Look, it’ll even out to 2000 calories per day over a long enough period, okay? We can drop 14k in one meal as long as we don’t eat for a week afterwards. Trust me.

They’re very experienced at cherry picking, since they do it all the time. Therefore they’re able to do it better / faster than most.

“Why didn’t you share it with the rest of the family, you selfish little shit?”

Simple to think about… extremely difficult to accomplish.

Ooh, this is rad - thanks for the link!

Pretty easy to find, just search the title.

Barnes and Noble

Amazon

Meta will suffer “immediate and irreparable loss” in the absence of an emergency relief

Well, I didn’t know nor care about this book before, but now I want to read it.

Discounts for loyalty members is the same thing as higher prices for the general public.

I generally agree with you, but I think it’d be very difficult to legislate this. (For example, if you ban “discounts” for loyalty program members, they instead offer “rebates” which functionally is the same effect. If you ban “rebates”, they instead send you a coupon for your next visit after you shop.)

If the advertised price is what a non-loyalty-program shopper pays, I have less of a problem with it, but what gets me is when the item is listed as, for example, “2 for $3” on the shelf, and at the register rings up for $3.69 each unless you swipe a loyalty card. Fuck that shit.

I really hate this shit and honestly I feel like it should be illegal. Like, offer discounts for the loyalty program members, sure, whatever, but the price on the shelf when you pick up the item should not be able to have contingencies attached.

I once again reiterate my earlier statements that a lot of Trump policy does not seem to be to be very good at all for American agriculture, which is surprising to me, given that the present-day Republican Party is the party of rural America.

It shouldn’t be surprising. Trump doesn’t represent the Republican party; Trump represents Trump. He does what’s best for Trump, nobody else. If what he wants happens to coincide with what’s good for anyone else, it’s a happy coincidence, nothing more.

I really appreciate that they’re targeting republican states specifically. It’s at least nice that it’s being acknowledged that the US isn’t a monolith and most of us don’t agree with this shit. Not that it doesn’t hurt us all, obviously, but it’s at least a nice little nod to the fact.

fancy version of piano

The organ? Or did the church you visited have something else?

It’s got to be one of:

• He’s just stupid. Maybe his ego requires him to stay in the spotlight, and with Elon getting a lot of media attention, he feels he has to do absurd shit just to get attention. Like a toddler throwing a fit when their parents are talking to other adults.
• He’s actively trying to sabotage the country, probably as part of a quid pro quo with Putin for helping him win the election.
• It’s cognitive decline. He has no idea what’s going on anymore. Maybe he even thinks he’s doing something that benefits someone here. Who fucking knows

Whatever the situation, it’s increasingly dangerous to have him as president, and the damage he’s dealing is going to outlast his presidency.

I’d much rather someone who actually needs the money enough to pick up small change takes them rather than for them to just sit there. If someone’s desperate enough to fish coins out of a fountain for a few dollars, they can absolutely have them.

If you send an important email, text, whatever and do not get a reply for hours you know that at least today that person is not being attentive to work

This might be industry specific, but for me it’s the exact opposite. If I respond to emails or slack messages immediately, it’s probably because I don’t have anything important that I’m working on, or that I’m just browsing Lemmy or something. If it takes me an hour to respond, it’s because I was head-down on something and didn’t want the interruption by changing focus to something different.

Well, I’m sold!

Yeah, that’s completely reasonable. Or mandate reductions on a fixed schedule, e.g. 50% of today’s numbers in 3 years, 0% in 6.

Somewhat different style, but there’s also Starsector!

Geez, I’d forgotten about that game. I spent an unreasonable amount of time playing those.

How much do you think extreme climate change is going to lower living standards globally?

If personal transport and home heating and whatnot were transitioned fully to green energy, and fossil fuels were used exclusively for large-scale shipping, it would be a huge net gain.