because the people who oppose all gun regulation have a lobby (the NRA) telling them how to vote, they listen, they vote and above all they're single issuer voters.
Gun control is a dead issue. It doesn't matter that 94% of Americans support Universal Background checks when that's just one issue out of many for them. The gun lobby is made up of people that will vote for _anyone_ so long as they promise to let them have their guns. You can't beat that strength unless you match it, and I don't see that happening.
They won. Drop it. You can't win this. The reason is simple. Gun nuts are Otaku. They're nerds. But they're a different kind of nerd than what everybody thinks about. They're extroverted nerds. Folks are used to seeing the introverted nerd; the kind that doesn't want to be around people. But they forget about the extroverts. They _want_ to be around people, but they're weird or ugly or tactless or something else that regular people don't like. So this kind of nerd seeks a community that accepts them no matter what. And a lot of the wash up on the shores of the NRA. The reason why there are so many strange gun nuts, heck the reason the phrase gun nut exists is that their an accepting community. It's like a religion. If you buy into it everybody has to at least be polite to you. It's a community. And if you make the slightest motion to take away that community they will react with a fear and hate you can't even imagine because, well, it's all they've got.
I suppose we could work to build a society that doesn't need such communities, but this is a site for nerds, and we all know how likely _that_ is to happen.
do you support ending all weapons regulations? After all, arms are arms. I've got gun nut friends who want to own grenade launchers and rocket launchers and RPGs and mortars and artillery pieces (cannons were 'arms' in the 1700s weren't they?).
Is there a line (short of chem weapons, since they're not arms)?
but then of course they'd cease to exist on the Internet. They want the best of both worlds, and thanks to our legal system's emphasis on property rights over fair use looks like they got it.
they don't have enough non-technical users to get away with this nonsense. Are they just pushing this out so they can back off and try again later (sorta like Microsoft did with all the nasty stuff they announced with the XBox One launch and Trump did by announcing he was turning food stamps into a blue apron style delivery program)? They do know we can all just jump ship to Mint, right?
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.
The message I'm conveying is that the working class, particularly the working poor, are being set up to fail. We're doing terrible things to them for the sake of profit and using the phrase 'lifestyle choices' to push the blame onto them so that when our empathic response kicks in we can tamp down on it and keep doing the bad things we want to do for profit. Otherwise we'd have to admit that their lives suck and that their choices make sense in the context of an awful life in an awful world and that we're complicit in making that world and that life.
Basically, the upper middle class and well to do know they're doing something wrong and they're coming up with logic to justify it. There's even a name for it: Prosperity Gospel. Google it, lots of articles on it.
Sorry to be so pedantic, but it was clear my message wasn't getting through.
Stainless is hard to clean. Probably because I live in a place with water so hard soap barely lathers but my stainless all stains. I have caste iron and good quality non stick pans. They help some but there are limits to what they can do.
It's not free time because in the back of my head I'm waiting for a hot pan. I need to keep an eye on it. I suppose I'm more than a bit neurotic in that regard, be even if I wasn't 15 minutes isn't enough time to relax.
The trouble with freezing is a) I'm already a bad cook and freezing the food doesn't help and b) small apartment freezer.
And I've been at this for years. I'm at the limits of my skill level. Being color blind doesn't help, nor does my poor sense of smell / taste. A lot of what makes people good cooks are sharper senses than I actually have. It's one of the reasons I gave up on Chemistry and went into IT. Still, I don't think I'm not uncommon a type of person. Maybe a little extreme ( I sometimes have to go by 'use by' dates because I can't always tell if something's gone bad, can't see green and what not) but I get the sense there's lots of folks with less extreme cases of what I have going on.
except you've loaded your post with a remark questioning the moral character ("lifestyle choices") of the people who rely on over processed food. I'm not even sure you know you're doing it. But it's basically dismissing the issue by claiming its the fault of the person impacted. The same logic was used against smokers while cigarette companies were hiding the dangers involved. Again, don't take this the wrong way. You might not even realize the message you're conveying, but if you don't then, well, you do now, and need to think about it in context.
Moreover, there's tons of evidence these chemicals are bad for you. You will _never_ find a doctor who says they're A-Ok. At least not one that isn't on the payroll of one of the companies hawking this stuff. The question isn't so much "are they bad for you" it's "how bad and why".
at least where I am those are _very_ expensive. I can go to a restaurant for the cost. My one saving grace is Trader Joe's dough balls. I can make two pizza meals out of that for about $6 or $7 bucks (vegetables instead of cheap processed meats). It's still time consuming. It takes me a long time to cut the vegetables, toss the dough and get everything assembled. If I count for the trip time to buy ingredients about 90 minutes. But at least I get two meals out of it.
Fish is OK too, but with mercury I can't eat that much of it (I'm in the States, not sure about the rest of the world but here you have to keep it to about once a week). A fish fry takes forever. I could cut the time down though with a better deep fryer. A bit of salmon pan fried isn't too bad, but it kinda stinks up the whole apartment. And it's got the same pan heating delay as the pancakes.
I don't generally eat meat, especially the cheap stuff. Mostly because I never cared much for the stuff, but also it keeps me away from fast food. A lot of the quick and dirty meals out there are just frying up some beef. It's hard to screw that up. Chicken's a lot harder since it's easy to cook it until it's dry and tasteless. I tried for years to cook it for my kid and could never get the hang of it. But part of that is my crap stove. I used to live in a house with a decent stove before moving for work and it was a _lot_ easier. I miss having a gas range. There's a reason cooks swear by it. You can use a high end electric range too (Induction? I forget) but you're not going to find those in any apartment I could afford. Maybe after my Kid's out of college I can finally buy a house again. That 2008 market crash still stings.
it is. I mean that. Especially if you live in a cheap apartment with a crappy kitchen. I do, and I cook most of my meals and it sucks. Your stove takes forever to heat up. Your burners don't heat evenly so you have to set them and let the pans hit for 10-15 minutes or your food cooks unevenly. The stove never stays level either. Your microwave is cheap and your fridge small. Your freezer smaller
If I make a meal of eggs, potatoes & some pancakes from scratch (minus the pancake mix, which is pre made) I need to plan on a little over an hour. 10-15 minutes to heat the pans. 5 minutes to mix the pancake batter (you can't mix it until just before you use it or it screws up the pancake texture). 15 minutes to cook the pancakes (one at a time, since I only have 1 full sized burner) 5 to cook the eggs (I'm not a good cook, so if I try to juggle the eggs and pancakes I burn one or the other) meanwhile the potatoes are cooking for about 30 minutes while being flipped periodically. Then I need to sit down and eat (15-20 minutes) and then clean up (10 minutes). Of course, I have to wait at least 30 minutes to an hour to clean since the pans need to cool or they'll warp. And you can't leave the pans sitting around, especially in an apartment. You'll get roaches. Lots of them. And ants.
Then there's the cost of fresh food. If it's not on sale it's expensive. If it is on sale it's about to go bad. You can freeze meat, but vegetables & fruits don't freeze well (fruit it tolerable in smoothies but nothing else). Packaged dinners are a great buy because they keep for months. I can buy them when they're on sale, stock up and save. I can't do that with Bananas. They're worm food in 5 days tops.
There's a reason why women used to be home bound. Food preparation was a full time job. As pay decreases they moved into the workforce largely to make up the difference. Processed foods made that possible. But wages keep going down. So we need foods that need less and less prep time and cost less and less. There are consequences.
at least, as progressive as you can get in America. Property taxes are regressive. They do two things:
a) Keep the poors out of your neighborhood. Since they present an additional barrier to entry in well to do neighborhood
b) Keep the posh people from having to fund schools and parks for the poors.
Lower property taxes and higher income taxes allow for wealth redistribution. This is a good thing, no matter what anyone tells you. Money tends to collect at the top if you let it, and before you know it the folks at the top get real, real conservative as they struggle to hang on to more and more money while the rest eat cake. Eventually you get dark ages when progress is halted rather than risk disruption to established powers.
Google's a good example of this. Thanks to a public works project (the Internet) they now compete head on with Microsoft & Apple as one of the largest software companies in the world. That wouldn't have happened if wealth redistribution (e.g. taxes) hadn't allowed the Internet to become a global phenomenon.
e.g. folks who own property. So they're going to tend to side with property owners, and that includes Intellectual Property owners. The ruling seems punitive and too broad. VLC could fall under this ruling. This reads like the plantif got everything they wanted while the defendant got nothing. Also, they seem to have picked a small target who couldn't fight back. They did not, for example, go after Roku. Even though it's not terribly difficult to get stuff like Popcorn time running on it.
this is a shot across the bow. Insel games just happens to be the first ones caught / made example of. Sucks, because they can't say they weren't warned, but nobody expected the rules to be enforced.
so the teachers could get part time jobs. Meanwhile we've got $3.6 million dollar grants for public surveillance. Man, my country has it's head on backwards.
There's always money for stuff like this and bombs but whenever I hear somebody mention underfunded schools somebody chimes in with "Well why should I have to pay for kids in another state?". These folks argue that they don't want money spent on either schools or surveillance, but those same folks always vote in the guys that approve the surveillance. At a certain point what you say you want doesn't matter. It's the results of your voting record that count.
then they'll get good at making not so bad knock-offs at a smaller price and craptastic "only in shape" copies, that sell at a fraction of the price but still somehow hold together long enough for the customer to buy them and only break down later on the way home.
They don't figure out how to make junk. It starts out as junk because it takes time to fully copy a complex process. Before you know it their stuff is better. This is exactly what happened to US radio manufactures experienced with the Japanese. Of course it helped that the Japanese subsidized their local industry to compete with ours too. More or less the same thing happened with US auto makers. And just recently the Chinese have starting making pens that compete with the best from Germany.
of becoming something for old people. The moment that happens they're dead, since nobody like to be associated with old people. Heck, there's a meme about it.
I don't think Facebook the company is at any risk, they're big enough to buy up any hip new competitors. But the platform might go kaputsky; which would suck for anybody in charge of that platform.
whatever platform they go to. We're not taxing businesses enough that there's any meaningful checks on their buying power and we sure as hell aren't enforcing anti-trust laws.
Now, if self driving cars create cheap, useful mass transit, _that's_ the death of Facebook. My kid stopped using social media when she got a car and could go see her friends without a 3 hour (one way) bus ride (if there even was a bus). I know it's popular to hate on teenagers but they're not anti-social, they've just been spread out so much by urban sprawl and the lack of soccer moms (who unless you're really well off are probably working full time jobs and/or recovering from work weeks) that hanging out 'digitally' is the only practical means.
and the silliest thing about the plot is that nobody believes your character when he says the big baddies (reapers) are coming even though he's got a _mountain_ of evidence. Well, at least I _thought_ it was silly until I took a good look at America's response to Global Warming...
You tax the hell out of it and regulate it until they either sell it back or settle in for long term low profits. The question is what's gonna happen when the boomers die off and leave the millennials with nothing. Will the millennials have the political will to do stuff like that.
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because the people who oppose all gun regulation have a lobby (the NRA) telling them how to vote, they listen, they vote and above all they're single issuer voters.
Gun control is a dead issue. It doesn't matter that 94% of Americans support Universal Background checks when that's just one issue out of many for them. The gun lobby is made up of people that will vote for _anyone_ so long as they promise to let them have their guns. You can't beat that strength unless you match it, and I don't see that happening.
They won. Drop it. You can't win this. The reason is simple. Gun nuts are Otaku. They're nerds. But they're a different kind of nerd than what everybody thinks about. They're extroverted nerds. Folks are used to seeing the introverted nerd; the kind that doesn't want to be around people. But they forget about the extroverts. They _want_ to be around people, but they're weird or ugly or tactless or something else that regular people don't like. So this kind of nerd seeks a community that accepts them no matter what. And a lot of the wash up on the shores of the NRA. The reason why there are so many strange gun nuts, heck the reason the phrase gun nut exists is that their an accepting community. It's like a religion. If you buy into it everybody has to at least be polite to you. It's a community. And if you make the slightest motion to take away that community they will react with a fear and hate you can't even imagine because, well, it's all they've got.
I suppose we could work to build a society that doesn't need such communities, but this is a site for nerds, and we all know how likely _that_ is to happen.
do you support ending all weapons regulations? After all, arms are arms. I've got gun nut friends who want to own grenade launchers and rocket launchers and RPGs and mortars and artillery pieces (cannons were 'arms' in the 1700s weren't they?).
Is there a line (short of chem weapons, since they're not arms)?
but then of course they'd cease to exist on the Internet. They want the best of both worlds, and thanks to our legal system's emphasis on property rights over fair use looks like they got it.
*Golf Clap*.
they don't have enough non-technical users to get away with this nonsense. Are they just pushing this out so they can back off and try again later (sorta like Microsoft did with all the nasty stuff they announced with the XBox One launch and Trump did by announcing he was turning food stamps into a blue apron style delivery program)? They do know we can all just jump ship to Mint, right?
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.
The message I'm conveying is that the working class, particularly the working poor, are being set up to fail. We're doing terrible things to them for the sake of profit and using the phrase 'lifestyle choices' to push the blame onto them so that when our empathic response kicks in we can tamp down on it and keep doing the bad things we want to do for profit. Otherwise we'd have to admit that their lives suck and that their choices make sense in the context of an awful life in an awful world and that we're complicit in making that world and that life.
Basically, the upper middle class and well to do know they're doing something wrong and they're coming up with logic to justify it. There's even a name for it: Prosperity Gospel. Google it, lots of articles on it.
Sorry to be so pedantic, but it was clear my message wasn't getting through.
Stainless is hard to clean. Probably because I live in a place with water so hard soap barely lathers but my stainless all stains. I have caste iron and good quality non stick pans. They help some but there are limits to what they can do.
It's not free time because in the back of my head I'm waiting for a hot pan. I need to keep an eye on it. I suppose I'm more than a bit neurotic in that regard, be even if I wasn't 15 minutes isn't enough time to relax.
The trouble with freezing is a) I'm already a bad cook and freezing the food doesn't help and b) small apartment freezer.
And I've been at this for years. I'm at the limits of my skill level. Being color blind doesn't help, nor does my poor sense of smell / taste. A lot of what makes people good cooks are sharper senses than I actually have. It's one of the reasons I gave up on Chemistry and went into IT. Still, I don't think I'm not uncommon a type of person. Maybe a little extreme ( I sometimes have to go by 'use by' dates because I can't always tell if something's gone bad, can't see green and what not) but I get the sense there's lots of folks with less extreme cases of what I have going on.
except you've loaded your post with a remark questioning the moral character ("lifestyle choices") of the people who rely on over processed food. I'm not even sure you know you're doing it. But it's basically dismissing the issue by claiming its the fault of the person impacted. The same logic was used against smokers while cigarette companies were hiding the dangers involved. Again, don't take this the wrong way. You might not even realize the message you're conveying, but if you don't then, well, you do now, and need to think about it in context.
Moreover, there's tons of evidence these chemicals are bad for you. You will _never_ find a doctor who says they're A-Ok. At least not one that isn't on the payroll of one of the companies hawking this stuff. The question isn't so much "are they bad for you" it's "how bad and why".
Can't I just say no to Botulism _and_ cancer?
at least where I am those are _very_ expensive. I can go to a restaurant for the cost. My one saving grace is Trader Joe's dough balls. I can make two pizza meals out of that for about $6 or $7 bucks (vegetables instead of cheap processed meats). It's still time consuming. It takes me a long time to cut the vegetables, toss the dough and get everything assembled. If I count for the trip time to buy ingredients about 90 minutes. But at least I get two meals out of it.
Fish is OK too, but with mercury I can't eat that much of it (I'm in the States, not sure about the rest of the world but here you have to keep it to about once a week). A fish fry takes forever. I could cut the time down though with a better deep fryer. A bit of salmon pan fried isn't too bad, but it kinda stinks up the whole apartment. And it's got the same pan heating delay as the pancakes.
I don't generally eat meat, especially the cheap stuff. Mostly because I never cared much for the stuff, but also it keeps me away from fast food. A lot of the quick and dirty meals out there are just frying up some beef. It's hard to screw that up. Chicken's a lot harder since it's easy to cook it until it's dry and tasteless. I tried for years to cook it for my kid and could never get the hang of it. But part of that is my crap stove. I used to live in a house with a decent stove before moving for work and it was a _lot_ easier. I miss having a gas range. There's a reason cooks swear by it. You can use a high end electric range too (Induction? I forget) but you're not going to find those in any apartment I could afford. Maybe after my Kid's out of college I can finally buy a house again. That 2008 market crash still stings.
it is. I mean that. Especially if you live in a cheap apartment with a crappy kitchen. I do, and I cook most of my meals and it sucks. Your stove takes forever to heat up. Your burners don't heat evenly so you have to set them and let the pans hit for 10-15 minutes or your food cooks unevenly. The stove never stays level either. Your microwave is cheap and your fridge small. Your freezer smaller
If I make a meal of eggs, potatoes & some pancakes from scratch (minus the pancake mix, which is pre made) I need to plan on a little over an hour. 10-15 minutes to heat the pans. 5 minutes to mix the pancake batter (you can't mix it until just before you use it or it screws up the pancake texture). 15 minutes to cook the pancakes (one at a time, since I only have 1 full sized burner) 5 to cook the eggs (I'm not a good cook, so if I try to juggle the eggs and pancakes I burn one or the other) meanwhile the potatoes are cooking for about 30 minutes while being flipped periodically. Then I need to sit down and eat (15-20 minutes) and then clean up (10 minutes). Of course, I have to wait at least 30 minutes to an hour to clean since the pans need to cool or they'll warp. And you can't leave the pans sitting around, especially in an apartment. You'll get roaches. Lots of them. And ants.
Then there's the cost of fresh food. If it's not on sale it's expensive. If it is on sale it's about to go bad. You can freeze meat, but vegetables & fruits don't freeze well (fruit it tolerable in smoothies but nothing else). Packaged dinners are a great buy because they keep for months. I can buy them when they're on sale, stock up and save. I can't do that with Bananas. They're worm food in 5 days tops.
There's a reason why women used to be home bound. Food preparation was a full time job. As pay decreases they moved into the workforce largely to make up the difference. Processed foods made that possible. But wages keep going down. So we need foods that need less and less prep time and cost less and less. There are consequences.
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at least, as progressive as you can get in America. Property taxes are regressive. They do two things:
a) Keep the poors out of your neighborhood. Since they present an additional barrier to entry in well to do neighborhood
b) Keep the posh people from having to fund schools and parks for the poors.
Lower property taxes and higher income taxes allow for wealth redistribution. This is a good thing, no matter what anyone tells you. Money tends to collect at the top if you let it, and before you know it the folks at the top get real, real conservative as they struggle to hang on to more and more money while the rest eat cake. Eventually you get dark ages when progress is halted rather than risk disruption to established powers.
Google's a good example of this. Thanks to a public works project (the Internet) they now compete head on with Microsoft & Apple as one of the largest software companies in the world. That wouldn't have happened if wealth redistribution (e.g. taxes) hadn't allowed the Internet to become a global phenomenon.
e.g. folks who own property. So they're going to tend to side with property owners, and that includes Intellectual Property owners. The ruling seems punitive and too broad. VLC could fall under this ruling. This reads like the plantif got everything they wanted while the defendant got nothing. Also, they seem to have picked a small target who couldn't fight back. They did not, for example, go after Roku. Even though it's not terribly difficult to get stuff like Popcorn time running on it.
this is a shot across the bow. Insel games just happens to be the first ones caught / made example of. Sucks, because they can't say they weren't warned, but nobody expected the rules to be enforced.
so the teachers could get part time jobs. Meanwhile we've got $3.6 million dollar grants for public surveillance. Man, my country has it's head on backwards.
There's always money for stuff like this and bombs but whenever I hear somebody mention underfunded schools somebody chimes in with "Well why should I have to pay for kids in another state?". These folks argue that they don't want money spent on either schools or surveillance, but those same folks always vote in the guys that approve the surveillance. At a certain point what you say you want doesn't matter. It's the results of your voting record that count.
after repealing Net Neutrality there's so much broadband investment that the gov't doesn't have to chip in. Ajit Pai told me so himself.
sent via email talking, but no, God no. Do not want.
to the folks who are really in charge. They're not bound by country any more. They've got world wide investments. They global, not local.
They don't figure out how to make junk. It starts out as junk because it takes time to fully copy a complex process. Before you know it their stuff is better. This is exactly what happened to US radio manufactures experienced with the Japanese. Of course it helped that the Japanese subsidized their local industry to compete with ours too. More or less the same thing happened with US auto makers. And just recently the Chinese have starting making pens that compete with the best from Germany.
of becoming something for old people. The moment that happens they're dead, since nobody like to be associated with old people. Heck, there's a meme about it.
I don't think Facebook the company is at any risk, they're big enough to buy up any hip new competitors. But the platform might go kaputsky; which would suck for anybody in charge of that platform.
whatever platform they go to. We're not taxing businesses enough that there's any meaningful checks on their buying power and we sure as hell aren't enforcing anti-trust laws.
Now, if self driving cars create cheap, useful mass transit, _that's_ the death of Facebook. My kid stopped using social media when she got a car and could go see her friends without a 3 hour (one way) bus ride (if there even was a bus). I know it's popular to hate on teenagers but they're not anti-social, they've just been spread out so much by urban sprawl and the lack of soccer moms (who unless you're really well off are probably working full time jobs and/or recovering from work weeks) that hanging out 'digitally' is the only practical means.
and the silliest thing about the plot is that nobody believes your character when he says the big baddies (reapers) are coming even though he's got a _mountain_ of evidence. Well, at least I _thought_ it was silly until I took a good look at America's response to Global Warming...
companies will run infrastructure way, way beyond it's intended life and to devil with the consequences.
You tax the hell out of it and regulate it until they either sell it back or settle in for long term low profits. The question is what's gonna happen when the boomers die off and leave the millennials with nothing. Will the millennials have the political will to do stuff like that.