That is so complex, it’s hard to point at all the contributing causes.

• Unhealthy food cultures
• Profit focused food system
• Distorted preferences
• ‘food deserts’
• cost/value didistortions
• oligarchic politics destroying public welfare spending
• oligarchic media destroying public good will
• knock-ons from housing speculation
• Reproductive care obstruction
• subtle conflation between starving and malnourished

‘Slams’ is an instant sign the article isn’t worth reading.

It means getting paid a special check equalling the amount extra you would have been paid if you had gotten the raise last year.

That one gets you hunted and eaten by human predators in certain parts of America.

This feels especially hard because, broadly speaking, those who will be overly nice will be the more ‘normal’ people, which is the more useful group to get reviews from because their reactions would be more representative of the broader public, but the ones more likely to be brutally honest are more likely to be unusual people, who are less representative of the people you are most likely to meet on a day to day basis, so the reviews are less likely to be useful. The specific cross-section of willing to be honest and capable of providing useful insight seems somewhat limited.

Social anxiety is not neurodivergent. It’s more unusual to NOT think about how you are perceived. Asking the internet because you don’t trust people to be honest with you, though…

Tastes change over time so I’ve never thought of it as a conversion. I used to think fish was disgusting. Then I aged and started liking it. I used to think asparagus was gross. Then I aged and started liking it. You probably ‘liked’ pasta salad for a while (as in you would have enjoyed eating it) before you had reason enough to try it again.

Useful for those whose noses were affected long term by COVID.

One of the biggest issues in society is education, but it’s not limited to any one area. It’s fundamental to our language based systems. There is something fundamentally untranslatable and intransmissible about knowledge. It even goes beyond philosophical qualia. People innately classify chunks of reality and then are trained to classify them in even more complex ways, usually based on their affordances, but the possibility space contains near infinite variety we map into a finite, and in some cases extremely crude conceptual space. So much of social existence is based upon the recognition of distinctions that exist as sub-classes to the sub-classes to the sub-classes to the classes delineated so long ago they are part of the ideological foundations to the maps themselves.

Humans are not capable of comprehending the unintelligible infinity of reality at any age.

Think it one step further. Why are they trained to accept the ‘power’ of the libido? What do they get out of it? Answer: they get to satisfy, or at least titilate the libido.

It’s the old paradox of society and desire. Individuals want to feel good. Society cannot function if individuals only seek their own pleasure. How do you satisfy both goals? By twisting them both until they can suffice to get you through to tomorrow.

America does give military training to white supremacists and gang members. They then usually attack Americans, though. Some reports hold, in fact, they put one such individual in charge of the Department of War.

Messed with my chair a fair bit. In terms of getting value for money, building one would probably not be so great. The parts add up quickly, so you usually won’t end up paying less to build than to buy. Best bet is to look for a thrift shop find and maybe upgrade/repair over time.

The most annoying part is how often you go to look for a chair you liked and find out they don’t make it anymore.

Not quite. Worst case scenario is I make a torture machine for any dog, cat, and maybe other non-human animal in the area.

It’s hard to get a good number there. Most nutritional measures are by volume or mass, rather than grain count, and the number of grains in a cup or kilo is variable based on type, (un)processed, etc. One site I found says 7k~10k per cup, which would be ~37k/kg. Nutritional calculations are complicated by the conversion from uncooked to cooked because rice usually expands as you cook it, so 1 cup uncooked is fewer grains than uncooked, but nutritional data is usually for cooked foods. Looks like maybe cooking expands the rice by about 3x. Then there are questions regarding what the necessary amount would be. A cup of cooked is ~200 calories. A standard estimate for number of calories needed, ignoring nutrition, is ~2k. Rough guess?
10c cooked rice = 3.33c uncooked = 23k~33k grains

I found one for sale that does 40k that has the same form factor as the one shown in the paper. I almost want to make a high-speed coldbrew system but I don’t expect it’d be worthwhile for the coffee, only maybe for the fun of building it.

Psalm 37:7

He’s cute but that chonker looks mostly only ready to hunt the kibble in his bowl.

The Nazis will give him shit. No one else.

Marketers chose the “thwack” slogan after consulting an AI tool for suggestions, Shinsegae Group said. It turned out some managers who approved the campaign never opened the email attachments showing the marketing material.

Yet again, we see that marketers being harmful lying parasites and managers being overpaid slackers.

Piezotransducer? As in the little thing that makes electronics beep and buzz?