Imagine using something dangerous to generate power or heat for a home. Something that if it leaks into your home could suffocate you overnight or explode, or that in normal use can give children respiratory issues or cause cancer. Thank goodness we’re too smart to use something like that unlike the absolute imbeciles in this comic

It’s impressive to spend as much as we do on the military and still come up short on resources

Challenge accepted

the analysis calculates the dollar value of a worker’s commuting time over a year.

That money comes out of the workers’ pockets, not the bosses’, so it doesn’t count. If it showed up on corporate budgets we’d have robust universal public transit in 30 minutes

I’ve been using linux for 25 years and I can count the number of times I used vi to actually edit something on one hand. They will not “have to use vi sooner or later.”

It’s OK not to like and not use nano. It’s also OK to like and use nano.

We took all the snout from pug and put it on borzoi

There’s a difference between a mega corporation wringing every penny they can from their IP by putting out lowest common denominator remakes and people remixing the stories they grew up with

Oof, yeah, I’ll switch off. It’s just easy to remember/convenient

I don’t think it’s that rare for employers to contact references. So unless you can give contact information for someone willing to fake it for you, I think it’s probably a bad idea

Not that I’m aware of, but you can always put archive.is in front of the url to get an archived copy that isn’t paywalled, like so: https://archive.is/www.404media.co/proton-mail-helped-fbi-unmask-anonymous-stop-cop-city-protestor/

But also 404 media is great and you should subscribe to them.

Critical support to Kash Patel for wasting FBI resources

Why use a word that doesn’t mean what it means?

Even if I’m not “being a literalist,” there’s no stable definition of ultra-processed foods. Within the literature the same foods get classified into different levels of processing by different authors. And there’s no reason why a food that’s more processed is more unhealthy than a food that’s less processed. I don’t think most people would say a ribeye with melted butter on it is “ultra-processed”, but it’s still not really heart healthy. Likewise protein powder is a heavily processed product that, as part of a varied diet, can be supportive of your health.

This whole thing is just the latest fad in diet culture, it’s complete bullshit. Just say junk food.

Avoid processed foods

No olive oil, no pasteurized milk, no milk alternatives, no chopped fruits or veggies, etc. You may as well say avoid food.

Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi went on NBC News to discuss the war and was actually asked by co-anchor Laura Jarrett how Iran can justify striking US military bases in the region.

“Why is attacking US military bases abroad justified?” Jarrett asked after Araghchi said that Iran will not seek long-range missiles capable of striking the United States.

Corpo media is just truly broken. I don’t even think you can say it’s working for its intended purpose rn

American imperialism in the middle east is a bipartisan, century old practice. Trump is just the latest incarnation of it

And in fact Dem leadership has been actively stymieing the bill. It’s almost like they actually want war with Iran

Is the right wing push in the room with us now?

Of course being pro genocide lost Harris votes. The DNC is fine with Republicans (including Trump) winning so long as they can preclude the left, which is the actual purpose of the Democratic party. Most of the base will happily be useful idiots and spend their energy punching left rather than allow any criticism of the party, all the while calling the left naive and blaming them for losing elections.

I want to see a version of this chart that factors in productivity. It’s true that we have more retirees per worker, but each worker produces more now than they used to

A better frame for this is: full payments for social security guaranteed through 2032. The social security trust fund will only run out if congress doesn’t budget for it, which is also true for every other government program. If the social security trust fund does run out (which would be political suicide), payments will go down to 80%. That people think social security is in crisis is an incredible work of propaganda. Nothing else in government is as secure as funding for social security.