all those states need ranked choice voting, and giving the drawing of districts to an independant body to ungerrymander. Also voting rights laws. Aforementioned states increasing pass threshold on referendums and making it harder to get on ballot with signatures could themselves be changed back with a referendum.

    Even red states these issues play. There are other ways polits can jam these up though, election commissions that approve initiative after signature verification have been known to improperly throw out them for wording, as michigan’s did on mj legalization 2x before one got through. Or forbidding wolf hunt by vote lawmakers just passed it again coupled with a budget component making it un referendumable.













  • I previously quit for a decade almost completely, drinking like you a couple here and there, by restarting running distance, also using kratom to help get started until the endorphins take over.

    Physical exertion and alcohol do not go well together, I wanted to go running not drink.

    I restarted drinking homebrew by choice just last year. Working on maple wines and other herb infused drinks, with syrup I make, until I start malting barley and growing hops to make ipa. But I do not get falling down drunk and am happy regardless but I choose to get buzzed lately if at home, I may mostly transition to traditional herbals soon though.


  • Is this a known medical condition, alcohol intolerance?

    I know enzymes in the body break down and remove it, and certain people genetically have more or less depending.

    Cultures that have been drinking for thousands of years have more of the enzymes, those that just started have way less like the natives in america and I think australia but idk on that. Basically the entire old world has more of the alcohol metabolizing enzymes from eurasia to africa. Not sure of inuits and far northern tribes but if they milked animals in prehistory they probably fermented milk for kefir.

    Also women metabolize alcohol less than men due to these enzymes.

    So the same amount of alcohol can have wildly more or less pronounced inebriation even before taking tolerance into account.