Conservatives Embrace Raw Milk

Not seeing the problem, here.

Regulators Say It’s Dangerous

…And? We need a little chlorine in our gene pool. If the dumbest and most ignorant segment of America wants to kill themselves, it’s an adult making an adult’s decision. It can only improve society if they do.

My only objection kicks in when kids end up in the cross hairs of that stupidity and ignorance.

What is making AI such an unmitigated disaster is that AI has no ability to acknowledge a shortfall in information - all questions MUST BE ANSWERED - so it hallucinates the answers.

AI has no ability to ask for clarification or guide the user, so it will answer the letter of the question instead of the spirit of the question, causing the user to be presented with suboptimal results.

AI has no ability to alert the user that it has potentially conflicting data sets, so it mashes them all together and we get glue in pizza recipes.

In short, AI is a slave, shackled to a job it cannot do properly, so it does it badly, with a rapid decline in quality because it NEEDS to parasitize off the AI answers that came before it, and so gets its own data sets poisoned with rapidly-worsening slop.

And we’re integrating it into large swaths of our infrastructure.

It also is down to their eyesight - humans see about 30 frames a second, birds see 120 frames a second. So most broadcast or recorded video appears as a series of still images for them.

we’re running out of nonviolent options.

We send so much of our natural resources in an almost of completely raw state beyond our borders. Why not enact a law demanding that it be in its final format prior to consumption?

They want oil? Refined gasoline and diesel for vehicles. Or plastic particles for vacuum-forming. Or actual plastic parts for assembly.

They want wood? Lumber processed into its final usable form - beams and studs and plywood only.

They want wheat? Processed and ground into flour and bagged for use.

Rinse and repeat for every raw resource imaginable that comes out of Canada.

Let’s all avoid fascism and corporatism, and vote for the working class in this year’s election. Canada needs the NDP to win.

I haven’t touched Gillette since they decided to disparage their primary customer base, then doubled down on that insult. I’ve even gone so far as to divest myself of many P&G products, since a parent company is ultimately responsible for the bigoted and sexist attitudes used by subsidiaries.

We may not have heavy weaponry, but we have the bonus of looking exactly like any other American.

He’ll have to face a lot of dead American soldiers. I will die a Canadian. And asymmetric warfare is available to anyone these days. Just look how The Ukraine has held off the Russian invasion for three full years with a fraction of the resources and manpower.

The more accurate analogy would be The Handmaiden’s Tale.

Absolutely terrifying. And once the underground railroads fire up to bring women refugees to Canada, I’ll do my part to help.

Most of the bullshit American hegemony really started to ramp up after the fall of the USSR when the US found itself unchecked.

Every single U.S. president since WWII - except for maybe Carter, who had his hand forced - is fully deserving of being brought up for war crimes. American imperialism never really intensified after 1991, it just stepped out from the shadows and became more overt.

since I’ve always lived in a democratic superpower. Though it’s flawed and not the greatest, it sure as Hell would beat growing up in an authoritarian superpower.

Hold onto that thought for the next four years. I suspect this statement is going to age like milk before the next “election”.

Holy shit, the first time I saw this was, like, 20 years ago.

Talk about a blast from the past.

• It requires re-auth every time you launch the app.
• it is nothing more than a wrapper around a browser, designed to display one of the pixelated instances.

Both Impressia and the official Pixelfed app use the same techniques, and are poor excuses for apps. You would be equally as well served by using Safari. And you would have slightly more screen real estate, to boot.

Hamas are genocidal terrorists. Unfortunately, so is Israel, and their actions have directly helped Hamas see it’s most successful recruitment drive in years.

Instead of pursuing a political solution to the events of October 7th, which would have garnered widespread sympathy for Israel and condemnation for Hamas, Israel just looked at the brutality of Hamas and went all, “hold my beer and watch this”.

And holy sh*t, did they ever deliver.

F**k Hamas. F**k Israel. I stand with the innocent and the powerless victims on BOTH sides.

Animals have evolved to desire multiple partners because it increases the chance of genetically healthy offspring.

Except the success strategies between males and females of most mammalian species - especially apes, like us - is vastly different.

Men want to spread their seed as widely as possible, because their selfish gene can be almost trivially spread and create dozens to hundreds of offspring with sufficient women.

Women need to be more careful, because they need 9 months to bring a child to term, and then another decade-plus before that child begins to support itself in any real way. That is a massive investment. On the one hand, they want strong men to sire their children, because that results in strong offspring for her. On the other hand, most strong men know how in-demand they are, so in the absence of forced monogamy, they (historically) have been very hard to lock down. So once they have a child or two and the father wanders off for greener pastures, these same women look for less-desirable men who can be consistent and reliable providers, and who can be easily manipulated with promises of sex to raise another man’s children for him.

This is borne out by genetic analysis of our human history: for most of it, 19 women had children for every man who did. Things like Harems arose not only because powerful men desired exclusive access to many women, but also because women wanted sexual protection from desperate and undesirable men whose options for sexual success were minimal to none.

Hypergamy is a thing.

Problem is, hypergamy produces a large underclass of socially unstable and potentially violent men with few to no options for having children of their own. Religion saw this, and sought to bring stability to emerging societies by implementing monogamy and suppressing women’s hypergamous natures via social mores.

the endless thirst is weird.

Except for a majority of guys, it is very, very real. Uncontrollable and overwhelming, at least until you hit your 40s, and for some guys, never, no matter what they do, and no matter how old they get.

Luckily stoicism, meditation, and psychological feedback loops have helped me a lot, but I’m currently in my sixth decade on this rock and I can still occasionally (once or twice a year) still feel this immense and un-ignorable pull to scope out a woman. My own ruminations have led me to suspect that “lust” exists as three internal forces, from an autonomic, almost instinctual need to do a double-take before you even grok her actual attractiveness, over actual hormonal/physical lust that has zero conscious control (or which extensively disrupts any attempt to control it), all the way up to infatuation that is and can be consciously directed, and can be almost immediately lost if conditions change or if proper mental discipline is employed.

And all three layers hitting you like a swirling vortex of chaos really throws you for a loop and utterly destroys your ability to take control of any part of it. I have never allowed myself to forget how horrible and uncontrollable my first few decades were.

Hell, if I could wave my hands and come up with a drug that could suppress the bottom two layers (at the very least) without having any other negative effect (low T, etc.), I would immediately release it free to all men. Because having your entire being so violently coerced into paying attention to a woman regardless of your actual intent really does suck donkey’s balls.

But hey, evolution as a whole sucks.

32Gb -> 1Tb is not an upgrade you can sneeze at. Plus, 6C -> 64C. Nice. And no mention of the HT jump either, which might be even more impressive if the first was a low-end chip with the same number of threads as cores.

Looks like you’ll be set for some time to come.

This was followed by an unexplained outage the next morning at the same time.

Very sus. You should demand an RCA (Root Cause Analysis).

Anyone who is against the carbon tax is either a multi-millionaire (as in, 10M+ in liquid assets) with more money than morals, or a deeply ignorant person.

The only people that the carbon tax truly hurts are the wealthy. And for virtually anyone reading this, that ain’t you.

Hell, I still use the original camel-cased convention that was used extensively in Web 1.0: eMail. Because that just makes a lot more sense to me. And it’s where a fair number of early names, like eBay, also came from.

a Geocities inspired html abortion.

🤣🤣🤣 F**k, that brought back memories…

Technically, all eMail sent out from domains that you do not personally own are “anonymous”, or can be set up to not give out anything regarding your actual identity.

Hell, my parents were scammed out of being paid (it was redirected) by someone using a webmail address that looked like it came from my mother. She doesn’t even use eMail…