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      There’s a difference between malnutrition due to scarcity and malnutrition due to overconsumption of the wrong nutrients, though.

      Kids need to be taught proper eating habits and school lunches need to be sufficiently nourishing and not pizza/chicken nuggets/cheeseburgers/tacos/pasta every day of the week like they had when I was younger.

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          It’s just as easy to have a diet of too much fried/sugary food in China as it is in the US. The only sort of scenario that I don’t believe exists in China that happens in the US is government subsidies for producing corn/HFCS.

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        You didn’t get the prepackaged “grilled cheese”? I am not joking, this was a real thing my real school really served. I was astonished that such a thing was real.

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    Here in the states the recruiters just lowered their standards for health and education, maybe on the pretense they can smarten / thin their recruits a bit during basic.

    So this is why counter-recruitment still has work to do. Remember whatever the US Armed forces promises you, it doesn’t count if it’s not written in your contract, and it won’t make much of a difference if you discharge out medically or are dead. And a lot of people are grievously wounded or killed in the military way before the combat happens.

    PS: Your recruiting officer will lie to you. Mine did.

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    Saying that people masturbate too much sounds kinda like saying that there’s a reasonable amount. Imagine the state providing a nr.

    We could even compare the nrs of different countries and make a map.

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      Mentally fit, and physically fit enough to pass basic training and not get scoffed at. A lot of reading involved too. Can involve PTSD. Drones from the field? Standard soldier stuff. They’re only a few kilometers at most away from their drones

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    Once again the US is way ahead on these things. Good job on having two whole reasons but we have to put in an indefinite quantifier in ours its so high.

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    I mean it would be amazing if this was what ends all wars but I’m afraid the robots will just take over +__+