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    Organic food versus GMOs. I think big farma is in on the organic food prices and put false narratives about the dangers of gmo foods.

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    Anything sold by Gwyneth Paltrow in her online shop, which I will not name here so as not to promote it. In the best case, goods sold there will be harmless and entirely useless. In the worst case, they will cause serious harm.

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    The American “food” industry, the American “health care” industry, American politics, the prison industrial complex, the military industrial complex, entertainment, right off the top of my head.

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    If you run a website: Paid SSL/TLS certificates. Free ones like Let’s Encrypt and ZeroSSL are just as good, and can be automatically renewed.

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    10 months ago
    • Alkaline water
    • Smart toothbrushes
    • Chiropractors
    • Yearly bug and pest deterrent spraying around exteriors of buildings
    • Self help books
    • Apps like Nerdwallet
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      Do you remember that influencer that started her day with alkaline water with lemon juice, the lemon juice being acidic neutralises the alkaline and makes it not alkaline water.

      Those self help books just parrot the same things you would find in a wikihow article.

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      Yearly bug and pest deterrent spraying around exteriors of buildings

      No, this actually does something.

      I live in an all-wood house. (Literally a log cabin.) I’ve had issues with carpenter ants. Spraying permethrin around the house, and on their trails when I see them, has largely eliminated the issue. It’s a pretty concentrated solution, about 10:1, and has to be reapplied every few months (it does wash off, eventually), but it def. does the job.

      You can get a less concentrated treatment for clothing if you’re going to be in areas with extremely high levels of mosquitos and ticks.