notnotmike

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Didn't Democrats Do More When They Controlled Both Houses of Legislature, The White House, and The Supreme Court During Obama's First Term?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I would imagine its a case of mutually assured destruction. Neither wants to repeal it because they know once they do, they open up Pandora’s box and Congress will be even more of a disaster than it currently is

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Didn't Democrats Do More When They Controlled Both Houses of Legislature, The White House, and The Supreme Court During Obama's First Term?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Less nice, more realizing that would remove their ability to stop the Republicans when the political winds inevitability shift the other way

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nature Valley: 10 bars in 5 packs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The US has a lot of bullshit in their labeling requirements. My wife studied food science in university and some of her biggest complaints are:

  • Serving sizes aren’t always the entire package*
  • "Natural" has almost no meaning on a package, it is just a hand-waving word
  • They can hide a lot of things in the ingredients under umbrella terms like “spices” and “flavorings”
  • “Made with real juice” does not mean it was made with the juice on the label. For example, a pineapple fruit juice may be more apple juice than actually pineapple juice
  • They can round down to 0 calories if the actual amount is below 5

  The most egregious example I’ve seen lately was a jar of pickles I bought where the serving size is 1/3 of a pickle (now the website says 1/2). That’s just so that the sodium doesn’t get out of control and, in all likelihood, because an entire pickle may be more than the 5 Calories allowed to say it’s “0 Calories”.

  *This is changing, slowly. Manufacturers now have to put servings for the entire container if it’s small enough

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Because they are word roots. “trans-” means on the other side of something like “transatlantic” while “cis-” means on the same side like cisatlantic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doctors aren't allowed to have sexual relations with their patients, but what if the patient was the doctor's spouse?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This reminds me of a question I have about the whole Monica Lewinsky scandal. Obviously, he was in a position of power and shouldn’t have had relations with an intern. But it does beg the question: can any American citizen fully consent to relationships with the active president?

  The issue is power and influence, but even the president’s wife is subject to a certain level of his presidential authority. So where’s the line? When is it “okay” in the eyes of the power dynamic.

  Most people are probably reasonable enough to say that his wife, of course, can consent. But it still does make me ponder, and there’s an invisible line in the sand somewhere for most people

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I bet this is what Colin Jost did⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How do you know the image isn’t flipped?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Really?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My guess is that it has something to do with the image where you can clearly see a tag? But I can’t read what it says