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by mbg721 1y ago
If you thought AI now had out-of-control racism...
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by mbg721 1y ago
I mean, foods like soy sauce and yogurt and sauerkraut predate industrialization, but are very processed. I wouldn't worry too much about MSG in particular, since it is also mostly made by fermentation: https://en.m.wikip
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by mbg721 1y ago
We'll just switch to the Cavendish human.
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by mbg721 1y ago
Salt is more fundamental for the body than just flavoring. I'd hesitate even to call it a spice. That said, umami ingredients like mushrooms and seaweed are certainly used together with salt.
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by mbg721 2y ago
The Pope directs the spiritual priorities of his Bishops and thereby all Catholics, a lot of people. He's not going to be able to say "Kill, fornicate, and steal now!" without losing all credibility, but he can say, "We
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by mbg721 2y ago
10 generations is plenty of time to develop a caste system that discourages intermarriage.
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by mbg721 2y ago
I use Notepad to stop Excel from thinking it's smarter than me. "Yes, those leading zeroes are important." This is something of a step backward.
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by mbg721 2y ago
I'm amazed that anyone pays supermarket prices for fresh mint. You can't stop it from spreading, it's essentially a weed.
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by mbg721 2y ago
The way homes are designed now, in places with basements, they also serve the function of hanging onto rainwater.
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by mbg721 2y ago
That's easy to explain--cultural and media institutions have disparaged Republican voters for so long that Trump voters inherently distrust pollsters. They might or might not turn out in a given election, but they have nothing to gain
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by mbg721 2y ago
NextDoor is an...interesting...place from which to select a sample of voters. There are plenty of stupid people to go around, and Trump certainly doesn't have a monopoly on them--I would argue that the Left's appeals to various i
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by mbg721 2y ago
No organized right-wing group tipped the scales in this election. Aside from the Democrats' weak presidential candidate and last-minute substitution, arrogant and clearly biased big media organizations annoyed people enough to turn ou
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by mbg721 2y ago
Mostly because "they're stupid" is a lazy argument that ignores why you think they're stupid. You can say "Well, they voted against their best economic interests," assuming they're all net recipients of g
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by mbg721 2y ago
The impeachments and conviction were perceived by his voters, rightly or wrongly, as cheap political acts done by a corrupt administration. And his opponent, elected in the primaries, was pulled away for actual dementia. If you want to wi
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by mbg721 2y ago
Maybe another perspective on this is that Democrats were preaching to the upper arm of the K-shaped recovery that everything is fine with their bureaucracy in charge (because nobody actually cares about Biden or Kamala personally), and the
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by mbg721 2y ago
People in a non-swing state figure "yolo" and vote for their emotional favorite, because they're dissatisfied with the status quo and have no other way to express it?
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by mbg721 2y ago
Can you explain why his conviction is relevant? As it stands, the facts are that it was for hush-money paid to Stormy Daniels, but it's clearly viewed as political by voters. I would agree that it was a grave matter if his felony wer
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by mbg721 2y ago
In a British system, isn't the head of state hereditary, and in theory has no majority or minority because they have a divine right to be there?
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by mbg721 2y ago
What you call victim-blaming may be mixing up cause and effect. Voters aren't stupid. They hear "the economy is doing great!" but they see their grocery bills. Maybe the victims are just tired of being victims and voted ac
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by mbg721 2y ago
It's pretty hard to run a campaign on "change" when you're the incumbent and nobody voted for you.
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by mbg721 2y ago
Jason Pargin (author of John Dies at the End et al.) is pretty insightful on the perspective of Americans in dying small towns.
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by mbg721 2y ago
I don't see any clear articulation of the dangers, other than that he's a convicted criminal, which I argue is for purely political reasons. Republican candidates have been labeled "HITLER 2" since Goldwater. I'm
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by mbg721 2y ago
Of course not. He was president for four years and yet the press remains what it is. Why do you think he would destroy the free press?
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by mbg721 2y ago
Maybe? Democrats had the chance to propose something better, but they decided to prop up a geriatric puppet until they couldn't, and then were forced to prop up his widely unpopular VP. I'll take trade war over domestic goods sh
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by mbg721 2y ago
You mean his sports car?
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by mbg721 2y ago
What? I would love to hear how that's true (although voting is over), but I suspect it's not.
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by mbg721 2y ago
If he removed licenses from media companies that were critical of him, there would be approximately 0 media companies, and yet he's on track to win. One of the biggest takeaways from this election is that the populace largely doesn&#x
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by mbg721 2y ago
Harris proposed peacetime price controls, an idea that hasn't been tried since Nixon, and for good reason. I don't think Democrats have the high ground on economics.
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by mbg721 2y ago
The things he says he wants to dismantle are bloated executive-branch bureaucracies. If he actually manages to do it (which he didn't during his first term), it would be traumatic for a lot of federal employees, but not exactly the de
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by mbg721 2y ago
You also have to keep in mind, "An economy exists, whether we create one or not." Too many people approach economics like people standing beside a waterfall, ignoring the stream.

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