I remember being shocked in the early 90’s listening to plans for a dating site. The focus was on collecting and selling demographics. Even the private info being collected was driven by what sold to advertisers more than what helped people relate to each other
Yes, dating apps have always been a fraud because making a social connection was always secondary to selling you
Boston
I was in one of those trains. I never found out whether it was intentional but my train hit someone on a bridge known to be a shortcut for homeless. They took great care I helping us transfer to another train such that we couldn’t see anything. I really hope that driver was eventually ok
A distant family member took care to avoid his family discovering his remains. But someone does the discovering and if your end is violent and messy, now you’re inflicting that violence on someone else.
Having a way out means a peaceful end, a clear choice, minimal violence and mess, the whoever “discovers you” is prepared for it. Sparing a passer by or first responder, along with your loved ones, from the trauma is a value to society, so there’s that
No. Volunteer euthanasia potentially benefits the individual
ripping the copper out of the walls
Damn that’s a good analogy for the current slate of grifters!
it’s always looked to me like the Republicans manage to get their shit done
This is at least partly propaganda but for sure they succeed in misleading and confusing
The shit republicans get done tends to be
I’m still optimistic. While the severity of the current shitshow is unprecedented, the reality is we tend to bounce left and right. One side gets in power and does (or doesn’t) shit, until people get pissed off and elect the other side.
I am more worried about the death of media and rise of streaming. Just like the rise of TV changed who could be elected and how, new media is also changing that. So far new media helps elect people with dark skills, people farther from anyone you’d want governing. It’s not pretty, it’s not good, and it’s getting worse before it gets better. Truth doesn’t matter, echo chambers matter, outrage matters.
The military has rules limiting what they can do, especially against acting within the US, and every service member is supposed to disobey illegal orders.
It does solve the problem at least as far as then you’d have legal standing to ban til too, and equally anything else that doesn’t follow the law
For sure, sugar is also more pervasive, whereas alcohol has always been regulated enough to be its own thing.
Sugar isn’t just a problem in candies, desserts, and sodas, but way too much is added to things like yogurt, juice, ketchup, salad dressing, throughout the food chain.
As an occasional alcohol drinker, I’m all for tightening things up. We did prove that prohibition doesn’t work, but age restrictions and taxes have made a huge impact on underage drinking. Let’s crank that up. Make me pay more vice taxes.
By this scenario, I me as n “the harm of sugary drinks”. The context is the title.
Of course alcohol is overall much more harmful but if we’re talking about empty calories and insulin insensitivity, there are worse choices
I understand alcohol is bad for pretty much everyone and worse for some. There’s no defense.
However in a thread on “the harm of sugary drinks”, it’s not the worst choice.
In this scenario, alcohol is less bad than soda. It has similar calories but they’re not entirely empty - different drinks have different advantages. For example beer tends to have vitamin b and a small amount of fiber, whereas soda is completely empty.
Alcohol is detrimental in different ways, especially when you have more than one
I want both.
Our investment in space development by Space X is much lower than other ways of developing the same capabilities and has proven to have a great return on investment. I also like the results of our investment in Blue Origin, and it’s really only the Boeing contract that has been way too much money and a huge waste.
If our investment into Ukraine’s future were as successful, we’d already be helping new nations of the former Russia write their Constitutions
But I do appreciate the attempt. They ran a test, not expecting a complete success, and they found something they can improve. Maybe they overdo it but it is so refreshing to have the development process so open and especially inspirational that a failed test doesn’t risk failing the first program.
Look at Blue Origin. Also some amazing technology and I hope for their success as well. But they’ve been working on it so many years with nothing visible that it’s hard to think of them as in contention. Even worse that their test failed. I hope it’s just a failed test that they learn from but since they follow a more traditional development model, it’s much more worrying. Only a handful of test failures are likely to doom the program.
Or look at SLS. It’s already dead but just doesn’t know it yet. A failed test is a failed program, even if it wasn’t so expensive and unsustainable
Definitely curious as well, but so far haven’t gotten around to trying
I used to do that but it would constantly nag until I connected it
That’s what happens when you just click through - you have legally agreed plus agree to binding arbitration for all future disagreements , in a venue of their choice.
Damn, I can’t even do this: my dog has worse social skills than I do (we tried but she is a rescue with a hard previous life)