Oxidative stress happens every time you exercise. People need exercise to have better health. Oxidative stress is actually a necessary part of a healthy life.
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When we and other known organisms take energy from food we are actually taking molecules with higher-energy electrons, converting them into the high-energy molecules our cellular processes can use to do make cell things happen, and producing very similar molecules with lower-energy electrons. Rather than infinitely accumulating these molecules, our cells dump low-energy electrons onto another molecule that is amenable and thereby convert into a molecule ready to accept high-energy molecules from food (with a bunch of steps in between).
For us, as aerobes, the electron acceptor at the end of respiration is oxygen.
Oxygen as an electron receptor is newer than several others. Anaerobes came first. It was only after photosynthesis had produced a ton of atmospheric oxygen that it became a viable option, really. But it O2 is a comparatively good electron acceptor because the process in which it accepts those electrons allows cells to grab quite a bit of energy from that last step. It is fairly "electron needy" compared to earlier electron acceptors.
So, basically, aerobes get more energy per food unit (sugar molecule) than the vast majority of other creatures. You need it to live because it is an essential part of how your cells get food, namely, how it can recycle molecules at the last step of the respiration cycle.
The dietary antioxidant fad is mostly BS. They're supposedly meant to counteract oxidative stress and specifically free radicals. Both of those things are part of a healthy life and you would die without them. So any real impact is not so simple as "just counteract those bad things". Dietary antioxidants don't always lead to higher intracellular antioxidant levels, either.
Some dietary antioxidants so lead to higher intracellular levels and may help buffer oxidative stress (like from exercise) but there isn't much evidence that it doesn't just boil down to "eating your vegetables is good for you".
As a start, follow the 3-2-1 rule:
- At least 3 copies of the data.
- On at least 2 different devices / media.
- At least 1 offsite backup.
I would add one more thing: invest in a process for verifying that your backups are working. Like a test system that is occasionally restored to from backups.
Let's say what you care about most is photos. You will want to store them locally on a computer somewhere (one copy) and offsite somewhere (second copy). So all you need to do is figure out one more local or offsite location for your third copy. Offsite is probably best but is more expensive. I would encrypt the data and then store on the cloud for my main offsite backup. This way your data is private so it doesn't matter that it is stored in someone else's server.
I am personally a fan of Borg backup because you can do incremental backups with a retention policy (like Macs' Time Machine), the archive is deduped, and the archive can be encrypted.
Consider this option:
- Your data raw on a server/computer in your home.
- An encrypted, deduped archive on that sane computer.
- That archive regularly copied to a second device (ideally another medium) and synchronized to a cloud file storage system.
- A backup restoration test process that takes the backups and shows that they restores important files, the right number, size, etc.
If disaster strikes and all your local copies are toast, this strategy ensures you don't lose important data. Regular restore testing ensures the remote copy is valid. If you have two cloyd copies, you are protected against one of the providers screwing up and removing data without you knowing and fixing it.
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You're probably fine so long as it doesn't have moisture!
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Is it a "best by" date or a real "expires on" date?
Powders like this only go bad after being exposed to moisture. If properly sealed they will last decades.
OWS was not well-organized. Palestinian solidarity groups are doing better. The key difference is in being able to coherently make informed decisions as a group and then act on them as one.
Every OWS encampment was basically 5-30 orgs all doing their own thing and then fighting about horizontalism and being naive about how the cops and City Hall would treat them. We need to be able to act like 1-3 orgs (even if there are more), politically educate so we can avoid mistakes, and create good structure as early as possible so that expectations are set and time isn't wasted and bad decisions are avoided.
The US left is basically slowly relearning the basics of organizing. Get involved and make it go faster!
I mean that I can't read your mind, and it doesn't enhance discussion for me to assume what you meant.
Did you know that if you don't understand something, you can ask questions? Nobody requires being combative or dismissive.
Wait, so you are comparing the two, contradicting your previous comment?
The two what? If you can answer this question correctly, you will understand what I am actually comparing. If one of the two things is genocide, you will have failed to understand. Feel free to ask questions.
tangent stuff
Feel free to argue about it with someone else. I have no interest in arguing about what Dems in general are doing, I'm answering specific claims about Walz.
Your idea of what a tangent is is entirely opaque, including whatever you think you are "quoting". It feels like you are talking to yourself, really. Please make a reattempt by quoting what I actually said and then telling me why you think it is a tangent. Or by replying with enough context for me to have any idea what you're talking about.
Yes, this is exactly what you've done, due to black and white thistated
You seem to have missed the point. Can you tell me what my point was? I also said that it is possible to fail to see patterns due to over-contextualization. Why was I saying that? I think I stated it directly.
You're confused about the situation. I don't think we're getting anywhere, so let's agree on "Fuck MPD".
Perhaps you could deign to tell me how I am confused.
It can be hard to tell who exactly is responsible for which actions, because a lot of reporting just says " police"
It seems that you might be the confused one? My knowledge does not come from a Wikipedia article, but you are revealing that this is your level of understanding.
Interestingly, the most objectionable thing that I remember (the "light 'em up" thing)
Remember from what? Were you ever on the street? Anywhere near Washington and 35th? Do you have contacts with those who engaged? Did you watch weeks of footage? Anywhere? I wouldn't ask but you've leaned pretty heavily on alleging your personal recollection and the implication that you are local but I get the sense that you were just a remote observer like most people that didn't actually follow very closely. Being tens or hundreds of miles away whole watching TV news would not make you an authority of any kind, just so you know.
I was picking the most relevant bits, as otherwise conversation tends to explode in size exponentially.
Define relevant. My impression is that you ignored the direct challenges. I would rather not go back and repeat myself. That would be silly, don't you think? But if you just ignore the inconvenient statements we won't really get anywhere.
So, don't you remember any of the things I have listed? Do you not see the connection between Walz calling in the National Guard to crush the George Floyd protests and state violence? Or in the crushing of the protests? Do you not understand that tear gas and rubber bullets and arrests are state violence? Do you not understand that a lack of consequences for cops, soldiers, etc is a green light in response to "bad behavior" (it is actually the desired behavior, hence a lack of consequence). Your memory of events is good, right? Hence the questioning of whether I am local and an appeal to how well you remember all of this, eh?
These are the things you apparently think are irrelevant. Oh dear.
Words do matter. I suspect you're not from the area and was sardonically calling you out for hyperbole that you're repeating on the internet.
I don't feel called out.
I have no idea how you're not comparing those two, but trying to argue what you meant is pointless.
Having made zero attempt to seek understanding, you are now dismissively declaring it impossible. Maybe you should make an attempt to understand? Try asking questions? Share what your thought process is?
It certainly looks like you're trivializing actual genocide by mentioning it at all in this context.
Then you don't know what it means to trivialize genocide. There is a parallel in the state violence I'm referring to and it is often literally the same people engaging in it and receiving it. I am not comparing the genocide itself to anything else at the moment. If you belabor that point any further without even attempting to understand, I will have to assume you are here in bad faith.
Whatever Dems in general are up to. I'm just saying I'm not interested in arguing about any of that, regardless of how much I agree with you or not.
If this is meant to be an example of where I went in a tangent, you will need to be much more specific. Like saying what I actuallh did and how it is tangential. Talking about self-identifying liberals is not itself a tangent, that's who my very first comment addressed and it was directly related to the content of the article posted.
I don't think we're going to convince each other on the issue over the internet, but IMO you have a marginally less black-and-white view of what happened than the Fall of Minneapolis people.
There is nothing inherently correct or good about nuance or complexity or wrong or bad about black and white. What matters is whether the idea communicated is true. Every topic can be broken down into more and more detail and context until one can no longer identify patterns. One can also take a topic and completely miss the important factors because they have arrived at a false, simple answer.
So... I don't get anything from you repeatedly taking about nuance. If there is a salient contradictory point about what I've said, I await it.
If you insist on saying that the situation was black, then you're wrong. It wasn't white either, but that's just because your worldview can't handle the nuance. As one example of the nuance, yes journalists got arrested, but that was not with Walz's approval
The following quote doesn't even say that it was without approval, as if that even matters. Was every cop involved in that fired and brought up on charges for first amendment violations? Then the signal is: no consequences, keep doing that. Looking at how the cops and national guard behaved, it is also very clear what the nature of their preparation was and how they were overseen. One minute past curfew and the tear gas and rubber bullets come out. Attempts to kettle. Seemingly Indiscriminate shots, including at people running away. These are the personnel overseen by the state and this is state violence. They were also not called back as a result of any of this. On the contrary, their numbers were increased so as to "clear the streets". You can cut to the quick easily if you just lay attention to the actual actions taken and not just the PR.
As someone with a clear personal recollection you are surely aware of this.
I'm not saying he was perfect, but I would go so far as to say that I bet you wouldn't have done better in his shoes.
I would have done infinitely better.
Anyways, you ignored about 2/3 of what I said. Why is that?
Do you live in the Twin Cities?
I don't reveal my location because snitches lead to terrorism against folks like myself that struggle for liberation.
I remember the National Guard coming in well. What exactly did they do that you find objectionable?
Aside from shutting down the George Floyd protests with tear gas and rubber bullets, beating people, and coordinating with cops to "clear the streets", detain journalists, and make mass arrests? The use of state patrol officers? The curfews?
Are you unfamiliar with these things? You sound like you don't understand the connection between the deployment of the national guard, the state patrol, curfews, etc and shutting down the George Floyd protests. I ask because you have appealed to your alleged personal recollection and presumed location.
I'm not claiming that everything was peachy, but calling what happened "state violence against protesters against racial oppression and genocide" is easy to do on the internet where words don't matter.
What happened in Minnesota re: George Floyd protests was state violence against protesters against racial oppression. State violence against protesters against the genocide in Gaza is ongoing.
Personally, I think words do matter, but you are free to expound on your postmodern nihilist philosophy.
You've got a lot of tangents in your comment that aren't really related to Walz
Such as? If there are a lot I would have expected you to name at least one.
but comparing what happened with the MN National Guard to what's happening in Palestine is absurd.
I didn't compare those things.
I'd expect someone from hexbear to realize how fucked up it is to trivialize that genocide.
Good thing I didn't do that. However, those eliding Dem politicians' complicity for the sake of cheerleading election year horse race politics are certainly doing that in their own way.
IMO it's more nuanced than that. Has he actually claimed anything about cracking skulls
Walz sent in the National Guard and Dems in general have been cheerleading cops, even having one speak at the DNC (but no Palestinians). There is actually less nuance, it's just full-blown support for state violence against protesters against racial oppression and genocide.
I don't think it's bad to respond to someone yelling "he did nothing!" with "actually I did".
I do because the thing that was done was bad and should not be supported. Here's another parallel: remember how Dems were shedding crocodile tears for kids in cages under Trump? Imagine if they criticized Biden for not doing "enough " at the border and I stead Dems said, "actually we kept the detention centers and ramped up illegal deportations for asylum seekers and tried to push through a harsh border bill but the GOP voted against it!" Oh wait they also did that. Would, "actually I did put kids in cages" seem like a good gotcha?
What do you think he did wrong vs what principles?
Who? Walz? He called in the national guard to shut down BLM protests, is part of the Pro-cop Dem reactionary movement, and is now complicit in the genocide of Gaza. I don't expect him to have principals, he is a cynical political animal like his peers.
I expect the people that had Black Lives Matter signs in their windows and a shred of sympathy for Palestinian kids to recognize the inconsistency when it is pointed out and, maybe some day, develop a coherent political understanding.
Cracking down on the George Floyd protests was actually a bad thing, liberals. You don't have to contradict everything that Republicans say you did badly on and double down like, "we didn't let the city burn, we cracked skulls!" Allow yourselves to have actual principles.
Why does it need to be a scripting (by this I assume interpreted) language? For your requirements - particularly lightweight distribution - a precompiled binary seems more appropriate. Maybe look into Go, which is a pretty simple language that can be easily compiled to native binaries.
Trump isn't a fascist. In action he is actually a pretty standard reactionary liberal. You will notice that Biden has continued the salient policies that made liberals call him a fascist, such as extreme and horrible border policies (Dems actually outflanked the GOP on this from the right), anti-China policy, and extending militarism (like maximum pressure on Russia via Ukraine).
He's mostly just openly racist whereas the political class usually wraps itself in polite jargon bullshit before it fucks with a bunch of brown people.
I know of local Palestinian women that vote shame for Harris. They have undermined various attempts at engaging in more militant coalition actions and rely exactly on this kind of logic: "we are Palestinian, you should do what we say, you are [white, asian, brown] and should not have a voice in this decision".
It is important to flip our understanding of identity away from how it is used (in a tokenizing way) by liberals. Solidarity requires that we investigate and understand, and this will require listening to people of a given demographic or nationality and developing ourselves and our organizations accordingly. If we do a good job, we should be able to recruit people falling into that bucket into our own orgs or otherwise be in coalition with them where they are in other radical (but not liberal) orgs. An org must embed in community to the extent possible and use this embedding to create relevant actions and education for building our collective power. A lack of people from X demographic is a suggestion that this may not be happening, though there may be good reasons for this (e.g. there may be literally two people from Sudan in your town, who says either of them must be interested in the left?).
In addition, this line of thought ("listen to Palestinian women") has a consequence of inaccurately flattening a large and diverse group of people. I also know Palestinian women that hate Harris, both liberal and anarchist and socialist women. Some of those women are critical of bourgeoia electoralism itself. So one must ask, "which Palestinian women should we listen to?", because they disagree with one another about many things. In addition, this line of logic will inevitably invite a a critique of what it means to be Palestinian. I don't think it is a coincidence that the particularly disruptive liberal Palestinian women I'm thinking of have been in the US since they were children and are vaguely PMC. Nor that the most radical Palestinian women are more recent immigrants in more diverse employment. It's best not to even have those discussions most of the time, though.
Instead, we should bring a strong understanding and develop the organizing skills to work towards our goals. Skills like organizing groups to form lines and leveraging cogent rhetoric. And, of course, do what we can to authentically embed in community. To be a trusted quantity.
The main ways you're exposed to microplastics is through ingestion and breathing it in.
To limit ingestion, yes the main thing to do is to avoid food and drink that comes in plastic containers. Reducing your consumption of processed foods will help with this. Eating mostly produce is a simpler way to approach this. Even though produce may often be transported in plastic, if you wash it before consumption you'll have done pretty well. Ideally you would also have a reverse osmosis filter at home, as your water probably has microplastics as well (but less than bottled water!).
To limit breathing it in, yes avoid frequent exposure to busy roads. They are often full of tire dust that is getting kicked up. This is cumulative, though. Walking by a busy street once is no big deal. Walking along one twice a day may add up.
Overall, however, to address microplastics we will have to control the production of plastics and the use of plastics in the first place. For example, there would be a lot less tire dust if we used more rail to get around. And there would be less need for bottled water if water fountains were ubiquitous and so were standardized stainless steel water bottles. In addition, we could use biodegradable plastics for more packaging so that they don't accumulate in bodies or the environment.
But this last point, despite being the only real solution, will literally require the overthrow of capitalism. I'm for this and am happy to talk about it more, but it is a lot.
I think they more commonly say, "what is wrong with my advisor and why did I choose grad school?"
I think the empire might actually die if it tried to invade Iran
You need oxidants to live. Issues stemming from oxidants are about levels of free radicals getting too high in the wrong places for too long.
Getting good sleep, eating a balanced diet, reducing stress, and getting enough exercise are the best ways to reduce the chances of such a scenario. Realistically, these things are also just a way to maximize wellness and health overall and it is probably not very useful for most people to think of this in terms of oxidation.