You’re imagining an argument and getting mad that I’m not making points in favor of said imaginary argument. .

It is, but that doesn’t mean that poor people don’t still eat more highly processed foods. Not smoking or using drugs is also way cheaper than doing those things, but both are more prevalent among poor people in the US.

Well the kia theft in particular was. It was basically a fad among teens in some places to steal kias and go on joyrides in them. The Wikipedia article describes it as a tik tok fad but really it was more localized to specific cities so I would think peer pressure played a big role. Idk how to describe teens who are out there doing shit like this other than “troubled.” All the videos I saw looked like they were wannabe gangsters or already in gangs but that wasn’t all of them so I didn’t know the best way to describe it.

My conspiracy theory is that it’s because they want to scam insurance companies into thinking that these things can replace doctors entirely.

Why the hell did they add an LLM aspect to this? I am legitimately confused. ML powered diagnostic tools have existed for decades at this point and were quite fine. The only thing an LLM adds is uncertainty, unless your goal is to scam people into thinking this thing can replace doctors entirely, which is definitely possible. I could imagine insurers demanding that hospitals only use cheap AI assistants rather than real doctors because they’re cheaper, regardless of whether or not they are actually accurate.

I would say this is almost certainly skewed by income, with the poorest Americans getting almost all of their calories from ultra processed foods, and the share decreasing with income. I would be curious to see that spread because one of the more fucked up things about this is that there are a lot of people who eat this stuff exclusively, and this number kind of hides that.

Yes. All you needed was something to use as a pry bar to remove the steering column cover and a USB connector to turn there ignition, which most people have in their cars anyway. There are videos on how to do it and it can be done by a teenager in seconds with no special tools. This requires a slight investment which means it probably won’t become a fad for troubled teens.

It’s even dumber than that. Those 30% like Trump because they like Trump at this point. He could turn around and say Lenin is his hero and that we should throw off the shackles of the bourgeoisie and overturn the capitalist order and those 30% would still love him because they love Trump not any ideology. It’s completely stupid and not logical at all. Sure at the beginning there was some reason for it but now it is just completely worship for its own sake.

There is a difference between “more people” and “as many people as reddit”

My favorite binomial name is for the common black rat, whose binomial name is Rattus rattus. Shit sounds like someone making shit up on the spot without knowing how Latin works.

Xanthocephalus, from Greek Xanthous, meaning yellow, and cephalos, meaning head (compare with “cephalopod” meaning head-foot). That’s right. The binomial name is also just “that thing with the yellow head”

Why would we want it to be? More people is what ruins websites. A big part of why reddit sucks is the large number of idiots.

I got Persona 5 Royal in the Steam Summer Sale this year and I’ve been obsessed. I wanted to play Persona 4 when it came out but I was a teenager and didn’t have any realistic way to get ahold of it, and then I was just super busy when Persona 5 came out but it is truly an amazing game. It definitely takes some getting used to and I would definitely not recommend to someone who isn’t already a fan of JRPGs or anime but if you do like JRPGs and are okay with an anime aesthetic it doesn’t really get much better than this. I knew basically nothing about Persona going in other than that it’s about teens with JoJo-style Stands and it has a cool art style with interesting character designs, and I was pleasantly surprised at every turn. My only complaint is that the combat is really more about style than difficulty and the game is sort of easy even on hard mode. Definitely worth it for $15 even on its own.

Saving you a click- it’s 400 atmospheres.

It’s Polish not Latin. Pieróg becomes pierogi in plural.

I have mixed feelings about him. I have listened to a lot of different interviews with him and I truly believe that he believes in everything he says and does 100%, which to me does count for something. The problem is, I think he’s completely delusional and his proposed solutions to America’s problems are just doubling down on failed Clinton era policies without examining what is actually wrong with the system and society that created Trump in the first place. His proposed cause for the collapse of neoliberalism is that we just didn’t do it right and need to just do neoliberalism harder. It’s like he just mainlined episodes of the West Wing instead of doing any kind of introspection.

Cory Booker, unlike most politicians in general, does seem to be someone who actually has a set of guiding principles that he follows. The problem is that those principles are incredibly misguided. In a pre-Trump world I probably would have loved someone like Cory Booker as president but the world has changed and it’s become a lot clearer that neoliberalism is a failed ideology that just leads to more inequality.

Map of New York City .

New Jersey

New Jersey and New York City are intimately connected both in terms of land and economy. One of NYC’s biggest landmarks, the Statue of Liberty, is literally on the border with New Jersey. Plus Cory Booker is a Democrat with a high profile nationally and he is going to try for the presidency again so some people are interested in his opinion.

I could probably handle it and find humor in it now but at 12 years old or however old I was when this happened I was not able to see the absurdity and humor of the situation

I saw the M. Night Shyamalan Avatar movie in theaters when I was a kid who was obsessed with Avatar. I knew the movie was going to be bad but I loved the series so much there was a bit of me that hoped it was going to be okay but no, it was even worse than my worst expectations, and completely disrespected all the characters and the series as a whole. I have seen worse movies both in and out of theaters, but the combo of my sheer love of the Avatar franchise and just how much this movie sucked plus being in a theater unable to just turn it off or leave was pretty rough.

If we’re talking in the past few years, I would say the worst theater experience was watching another terrible movie, Midway (2019), while some teens behind me were doing hand stuff to each other and not being particularly subtle about it.

Secession - a political separation.

Succession- the inheritance of property of titles in a specific order

Both come from the Latin root “cedere” which means “to go” but with different modifiers.