The Adventures of Captain Kit.

The Indigenous people who farmed and hunted here (and still farm and hunt in what land they have been able to keep and reclaim) were able to grow miles of upon miles of crops with multiple harvests a year, encouraging this biodiversity by creating forest gardens with incredible amounts of food from staples like corn and squash to local fruits like pawpaws to European imports like apples alongside controlled burns which allowed fields and buffalo ranges to expand.

Nowadays my state is known almost exclusively for its fields of nothing but corn and soy beans. Driving through in between the comparatively small cities you'll see nothing but fields where the plethora of different trees and plants were chopped down mile by mile, the remaining wetlands drained and flattened, and the rich black soils robbed of their nutrients through decades upon decades of monocrop agriculture now preserved through the life blood of petrochemical fertilizers which destroy the surrounding environment.

This process was done mile by mile as the tens of thousands of Indigenous people were killed and displaced by settlers and the US army, the land measured and sold acre by acre to white settlers who raped the land as described, filling the pockets of wealthy land speculators (like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson) who bought the land directly from the government in schemes so corrupt historians have dedicated entire careers to mapping out their dramas.

I haven't watched Persuasion 1995 in a while, but I find that whole story really highlights more feminine/soft traits in men, so it would be faithful for the adaptation to do this as well.

Captain Wentworth takes on the emotional labour of telling Captain Benwick that his wife has died and then spends an entire week looking after him. Captain Wentworth encourages his midshipmen to maintain contact with their families, resulting in Dick Musgrove's only two sincere letters home. Admiral Croft calls Captain Benwick "piano," here meaning "soft," which is interesting for a man in the navy. Captain Harville speaks openly with Anne about his emotional state seeing his sister's former fiance marrying someone else. Captain Wentworth takes time to comfort Mrs. Musgrove about her son even though he didn't have any particular fondness for her son.

She's always one of my favorite examples of someone with celebrity status retaining humanity and speaking up for minorities.

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Then restart. Also here is how to turn off the awful search suggestions:

I might translate this article later today. This one was the most complete one, even in Italian news it's not talked about that much.

I thought I'd share my process when presented with apparent "proof" that weight loss is possible (and can be maintained long term). I am not an expert, and it's been twenty years since I took a statistics class, so I honestly don't remember how to read studies that well. But there's a few things that anybody can do.

First, I went to the study itself. What an article has to say about a study is usually pretty worthless. Whoever wrote the article wants to promise a lot more than the study actually does.

Second, I look at a few things: how long after losing weight did the study follow up with participants? How many participants were in the study? How much weight did they lose? What do the people conducting the study actually conclude (as opposed to what the article promises).

In this case, the study only followed participants for six months. There were 223 participants. If I'm reading it correctly (someone please correct me if I'm wrong), they lost an average of 1.51 kg, about 3 lbs.

We do know that short term weight loss is possible. It happens all the time! So this study is not very helpful in the conversation about whether diets work. To be fair, the study wasn't trying to answer that question. The study's purpose was to compare people who may be genetically prone to higher BMIs against people who were not. The text of the abstract says that the size of the study is not enough to make any assumptions about what happens to the general population.

In the anti-diet world, when we say that diets don't work, what we mean is that dieting does not result in long-term, significant weight loss. There have been a great number of studies that prove this out. Unfortunately, a lot of them are behind paywalls, but other folks have done the work of reading them and explaining them, like this post here. I've reblogged a lot of lists of books that can get anyone started on learning this information too, but I didn't tag them great (they're under the fat lib tag, but I'll have to go add the books tag to them all).

The only way to get long term, significant weight loss is to maintain a low calorie diet forever. And that is an eating disorder. If you don't start eating more and gain the weight back, then you will die. That's the only "diet" that works.

I was asked what I'm "gaining" by telling people that diets don't work. What I hope I'm gaining is people who live. People who nourish themselves, who respect their body's needs, who get the opportunity to create more memories with their loved ones. Dieting kills people. And when it doesn't kill them, it saps the joy out of their lives.

“Native people used to live in this National Park” No. They still do.

“Native people used to tell these stories-” No. They still do.

“Native people used to use this plant as a natural remedy-” No. They still do.