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  • No. That is far, far below sufficient. An example of a rebellion is when the confederacy decided slaves were more important than unity and literally attempted to form another government. There are many other examples of rebellion you can draw from history, and from fiction that all seek usurping power and wholesale replacement of the existing government. That is a whole different ballgame than harassing some cosplaying nazis that are overstepping the bounds of civility and getting butthurt that people aren’t licking their boots.



  • Extraordinary rendition is absolutely illegal, especially when it is done without due process and against a court’s order such as the case of Garcia or the dozens of other people flown to CECOT. “Just following orders” isn’t a defense. And I’m sorry to say, but as a federal law enforcement officer, they specifically chose to put themselves and their families on the line for their country. That’s why they are paid and trained and supplied with all manner of paramilitary equipment. What cowards to hide behind masks. They should be proud of the job they are doing and be recognized for it since it is totally within the confines of the law, right? And even more so, to hide behind their families’ “safety” as if that absolves them from their shit behavior. No masks for law enforcement. They are public servants and must follow the law.



  • is by definition a rebellious act.

    This is conflating “rebellious” with a rebellion. Rebellion is an uprising that resists and is organized against one’s government. The scale and degree matter, here. Your definition would turn any civil disobedience into a “rebellion” which is farcical on its face.




  • 10 U.S. Code § 12406 - National Guard In Federal Service

    (3): […] Orders for these purposes shall be issued through the governors of the states

    Trump specifically did not engage with Newsom in commandeering CA National Guard troops.

    18 U.S. Code § 1385 - Use of Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Space Force as posse comitatus

    Whoever, except in cases and under the circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Air Force, or the Space Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.

    Using the military for ICE enforcement is against the law.

    Want more information? https://youtu.be/zJ7Dfca4_y8



  • You absolutely correct. Breakdown of the law has been a problem in the US since the hard bank right into fascism. But I am way less bothered by throwing bricks at the cosplaying nazis and way more bothered by the unitary executive bullshit. We should have a president, which should be a glorified administrator working for the legislature. Not a king that ignores the law. If we need to burn some of the oligarchy’s shit to remind the orange asshole of this, so be it.








  • Yup, I’m aware that bioavailability is a thing. For people trying to gain weight, this is their primary problem. I know people who have had gastric bypass and they have all sorts of issues with nutrient absorption. But that ultimately doesn’t change the methodology here. If you are tracking your intake and your output and notice a discrepancy between your prediction and your result (what the scale says), then you still have a measurement problem. It is still CICO and always will be CICO regardless of the modifications necessary to fully account for the differences between your prediction and measurement because physics.

    Speaking of combustion, you are essentially a internal combustion engine with more moving parts. Your cellular processes all need fuel to operate. That fuel comes from eating. And it’s expenditure is both autonomic and willful. It isn’t an oversimplification. It is a broad generalization that applies very well regardless of the specifics of metabolism and has been demonstrated time and time again in study after study. Just leaf through all of the citations in the paper I linked. This paper was essentially a meta study, or study of studies. There is a massive body of research that backs this generalization.




  • The Flaws of Calorie Counting and CICO Model: Bart stresses that while gross calorie deficits (e.g., cutting 1000+ calories a day) can lead to fat loss, moderate calorie restriction often fails due to the body’s adaptive lowering of BMR. This homeostatic mechanism defends the body’s fat stores, debunking the simplistic energy-in-energy-out narrative. The takeaway is that calorie counting alone is insufficient without considering metabolic adaptations.

    I’ll just point out that you can’t escape the second law of thermodynamics. Failures in CICO are always a measurement issue either on the input or on the output. Your BMR won’t dip more than 5-15% on a caloric restriction. On a 2000kcal TDEE, that’s only 300kcal max. If you’re cutting 500kcal a day, that is still a 200kcal deficit. Does moderate restriction fail because of this? Maybe if that person gets frustrated at the reduced rate of loss. But that’s an expectation problem due to an output measurement issue. CICO is just sciencing your body and that means accounting for errors.

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9036397/