Trying to attribute it to just one cause is always fallacious. In truth the modern Western diet is probably the worst of it.
Highly processed seed oils that are chemically extracted and used for frying and baking. I'm not one of those people who believes that they are genuinely toxic but they have too much omega-6.
Inexpensive sources of sugar everywhere.
Conditioners and preservatives in everything.
Most vegetables and fruits are sprayed with pesticides to some degree.
Low variety and diversity of vegetables in traditional diets.
Combine this with exceedingly high levels of misinformation both from the government and various dietitians, celebrities, medical journals, doctors, Facebook groups and users, conspiracy theorists etc. It's hard for people to know what is actually going to kill them and what isn't.
All I can tell you is is that I got a pair of 90-year-old grandparents who always eat eggs and bacon for breakfast, cook their food the old fashioned way, drink plenty of tea and always seek out the highest quality ingredients for their foods.
Zig is overall pretty good as a language and it does what it needs to: staying in the lane of the purpose is very important. It is why I do not particularly care for some languages being used just because.
Roman lead pipes were not a significant factor on the health of humans back then... To the same extent as public sewers, bathing, hygiene rules etc. Rome had it a lot better than even some countries today. Yeah you still had to deal with infections and such which could have been deadly but time and medicine era that you were in you had way better health outcomes in Rome
You don't have to necessarily use kqueue on a BSD. In areas where it might make more sense performance wise you can obviously use poll. I'm not opposed to introducing an alternative interface like epoll, but it's only recently that Linux has managed to bridge the network performance gap. I attribute that to a lot of money being poured into it with pure and raw optimization from all of the Linux sponsors that they get which is really cool and great for them but it does not necessarily make gnu/Linux a purer system. Both approaches have their merits. There's no reason to sit here and claim that one is better than the other
It's 'easier' for some people but you lose GNU bash compatibility and it kinda underlines all of the issues with interactive only shell systems -- a lack of interoperability.
It's honestly a non-issue in the current year to learn zsh or tcsh
Swift requires LLVM and has shit performance. I'm generally a fan of only C/C++ and Pascal/Modula stuff. All these new found languages like Rust and swift are pure trash.
Unfortunately, with it's use of Swift code, QT (which is now a bloated piece of trash since version 5) etc. It's just not tenable unless they give us a pure version without that shit