Donald is an outrageously negligent father

>MaximRecoil, if you oppose contradictions, then don't provide ones. You claim that I am wrong for saying that alcohol has calories but is not food, yet admit that foods are not the only things with calories.

Is that a joke? I said:

"All matter has 'calories', but only four substances in existence have 'food calories' (a "food calorie" being a kilocalorie, with the 'food' part indicating that we can ingest it and derive energy from it, unlike, e.g., a piece of glass)."

"Calorie" is just a unit of measurement for energy, like BTUs (British thermal units), or joules, or tons of TNT, or watts, etc. For example, a gallon of gasoline has ~29,000 kilocalories (~115,000 BTUs, ~121,331 kilojoules, etc.), but it has exactly zero "food calories", because the body can not derive any energy from it whatsoever. As I've already said, there are only 4 substances in existence which have "food calories": Fat, alcohol, protein, and carbohydrates.

>Also, if everything is poison, then what difference does its dosage make regarding its classification? Using a small amount of poison will not change the fact that it is poison.

You don't know what you're talking about, and you clearly didn't understand the quote from Paracelsus. There's no such thing as a substance which is a poison at the smallest possible dosages, i.e., there's no such thing as a substance which can intoxicate you at a dosage of one atom or one molecule.

Read this - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2246629/

Pay particular attention to the following:

"Even arsenic, the poison of choice for many fictional murderers, is now close to qualifying as a micronutrient in animals"

And:

"extrapolations from mammalian studies suggest that humans might need between 12.5 μg and 25 μg of arsenic."

And:

"This is, to some extent, academic; a normal diet will contain 12–50 μg of arsenic in most parts of the world" (continued below)

So arsenic is obviously not a poison at such low dosages, given that a normal diet in most parts of the world includes such low dosages of arsenic, and it may even be an essential nutrient.

>I have not made the slightest suggestion that something besides food can prevent starvation; do not put words in my mouth.

Is that another joke? Alcohol, due to having food calories, can ward off starvation. You said that alcohol isn't food, which means that you have said that something other than food can ward off starvation, which is hilarious.

>Food is not the only source of energy for people.

LOL! This is blatantly, obviously, and demonstably false. Food is absolutely the only source of energy for people.

>We also get it from sleep, sunlight, and air.

No, we absolutely do not. Sleep, sunlight, and air input exactly zero energy to your system. They do absolutely nothing to ward off starvation. What are you, a "Breatharian"?

>Just as propoxyphene comes from methadone but is not methadone, alcohol comes from food but is not food.

I've already established that alcohol is food by definition, so consider your mere gainsaying dismissed.

>alcohol comes from food but is not food. Since alcohol comes from sugar it retains its calories

Again, you don't have a clue about what you're talking about. Alcohol has almost twice the food calories of sugar (which is a carbohydrate): 7 food calories per gram for alcohol vs. 4 food calories per gram for carbohydrates. "Retains its calories"... lol... and adds some calories too, right? Congratulations, you've discovered free energy! Get ready for your Nobel Prize! Of course, in reality, alcohol does not come from sugar, it comes from yeast (single-celled organisms in the fungus kingdom). They metabolize sugar/carbohydrates and their waste products are alcohol and carbon dioxide. It can also come from ethylene hydration, which doesn't involve sugar/carbohydrates at all (continued below)

There are also other methods of producing ethanol which don't involve sugar/carbohydrates at all.

>and needs to be combined with other substances before someone is able to drink it.

False. There is nothing preventing anyone from drinking pure ethanol.

>That is why it is secondary to food and sits in its own category as the only drug with food calories.

There's no such thing as a drug with food calories, because anything with food calories is food, by definition, and food is specifically exempted from being a drug, by definition.

>Poison is something that our bodies do not require and has the ability to kill us even when used typically. Matter that we need can cause death only when abused.

I've already addressed your comical misconception of "poison".

>Humans can live without alcohol but not water or solid food.

You can live without carbohydrates too, but that doesn't mean carbohydrates aren't food.

>Therefore, food is not poison.

Good grief. Whether or not a thing is a poison depends on the dosage. Every substance in existence can be a poison or not be a poison, depending on the dosage. This is a well-known fact of toxicology, as famously pointed out by Paracelsus hundreds of years ago.

>You are jumbling all of your details

This is comically ironic, coming from the hilariously confused ultracrepidarian. Your laughable assertions include: something other than food can ward off starvation; we get energy from sleep, sunshine, and air; alcohol comes from sugar and "retains its calories"; food is not poison; people are unable to drink pure ethanol; something can have food calories but not be food, and so on. You're not even remotely qualified to be in this argument.

I agree, the Donald character did demonstrate some parental skills (when I meant he ignored it all, was that there wan't really a threat, when there was), and I believe you're right on the custodial situation too. I mean, even in his job, when he thought the Rod Lane character was a danger, he was there. I mean, all her mom did was bar the windows (essentially making her a prisoner in her own home) and tell her the evil truth about the neighborhood (useful information though). Yeah, thanks mom; you've could've at least baked some brownies, instead of just saying, "locked, locked, locked":-).
Then again, Nancy's mom did take her to a dream therapist (the future Roger Rabbit!).