Modern fruit isn’t especially healthy:
At the Melbourne Zoo, the monkeys are no longer allowed to eat bananas. And the pandas are getting pellets instead of plums. In fact, fruit has been phased out completely. That’s because the fruit that humans have selectively bred over the years has become so full of sugar the zoo’s fruitarian animals were becoming obese and losing teeth. -source
My dad wouldn’t let me get one with 2 speakers. Only one speaker. I still don’t understand that reasoning.
Like this:
This comment section gives me hope for this platform.
It seems like every other captcha I get has a picture of a moped and asks to click for a motorcycle. When I don’t click on the moped it says I’m wrong. Pisses me off.
I’ll never get over Handsome Jack killing Bloodwing. Fuck him.
Anyone who wasn’t around then can’t really know what they missed.
I’ve decided to just ignore battery hype and tune back in when it’s time to swap out my house battery in 5-10 years. Hopefully some of the vaporware will have actually materialized in the market by that time.
I’m happy for a new streetcar line that is almost done in my area. My happiness is pretty pathetic and sad.
This is what most of the schools around my area installed a couple years ago:
I think the most important context is minimum wage.
In 1982 a full-time job making $3.35 an hour is pulling in approx $6,700 a year. Or 14% of the price of a house.
In 2022, that same worker, working the same number of hours at minimum wage $7.25 an hour is bringing in $14,500 a year. Or 3.5% the price of a house.
The same for groceries. THAT is the fucked up part. It’s what happens when people seem OK with 50 trillion dollars going from the bottom 90% to the top 1% over the past several decades.
That’s funny. I’m imagining him responding,“Man, you don’t know my friends…”
“You need 15 people in the class Mr. Shaq”
“No problem, I’ll just pay for 15 friends to take the class”
“…uh, we don’t require 16 people, but you do you. We’ll gladly take your money.”
I guess when/if I buy another car, I’ll look into gov’t fleet auctions.
Remember when gov’t banned Furbies (sp?) in some places? Seems like they would make the same decision for a lot of people in important positions regarding their car purchasing.
That was hilarious.
I’m OK with grants for certain things/times/whatever. But it seems like if the owner is worth billions and comes to the gov’t for a handout, the gov’t should just tax them correctly and say,“No you.”
Just Doctorow’s enshitification in action.
That’s fair. Can’t seem to build big things either. Or maintain what we have. High speed rail. Roads and Bridges. Basically all infrastructure. And of course the major issues that hold back the entire society. Cost of education, healthcare, housing, transportation. These are all reasons for my statement that we can’t get our shit together. Aside from not being able to efficiently build cheap electronic consumer goods.
The US just can’t seem to get its act together. And the near/mid-term isn’t looking better.
Not using the terminal is like buying a race car and not using the higher gears. I mean, you can, but what’s the fucking point?