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I mean, it says what happened right there in the article, and no the problem wasn't "corporate media telling yuppies" anything. In reality, people of lower socioeconomic status are more likely to develop an alcohol use disorder and to suffer serious health consequences from alcohol use, and blaming "yuppies" does a disservice to anyone who needs to hear this message.

One reason for the shift is that researchers now know that there were some procedural flaws in past research, says Dr. Manson. Past studies often compared people who drank alcohol against a mixed group of nondrinkers. Although some of the people in the nondrinking group never drank alcohol, some had stopped drinking because they were recovering from alcohol use disorders and had been heavy drinkers for years before they quit. Others had given up alcohol because of health problems, such as heart disease or diabetes, or because they were taking medications that interacted with alcohol, says Dr. Manson.

"When studies excluded former drinkers and people with underlying health problems, they didn’t show the same alcohol-related cardiovascular benefits," says Dr. Manson.

In addition, the WHF noted that much of the past research on alcohol and heart health consisted of observational studies — not the more reliable randomized controlled trials. When randomized trials were conducted, they failed to find a heart benefit from drinking alcohol. Also, some of the most favorable effects of alcohol had been found in studies paid for by the alcohol industry, which raised the potential of bias.

Almost entirely credited to the cessation of pandemic--related tax credits:

In 2020 and 2021, most households also received Economic Impact Payments (EIP) that were no longer issued in 2022.

The rollback of these tax policies had the largest effect on post-tax income among the nation’s lowest-income households.

Should probably just keep listing movies back a century, and then books back for centuries before that, since "having feelings" is just how you tell stories that people like

The far-right party leading this protest has zero (0) seats in parliament, that's how popular they are

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Oh ok, I didn't realize we had strayed off topic. So it sounds like we're in agreement these semiconductor sanctions against China are not "siege warfare"

"Starvation isn't uncommon"

Since the whole point is starvation, you should probably expound on how a ban on semiconductor technology exports to China will induce starvation

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Sure, this isn't counter to that

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I'm going to wager that decal was designed and manufactured in a non-English speaking country. Everyone knows where Texas and Canada are

One has to wonder how you've formed your worldview when you'll take one point from one CIA cable and think it proves your point. Stalin was still a dictator, whether or not the scope of his power was exaggerated by other governments, and there are thousands upon thousands of source documents to draw from on this

Read further down in this document and it literally discusses the dire food situation in the USSR and the "poor material condition" of its people, contradicting your original point

"This single anecdote proves Stalin never did anything wrong!"

@cyberghost@lemmygrad.ml

A giant bag of carrots costs $2. Maybe try a giant bag of beans for $2, or some fucking potatoes. People who eat shit to a large degree are choosing to eat shit, not forced to due to poverty. People load up on sodas, sugary cereals, juices, chips, processed cheese products, cookies, you name it, and those things are largely more expensive than healthier alternatives

Republicans don't care about energy independence, they care about money from industry lobbyists and talking points. If they cared about energy independence they'd be all in on wind and solar and moving toward electrification rather than depending on a commodity influenced by a global market