The commentary of Fr. Haydock is super helpful when reading the Bible. Having a print copy is nice but an online copy comes in handy all those random moments when you just don’t have your personal library as a moment’s notice.

I hope there’s a detailed investigation that gets to the very top of this malicious spying apparatus. We know who it’ll lead to.

Works for me.

They aren’t measuring actual cancer rates, just the exposure to benzene and using that to estimate cancer risk. But compared to what? No cooking at all!

The real world is more complex. What’s the health exposure of eating out all the time or grilling (charcoal or propane)? How healthy are cooked foods vs. microwaved foods?

At best, this study suggests you should have good home ventilation.

Democrats should have had a real primary.

Can I be anti-everyone involved?

I feel like this was an ELI5 moment.

We didn’t oppose the fascists when the moment came because we heard they were going to lose

The encyclical was issued Spring 1937. Well before it was obvious the Nazis were going to lose. This also pre-dates events like the Kristallnacht.

This papal encyclical was not the first word against Nazism. It came after growing criticism of Nazism:

• In 1933, the Bishop of Münster, Clemens August Graf von Galen, publicly criticized the Nazis’ policies, particularly their treatment of the mentally ill.

• The German bishops issued a pastoral letter in 1934 that condemned the Nazi regime’s violations of human rights.

• Going back to 1922, GK Chesterton famously condemned what was brewing in Germany when he wrote “Eugenics and other Evils.”

You have to keep in mind that the Nazis used a new idea of science to create eugenics to justify much of their evil and this new science was at odds with Catholic teaching. Catholic teaching was perceived at the time as old, backward, superstitious, and an impediment to progress. To them, progress required the genocide of lesser people to make room for a superior race. The idea that God would become man and that man was a Jew was repulsive to these men.

This was an era of extremes. Nazism on one side and Communism on the other. The Church did not suddenly come to the right stance at the end of the war. They came to that stance as the evil arose and increased their opposition to it as the degree of evil became more apparent. Mit brennender Sorge represented a real risk to Catholics in Germany … a risk worth taking because the evil of the Nazis had grown significantly.

I would recommend focusing on a five or six lifts (don’t skip the legs) and hyper-focus on good form. I like lifts that focus on large muscle groups. Things like deadlifts, bench press, squats, etc. Be sure that you get very good at form before you test yourself with weight. Do this for a year or more before you change things up. Focus on big muscle groups before you get good at the small muscles. Try to develop very good form.

On a separate part of the day (several hours apart), do 45 - 60 minutes of cardio exercise. This should be “easy” cardio. Like a fast walk, slow job, bicycling, etc. and the pace you should set is one where, when you talk, it is very obvious your are exercising, but you could still carry on a conversation.

The reason why you don’t do that at the same time as your lifting is it’ll otherwise cut into your strength gains. Keeping it separate by a few hours reduces that risk.

Also, don’t forget that it is impossible to out-exercise a bad diet. Keep up your intake of lean protein and fiber. Avoid saturated fats and sugars. Healthy fats are unsaturated fats. Your body is a fire. The more fuel you put into it, the large it gets. The laws of thermodynamics support the idea that, if you want to lose weight, you need to eat fewer calories.

You seem to paper over the fact that the Church coming out against Hitler put the lives of many clergy at risk and invited a hateful wrath. The Church did not oppose Nazism because they had some insight that years later the Nazis would lose. They did it because it was the right thing to do.

Some of these things are important for national security reasons and so it will make sense to secure a percentage of the market, even if not economically sound, because there’s reasons other than profit that a country may want businesses in a certain sector to grow & survive.

Strong dollar, weak dollar: The value you want it to be depends on your policy goals. For example, do you want to drive exports or cheapen imports?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mit_brennender_Sorge

I first officially met my wife at a talk being given by Fr. Benedict Groeschel at a local university. Lots of good fruit from his work!

Just because nobody’s mentioned them yet and they are worth trying out: Solus & Void. Both are independent and rolling distributions.

Worse case scenario, park them in urban areas that Russia might invade and use them as fixed cannons.

They are more expensive and less efficient. Very few people use them.

According to the USDA, soda represents the most purchased item on food stamps. Candy represents the 11th most purchased item. Very few of the items on the top 20 list are very healthy. Vegetables and fruits are missing from the most altogether, even though these require no prep work before eating.

So this means Ukraine gets weapons?

The New York Times used to do all sorts of interesting maps and graphs–

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/08/us/census-race-map.html

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/07/08/upshot/how-the-year-you-were-born-influences-your-politics.html