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Until you confirm that you have a working backup, your backup is theoretical.

Well deserved and critically important to mental health, and something hardly any American workers are guaranteed because so few belong to a union.

All of the adult swim shows like ATHF, Brak Show, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Squidbillies, Home Movies, Metalocalypse, Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law, Sealab 2021, and probably a few others I can’t remember. Also, not animated but I would put Sifl & Olly in the mix because it fucking rocks.

The shitty part is that the people suffering aren’t the people making decisions, but then that’s what needs to happen for voters to vote for someone else.

Sure, but we still have conservatives and capitalists ignoring the best advice of educated experts because it’s easier and more profitable.

Most people like to argue that “people didn’t know better back then.” That’s absolute bullshit. There were ecologists and scientists fighting to preserve wolves in the 1920s, and conservatives and capitalists chose to ignore the best advice of educated experts because killing wolves was easier and more profitable.

Right, but was he lying when he said it? He’s not sure.

Jollof rice is a West African dish, but I don’t know if the rest is West African.

That’s not a cat, that’s a flerken.

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That just seems like the EU sold a bunch of data to China for $600 million.

So, basically, industrial plants that produce toxic air pollution have to meet stricter standards than, say, a food production facility generating far fewer toxic air pollutants. The rule calls the former a “major” producer. But the oligarchs who run the plant are arguing that, once measures are in place to resuce their air pollution down to lower levels, they should not be considered “major” producers anymore and thus should not be subject to the stricter standards. In other words, because the regulations worked, they should no longer be regulated.

This is some absurdist department of new truth bullshit.

Sure, but if you eat a balanced diet of fresh food, you’ll get all the sodium you need. Nobody needs the sodium in an instant meal.

That’s what we are led to believe as children, and it’s the principles we talk about when we want to foster civic pride.

But do we practice those values? Do we base all of our actions as a government, as a nation, as a community, on those principles? No, we don’t, but most of us Americans are just finding that out.

I don’t think people are seeing the true American heart. I think Americans are seeing the truth in their neighbors’ hearts, though. We’ve been in denial about who we are and our responsibility to the world, because we trusted that our core values (freedom, equality, justice) would endure through scandals and fraudsters and would-be tyrants. Americans were lulled to sleep by casual prosperity and nominal world-leadership. We believed that the critics of America “hate freedom” or were jealous of our well-deserved success. Trump is the inexorable conclusion of that laziness, the funhouse mirror reflection of our own indifference to the world.

I believe most people, anywhere, are good people and want to be good people. The differences arise from defining what is “good” but largely we all want freedom, justice, and equality for ourselves. Extending that to others is a question of empathy, and empathy is created by exposure. America’s heart is our diversity, our multiculturalism, and we let that heart become overrun with bigots and tyrants.

That’s what the world is seeing, and has seen for 100 years. Bigots and tyrants, claiming moral superiority. It is the Americans who are just now seeing it for the first time.

Two things, canned beans and instant rice cost more than dry bulk rice and beans. And your recipe for “salt and parsley instant rice and canned beans” sounds like it’s going to taste like sadness.

That shit is full of sodium and really bad for you. Once they target sugar, what do you suppose is next?

It’s just one of the myriad of recommendations people make because they don’t understand the problem. People think that the simple trick that worked for them would solve similar problems for everyone. Worse, they get angry when their advice is met with resistance. It’s like Napoleon feeding the alpacas.

It’s because 3d chess is a sci-fi trope. There are a few versions, but it probably became most famous from the Star Trek version. 3d chess is ostensibly more complex, although the precise rules are usually not described in fiction, and the people who are very good at 3d chess are demonstrated to be extremely smart and tactical. Having a sci-fi character win at 3d chess is itself a trope to demonstrate that the character is a genius. In those examples, often the opponent will be overconfident and derisive of the character’s strategy, only to be humbled by the loss moments later. It’s a way to showing the character is cool headed, gracious in victory, and leagues ahead of his opponents.

The 4d chess meme was an escalation of a sarcastic exaggerations of the trope, like a way of saying a moron is just doing something obviously stupid is really enacting a super-strategy that you just don’t understand.

Fucking hell, have you ever tried to live on rice and beans? You need half a dozen spices and salt just to make it taste like not sadness, plus prep time, prep space, prep bowls and pots, and then you need to wash everything. Compared with a frozen meal that cooks in the microwave and a disposable tray for serving, there’s really no contest. A “rice and beans” lifestyle requires a stay-at-home partner who soaks beans and washes dishes.

It’s a great frugal tip to stretch your grocery dollars, but if you’re poor, it’s not a moral failing to go with a cheap frozen meal.