Small towns are rough man. People will run as both the dem and republican candidate in my town and you can’t vote in town meetings if you aren’t a property owner

Pretty much what my answer would be. Sometimes I’ll run into someone way off the deep end on the right and I’ll ask ‘how did they get like this’. The answer is “why would they be any different”. If your whole life is just church, AM radio, fox, its hard to end up any other way. Something really has to knock you off course.

It’s the same on the left. Chomsky, Orwell, etc are the “safe” “reasonable” avenue you’re presented if you lean left and aren’t satisfied by mainstream politics. Anarcho-bidenism is where you’re supposed to end up, why would you be any different?

After seeing all the goofy shit covid can do this is the big if to me

As usual with studies such as this, the link isn’t enough to prove causation – that is, the data don’t show it’s definitely antibiotic use that’s leading to a drop in cognition. It’s possible that the conditions the antibiotics were intended to treat, rather than the antibiotics themselves, caused this small drop in cognition, for example