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You need oxidants to live. Issues stemming from oxidants are about levels of free radicals getting too high in the wrong places for too long.

Getting good sleep, eating a balanced diet, reducing stress, and getting enough exercise are the best ways to reduce the chances of such a scenario. Realistically, these things are also just a way to maximize wellness and health overall and it is probably not very useful for most people to think of this in terms of oxidation.

Oxidative stress happens every time you exercise. People need exercise to have better health. Oxidative stress is actually a necessary part of a healthy life.

If aliens exist they would probably have many things just as strange. They would also need a way to harvest energy via some cycle. It is possible they would require even more reactive substances to live.

When we and other known organisms take energy from food we are actually taking molecules with higher-energy electrons, converting them into the high-energy molecules our cellular processes can use to do make cell things happen, and producing very similar molecules with lower-energy electrons. Rather than infinitely accumulating these molecules, our cells dump low-energy electrons onto another molecule that is amenable and thereby convert into a molecule ready to accept high-energy molecules from food (with a bunch of steps in between).

For us, as aerobes, the electron acceptor at the end of respiration is oxygen.

Oxygen as an electron receptor is newer than several others. Anaerobes came first. It was only after photosynthesis had produced a ton of atmospheric oxygen that it became a viable option, really. But it O2 is a comparatively good electron acceptor because the process in which it accepts those electrons allows cells to grab quite a bit of energy from that last step. It is fairly “electron needy” compared to earlier electron acceptors.

So, basically, aerobes get more energy per food unit (sugar molecule) than the vast majority of other creatures. You need it to live because it is an essential part of how your cells get food, namely, how it can recycle molecules at the last step of the respiration cycle.

The dietary antioxidant fad is mostly BS. They’re supposedly meant to counteract oxidative stress and specifically free radicals. Both of those things are part of a healthy life and you would die without them. So any real impact is not so simple as “just counteract those bad things”. Dietary antioxidants don’t always lead to higher intracellular antioxidant levels, either.

Some dietary antioxidants so lead to higher intracellular levels and may help buffer oxidative stress (like from exercise) but there isn’t much evidence that it doesn’t just boil down to “eating your vegetables is good for you”.

Fairy tales that middle managers tell themselves so they feel important and smart for sucking up to the company owner.

lmao the Harris campaign is so incompetent. Imagine feeling the need to make up or selectively edit things to attack Trump with. Imagine doing this so much that you make your own BS the story instead.

As a start, follow the 3-2-1 rule:

• At least 3 copies of the data.

• On at least 2 different devices / media.

• At least 1 offsite backup.

I would add one more thing: invest in a process for verifying that your backups are working. Like a test system that is occasionally restored to from backups.

Let’s say what you care about most is photos. You will want to store them locally on a computer somewhere (one copy) and offsite somewhere (second copy). So all you need to do is figure out one more local or offsite location for your third copy. Offsite is probably best but is more expensive. I would encrypt the data and then store on the cloud for my main offsite backup. This way your data is private so it doesn’t matter that it is stored in someone else’s server.

I am personally a fan of Borg backup because you can do incremental backups with a retention policy (like Macs’ Time Machine), the archive is deduped, and the archive can be encrypted.

Consider this option:

1. Your data raw on a server/computer in your home.

2. An encrypted, deduped archive on that sane computer.

3. That archive regularly copied to a second device (ideally another medium) and synchronized to a cloud file storage system.

4. A backup restoration test process that takes the backups and shows that they restores important files, the right number, size, etc.

If disaster strikes and all your local copies are toast, this strategy ensures you don’t lose important data. Regular restore testing ensures the remote copy is valid. If you have two cloyd copies, you are protected against one of the providers screwing up and removing data without you knowing and fixing it.

You’re probably fine so long as it doesn’t have moisture!

Technically 0 is fewer than 10

Is it a “best by” date or a real “expires on” date?

Powders like this only go bad after being exposed to moisture. If properly sealed they will last decades.

The USSR was in the midst of preparing for the invasion that happened. It was the Nazis, not the Soviets, who were surprised in the Eastern Front. At the highest levels of Nazi leadership they thought they would Blitzkrieg and win in 1-2 months. A few weeks in and they began writing letters in awe of Russian production, strategy, and tactics.

The Nazis blitzed across Ukraine with the aid of the landscape and a Red Army that was more than willing to give ground in order to secure better positions rather than get routed by the Blitzkrieg itself, which depended on pushing deep and placing enemy troops in a position to be completely flanked and destroyed or just ignored and useless.

It was this prepared and careful Red Army that defeated the Nazis.

The idea that the USSR was unprepared is a holdover from Kruschev’s bullshitting against Stalin such as his “Secret Speech”.

PS if the USSR had managed to invade Germany despite the countries between them, you would have seen a WWII with the liberal states joining the fascists to destroy the USSR. The liberal states had been hemming and hawing about Nazi expansion because they were moving East, after all, and might take care of the Red Menace for them. They did not expect the Western front.

OWS was not well-organized. Palestinian solidarity groups are doing better. The key difference is in being able to coherently make informed decisions as a group and then act on them as one.

Every OWS encampment was basically 5-30 orgs all doing their own thing and then fighting about horizontalism and being naive about how the cops and City Hall would treat them. We need to be able to act like 1-3 orgs (even if there are more), politically educate so we can avoid mistakes, and create good structure as early as possible so that expectations are set and time isn’t wasted and bad decisions are avoided.

The US left is basically slowly relearning the basics of organizing. Get involved and make it go faster!

The US has starved hundreds of thousands of kids in Yemen for a decade. The common pattern is not valuing Yemeni lives, even children. Perhaps it was on purpose, perhaps “bad Intel”, it doesn’t really matter because the US doesn’t care in the first place. Common Americans don’t even know Yemen exists.

This is the kind of China callout I can get behind

I believe her but only because the resistance is constantly surprising the IOF. If it were just her statements in isolation it could just be interrogaters lying for their own purposes.

Trade unionism has a rich imperialist history. This is an obstacle we must overcome.

Critical support to capitalism’s contradictions in the imperial core.

He’s just like me fr

Mostly the latter, as the two capitalist parties jealously guard their duopoly.