Stuff like this is why I just laugh every time some crypto-coin-kiddie starts prattling on about how 'banks are dead' and 'crypto(currency) is teh futurez.
they're making the best choices they _can_ make in the context of their lives. Low pay, long hours and constant stress puts them in a position where these foods are a logical and reasonable choice.
I was once one of those low-pay, long-hour, high-stress workers. Yes, I had to be on food stamps for 2 months to keep my family fed. And yes, I spent less on healthy choices than other recipients spent on unhealthy ones - so much so that at the end of the 2 months I still had over $200 in my account (I tried to give it back but they wouldn't let me).
Compare the cost of 6 apples to the cost of a 6-pack of apple-flavor Fructose cakes.
It was a great show for the season that it lasted, but that was almost 15 years ago. Fillion isn't giving up the rights, nor is he going to do anything with them (other than maybe sue anyone who creates Firefily-based media).
Come up with an original idea maybe, rather than riding the coat-tails of decades-old sci-fi.
Precisely my point - most issues are value statements that have no objective determination, whereas the post I was responding to claims the opposite to be true.
"Most things" are complex situations that do not have valid binary response.
That said, I don't disagree that the majority of media outlets worry more about spin than facts.
It's the place that has historically been very welcoming of "guest workers", as we called them in the old days, and of anyone interested and willing to make the trip here and integrate.
Look up "Danish Expulsion Law." I've found articles as recent as last year.
Like I said, I love Scandinavian countries - American Liberals are constantly pointing to them as examples of perfected socialist utopias, and I thoroughly enjoy pointing out that those countries are able to achieve such success mainly due to the fact they they have small populations and extremely strict immigration controls - something American liberals don't think would work in our own nation.
I think it's great that you're not a xenophobe. I don't think it's great that you believe you can speak for all Scandinavians.
In America, the liberals have focused on the college educated...
Milo Yannopolis is college educated, as are a number of conservative pundits who are regularly (and often violently) prevented from speaking their college-educated opinions on college campuses.
It is harder to trick college educated people into believing false statements.
Nah, you just have to play to their egos; it's amazing how quickly most people will fall for any old bullshit, so long as it's something they already believe in. After Sandy Hook, a "study" was published that stated "98% of Americans agree that we need stronger gun control laws." Trouble is, 98% of Americans have never agreed on anything.
This: essentially breaking 'the internet' for millions of people simultaneously might actually cause those with the power to make change to take notice.
Oil is refined into gasoline to run cars. If only someone would invent an "electric car" that ran on electricity instead, we could power them with wind energy.
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Don't get me wrong, children working in mines is horrible. However, they are working there because the alternatives cost more money.
FTFY. Let's not get in the trap of thinking that African warlords are suffering a sudden bout of altruism.
So was the concrete.
Stuff like this is why I just laugh every time some crypto-coin-kiddie starts prattling on about how 'banks are dead' and 'crypto(currency) is teh futurez.
It's a crap pyramid scheme and we all know it.
they're making the best choices they _can_ make in the context of their lives. Low pay, long hours and constant stress puts them in a position where these foods are a logical and reasonable choice.
That myth has long been debunked.
I was once one of those low-pay, long-hour, high-stress workers. Yes, I had to be on food stamps for 2 months to keep my family fed. And yes, I spent less on healthy choices than other recipients spent on unhealthy ones - so much so that at the end of the 2 months I still had over $200 in my account (I tried to give it back but they wouldn't let me).
Compare the cost of 6 apples to the cost of a 6-pack of apple-flavor Fructose cakes.
... I'm not even supposed to be here today!
Instead of a lump of concrete he used an old car. No more dangerous, no CO2 emissions from making the concrete...
Manufacturing a car is far more environmentally detrimental than making the same mass of concrete.
Otherwise I agree - his company, his money, his car. I found it clever.
... and let it freaking go.
It was a great show for the season that it lasted, but that was almost 15 years ago. Fillion isn't giving up the rights, nor is he going to do anything with them (other than maybe sue anyone who creates Firefily-based media).
Come up with an original idea maybe, rather than riding the coat-tails of decades-old sci-fi.
Isn't Denmark one of the go-to nations that American liberals use as a shining example of socialist government done right?
Precisely my point - most issues are value statements that have no objective determination, whereas the post I was responding to claims the opposite to be true.
"Most things" are complex situations that do not have valid binary response.
That said, I don't disagree that the majority of media outlets worry more about spin than facts.
A huge swath of the populace have been convinced by [mainstream, corporate-funded media] that facts are opinions...
FTFY
Not a firewall guy, I take it...
DENY ANY ANY
Reading the paper won't keep you from being mis-informed, if the people writing the paper are mis-informed.
What should actually be taught in middle school (and beyond) is the ability and capacity to engage in critical thinking.
And who might the rich be? I guarantee you're rich compared to someone. Shall we then cut off your head as well?
Comparatively rich is not absolutely rich.
Fuck that guy, and everyone else that claims that "first world poor isn't really poor."
Yet [social media is a] scourge of society that ensured Trump and Clinton were our only "viable" options
FTFY. During the election (and for months after) I saw a fair amount of bullshit being flung from both sides.
Nobody's a saint when it comes to US politics. Except maybe 3rd parties, but only about 6% of us actually vote for them.
Most things are simply True or False.
Subsidies are bad.
Is that statement true, false, or does it require more thought than a simple binary response can offer?
There's a lot more grey area in the world than you seem aware of.
It's the place that has historically been very welcoming of "guest workers", as we called them in the old days, and of anyone interested and willing to make the trip here and integrate.
Look up "Danish Expulsion Law." I've found articles as recent as last year.
Like I said, I love Scandinavian countries - American Liberals are constantly pointing to them as examples of perfected socialist utopias, and I thoroughly enjoy pointing out that those countries are able to achieve such success mainly due to the fact they they have small populations and extremely strict immigration controls - something American liberals don't think would work in our own nation.
I think it's great that you're not a xenophobe. I don't think it's great that you believe you can speak for all Scandinavians.
I'm just going to leave this here...
http://www.pogo.org/our-work/r...
Does anyone remember when OnLive and the Ouya console were the "streaming game service" flavor du jour?
Pepperidge Farms remembers.
That's funny, because Northern Europe is doing really goddamn well currently
Is that the part with xenophobic, homogeneous populations and exceedingly strict immigration controls?
I love Scandinavia.
In America, the liberals have focused on the college educated ...
Milo Yannopolis is college educated, as are a number of conservative pundits who are regularly (and often violently) prevented from speaking their college-educated opinions on college campuses.
It is harder to trick college educated people into believing false statements.
Nah, you just have to play to their egos; it's amazing how quickly most people will fall for any old bullshit, so long as it's something they already believe in. After Sandy Hook, a "study" was published that stated "98% of Americans agree that we need stronger gun control laws." Trouble is, 98% of Americans have never agreed on anything.
No, ransom implies that you're giving the original owner exclusive access to buy their own stuff back.
This: essentially breaking 'the internet' for millions of people simultaneously might actually cause those with the power to make change to take notice.
Sometimes you've got to set the forest on fire.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ener...
Oil is refined into gasoline to run cars. If only someone would invent an "electric car" that ran on electricity instead, we could power them with wind energy.
Hey, you know what else oil is used for?
Building and lubricating wind turbines
They can revoke the DNS from sci-hub all they want, it's not going to prevent the site from running, assuming it can find a host.
"Pulling up the streets and sidewalk in front of your house doesn't prevent people from accessing it, because the building is still physically there"