Taking a look at hyperpalatable food products this month. 62% of food products in the U.S. meet the criteria for hyperpalatability which is when the food has a high enough concentration of salt, sugar and/or carbs to override the fullness response and reinforce binge eating.
I’ve finished a half assed day 1 of avoiding them and have nothing to report.
Thing is, DSA had like 7,000 members throughout then 90s, 00s and early 10s. Since then elections that put socialism front and center have driven those numbers up above 70,000. I can say the chapter near me hasn’t spent any energy on elections this year, instead focusing on buying and forgiving medical debt and putting people on a picket line so local workers didn’t have to be there for 72 hours straight without any breaks. The fact that the primary was covered so widely and people were clapping for an avowed socialist is not nothing. But we should still temper our expectations.
The one near me had a really huge turnout and was blocking traffic all over the lib’est area during peak brunch hours, so that’s kind of funny. Saw tables for food not bombs, some worker thing associated with Kshama Sawant, and a bunch of people wearing local DSA chapter shirts. Lots of Palestinian flags too. Some people I talked to had earlier in the day been protesting a potential future ICE facility in a nearby town with immigrant rights groups and prison abolitionists. These protests aren’t going to change anything and we have to stop centering nonviolence as the highest virtue. But it seems like a good thing that people are meeting and talking to each other in physical reality… anything that defies the gravitational pull of social media.
But absolutely don’t let libs use this little afternoon field trip as a chance to pat themselves on the back. More people go to sports bars to watch the football game every week.
I’ll never forget seeing Avatar Way Of Water with my in-laws and they are absolutely moved by the emotions of the movie. Then the next day I’m explaining why California may have opposed water desalination plants to because it kills a lot of fish and they instantly reply “fuck the fish”. I’m sorry but good slop is still slop and it doesn’t reach the average burgerlander in a meaningful way.
I thought she already did this last year. She’s becoming the Bolsonaro of voting for bad faith antisemitism definitions.
LA refers to Louisiana here. Climate change likely one of the major factors.
Remember to use different complex DNA for every service, and change it often. And Customer service reps will never ask for your DNA.
My employer contributes a set amount whether or not I contribute. Not a match. I do choose between a handful of different index funds or bond or money market index funds… I don’t fully understand this. Is one of these smarter to be in right now? And should I keep my personal contribution going if it isn’t necessary for matching? Thank you fellow communists for your financial advice.
Good point. They should invite Limmy to China too. Top 1% streamer.
I mic’d up a Supreme Court justice once, one of the bad ones but I was dumb and didn’t know that until I googled the name later. I could’ve saved the country if I knew wonk nerd shit a little better.
Is it time to cash out bonds?
False dilemma. They might spark a pandemic AND have a mass shouting.
Just wait. If they win the Super Bowl there’ll be a parade with 800k+ in attendance.
I feel like music is as good as it has ever been right now. Of course the good shit isn’t making money outside of the merch table so it’s a rough time for musicians. There’s amazing shit being written and filmed but they maybe get a couple million viewers/readers at best if it isn’t more Amazon or Netflix slop.
It isn’t that creativity is dying, we all have ideas and sometimes they’re realized quite well. It’s just that capitalism no longer rewards creativity and the energy we have to make our ideas real is depleted by 80 hour work weeks doing the most mindless shit.
This is a real doomer place to be as well… just wanted to put in a few good words for the resiliency of pure creativity. It’s buried alive by capitalism but it is alive down there.
Reminds me of that old last week tonight about China building ghost cities nobody lives in. Fast forward a year and they’re bustling cities full of people.
Also a great metaphor for how US foreign policy works.
Walter White sneaking around inside Jesse’s apartment while he sleeps. “I’m watching Jane choke on her vomit.”
They’re dressed to find out if there’s a cherry pie in Dougie Jones’s box.
Where pushing full Poe+ power, control and 4k video through a single cat6 cable at work. Outside of very niche use cases do people really need anything beyond 6?
I have a nearly unlimited supply of cardboard through my job. This video is amazing and gives me so many ideas!