• Who Likes Cardamom?

    From Paul Popinjay@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jan 11 19:11:51 2023
    I love this stuff.

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  • From BillB@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Wed Jan 11 22:24:54 2023
    On Wednesday, January 11, 2023 at 7:11:55 PM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote:
    I love this stuff.

    I love homemade Chai tea but I don't have it much because it's a bit of a hassle to make. But now that you mention it, I think I'll make a pot. I have all the ingredients in the pantry.

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  • From Paul Popinjay@21:1/5 to BillB on Wed Jan 11 23:55:59 2023
    On Wednesday, January 11, 2023 at 10:24:58 PM UTC-8, BillB wrote:
    On Wednesday, January 11, 2023 at 7:11:55 PM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote:
    I love this stuff.

    I love homemade Chai tea but I don't have it much because it's a bit of a hassle to make. But now that you mention it, I think I'll make a pot. I have all the ingredients in the pantry.


    Does that use cardamom?

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  • From BillB@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Jan 12 00:02:43 2023
    On Wednesday, January 11, 2023 at 11:56:02 PM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote:
    On Wednesday, January 11, 2023 at 10:24:58 PM UTC-8, BillB wrote:
    On Wednesday, January 11, 2023 at 7:11:55 PM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote:
    I love this stuff.

    I love homemade Chai tea but I don't have it much because it's a bit of a hassle to make. But now that you mention it, I think I'll make a pot. I have all the ingredients in the pantry.
    Does that use cardamom?

    Yes, I think that's one of the main flavors that comes through. Try making some at home. It's way better than what you'll get at Starbucks.

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  • From Paul Popinjay@21:1/5 to BillB on Thu Jan 12 01:21:16 2023
    On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 12:02:47 AM UTC-8, BillB wrote:
    On Wednesday, January 11, 2023 at 11:56:02 PM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote:
    On Wednesday, January 11, 2023 at 10:24:58 PM UTC-8, BillB wrote:
    On Wednesday, January 11, 2023 at 7:11:55 PM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote:
    I love this stuff.

    I love homemade Chai tea but I don't have it much because it's a bit of a hassle to make. But now that you mention it, I think I'll make a pot. I have all the ingredients in the pantry.
    Does that use cardamom?
    Yes, I think that's one of the main flavors that comes through. Try making some at home. It's way better than what you'll get at Starbucks.


    I don't think I can do anything caffeine right now. So anyway, my quack doctor is trying to force me to take something. I picked it up at the pharmacist, but I'm just going to flush it. Yes, my doctor really is a quack, I'm not just saying that. This
    shit he wants me to take, for anxiety, I read the info flyer from the pharmacist. One of the side effects, "may cause a rise in blood pressure". OMFG! What a fucking idiot. That's my WHOLE problem for the last ten years. Fuck him. I'm getting
    another doctor as soon as possible. By the way, cardamom is good for blood pressure. Why else would I be talking about it?

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  • From BillB@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Jan 12 03:05:38 2023
    On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 1:21:20 AM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote:
    On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 12:02:47 AM UTC-8, BillB wrote:
    On Wednesday, January 11, 2023 at 11:56:02 PM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote:
    On Wednesday, January 11, 2023 at 10:24:58 PM UTC-8, BillB wrote:
    On Wednesday, January 11, 2023 at 7:11:55 PM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote:
    I love this stuff.

    I love homemade Chai tea but I don't have it much because it's a bit of a hassle to make. But now that you mention it, I think I'll make a pot. I have all the ingredients in the pantry.
    Does that use cardamom?
    Yes, I think that's one of the main flavors that comes through. Try making some at home. It's way better than what you'll get at Starbucks.
    I don't think I can do anything caffeine right now. So anyway, my quack doctor is trying to force me to take something. I picked it up at the pharmacist, but I'm just going to flush it. Yes, my doctor really is a quack, I'm not just saying that. This
    shit he wants me to take, for anxiety, I read the info flyer from the pharmacist. One of the side effects, "may cause a rise in blood pressure". OMFG! What a fucking idiot. That's my WHOLE problem for the last ten years. Fuck him. I'm getting another
    doctor as soon as possible. By the way, cardamom is good for blood pressure. Why else would I be talking about it?

    Anxiety? High blood pressure? What could possibly be causing all that? Do you think your decades-long obsession with conspiracy theories, economic collapse, and the end of the world as we know it could be contributing? That's a lot of cumulative stress!
    Try to stop stressing about things over which you have no control and which are in any event highly unlikely to happen in your lifetime.

    You might want to dig a little deeper and find out how common that side effect is and how severe it might be. If you have a blood pressure machine at home you could closely monitor it for a week or two and see if the drug he recommended affects you in
    that way at all. He might not be quite as quacky as you think. But I would focus on stress reduction and exercise first before I'd resort to anxiety medication.

    And speaking of stress reduction, December's CPI is being released at 5:30 a.m. It's looking like it's going to show that, over the last six months of data, inflation has been around 2.5% annualized. I told you it would be transitory. All that worry and
    stress for nothing! See what I mean about worrying? Pointless. Everything is going to be fine.

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  • From risky biz@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jan 12 12:38:46 2023
    ~ On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 3:05:42 AM UTC-8, BillB wrote:

    ~ I told you it would be transitory. All that worry and stress for nothing! See what I mean about worrying? Pointless. Everything is going to be fine.


    You told him it would be transitory at 3.5%. LOL. You are utterly unable to resist tooting your own little horn no matter how stupid it makes you look.

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  • From BillB@21:1/5 to risky biz on Thu Jan 12 13:10:36 2023
    On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 12:38:50 PM UTC-8, risky biz wrote:
    ~ On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 3:05:42 AM UTC-8, BillB wrote:

    ~ I told you it would be transitory. All that worry and stress for nothing! See what I mean about worrying? Pointless. Everything is going to be fine.


    You told him it would be transitory at 3.5%. LOL. You are utterly unable to resist tooting your own little horn no matter how stupid it makes you look.

    (^^ This is the moron who was backing Paul's predictions of "hyperinflation" to the hilt. LOLOL!)

    I specifically said that was for *fiscal 2021*, did I not?. Every time you lie it just reinforces the fact that you know you got your ass kicked. And yes, the annualized inflation rate over the last six months has been FAR below 3.5%. Transitory, just
    like I told you Chicken Littles it would be, over and over and over again. Now of course you are in denial. You are incapable of learning.

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  • From BillB@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Jan 12 15:12:29 2023
    On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 2:47:38 PM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote:
    On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 1:10:39 PM UTC-8, BillB wrote:
    On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 12:38:50 PM UTC-8, risky biz wrote:
    ~ On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 3:05:42 AM UTC-8, BillB wrote:

    ~ I told you it would be transitory. All that worry and stress for nothing! See what I mean about worrying? Pointless. Everything is going to be fine.


    You told him it would be transitory at 3.5%. LOL. You are utterly unable to resist tooting your own little horn no matter how stupid it makes you look.
    (^^ This is the moron who was backing Paul's predictions of "hyperinflation" to the hilt. LOLOL!)

    I specifically said that was for *fiscal 2021*, did I not?. Every time you lie it just reinforces the fact that you know you got your ass kicked. And yes, the annualized inflation rate over the last six months has been FAR below 3.5%. Transitory,
    just like I told you Chicken Littles it would be, over and over and over again. Now of course you are in denial. You are incapable of learning.
    What if it isn't "hyperinflation"? What if it is "only" 20% for the next few years? Just like it really is THIS year. What would that do to our nation? Look at countries like Turkey, Lebanon, Venezuela. Why won't the same thing happen here? Our $31
    Trillion debt will soon be $33 Trillion, and then $38 Trillion, and then $43 Trillion. Do you think we are suddenly going to become fiscally conservative now that the republicans are in the House? That's nonsense. Our real inflation number is double
    digit CURRENTLY. The president, the government, they lie, just like you do.

    Inflation was not 20% in 2022 or anything remotely close to it. It was 6.45% as measured by the CPI (the gold standard measurement for many decades), and over the last six months it has been somewhere around 2% annualized (the Fed target rate). You need
    to get off the youtube. It is literally killing you. Your body chemistry is already so far out of whack that you are suffering delusions.

    And no, I don't think the Republicans are or ever will be fiscally conservative. They will continue to press for tax cuts that overwhelmingly benefit the rich, just as they have always done. In fact, the new batch is already proposing a huge reduction in
    tax fraud enforcement resources and the abolition of federal income tax. They are completely nuts. But as it stands today, the US can easily afford to service its existing debt without the risk of default.

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  • From Paul Popinjay@21:1/5 to BillB on Thu Jan 12 14:47:34 2023
    On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 1:10:39 PM UTC-8, BillB wrote:
    On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 12:38:50 PM UTC-8, risky biz wrote:
    ~ On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 3:05:42 AM UTC-8, BillB wrote:

    ~ I told you it would be transitory. All that worry and stress for nothing! See what I mean about worrying? Pointless. Everything is going to be fine.


    You told him it would be transitory at 3.5%. LOL. You are utterly unable to resist tooting your own little horn no matter how stupid it makes you look.
    (^^ This is the moron who was backing Paul's predictions of "hyperinflation" to the hilt. LOLOL!)

    I specifically said that was for *fiscal 2021*, did I not?. Every time you lie it just reinforces the fact that you know you got your ass kicked. And yes, the annualized inflation rate over the last six months has been FAR below 3.5%. Transitory, just
    like I told you Chicken Littles it would be, over and over and over again. Now of course you are in denial. You are incapable of learning.


    What if it isn't "hyperinflation"? What if it is "only" 20% for the next few years? Just like it really is THIS year. What would that do to our nation? Look at countries like Turkey, Lebanon, Venezuela. Why won't the same thing happen here? Our $31
    Trillion debt will soon be $33 Trillion, and then $38 Trillion, and then $43 Trillion. Do you think we are suddenly going to become fiscally conservative now that the republicans are in the House? That's nonsense. Our real inflation number is double
    digit CURRENTLY. The president, the government, they lie, just like you do.

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  • From Paul Popinjay@21:1/5 to BillB on Thu Jan 12 16:20:44 2023
    On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 3:12:33 PM UTC-8, BillB wrote:

    Inflation was not 20% in 2022 or anything remotely close to it. It was 6.45% as measured by the CPI (the gold standard measurement for many decades), and over the last six months it has been somewhere around 2% annualized (the Fed target rate).


    You don't know what you're talking about. You're not much different than Jerry.

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  • From BillB@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Jan 12 17:14:27 2023
    On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 4:20:47 PM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote:
    On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 3:12:33 PM UTC-8, BillB wrote:

    Inflation was not 20% in 2022 or anything remotely close to it. It was 6.45% as measured by the CPI (the gold standard measurement for many decades), and over the last six months it has been somewhere around 2% annualized (the Fed target rate).
    You don't know what you're talking about. You're not much different than Jerry.

    What I stated are facts. Easily verifiable facts. I would have anxiety too if I had your tenuous grasp on reality. It must be quite unsettling to straddle two worlds and be in a perpetual state of cognitive dissonance. That's got to raise your blood
    pressure.

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  • From Paul Popinjay@21:1/5 to BillB on Thu Jan 12 17:50:02 2023
    On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 5:14:31 PM UTC-8, BillB wrote:

    What I stated are facts. Easily verifiable facts.


    No they are not. You are a deliberate trolling liar.

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  • From BillB@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Jan 12 18:05:18 2023
    On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 5:50:06 PM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote:
    On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 5:14:31 PM UTC-8, BillB wrote:

    What I stated are facts. Easily verifiable facts.
    No they are not. You are a deliberate trolling liar.

    What exactly did I say that you dispute as a fact?

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  • From Paul Popinjay@21:1/5 to BillB on Thu Jan 12 18:32:00 2023
    On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 6:05:21 PM UTC-8, BillB wrote:

    What exactly did I say that you dispute as a fact?


    "It was 6.45% as measured by the CPI (the gold standard measurement for many decades), and over the last six months it has been somewhere around 2% annualized (the Fed target rate)."

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  • From Tim Norfolk@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Jan 12 19:43:55 2023
    On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 4:21:20 AM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote:
    On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 12:02:47 AM UTC-8, BillB wrote:
    On Wednesday, January 11, 2023 at 11:56:02 PM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote:
    On Wednesday, January 11, 2023 at 10:24:58 PM UTC-8, BillB wrote:
    On Wednesday, January 11, 2023 at 7:11:55 PM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote:
    I love this stuff.

    I love homemade Chai tea but I don't have it much because it's a bit of a hassle to make. But now that you mention it, I think I'll make a pot. I have all the ingredients in the pantry.
    Does that use cardamom?
    Yes, I think that's one of the main flavors that comes through. Try making some at home. It's way better than what you'll get at Starbucks.
    I don't think I can do anything caffeine right now. So anyway, my quack doctor is trying to force me to take something. I picked it up at the pharmacist, but I'm just going to flush it. Yes, my doctor really is a quack, I'm not just saying that. This
    shit he wants me to take, for anxiety, I read the info flyer from the pharmacist. One of the side effects, "may cause a rise in blood pressure". OMFG! What a fucking idiot. That's my WHOLE problem for the last ten years. Fuck him. I'm getting another
    doctor as soon as possible. By the way, cardamom is good for blood pressure. Why else would I be talking about it?

    You should check your non-scientific remedies against the drugs that your doctor prescribes for side effects.

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  • From Paul Popinjay@21:1/5 to BillB on Thu Jan 12 20:40:34 2023
    On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 8:33:13 PM UTC-8, BillB wrote:


    ME: "It was 6.45% as measured by the CPI"


    That's like the FDA saying the VAX will protect you from Covid. It's bullshit.

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  • From BillB@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Jan 12 20:33:10 2023
    On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 6:32:04 PM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote:
    On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 6:05:21 PM UTC-8, BillB wrote:

    What exactly did I say that you dispute as a fact?
    "It was 6.45% as measured by the CPI (the gold standard measurement for many decades), and over the last six months it has been somewhere around 2% annualized (the Fed target rate)."

    Let's break it down then:

    ME: "It was 6.45% as measured by the CPI"
    Bureau of Labor Statistics: "In December, the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers decreased 0.1 percent, seasonally adjusted, and rose 6.5 percent over the last 12 months"

    ME: "the gold standard for many decades"
    Investopedia: "The Consumer Price Index is an important economic metric. It measures the average change in prices paid by consumers over a period of time for a basket of goods and services. The index is calculated and published monthly by the Bureau of
    Labor Statistics. It is among the most common measures of inflation, indicating the health and direction of the economy"


    ME: "and over the last six months [inflation] has been somewhere around 2% annualized"
    Trading Economics: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/inflation-rate-mom

    ME: "[2%], the Fed target rate"
    Board of Governors, Federal Reserve: "The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) judges that inflation of 2 percent over the longer run, as measured by the annual change in the price index for personal consumption expenditures, is most consistent with the
    Federal Reserve’s mandate for maximum employment and price stability."


    Checking blood pressure and popping cardamom pods in 3....2....1....

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  • From Paul Popinjay@21:1/5 to Tim Norfolk on Thu Jan 12 20:37:38 2023
    On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 7:43:59 PM UTC-8, Tim Norfolk wrote:

    You should check your non-scientific remedies against the drugs that your doctor prescribes for side effects.


    Tim, why is this so hard to understand? I have been in more ambulances in the past ten years than in my own car. Why? Panic attacks and very high blood pressure spikes. They have hauled me away with BP of 250/180. I did not know what planet I was on.
    Suddenly this guy prescribed a drug for me last week that said on the leaflet from the pharmacist, "May cause a rise in blood pressure". Does that sound kosher to you? Well? Does it? And I am not comparing it to cardamom, cardamom is well known to
    reduce blood pressure. Cardamom is a different subject. Cardamom does not even belong in this thread.

    By the way, have you tasted cardamom? It's fantastic. Mostly in India food.

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  • From Tim Norfolk@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Jan 12 20:56:42 2023
    On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 11:37:41 PM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote:
    On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 7:43:59 PM UTC-8, Tim Norfolk wrote:

    You should check your non-scientific remedies against the drugs that your doctor prescribes for side effects.
    Tim, why is this so hard to understand? I have been in more ambulances in the past ten years than in my own car. Why? Panic attacks and very high blood pressure spikes. They have hauled me away with BP of 250/180. I did not know what planet I was on.
    Suddenly this guy prescribed a drug for me last week that said on the leaflet from the pharmacist, "May cause a rise in blood pressure". Does that sound kosher to you? Well? Does it? And I am not comparing it to cardamom, cardamom is well known to reduce
    blood pressure. Cardamom is a different subject. Cardamom does not even belong in this thread.

    By the way, have you tasted cardamom? It's fantastic. Mostly in India food.

    I would ask you the same question. Yes, I know cardamom, and eat a great deal of Indian food, let alone cook it.

    Too many things (turmeric and St. John's Wort come to mind) that people take actually interfere with prescription medications.

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  • From Tim Norfolk@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Jan 12 20:57:25 2023
    On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 11:40:38 PM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote:
    On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 8:33:13 PM UTC-8, BillB wrote:


    ME: "It was 6.45% as measured by the CPI"
    That's like the FDA saying the VAX will protect you from Covid. It's bullshit.

    Except that the data says so.

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  • From Paul Popinjay@21:1/5 to Tim Norfolk on Thu Jan 12 21:02:20 2023
    On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 8:56:46 PM UTC-8, Tim Norfolk wrote:

    I would ask you the same question. Yes, I know cardamom, and eat a great deal of Indian food, let alone cook it.

    Too many things (turmeric and St. John's Wort come to mind) that people take actually interfere with prescription medications.


    Forget I even mentioned cardamom. Can you do that? I have a long history of blood pressure spikes and my doctor just tried to force a drug on me that "may raise blood pressure". Is there anything wrong with this picture?

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  • From Paul Popinjay@21:1/5 to BillB on Thu Jan 12 21:07:20 2023
    On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 9:03:50 PM UTC-8, BillB wrote:

    No, it's like saying that each month the BLS sampled the prices of tens of thousands of everyday goods and services from many thousands of retail stores and service providers across the country, all modelled after and weighted to the average American's
    household consumption of those goods and services, and then the career economists, statisticians and mathematicians at BLM, using the same methodology and formulas they used pre-Covid to arrive at historically low inflation numbers, determined that the
    average family exhibiting the same pattern of consumption would be paying 6.5% more for that basket of products on January 1, 2023 than they were paying in January 1, 2022.


    I don't give a fuck what you say. Means nothing, punk.

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  • From Paul Popinjay@21:1/5 to Tim Norfolk on Thu Jan 12 21:06:05 2023
    On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 8:57:29 PM UTC-8, Tim Norfolk wrote:
    On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 11:40:38 PM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote:
    On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 8:33:13 PM UTC-8, BillB wrote:


    ME: "It was 6.45% as measured by the CPI"
    That's like the FDA saying the VAX will protect you from Covid. It's bullshit.
    Except that the data says so.


    But it doesn't, you dumb stupid fuck.

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  • From BillB@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Jan 12 21:03:47 2023
    On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 8:40:38 PM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote:
    On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 8:33:13 PM UTC-8, BillB wrote:


    ME: "It was 6.45% as measured by the CPI"
    That's like the FDA saying the VAX will protect you from Covid. It's bullshit.

    No, it's like saying that each month the BLS sampled the prices of tens of thousands of everyday goods and services from many thousands of retail stores and service providers across the country, all modelled after and weighted to the average American's
    household consumption of those goods and services, and then the career economists, statisticians and mathematicians at BLM, using the same methodology and formulas they used pre-Covid to arrive at historically low inflation numbers, determined that the
    average family exhibiting the same pattern of consumption would be paying 6.5% more for that basket of products on January 1, 2023 than they were paying in January 1, 2022.

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  • From BillB@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Jan 12 21:12:45 2023
    On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 9:02:24 PM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote:

    I have a long history of blood pressure spikes and my doctor just tried to force a drug on me that "may raise blood pressure". Is there anything wrong with this >picture?

    Do you think it would help if I didn't post the truth anymore? An objective observer could only conclude that you are severely triggered by the truth. It's that cognitive dissonance thing again.

    Per psycom.net:

    "In the moment, cognitive dissonance can cause discomfort, stress, and anxiety. And the degree of these effects often depends on how much disparity there is between the conflicting beliefs, how much the beliefs mean to that person, as well as with how
    well the person copes with self-contradiction."

    Stress, anxiety, discomfort ===>>> rise in blood pressure. Is this starting to make any sense to you now? Have I not been telling you this for years?

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  • From BillB@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Jan 12 21:14:32 2023
    On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 9:07:24 PM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote:
    On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 9:03:50 PM UTC-8, BillB wrote:

    No, it's like saying that each month the BLS sampled the prices of tens of thousands of everyday goods and services from many thousands of retail stores and service providers across the country, all modelled after and weighted to the average American'
    s household consumption of those goods and services, and then the career economists, statisticians and mathematicians at BLM, using the same methodology and formulas they used pre-Covid to arrive at historically low inflation numbers, determined that the
    average family exhibiting the same pattern of consumption would be paying 6.5% more for that basket of products on January 1, 2023 than they were paying in January 1, 2022.

    I don't give a fuck what you say. Means nothing, punk.

    ^^ textbook cognitive dissonance. Take your blood pressure....I bet you it's elevated.

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  • From Paul Popinjay@21:1/5 to BillB on Thu Jan 12 21:39:16 2023
    On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 9:12:48 PM UTC-8, BillB wrote:

    Do you think it would help if I didn't post the truth anymore?

    You don't post the truth. Neither does Tim. Neither does Jerry.

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  • From VegasJerry@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Jan 13 11:48:08 2023
    On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 8:37:41 PM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote:
    On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 7:43:59 PM UTC-8, Tim Norfolk wrote:

    You should check your non-scientific remedies against the drugs that your doctor prescribes for side effects.
    .

    Tim, why is this so hard to understand? I have been in more ambulances in the past ten years than in my own
    car. Why? Panic attacks and very high blood pressure spikes. They have hauled me away with BP of 250/180.
    .

    It sounds like you have Long Covid. (Also, cut back on that caffeine, stupid… coke, coffee)
    .

    I did not know what planet I was on. Suddenly this guy prescribed a drug for me last week that said
    on the leaflet from the pharmacist, "May cause a rise in blood pressure". Does that sound kosher to you?
    .

    Sure.
    .

    Well? Does it?
    .

    Yea. They sell medicine that lowers blood pressure, why not medicine that raises it?
    .

    And I am not comparing it to cardamom, cardamom is well known to reduce blood pressure.
    Cardamom is a different subject. Cardamom does not even belong in this thread.

    By the way, have you tasted cardamom? It's fantastic. Mostly in India food.


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  • From Tim Norfolk@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Jan 13 17:57:24 2023
    On Friday, January 13, 2023 at 12:06:08 AM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote:
    On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 8:57:29 PM UTC-8, Tim Norfolk wrote:
    On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 11:40:38 PM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote:
    On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 8:33:13 PM UTC-8, BillB wrote:


    ME: "It was 6.45% as measured by the CPI"
    That's like the FDA saying the VAX will protect you from Covid. It's bullshit.
    Except that the data says so.
    But it doesn't, you dumb stupid fuck.

    Based on what? Pray tell.

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