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  • I’ll read the full article later, but based on the abstract, it doesn’t sound promising. Maltose is readily absorbed being a simple sugar while amylose is a multi-sugar (and one of the components of starch) that has to be broken down first in the digestive tract, so I don’t think those are comparable.

    Based on your ref, I’m not convinced that this is truly the case though.

    What you are essentially saying here is that you don’t believe sugary drinks will spike your blood sugar level.



  • Nice strawman you got going there, but I never said anything about calories. It’s about sugar.

    Your uptake of sugar is not equal across all forms, but varies by the underlying sugar. The rate of uptake is measured with the glycemic index, the higher, the faster the uptake. Lactose has a GI of around 45, sucrose of 65 and maltose of 105. Maltose lets your blood sugar level spike significantly more than the others which leads to a more significant crash which induces hunger, irritability, fatigue, and overeating.

    Coke is a lot more sugar-dense than milk (more than double the density) and coupled with the presence of a higher GI sugar, it’s more of a snack than a refreshing drink.

    Additionally, the controlled enzymatic conversion by adding amylase breaks down a lot more of the oat starch than what would normally happen while eating and digesting, so my point still stands.





  • Carbon neutrality means carbon dioxide neutrality. Carbon is just an element and literally everything you see and don’t see has some of it in it.

    Also, around 2% of our sun’s energy production involves the Bethe-Weizsäcker cycle which is a cyclical fusion reaction using carbon, nitrogen and oxygen. (The main source of energy production is through a proton-proton chain since our sun is too small to rely on the CNO-cycle entirely)



  • Sovcits think their passport has a built-in sudo password that lets them have access to all amenities while also not being bound to any state restrictions. They base their belief on Article 4 of the Confederate Constitution which reads

    Article 4 Confederate Constitution

    The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different states in this union, the free inhabitants of each of these states, paupers, vagabonds and fugitives from Justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several states; and the people of each state shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other state, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce, subject to the same duties, impositions and restrictions as the inhabitants thereof respectively, provided that such restrictions shall not extend so far as to prevent the removal of property imported into any state, to any other State of which the Owner is an inhabitant; provided also that no imposition, duties or restriction shall be laid by any state, on the property of the united states, or either of them.

    This is where they are getting the idea of “right for travel” and why they are never driving, just “moving their car” and why they don’t recognize being a citizen of any state. Let’s pretend that this article was not abolished with the defeat of the Confederacy and was still in effect. Do you see the glaring issue here? If you said that they wouldn’t be eligible to that right of travel under that article since they are not a citizen of any state and thus it does not apply to them, you would be correct. Back then, they would be considered vagabonds, so they would have been exempt from all the rights granted by that article.

    I think what they meant with “run the passport number” is that they anticipated a fine/ticket and wanted to pay that fine. They believe that each citizen gets a million dollars deposited on their person in a bond from the US Treasury. They cannot personally access these funds, but when they have to pay anything for any reason they can just say that they “accept for value” and the Treasury will have to begrudgingly pay the difference out of the sovcit’s personal bond. Let’s play pretend again and accept that this bond exists. Why the Treasury would have a bond for an entity that is NOT a citizen of the United States is beyond me.