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I do not disagree with literally anything you’ve said here, so I’m not sure why you’re presenting it as such.

Nor am I 'hand wave’ing the research, I’m reading it and seeing what it actually says, like you also have. What the cited research definitively does not claim (or even imply) is “Dangerously high levels of arsenic and cadmium found in samples of store-bought rice from more than 100 different brands purchased in the US.”.

You’re fine. The headline is wrong.

Dangerous Normal levels of arsenic and cadmium found in samples of store-bought rice from more than 100 different brands purchased in the US.

The highest levels described was 129 parts per billion. The FDA limit for 2-year old infants (for ‘rice cereal’) is 100ppb. The ‘purest’ rice in the study is 55 ppb.

There is no study to suggest 129 ppb of Arsenic is dangerous. The headline just baselessly asserts this. The methodology for ‘arsenic exposure’ also doesn’t account for what they mention - that the majority of arsenic in rice actually leaches into the water, which many people throw away. Even people eating the ‘worst’ US rice are getting more arsenic from fruit and vegetables.

• Is reducing heavy metal ingestion good and ideal? Yes.
• Is it also incredibly normal and natural for trace heavy metals to be in food? Yes.
• And is it true that ALL the studied rice were significantly under “dangerous” levels? Yeah.

Lying headline. Rice is fine. These shitty headlines hurt people more (by instilling anxiety while also turning them away from healthy options like rice) than they help.

WW1 and WW2 were fought with German guns, I know not what weapons WW3 will be fought with, but it and WW4 will probably also be German guns.

We don’t learn to denazify Germany until at least WW7 or 8.

HoI4 has always been the one I struggled to get into. I’ve loved Stellaris (big ups to Gigastructures mod), but not tried the recent busted-ness.

You absolutely can fuck the English in it right proper, but it isn’t easy. They start as the #1 most powerful country, largely due to owning the East India Company/British Raj, and they own all the British Isles outright.

Liberating India isn’t too hard if you pally up to them. But after that you kinda need a strong-ass navy (with pretty strong armies), and ideally a couple big European allies to conquer the mainland.

No major restrictions on your choice of war goals in Vicky, so you can evict them with impunity. Probably takes a fair few wars though. I’ve seen various European countries be evicted from Europe and are stuck as a single island province.

Bonus points if you get good at doing trade wars and using soft power. If you can liberate more colonies to deny them raw resources, and outcompete them in high-value goods, it is possible to fuck over their economy repeatedly. Sometimes they’ll eventually succumb to a trade union-led revolution.

For me personally, Vicky 3 is the winner by a long mile. I have sunk hundreds more hours into that game than Stellaris or CK3, and EU4 was my previous favourite.

I actually think Vicky 3’s developments borderline obsolete the EU series for me.

Being thrown over 100 feet?? Either that sheriff was driving a trillion miles an hour more than 57, or was very intentionally accelerating as they hit them.