Fracking is used for oil and for natural gas. And it absolutely pollutes local water supplies, aside from also using a shit ton of water, causing tremors, and wrecking wildlife habitats.

If there’s one benefit for it, it’s that it improves energy independence because it allows us to tap more difficult wells cost-effectively.

But that’s a bit of a stretch, because divesting away from fossil fuels also improves energy independence.

Maybe try typing the word you’re talking about into Google before speaking so confidently out of your ass. What are you, Ace Ventura?

Obviously they aren’t recent, it’s an old graveyard.

You know why nobody living in a town gets buried in its cemetery? Because they are living.

SPAM is underappreciated.

I remember a long time ago as a fat kid on keto, eating spam right out of the can with a spoon. This is not the recommended way to serve.

But, grilled, either on a sandwich or as part of a breakfast plate? Chef’s kiss.

Because it’s a bad faith argument.

There’s no candidate that opposes Israel’s actions.

It’s certainly okay, even preferable, to be critical of our administration, but it serves no point to bring it up in a discussion of the election, because it serves only to de-rail the conversation when any candidate who matters supports the genocide.

Hitler wouldn’t have been shit if he wasn’t celebrated by German media during the Beer Hall Putsch trials. And he would’ve faded to obscurity pretty quick if not for Goebbels.

Fascists are bad. But they only get dangerous when they’re given a platform.

I don’t think the fascism would exist if it wasn’t profitable to give it a platform.

It’s like My 600lb Life.

Trump is the bedridden 800lb lump of a human. And the news cycle that brings him hamburgers by the pallet is the enabler spouse.

Trump is an outrage machine, and we have a media that deals in an economy of outrage.

Trump gets outrage. Outrage gets clicks. Clicks get money. It’s a pretty simple chain to follow.

We need to wake up and realize that a profit-driven instantaneous news system that leverages strong emotions is not good for anybody. Truth is subjective nowadays, (always has been, really, but it’s especially evident in the current media climate) and all that matters is getting information and narratives (not necessarily facts) out and people consuming it (and all the ads embedded with it) there, first, and right now.

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“leftists” just want their population to be fairly represented. The system that we have now gives significantly more power to people who live in the right places.

These places are all away from densely populated areas (which are, coincidentally, the areas that are contributing the most to our GDP, also where the highest wages are and thus where the biggest chunk of taxes are collected)

What we are well on our way to, is a tyranny of the minority, and you sound like you’re applauding it. As if that is somehow better for everyone than majority rule, or even the stalemate we have now.

Yeah, we want a functional democracy where not everyone, but at least the majority, thinks the same way…and also runs under the direction of a majority. You know, like a democracy should.

What we have now is a dysfunctional democracy…one which runs counter to what the majority are thinking.

I’d been meaning to try out atomic distros. I’m not an expert on Linux by any means but I’ve been using it on-and-off for about 25 years, and exclusively (at home, at least) for about 7. So I’m a bit more than a noob.

I do worry if I’d feel restricted inside of an atomic distro. Might throw kininite on a laptop I’ve been meaning to give to my kid, tho.

The link is pretty interesting. Apparently a lot of eating disorders can be related to ADHD…namely BED, anorexia, and bulimia.

With BED, supposedly it’s about instant gratification. That’s likely why a lot of people binge on a specific type of food…like sweets or saltys. Some of it can even be an OCD behavior.

I do wish it was given nearly the same attention as the other eating disorders. It wasn’t even until a couple of years ago that I heard of it and the specific markers (like eating well past being full, or binging in secret). But most people have never heard of it because “har har fat person”.

This is also why I believe obesity should often be handled as a symptom of mental distress, not something that exists in a vacuum.

I’ve been on Adderall and Vyvanse for ADHD and binge eating disorder.

The Vyvanse helps a ton with the binges. My doc had suggested I try Concerta if I’m having a hard time finding Vyvanse this month. I was able to find Vyvanse but I had no idea appetite suppression could be so much in the Concerta. Probably way easier than finding/taking any of those fashionable diet injectables. And generic Vyvanse still gets on backorder…

Maybe I’ll bring up trying that next time.

Being incel isn’t just about not getting laid…the important part is blaming everyone else for it. The term then gets co-opted as the people who blame everyone else for not getting laid.

Huh. So they were sending their best.

Only for low-wage jobs. IME it’s rare for office workers to get drug tested.

He’s Peter Thiel’s plaything ever since he bankrolled his suit against Gawker.

Fucking Thiel is set to take over the world. Him and his old buddies Musk and Zuck.

It’s soooooo fucking obvious, too. These guys are legit the globalist elite that the conservatives have warned about for decades and they are fleecing them while they beg for more. How the fuck did we get here?

They had to know this would happen, right?

Like, they didn’t think to test with a dual booting system? Wtf?

Where do they even get off fixing a bug in grub?

What would first choice be? Third? And second pick is first shift?

I love your choice of the word “advertised”. Like there was a billboard, it was on sale, and there were coupons in the Sunday paper.

Gradual enshittification is the only way to launch a product now.

You gotta launch a product that’s good. Better than the existing competition. But this happens with some serious seed money or angel investor. Essentially, some naive rich dude.

But eventually it needs to make a profit.

They know that eventually the product will have to be as bad or worse than what’s already around…but they will have to boil the frog or else people will jump immediately as soon as the next thing comes around.

That gives the founders plenty of time to enshittify and bail before it turns to complete crap.