We talk about harm reduction.

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Harm Reduction

Cali Sober
FDA Modified Risk for General Snus
American Heart Association 2010 flirting with Tobacco harm reduction
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Sugar sweetened soft drinks and telemere length

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  • Vaping
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• Medication
  • Birth Control
  • PrEP
• Cars
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  • Electric vehicles
• Recycling

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34 Ramadan and Ultra Processed Foods

We talk about why Ramadan travels the calendar and what it is. As well as ultra processed foods and where the science is pointing with it.

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Ramadan

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramadan
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_calendar

Ultra Processed Foods

• https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/05/25/1178163270/ultra-processed-foods-health-risk-weight-gain
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_classification
• https://world.openfoodfacts.org/nova
• https://us.openfoodfacts.org/nova

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In this episode we're joined by Matt Baker from Useful Charts and discuss his YouTube channel, past in the Worldwide Church of God, transition to atheism, conversion to Judaism, and his doctoral dissertation studying the personality of atheists.

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• Youtube
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This time we talk about the history of Christmas, the original War on Christmas, the Methodist schism, and how Hamas got elected.

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The original War on Christmas

• Banning Christmas https://www.history.com/news/when-massachusetts-banned-christmas
• History of modern Christmas https://www.history.com/topics/christmas/history-of-christmas

News

Methodist Schism is nearly complete https://religionnews.com/2023/12/15/one-fourth-of-united-methodist-churches-in-us-have-left-in-schism-over-lgbtq-ban-what-happens-now/

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Listener question: How did Hamas win election?

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This week we talk about Faith of Assent or the BS detector and why some people believe what they do.

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Faith of Assent

• Determinism
• Predestination
• Free will
• Faith of Assent.
• Pantheism
• Panentheism

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We talk about the history and background and start of the current Israel Gaza war.

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We talk about elections: Voting rights, popular vote, jungle primaries, and more

Intro

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The United States has what’s effectively a beta version of Democracy with a fair number of bug fixes. While other countries, especially New Zealand have moved on to Democracy 4.0.

New Zealand system:
- You vote for party, not person. Each party has candidate lists
- Each district is has more than one person in parliament
- It’s ranked choice voting
- Everyone who wins a seat, gets their seats
- Parties who don’t win enough seats to be represented get extra seats

Voting Rights

Presidential elections
- Electoral College
- National Popular Votes Interstate Compact

Jungle Primaries
- Open Primaries
- Top 2
- Top 4 with Ranked Choice

Sources:
https://ballotpedia.org/Top-two_primary
https://openprimariesid.org/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact
https://www.axios.com/2023/09/26/supreme-court-alabama-gop-congressional-map

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We talk about buckets, a metaphor for physical, emotional, and mental energy.

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