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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When and why did democrats begin supporting fracking?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I believe the main issue is that it doesn’t get ‘clicks’ these days because everyone already knows about it. “Dog bites man” doesn’t get as many clicks as “Man bites dog” and all that. Still, a quick search brought up a couple articles from the last 12 months that weren’t stifled:
tangential: …npr.org/…/methane-emissions-much-higher-than-gas…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When and why did democrats begin supporting fracking?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Are you trying to greenwash fracking??? Industry never cleans up. There’s no profit in it. You would hear them advertise their ‘commitment to nature’ if they rescued one tree or bunny from their own contamination. When you hear nothing, they are continuing to wreak havoc.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When and why did democrats begin supporting fracking?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It’s because of the electoral college. Most states give all their electoral college votes to whomever wins the state rather than dividing the votes equitably. This means Pennsylvania – a swing state – will go either all-red or all-blue. The state has a lot of fracking, and a lot of people making money off it, so Democrats are trying to appease pro-fracking to get votes.

The people getting harmed by fracking are stuck without anyone on their ‘side’, but will presumably be more likely to vote blue because that side favors more regulation and pro-environment stuff. Note that all Harris said was she wouldn’t ban fracking. She didn’t say she wouldn’t make it difficult to do. My guess is any attempts to make it cleaner will get crushed by Congress and the Corrupted Supreme Court that has sided against Unions, workers, citizens, and the planet – all to favor of their sugar daddies. So even if the next President wants to do something about fracking, it would be a hard to actually do anything.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Bans Its Drivers From Moving Their Own Lips Too Much At Work⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Well, yeah, but that’d take a government not captured by Corporations.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Bans Its Drivers From Moving Their Own Lips Too Much At Work⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
This should be addressed by fixing the software, but it seems to be easier or cheaper to instead further burden the workers.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Contractors can't even sing in their cars now. Unions protect against this micromanagement.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Exactly! In fact ENCOURAGE singing to get a better data set for fixing the software!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Contractors can't even sing in their cars now. Unions protect against this micromanagement.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
No, it isn’t. If it was just for liability, they wouldn’t have to care what the driver did until someone filed an accident report or other complaint.

This is about crappy software that COULD be improved, but it is cheaper to threaten thousands of people with punishment for singing than it is to pay programmers to refine their ‘distracted’-pattern recognition.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do they refer to vintage erotica models as Cheesecake?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Alternate story from www.etymonline.com/word/cheesecake

The modern slang meaning dates from 1933; a “Time” magazine article from 1934 defined it as “leg-pictures of sporty females.”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When a medicine asks you to "take with food" how much food is enough?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Nah, that’s all about getting the dog to actually swallow the pill.

For us, it is about buffering the concentration. Even aspirin can upset your stomach (well, SOME people’s stomachs) such that making “Bufferin” was once a big deal. It was just aspirin with a buffering agent, but having a buffer really mattered for some people.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When a medicine asks you to "take with food" how much food is enough?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I’m not a doctor, so don’t take my word for it, but I’ve heard the same as robolemmy. To be a bit less abstract, my understanding is you eat enough so that your stomach will digest normally instead of just handling the medicine as a tiny bit of something caustic. A granola bar should be fine, but you might do better with a slice of bread or something a tad easier to digest. Then again, I don’t think it matters all that much.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I live in a red state, would it be better to vote for rfk to take votes away from trump?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Why not vote (D)? The Rs plan on contesting the voting everywhere all the time, and if the last round was any indicator, they will even contest in places the win, so… IF the goal is to take votes from Trump, it would probably be better to show that even in fire red areas, there are still some cool blues.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do to if I survive a nuclear blast in my city?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
My understanding is the thing you most need is community. No one is likely to make it on their own, but if you can band together, your chances increase.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do to if I survive a nuclear blast in my city?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I’ll bet you an upvote that there’s several bunkers damn close to you. All you need to do is figure out who’ll let you use one.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First overseas trip with my girlfriend – Any tips to make It our best trip?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
This probably isn’t helpful, but I like guided tours where a tour guide tells you about the castles and churches while everyone dutifully takes pictures to prove they were there. The guide/agency arranges the busses/boats and hotels so all you have to do is follow along with the program. The downside is that it always costs too much. The upside is that you spend less time waiting in lines because the planners will have all that worked out with the various sites. Some of those trips are almost exclusively senior citizens, but some have wider age ranges. Either way, you get to meet a set of fellow travelers who may become permanent online friends.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't Israel have its settlers setup homes in Gaza instead of the West Bank like they have been doing?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Ummm… why does Israel allow any settlers at all when they still haven’t dealt with Palestinians who lost their homes some 50 years ago? It doesn’t really matter whose ‘fault’ it is that these people exist. They do exist. They have no country and no one to take them in. I’m not saying they had to figure it out in 1967, but somewhere in the 70s this should have been resolved.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is prostitution called sometimes world's oldest profession?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It’s not just us humans, chimps trade meat for sex: nationalgeographic.com/…/chimps-behavior-sex-news…

Yale taught monkeys about money, and yup, they traded money for sex. From archive of NYT article:

Further proof that the monkeys truly understood money: the monkey who was paid for sex immediately traded the token in for a grape.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I genuinely feel like I wouldn't live that differently even if I suddenly became ultra-wealthy. Am I kidding myself?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Being rich turns you greedy. Not you in particular, rather: any of us. Almost everyone. You become more worried about hanging on to what you have and less concerned with the welfare of others. The good news is that you can be reminded to be compassionate and it will help. If you are asked to imagine yourself in another’s place, you can become more aware of how others feel. If, however, you are left to your own devices, you are likely to change for the worse without even noticing. I am thankful Melinda Gates married Bill and got him to engage in charities. I think a lesser woman may have allowed him to be a horrible person.

There’s lots of studies out there, but here’s a quick link with the summary of a few of them: blog.ted.com/6-studies-of-money-and-the-mind/
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why not serve fried chicken on Juneteenth? How is it different from serving corned beef on St. Patrick’s day?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Both I and spujb posted about Coon Chicken Inn – a place for white people BY white people with a denigrating caricature of a black man as their logo (on their delivery vehicles, menu, and even entrances).

It is one thing for a group of people to choose what food to serve themselves, and something else when an oppressed group is mocked, denied rights, and then illustrated as liking foods that EVERYONE likes as if those foods are somehow a hilarious thing for them to eat. Side note: Sooo many places serve fried chicken that the only reason it is racist is associations like Coon Chicken Inn (and the racism leading to its creation). Lots of BBQ places in particular serve collards as well as Caribbean spots. Jollof is specifically African (not American). If I see Jollof or Fufu on the menu, I’m hoping for cassava leaves instead of collards, but I understand it isn’t as available in the U.S.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is a peanut butter sandwich a balanced meal?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
No, but if you use natural peanut butter (even Costco has natural peanut butter) and an actual a whole wheat bread without all the additives, it isn’t the worst meal. Maybe throw a sliced banana in there to help round it out.