Here we provide an overview of how different culinary herbs and spices exert anti-inflammatory activities and the extent to which they activate PPAR α and PPAR γ, inhibit the activation of NF-κB, and enhance expression of anti-inflammatory cytokines. Spices can play essential roles as anti-inflammatory agents in our diet, acting as pan PPAR activators and improving insulin sensitivity, counteracting dyslipidaemia and weight gain. The effects of chronic inflammation caused by obesity are counteracted and, consequently, the progression of diseases associated with chronic inflammation slowed.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378512211004385

What do you mean plants are an inflammatory burden on the body? What is that based on?

Most of the toxins listed on that page are not related to herbs and spices, aren’t in the parts of plants that are eaten, or are destroyed by cooking the food. Do you have anything a little more definitive than “some parts of some plants can be toxic”?

The health benefits of herbs and spices are attributed to their active chemicals, including antioxidants, anti-inflammatory agents, antibacterials, and others. Thus, incorporating herbs and spices into food products offers substantial advantages in terms of functionality and provides medicinal and nutritional benefits.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1756464625002245

What is your claim based on? Do you have any sources or additional reading you could point me to? I found a paper about contaminated spices, but that doesn’t seem like what you’re talking about.

The arrest affidavit said that on Aug. 25, several guard members were sitting in a black van during a patrol break outside of a Popeyes restaurant. Mitchell and a female guard member were arguing about whether their hairstyles were following army regulations.

Mitchell, who was sitting in the third row of the van, and the female guard member, who was sitting in the front seat, got into an increasingly heated exchange. According to the affidavit, the woman in the argument said that “Mitchell stated something to the effect of ‘I would slap the Jackson 5 out of you.’” After more back-and-forths, the female guard member, who was not identified in court documents, responded: “shut the f*** up.”

Though the woman in the front seat did not see Mitchell pull his gun out, she said she heard a “holster click” and witnesses inside the van stated they saw it raised. The female guard member then left the van and went inside Popeyes.

Definitely sounds like someone that should never be trusted with a gun again. I’m glad she’s okay.

Are herbs and spices bad for you? What do you mean?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATs2IDJJ73I

I don’t think I saw that episode, I guess I’ll have to go back and rewatch all the old simpsons episodes at some point

When consumers see or hear an advertisement, whether it’s on the Internet, radio or television, or anywhere else, federal law says that ad must be truthful, not misleading, and, when appropriate, backed by scientific evidence. The FTC enforces these truth-in-advertising laws, and it applies the same standards no matter where an ad appears – in newspapers and magazines, online, in the mail, or on billboards or buses.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/topics/truth-advertising

I’m pretty sure the fairness doctrine was for giving equal time on tv or radio. We’re more talking about lies told in paid advertisements.

You might be right

I was being sarcastic. I really thought the second sentence would be enough to give it away.

No no, the whole “no ethical consumption under capitalism” thing means that there’s no moral difference between my tax money funding ICE and directly donating to hateful people. They’re both bad, and there’s no possible way to measure how one thing could be worse than another.

If this were a highway, you’d have to cut the speed limit in half as people try to merge and possibly shift lanes after making a u-turn and only have a very short distance to get back up to speed. This kind of design looks like it’d only work at very low speeds or density, at which point you might as well just use a roundabout.

Edit: also it looks like you need about 6 lanes of space (2 in either direction and 4 for turning around, including an extra wide radius so you can go faster then 10 mph) all to effectively support 2 actual lanes of traffic.

What in the enhanced interrogations could you be talking about? The man just wants to paint puppies, why are you being so mean to him?

It’s kind of like how a forum isn’t usually considered social media.

https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=WCSSTUS1&f=W

Since April we’ve been losing an average of about 6 million barrels of oil from our stockpile every week. Assuming the rate of decline stays about the same, our stockpile will be completely empty in about 46 weeks.

But I’m pretty sure I also read somewhere that the whole oil refining system will break down before the stockpiles are actually empty, and 46 weeks is hopefully a long enough time to figure something out.

Seth Moulton: “In the newly released Epstein files, your name appears repeatedly. I’m not going to get into all the details, but I do want to ask one question,” he said. “Why would you even take a meeting with a lobbyist on behalf of Jeffrey Epstein?”

“What you are doing right now is absolutely reprehensible,” Markey responded, seemingly stunned by the question.

Moulton’s campaign searched through the Department of Justice’s Epstein Library and found that, in 2015, a lobbyist claimed to have met with Markey in an email that was later forwarded to Epstein. That lobbyist was not advocating for Epstein, but for his friend, Karim Wade, the son of a former Senegalese president who had been imprisoned for corruption, and Epstein was footing the bill for the lobbying effort.

Two days later, Markey’s campaign told GBH News that it checked the calendars of the senator and his staff at the time, and that no such meeting occurred.

I made this comment in another post, but I think it’s still relevant here. You can’t just accuse people of being in the Epstein files when they’re calling out your bigotry and lack of progressive policies. It only makes you look worse.

A clinic (or outpatient clinic or ambulatory care clinic) is a health facility that is primarily focused on the care of outpatients. Clinics can be privately operated or publicly managed and funded. They typically cover the primary care needs of populations in local communities, in contrast to larger hospitals which offer more specialized treatments and admit inpatients for overnight stays.

Most commonly, the English word clinic refers to a general practice, run by one or more general practitioners offering small therapeutic treatments, but it can also mean a specialist clinic. Some clinics retain the name “clinic” even while growing into institutions as large as major hospitals or becoming associated with a hospital or medical school.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinic

A clinic is a place, not a group of people.

You expect Trump to spend the money he grifts on things like the ballroom? He’s got plenty of sycophant companies paying for it already, plus whatever he can get from the taxpayers. He doesn’t need to use his own personal stolen wealth.

But they’re not even attacking us really, they’re attacking a military base in a foreign country on the other side of the world. Compared to when we bombed their cities, this is nothing.

Edit: So the USPS can make your ballot late, then throw it out for being late?

That’s the voter suppression, yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waze#Google_acquisition

I’m pretty sure google will still have your house number associated with your house. You’re just making it harder for people to be sure they’re at the right house when they show up there, like if you fell or choked on your meal and needed an ambulance.