Thanks, it looks like vitamin D is definitely one of the harder ones to get too much of naturally.

Other sources suggest much lower upper limits, but still a lot higher than you’re going to get via sunlight and diet.

This study found 3.2% of participants were getting over 4,000 IU daily in 2013-2014 (vs <0.1% about a decade prior). That trend of increased intake has probably continued, so stats for a more recent year would be pretty interesting.

I also didn’t realise you could get vitamin D supplements as high as 10,000 IU without a prescription, so I’m sure there will be people taking that regularly without good reason to do so.

I admit I don’t know at what point the dose becomes unsafe, but I’d imagine that taking a 1000 IU tablet daily plus the additional natural vitamin D intake could be problematic longterm.

Most multivitamins/supplements/whatever have WAY more than the recommended daily amounts.

I also read from other sources that much of the perishable food on the trucks is now rotting because they have been held at the border for so long.

The vast majority of people (including yourself) seem to think that the suffering is worth putting up with for some strange reason though…

If life was nothing more than suffering then I don’t think nearly as many people would have children. Fortunately many of us are able to get enough out of life to see it as being worthwhile. I’m sorry that’s not the case for you.

That’s great, I do that too

Existence is accompanied by suffering, yes. If you can’t accept that, that’s on you. If you wish for all life to cease because of your views, then you’re the selfish one here.

That’s not the outcome I’d want to see. I was merely pointing out the hypocrisy in your previous comments about people having children being “selfish”.

You are clearly someone who deeply cares about the climate issue, but you are targeting your anger at people who are trying to live normal lives. If you and others in a similar position instead channelled it towards the people who are actively trying to harm the planet, I believe you would have a far chance in seeing the change you want.

As someone who has been in a similar place in the past, therapy can be a very helpful way to reframe things. I wish you all the best.

Point me to a time in the past when there was no suffering please.

Humanity needs to die

If that’s truly your view, then your continued existence is both selfish and hypocritical

The US is not the entire world thankfully.

I don’t think that people having kids are selfish either. It’s just one of those things you see so often regarding the issue of climate change. The people espousing that view are simply using it as an easy out to absolve themselves of any responsibility in my opinion.

Educating and preparing younger generations to address the issues they will face is unfortunately the most likely way to resolve such issues, and I’ve chosen to take that challenge upon myself despite how difficult and costly it is to raise children now compared to when my parents had me.

Sorry for trying to find some purpose in this crappy life in the form of nurturing and caring for another person.

I think my kids will still be able to acknowledge that being born today is still far better than being born in basically any other time during the vast majority of human existence though.

Edit: Showed your comment to my daughter and she said “I’m happy to be alive, thanks very much”

That was just one example of many

For some use-cases, sure. But so many products today are only affordable (or even possible) because of plastic.

How would you make an affordable computer, for example, without plastic?

Are there any good alternatives though?

as that is who is being arrested

I’m guessing you don’t read the news much

I assumed they were specifically talking about babies. If there’s a genuine issue then it makes sense, but I don’t know of anything that’s diagnosable at birth that would require circumcision.

I know a lot of young adults also get the procedure for the same reason as you. I was in your boat until probably my mid-teens before things fixed themselves, but it clearly doesn’t work out that way for some.

Well a lot of people who are willing to take things this far don’t really care about the consequences of their actions anyway, so in a way I’m kind of surprised there are so many mass shootings involving innocent people, yet so few targeted attacks on scumbags like the CEO of United Healthcare.

For many who are pushed far enough to carry out something like this, achieving their objective is more important than their own life.

Unfortunately, the victims are so often people who don’t deserve it.

Thanks for the response (and follow-ups). I’m embarrassed to admit I was so distracted by the quote that I entirely missed your misspelling, even though I noticed the other one!