I miss things spreading by word-of-mouth, not The Algorithm.™

I miss people making things for fun, not for the exit strategy.

I miss misinformation being called out and bullied mercilessly, not rewarded for Engagement.™

I miss Nazi being hyperbole, not an alternative viewpoint we’re supposed to acknowledge as valid.

The data used in this study came from self-report surveys and questionnaires that mainly seemed to ask when and if they were diagnosed with type-2 diabetes. The results were adjusted for quite a few factors like obesity, socioeconomic status, and daily sugar intake, but I didn’t see anything about overall dietary patterns or physical activity levels. I did see the phrase “physical activity” in the footnote of one of the tables, but no further context. The top end group was those who had more than one drink per day, which implies that two per day and a 12-pack a day were treated as functionally the same. And they admit they weren’t able to differentiate between types of artificial sweeteners.

Similar studies referenced in this one point out consistency in observations among the sugar-sweetened beverage group, but the results from artificial sweetener groups have been all over the place.

I’d take this with a huge grain of salt. Or artificial saltener.

They hate Elmo, too.

Any investment or possible “profit” is lost as soon as a road needs repairs. And high-use roads need repairs waaaaay more often and are a lot more expensive than maintaining a rail system.

Highly-used roads are even less profitable since they need expensive repairs much more often.

To your point, though, the idea that every service has to make a profit is most of what’s wrong with me modern society.

Too bad the second somebody comes up with something it’ll get enshittified to hell.

Reminder that woke was originally used as a positive term.

I grew up agnostic/atheist in the Bible Belt. There was a lot of casual discrimination, ostracism, and judgement if you weren’t Christian. Even among different churches. I’d have loved for there have been more Christians like you, but unfortunately the TV/Fox News Christians are all over the place down there.

Being told my disability doesn’t even exist. Or can easily be cured with some random-ass supplements.

This will also be my first time not preordering a Pokemon game since Black, let alone buying it. Not that I won’t still play it by other means.

Guess I lied. I didn’t have the Virtual Boy. But does the Pokemon Mini really count as a console?

It still most likely is the lowest grade stuff, just with bits of leftover Wagyu tossed in just so they can call it Wagyu chili.

Remember a few years ago when people died after a snow storm in Texas because lawmakers largely ignored recommendations to winterize their shitty private power grid? Hold these people accountable.

This whole practice, among other things, is so shitty that I decided to not get a Switch 2, having had every Nintendo console since the NES.

But it’s important to make the distinction between disabling and bricking. It may seem like a technicality, but that’s the kind of thing that’ll get a lawsuit dismissed. Not that I have any faith in that process anyway.

It’s be even better if they went just ten minutes down the road to Virginia or Maryland.

Smoked deviled eggs: throw peeled hard-boiled eggs on the grill or smoker for an hour or so on low indirect heat. The filling is similar to regular deviled eggs, but you swap yellow mustard with Dijon, relish with diced jalapenos, and mix in a couple teaspoons of BBQ rub. Garnish with a jalapeno slice. The last couple times I made them for a potluck I didn’t get to have any because they were already gone by the time I made it to that point in the line.

For dips, I won a dip competition at work with this jalapeno ranch recipe.

This is why I’ve always liked using sodium chloride as the fearmongering example over dihydrogen monoxide.

You’ve got a chemical made up of a metal that’s so unstable it explodes when it touches water (and guess what’s in you!) and a poisonous gas. Is that something you want to put in your body? No? Well, what if I told you that food manufacturers add it to nearly everything? Or that a detectable amount of it is in you at any given time, and has been since your conception?

“This is why the criticism doesn’t matter to us when you call us Nazis. ‘Nazi this and Nazi that.’ You know, I’m beginning to think they don’t like us. You know what? I’ve said this before. We need to learn from the Blacks, the way they were able to remove the power from the n-word by using it. So, from now on, it’s, ‘What up, my Nazi? Hey, what up, my Nazi? Hey, what’s hanging, my Nazi?’”

Some incredible self-awareness there.

That was originally one of the intended purposes of cryptocurrency, or at least claimed to be. Too bad we can’t have anything without needing to make it an investment engine.

I’m never actually going to look it up, but from what I understand, Labubu is like Beanie Babies for Gen Alpha or something?