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by lepus 3y ago
If the stores you're buying from have most of their produce in packaging then you're buying at best average quality produce in the first place.
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by lepus 3y ago
Vegan restaurants exist for a reason - people like having more than one option when they go out. Imagine getting basically the same burger wherever you go because that's the thing on the menu you can eat. It's better than nothing
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by lepus 3y ago
For-profit diploma mills are taking full advantage of the situation, but unfortunately the education and training they provide is lackluster in comparison to the demands of the job, adding to the burnout rate.
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by lepus 3y ago
They're expanding the testing -- I recently got a warning when in private browsing and not logged in, but I haven't had an ad or warning when logged in (yet).
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by lepus 3y ago
So wait what's your logic here -- if a person promotes racist content but it's totally a whoopsie and they didn't mean it, the content is no longer racist and we have to prepend it with "alleged" like it's lega
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by lepus 3y ago
Out of all the gay furry options they had to choose from to keep up the bit, they just had to pick the weeaboo option instead
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by lepus 3y ago
With his personal trajectory over the past several years I would have been surprised if he didn't.
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by lepus 3y ago
The average cost of a new gas powered car is about $48k in the United States and the average cost of a new electric car is about $53k. Neither is affordable but used Nissan Leafs are available in the sub $10k range. Anything else you forgot
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by lepus 3y ago
But my man, there's a thing called an electric car and you said a "war on cars". Be more specific if you're actually saying there's a "war on GAS cars".
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by lepus 3y ago
If even discussing that some people may begin to prefer alternatives to cars in some situations is equivalent to a declaring war on cars, then I really underestimated how insecure the pro-car argument is.
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by lepus 3y ago
You joke, but food addiction is very real and, like the aforementioned addictions, is a challenging thing to come to terms with because it's something we all need to do in moderation.
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by lepus 3y ago
>If kids were addicted to solving math problems and watching educational videos on their phone at age 12, would we still disapprove? We should disapprove. Saying an addiction is fine because it's educational is like saying being add
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by lepus 3y ago
We have a biased perspective compared to what the average user does, so only Youtube knows, but I do know the vast majority of people I know outside of tech don't even use adblockers.
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by lepus 3y ago
Given the direction Youtube is going I'm extremely hesitant to just give them money to stop ads and after so many years of little exposure to them I can't stand how obnoxious they are. If they're this aggressive about going a
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by lepus 3y ago
I haven't seen this as a hard rule in people. My experience of people on the spectrum is they often just want a good clear reason to follow rules that seem like nonsense like bowing to authority. Neurotypical people just intuitively kn
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by lepus 3y ago
Something more similar to the 1980s is looking way more likely than the very different scenario we were in during 2008. It's a whole different beast this time and a lot of us are too young to get past our myopic hangup on 08.
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by lepus 3y ago
It's a pretty safe play though. The downside risk is pretty low given supply constraints and if you buy in the right area then nimby neighbors will fight further development for free.
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by lepus 3y ago
>But could it occur, say, two days a week? “That sounds like almost planned serendipity, and I don’t know how you achieve that. That’s an oxymoron,” he said. “Let’s do that serendipitous creation on Tuesdays and Wednesdays!” Maybe it onl
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by lepus 3y ago
It's almost certainly because of a disagreement over criticizing China. The Chinese government is extremely sensitive to what westerners would consider even mild criticism and reacts harshly and swiftly, and Apple's hands are tied
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by lepus 3y ago
If you're healthy enough to live past 85 you're more likely to have lifestyle and inherited factors that increase the odds of you being able to need fewer or no medications even into old age. Modern medicine helps counteract poor
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by lepus 3y ago
> It's not like there usually some magic involved, if they're willing to offer it to an aggregator, why wouldn't they at least consider offering it to you direct? The magic is actually being given the direct authorization
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by lepus 3y ago
Bloomberg the news outlet hasn't been shy in the past about using the opinion section for being a direct mouthpiece for the man himself, and I wouldn't be surprised if this opinion is shared by Michael.
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by lepus 3y ago
Invitae has done some good work scaling up genetic testing and increasing its accessibility, but tried to play a risky high growth game and paid the price when the economic landscape started to shift. Hopefully their efforts aren't los
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by lepus 3y ago
That's one useful metric, but it's also limited - you're still gambling on an estimated number of uses, which can often vary wildly and in ways you can't predict. This is further complicated by variables such as companie
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by lepus 3y ago
The majority of furries have abandoned it for other sites, if you believe in such a leading tech indicator
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by lepus 3y ago
There are plenty of other studies showing a strong correlation between sodium and stroke risk and this study focused on overall CVD risk, so it's still a good idea to avoid high sodium intake.
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by lepus 3y ago
The idea of a health test keeps getting tossed out a lot as a solution, but it has the issue of all qualification tests for office -- the loss of perceived legitimacy of representatives if it was seen as a biased tool that's open to ma
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by lepus 3y ago
It's a huge reach to say it's not scammy because you use an external tool most people don't even know about or would be able to use effectively in order to help filter through the scams.
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by lepus 3y ago
> Somebody wants to see your posts Unless you buy an invite code on eBay.
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by lepus 3y ago
They're trying to avoid the equivalent of "Researchers find out deep fried Twinkies are actually healthy for you!" types of messages being spread because of the sensitive nature of the topic. Careful communication of their fi

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