Clearing up some common misconceptions.

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

Disclaimer: US politics

I was talking to a democrat I'd known for a few years about Herman Cain's 9-9-9 plan, and he was totally against it, just because the idea came from a Republican's mouth. Now, the US tax code SUUUUCKS. It punishes individuals with higher annual income: at 100,000 a year, almost 50% is taxable, compared to 10-20% for someone who makes minimum wage. It has a bunch of loopholes for people who can afford a dozen lawyers and CPAs to file a return for them. not only that, but your state refund is taxable, and there's an alternative minimum tax for those who are eligible for too many deductions. Plus, simply compiling information for and filing your mandatory, yearly tax return costs about 30 cents for every dollar of your refund (mind you, the refund is YOUR money that the government wrongly took). Finally, most Americans don't even know what they're doing when they file a return.

So tell me, how is a 9% flat tax any worse than THAT?!

PS - the tax rates that manufacturers and retailers pay on their goods are sky high, around 50%.

If you explain the situation of the new plan a bit more to me I could give you actual reason why it could be wrong or at least a poor idea according to Economics(the subject in school).

A black hole is supercondensed matter. Like a sun or two compressed into a tiny size, Take the same amount of matter and use it for nuclear fusion..... thats enough energy to..... idk a gtood comparison -.-, but it would be a greater force. Gravity is weak because it requires soooo much mass to be powerful.

Aside from the logistical nightmare or rather impossibility of mining something as dense as black hole or keeping it somewhere that is not how fission or fusion works. Gravity is weak because it is weak as to compare it to video games dual wielding Klobbs still doesn't make them a decent gun.

Fusion works when the gravity in a star compresses Hydrogen to Helium and then the heat assists in this or we heat things really hot and then they can fuse more easily. That is a simplification though. Black Holes just suck everything into its super dense self so I don't see how this would aid in fusion.

I'm saying you should use a black hole in fusion -.- . But the same amount of matter would provide more energy/force if used in any other way. Gravity in a black hole is only strong because there is so fricking much of matter.

Right that's fair enough.

 

[Nathan Crumpler]

Not all Metal bands write songs about the devil or about being evil in general. There are bands like slayer that talk about evil things in almost every song, but there are also bands like Iron Maiden who rarely write songs about satan or being evil. Iron Maiden is known for writing songs about history and and books.

 

[AngleWyrm]

My fellow Americans, you do NOT need to eat an entire fucking cow every day! Seriously, I'm amazed by how much people over-consume meat in this country. I have no moral stance against eating meat, but damn, most people I see eat WAY too much.

That is not a misconception, that is an opinion. There is a difference.

A misconception is a false interpretation or false understanding.

For instance, most people think that fat people could be normal sized people if they just ate less and exercised more. But clearly that is not the case, because we still have fat people.

 

[Doclector]

That a little insanity is a bad thing. Heck, a lot of mental "problems" form as a defence mechanism, preventing greater damage.

 

[9thRequiem]

For instance, most people think that fat people could be normal sized people if they just ate less and exercised more. But clearly that is not the case, because we still have fat people.

Your conclusion may be correct, but "because we still have fat people" isn't a valid justification - you've not proved that all fat people actually do eat less and exercise more.

OT : "Sushi" refers to the rice, not anything related to raw fish.

 

[Loner Jo Jo]

Hello fellow Escapists. As the title of this thread suggests, what are some common misconceptions that you would like to clear up?

My fellow Americans, you do NOT need to eat an entire fucking cow every day! Seriously, I'm amazed by how much people over-consume meat in this country. I have no moral stance against eating meat, but damn, most people I see eat WAY too much. This wouldn't be so bad, but the average American doesn't eat enough fruits or vegetables either. I don't know why, but people here in America always seem to be concerned about not getting enough protein. (And trust me, we're in no danger of it) Hell, most fruits and vegetables taste damn good too, so I' m surprised that people here don't eat more of them.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Seriously, that's not a misconception. I don't think any THINKS they need that much meat in their diet. They just like the taste of meat so they eat of a lot of it. Furthermore, most people also realize that fruits and vegetables are better for them than meat. They either don't care, don't like them, or do not have the resources to eat them on a consistent basis because fresh produce is very expensive.

A misconception is something that everyone believes to be true, but is actually false. For instance, the idea that lemmings will commit mass suicide. Your example is more about antipathy than anything else.

 

[Tyrant55]

As an aspiring nutritionist, I will just preface this post by saying that the majority of things that the average person believes about proper nutrition are just plain wrong.

1. Fat does not make you fat any more than carbohydrates or protein do. A caloric excess from carbohydrates, fat, protein, or all three together will make you fat.
2. Eggs do not negatively affect blood cholesterol levels in healthy individuals. Don't throw away the goddamn egg yolk, it's where pretty much all of the nutrients are!
http://jn.nutrition.org/content/134/1/187.full
3. Over-consumption of carbohydrates can raise your cholesterol. Yes, that means the toast can in fact raise your cholesterol more so than the eggs in your breakfast. Chronically elevated insulin levels wreck your lipid profiles.
http://www.medhelp.org/tags/health_page/32718/complementary-medicine/Its-insulinnot-cholesterol-you-should-watch-like-a-hawk-?hp_id=694
4. Eating many small meals a day is no better than eating one or two larger meals. Your body will not go into starvation mode after six hours of not eating, we are far more resilient than that.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9155494
5. High protein diets ARE NOT bad for your kidneys if you don't already have kidney disease. Protein is generally the most satiating of the three macronutrients, and it has a higher thermic effect of food (TEF) which can lead to easier weight loss/maintenance. I'm not saying that it should be 80% of your diet or anything, but the fear mongering over high protein diets is BS promoted by militant vegetarians.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16174292

There are many more, but I'll leave it at that for now.

I just wanted to say I love you a lot from now on. Fat people always ask me how I lost weight, when I tell them they don't believe me because DURRRR FEWD PYRAMED!

I know that feel bro, I lost 80 pounds myself and ever since then people have been asking me how. Somehow, telling them that I reduced my food intake and started counting calories isn't exciting or exotic enough for them, they want me to tell them that I lost the weight because I started taking some magic pill or drinking the juice of some exotic fruit. People don't want to hear the truth when it comes to sustainable weight loss and health management.