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"Nothing unhealthy" in those sandwiches? Was that a joke? High-fructose corn syrup is SO unhealthy, not to mention most of the other ingredients. Please don't feed that crap to your children, good people of the world. ! It didn't melt because they scrimp on ingredients by thickening the product with cheap fillers. It's cheap not only because of that but also because of the GMOs--the sugar beets, corn, and soy--and the hormone-laced dairy they use in it. Factory-farmed foods are cheaper, but you pay for it with your health eventually. Heavily processed food like that is the leading contribution to obesity and diabetes (among other illnesses).
It's so incredibly easy to make your own ice cream at home that I can't stress it enough. YOU control the ingredients in this way, and if you're buying the best ingredients available (organic/local) then you're going to be getting the best outcome available. The best part, aside from that, is the fact that you can make any flavor you want (of any kind of frozen treat--from ice cream to frozen yogurt, sherbert, sorbet, and gelato). Your imagination is really the only limit. And yes, if you can do that then you can even go forth and make your own ice-cream sandwiches (if you're really good and have the time). :)
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@BryantBryant-jt9uj I doubt that she "hates" them. You seem to be making assumptions. We have 300 legal ports of entry all over our border regions. Normal immigration isn't the problem, other than the process not being fast enough because of the sheer volume. Those people are vetted and are on work visas/green cards. We welcome legal immigrants. The USA also accepts more legal asylum seekers than any other country. That does put strain on our system, which we can't afford (see the last paragraph for more explanation), but we nonetheless do it every year.
The main problem right now is the wide-open southern border (and now the Canadian border), where anyone and everyone can come across and take advantage of our welfare system. We should be taking care of our own homeless first. Sixty seven dollars in food stamps per month is ridiculous. That's about enough for a week with today's inflation. Cat is an elderly American citizen going through serious cancer, and she deserves more than that. The illegals are being taken care of much better.
As I type this comment, the homeless natives in Chicago are allowed to sleep in police stations and firehouses when the weather is inclement and the shelters are full. First thing in the morning, they must leave. Now we have illegals sleeping in those safe, climate-controlled spaces who are allowed to be there 24 hours a day. How is that right? Chicago homeless Americans are freezing to death in the winter because the shelter system is over-burdened. The same is happening in NYC and DC. All of California is being affected by this burden issue.
All of these places who proclaimed themselves to be "sanctuary cities" are now facing the consequences of their decisions--and they can't handle it. Now the citizens who voted in these policies are in an uproar because the government wants to clear out school gymnasiums to house illegals, and build tent cities across from schools. None of these illegals have been vetted, as they would if they had come here through a legal port of entry. You don't know who they are. Most of them are actually military-aged young men--and they aren't planning on joining our military unless they have nefarious reasons.
It's nice to want to help everyone in the world, but it's not feasible. We are 30+ trillions of dollars in debt. We can't even afford to take care of our problems. The more you support your stance, the more your own taxes will go up. It's cheaper for us to send poor countries money--that they should be using to better themselves--rather than spending all this money on every economic refugee who comes here (upwards to $200,000 PER PERSON a year!). Most of these people aren't coming from war-torn countries, and they're technically supposed to seek asylum in the first "civilized" country they come into--which would be Mexico.
Every person who comes here illegally is taking away from our citizens and our legal immigrants who patiently wait to go through due process (sometimes taking several years). It's simply unsustainable and unfair.
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Great advice, Carol. I drove 3400 miles in the shoulder season to pick up my rig and bring it back here to build it out (1700 miles each way--no build in either vehicle). It took me 11 nights and 12 days, and I drove 400-600 miles every day. It was a new camping spot every night except when I stayed for two nights at Honey's Park in Arco, Idaho after picking up my rig in Twin Falls. I slept in the driver's seat in the rental and the passenger seat in my Suboverland. I knew this wasn't going to be how I lived but that's how it was when I took that trip. I did have a fridge and a couple power stations with me, plus everything else I could think of that I would need.
My biggest downfall was not having good window coverings. That meant I couldn't comfortably overnight in store parking lots--not that I want to really do that, if possible. I had some rather sheer (but colorful) sarongs that I put in the windows but they blocked almost nothing at night when I had a light inside the cabin area. I had to utilize public lands, campgrounds (paid and unpaid), and even a night in a motel. Thankfully, it was after the camping season, so I didn't have a lot of people around me. [That did mean that I was cold at night sometimes, and I wasn't really prepared for that.]
The lack of proper window coverings is a serious hindrance to being nomadic. I didn't have any on that trip because it's hard to make them to fit two totally different vehicles. I have made them by now, of course. That was a whole other story, and not a pretty one. But at least it's done. Lol.
Because I was in such a hurry and was driving so much each day (and I'm a late starter), I found myself trying to locate camp at night several times. I absolutely hated that. I even knew approximately where I wanted to go (and I had 3 choices for each night because it was a well-planned trip), but it didn't really help. If at all possible, one should find camp before it gets dark--especially if you don't have perfect vision and you're somewhere unfamiliar.
I had to rely on the kindness of a local in Iowa to find my way one night (my first night of the trip, actually). I knew I had passed up my destination, so I pulled into the nearest gas station. It was pitch black out and I was surrounded by forests on the back roads. I went in and asked the young clerk for help figuring out my exact location. Her friend was there chatting with her (small town/rural behavior--lol) and so she offered to escort me where I needed to go. I happily followed her lead. (Yes, I could vibe that they were good kids and not psychotic...) She took me right into the campground of the state park I was seeking. Thank goodness! [The signage was hard to spot from the road, so it was no wonder I didn't see it at night.] But even then, I ended up parking in a site with electrical hookups instead of the primitive spots because it was so dark that I couldn't really see much. The next day, the ranger had to come along and request the extra money it costs for an upgraded site. Lol.
On the way there in my rental, I didn't have anywhere to even pee in a jar. Thankfully, I had my pop-up shower tent with me to utilize. My Suburban had enough floor space for me to use my Reliance toilet in there (it came with me on the trip to Idaho but I couldn't use it in that small rental).
That one trip taught me many things. It gave me a good idea of what I need and don't need. I knew I wanted to do everything from inside my rig in case I can't get out of my truck for whatever reason (bad weather, etc.). I want to be able to sleep, have food available, go to the bathroom, and change my clothes in there. After much thought and designing, I was able to come up with a build that suits me and checks all the boxes. I still have some ironing out to do, but that's because I'm not a minimalist. Lol.
I've literally been living in our unfinished garage for a decade or longer. I go into the house to "work" and take a shower once a week. I long ago had to learn how to live without a toilet or running water. I went through the gamut of alternative loos. I think I've found the right system for me in my situation when I'm on the road. I'm interested in the Trellino (sp?), when I can afford it.
I added up my costs for the trip, including food. I've also calculated all my expected monthly expenses, in general. Unfortunately, the cost of my fuel back when I took that trip in 2020 and the cost now is substantially different. 😔
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Because of the larger size of my SUV, I almost always have to be able to pull all the way up to the front pump. 3:04 mark: If you're pinned in by other people who are fueling up, then it would be an embarrassing travesty to our society if you couldn't just yell out to them for help if you were in that situation. 🤦♀😠😔
I have my head on a swivel whenever I'm at a gas station. I'm always casually checking out my surroundings. Never on my phone (except a couple times when I was lost and had to text friends who I was going to visit--but especially then I was watching the environment, and I wasn't busy pumping fuel). I never pay attention to the stupid mini TV screens some of these pumps have. I'm always looking around me, and often pace around my vehicle while the fuel is pumping--checking my tires and my surroundings. I keep my head held up high the whole time and I take note of everyone around me. I don't come off as nervous, because I'm not. I'm just confidently attending to my rig.
One time (on my way to the M24 meetup) I had a stranger stop on his way out of the station and admire my Suboverland because he was a fan of Suburbans, and I was low-key on high alert the whole time (without giving that impression, of course). It was one of those two times when I was lost and wasn't pumping fuel, btw. He seemed to be a bit "rough around the edges" with no vehicle of his own in sight, so I just made sure to be normal and confident (aka, not an easy target/victim). He turned out to be a decent person who honestly did just like my rig, and I'm glad that maybe I was able to make his day by offering a short conversation and some smiles to someone who doesn't always get that from people (his situation seemed not that great). Always listen to your intuition! If I had felt any kind of nasty butterflies in my stomach when he was approaching/talking to me, I would have immediately gotten away from him.
4:21 mark: Absolutely not!! Most of the pumps in this country are incapable of printing out a receipt so I'm used to having to collect my belongings and take them in with me when I have to go in and request one from the cashier. If I couldn't take my keys out with me while just pumping gas (for lack of pockets in the summer), I always kept them in the driver's seat and I would roll down the window for easy access to the area. I never strayed away, so I was able to keep an eye on everything. Now since I bought a locking gas cap, my keys are always with me when I'm outside the vehicle since its key is on the same keychain as my rig's starting key/fob.
4:54 mark: I admit that I don't always lock my rig if/when I have to go in quickly for a receipt (presuming my intuition and common sense says that I'm safe), but that's always locally and during the daytime if/when I can have my eyes on my Suburban when I go inside. Any time I know I can't see it, or need to go in and perhaps go to the bathroom, I will lock my doors--and definitely at night will I lock them no matter what.
6:00 mark: I totally agree, Carol. I would say, however, that you should trust your instincts all the time. If you ever pull into a gas station that feels "off", then drive away to the next one if at all possible (half tank is my new "empty" for multiple reasons--lol). People don't listen to their intuition enough these days. I think the digital age (mostly social media) is to blame for that. It seems to have dulled our senses, unfortunately.
9:50 mark: LOL! Well, you're just stating everything that I mentioned so far in this comment. Great minds think alike, for sure! 😁👍💯
11:03 mark: My rig very much does NOT look like it belongs to a woman. It's a big overlanding beast that looks like a man should be driving it. I'm the only feminine part about it. Lol.
12:37 mark: Real life experience here from last year. I was shopping at a grocery store in my current local community (as I do every week). I came out of the store and a woman approached me as I was nearing my vehicle. This was very odd, as this has never happened to me in my whole life in this city (and I'm no spring chicken--lol). She was asking for money and I could tell that she was homeless, though she didn't outright tell me that at first. I was on my guard, but after making conversation with her I could tell she was in need for whatever reason (it was the worst, as far as I could tell--but she was very polite and not pushy). After questioning her lightly, she admitted that her male partner was waiting for her in their vehicle, which made me a little apprehensive--but she did seem kind (according to my "spidey senses"). I was completely honest with her and told her that I was getting ready to be homeless in my rig. This literally caught her off-guard. I told her I was also broke, and explained my situation (recently divorced with nothing but my rig to my name). I did give her the few dollars I had in my purse after I told her about nomadic living and Bob Well's channel. She actually seemed interested, which confirmed my suspicion that they were homeless and living out of their car. I just hope she used that small amount of cash for food or gas instead of you-know-what.
Great video, and great advice, Carol. 🙏🙏
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Um, I kinda was starting to like this guy's show until now. When he went off on a tangent about supplements, in general, he totally lost my respect. He's lumped everything and everyone together in some tidy little box, when that's not how it works. He uses Oz and things like tryptophan made with GMOs as an excuse to shoot down all supplements and manufacturers. There are MANY small and honest supplement companies out there selling safe and effective products--most of them being whole-food and herbal supplements. No, not all supplements (mostly synthetic ones) have been completely safe for everyone (certainly not those who used them incorrectly)--and NEITHER ARE PHARMA DRUGS. People die every day because of pharmaceuticals. EVERY DAY!!! They've been dying and they will continue to die from them. Every damn day. The majority of those people were/are using the drugs as prescribed. Compare the number of pharma deaths to supplement deaths and the former well outnumbers the latter.
Why does he point his dagger at the "supplement industry" without making fair comparisons to the highly-corrupt pharmaceutical industry? Big Pharma makes SO much more money, and they spend millions and millions on (illegal) marketing--when manufacturers of pomegranate juice are dinged because they tell the truth about pomegranates and people selling walnuts get in trouble for telling the truth about walnuts. Pharma drug testing is skewed and negative results are buried. There are recalls of meds all the time because of safety issues. Large numbers of politicians are always being paid off by Big Pharma, and he points out 2 who received donations from some unnamed "supplement industry" (probably the synthetic vitamin manufacturers). Give me a break, dude. Oh, and lobbyists? ROFLMAO. Big Pharma lobbyists far outnumber supplement company lobbyists. How can you bring up the lobbyist issue without slamming the pharma companies for doing the same thing? Why was none of this even mentioned by him?
The DNA testing used that he mentioned isn't even accurate insofar as ingredient testing goes when it comes to supplements. Any worthy reporter would know that there has been controversy over those findings. Did he report that? Nope. Just parroting the lame-stream media propaganda.
Yes, there was a huge public backlash when they wanted to suppress the supplement "industry" because people like myself want to have a choice in how we treat ourselves medically. I treat myself for cancer with supplements, without any kind of chemo or radiation. I don't want that conventional shit--I want to use my choice of medicine. So hell yes, people like me get upset when the government tries to take away my medical-choice rights. If it weren't for the supplements I have access to in this country, there wouldn't be any reason for me to live here since almost everything else about this country SUCKS.
There's much more I could dissect from this video but I'm not wasting my time watching it again so that I can list all the points of contention. I thought this guy was going to be worth watching after seeing his shows on fashion and food waste, but I can see now that he falls short of being an ideal talk-show host and I'm really not sure I want to ever watch him again.
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Make your own wine, people. :) It's tons cheaper, even when you're using all organic ingredients (which I do recommend). You can make wines that you will never find in the store: pineapple-mango wine, mulberry wine (if you're lucky enough to live next to a mulberry tree), pluot wine (from your own backyard), orange wine, banana wine, cranberry-blueberry wine, etc. The list goes on. You can make "wild wines" out of many different leaves, flowers, roots, and fruits. Not only can't you find those wines in the store (ever seen serviceberry wine there?), but if you did then they would be supremely expensive and heavily sulfited (which some people can't do). Homebrewing is fun and legal. Fruit wines other than grape can be extremely satisfying, in more ways than one. Best of all, you control what goes into the wine, rather than having to wonder how many chemicals are in it. Of course, if you don't really care about what's in your wine and that it's limited only to grapes, then feel free to disregard my comment. Lol.
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Jojo Chen How do I define "successfully"? Well, I have it under control, so I guess that would be how I define it. I'm not dead or getting worse; I've been feeling better (with the exception of this summer when my 17-year-old cat died from a prolonged illness and old age, which was very hard on me). I've been under a tremendous amount of stress this year from that loss and from many other things, so I admit that I'm not doing as well as I'd like at the moment, but none of that is anything that can be helped by going to an oncologist. In fact, that would probably only make things worse. Thanks for your concern, though.
The truth is that the smaller and less-aggressive cancers, and those that are caught early, are the ones that should be treated holistically first before conventional methods are used, since it's harder to treat holistically after a person has already gone through chemo or radiation because of the damage to the body/immune system. How many people have you seen who look relatively healthy going into conventional care and end up looking like death 6 months later? I've personally seen too many. They would have been better off doing other things before succumbing to chemo and radiation first. If that fails, then it would be understandable to use conventional methods. Sometimes it can be beneficial to do both. It just depends on the person and the circumstances.
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Well, maybe if you'd made yourself more clear, people would be able to understand what you're trying to relay. I already knew lactose is a milk sugar. It's NOT part of "sugar" (which is sugar beet or cane when listed on a label). What I read out of your comment is that even when they label something fructose or glucose or lactose, that they're actually saying it's sugar, and clearly that's not the case. When they're using straight-up sugar beet or sugar cane, they say
"sugar". When they're using glucose syrup they say as much. In your thinking (at least the way it reads to me), isolated glucose is the same as whole sugar, and it's not. The various sugars act differently in the body, so one does not necessarily equal the other when added in their isolated forms.
Now, I may have totally misunderstood what you were trying to say, but maybe if you'd worded it differently then I wouldn't have a problem understanding your point.
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@JD-tn5tb Thank you for the compliment. I appreciate that. So, do private employees enjoy all the privileges and protections you think fed employees deserve? Does it matter if they have kids at home, if they're not doing their job well or their job no longer exists in the private company?
For context, I compare our government to companies because--like them--we also have revenue and debt. The difference is that we Americans are the actual employer, since it's our tax money that upholds the institute at this point.
That being said, are private companies held to the standards you propose? Should they also continue to employ excess people to the detriment of their companies? When they are going bankrupt and trying to save themselves, don't you think the probationary employees should be the first to go rather than the people with seniority? Shouldn't they cut departments and positions that are no longer relevant? Shouldn't they get rid of wasteful spending within the remaining departments?
Do you realize that Clinton and Obama both made moves to cut government waste? Clinton reduced the federal workforce by the tens of thousands. Were you unhappy about it back then? Was he being mean to Americans because of his actions?
How is it "bullying and scare tactics" to make sure that people are alive and present at their job, and are performing well? How is bullying to get rid of departments and grants that don't serve the greater good of our nation? How is it bullying to reduce government waste, abuse, and fraud?
This is our money they're spending. Don't you think it should be spent responsibly? Almost 75% of Americans are happy with DOGE's efforts thus far, so I think it's fair to say that they're doing a pretty good job.
Nobody wants to disrupt the lives of people, but this is realistically what happens when an establishment is 36 trillion dollars in debt and you're trying to avoid bankruptcy. I do hope that the people who lost their job will find good employment in the private sector (or another gov agency if they're a competent employee).
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12:30 mark: Absolutely. I started reading to my child from an extremely young age (sooner than 6 months). I would follow along with the sentences--pointing my finger at the words as I read them--so that he knew I was saying those words on the page as I spoke them. He was able to learn that connection early on, and that begat his reading abilities.
His kitchen high-chair was multi-purpose when he was about a year old or so, and from then on until he outgrew it. He ate there and learned there. After he was well-fed and I had cleaned up the tray (and him--lol), I would tape construction paper to the tray and then I would take crayons and start writing the letters and numbers while saying them out loud. I would encourage him to write those things himself. Soon enough (after many months) he was writing out words and performing basic math, while verbalizing it all. It really wasn't that hard. He was literate (and using a computer) by the age of two or three. [Sadly, he was on that cusp between the "old" and "new" age (he's 22 now), so his handwriting skills are subpar compared to his typing skills. It is what it is, I guess....]
I was very fortunate to be able to homeschool my kiddo. I did enroll him into preschool but very soon thereafter I had to take him out of there. He already knew what they were teaching and he was literally bored. He needed new information. He was also an only child, so all he wanted to do was socialize with the other kids. Lol. They told me he had ADHD, and that ended his experience in any kind of public school setting. I yanked him out of there because I knew better, since I witnessed him daily sitting at his little table doing workbook after workbook.
My son had/has excellent concentration and learning skills, and I wasn't about to drug him with the ADD meds because some preschool teacher was trying to diagnose my son. I can't fathom his existence on those drugs at this point since I know how harmful they are. I didn't really know how bad it was at that time but I think I subconsciously knew, and I'm grateful for that inner knowing. I now personally believe that all the current hard-core druggies were raised on ADHD meds. They truly are the "gateway" drugs, and it's been wreaking havoc on our society for 2-3 decades. That's why we have so many young people dying of overdoses. 😠
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19:30 mark: Yes, I do actually know how much of a mental strain it is to carry a baby for 9 months and then hand him/her over to a responsible and stable couple afterwards, through a private adoption via an adoption attorney. I did it myself after my mom talked me out of aborting my first biological child. It was the hardest thing I've ever done but I feel much better for it than if I had aborted that baby. He went to a loving infertile couple who had already adopted one child and wanted to expand their family.
In an ideal world, I would have been able to raise him myself with family support. As it was, the father turned out to be a druggie with a rather psychotic family, and I didn't want to subject that baby to him and his kinfolk. We both agreed to the adoption and we both signed off on it. This kind of thing doesn't have to go through the government, which is definitely a sketchy situation. I did get WIC benefits while pregnant, however, because I was low-income. I also had some medical insurance through my job, which paid for the majority of my pregnancy and delivery. The adoptive parents paid whatever balance was left, and it went directly to the physicians/hospital. I was able to choose them out of a large pool of expectant parents, and I met with them several times during my pregnancy.
Adoption may not be the ideal choice for a conservative, but it's a way to at least give that baby life if you think you can't provide for them or feel like their life would be adversely affected by them staying with you.
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