Schadrach

I mean basically the same thing happened from the opposite side with Mastodon clients. Go on one of the phone app stores, find a mastodon client and look at older negative reviews to see if there are any about “blocking the largest mastodon instance” or something worded similarly. Several clients did it.

The reason? Gab at one point changed their backend so they were just a Mastodon instance, which made them technically the largest Mastodon instance. Several Mastodon client devs explicitly blacklisted Gab from their clients because of their far right nonsense in response.

I’m certainly not going to use Tesseract over them having a blocklist like that, but then I specifically picked the Lemmy instance I did because they only block instances in extreme cases. One instance on the blocklist, and that one only because it was entirely unmonitored and unmoderated and was being used to distribute actual CSAM (as in not drawings) as a consequence of being totally unmoderated and unmonitored.

It’s actually kind of sad, because some of the features like the MBFC integration sound genuinely useful, maybe someone else will add them to a different client.

Flops are just comfortable, it doesn’t necessarily need to be that hot out, so long as it isn’t actively cold or wet.

It’s really not. I wear flipflops with jeans with some frequency but still manage to believe in real medicine, and especially don’t believe that pairing two antiparasitics (one not approved for human use) is a cure-all or even a vaguely rational treatment for anything other than being riddled with parasites.

For any kind of industrial facility I’ve always felt like whosoever is most directly responsible for the safety and negative externalities of the facility should be required to live in the area most affected by them.

You responsible for safety at a chemical plant, our ass gets to live wherever will be most hit by a spill of whatever your most deadly product or reagent is.

You responsible for a data center, you get to live where the water and power issues are most felt.

There was one I used to enjoy whose whole schtick was doing skits mocking onspiracy types. Then came Trump, and now if I go try to watch his stuff he’s either the dumbest kind of MAGA or he’s wearing the mask well enough it’s hard to tell if he means it or he’s satirizing it or if he just wants money and MAGA is a more valuable audience to advertise at.

Cue obligatory Christian Woman by Type O Negative.

Allowing a higher percentage of abnormal bananas to go to market would give people the option to buy them, but it wouldn’t remove their ability to buy normal bananas.

The core of it is this:

You have a crop. The “pretty” ones get sold to supermarkets at the highest price (who in turn only want to buy the “pretty” ones because they sell best). The less pretty ones get sold to manufactured food companies, where the processing hides that they weren’t “pretty” - diced veggies for canned vegetable soup, fruit purees, that kind of thing. There’s not enough demand here to sell all the “ugly” ones. There’s also online markets that sell “ugly” produce, like Misfits Market - they buy it cheaper than supermarkets and can resell cheaper than supermarkets as a result. Depending on the crop, some lower quality ones might get sold as animal feed. The rest is running out of people who want to buy it.

That and buyers preferring “pretty”/consistent produce, which means supermarkets only want to buy produce to spec because the other stuff won’t sell as well, shelf space is limited and it costs the supermarket more to waste unsold food than to just not buy food unlikely to sell. There are online markets out there that sell “ugly” produce that’s not to spec, but they aren’t broadly popular enough to make a huge dent in waste.

Pretty sure given Bacchus is over both alcohol and madness, he’s going to preside over their entire relationship. Fertility too, so they may want to be extra careful with protection.

By comparison, I know of a couple (met their kid), who had divorced and remarried each other so many times (often but not always with another marriage in between) that the last time they had to go to a different state because my state refused to do it yet again. Apparently the state will let you get married and divorced as many times as you’d like, but only so many times with the same partner.

I remember an internet joke site decades ago doing one that was sports cars or ED drugs. Don’t recall the name of the site though. Quick search didn’t turn it up.

I mean, they will pay them. And then charge more for product to cover the additional cost. It’s a lot easier to tolerate that in the short term if you’re bigger.

I find it amusing they though they’d be safe from the increased tariffs under a de minimis limit. That’s a thing that could have happened, but that tends to benefit small purchasers over large ones which is the opposite of GOP thinking and is also no something Trump et al had ever mentioned, so I don’t know why they would expect it?

For anyone that doesn’t know, de minimis is a tariff exception for small purchases, basically that it’s not worth the administrative cost of levying the tariff for fiddling small change, so if it’s a small enough shipment they won’t bother.

workers,…not white Americans!

None of them include workers in that list, because most of them are white Americans, but are also workers. The whole point is “I want them to hurt people who are not like me, not people who are me!”

Shit even my in laws say they are centrist, they don’t hold a single view that’s centrist. They vote down ticket republican their whole lives. This is a thing republicans do.

I voted a mixed ticket until 2016. Then straight blue until 2024, and only one exception in 2024 and she was was a city seat that I knew and could knock on her door and yell at in person if she did something I didn’t like.

Or to pick more immediately pertinent examples, RFK is a an idiot, but he supports banning some food additives that are already banned elsewhere for good reasons, Trump is an idiot, but he wants to end daylight savings time. Both are good ideas, despite support from terrible people and being supported by those terrible people doesn’t make them suddenly terrible ideas.

That’s what they said. You get given a choice between “drag things farther to the right” and “do nothing”, with a system designed to always collapse into two functional parties, knowing you’re too terrified of “drag things farther to the right” to meaningfully challenge “do nothing.”

It’s like a political ratchet.

It’s just the End of Days… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RKRO_VssJQ

Hey, you figured out a way to get MAGA types to support abortion - just find a way for tech bros to monetize aborted fetuses for shiny tech thing. Starte= referring to them as “extruded excess biomass” or something.

This was not personal interest, though it is an incredibly interesting text. It was fascinating to discover he devoted ~2.5 chapters to the importance of the same kind of simple, yet powerful finger-pointing rhetoric used by right-wing ideologists to this day. I joking say it’s one of the earliest texts on meme theory, and it’s only half a joke.

I still find it funny that just a few years ago a feminist social work journal called Affilia published an article that was essentially a rewrite of a section of Mein Kampf in terms of sex and with some “fashionable buzzwords” included under the title “Our Struggle Is My Struggle: Solidarity Feminism as an Intersectional Reply to Neoliberal and Choice Feminism.” Especially since the bit is spelled out right in the title (for anyone who doesn’t know, “Mein Kampf” literally translates as “My Struggle”). It was part of the grievance studies affair.

I think I have a mutation in a taste bud or something, but Sucralose is really a prominent and nasty taste to me in anything it’s in.

The only artificial sweetener I get a nasty aftertaste from is saccharine. But I get a really absurdly foul aftertaste from saccharine, I can’t even compare it to anything because it’s easily the worst thing I have ever tasted in my life and I can’t think of anything even sort of similar. Glad basically nothing uses it any more, but it was more of an issue as a type I diabetic kid decades ago. Sucralose doesn’t give me an aftertaste at all though, neither does aspartame or acesulfame potassium.

My preferred sweetener though is stevia (I used to go to the local new age shop and buy just dried stevia leaves for my tea and such during the time it was legal to sell in any amount for any purpose as an herbal supplement so long as you didn’t mention it had a flavor which turned it into an unsafe food additive because fuck NutraSweet corp). It took such a ridiculous time to get approved because of NutraSweet, when stevia really should have fallen under GRAS status for the same reason things like tomatoes did - New World plant used in food forever by the natives, but wholly new to Europeans when they came to the Americas.