Fedora Kinoite has worked perfectly for me.

If anything, being in the military keeps driving me further to the left

We need to see a lot more of the other type of slamming. From the top rope.

The data used in this study came from self-report surveys and questionnaires that mainly seemed to ask when and if they were diagnosed with type-2 diabetes. The results were adjusted for quite a few factors like obesity, socioeconomic status, and daily sugar intake, but I didn’t see anything about overall dietary patterns or physical activity levels. I did see the phrase “physical activity” in the footnote of one of the tables, but no further context. The top end group was those who had more than one drink per day, which implies that two per day and a 12-pack a day were treated as functionally the same. And they admit they weren’t able to differentiate between types of artificial sweeteners.

Similar studies referenced in this one point out consistency in observations among the sugar-sweetened beverage group, but the results from artificial sweetener groups have been all over the place.

I’d take this with a huge grain of salt. Or artificial saltener.

Remember a few years ago when people died after a snow storm in Texas because lawmakers largely ignored recommendations to winterize their shitty private power grid? Hold these people accountable.

This is why I’ve always liked using sodium chloride as the fearmongering example over dihydrogen monoxide.

You’ve got a chemical made up of a metal that’s so unstable it explodes when it touches water (and guess what’s in you!) and a poisonous gas. Is that something you want to put in your body? No? Well, what if I told you that food manufacturers add it to nearly everything? Or that a detectable amount of it is in you at any given time, and has been since your conception?

“This is why the criticism doesn’t matter to us when you call us Nazis. ‘Nazi this and Nazi that.’ You know, I’m beginning to think they don’t like us. You know what? I’ve said this before. We need to learn from the Blacks, the way they were able to remove the power from the n-word by using it. So, from now on, it’s, ‘What up, my Nazi? Hey, what up, my Nazi? Hey, what’s hanging, my Nazi?’”

Some incredible self-awareness there.

That was originally one of the intended purposes of cryptocurrency, or at least claimed to be. Too bad we can’t have anything without needing to make it an investment engine.

I’m never actually going to look it up, but from what I understand, Labubu is like Beanie Babies for Gen Alpha or something?

When we were looking a few years ago, the only thing under $250k was a house built in 1897 that shared the property line with a hoarder shed that had a family of raccoons going in and out while we were looking at it in the middle of the day.

It’s either that, the $500 fixer-upper, or the $800k new construction. And I’m in the Midwest, not even in a high COL area.

Looks like they’re replacing parts of the hiring process, too. Nearly every single job description and recruiter message looks AI-generated, my resume is at the mercy of some HR algorithm, and who knows what they’re cooking up for actual interviews.

But they still expect us to specially craft an individual resume and cover letter for each job we apply to? With all this corporate wordsmithing that only ever applies to writing those resumes? Fuck that. Hey ChatGPT, here’s a job posting, match it up with my resume and generate a friendly cover letter. The whole process has become so formulaic with corporate-speak that whatever LLMs spit out are way better than anything we’d be able to come up with on our own.

I know there’s a big knee-jerk anti-AI sentiment on Lemmy, but some of these points are perfectly legitimate. Not the ones seeking emotional validation or trying to create social connections, but automating the tweaking of your resume and cover letters for all these companies that expect personalized engagement, absolutely. I’ve got extremely limited cognitive bandwidth and I’ve got too much to do besides branding myself and making you and your company feel special. If capitalism loves automation so much, then let’s automate this bullshit.

I’m just waiting for this AI bubble to burst so we can finally move away from soullessly imitating human social patterns and toward the things AI is actually useful for: pattern recognition.

Don’t forget Kid Rock was there for some reason

The overwhelming majority of jobs in the military never see combat. Only some even contribute to combat operations. And no, the person working in finance processing paychecks does not contribute to combat operations.

People join the military because it provides the socialist systems that should be available to everyone. Go out and talk to a couple hundred servicemembers. You’ll be able to count on one hand how many joined out of pure patriotism and not as a means to avoid poverty.

It’s easy to look down on them from a position of privilege. A lot of people don’t have that luxury. A lot of times they have virtually no other means to obtain healthcare, education, financial security, or a means to leave their town. Those needs outweigh any satisfaction they might get from up on that high horse you’re on.

If only LAPD would pull a Rodney King on ICE.

Labeling it as a superpower is bad, too. Superpowers don’t get accomodations.

Already confirmed on the Steam page

Incubus:

Looks like we aren’t too far off from that.