Rivalarrival
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- Comment on Marketing likes to change the name of shared file folders when they get new information. 19 hours ago:
Which wouldn’t be so bad if they actually had shit that people wanted to buy. But all the guillotine shops are out of stock, with expected ship dates after December 4th.
- Comment on fuck this asshole 22 hours ago:
No doubt, no doubt. Plenty of articles claiming JSO protests are effective.
Of course, if they were actually effective, you wouldn’t need to point to news articles promoting the virtues of standing around in the street.
You’d be able to point to oil consumption rates. If they were actually effective, those rates would be falling.
They aren’t. Not by a long shot.
Those “many news articles” are complete horseshit.
- Comment on fuck this asshole 1 day ago:
Whatever you say, honey.
- Comment on fuck this asshole 1 day ago:
Fair enough. I leave you and your merry band to continue on your way.
- Comment on fuck this asshole 1 day ago:
Excellent.
Might I suggest that instead of targeting fellow victims for undue harassment, you direct your attention toward the actual perpetrators and their supporters? For environmental causes, might I suggest some sort of shop where an oil-based product like gasoline or diesel fuel is sold? Perhaps an entity that sells or services the vehicles that consume those fuels.
Perhaps you could publish a manifesto telling the public and these businesses alike what businesses need to do in order to avoid Molotov-flavored “civil disobedience”. Things like “a majority of the cars on a dealer’s lot must be EVs” and “EVs should be priced lower than comparable ICE vehicles”. Or “fuel stations should have at least as many charging stations as fuel pumps”.
When you publish your manifesto, make sure it gets sent to insurance companies, preferably the companies insuring the businesses responsible for the environmental catastrophe we are facing.
We have enough laws against public use of the street. There is no need to demonstrate for more.
- Comment on fuck this asshole 1 day ago:
Give JSO time to lobby your legislators. They’ll get around to it.
- Comment on fuck this asshole 1 day ago:
Excellent retort, but I can cite the legislative record supporting my point.
- Comment on fuck this asshole 1 day ago:
You would have a point if “protesting” was “life”. But it’s not.
When demonstrators were pissed off at Elon Musk, they didn’t picket grocery stores and kindergartens. they didnt blockade old folks homes, delay fitrfighters.
**They burned Tesla dealerships. **
JSO could learn a thing or two from these anti-Musk demonstrators.
- Comment on fuck this asshole 2 days ago:
Blocking roads in protest has proven effective at exactly one thing: Increasing the enforcement and penalties for jaywalking.
It is counterproductive at everything else.
did you think that huddling on sidewalks holding signs was supposed to do something?
Where did I say huddle on sidewalks?
I think JSO should be firebombing ICE car dealerships, gas stations, muffler shops, and other entities and agents of the oil industry. Not harassing victims of that industry.
- Comment on fuck this asshole 2 days ago:
You say that. And yet, certain people need to be reminded of this simple fact.
- Comment on fuck this asshole 2 days ago:
Public roadways are for travel.
- Comment on Common Ground 1 week ago:
St. Luigi tells me that what we have in common is greater than what differentiates us.
- Comment on Tried to watch The French Connection... 😠 1 week ago:
Prime is garbage. Even if it’s free on Prime, I hoist a sail.
- Comment on If a mysterious force secretly changed EVERY clock worldwide one minute forward, how long would it take until people notice, and how would people/governments react? 1 week ago:
The GPS almanac is a table of the exact orbital information of every satellite. Every receiver needs a copy of the almanac to understand where the satellites are supposed to be, so that it can determine where it is in relation to those satellites.
When their clocks all shift one minute simultaneously, the almanac isn’t updated. Every satellite is 60 seconds away from where the almanac says it should be.
If the satellites were geostationary, receivers would still work, they’d just be off by 0.25 degrees of longitude as the entire constellation would be shifted the same amount. But the GPS constellation consists of satellites in a variety of inclined orbits. Nothing is where the almanac thinks it is, and nothing is where it is supposed to be in relation to anything else.
Parent comment is correct: GPS will immediately fail, and remain down until an updated almanac is published and distributed.
- Comment on Layoffs every 2 years 2 weeks ago:
I left a trade job after we got a new division manager with a background in sales. Despite the entire staff being on 20hr/week mandatory overtime, dipshit was holding 3x daily 30 minute shift meetings, and monthly 90-minute all-hands meetings to complain about productivity.
Two months after I left, corporate shitcanned the asshole.
- Comment on Jon Stewart says the media cried wolf with its 'fascist' attacks on Trump 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think you agree with Jon Stewart.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
If the US reestablishes the 91% top-tier tax bracket we had for most of the 20th century, the rest of the world will quickly follow.
Nobody will be in that bracket; they will take great efforts raise their tax deductible “expenses” (or reduce their revenue) in order to avoid it.
- Comment on Liquid Death Quietly Adds Stevia to Tea Drinks 2 weeks ago:
Insanity is expecting the system to work in a way other than the way it actually works.
By the way, I did discover that EU labeling does include a “% RI” for sugar, which is functionality identical to the “recommendation” you were complaining about as being illegal.
- Comment on Liquid Death Quietly Adds Stevia to Tea Drinks 2 weeks ago:
It is mandatory for the manufacturer to make an affirmative claim as to the cholesterol and trans fat content of every food product sold in the US, along with several other items. The manufacturer is only liable for what they actually claim; this labeling standard forces them to make certain claims.
With the labeling you describe of the EU, I could look at every item in my pantry and refrigerator, and not realize that my diet is entirely missing any source of vitamin D, for example. If nothing in any of my labels even mentions vitamin D, I might not even realize it is something I should be looking for in my diet.
When every single item in my diet affirmatively claims “Not a significant source of vitamin D”, it’s a big clue that I’m not eating right.
There is a distinct difference in liability between “accidentally” forgetting to include the sodium (“salt”) content of a product, and affirmatively claiming it has no significant amount of sodium.
When I’m on a low sodium diet and a soy sauce manufacturer fails to list its sodium content on the label, I bear a large part of the responsibility. It is common knowledge that soy sauce is usually extremely high in salt, so I can’t reasonably claim their mislabeling was the cause of any harm I experience. But, if they were to affirmatively claim “not a significant source of sodium”, I’ll own their asses.
Mandating claims of these specific, important nutrients certainly does add meaningful information.
- Comment on Apparently Bluesky lets you require a sign in to view a post 2 weeks ago:
Anything that’s marked NSFW requires a login on Reddit.
- Comment on Liquid Death Quietly Adds Stevia to Tea Drinks 2 weeks ago:
The listed items are all mandatory parts of all labels. You’ll note that “good” content (dietary fiber, vitamin d, calcium, iron, and potassium) are also listed, even though this product does not contain them.
Because all of these items are mandated to be present inside this box on all products, there is no implication that another product may or may not contain these items.
- Comment on Liquid Death Quietly Adds Stevia to Tea Drinks 2 weeks ago:
and then BOTH trucks would drop off in the same pile, in the same landfill with zero recycling done.
That’s not true, especially for cans. It’s more effective to sort trash at a central location than to have consumers do it beforehand. Aluminum recycling alone turns a significant profit. Glass is also profitable by itself.
Waste management companies should be paying you for your cans; if they are charging you for recycling, you should consider taking your cans to a scrap yard rather than leaving them in your trash.
- Comment on Liquid Death Quietly Adds Stevia to Tea Drinks 2 weeks ago:
The labeling of what’s NOT in the drink is also under similar regulation,
For consistency, the regulations on labeling requires listing quantities of all of those specific nutrients, whether they are present or not.
- Comment on Liquid Death Quietly Adds Stevia to Tea Drinks 2 weeks ago:
You would have a point if the recommendation was a minimum daily intake. It’s not. It is a maximum. A recommended limit that you should not exceed.
The USDA recommendation is that sugar should make up no more than 10% of total caloric intake. The percentages you see are based on a 2000 (kilo)calorie daily diet.
That recommendation is perfectly consistent with your assertion that “we can do perfectly well with zero grams of sugar every single day”.
- Comment on A daunting realization 2 weeks ago:
Corn is the vegetation equivalent of a cubicle dweller.
- Comment on What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country? 2 weeks ago:
Police Procedural shows.
Law and Order, Criminal Minds, NCIS, CSI, Lie to Me, Dexter…
Basically, anything that makes people think that police are more effective at solving crime than they actually are.
- Comment on Who here does NOT have intrusive thoughts? 2 weeks ago:
The people who say they don’t experience intrusive thoughts are liars. They are too anxious about how the world would react if they told anyone they sometimes think about jumping off a roof, or driving into oncoming traffic.
The people who don’t actually have intrusive thoughts are psychopaths. Lacking empathy, they don’t even consider how such actions would affect anyone around them. They do, or do not, as they choose.
The healthiest are the people who recognize in themselves behaviors they don’t observe in their peers, and they are concerned enough for everyone’s safety to risk being seen as abnormal.
There is a difference between “intrusive thought” and “suicidal/homicidal ideation”. Experiencing these ideas as irresistible urges to partake in the behaviors might warrant a trip to a pshrink.
Experiencing them as vivid scenes of violence and destruction, without a compulsion to actually act on them, is not unusual or concerning. They’re your own private action movies; Enjoy them.
- Comment on What is acceptable amount of microplastics you would allow into your brain? 3 weeks ago:
And yet, we’re both wearing plastic bags…
My point is that synthetic fiber is the area we have to focus on to address your primary concern.
- Comment on What is acceptable amount of microplastics you would allow into your brain? 3 weeks ago:
Tires are, indeed, a major source of microplastics, but tires are used outdoors, and you probably spend most of your time indoors.
Check your lint trap: those are the kind of microplastics you have in your brain.
- Comment on What is acceptable amount of microplastics you would allow into your brain? 3 weeks ago:
Please post a picture of the tag on the shirt you are wearing right now.
The overwhelming majority of microplastics in your body are polyester fibers, and most of those originally came from textiles.