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I for one am not so sure that a common law society needs a legislature

On Political Shifts in the US

Inflation/debt drive radicalization and may just collapse the whole thing regardless of who votes for whom.

Democrats are revolving from liberal-influenced welfare statism to anti-liberal gender communism.

Black middle class is already shifting to GOP.

GOP is revolving from neoconservatism to "New Right" blend of patriotism, libertarianism and (paleo)conservatism.

Once Trump is gone, moneyed and intellectual WASPS mostly settle in New Right GOP.

Neocon Jews & WASPs are already settling with Dems.

Working class will remain swing voters as politicians offer goodies but a broke federal government fails to deliver.

DNC will intensify its control of money and broadcast media, fueling further gender communist radicalization.

Democrats go totalitarian or lose elections and reform/collapse.

GOP remains middle class, but GOP fortunes depend on whether the working-class alliance can be maintained after Trump.

lol I'm giving them as an example of a food that is probably safe

but yeah, I don't want to jinx it for you ;)

yeah, I've avoided constitutional silver and instead got rounds and bars primarily for this reason

Which one is your blood type?

Based on WebMD it seems type O & B are both told to avoid plants which are common irritants (like grains and beans)

https://www.webmd.com/diet/a-z/blood-type-diet

I agree with avoiding those things. I would recommend everyone do so, though, not just people with type O or B blood.

As to how likely it is to be a coincidence: those two types roughly match my conception of a healthy human diet while type A and AB don't. So about 50/50. More generally, the odds of a coincidence are about 1 in 4 (assuming there's no correlation at all between blood type and optimal diet and remaining agnostic about what constitutes optimal diet).

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I go to NYC several times per year for one reason or another. For work, for friends, etc.

Part of me likes it, but part of me gets fucking frustrated multiple times per day every time I am here. (Sorry, this is a Nostr Lyn post).

There are plenty of neat things in NYC that I can’t do at the same scale/quality elsewhere in the world due to the network effects around the city (broadway shows, financial district, etc), and yet after a day or two all I want to do is leave. It feels claustrophobic on multiple fronts.

People all have different vibes but for me, major cities are fun to visit but smaller secondary cities or suburbs around cities are so much smoother to live in. I can’t imagine living all the time in a major city.

The same applies to Cairo, to which I have been in far more total days than NYC. I like Cairo’s satellite cities but not Cairo itself other than going briefly.

Every time I am in a major city I am immediately reminded of the luxury of space, nature, quiet, parking spaces, and chillness of not being in a city. Everything I take for granted normally is now a luxury to fight for in a city.

Even politics are largely correlated to urbanization. If you live in rural or suburban areas, you likely drive around in your own car, you might have some land, etc. Your interaction with the local government exists in a moderate sense. The potential weakness is that you are more likely to always be around those who are similar to you, which minimizes your worldliness.

In contrast to all that, in major cities, everything is so tightly packed, and people rely on public transportation, and even a momentary lapse of government services (eg trash collection) becomes an acute catastrophe. But on the beneficial side, people are around those who are different than them more often, which breeds worldliness.

That’s why I tend to like the zone between rural and major cities. I like secondary cities or suburbs of major cities, because I get a bit of both worlds. The density and interconnectedness of major cities briefly, and the space and self-autonomy outside of them most of the time.

And yet I was born and raised in that sort of inbetween state, and so maybe it is just my upbringing.

What about you? Can anyone sell me the idea of NYC or other major cities that I am missing, especially in the remote work era? I see glimpses of how it could be attractive if you are used to it and know every detail of your neighborhood, but it really does feel limiting to me.

those minor cities would have been major cities for most of human history