Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Catrike Ryder Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: Todays rant Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 10:09:39 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 76 Message-ID: <89r0lj5djklqp9c9a4bgg8eo2fickr4mu7@4ax.com> References: <8nmskjhjidhete1rcoacc721mopshf47sg@4ax.com> <5k40lj5f2tltc8e218sep3dgidple04ng9@4ax.com> <6lg0ljhbga4aejosak0pdhnvqt2piumnbg@4ax.com> <7eq0ljd263hfnh7fl5q2rve1ads5pfg0vc@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:09:42 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="be579126fe58848da3ad8b44078b5336"; logging-data="1006330"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+Uj7fCtsBWMkIeGMeO1YZbICFmO9b2BV0=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:LDY22FZ1g/7PozwFhZeQuC7iEMY= Bytes: 4175 On Wed, 04 Dec 2024 21:45:52 +0700, John B. wrote: >On Wed, 04 Dec 2024 08:50:21 -0500, Catrike Ryder > wrote: > >>On Wed, 04 Dec 2024 18:56:41 +0700, John B. >>wrote: >> >>>On Wed, 04 Dec 2024 04:05:42 -0500, Catrike Ryder >>> wrote: >>> >>>>On Tue, 3 Dec 2024 23:45:12 -0500, Frank Krygowski >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>>On 12/3/2024 8:12 PM, John B. wrote: >>>>>> On Tue, 3 Dec 2024 11:04:27 -0500, Frank Krygowski >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> On 12/3/2024 6:22 AM, John B. wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> You might ant to look at https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ >>>>>>>> it used numbers per population and is no longer updated. Details on >>>>>>>> site. >>>>>>>> Example >>>>>>>> World cases - 90,413 per 1 million >>>>>>>> U.S.A. cases - 333,985 >>>>>>>> World deaths - 889.4 per 1 million population >>>>>>>> U.S.A. deaths - 3642 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Data means nothing to those whose world view is dominated by their >>>>>>> political views. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> "That site could be biased!!! It's probably run by Socialists!!!" >>>>>>> >>>>>>> "Statistics can show anything they want them to show!!!" >>>>>>> >>>>>>> "How do we know those were COVID deaths? Those Americans could have died >>>>>>> of anything!!! ... Oh, but the U.S. medical system is _still_ the best >>>>>>> in the world!!!" >>>>>> >>>>>> And life expectance is number 48 (both sexes) in a list of the world's >>>>>> countries >>>>>> https://www.worldometers.info/demographics/life-expectancy/ >>>>> >>>>>Our tricycle rider is going to get mad at you for giving links he >>>>>doesn't like. >>>> >>>> >>>>No, this tricycle rider understands that there are many reasons other >>>>than health care for life expectancy to be lower in the USA, drugs, >>>>crime, poor eating, and other bad habits (getting fat) being some of >>>>them. >>>> >>>>USAians eat processed food with chemicals that color, preserve, and >>>>enhance taste are in a lot of the food on grocery shelves in the USA, >>>>but not in many other countries. Hopefully, RFK jr is going to work >>>>on that. >>> >>> >>>Err... you mean like putting salt on pork to preserve it? >> >>No, but they already limit the amount of ratshit in your cheerioes, so >>why not limit the amount of chemicals? > >I don't know about the breakfast cereal. I haven't eaten that since I >was in my teens Same here. I've eat Quaker instant oatmeal most mornings. No artificial crap. They now have one with less sugar, so I go with that one. Occasionally, I make omelets, and once or twice a week we go out for breakfast... where I usually, I get an omelet. I like omelets. -- C'est bon Soloman