Unreasonably fond of the realization that the “Mediterranean diet” is a random second- or third-order byproduct of pension fraud.
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Unreasonably fond of the realization that the “Mediterranean diet” is a random second- or third-order byproduct of pension fraud.
I feel like there’s some sort of higher-level behavioural insight here, about how quickly people will latch on to things that give them any sense of agency over themselves, whatever the basis.
‘The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out’ – Ig Nobel winner Saul Justin Newman
Saul Newman’s research suggests that we’re completely mistaken about how long humans live for.
The Conversation (theconversation.com)
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(There are other, much less funny downstream consequences of this nonsense, of course, like the wild misallocation of public funds towards elder care and telling living people trying to improve their real health problems that they should be imitating the diets of people who’ve been dead for 30 years but don’t fill out the right forms beforehand.)
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"The root cause of the huge market for fake Italian olive oil is fake Italian pensioners" is so incredible, the world needs some sort of Evil James Burke to get on top of this, Connections but for organized crime.
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@mhoye (kinda OT) I do like olive oil, so I hope it's no worse than other oils.
In the US (and Canada?) don't buy non-specialty EU olive oil, it isn't their best. California (and south America, somewhat) generally produce a better quality every-day EVO than the EU exports to NA. EU reserves their best for domestic distribution; they have standards for "extra virgin" and we don't, so their best goes to EU distribution .
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@dan131riley @mhoye a lot of olive oil from Italy is also fake, run by mafia, or both!