Hear ye, hear ye, step right up here! It's time once again for the Snake Oil Bulletin, a weekly smattering of crazy and Moran-acy to distract us from the horribleness that is life . This week, we'll be looking into one of hottest diet fads around: not eating! No, we won't be covering those horrible girls who make fun of you in third period for not having a thigh gap. Oh no, dear reader, these people are so much worse.
We are omnivores, as evidenced by both our nutritional requirements and our dentition. We need to eat meat, in fact, meat and the need to hunt it is one of the reasons we began to walk upright and our brains began expanding. We shouldn't feel guilty about doing it, any more than a lion or another predator should feel guilty for hunting and consuming other animals.
That said, as is also typical of our species, we tend to overdo things. If we'd like to minimize the impact our meat-eating has on the environment, it's best to stay away from the giant meat producers and buy from local, sustainable sources. This is easier said than done in some places, but if one has the ability and the resources to do it, then it's somewhat less guilt-inducing. All that said, I freely confess to being completely unable to slaughter anything myself, and leave the killing to others because I am a wuss.
There's so much wrong with this nonsense that I'm speechless. 12 strands instead of two -- what is that supposed to even mean? Is she claiming to be a dodecaploid mutant? Does she think DNA is a hydrogen storage molecule, so having extra chains laying around will help her bulk up for the winter? Where the fuck is she expecting to get this marvelous hydrogen, if water is off the menu? What light harvesting chromophores is she using to accomplish this? Her complection sure doesn't say "autotrophic organism" to me! There's so much bullshit... I can't even...
I know. Speechless. All I could think of was, whatever gave her the idea that having more DNA was some kind of indication of ultra-health? In my world, extra DNA is a bad, bad thing.
Just for grins - the top is a karyotype of a normal human female. The bottom is the karyotype of the HeLa cells I use in my research. If you don't know what those are, they are a cervical cancer line that has been in use in cellular and molecular biological research since they were first harvested from a woman named Henrietta Lacks back in 1951, the first truly "immortal" (in dish culture) cell line. I don't think I need to explain that these cells are really fucked up - it's pretty apparent that they bear no resemblance to normal. This cancer killed Mrs. Lacks within 5 and a half months of diagnosis. So the fact that Ms. Enlightenment is not riddled with tumors is pretty good evidence that her DNA has not proliferated even once, let alone 6 times.
I may or may not have a literal pile of cassette tapes from back when I recorded the show. I also have the "one day I'll get to it" project of digitizing those tapes to mp3s.
Not to mention the lack of any and all enzymes to do the things she's pretending. Unless there are some cyanobacteria or algae in her recent family tree, hydrogenase is not a part of her biochemistry toolkit. Then there's the part that to maintain homeostasis as a human, she has to burn enough energy to keep her body temperature around 37 C, which isn't going to happen at ambient temperatures with the amount of energy present in sunlight landing on her skin -- bangles and pajamas or no.
This is the really fascinating part about her. She's an outrageous, transparent fraud by any measure. Her lies have killed people. Yet, there she sits, plump cheeked and smiling, claiming that she doesn't need to eat or drink. She knows she herself eats and drinks routinely, but somehow she makes a living denying this. Her idea would be a worrying embarrassment if they came from a toddler, and here she is giving lectures and videos to legal adults. How does this process sustain itself?
Provided that cabbage and garlic-fueled flatus is not a worry. ;)
I look good in purple.
Ferinstance, methane. What a gift!
You'd think that when believers start turning room temperature by following the cult leaders published advice, they'd start prosecuting.
We are omnivores, as evidenced by both our nutritional requirements and our dentition. We need to eat meat, in fact, meat and the need to hunt it is one of the reasons we began to walk upright and our brains began expanding. We shouldn't feel guilty about doing it, any more than a lion or another predator should feel guilty for hunting and consuming other animals.
That said, as is also typical of our species, we tend to overdo things. If we'd like to minimize the impact our meat-eating has on the environment, it's best to stay away from the giant meat producers and buy from local, sustainable sources. This is easier said than done in some places, but if one has the ability and the resources to do it, then it's somewhat less guilt-inducing. All that said, I freely confess to being completely unable to slaughter anything myself, and leave the killing to others because I am a wuss.
There's so much wrong with this nonsense that I'm speechless. 12 strands instead of two -- what is that supposed to even mean? Is she claiming to be a dodecaploid mutant? Does she think DNA is a hydrogen storage molecule, so having extra chains laying around will help her bulk up for the winter? Where the fuck is she expecting to get this marvelous hydrogen, if water is off the menu? What light harvesting chromophores is she using to accomplish this? Her complection sure doesn't say "autotrophic organism" to me! There's so much bullshit... I can't even...
I know. Speechless. All I could think of was, whatever gave her the idea that having more DNA was some kind of indication of ultra-health? In my world, extra DNA is a bad, bad thing.
Her pajamas look comfy.
Just for grins - the top is a karyotype of a normal human female. The bottom is the karyotype of the HeLa cells I use in my research. If you don't know what those are, they are a cervical cancer line that has been in use in cellular and molecular biological research since they were first harvested from a woman named Henrietta Lacks back in 1951, the first truly "immortal" (in dish culture) cell line. I don't think I need to explain that these cells are really fucked up - it's pretty apparent that they bear no resemblance to normal. This cancer killed Mrs. Lacks within 5 and a half months of diagnosis. So the fact that Ms. Enlightenment is not riddled with tumors is pretty good evidence that her DNA has not proliferated even once, let alone 6 times.
*makes note for decorations in ButchWagstaff's street this Halloween*
I may or may not have a literal pile of cassette tapes from back when I recorded the show. I also have the "one day I'll get to it" project of digitizing those tapes to mp3s.
LOL, Kinko the Clown. Man, those songs were just nuts.
Not to mention the lack of any and all enzymes to do the things she's pretending. Unless there are some cyanobacteria or algae in her recent family tree, hydrogenase is not a part of her biochemistry toolkit. Then there's the part that to maintain homeostasis as a human, she has to burn enough energy to keep her body temperature around 37 C, which isn't going to happen at ambient temperatures with the amount of energy present in sunlight landing on her skin -- bangles and pajamas or no.
This is the really fascinating part about her. She's an outrageous, transparent fraud by any measure. Her lies have killed people. Yet, there she sits, plump cheeked and smiling, claiming that she doesn't need to eat or drink. She knows she herself eats and drinks routinely, but somehow she makes a living denying this. Her idea would be a worrying embarrassment if they came from a toddler, and here she is giving lectures and videos to legal adults. How does this process sustain itself?
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It's the pH changes, protein solubility issues, etc. that cause the problem when the water levels drop.
No longer acccurate . . . she's been on a pixel fast.