Yeah, it’s very contrived. I’ve lost friends for sharing this opinion as well.

I don’t remember a single person who was enthusiastic about this.

It’s one of these.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_stand-in

I like seeing people. It’s already unsocial working from home.

It cost governments around the world trillions of dollars to get through COVID… The uk’s debt went from 80% of GDP to 100% in the space of just 18 months. It’s hardly a viable economic plan to carry out on an ongoing basis.

Many non essential industries and travel just completely froze And guess what? Co2 production barely even stuttered according to your graph.

The solution is to transition into a renewable, prosperous, circular economy. Not go backwards into poverty.

The pop top ones are great and I love them but it’s easy to mess something up and make them pretty dangerous.

If you have a hygrometer you can measure the sugar content of your brew which takes out the guess work, get one of them before glass bottling. Hygrometers are like $10 and well worth having.

Plum and cherry wine sounds divine. Good luck!

If the juice is concentrated, like molasses it’ll be fine. Hops might be ok if they’re vacuum sealed and freeze dried as they often are… they look like little pellets. If they’re just dried then get some more.

Just follow the instructions.

If you’re bottle conditioning, (adding a bit of sugar in the bottle to carbonate) I would recommend using plastic coke bottles. They’re pressure safe and don’t explode like glass does if you add too much sugar.

and none of it is indeed by search engines. No one else will ever be able to Google their problem and find the answer. All the useful knowledge put into a box and buried. It’s just awful.

I moved from Spotify to Tidal and am very happy with it. Much better sound quality, good recommendation algorithms, bigger catalogue, pay artists much better. I like it.

Plus they don’t offer shitty content like right wing or adult podcasts or lets-play videos so I can let my kids use it without having to monitor it so much.

This is what diplomacy with a narcissist looks like, and everyone is doing it. Trump whisperers are in hot demand.

The bit I find funny is trump is so dense he doesn’t even realise he’s being spoken to and manipulated like you would a child. In this case for a good cause, so well done Rutte.

Yeah, they have some kind of formula that looks a bit like this… Something weird, something quasi-sexual, and actual products all mixed in together.

I get ones that always have something that looks like (but on closer inspection isn’t) sex toys or BDSM clothing or nudity. Stuff like that.

But I have to say, it definitely works on me, I’m like wtf is that, and then spend a good 30s decoding what it must mean.

The racist ai we made is racist.

Seeing musk, trump and a Tesla in a single shot just makes that toxic association so much stronger. I don’t think this is going to play out like they hope.

Plus, you know the boycott is working, talk about desperate.

Sync for Lemmy is a good app’ if anyone is looking for RIF like experience. Sync

The lengths we go to hand medical cannabis to the pharma industry…

I mean it’s a plant. Throw some seeds in a pot of soil. Done.

Parents should say no, and now this will make it easier for them to do so :)

The advertising standards authority use a nutritional profiling model. If the food is High in Fat, Sodium, Suger (HFSS) it gets a higher score. Some points are deducted if it is high in fruit, veg or nuts. If the food is above a certain point threshold different advertising rules apply.

This applies to preprocessed food. Not ingredients you would use to prepare your own food.

I don’t know about your other questions but some of the other rules are interesting…

You can’t use licensed characters or celebrities to advertise to under 16s.

You can’t condone or promote unhealthy lifestyle or eating habits. Ie. Eating a massive bucket of ice cream in front of the playstation.

You must not take advantage of a child’s vulnerability by appealing to emotions such as pity, fear, or self-confidence, or by Suggesting that having the advertised product somehow confers superiority, for example making a child more confident, clever, popular, or successful.

You must not present your price in a way that suggests children or their families can easily afford it. “Only”. “just”. Etc

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-nutrient-profiling-model

And shame on business insider to down play it as someone complaining they’re not ‘cute’ enough.

This is not gonna be the vote winner they think it is. And fuck them for trying.

https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2023/08/07/after-nigers-coup-the-drums-of-war-are-growing-louder?giftId=4e8d7c17-e3cc-4737-9979-dde2527e6236

This article covers a bit of the background.