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    TIL that ultra-processed food make up two-thirds of the calories consumed by American children

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  • Be careful with the plastic spatula used to flip your eggs I guess.

    Except you know, plastic isn't a real chemical. There's polyethylene, polypropylene, polyurethane, and silicone... of which there are food grade versions and non food grade versions of said plastics (and many thousands of formulations).

    Anyone bullshitting with scare words like 'Plastic' are immediately discounted by me. Real scientists are at least specific with their terminology and not using weasel words that have effectively no meaning in a serious discussion

    Meanwhile my buddy gets fucking arsenic poisoning and there's not even a ruckus about it at all. Do you know what a REAL poisoning is like?

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    TIL that ultra-processed food make up two-thirds of the calories consumed by American children

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  • Ultraprocessed bullshit word by Make America Healthy Again bullshitters.

    They think a can of corn is ultraprocessed. When in actuality it is just boiled corn in a can. The sooner the health food bullshitters are exposed for the crap they are, the sooner we get rid of RFK Jr. And his team of bullshit health advice.

    We need to stop it with the fake science... And start to favor real science again.

    Any methodology that labels canned corn and canned spinach as evil/unhealthy but labels fucking Five Guys as healthy is fully bullshit. Period.

  • Trying to learn "how money works"

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  • You've got equities, debt and derivatives.

    Equities are ownership into shares. These are the simplest to understand. You own a share of a company and thus are entitled to a % of the profits (though most companies today choose 0% as their decision).

    Debt means funding.... debt. SLABs (student loan backed securities), MBS (mortgage backed securities), bonds (government debt), bank loans etc. etc. These are surprisingly complex in practice but perhaps easiest to understand. There's lots of different details to debt (callable, puttable, tax free, convertible, coupons, notes, bills, bonds, I-bonds, EBonds, 10Y, 3M, overnight repos). But in all cases, you lend money to someone, and later they try to return it to you + a little extra.

    Derivatives (usually options but there are many kinds) are new inventions that are more complex. Ignore these as they are very very complex.

    That's about it.

    The general recommendation is to buy an ETF for equities and an ETF for Bonds. ETF is just a combination of simpler investments that you pay 0.04% to 2% a year for convenience.

    VOO takes the 500 biggest companies in the USA (aka the S&P 500) and buys mostly the biggest company and a very little bit of #500.

    BND is a similar idea except it's a whole bunch of different debts from across the entire economy.

    So buy some equities (mostly equities), some bonds, and leave some cash in a high yield savings account. Done.

    Stocks (aka VOO) make the most money on the average, but also loses money the most often.

    Bonds (aka BND) makes middle amount of money but rarely loses money.

    Cash / savings accounts never lose money (except inflation). But makes very very little. It's still worthwhile to keep necessarily amounts as cash and this you should always be considering how much cash to keep.

  • Pro-Trump owner shocked as grocery store that thrived for 43 years goes bankrupt under his tariffs and policies - WTF Detective

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  • To the protesters yesterday, do you see that the protests had exactly zero impact?

    The protests right now are a glorified meet and greet. Most of these folks have never protested before.

    But all the pamphlets and people I met proved that we are organizing and spreading ideas. This is how it starts.

    The 'protest' part of the protest is just marketing. The actual work is when you meet the local unions and shake hands with the local powers. And no better time to meet them than a 'protest'

    Everyone who actually went to the protest knows what I'm talking about. The speakers and such are whatever and just preaching to the choir, but important to draw crowds. The actual work gets done at the tables and booths on the side.

    Go to the next protest. Organize. We have 3 years before the next Presidential election, we have 1 year before the next congressional election. The time is ticking and we need to get the grassroots process started. It takes a long time.

  • me_irl

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  • Someone needs to tag this with git blame and it'd be the perfect programmer joke.

    For the non programmers: git blame is a tool to figure out who on your team wrote a specific line of code. Inevitably, the answer tends to be 'me'. Waaayyyyyyy too often.

  • Itch.io has begun restoring NSFW content, but only if it’s free

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  • Itch.io is currently saying the problem is Stripe, and maybe Visa.

    Historically (ex: https://otakuusamagazine.com/visa-and-mastercard-refuse-to-work-with-another-doujinshi-retailer/), I'd say Mastercard and Visa are both to blame. But the jury is still out on wtf is going on here.

    I'm not sure who pressured Steam. But Itch.io (https://aftermath.site/steam-itch-porn-censorship-collective-shout-visa-mastercard-paypal) is claiming Stripe and Visa are pressuring them.

    (Speaking with Aftermath, Itch's founder, Leaf Corcoran, specifically cited a notice from Visa as an incident that led to the sudden deindexing of so many games).

  • 8 bit rule

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  • While Hercules is impressively wrong, I knew Aladdin was a fun original read when it began with 'In the Far East Kingdom of China....'

    Hercules, for all of its faults, actually takes place in Greece. Which is kinda sorta close to Rome (Hercules is his Roman name lol. Heracles is his Greek name).

    On the other hand, Aladdin might be a fake story all together. As in, some French Guy may have made up Aladdin as part of his translation of 1001 Arabian Nights. IIRC, Arabs don't know wtf that story is doing in the (French) book.

    So Aladdin might be an entirely fake addition to the 1001 Arabian Nights novel. Canonically fake. So it's in the true spirit of Aladdin (and 1001 Arabian Nights) to screw with the story anyway.

  • 8 bit rule

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  • Btw: the original Aladdin story had no three wishes rule.

    Aladdin just spammed the heck out of wishes. Got everything he ever wanted.

    The only part of the Disney movie that's accurate is when the sorcerer returns, teleports the Sultan (of China) palace to Africa, and Aladdin needs to use the weaker Genie of the Ring to steal the Genie of the Lamp back through trickery.

    The princess of China (yeahhhhhh) helps Aladdin out a bit IIRC.

    But yes, palace teleportation, sorcerer wishing to be Sultan, that's the legitimate part lol

  • Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io

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  • Remember that Discover is self-banked (unlike Visa/Mastercard that banks sign up with). This means that every credit line needs to be backed by... well ... A bank.

    Bigger banks mean more credit opportunities, better interest rates (etc. etc). Deeper credit lines.

  • Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io

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  • What's wrong with Capital One? I feel like Discover/Capital One / Diner's Club network is a good thing for Discover customers.

  • Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io

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  • Discover and Diners Club merged a few years ago btw. Discover also has an alliance with JCB.

    So Discover network is actually really, really big.

  • Steam Users Rally Behind Anti-Censorship Petition

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  • Discover has an alliance with JCB. So that's just Discover in the USA.

  • Steam Users Rally Behind Anti-Censorship Petition

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  • Ummmm.

    ACH is how you get your paycheck, and it's being updated to FedNow.

    Zelle is an independent network as well.

    And of course, there is Discover and AmEx.

    There is also cash, check, money order. They still work today, just people largely forgot how to use them.

    IIRC some Brazilian network was getting very popular off of this. If you want to look at non-US options.

    There are plenty of competitors to Visa/Mastercard/Paypal.

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  • Alan Turing, the father of modern computers, has an incredibly depressing ending.

    Chemically castrated due to being an illegal homosexual, he died in dishonor over bullshit homophobia and new drugs that the 1950s possessed.

  • 'Just in': Elon Musk officially launches new political party

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  • I was an active subscriber who regularly read WashPo.

    Ruth Marcus, Alexandra Petri and a whole slew of other liberals have left the post after the 2024 election and various tampering by Jeff Bezos. Or have you not noticed the change of writers yourself??

    The ones who remained are hardly NeoLiberal, but overall have shifted farther and farther right. Jeff Bezos killing a few key OpEds have made it clear to the liberals that they are no longer welcome at the Washington Post.

    Or what? You gonna try to convince me that Hugh Hewitt is a liberal or some shit?

  • 'Just in': Elon Musk officially launches new political party

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  • You youngsters will blame the next generation as well. You just aren't old enough to see the pattern yet.

  • 'Just in': Elon Musk officially launches new political party

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  • Washington Post is Murdoch connected as of December 2023 (new leader and Bezos began to flex his muscles at the paper). I hesitate to call it neoliberal. It's moved right of that.

  • Trump Is Losing Support for Anti-Immigrant Raids, Deportations

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  • Hopefully next time Democrats can give a better strategy than pretending that immigrants stand together.

    Ex: Kamala is Indian and Black. Guess who is coming from a deeply segregated country where they believe certain castes to be racially superior to other castes?

    You ain't gonna get kumbaya togetherness as a message and get the Indian vote. You'll be seen as naive.

    Democrats are shit at understanding politics or how groups think. Republicans have outplayed you on this political point and it's why the racial politics are more 50/50 than you expect.

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    ICE Taking away a 3 year old from the parents

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  • Real question: if we just parked our cars in the streets during these events and blocked the road, what could they do about it?

    Yes I get that my license plate is on there and that maybe I'll get a ticket. But think about how many of those people actually have options beyond recording on their phones that is also nonviolent.

    Don't drive aggressively into their cars or whatever but it shouldn't be too hard to organize a blockade down the road a bit.

    One car is a hassle and needs a towing. 20 cars would be very difficult to remove. Of course it depends on territory (they might just drive off road and around) but consider your local geography and with some planning surely there's a bottleneck that can be a real headache to them.

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    Datastructure for intervals across 64-bits or 128-bits??

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    Prius Prime 2024 Followup: More Tests

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    Efficiency test of my 2024 Prius Prime: Gasoline vs Electricity in my first week.

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    Hey Dems, stop doomscrolling and go win the election

    www.washingtonpost.com /opinions/2024/10/14/democrats-trump-harris-election-fears/
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    Entry Level Microprocessors: Linux, 600MHz and 128MB of RAM

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    The Risk of RISC-V: What's Going on at SiFive?

    morethanmoore.substack.com /p/the-risk-of-risc-v-whats-going-on
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    HaneSOM: A coin-sized 500MHz / 128MB ARM Cortex-A5 Linux computer

    www.tindie.com /products/c298f627/hanesom/
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    Breaking: NHTSA Petition Claims Tesla Sudden Unintended Acceleration Is Real (but Fixable)

    www.autoevolution.com /news/breaking-nhtsa-petition-shows-tesla-s-sudden-unintended-acceleration-is-real-and-curable-217525.html