You’re going to need to provide a link to these studies. I tried searching and can’t find anything other than random one-off people tasting stuff, or people only tasting a bunch of different vegan options.

That’s fine, keep doing nothing and expecting people to magically changing on their own. If that’s the route you all want to go, great, also step telling people to go vegan all the time.

You’re the one trying to get people to go Vegan. This is your cause, not mine.

That’s exactly what I want in my car, security vulnerabilities that gives someone access to control anything electronic… that sounds terrifying.

Aspects can also become obsolete, like all the cars that lost their internet connectivity when the cell providers decommissioned the 3G data networks the old cars were using in 2022. Check out some of the cars on this list, they aren’t even that old… That’s a nice 2019 Porsche 911 you have there, too bad the remote, safety and security features stopped working 3 years after purchase. I guess that’s what $92k gets you.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/16/3g-networks-shutting-down-in-2022-could-affect-your-cars-gps.html

I don’t really want my car to have an API at all. I want it to be mechanical, so my car doesn’t become obsolete on a computer timeline.

Vegans need to make better food that can appeal to the masses, is easy to find and consume, and isn’t pretending to be meat.

Telsa convinced the world that the electric car was viable by making a better car, not by making a shitty car and trying to guilt people into buying one… which was the approach of all the previous electric cars. If vegans want plants to catch on, they need to do the same thing. Stop trying to guilt people and make food that’s good enough that people willingly choose it over meat, because it tastes better. That should be the goal. Pretty much everything “plant-based” that’s pretending to be some other food is a non-starter. The original food is always better. Keep it natural and don’t process everything to hell, like the impossible burger… that thing is terrifying.

If you feel like you’re dragging people kicking and screaming to Veganism, then they need a better product, it’s that simple. Get better recipes. Prove it out in some restaurants, franchise them, and have them go head to head with McDonalds. Package stuff and get it into stores and have it go head to head with all the other shit in stores. Get some marketing to convince people to get a banana instead of a candy bar, or whatever plant instead of beef jerky. That’s what it’s going to take. And if the marketing is is all about how meat is bad and people need to eat plants to save the planet… Nope. Wrong. It’s going to fail. You’re trying to go after the market that doesn’t give a shit about any of that.

“60% of the time, it works every time.”

So we need someone with really deep pockets to lobby for the end of lobbying.

There is also lab grown meat. Not sure if it’s out yet for people to purchase, but it’s a thing.

I also wonder how other countries seem to do it. When I was in Scandinavia I went to a place that had steak. Grain fed costs extra (because it tastes better), grass fed was the default. Are they having beef imported, or are they just not eating as much of it so it’s less of an issue?

A Casio watch. Some models can be had for $20 or less, they are built to last a good long while, and it’s a low cost brand that even watch snobs respect.

Is to closed up? Bottles generally start to smell after a while. Even my Yeti cup (with lid) felt like it needed to be washed occasionally… not every day, but I don’t think I went a year. I’ll typically use normal glasses around the house and after using them for a few days they start getting cloudy. I don’t think it’ll make me sick, but if anyone were to see it, I’m sure it would look gross, so I change them out when I notice.

My nephew needs a poop knife. The kid was breaking toilets when he was 5 or 6, and never stopped. It took his parents a while to figure out he was dropping rock hard giant turds and wasn’t throwing toys in the toilet or something. I saw one of he turds that wouldn’t flush a few months ago for the first time. It was massive… I don’t know how it came out of him. It did take a long time, it’s probably painful.

The hardest part of getting people to pay for a site is that first sign up and getting the credit card. If $1 feels like a deal and gets them in the door, he can then add micro-transactions and all kinds of stuff, and all of that will feel more fluid, because they can charge the card on file. Imagine paying to give a tweet a super-like, or paying to promote your reply to a post so the person is more likely to see it. He doesn’t even have to raise the yearly fee, he can nickle and dime everyone to death once he has their card and makes it easy.

If he wants to be extra shitty, he can hide all that stuff behind some kind of point system, so people don’t know how much they’re spending and don’t feel like it’s real money.

This was what I needed to make me care enough to delete my account, and my 3 tweets from 8 years ago.

We’ve gone through a few different models for MS Authentication at work. The current one is to put in your password for what you’re trying to access on the laptop, then it prompts for a number, and the phone gets a push notification to tell which number. It works well enough. I just wish SSO worked more so I didn’t need to put in my password so much.

So a free version of YouTube Music?

iTunes had this back in the day. All the iTunes libraries on your network would show up in iTunes. It was awesome in college when entire dorms or apartment complexes would be on the same network.

iChat had a similar feature of showing people on your network. I messaged someone once to see if they also had an internet outage, because the local network seemed up. We got to chatting, and they told me they had been rocking out to my music library all year and invited me to a party. Great features.

Some people also made some software to pull the songs from these shared libraries. That was less legal, but the native iTunes sharing was awesome in the right environment.

What to they need the 8th Amendment for? Can’t they use the 1st Amendment? All the homeless can move right in front of the government buildings, make a couple signs, and exercise “the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” The grievance being the policies or lack of resources that led to the situation in the first place.

Problems are harder to ignore when they have to look at it every day on the way into work.

Only in the rare occurrence of a draft, not a normal way of being. The last time was 50 years ago.

macOS does this too, but by default it changes based on your input device and it can be changed in the Settings.