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Comment · 21 days ago
>Current guidelines are 50-100% higher.

Eh. If you're an American, maybe. They're a real outlier and it seems like bro science to me.

Canada recommends 0.8g/kg/day.

https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/food-nutriti...

A diet put together by Lancet and friends comes out to 82g/10MG, which works out to 1.11 g/kg for an 80 kg man who eats 2600 kcal/day. So their recommendation is obviously below that, and therefore not 50% higher than 0.8g/kg/day.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Content-of-macronutrient...

The UK recommends about 55g/day for men and 45g/day for women, which is under 0.8 g/kg.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

Australia recommends about 0.8 g/kg/day.

https://www.eatforhealth.gov.au/nutrient-reference-values/nu...

France recommends 0.83 g/kg/day (section 2.2.1)

https://www.anses.fr/fr/system/files/NUT2012SA0103Ra-2.pdf

Some of those guidelines are old (if that matters), but some of them aren't. The EAT-Lancet diet was designed quite recently.

Even if the American numbers are right, just swap the white bread for whole wheat bread and you'll hit the target. It remains dead easy to get adequate protein no matter what guidelines you use.

Comment · 21 days ago
Comment · 23 days ago
Nancy Pelosi is not a criminal. It's perfectly legal for her to trade stocks. It shouldn't be, but it is.

Trump is a fraudster, rapist, thief, and traitor. He is a criminal of the basest sort.

It's a mistake to put them in the same category. It's a matter of kind, not a matter of degree.

Comment · 23 days ago
I have always been surprised by the pettiness and vulgarity of corruption. Sometimes Trump tries to steal $10,000,000,000 from the IRS, but sometimes he hawks branded Bibles for $59.99. I don't understand why someone with more money than he could spend in a dozen lifetimes regularly humiliates himself for a few grand.
Comment · 23 days ago
Maybe. I haven't seen that proven. I can easily imagine that making the US technology sector function more efficiently leads to higher employment. The fact that the US is home to all of the big tech companies is a boon to American employees, and this form of immigration is a boon to the big tech companies.
Comment · 23 days ago
>the second is covered in the most basic college economics courses.

You realize the courses don't stop at basic, right?

It is well-established that immigration (legal and otherwise) is good for the economy overall. Skilled immigrants are good for US businesses.

https://kentclarkcenter.org/surveys/permanent-residency-rule...

Immigrants start businesses at twice the rate of native-born Americans.

https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/116727/documents/... (page 1, though the citation has gone down the memory hole)

Some immigrants are complementary to native-born American workers rather than being in competition.

https://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/page-one-economics/2...

Immigrants spend money and grow the market for goods produced by native-born Americans.

All these things are good for domestic labor. There is no reason to believe immigration is bad for American workers. Not everything is zero-sum, and that's basic economics.

Comment · 24 days ago
>Who actually considers a loop a branch?

The machine?

Comment · 26 days ago
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