Fiber arts. SoCal. Social justice. Snark.
I am glad I left Texas when I did. The disgust I have for this entire ilk of people would have me choking on my bile 24 hours a day. My stomach is turning thinking that some people make a living or heaven forbid are prospering off augmenting the suffering of hundreds of thousands.
Someone remind me if Ken Starr is alive or dead…
Tagging @ernest in case instance owners don’t have a larger community in which they share news like this with each other.
Possibly dumb question, but are you u/PoppinKream???
Oh good. Millennials are due for another world calamity. We’ve had one plague. Why not a second plague?
Have a problem with it? Take it up with the union, bub.
I am aware that this has been covered, but I have to maintain the belief that much like the US Postal Service, the federal government will continue to foot the bill regardless.
Great news, until Abbott pardons him for no reason.
So, no, this isn’t the logical outcome of democracy.
This is a democratically elected official (the sheriff) violating a law that went through the legitimate policy making process of the CA state government. This is not the result of direct democracy, it’s the result of a politician class that sees itself as exempt from ethics and law. See also: this SCOTUS, republican grifters
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I support and agree with criticisms about food deserts and how often lower income people who have the system stacked against them are most often blamed for the poor outcomes of bad nutrition.
There is an article someone copy and pasted from another news source above though, that shows this study was an experimental design in which test subjects weren’t asked to self report their food intake, they were provided prepared meals from the research team and observed for two weeks.
None of the conclusions drawn were about sociological questions, but merely about the impact on a few health metrics for the test subjects such as caloric intake and the resulting weight loss/gain. In reality, a study like this can be in major support of advocates who want to demonstrate that food deserts and the negative health outcomes from only having ultra processed food will lead to greater health disparities cross-population. I don’t think this study was trying to finger wag at consumers.
I’m also wondering if portioning isn’t also at play here with ultra processed foods.
For a snack, I might eat a bag of baked potato chips (pulling this from the above quoted article) or apple slices. I think for many people, it’s natural to eat the whole portion in front of you, even past the feeling of satiated (not to be confused with the feeling of being full). Like, I don’t know many people who throw away a bag of chips with just 2 chips left in it. So even if the flavoring of the chips is no longer even appealing to me (I got just enough saltiness fix), I’m likely to finish the bag because it seems weird to “waste” those last 2 chips. And now, I’ve consumed an extra 15+ calories that I didn’t even enjoy. Compare to an apple for which, even if I’m kind of sick of it but still feel compelled to eat the whole thing, may be an extra +2 calories.
Multiply over multiple snacks per week.
I say this in jest: but as someone who has run the gamut between elaborate home cooking and “fuck it, it’s frozen pizza night” I can’t help but laugh that people who eat unprocessed meals eat more slowly. I’ve often realized I can’t scarf down my delicious home cooked meal in 10 minutes since it took me 90+ minutes to make it! Just wouldn’t be right!
I don’t begrudge you for saying out loud like this, but I’m not sure who was at all under the delusion that this would ever be anything other than the worst outcome possible.
I think prospects of going public via IPO were tanked when a tech giant like Google is publicly venturing opinions about the platform.
Wouldn’t this at least advance her career for a possible SCOTUS nomination?
This is funny, but not true. The federal government turns off servers and electronics after business hours in accordance with power-saving measures enacted by President Jimmy Carter.
Carter installed solar panels onto the White House in the late 70s, early 80s. Reagan came in and dismantled them.