i actually agree that it's likely that trump won georgia by hundreds of thousands of votes.

but, you'll never prove it - just like you'll never prove that he lost pennsylvania by hundreds of thousands of votes in 2016.

he got outcheated, and he got upstaged. the deep state likes the other guy better.

these races in georgia are both too close to predict and will likely be decided by realities on the ground.

jimmy doesn't know what the rule of law means. ahahahahaha.

the rule of law refers to the premise that the government is itself also bound by rules and must be held accountable to the law. this is widely misunderstood by plainly stupid people to refer to a law and order type agenda. but this is just simple ignorance of basic legal language. the rule of law is the basic idea underlying the historical process that produced parliamentary government, and a central tenet of any system of liberalism, in broad or general meaning.

btw, what do i think of the idea that assange can't go to jail in america because he's too retarded?

well, it's intriguing. assange didn't used to come off as autistic, but who knows what spending that much time alone can do to you. rather, it may be an example of a judge coming up with an excuse to avoid doing something she felt was unjust for other reasons. certainly, she didn't seem to agree with many of assange's arguments, or at least not in an official capacity.

this is such a strange fiasco, all around. there's certainly a history of the british state taking particularly hard lines on what it considers to be dissidents, and a resulting history of official state apologies, after the fact. assange may have been played for a fool, but to suggest it assigns him some kind of developmental disorder is perhaps stretching credulity. 

so, what do they do, now? do they assign him a social worker, and put him on disability? do they put him in a minimum security prison for the rest of his life? this is what they seem to want to do. but how long can the charade be upheld...?

again: i think it's better that mr. assange is out of the public focus. while there is a place for principled lawyerly critique and defenses of journalistic freedom, the reality is that no empire in the history of the world would have let him get away with that and that he had really become a liability, due to being played like a patsy. he really should have been more careful, and he had no exit strategy once he got caught, so it was just a matter of time. it's important that these arguments are made, but, at the same time, everybody is being delusional about the set of possible outcomes, here. 

so, what are my options?

- boost vector

- sunflower seeds

- almonds

- hazelnuts

- some kind of nut spread - hazelnut, peanut, almond, etc. look for high omega-3s, low sugar, etc.

the vector is probably the most nutritious, but it comes with a lot of calories. i may want to increase the amount, anyways, which would undo the reasons behind decreasing it. the sunflower seeds are probably the most cost effective, but it comes with a high omega-6 and i'm not sure if i'm allergic to it or not. the almonds & hazelnuts don't really have an upside besides making the math work. and, the nut spread would be the tastiest option - if i can find a healthy enough product that i want to commit to it.

so, let's work these ideas out.

option 1: boost vector

i'm deciding i need at least 15% more e in the fruit bowl. so, i'd want to triple the amount of vector cereal to get to that, which would increase the amount to 45 grams and put it on par with the all bran in terms of quantity. that would substantively increase the amounts of vitamin a (+9%), vitamin b5 (+14%), vitamin b7 (+42%), vitamin b9 (+30%) and vitamin b15 (+9%), as well. however, the omega-6 increase would not be enough to meet the new requirement of 50%. the cost increase would be $0.28, and the calorie increase would be 120.

option 2: sunflower seeds

15% is 2.25 mg. 35.17x = 2.25 <---> x = 2.25/35.17= 0.06397497867. so, 7 grams of sunflower seeds should be sufficient. a big teaspoon would be about 8 g. if i use data for dry kernels, that would contribute 2.8136 mg of vitamin e (+18.5%), 0% vitamin a, 1.5% vitamin b5, 18.25% vitamin b7, 4.5% vitamin b9 & .5% b15 increase. omega-6s would increase by 1.84 g, which would put the total around 49.5%. the calorie increase would be 46.72, while the cost would be $8.05/kg, which works out to 8.05*.008 = $0.0644.

the sunflower seeds dominate the nuts on e, so they're the preferable option if i can handle them, and i've done some shopping on spreads and come to the conclusion that they're just going to mix the nuts with flax or chia - and i'm just as well off doing it myself, and will save a lot of money if i do. so, we're down to two options.

the initial reason i brought in the sunflower seeds for the pasta bowl was actually to boost the b5, but i'm stepping away from that. the b5 data for sunflower seeds at the usda has dramatically different numbers for cooked and raw sunflower seeds in a way that doesn't make much sense to me; b5 degrades in heat, so the b5 numbers for roasted sunflower seeds should be less than the b5 numbers for dried sunflower seeds, and yet are upwards of 5-8x higher. when you go to the usda site instead of the self site, the usda doesn't show it's work in how it got to the higher numbers for roasted seeds, but does indicate that it's lower numbers for dried seeds are based on direct measurement (albeit only two measurements...). so, i'm left to speculate that the numbers for the higher measurement are potentially screwy. what that means is that the justification for sunflower seeds in the pasta bowl is now shifted to e, and i may decide i don't like the fatty acid ratio. but, that just means it's more important to boost both the and the b6 in the fruit bowl, if the pasta bowl ends up being the weak link.

further, the reason i cut the vector was that i want to keep the number of calories under 1000, and the new requirements mean i actually want them to be between 1000-1200. the acceptable cost of the item also increased to $6.00.

i'm going to consequently opt for a combination of the two options, i think. if i boost the vector by 150%, i'll get several more of the vitamins that should now have higher footprints, a few more calories and minimal increases in omega-6s. then, if i add a teaspoon of sunflower seeds, i should get up over the requirements for e, over the requirements for omega-6 and even get a nice shot of b7.

and, as i do so, i'm going to increase the amount for the fat solubles from 30% to 40%.

so, there's a big, total update coming. and, hopefully it's the last one.

so, i seem to have convinced myself that i kept the sunflower seeds down this time, despite there being some concerning rumblings. i have to label this test as inconclusive.

what i'll have to do is test it for a few days. and, if this trick of eating the sunflower seeds separately allows for better digestion then maybe i'll adopt it, long run. i dunno. for now, if it helps me get some extra vitamin e without throwing out a couple of kilograms of sunflower seeds...

but that's not the only consideration, here. let me do the math and see what makes more sense - trying to find a way to work nuts or seeds into the breakfast, or boosting the vector cereal by potentially as much as 200%.

etymological discussions are interesting and everything, but they're ultimately reconstructive guesswork, and you have to approach them with a large dose of skepticism. i'm more interested in looking at the issue from a comparative religions, syncretic studies or origin of religions type perspective, and tracing the influence of the amen cult on the obscured origins of hebrew religion is something that's well grounded. so, you can put up your etymological dissent if you must, but i find the premise of the maintenance of an amen chant through the ages to be the more convincing explanation as to why humans get together and sing this word in community with one another. i see no convincing reason why we would sing statements of affirmations to each other, but i see very good reasons why we would chant the name of the creator deity, as a form of sympathetic magic. it's just a question of looking at these two arguments and deciding which one is more compelling.

so, i mean, i don't have an answer for the critical linguists, other than to suggest there doesn't have to be one. these derivations are possible, but not necessary; there's no reason that reality has to conform to the tidy math. 

further, if you consider how the word would have ended up in the hebrew language if it was loaned from egyptian, a concept of transliteration is more likely than a conversion from hieroglyphs. so, pointing out that they have different starting letters isn't that convincing, if you consider the likelihood of transliteration in the loan process. i mean, these are the kinds of debates you have - the proposed etymology is a possibility, sure, but there's no causal implication around it, and if other evidence suggests otherwise then it's possibly just wrong, despite making absolute sense, as a deduction from the theory.

awoman is indeed silly.

the term "amen" likely entered hebrew from the egyptian, where it refers to the hybrid creator-fertility deity, which was also a sun god. this cult was preferred by a specific pharoah, which gave it primacy in the egyptian empire. as such, it became a monotheistic religion in the egyptian cultural region, which canaan was a protectorate and pseudo-colony of. evidence for the existence of an independent jewish religion, or even a substantive independent jewish state, really does not exist until after the captivity, but the language at least traces back through to an egyptian hegemony period, in a canaan that may have had almost no resemblance to the one depicted in the hebrew scriptures, at all. the archaeology suggests that there was a very ancient, stagnant, backwater culture in this region that was transitional between deeply rooted egyptian tradition and the neighbouring phoenecian/carthaginian culture, and which disappeared around the period of assyrian and babylonian hegemony, only to be reconstructed in deeply altered form during the persian period. further, it seems that any memory of this was eliminated during the purge of history that occurred following the carthaginian genocide, leaving the (largely unreliable) hebrew scriptures as the only remaining historical source. and, perhaps they were spared destruction precisely due to their unreliability.

amen was a virile, hyper-masculine deity. a gender inclusive addition would have been to say "amen, and amunet".

i'm a canadian, so i guess i can separate myself from the situation a little bit more cleanly.

and, if you ignore the potentially scary, if highly unlikely, ramifications of his behaviour, it really comes off as an intriguing display. that's how i'm interpreting it - i'm not really taking it seriously, and wondering if anybody else really is, either.

so, trump has legitimately gone mad, it seems. he'll get gadget next time (no he won't. and, i've cited this previously as the value of empirical analysis. according to his own crackpot theory, dr. claw always catches gadget next time. but, an empirical analysis of the evidence suggests this is nonsense - that, in fact, dr, claw never catches gadget at all. so, be wary of theoretical predictions - and, if you get confused, just remember the dr. claw example. call it the parable of empiricalism as a rule of thumb.). 

but, i'm not convinced. see, trump's such a damned showman, you have to wonder if he's milking it, andy kaufman style or something. i've been skeptical about the whole thing the whole time, and really suspect he's a front for an anti-clinton operation, you see.

so, i don't know - maybe he's legitimately lost his mind.

or, maybe he's just going down in mad cat style to make you talk.

no vicious reaction, so far.

actually, we've barely had any winter here at all, so far.

so, the update on the saga of the pasta bowl is that i've added garlic, lime & yogurt back without further consequence, clarifying the point with the sunflower seeds - either that was a bad batch of sunflower seeds, or i'm reacting badly to something in the sunflower seeds. i guess i could be reacting to the phytic acid (although i thought the phytic acid was in the hulls...), i could be reacting to the high fat content, i could be reacting to rancid fat in the seeds or i could be having a mild allergic reaction.

or, i guess, i was sick and it's completely passed. but, i don't think so. i think i've demonstrated to myself that i wasn't sick at all. like i knew i wasn't.....

the last test is this: i've eaten a tablespoon of sunflower seeds just alone. it's been a few hours since i ate anything previously and i won't eat for a few more. so, let's see what happens. if it results in violent diarrhea, i guess i'll have to throw them out. if it doesn't, i'm going to be looking at a way to get the e requirements up and it may involve adding a tablespoon to the fruit bowl. the e requirements are now 240% over the three meals, which is 120% of 150% (a day and a half's worth) of the 20 out of 15 mg total. that's 36 mg of e to find. i've boosted the per meal to 60% to do it, meaning i need 15% more in the fruit bowl, even with the high amounts in the margarine, eggs & various spices in the other two bowls.

i don't like the omega-6:omega-3 ratio in sunflower seeds, but options for non-supplemental e (and, supplemental e has some red flags attached to it) without high omega-6 or high k1 levels are pretty scarce and a small amount might just get me into the requirement zone for omega-6, anyways. sunflower seeds are just about the most targeted form of e out there, and they have tons of other useful stuff like b5, too. it would be better if i didn't react so terribly to them.

but, if i do react terribly then i need to accept the facts and move on with it.

i could bring the vector back up, i could bring in something like almonds or highly fortified peanut butter (if i can find it) or i could keep looking for something with a better polyunsaturated fat ratio. but, that needs to come up, one way or the other.