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If the stores you're buying from have most of their produce in packaging then you're buying at best average quality produce in the first place.

Vegan restaurants exist for a reason - people like having more than one option when they go out. Imagine getting basically the same burger wherever you go because that's the thing on the menu you can eat. It's better than nothing but it gets boring really fast.

The number of vegan restaurants compared to the actual demand right now is too high though, especially fast food vegan places that can't differentiate themselves well because they all use the same substitute products without doing much to them.

For-profit diploma mills are taking full advantage of the situation, but unfortunately the education and training they provide is lackluster in comparison to the demands of the job, adding to the burnout rate.

They're expanding the testing -- I recently got a warning when in private browsing and not logged in, but I haven't had an ad or warning when logged in (yet).

So wait what's your logic here -- if a person promotes racist content but it's totally a whoopsie and they didn't mean it, the content is no longer racist and we have to prepend it with "alleged" like it's legally defined?

Out of all the gay furry options they had to choose from to keep up the bit, they just had to pick the weeaboo option instead

With his personal trajectory over the past several years I would have been surprised if he didn't.

The average cost of a new gas powered car is about $48k in the United States and the average cost of a new electric car is about $53k. Neither is affordable but used Nissan Leafs are available in the sub $10k range. Anything else you forgot to mention?

But my man, there's a thing called an electric car and you said a "war on cars". Be more specific if you're actually saying there's a "war on GAS cars".

If even discussing that some people may begin to prefer alternatives to cars in some situations is equivalent to a declaring war on cars, then I really underestimated how insecure the pro-car argument is.

You joke, but food addiction is very real and, like the aforementioned addictions, is a challenging thing to come to terms with because it's something we all need to do in moderation.

>If kids were addicted to solving math problems and watching educational videos on their phone at age 12, would we still disapprove?

We should disapprove. Saying an addiction is fine because it's educational is like saying being addicted to working out is okay.

We have a biased perspective compared to what the average user does, so only Youtube knows, but I do know the vast majority of people I know outside of tech don't even use adblockers.

Given the direction Youtube is going I'm extremely hesitant to just give them money to stop ads and after so many years of little exposure to them I can't stand how obnoxious they are. If they're this aggressive about going after a small minority of users for a blip in revenue then it makes me wonder what quality reducing decisions will happen after this if it goes over well.

I haven't seen this as a hard rule in people. My experience of people on the spectrum is they often just want a good clear reason to follow rules that seem like nonsense like bowing to authority. Neurotypical people just intuitively know the pros and cons of certain social rules in a way that might take neurodiverse people more active thinking to get. In geekier cultures you run into a lot of people on the spectrum so if I remember something could be a problem then it's not a big deal for me to explain this kind of thing ahead of time in a respectful way that makes sense ("I bet if we suck up to this guy well enough we'll get more funding for our team") so we're on the same page even if they think it's dumb. It takes effort on both sides to bridge the gap.

Something more similar to the 1980s is looking way more likely than the very different scenario we were in during 2008. It's a whole different beast this time and a lot of us are too young to get past our myopic hangup on 08.

It's a pretty safe play though. The downside risk is pretty low given supply constraints and if you buy in the right area then nimby neighbors will fight further development for free.

>But could it occur, say, two days a week? “That sounds like almost planned serendipity, and I don’t know how you achieve that. That’s an oxymoron,” he said. “Let’s do that serendipitous creation on Tuesdays and Wednesdays!”

Maybe it only works on Thursdays then:

>Now Imbue hosts regular “Thursday nights in A.I.,” events where people across the industry mix. Ms. Qiu recalled a recent one where another entrepreneur pulled out his phone to show her challenges with an app. “To have a Zoom meeting talking about that — I would just not take that Zoom call,” she said.

Make it feel worthwhile for people to come in like this and they may, in fact, willingly come in rather than needing to use threats or ridiculous bait and switch tactics like temporarily free lunches.

It's almost certainly because of a disagreement over criticizing China. The Chinese government is extremely sensitive to what westerners would consider even mild criticism and reacts harshly and swiftly, and Apple's hands are tied because their supply chain is still deeply embedded there for years to come.

If you're healthy enough to live past 85 you're more likely to have lifestyle and inherited factors that increase the odds of you being able to need fewer or no medications even into old age. Modern medicine helps counteract poor health but only so much.

> It's not like there usually some magic involved, if they're willing to offer it to an aggregator, why wouldn't they at least consider offering it to you direct?

The magic is actually being given the direct authorization to give you a matching rate or if not then having to get management to authorize that rate for you. That depends entirely on the hotel. Some employees might also recognize a deal seeker as someone who's also more likely to be picky and complain more and so would rather deny your price negotiations and avoid working with you if they have the choice depending on how filled they already are.

Bloomberg the news outlet hasn't been shy in the past about using the opinion section for being a direct mouthpiece for the man himself, and I wouldn't be surprised if this opinion is shared by Michael.

Invitae has done some good work scaling up genetic testing and increasing its accessibility, but tried to play a risky high growth game and paid the price when the economic landscape started to shift. Hopefully their efforts aren't lost if the company doesn't survive in its current form long-term.

That's one useful metric, but it's also limited - you're still gambling on an estimated number of uses, which can often vary wildly and in ways you can't predict. This is further complicated by variables such as companies taking advantage of your assumptions about quality and lifespan of a product by selling out a product line to another company who will produce it at a lower standard for less for the same retail price and hope you won't know or notice. I once bought socks assuming they'd last a long time but the company silently cheapened out on producing them at some point and they were falling apart after just a couple dozen uses. And they were expensive! There's no guarantee that Darn Tough won't do the same, or that you'll spill sauce with turmeric on them and ruin them the first day you get them, or etc etc.

At some point trying to explicitly micro-optimize all your purchases down to the socks you wear starts to get lost in the noise and you expend a lot of mental effort on things of minimal benefit, but this is a good thing to vaguely keep in the back of your mind for expensive and/or very frequent expenses that you know you'll always be using.

The majority of furries have abandoned it for other sites, if you believe in such a leading tech indicator

There are plenty of other studies showing a strong correlation between sodium and stroke risk and this study focused on overall CVD risk, so it's still a good idea to avoid high sodium intake.

The idea of a health test keeps getting tossed out a lot as a solution, but it has the issue of all qualification tests for office -- the loss of perceived legitimacy of representatives if it was seen as a biased tool that's open to manipulation at worst, or functionally useless by being too narrow at best. I can't think of another trait besides maximum age to use that would be seen as fair, and good luck getting any constitutional amendment done in our political climate right now.

It's a huge reach to say it's not scammy because you use an external tool most people don't even know about or would be able to use effectively in order to help filter through the scams.

> Somebody wants to see your posts

Unless you buy an invite code on eBay.

They're trying to avoid the equivalent of "Researchers find out deep fried Twinkies are actually healthy for you!" types of messages being spread because of the sensitive nature of the topic. Careful communication of their findings is important so that they don't get blown out of proportion and misinterpreted.