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    Every year the government takes 1 hour away from every American with the implementation of Daylight savings time. They return the hours to each American in the fall. However, in between March (when the hours are taken) and November (when the hours are returned) over 2 million Americans die, and don’t get their hours returned to them, or their estates. This happens every. single. year.

    What is the government doing with all of these stockpiled hours of dead Americans?

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      Before people started measuring time, a day was a day. People worked when they felt like it and stopped before it got dark.

      When we started quantifying time, it didn’t take long before time suddenly became a commodity. All of a sudden bosses would pay by the “hour”, and no longer by what they got in return.

      Then, they started regarding the hours that they paid for as “theirs”, demanding workers to keep breaks short or peeing in bottles.

      /Rant

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        I love when I see stuff like this online. As if farming is some luxurious fun time denied us by corporations.

        I lived in a subsistence farming community in West Africa for a couple years. Farming isn’t easy or fun.

        People woke up before the sun every.single.day to go tend to the fields. They stopped working when they were exhausted from being out in the sun all day, or when they were finished with the field. The crops and the weeds grow when they want, not when you want.

        If it didn’t rain enough, they might starve, or their children might starve. Maybe both. The backbreaking farm labor was literally a gamble with their lives. Occasionally someone would get whacked by a tool and have to ask friends and relatives to farm their crops for them, often at a cost of some of that grain later. If that injury got infected, there’s extra days or weeks you’re asking someone else to do extra work to cover for you, and you owe them for this.

        Everyone harvested crops at about the same time, flooding the market. But people also didn’t just want to eat millet alone and wanted things like cooking oil or salt they had to buy. So being strapped for cash, they were forced to sell a lot of harvest up front because they simply couldn’t afford to wait any longer for basic needs.

        I can go on and on, but if you think being a farmer is so wonderful and amazing, I would encourage you to go do some WWOOFing and spend a few months on a farm and actually doing a real farmer’s schedule and not some up at 9, done at 2:30 schedule.

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      Those two million all happened to be born after daylight savings time but before the hours are returned. So they get to live with an extra hour.

      When they die it cancels out thus the Big Time Bowl doesn’t overflow or run dry.

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    That NASA has done a zero-gravity intercourse experiment.

    The 50th shuttle mission had married couple and it included spacelab. A pressurized and habitable module that could be isolated from the rest of the crew. Even before launch they were asked if it would happen, and denied it, as NASA has afterwards as well.

    It doesn’t help that several of the listed experiments was about human health, developmental biology and included animals and eggs to study ovulation, fertilization, cell division and growth.

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      Now that you bring it up, of course we’ve studied whether babies can be made in a spaceship. It’s literally the only other option for interstellar travel besides cryogenic freezing, which is far more sci-fi than spacesex. Or spacex for short.

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        Any generational ship will mutiny within one generation and likely die off by the second

        Interstellar travel is a pipe dream made up by people tired of saving what we already are losing

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            We can’t even keep the most prosperous nation on the planet from falling to fascism in 5 years how the FUCk do you think we’re gonna keep an isolated crew of highly intelligent people with access to the highest tech available?

            I know enough about human nature that the only way this works is if it started as a die-hard authoritarian religious movement and even then I only give it 1 out of 4 chances of making it 100 years into the mission

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              Transitional periods take time, and are generally pretty messy. Most of that is because comfortable humans are inherently lazy. The rich managed to stave off a transitional period that began in the mid 1800’s for almost a century with specific concessions to the working class, that they immediately started clawing back, after WWI and WWII. They can’t hold it back with neoliberal rot anymore, so the transitional period may now continue.

              It will get better, just maybe not within our lifetimes.

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    I think the US government actively encouraged the UFO craze, because it drew attention away from the experimental aircraft they were testing, like the SR-71 blackbird.

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      They’ve admitted that.

      Someone at Pentagon was recently investigating UFO conspiracies and found that several kept looping back to them. And they realized that at least one was directly planted by themselves during the cold war to confuse the USSR about what weapons were real or not.

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      That honestly wouldn’t surprise me tbh. And area 51 being great conditions for testing aircraft: empty space, clear skies, easier to recover parts and people from than the ocean, very little human habitation.

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        I absolutely think the government has deliberately spread various conspiracy theories at different points to cover up specific things they were doing.

        “Chemtrails,” for example, became a thing with a bunch of wild accessory claims that were obviously wrong, at a time when people were discovering that the US government had done biological weapons testing by dropping viruses from airplanes over cities and in some cases hurt random people by doing it. If there’s a nutty conspiracy theory out there that sounds a lot like what actually happened, it makes it harder for people to talk about what actually happened without also sounding crazy.

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    Arcade rhythm games (DDR, Pump It Up, maimai, etc) are subsidized by the Japanese government to get Otakus/NEETs to go out, touch grass, and exercise

    Have you ever wondered why you can have 10-15 minutes of game time for the same amount of money as one (sometimes half) a pull on a claw machine?? /puts on tinfoil hat

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        I know a good number of Japanese cultural stuff (including video game companies) do! Not sure specifically in cases like “hey let’s give SEGA money so they can make the funny laundromat game more popular” though. Hence why it is my low-stakes conspiracy… Would be pretty cool if things like DDR really gets a subsidy though, it is genuinely a good means of cardio

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          Honestly that’s a good enough idea that I don’t think it even needs to be a conspiracy, they could openly advertise it.

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      That wouldn’t generally be needed here, though. At least in the cities where most people live, they are walking and using public transit just to live, eat, etc.

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    The way literature is taught in school is designed deliberately to make people hate reading + studying the subtext and paratext.

    By forcing kids to read books that aren’t just old, but were written by 40 year olds for other 40 year olds, and then mandating them write reports about the symbolism of a book they didn’t even want to read in the first place, you ensure that like 80% of people will inherently associate reading and interpreting media with every negative emotion at once.

    Meanwhile you look at fandom dorks on every site and you see how invested on themes and subtext they are, and you realise people kinda naturally want to overthink media… Provided they like that media.

    But people who can read subtext and understand it are less susceptible to propaganda. So.

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      This one resonates with me. I fucking love science fiction, and when they forced me to read The Giver, the closest they every got to science fiction, I actually enjoyed it. And then the rest of the time I hated it all.

      If I had actually been given the chance to read some good science fiction, I would have been reading a lot more as a kid.

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        Right?

        With hindsight, now being more or less the target audience (a 30+ year old disillusioned with life) – A lot of the books they pushed on us (I’m in Brazil, so of course they pushed the Brazilian canon of Literature) were objectively super good?

        But y’know

        When you’re 15 years old, and have to read a book that is not only very old (thus has a vocabulary you are already struggling with, just because OLD), but is written by grown-ups for grown-ups (ergo, a lot of the fun leans on heightened versions of life experiences adults have all either lived or seen someone live through) – AND you have to do it in a hurry (because you’ve got like 4 other assignments for that week, and the deadline looms) – AND you are expected to not only get into the nitty-gritty of its themes and such, but to do so in a way that your teacher approves of?

        Like how can you not hate reading after that? I was lucky I’d been exposed to literature I liked prior to that, so instead of thinking “I hate books”, I just thought “wow all these books suck”.

        They didn’t suck. But they just… Were very much not for me?

        Like. Senhora, by José de Alencar, is a deeply enjoyable book if you’re a grown up. Two rich people who married for money and hate each other’s guts, playing the perfect husband and wife to society while shooting subtle barbs at each other whenever they get the chance? AND then they end up fond of each other after years of this? Inject that into my 30-year-old historical-romance junkie EYEBALLS please. But at age 15? I hated it.

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      I grew up in Canada.

      My high school English teacher let us choose books to write essays on from a selection of a dozen or so that he was intimately familiar with and could tell whether someone was BSing or not.

      I don’t remember all of them, but I chose The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I also remember reading 1984 in his class.

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        I kinda got this privilege in my Jr, and Sr years of high school. I had the same teacher both years because AP English, and when it came time to read either Les Miserables or Pride and Prejudice, I informed her that I had already read the book, and provided her with an oral synopsis. Instead I read Dante’s Inferno, (I was attempting to finish the entire Divine Comedy, but it took me too long to finish Paradisio, so I just did a report on the first third.) and handed in parallel work on that book instead. The same thing happened with all the required reading books, but Mrs. Sparks wasn’t surprised. I was one of those kids that read several hundred books a year.

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      There’s a great book “The Mathematician’s Lament” that talks about how math teaching is almost guaranteed to make people hate it, but it’s maybe not a conspiracy. Or is it!?

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    Back when reddit had awards, the admins would routinely award posts to make it appear like people were actually buying them.

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      I thought this was common knowledge.

      I got awarded gold by a mod that told me they were gifted a certain number of awards from Reddit to give out (I believe they said they got 15).

      The same mod also claimed that gold-gifted responses were given prioritized visibility.

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        Can confirm. I was gifted a bunch of Reddit cash for… er… I dunno, being around for a long time maybe. I spent it on giving gold and silver to posts or comments I enjoyed, but I certainly wasn’t going to spend my actual money on it.

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    That a lot of non-american food is rebranded to use tacky american names to get people to try it. Too many americans are afraid to try “foreign” food, but will happily try “Cajun Jim’s Cornballs”. A couple I can think of are Aioli to “Garlic Mayo” and Chicken Satay becoming “Peanut Butter Chicken”. Sounds like mm mm good home american cookin’ to me, course I’ll try some.

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    Touch screens in cars are evidence that the auto industry is actively trying to increase auto accidents.

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        Is that true? I’m too scared to look up prices. Electronically, touchscreens are infinitely more complex, but I can believe economies of scale brought it down lower than buttons… I just don’t want to believe that.

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          I’ve seen comments from auto manufacturers outright stating this. I think they also overestimated how much consumers care about touchscreens.

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            Pretty much no button these days directly controls something, it’s routed through the BMS. Headlights may be one of the few that are switched without some type of computer in between, possibly power windows too?

            And they’re all on a PCB.

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              Even so, each individual button needs to be connected to that PCB separately, and will only have the function of what it says on the button, or possibly a couple hidden functions through programming.
              Touch screens are essentially one connection for infinite buttons with different screens and menus.

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          Touchscreens can be made at massive scale and then repurposed in batches for everywhere. They’re always the same (roughly speaking). Buttons are individual components, you have to lay the whole thing out custom how you want it to be, you have to put all these fiddly little components together… just having a robot make a big square object along with 199,999 other ones is cheaper, even if technically the big square object is orders of magnitude more complex than the chunks of plastic and springs and buttons etc.

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            Yup, that about matches my thought process when I made that comment. Economies of scale make the complexity irrelevant.

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            I think the assembling is the crucial part as you stated. I mean, buttons can also be manufactured in scale by a robot, but every button needs to be wired, the touchscreen only once.

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        Industrial grade switches (i.e.: buttons) are expensive because of very high quality control requirements, and add a lot more parts that can fail to a car. It is the same thing that happened with mobile phones. Going with touchscreen reduce a lot the number of parts to check and parts that can fail, even if usability is very bad for the end-user.

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    Cats have a much more complex understanding of human behaviour and just consider us harmless and boring enough to not bother.

    As in your cat totally understands that your keyboard is special in a way and you don’t want it disturbed, but couldn’t give two shits about your wants. Or completely being aware of how unpleasant it is when they sit on you with their butthole in your face, but why not if that’s what they want to do right now?

    I think this is real and that most (not all) cats are smarter and more selfish than we think

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      Dogs are waaaaay more aware than most people seem to think. I think it’s true of most animals. We just don’t like to think about it.

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        I stayed out later than normal one time and missed one of my dog’s walks. He tore up a newspaper while staring at me. Rip, rip, rip. He knew I spent time looking at newspapers so he chose to destroy one, while heavily implying that if I fucked up his schedule again he would rip ME up.

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        This. My dog knows words that I didn’t teach him. I know people talk about pattern recognition and what not but that’s not all that different than human knowledge. I learn words by hearing them repeated too

        I know how to read his body language and the tone of his barks to know what he wants. He will even show me, if I ask him.

        I suspect he understands a lot more than I am capable of deciphering as well.

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          My dogs know the difference between going out pants and around the house pants. We also have to say preambulate when talking about walks unless we want to excite the dogs.

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        Dogs brains activate the same regions when the see human faces that activate in our brains. These same regions don’t activate in dogs to anything like the same degree when they see other dogs.

        Dogs are far more in tune with us that they are with their own species.

        Some of the oldest human archaeological sites have dog remains among the humans. Domestication of the dog was going on far far earlier than the first evidence we have for domestication of the first food species.

        We have evolved together as two mutually symbiotic species.

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          These same regions don’t activate in dogs to anything like the same degree when they see other dogs.

          Probably because they use scent more than sight for being in tune with their own species.

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            Sent is just an id for dogs. They use body language with humans and other dogs. They also pay attention to threw same parts of human faces that we do. They don’t do this with other dog faces.

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              Scent is how dogs (generally) primarily experience the world.

              They don’t do this with other dog faces.

              Because dogs don’t use their faces the same way that humans do

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                Dogs use scent more then humans. However they still use sight and sound much morfe then they use scent.

                Dogs use body language and vocalization to communicate with each other. Watch two dogs interact they look at each other and will growl, and bristle or tail wag and play bow to indicate what they want.

                They look at faces on humans because that’s a major component of how we communicate.

                Smell is not how they communicate. It’s just how they know where other animals have been.

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        I agree, but that’s not a conspiracy. Scientifically speaking, we know that animals are smarter than most people admit.

        The conspiracy here is that cats are not just smarter than we think but actually one of the smarter animals in general and they are also very internal and just don’t care about us so they don’t exhibit it in ways that we recognize.

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      Some cats are extremely smart and very devious (looking at you, mother’s cat) and some are. Well. I love them. But I’ve met cats that absolutely had nothing going on upstairs, not a single thought in their little brains.

      That’s rare though! Most are pretty smart and know how to convince us to do everything for them! And I always will do my best for them.

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        cats that absolutely had nothing going on upstairs, not a single thought in their little brains.

        Ah, so you’ve met a Persian cat. Pretty cats, but at what cost?

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          Their singing ability was definitely a cost, never let one pick any Bard or Bard adjacent class.

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      I’ve always said that people who think cats are simple or ratty/skittish creatures have never laid with a loving cat on their chest. There are few deeper connections that a good owner and a well-loved cat. They are exceptionally bright animals.

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    I’ve seen studies claiming that toilet seats are among the cleanest spots in a public restroom, and that slamming your bare ass cheeks down on those things is perfectly safe.

    I also work in an operating room, where we routinely chop condyloma off of people’s ass cheeks… albeit less commonly the cheeks than the hole, but enough times to showcase the fact that the cheeks are prone to spreading and contracting contact dependent pathogens.

    Those studies are bullshit - always build that toilet-paper-bird’s-nest on the public toilet seat.

     

    Edit - also if you get a skin tag that seems bigger than a normal skin tag, it’s probably not a skin tag. Get that shit looked at before it’s the size of a fucking golf ball. You’ll save yourself a lot of time, pain, money, and worry.

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      It probably is the cleanest part in the whole restroom. Im not looking to put my ass anywhere else either though. You’re fully right get it built.

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      See, I’m not crazy! I’ve thought this too. Like, ok, sure, I’m not going to get an STD if my dick touches the seat because those are some very specific pathogens, but we know there are others well-equipped to survive. Relatedly, I’ve also gotten more acne than usual after I visit a sauna and rest my back against the wall. That shit is dirty, and I’m almost sure it makes me break out.

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    Okay I think Amtrak is not really remotely interested in providing a positive passenger rail experience, but is instead used by the automotive and railroad industry to provide a poor experience, ensuring that people keep buying cars and gas and keep the rail lines free for commercial usage.

    Here is my primary piece of evidence; in e-commerce web design to increase sales your goal is to remove barriers between a motivated customer and them clicking buy. A company the size of amtrak should have a decently sophisticated process of multi variable testing and focus groups to at least someehat improve the process over time and make it easy for people to plan route trips and buy tickets.

    And yet in the decades that Amtrak has been operating they user experience has barely changed and seems to do just the minimum to keep up with the times and not look stale. And it’s not an overly complicated item they are selling. A very small in house team would be able to make a very usable experience in just a couple of years. But it’s absolute shit. It’s so frustrating and to try and plan a train trip and it always has been, for absolutely no reason.

    Either this massive company has had absolute fools in charge of their web dev for decades leaving piles of money on the table due to incompetence… OR they actually just don’t care about making sales for whatever reason. I think that reason is that they exist just to keep the rail experience shitty.

    My secondary piece of evidence is how poor and shitty the actual train service remains after so long in business. Train travel has not gotten better at all in my lifetime, only worse.

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      Destroying amtrak is literally a republican agenda, for the automotive reasons you stated.

      Also, if you can spring for a sleeper car, the experience is fucking amazing. Three meals (and one boozy drink) included a day, there was a wine tasting, just all around pretty rad.

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        I have enjoyed the sleeper cars! I’m a fan of rail travel which is how i know that the user experience hasn’t changed in 30+ years!

        My favorite is the observation cars on the coast starlight.

        The trains are still infrequent, often not to schedule and with minimum available routes. Short hops are far too expensive for the experience you get as well. The only thing keeping Amtrak from working seems to be Amtrak.

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      I do think that Amtrak is purposefully kneecapped to keep train travel from being appealing, but honestly I think their website is fine. It’s on-par or slightly less usable than something like American Airlines’ website

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    The sanitation issues that happened at Chipotle in such quick succession a few years ago were corporate sabotage. At the time, Chipotle was the fastest growing chain in the U.S.

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      We need the guy who posted on Reddit that he thinks all of Chipotle contains a money laundering front based on big phone orders that would sometimes come in that would wind up not getting either made or picked up, just a fake order that went into the list alongside all the real ones but got paid for over the phone. He said this happened at multiple Chipotles he knew and he couldn’t think of anything at all it could be other than money laundering.

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        Drug dealing operation. Like those pizza places where you order an unusual topping combination (e.g. anchovies and chocolate sauce) and the pizza box comes with a kilo of cocaine.

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      Oh fuck yes. Qdoba undercover agents getting jobs at Chipotle for the express purpose of not washing their hands. I love it.

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      Imo they were sabotaging themselves with their lack of queso and still are with the poor distribution of ingredients in the burrito. I get my mexican food from real mexican restaurants, but even Moe’s is better than Chipotle and they should be ashamed of that.

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          “Holds a candle” better by far, and that’s an admonishment of Chipotle not an endorsement of Moe’s. Chipotle is the absolute worst cultural appropriation snax™ available, might as well go to taco bell.

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    Microsoft deliberately fucks with your video and audio drivers before a big update so you have to reboot

    This isn’t a conspiracy, it is a proven fact.

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      Does anyone have a source on this? It’s 100% believable but I’m not turning anything up and this seems like something worth knowing more about

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      I think it is more that the update fucks with drivers? As in, updates bring updated stuff that probably interferes with still-running old stuff.

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        If my experience is common, the update ‘pre-loads’ some non-locked system files as time goes on while the update is downloaded but not technically applied by the tool. So these files get changed without a reboot, and while you may not be using them at the time of overwrite, when you next load them, there are subtle incompatibilities with the previous version and your active data.

        Kind of like ‘The dll was replaced by the exe is still the old version’, and this causes a ton of small but annoying glitches, crashes, and odd audio behavior.

        Untill reboot, which happens less and less often now that windows doesn’t bluescreen every few hours.

        My conspiracy is that they are aware of it, and do not change it despite the risks it provides, to keep everyone in line with their update schedule, denying the user the rights to control their own hardware, again.

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          To be fair, the very same thing happens with Linux, when you install updates but don’t restart services (or, god forbid, the whole system). Really weird tiny issues accumulate until I am fed up and hit reboot.

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    Toothpaste tubes and similar containers are intentionally designed to be inconvenient to get the full contents out of.

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      But the toothpaste tube is literally the most efficient method to get all that paste in a hygenic manner. Toothpaste used to be Toothpowder. You’d dip your nasty fucking brush into the powder and scrub away. That’s pretty gross even if every individual has their own little can of tooth powder. Now imagine sharing that shit with your nasty fucking siblings.

      I mean, maybe you can buy a liter bucket of toothpaste. You would be able to get every last scrap but it might have mold on it after a year or so.

      The newer cosmetic (especially makeup) containers definitely hold back product. I’ve helped cut into many cosmetic containers as an emergency measure to use the last bit until a shopping trip can be accomplished and yeah, some of them hold a surprising amount of the product.

      Not the humble toothpaste tube though.

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        I’ve never heard of toothpowder. What prevents people from scooping out a little bit and scrubbing their brush into that?

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          Nothing, but the house I grew up in during the '80s and '90s was built in 1844, and had all sorts of things that had just been there for ages. One of these things was an ancient tin of tooth powder, next to the washbasin by the back door of the kitchen. This house gets its water from a cistern out the back door. I don’t know what the powder was supposed to be like when it was made, back in the '30s according to the tin, but by the time I saw the stuff, it had hardened into a rock. Like you’d need a chisel and mortar and pestle to actually use the stuff again. I suspect that happened due to years of sitting around.

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          …that’s how we brushed with baking soda when i grew up: pour a little pile into your off hand, wet your brush, dip, scrub, repeat…

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          According to the instructions on the tin of the only tooth powder I’ve seen in real life, you dipped your toothbrush into the tin. It was round and shaped like a coffee can. The lid didn’t have holes in it that would be needed to sprinkle the stuff out. Also that powder wouldn’t sprinkle at all, it had hardened into a rock of the stuff. You would have needed a chisel, and mortar and pestle to use it by the time I found it

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          If we turned all of global beef demand into grass-fed, we’d literally decimate our output because there’s not enough grazable land.

          Even land categorized as agriculturally grazable is often not realistically grazable (think mountains, etc)

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          Fun fact: the Native Americans that originally created the various and sundry types of corn that we have called themselves, “Walking Maize People.” We’ve analyzed their bones and found that the specific type of carbon that corn “tags” as its own ion, made up about 30-40% of the carbon in their bones, and presumably their bodies.

          Due to the fact that corn is added to almost everything that is in the US food chain, when similar analysis has been done to average US citizens, more like 60-70% of the carbon in our bodies comes from corn. We “paint” fruits and veggies with corn, we add corn as sugar to all soda, we add corn to some breads for no reason. We, the citizens of the US, are walking corn.

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            i was referring to the rick and morty episode, where they stumbled upon a planet that was made of corn down to molecules.

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      The majority of US federal agriculture subsidies go to corn production, the majority of corn production is for live stock feed. Anybody who brings up spending that money on vegetables or basically anything other than corn gets silenced pretty quick