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SoylentBlake

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  • $3 for a single McDonald's hash brown? Some customers are fed up and pushing back

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  • When I had that commute I would buy boxes of clifbars and power bars that permanently populated my glovebox. Trail mix in Adams peanut butter jars. Flavored oatmeal with raisins in old jam jars, just grab a cup of boiling water on your way out and pour it in. See also, instant mash potatoes, stuffing, ramen (adding boiling water to ramen and just waiting for it to be ready is the only way I like it now). That was the best idea I ever had before a multi day road trip, please use it.

    If anyone has ideas to add to that, I'm all ears. Or any other food-from-home non-shopping ideas (like eating potato salad with Tims salt and vinegar chips, bombdotcom)

  • Across America, clean energy plants are being banned faster than they're being built

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  • Cozied on up with Nimbys.

    Nimbys are truly Karen's in their final form.

  • Making a PDF that’s larger than Germany

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  • Fax it to him 😉

  • We Finally Know How Ancient Roman Concrete Was Able to Last Thousands of Years

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  • What is that, like 12 people now?

  • Amazon to sunset tool that let law enforcement obtain footage from Ring doorbells

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  • Same. After all the bullshit with their marketplace, then reading about how they treat authors in Audible, to the this wiretap, I am DONE with Amazon.

    The world is not better for their existence. Convenience doesn't redeem their blatant lack of ethics or sense of civic and social responsibility. Fuck them, forever. They're right up there with Private Equity firms.

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  • You're talking micro about something that is macro. This isn't rueing your fav indie band breaking into mainstream and now Karen at the front desk is using her new favorite band to try and bond with you.

    EEE is a predatory business tactic used to assimilate and digest potential rivals instead of actually competing thru products. It's anti-consumer monopoly shit, a siren's song.

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  • Craigslist can do it, it can be done.

    Craigslist is the Achilles heel to the big tech bros, proof that they're wrong, and Craig flag out refuses to change the site. It is what it is. And that's it. I fucking love Craigslist, besides the various niche forums, all self hosted from their website -fuck reddit, it is hands down my favorite part of the internet.

    Everything else is advertising, trackers and opportunists. The whole Internet feels like walking down a seedy alley full of grabby sex offenders in Mumbai.

    That's where I place advertisers in the social hierarchy, as peers to sex offenders, pedo's and rapists, and I know I am not the only one with such designations. Maybe think twice about that marketing major, just saying.

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  • Not really. It wouldn't sell well enough before so why host ammo to the enemy?

    Now it has pull tho, and capitalists will sell us the rope we hang them with

  • What happened at the nation's first nitrogen gas execution: An AP eyewitness account

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  • No I'm saying that crime exists, period. With or without government, it doesn't matter, we are born with an internal sense of justice. We know if we've been wronged even before we can walk or talk.

    Somebody has to deal with it. You can pick a side politically or eschew it completely favoring anarchy, that's your decision, but SOMEBODY HAS TO DEAL WITH IT.

    Here's a better question, let's say the government falls tomorrow. America's out of money, cops, military, Congress, everyone's disbanded.

    Do you think there's gonna be less killing then?

    I agree with you that government can in fact create crime, and I don't mean by just passing legislation, but actual unethical actions - and that's not to go into war crimes or crimes against humanity.

    Fuck i contend the existence of poverty is a crime against humanity.

    So here we are at this question. This or that. We can be critical of government for its punishment focused approach to crime, rightfully so, but absent government, does crime disappear? would theft, rape or murder decrease or increase?

    I say they'd increase, at least for the initial decade. We're a long way away from subsistence farming, and not necessarily in a good way. In a prolonged grid down environment it's expected 90% perish in the first year. How far would you go to get your family medicine? Cuz if my kid needs meds and the only way I can get them is through other people, well, that's just what I gotta do then. It's not even a decision.

  • What happened at the nation's first nitrogen gas execution: An AP eyewitness account

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  • I feel like you understand what I'm saying and are just being facetious.

    Putting all the moral positions aside, at the end of the day, we are stuck in this situation. That's the reality and it has to be dealt with, like it or not.

  • What happened at the nation's first nitrogen gas execution: An AP eyewitness account

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  • I agree. But we are still left with the here and now and a situation that we didn't ask to be in, that we (as a whole) are forced into.

    Believe me, I think the first job of government, everyday, is to pass objective rationalization for their continued existence. I am beyond critical as a default. Criticism of authority is fundamental to any and all rights of free people. Corruption of those that make up the system should be punished at exponential rates. A police officer commiting a crime should be handled like a criminal, not an officer. Should steps be taken to mitigate and help the masses, based off medical expert advice? Absolutely, whole-heartedly.

    I understand the arguments against capital punishment and at my core i agree, but in the end we still have this shit show we didn't want to be in to deal with. In an analogy, I don't think blaming the garbage collectors will make people produce less garbage. Let's do the things to fix it, across the board, but that doesn't mean leaving the obvious garbage out to rot and fester in the street.

  • What happened at the nation's first nitrogen gas execution: An AP eyewitness account

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  • For some, sure.

    I'm all for the Scandinavian model, I just don't think the John Wayne Gacys of the world are reformable. I think some people are just not meant to live in the group. If ostracization was still a thing, then let's do that, as if back in the day surviving the wild wasn't effectively a death sentence. You wanna drop these people on an uninhabited Alaskan island? Sure. I'm all for it

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  • Life is not black and white. You can deal in absolutes all you want, that just leaves the rest of us here to make the hard decisions, since your abdication.

    Jailing people for life is also inhumane, solitary is torture that can lead to permanent damage. But what alternatives are left with? Society didn't ask these people to steal, attack, rape or murder. Some people just choose it. So we have to separate them from the rest of us, for the common good.

    Fwiw, I don't favor capital punishment unless guilt is obvious for all to see - beyond a doubt. But if we have to do it, and situationally It's appropriate (some will say it never is), we should do it as humanely as possible. Not that they necessarily deserve that, but ultimately it's a reflection of us.

    This is all first world problems btw. If the facade falls, we'll all see people put down with absolute disregard. We have survivors alive today from past atrocity, we aren't even removed in the slightest. Look up the Khmer Rouge and the killing fields, I had a coworker who escaped after watching his brother chopped apart and his mother gunned down.

    Purity in your moralism is a luxury most can't afford, unfortunately.

  • What happened at the nation's first nitrogen gas execution: An AP eyewitness account

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  • Dude was unconscious almost immediately. His brain was dead but the body takes longer to go. The violent spasms was the unconscious and uninhabited body using the last of its energy, mechanically.

    This has been so dramatized it's disgusting. The execution? Humane. The media around it? Must clearly want more suffering.

  • Ultraviolet light can kill almost all the viruses in a room. Why isn’t it everywhere?

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  • The light can be tucked away into the HVAC. The light never needs to hit anyone. You got central heating/cooling? One light, whole building. It's almost criminal this isn't common.

  • It's funny how google pretends the music on YouTube isn't straight up piracy and everyone just goes along with it

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  • Oh doncha know manufacturers are already working on that.

    The whole subscription economy grift. They're gonna say you own the basic version arguing against the 'if you can't modify it you never really own it' crowd, until they've spent enough money to bribe those in power to fashion their win for them, then they're gonna turn around and say we never really own anything and make reselling illegal.

    Reselling takes care of itself if you simply stop offering physical media...which, idk...seems to be the trend of the last 15 years, don't cha think?

  • It's funny how google pretends the music on YouTube isn't straight up piracy and everyone just goes along with it

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  • Is pirating old snes and genesis roms really piracy if there's no other way to get it?

    Roms are the reason half those games are still around and not dead media. The popularity of roms is why Nintendo made the throw back, video game companies roll up all the time, very few have longevity and even if those most would've been fine just letting the old games die in obscurity.

  • Pavlov's conditioning

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  • The correct answer is

    Fuck Pavlov

    Motherfucker is like the Hitler of dogs. It's a shame his name is remembered for the conditioning and not the mutilation. Dude was a monster.

  • Chinese crackdown on fentanyl could lead to worse drugs filling the vaccum

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  • I agree with what yr saying but it all makes me think you've never tried, whether on purpose or not, fentanyl.

    Fent...makes you absolutely retarded when yr on it, but when you are, you are transported to the warm busom of God til you snap out of it. You don't care about anything, hunger, cold, any trauma, any worries, any stressors. It all melts away for that short amount of time.

    Besides the physical addiction sending a need as strong as thirst in the desert, that reprieve from pain is addicting all it's own. A good majority of people actively using and seeking out fent assume they'll die from it, and they're fine with that.

    I've never been on the ban drugs train, I think the subjective exploration of consciousness and meta-reality are incredibly important for people, be that in personal mental health and growth, artistically and spiritually. At the same time, I think letting Shamans control the flow isn't a terrible idea, but if implemented should also come with an end date after society comes to terms with itself. I think terminal patients should be given as much DMT as they want for as long as they want it, it's like making practice runs at the other side. I think ibogaine should be widely available for resetting addictions back to null, but that should prob be a guided trip, same thing with ayehuasca.

    But fent shouldn't be allowed outside a medical setting. The opioid receptor is devil in a red dress; dance with the devil, devil don't change, devil changes you.

    In a kinder society we would prescribe meds that turn off pain receptors, like the ones developed from jellyfish and other neurotoxins, but that would prob be stipulated with forced, active restraint bed rest. We don't use those now because pain let's us know when we push too far, otherwise we'd just keep reinjuring ourselves. But fent gives that absence of pain too, and coupled with the i-cant-stress-how-extreme-cravings people will look at the work necessary to holistically end their pains and just say, nah man. At the cost of everything. Parents abandoning children. Cuz once their high, they don't care. So they just plan to stay forever high.

    I'm all for banning fent.

    It's the embodiment of my second favorite malaphor "build a man a fire and he's warm for a night, but set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life"