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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • As I understand it, SovCits think there is this magical pool of money the government is keeping for everyone (for some nefarious purpose I don’t understand), so they think they can get out off paying any debt they owe by sending some combination of paperwork that, in effect, says bill the government and have them pay it from the magic money pool. He sent, what I’m guessing is supposed to be, a bill of exchange saying bill the government. And included language that said if you don’t respond that you are doing this within 3 days, the debt will be discharged and I owe you nothing. Because SovCits think they can just write things like that and they are automatically legally binding. The company ignored his nonsense and said pay us our money, so he filed a bunch of complaints with different organizations (SEC, CFPB). And despite all his flawless paperwork, the company ultimately took the car back.







  • FWIW, the lead author of this paper is an advocate for plant-based animal diets. Doesn’t necessarily make the study less valid. The data is what it is. But knowing the author is already of a particular mindset going into the study is worth understanding. Also worth noting, the paper is based on people filling out a questionnaire and is not a clinical study. Again, doesn’t mean the study is not valid, but I think it is good to understand.

    My take away from reading it is that it seems like dogs can do well on an appropriate plant-based diet. But I think it is overstating the results to say that plant-based diets are better. At best I think you can say they are no worse than other diets. But even then, the sample size of respondents whose dogs were on a plant-based diet was much smaller than the other diets. They controlled for that statistically, but even so the study only included 336 plant-based dogs, which does not seem like a particularly large sample size.