Fortunately, this planet has abundant land and sea life that will absorb and fix that carbon dioxide for you, liberating highly reactive oxygen in the process. No problem - the amount of carbon used is proportional to the amount of carbon available. All available evidence shows that CO2 lags global temperature rises, rather than leading it. Science IS real, and it says carbon is NOT a pollutant.

You should have no guilt over this (although efficiency is always to be aimed for). And carbon is probably the least objectionable byproduct of burning the bunker oil that fuels ships - you can't make anything that heavy burn cleanly without insane combustion temperatures.

It's true. Hateful ideologies make people see everyone who disagrees with them as threats to social order; make people equate expressing an opinion with physical violence. It's concerning that these authoritarian ideologies, in which the enlightened few want to limit the rights of the dumb, uneducated, deplorable many "for their own good," have spread so far and wide, causing so much real-world harm. We need to combat these mind viruses if we want to preserve democracy and civil rights.

In western countries historically men were typically a bit older than their wife but the wife usually was fairly young still. Definitely way younger than now. I think the average maternal age in the US is close to 30 now. This was a rational arrangement since women had fewer economic opportunities. Now women can do basically everything men can do so they choose to defer pregnancy, which has its own consequences that people are now learning to manage and deal with through IVF, egg freezing, etc.

Interestingly, genetic mutations from the mother are roughly constant regardless of her age. Paternal genetic mutations rise with age. IIRC a 38 year old man's sperm has double the number of mutations a 28 year old man has.

So Im not an American, and live somewhere with proportional voting; however from what ive read FPP is a fairly easy to justify system if you take into account two ideas:

First, that the group represented is as small as practically possible, so small numbers of people, small cultural subgroups, and a limited social distance between the elected official and the constituents.

Second, that the rules governing a group are as local as possible, large disagreements should be unusual, and ideally lead to splits in region. Issues on a state or federal level should be limited to interactions with other states or nations; weather or not you want to live in a group with legal abortion for example should be determined at the the smallest size that can make that decision; probably city by city, what people in other cities think should have no bearing.

Unfortunately the nature of government is to centralize and accumulate powers, things that were once the sole preview of a town or county are now federal issues. It seems impossible find a "fair" voting method, to reconcile how to weight two distant strangers opinion on what should be a local matter.

TLDR: Long fasted cardio. No exogenous ketones needed.

My wife and I have the same dietary regime when we need to lose weight - but I exercise, and she does not. We do 0-calorie alternate day fasting + strict keto on the eating days. I do quite a bit of fasted cardio - I cycle to the office 3 days per week, on my fasting days, and thats 3x72km of cycling over hard terrain and usually in the wind.

I am around 6-9 mmol/l on fasting days and 3-4 mmol/l on keto days, and she - same diet, but no exercise - is around 1.5-2 mmol/l on fasting days and 0.5-1mmol/l on keto days. All measured around 6pm when our ketone bodies are usually at their highest levels.

We reach those levels at around 3-4 weeks of following the diet. (We use this diet every year in the autumn, to burn what we gained over the summer of beer, eating out and other indulgences).

A few other differences: - fasted cardio means I get to maintain high ketone body concentrations through the night and in the morning. I routinely get 5-6mmol/l at 7am following the fasting+cycling days. - fasted cardio makes me very satiated the following day; I eat a very small keto breakfast and can't stand the sight of food till the evening. I maintain high ketosis through the day and have no problem with energy levels. Weird. - i have very low blood sugar, at around 2-3mmol/l on the fasting+cycling days. First few days are hard, then it's getting easier and easier.

I did ADF and ADF+keto many times in my life, usually for 2-3 months, and it always works, but only when I added long, steady-state fasted cardio did I start to experience those very high levels of ketone body concentrations. It was very scary at first, but nothing bad happened.

For comparison, while doing a multi-day fast - the longest I did was 82 hours - I am reaching something like 3mmol/l and feel very miserable throughout (not physically, but mentally). Short fasts (36hr) and keto are significantly easier. Weight drops very, very quickly.