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So far this is one of the best nutrition/science/lifestyle books I’ve read yet. He constructs a great narrative alongside the scientific research and it’s becoming quite clear that industrial food processing is fucking us up - it’s not just the nutritional content of the food (high sugar, fat, etc)

Pretty good - helped me get through this crazy crash out I’ve been in the past couple weeks. I can only live one life and that makes it meaningful. Fantasies are only good because they aren’t real. Kinda like Schrödinger’s cat - reality will collapse on the choice you make but you gotta make it.

This book is so good but also terrible because I can’t believe people used to live like this. I’m never complaining about my job again - we are so lucky we’re alive today and not 100 years ago

Okay we’re back on track…. He’s saying some fire stuff now - just don’t discredit science 🤓

He’s lowkey PMO-ing … he starts with “I’m not a nutritional scientist” then starts talking about how we know nothing about nutrition as a science - it’s giving ignorance to me, a nutritional scientist. Like I get his point, but it’s terribly made. There’s a lot we know about nutritional biochem

1 H audio book - let’s go

Written in 1906 to advocate for worker’s rights - but rather inspired public outcry for FDA food regulations (also good!). Tea so far, I see the need for both worker’s rights AND FDA food regulation. Nobody wants Tuberculoses in their sausages.

Goddamn … The A in America stands for Assholes

Vietnam war chapter = read

This book is absolutely incredible

“In a society of complex controls, both crude and refined, secret thoughts can often be found in the arts, and so it was in black society.” 443

GREAT BOOK! I’m not into neuroscience like that, but you knowww I’m into gut science. The author named dropped scholars that I knew and have talked with !! CRAZY! Topics I pondered while listening to : -early life nutrition, gut microbiome establishments + early dynamics -microbial metabolites and neurotransmitters

This book is amazing! My colleague recommended it to me - WOW! Incredible piece of literature. It’s really making me ponder about the sanctity of animals and what the meat/animal product industry says about humanity. Also just got me thinking about nutrition and economics and maybe how I can change myself.

Just finished the introduction and I’m already fucked up - this book bout to be crazy

Finished WWI, Great Depression, and New Deal

Just finished Socialism chapter … 😼😼 next up is WWI

I love this book sm im really enjoying it

Just finished the Spanish American War chapter 😜

This book makes me think I can do hard things

He’s spitting fire rn !!

Facebook run by a ton of freaks - who’s surprised 🙄🙄

So excited to listen to this book!! The author worked for Facebook for ~7 years as the international policy strategist. She’s gonna drop some tea fr

Populism is crazy and complex. We don’t talk enough about the late 1800s - I grew up thinking it was the most boring part of American history. I was #wrong. Soooo many labor strikes and unionization asking for the bare minimum (a living wage) but the US is a money machine that can never be stopped 😭😭

"By this time the Supreme Court has accepted the argument that corporations were 'persons' and their money was property protected by the due processs clause of the 14th Amendment. Supposedly, the Amendment has been passed to protect Black rights, but of the 14th Amendment cases brought before the Supreme Court between 1890 -1910, 19 dealth with Black rights 288 dealth with corporations" Corporations=people YEAH RIGHT

"The Supreme Court...was doing its bit for the ruling elite. How could it be independent, with its members chosen by the President and ratified by the Senate? How could it be neutral between rich and poor when its members were often former wealthy lawyers, and almost always come from the upper class? .... A NYC banker toasted in 1895 'Supreme Court-gaurdian of the dollar, depfender of private property, ....' "

"The government of the United States was behaving almost exactly as Karl Marx describe a capitalist state: pretending neutrality to maintain order but serving the interests if the rich....the purpose of the state was to settle upper-class disputes peacefully, control lower-class rebellion, and adopt policies that would further the long-range stability of the system."