edmund-nelson
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edmund-nelson
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1mo ago
Sure thing.
The cheapest healthy food generally is in the "1 pound bags of dry stuff" isle. Lentils, Black beans, dried barley ect. Dried oats seeds and nuts are also really cheap per calorie. (except for like macademia nuts)
The basic theory is you copy dr greger's daily dozen adding 2 servings of Canned fish, (Mackerel, Salmon Sardines, Herring, Oysters, anchovies, trout being the best, though as far as price goes Mackerel/salmon/sardines are far cheaper than the others) and adding other foods to meet the calorie goals
5 servings of vegetables, 1 cruciferous 2 Dark leafy green (for some reason broccoli counts for either leafy/Cruciferous) and 2 other (peppers onions carrots ect) Serving size = 1/2 cup cooked for each type
4 servings of beans (1/4 cup dried = 1 serving) Including 1 serving of split peas (choline)
3 servings of whole grains (sources seem to differ on if you should count potatoes as a grain) serving size = 1 slice of bread, 1/2 a bagel or 1/4 cup dried grain, 1/2cup oats)
4 servings of fruit including 1 serving of berries serving size= 1/2cup berries 1 medium fruit (2 kiwis)
3 serving of seeds/nuts (serving size = 1 ounce) 2 of Sunflower seeds and/or Almonds for Vitamin E, then 1 of peanuts or walnuts or pine nuts for Omega 6s
3 servings of Flax or Chia seeds (serving size = 1 tablespoon ground, this is 2 ounces if you use a scale)
2 servings of fish (serving size = 1 small tin or in a normal size can 1/5th of the can, I usually round up to half a can a day)
1 serving of calcium rich food (Milk, Almond milk, unncessary with chia seeds)
in general more beans is probably best if you're lacking in calories as they are cheap and have decent protein.
edmund-nelson
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1mo ago
i work in a warehouse not in a grocery store sadly.
I know that many poor people have absurd habits, though my bubble issue was that since I was known in the warehouse as "the guy who studied nutrition in college" the guys in the warehouse ask me for advice on how to eat on a warehouse workers salary.
My bubble is Gym bros warehouse workers and upper class rationalists which uhhh defintely hurt my perception of "normal poor people" since the gym bros and warehouse workers were my "normal people"
edmund-nelson
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1mo ago
Glad I put that I probably missed something major! thanks!
Also page 36 they state " Two micronutrients are below the RDA, specifically vitamin E and vitamin D," but they did meet 85% of the RDA. Still just eat some sunflower seeds goddamnit
edmund-nelson
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1mo ago
How feasible is it to eat on food stamps
Confidence level: 20 hours of research probability I missed something major >90% Felt it was pretty clearly CW since SNAP benefits are pretty CW
Food stamps recently had a proposed cut that is probably going through. Of course it's hard to know if these will actually go through or not and will it really make a major impact.
I decided to look into how much food stamps actually cover I decided to run some numbers
First I had to pick "what an actual diet might look like"
I decided to use my "standard bulking diet" which I had laying around (notably it's got nearly complete nutrition. and input the numbers into a spreadsheet.
I got to $9.30/day. in costs. slightly below half of that were the fruits and vegetables (thank wal-mart for having frozen vegetables and canned salmon.) Man fruits and vegetables are expensive!
Now you could definitely reduce costs by say going down to 1/3rd of a can of salmon, but I found myself limited by getting enough Selenium, B12 and vitamin D while avoiding getting too much folate. Replacing some salmon with some more beans is definitely an option though. Tofu is low enough in folate that you could go with that instead.
The main issue though is that I don't see how you cut down on the fruits/vegetables department very well. previously fruits and vegetables made up $4.51/day so as far as major expenses go that's the 2nd main place to look But the price of food is definitely surprisingly constraining. Though I think if someone tried to be more thrifty than me they could definitely get costs down about 40%. The main constraints are the B12, vitamin D and choline. cutting meat consumption in half and adding more split peas is a good solution there, cutting walnuts for more sunflower seeds and replacing chia with flax and some soymilk may also be wise. As long as the soymilk is vitamin D fortified you can cut down on salmon even more. We're already on frozen vegetables though cutting the few fresh ones for canned/frozen seems like a reasonable option, you'd still be at about $3 a day in fruits/veggies though.
Looking at how SNAP works, SNAP beenefits curve manages to avoid welfare cliffs! So for someone working a 20 hr/week job it covers about $5 a day. that's a little over half of all food costs absorbed by SNAP. There's probably a decent amount of room to reduce costs.
Though at the same time SNAP benefits basically give you a 30% tax on income <2k/month (roughly anyway) in fact in the state of california it seems that you'd need to be a family of many to qualify for SNAP. a single person house working full time literally cannot qualify with standard rent payments. A person working full time as the sole breadwinner of a 4 person household can get ~$400/month from SNAP if they make the minimum wage in california. Though I guess that's why it's only 1 in 8 people taht are even on the program in the first place.
Comparing this to the thrifty food plan by the us government (skip to page 38) I notice that they literally don't get enough vitamin E or D, I understand vitamin D but vitamin E? Come on sunflower seeds are cheap and have plenty of vitamin E.
Adjusted for inflation the thrifty food plan pays about $10.66/day compared to my 9.30 so my meal plan is actually a small step cheaper. (you have to divide their spending by 3 because the reference male eats 1/3rd of the calories of the family and then adjust by inflation)
Roughly speaking per day they were eating
1.7 lbs of vegetables a day 1/3rd starchy with a small amount of leafy greens also including a large amount of beans (counting those as vegetables!) 1.28 pounds of fruit per day of which 1/3rd was fruit juice. 0.67 pounds of grains a day, of which half are refined 1.97 pounds of milk a day, 3/8ths whole fat 5/8ths low/nonfat almost all from milk cartons 0,77 poudns of meat a day 0.33 pounds of misc a day
At the same time the govs plan eats about the same amount of vegetables standard bulking diet. counting the dried legumes as vegetables, I typically eat 1.5 pounds of vegetables a day, (they use a family of 4 but a male is expected to eat 1/3rd of the calories that the thrifty food plan has). They also devote most of the vegetables to the starchy variety rather than the cruciferous ones I mostly ate.
Fruit again was a deviation (as expected) I was eating a little over 1.25 pounds of fruit daily on my reference diet, while the Thrifty food plan is going on the same but the composition changed to be 1/3rd fruit juice.
They also include a good amount of pasturized milk which makes sense I guess. The protein requirements they had were also significantly lower than my standard bulking diet's requirements (70 g/day vs 120) presumably this allowed them to cut out a lot of the foods I ate.
In fact it appears that the majority of protein the Thrifty food plan gets comes from milk, as milk represents roughly 30% of the diet by weight.
I think the low amount of seafood in their plan reflects the lack of omega 3 DHA or EPA required. They only checked for omega 3 ALA which is relatively easy to obtain via Flax/Chia/Walnuts. DHA and EPA are the reasons I had to eat a whole half a can of salmon while on my bulk.
I wonder though, how far down can you actually go in cost of food while still maintaining a healthy diet? I think I could get below $6 but much lower than that and we run into b12 issues. 1 serving of canned salmon covers b12 and lentils/split peas/chia seeds/sunflower seeds can cover most of the rest. Though chia seeds are randomly pretty expensive...
The constraints would be
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Must have 2300-2400 calories
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must have at least 110 g of protein (I'm a lifter ok?)
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must have no more than 16 grams of saturated fat
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Must meet all the reccommended Dietary intakes for micros/macros on Cronometer without exceeding the upper limit (Except for the carbs/fat). Note that cronometer has no EPA or DHA requirement and only has a total omega 3 category sadly.
Some Questions about SNAP that I can't understand for the life of me even after researching it for 20 hours
Is it me or do people earning about 10k-30k/year have effective 50% marginal tax rates after transfers? Is there this weird tax range where your marginal tax rate falls down as you stop qualifying for federal aid but don't get pushed into the upper tax brackets?
Why was 30% of gross income spending on food chosen? It's such a strange number to me, A normal family of 4 should be spending like 8k/year on food? Most families I know spend <10% of their money on food, (shelter though oh god)
When I look at the federal gov's Thrifty food plan I don't see actual equations, I know they used a linear optimization program but I can't for the life of me determine its constraints. Why so much Milk? Why so many potatoes and so little leafy greens? Why nearly no nuts/seeds? Why couldn't it get vitamin D or Vitamin E and why was the USDA willing to just give up instead of manually editing the diet to incude enough vitamin A/D? (pretty easy to do with canned seafood, sunflower seeds and almonds)
edmund-nelson
Filthy Anime Memester
3mo ago
First off while it's easy to construct very destructive bombs have you thought they might have intentionally wanted to bomb to be only that destructive?
edmund-nelson
Filthy Anime Memester
4mo ago
Today I present the weirdest mind in the gutter moment that happened to me.
I was listening to candy candy by a vocaloid, and right when the chorus happened I swear I heard the Chorus play out as "Cummie Cummie get me Cummie cummie sweet me feed me come in love, do me do me do-me do-me doo-me cutie cutie d-d-d-do me love Cummie Cummie get me cummie cummie sweet me feed me come in love do me do me do me do me do me cutie cutie so candy love" and ever since then I realized I can switch between that chorus and the actual chorus just by changing what I'm reading or by closing my eyes it's so weird.
edmund-nelson
Filthy Anime Memester
4mo ago
I had a great and peaceful thanksgiving with my grandfather's descendants (RIP Grandpa) it's a lot of fun to be with the greatest family ever.
edmund-nelson
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4mo ago
yes I was just adding more details as to who they were!
edmund-nelson
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4mo ago
Yeah that's fair. The thing is that disney owns many of the highest grossing media franchises and we may quibble about how much that correlates to "large media franchise" but it's really hard to find other measurements and this one is an easily accessible wikipedia page. of the 17 that are bigger than $20 billion 7 are from disney. of the 10 that are not Disney franchises
3 are japanese (Anpanman (Yeah wtf is that), Pokemon and Hello kitty)
2 are toy brands (Barbie and Transformers) (is transformers Japanese it originally is but the main seller now is Hasbro the american company, I'd probably count it in Japan but hard to say)
2 are western video games (Candy Crush, Call of Duty)
2 Warner bros Franchises (harry potter, Batman)
1 Korean Video game (dungeon fighter online)
basically once you exclude disney you're looking at a group that is 50% east asian franchises anyway, (counting transformers as Japanese). If you estimate like me that roughly 1/3rd of the media landscape is woke to some degree then the 2/3rds that are not are going to lean more heavily in the direction of the 1/3rd of the media landscape that is not western.
edmund-nelson
Filthy Anime Memester
4mo ago
Yes. I think it's selection bias on the kinds of people who make games compared to other types of programming.
edmund-nelson
Filthy Anime Memester
4mo ago
There are lots of non-woke games literally so many
It's just that you focus on some weird niche of american games, but the Japanese and korean studios make plenty of interesting ones. There are also american indie titles which... are actually pretty woke (I'm a member of many indie game publishers private discords and the politics channel is like Bluesky)
edmund-nelson
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4mo ago
Mega crit is An american group (of 2 guys) Anthony Giovannetti and Casey Yano, who live in Seattle.
edmund-nelson
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4mo ago
You can easily imagine such forecasts
for example imagine this forecast
Trump wins every swing state but nothing else (30%) Trump wins Every swing state plus some extra (5%) trump wins split of swing states and wins election (15%)
Harris wins every swing state (25%) Harris wins split decision of swing states (20%) harris wins swing states + some extra (5%) (where swing is GA, NC, Mi, Wi, Penn, NV, AZ)
basically this forecast would be 50/50 and forecasts correlated polling error being a very strong effect.
Thankfully the only agency that has ever knocked on my door is ATF
Look I'm giving you this advice under my real name, Bomb ranges are completely normal places to go if you have a Federal Explosives License especially for practice.
I literally typed "bomb ranges near me" onto google and pressed enter.
Sadly I can't be of much more help than that
It typically takes a while to get permission, but when you have a Federal explosives License (from the ATF) it's a lot easier to get allowed in.
edmund-nelson
Filthy Anime Memester
5mo ago
I had some fun trying out some of the army field manual on homemade explosives at the local bomb range. (didn't make all of them but made a few of the ones I've never seen before) I gotta say these instructions are dangerous though less dangerous than the Anarchists cookbook but boy safety was definitely not their top priority.
edmund-nelson
Filthy Anime Memester
5mo ago
Jake Paul manages to do his can crushing in fun and exciting ways by fighting old people who used to be good, MMA fighters who can't actually box as well as you'd expect Though now that he's lost his 0 (Honestly I fucking hate how Boxers value the "undefeated" mantle so much it doesn't mean much other than you ducked good competition) he seems to be more willing to fight real boxers.
Also isn't it next week?
edmund-nelson
Filthy Anime Memester
5mo ago
Death toll
13k people died this year,
Compare to
26k isreal gaza war
52k Russo Ukraine war
GDP decline is 6%
Starvation unknown
edmund-nelson
Filthy Anime Memester
5mo ago
Yeah it's mostly in the you've forgotten about category.
edmund-nelson
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5mo ago
What advantage does that one have over the actual IED manual?
TIL of this manual. I'll drive down to the bomb range and test some of those out when I get the time. I wonder how those will do compared to IED's made from Ammonia, formaldehyde and nitric acid. you can make pretty effective cluster grenades with that, ball bearings and a plastic coke bottle.
Yeah it's just weird that a war which has 1/4 the casualties of the russo-ukraine war, or 1/2 that of Isreal gaza has orders of magnitude less coverage
edmund-nelson
Filthy Anime Memester
5mo ago
I consider that he's way healthier than the average 78 year old a big reason to give him lower odds relative to his life table, the "significant health event" angle does happen too but I think it still only gets him to 1%
With the election over it's time to talk about my favorite topic Wars you've forgotten about or never heard of
This war like many civil wars is in some way described as 1 major faction (national unity government) vs the military. However calling the National unity government one "side" seems a bit.. wrong. For example let's take the chin brotherhood the Chin Brotherhood seems to be nominally a part of the national unity government as does the chinland council yet these 2 groups are also opposed to each other. Another example is the Shan state army who is somehow opposed to the main government and allies of the arakan liberation army even the the ALA is allies of the myanmar government.
In spite of this being a messy web of weird alliances where everybody hates somebody on "their" side and nobody is neatly in any camp, it's still 2 broad coalitions fighting. What's facinating is how the rebels procure arms.
The rebels use 3d printed guns. They even use the GOAT firearm, the FGC9 (stands for Fuck gun control 9 milimeter) The rebels make IEDs and use drones to drop them like they are in ukraine. It's like the modern warfare meta has evolved to "tiny helicopters armed with explosive that I happened to find" as one of the main tools of engagement. The IEDs used by the insurgents are quite weak, but it's clear they don't have good manufacturing capabilities. Someone should get them The actual IED manual (a note to the FBI I am not intending for anyone to use this to commit a federal crime, this is for entertainment purposes only) This book is far better than the Lame Anarchists cookbook which was extremely poorly sourced and sloppily made. Instead use this guy who tells you how to make C-4 EDIT the us army has their own IED manual which is far better.
As a whole the rebels are actually doing much better than the were in 2022 and in some regards appear to be "winning" the war. However I put that in quotes for good reason. Honestly just reading about the war has been exausting, it's a constant strain of guriella tactics by the rebels followed by Junta counterattacks followed by chinese intervention. It's this weird state that's really hard to understand. I mean just look at operation 1027 A major offensive operation, with high Junta losses, followed by an attempted Junta counteroffensive that started getting ambushed by rebel forces A successful military counteroffensive, the chinese start getting involved (arresting people in the Junta they don't like)the The rebels get a large offensive going again, the chinese negotiate a ceasfire, junta makes some sneaky counterattacks during the "ceasefire" and another offensive beigns by the rebels. It's pretty clear that the chinese were essential to the rebels effort in this operation though how much we'll never know (state secrets and all)
The Rebel forces have definitely done far above expectations. Though my main scenario is that the Junta will control a much smaller fraction of myanmar and then the NYG will splinter off into a bunch of smaller factions who were previously united mainly by their hatred of the Junta. Evidence of the rebel's strength is that they are refusing the Junta's requests for peace and are trying to instead continue the war. But I would be surprised if this strength holds out instead of becoming another Syria like situation where after they defeat the main group they start infighting.
edmund-nelson
Filthy Anime Memester
5mo ago
Yep.
Actuarial life tables give him a 1.45% chance to die of natural causes in the next 90 days, Trump is healthier than the average 78 year old but he is fat and could have heart disease for all I know so I wouldn't give him non-zero odds.
edmund-nelson
Filthy Anime Memester
5mo ago
I mean actuarial life tables give trump a 1/100 chance of dying of natural causes in that time frame, those odds are a bit low if anything on actuarial life table grounds.
110 grams is so many grams that those sorts of limitations are not meaningful. Even 110 grams of lentil protein will contain enough for all major amino acids.
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