C’mon, police. If you’ve got nothing to hide you’ve got nothing to fear, right? Right?

One of my conservative neighbors replaced his immigrant landscaper with a robot lawnmower. Is that double-dipping?

AI taking jobs is totally fine…in a post-scarcity socialist utopia.

We aren’t there yet, though.

Epicurian President.

Yep. Just another means to control the populace and extract more money out of them.

Look at programs like MethCheck, putting pseudoephedrine products behind the counter and putting a limit on purchasing…requiring ID to purchase.

So now we’ve got:

• A limit on how much Sudafed we can buy (without a prescription, which is it’s own level of bullshit because now you gotta see a doctor)
• A requirement to have valid state-issued ID to purchase medicine.
• Phenylephrine, a glorified placebo, taking over all cold medicine.
• Poor people can’t steal medicine (I see this as a con)
• Smurfs.
• Just as much meth.

Dude wtf didn’t Kyle Busch just die of sepsis at 41?

What’s up with relatively young famous people suddenly dying of sepsis??

Can’t be a good Christian without a little suffering and oppression.

Nope. Unspoken side-effect of obesity.

Kind of a multi-faceted usage of the word “belittle” here, but I’ll allow it.

I hate to gatekeep, especially after my last comment…but how fat have you been?

Losing weight is not complicated or hard. I never said it was. I said it’s a 24/7 challenge of willpower that doesn’t go away when you hit target weight.

The biggest chunk of that willpower is spent against fighting the lack of (or insensitivity to) the hormone that makes them feel full in the first place…a problem that can now be countered medically.

It’s not surprising, then, that when they stop taking the medicine, they start feeling hungry, and when they are hungry, they would eat.

It paints a picture that there are actual physiological barriers to losing weight…physical barriers that probably didn’t mean much before the current food landscape. Now calorie-dense foods are cheap, readily available, shelf-stable, physically addicting, and completely devoid of actual nutrition.

That physically addicting part is really the worst of it. You can’t just not eat. You have to succumb to hunger eventually.

Telling a fat person to lose weight is no different than telling an alcoholic to cut back to no more than 3 drinks a day, forever. Is that impossible or unreasonable, for someone else has never experienced alcoholism? Sure. Absolutely. Is it something you can realistically expect from an alcoholic? No, that’s crazy…nothing against alcoholics, but we know and understand now that it’s addiction and there are physiological barriers, and telling people that the cure is to just cut back is batshit insane.

Likewise, you can’t just stop eating. You have to face a trigger, multiple times a day, every day. It’s incredibly exhausting.

Dude is really leaning into the “let’s be the illuminati” bit, huh?

Skinny people see being fat as a moral failure and thus losing weight through any means other than starving yourself and exercising 24/7 is unacceptable.

Meanwhile, most skinny people just eat until their full and aren’t hitting the gym, it’s just their default.

But, on the other hand, most fat people have lost and regained weight tons of times, so when they see someone losing weight without starving themselves and hitting the gym, they get jealous.

That’s the bit people don’t understand. Fat people on diets are starving and constantly uncomfortable. It’s a 24/7 attack on willpower (and it doesn’t magically go away when you hit goal weight). The weight will almost certainly come back, because willpower is a finite thing, and it’s more and more demoralizing each time.

Skinny people don’t have to think about it.

When fat people can lose weight without thinking about it, everyone else feels threatened.

It’s the same reason everything else sucks. Literally everything needs to be gatekept.

Why can’t education be cheaper, or loans forgiven? Because they had to suffer, and so do you.

How would it possibly be fair to somebody who died of cancer because they couldn’t afford care and then someone else just gets care for free? That’s not fair! They gotta pay!

Why can’t we have access to abortions? Because some other dude was responsible for an unexpected pregnancy and got stuck in a loveless marriage raising a bastard they didn’t want, and now you do too.

Nothing can be easier or improved as long as other people had to have it worse.

Same shit, different story. “I did it so you have to have it as bad or worse”. It’s jealousy, all the way down. I blame the church.

My first thought was that this was a parody of /r/conservative

Didn’t they just redo kendall outbound tho?

It’s been a while…I work in that area but wfh 99% of the time and drive in like 0.75%. I don’t recall if new Kendall outbound has the bells still.

NGL I was gonna say this looks like a T-Stop. Maybe Kendall or South Station?

I just ordered an amiibo emulator off AliExpress.

My wife is like “isn’t that cheating” and I’m like “yeah, but it’s pay-to-play, so I’m okay with that”.

It’s less cheating than a game genie…

Well, think of a particle man. Is he a dot or is he a speck? When he’s underwater, does he get wet? Or does the water get him instead?

Nobody knows.

Particle man.

Pfft go back to the 1980s you can get a woody that was 5.48m long. (I.e. Ford LTD Crown Victoria Country Squire).

Water is not wet. It makes other things wet.

That’s like saying your pants are dressed.

Speed limits are an artificial control on speed.

That is to say, if roads are designed properly, then speed limits are completely unnecessary.

You see residential neighborboods that are straight and wide enough to fit 6 lanes and people wonder why cars zoom through at 40 miles an hour.

Whereas if it were narrower, had some curves, maybe a raised median with some plants, bike lane, etc…people would naturally drive slower, because going faster than 25 feels crazy.

We drive fast down straight open roads because it feels frustrating to drive 25 when you can see there is tons of room and nothing obstructing visibility ahead.

The other way is what they do in Rhode Island…build schools at major intersections on state highways next to the interstate and install speed camera to mail you a ticket if you go over 25 at any time between 7am and 4pm.

That, and don’t repair potholes.

I think the “race” part of it is somewhat necessary as long as we have a world that revolves around a handful of economic powerhouse nation-states.

It’s a conditional requirement of capitalism. If we were unified in working towards the advancement of humanity as a whole, money be damned…sure, that’d be great. Got a little work to do before we’re there, though. In the meantime, we’re competing towards pursuit of the all-mighty dollar. And yeah, that will always mean that the individual loses out, because dollars gotta come from somewhere.

But as long as we have a capitalistic society, we are always going to be at odds with the competition, i.e. China, which means no cooperation.

Furthermore, they seem to be way better at not giving a fuck about stealing IP than we are…if we make something, they clone it and make it cheap, but that never, ever happens in reverse.

Partly because they are a bit better equipped at this point for obtaining raw materials (to put it lightly) and they have a much less expensive labor force (to put it lightly).