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by r00fus 2y ago
Do people still use ice drawers anymore? I only see dispensers everywhere. As someone who lived in Europe for a while, I am completely mystified about this obsession with ice in every drink. When I was young and didn't have disposable
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by r00fus 2y ago
That's eastern Jesus you're talking about, right?
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Even that sounds really problematic, societally speaking. Is it good that 25% of the population has a zero or negative net worth?
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by r00fus 2y ago
If you re-read what you wrote, then the point of calorie counting is simply usesless - because satiation and energy levels contribute to the other side of your calorie equation (you likely expend more energy). Calorie counting is like count
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by r00fus 2y ago
If you're good with handling hunger - that's great! A lot of people get hypoglycemic (ie, irritable) when low on blood sugar, so for them, snacking is an acceptable evil (esp. if only healthier snacks are stocked). For me, I find
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by r00fus 2y ago
Man, the evil that was done to diets by the sugar industry in the 80s is still paying dividends. Saturated fats, like anything, are bad in excess. However, avoiding them completely is bonkers - and leads to people replacing (ok) fats with
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by r00fus 2y ago
Any "shelf-stable" or "no-stir" peanut butter (aka Jif brand) will likely contain sweetener and also palm oil. You don't have to make your own peanut butter but it tastes even better than a good peanut butter like K
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by r00fus 2y ago
Without a mandate, the country won't ever quit the dollar (for international trade).
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by r00fus 2y ago
Like most deployed Tesla Powerwalls only most recent is LFP.
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by r00fus 2y ago
Macron chose someone from the lowest-vote party (LR) to spit in the faces of the voters. The largest bloc was leftists, so they should have gotten an opportunity to form a government. But even if he decided his future was with the extreme
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by r00fus 2y ago
You know if this ever happened in another European country where the main parties were asleep at the wheel and a newcomer takes the stage - this sounds like a trial balloon to see how Europe likes cancelling democracy when it doesn't s
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by r00fus 2y ago
I mean, it's pretty logical why we don't punish/deal with these nihilistic parasites - it's because they control the levers of power. In places like China people in power who enable massive fraud have been executed or im
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by r00fus 2y ago
Who needs Al-Qaeda when you have oathkeepers, 3%ers and the like with hundreds if not thousands of members ready to take up arms? We don't need foreign groups, we have homegrown ones.
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by r00fus 2y ago
Anecdotally one of my colleagues recently moved from W. Va to the CA and his entire family are constantly fearful for his family because they have been conditioned to think liberal cities (and even CA in general) is a crime-infested cesspi
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by r00fus 2y ago
I remember when driving in the EU (France) that most cars allow you to adjust the angle of the beams, so you may have more light but it's often pointed down. Unsure if that was just the few vehicles I drove or if it's EU-wide.
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by r00fus 2y ago
Copyright has been coopted by industry for a LONG time. Its purpose for the longest time has been to line the pockets of rights holders and screw everyone else.
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by r00fus 2y ago
Makes complete sense. Iran/China/Russia all have more advanced missiles than the US has deployed like, ever. Iran and Russia have demonstrated recently hypersonics that are effectively unblockable. What kind of knowledge do these
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by r00fus 2y ago
You're splitting hairs. Both are attempts to silence opposition by breaking the rules. FDR was unstoppable except for when he tried to pack the courts.
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by r00fus 2y ago
They do have a manual, but getting the gist of the game through watching actual gameplay is a lot more intuitive for most people. It's like a 5m video. I liked the idea so much when I learned Spirit Island with my kids we watched vide
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by r00fus 2y ago
I liked how in Exploding Kittens (card game not a board game but similar genre) they basically say - watch this YT video URL + QR code to understand how to actually play.
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by r00fus 2y ago
Well how much oil lobbying paid for that? especially when same oil lobbying is funded by subsidies?
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by r00fus 2y ago
I've never seen Vitamin C listed as E300 on a label. So while you are correct, the heuristic (avoid E-numbers) works in practice.
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by r00fus 2y ago
Yes, that happened. It's also undeniable that since then, they've massively improved the lifestyle of 1.4B people. I'm not sure if they get to where they are today - without going through the Maoist stage.
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by r00fus 2y ago
> Meanwhile, societies like USSR and Communist China, that persecuted their geniuses, collapsed their previously great societies. China is doing fine. In fact they're probably going to eclipse the US soon in terms of scientific outp
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by r00fus 2y ago
IQ is a horribly biased way to measure "gifted". EQ is far more predictive of success and, honestly, more valuable to society. I have known a few very high IQ people and those with high IQ and low EQ can be difficult to collabora
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by r00fus 2y ago
There is a rail line that goes from Sacramento into the South Bay (ACE Rail) which is what you'd probably try to use if you could. Still takes 2.5hr one-way (which doesn't include last-mile parts), but at least you don't dri
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by r00fus 2y ago
Explain Twitter then - it made a paltry amount compared to Facebook even pre-takeover (which then got burned to the ground by Elon). Yet it was definitely the place to go and get the latest updates.
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by r00fus 2y ago
What we learned from the IE & Chrome periods of historical browser dominance is that defaults matter, and tying (specifically an anti-competitive move) works. Facebook is doing the same with Threads. Sure you don't have a default
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by r00fus 2y ago
You don't think that Pharma and Insurance aren't paying off both sides? That's rule number 1 in lobbying - you work both sides.
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by r00fus 2y ago
Using your logic, a shared blocklist could also be a way to "harass" people.

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