Countless scientific studies have espoused the idea that a glass of red wine a day can be good for the heart, but a new, sweeping global study published in The Lancet on Friday rejects the notion that any drinking can be healthy.
No amount of alcohol is safe, according to The Global Burden of Diseases study, which analyzed levels of alcohol use and its health effects in 195 countries from 1990 to 2016.
While the study’s authors say that moderate drinking may safeguard people against heart disease, they found that the potential to develop cancer and other diseases offsets these potential benefits, as do other risks of harm. The report urges governments to revise health guidelines to suggest lower levels of consumption.
“Our results show that the safest level of drinking is none,” the report states. “This level is in conflict with most health guidelines, which espouse health benefits associated with consuming up to two drinks per day.”
Omg 😂😂😂 yeah that would have been awful. You’re right, Jyn is listed as born 21 BBY and RO took place 0 BBY, so she was 21 when she died. I’m critical about casting older actors play much younger characters, especially teens. Like you said, why not just have older characters? John Boyega in Attack the Block is one of the few actors I can think of who was actually age-appropriate for a teenage character and also absolutely crushed it with his performance.
It’s what happened to Jews in Germany in 1938 when their passports were declared invalid. That is what is beginning to happen here, now, to Hispanic citizens along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Oh, is it bad to compare the GOP to Nazis? Well, if members of the GOP do not like being compared to Nazis, they should consider not behaving exactly like Nazis.
Hispanic U.S. citizens, some of whom were in the U.S. military, are not being allowed to renew their passports. This is reportedly happening to “hundreds, even thousands” of Latinos, according to a report in the Washington Post. They’re getting letters from the State Department saying it does not believe they are citizens. The government claims their citizenships are fraudulent. “I’ve had probably 20 people who have been sent to the detention center—U.S. citizens,” Jaime Diez, an attorney in Brownsville, told The Washington Post.
The Washington Post also reports on ICE officials coming to citizens’ homes and taking their passports away. This is an escalation from a few months ago, when Americans were detained by ICE officials just for speaking Spanish to one another.
The administration is currently launching an effort to take citizenship from people who they suspect of fraud in obtaining it. Fraud in these cases is exceedingly rare. The last time the government tried to strip people of their citizenship was, according to Columbia Professor Mae Ngai, during The Red Scare of the 1950s. As Ngai remarks, McCarthyism is not typically remembered as a good period in American history.
There is good reason to believe that this could portend still worse things to come for the U.S. Hispanic population, unless people begin to speak out loudly, and fast.
Of course, it’s alright! 🙂 It was incredible! I loved it. John Cho’s acting was phenomenal and the twists and turns of the story were just out of this world. I was curious about the whole laptop cinema thing and it really did work well!
Very good to talk to you! 😀 Re the laptop cinema aspect, evidently John was going to turn down the role because he saw an earlier attempt at this kind of movie (I think by the same studio) and hated it. Director Aneesh Chaganty, who said he couldn’t think of anyone else for the lead role, sat down with him and person and convinced him to come on board. We’re lucky John changed his mind lol.
I think what really made the story work for me was that the emotional core of the story and the thriller plot flowed together so well. Another point is a spoiler so I’ll put it below a cut:
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The story that Detective Vick told about her son running a charity scam and her covering it up was one of the best examples of character foreshadowing I had ever seen. When I heard it I was like *blink blink blink* that’s… that’s not normal? Am I the only one who’s weirded out here, hello??
But of course David had other things on his mind and was still dependent on the detective’s goodwill so he didn’t press it. Also her saying she would deny the whole thing if he told anyone… I mean it was presented as a joke, but talk about your red flags. The next time I see the movie I want to look more closely at David’s reaction, I want to see if it made him as uneasy as it made me.
That story was the major reason my mind went back to suspecting Vick from time to time, though I was never sure and for about fifteen awful minutes I thought it had to be Peter. (Oh my God, what a bullet dodged. I was so relieved it wasn’t him, and also kudos for the depiction of Asian characters doing drugs in a non-criminal setting. And John’s acting at the news his daughter was dead? So many feels.) I felt so damned validated when it turned out to be Vick after all, because that pattern of using her position to cover up her son’s crime and help him avoid accountability had already been established.
If there had been a time skip it almost would have seemed like
Finn and Rey dated, decided it wasn’t working out and to be friends, and
Rey became fascinated with Kylo. Again, I’m only talking about TFA. My
twin did not see tlj until she got back from year abroad and one of the
first things she said was Oh they decided not to do Finn and Rey? That’s
too bad. I still have hope but I think it’s disingenuous to act as if
the level of mutual attraction was the same between them in TLJ as TFA.
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I guess we saw different things in TLJ. What I saw in TLJ was not Rey being fascinated by or attracted to Kylo Ren but being gaslighted, manipulated, and isolated into psychologically relying on him and believing she was the problem, not him. It was still Finn she was asking about every chance she got, and Finn she wanted to send a personal message to in case she didn’t come back. (Insert me ugly-crying because these two are far too young for their most loving moments to be in the shadow of death.)
They obviously couldn’t have the same level of electricity and zest when they weren’t in each other’s immediate company, but to me the way they pined for each other across the universe felt even more emotionally profound, the spark of their first meeting now tempered with a more mellow but still urgent longing. It’s like John put it, they were in a long-distance relationship.
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