[–] 1 point 16 minutes ago (1 child)

The conspiracy theory is that it was to keep poor people down.
The reality is that they didn't directly sell drugs, they just protected people who did to financially support terrorists, or prevented interdiction to protect traffickers who gave them information that could be used to stop drug trafficking.

This was acceptable to them because they considered poor minority communities unimportant.

It's kinda worse, but it wasn't an attack on the poor. They weren't considered important enough to attack.
They were just an acceptable loss if it meant some people had the money to machine gun Nicaraguan civilians.

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  • [–] 1 point 21 hours ago

    Yeah, it's a really tricky topic to discuss or try to find a solution for because for some people it's a real effect from something like infrasound, and for others it's a psychiatric illness manifesting.
    The distress is real and they're not faking it, but it can be very difficult to actually differentiate.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    They don't. Not very well anyway. It's a major engineering challenge to relocate the heat away from crew areas and towards areas that are very large and pointed away from the sun.

    On earth we take advantage of the huge amount of stuff around us to move heat around and get things the temperature we want. Take some ambient temperature gas, manipulate it just right and you can move the heat from one part to another. Put that next to a hot room and the room tries to equalize with the gas. Move the gas back to the start and repeat and you're moving heat around. It works because we have stuff to use as a heat sink.

    In space, that doesn't work. There's nowhere to move it. You need to rely on things emitting a little bit if light proportional to their temperature. Glowing with heat is something everything does, it's just usually not visible when you or I do it. It's how thermal cameras work.
    So things in space cool down by gently glowing. It's not very fast and is nowhere near as efficient as dumping hot water on the ground.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    A lot of that's because there's a finite number of ways to shape a car that is aerodynamic, fits people, and has efficient collision behavior.

    People like interesting shapes until they find out it's less safe, uncomfortable, more expensive and loud.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago (1 child)

    When you say kebap, what food are you referring to? Where I am it's usually spelled kabob and refers to chunks of meat on a skewer, which I think would be too big for pizza.

    Shawarma or gyro on a pizza is good though! It doesn't dry out in my experience, and at most gets a little more crisp on smaller edges like a ham or bacon might.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 days ago

    spoon-fed content at a 5th grade level or less

    That’s still no excuse for (...) employing vast herds of emoji whose subtext are confusing and tenuous at best

    You'll need to pick one.
    Also, their message was clearly conveyed perfectly clearly: 🖕🏾

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  • [–] 18 points 6 days ago

    It's a fine line, but I agree with both of them.
    I don't want revenge, I want justice and consequences for abuse of power.

    I would rather have a real healthcare system and functioning support systems for people in need.

    I just want the system to work. Coincidentally, corruption and abuse of power being treated as crimes is a part of that. I don't want more abuses of power.

    So yes, get stuff done on my behalf. And some of those things should require people to lawyer up.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    Did you read the article? Where they talk about fiber being for keeping the gut clean and most people not getting as much as they're supposed to?

    Do you think theyade these recipies or tips up from scratch? They're all things that people eat and usually have for a long time.
    By the rationale you seem to be using, there's an ultierior motive to teaching people how to cook potatoes. After all, it's unpleasant to eat until you cook it. Just like a watermelon rind is unpleasant to eat unless you pickle it. Just like squash seeds are gross unless you roast them like sunflower seeds.

    it's using fresh veggies in the first place.

    Quite. And part of that is teaching people what parts you can and can't eat.
    Saying they're trying to get people to eat garbage when the tips include eating my favorite part of broccoli just doesn't land.

    You're seeing a class war narrative where I think it's just a low effort report on a research paper and an attention grabbing headline and image.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (2 children)

    Lack of culinary education? It's a significant driver of multigenerational health and dietary inequity. Poor people in urban areas have neither the time nor resources to cook properly, so they don't. Then their children don't learn, and the cycle gets worse. Obesity rates rise, health deteriorates, and the costs to manage that go up, making it harder and harder to break the cycle.

    At least where I am, access to a variety of animals and vegetables is out of reach for those in poverty, and no one ever taught them what to do with them anyway.
    So you end up with people eating mostly kraft macaroni, hot dogs and canned beans, cooked in a peeling Teflon pan and garnished with ketchup to taste. Or maybe you have money, so you mostly eat takeout.

    It's why adult cooking classes are a thing that targets "entry level", like how to cook eggs (the easy ways) or cut an onion, and food banks offer classes in how to cook the food they're giving you. A potato is useless as food if you do not know how to cook a potato.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (1 child)

    Nope. I meant they were both under and over estimating. I would have said "you both are ..." Otherwise.

    Are you saying that saying someone is creating a spurious class war narrative out of something benign is wrong to comment on because of class war and genocide?

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