TLDW: The moisture sensor might be on the right side of the microwave, and the bag was pointing left when the steam was released.

But that was definitely worth a watch.

It also forced users onto their app, which creates a captive market for force-serving ads disguised as content.

That’s such a weirdly sinister thing to do.

What they’re saying is that trying to reverse climate change won’t be enough. It doesn’t mean it isn’t the right path, just that it won’t go far enough.

I agree with you on that. I’d also like to be able to replace the battery on my phone or control my social media. But that wasn’t really my point. Disposable goods are bad for consumers and bad for the environment, along with fast fashion, factory farming, corporate conglomeration, and the vertical integration of news media.

And I think that’s the new frontier, which is really just reclaiming the old frontier from the profit-takers. People are learning to sew and knit, how to cook, how to farm, how to repair their stuff, and how to evaluate propaganda. That’s the shit our kids will say we never bothered to learn, and if they do it right, maybe their kids won’t have to learn.

Two types of people reading this:

“Oh no! We should do everything we can to mitigate the damage.”

and

“Fuck it, might as well keep doing what I’m doing.”

And it’s the latter that got us here in the first place.

Sure, obviously there were exceptions or we wouldn’t have half the modern conveniences we do. My parents were very enthusiastic about computers, and my kids are each building their own desktops. I’m speaking in generalities.

Our parents didn’t think it was important. Our kids don’t think it is necessary.

Imagine how horse farmers felt about engine maintenance on the first automobiles. Early adopters probably knew everything about how to fix tractors and cars. But today, how many people know how to change their own brakes or flush the coolant?

Life evolves, and transitions come faster with every generation. It’s good that nobody knows how to use a sextant or a fax machine.

Is there any way I can do this without finding out any more about this fetish?

Holy shit. I have feet. Does anyone want pictures of a guy’s feet? They’re big and weirdly shaped.

Feels like a pre-emptive tu quoque attack.

It is a crime to film inside a polling place.

https://codes.findlaw.com/ga/title-21-elections/ga-code-sect-21-2-413.html

How is it not election interference?

Conspiracies happen in secret. This was election interference in broad daylight.

“SEC X hack” sounds like some villainous elite squad from a dystopian sci-fi anime.

I don’t know about everyone else, but if that were my boss, they’d be severely underestimating my capacity for petty behavior.

My free Bluebottle account had tags, which are basically labels, but that was like 100 years ago.

But it’s not just the cat. OP wants to track the foods the cat is eating and the allergens in the food, and then look for correlations and trends. You could manage most of that with a spreadsheet, but you’d have to update reference tables every time you add a new entry. OP wants something user friendly.

They just don’t like people playing their games in ways that don’t generate profit.

Our camera operator could easily help, but they won’t.

Helping the crab would eliminate the purpose of the camera altogether. As humans, we feel empathy for the individual. But in a natural state, there are predators and scavengers who survive if the crab dies, just as the crab preys on its food. The cycle of life will progress undisturbed whether we observe it or not, and learning what we can from the life and death of the crab is more valuable than the sum total of the individual crab’s experiences or suffering. Interference will only shift suffering from one individual to the next.

But what do we learn? There’s no scientific rigor in dramatizing a creature’s survival. The purpose of a nature documentary is to capture on film the essence of the natural world, to share it, but also to sell it for profit. The crab’s struggles become the ad dollars that fund the camera crew and studio and the scientific research into crab migration patterns. Of course, the revenue from nature documentaries rarely generates profit to justify the investment. So that can’t be the only motivation.

Could it be that anthropomorphizing the crab desensitizes the viewer to accept the suffering of the individual if it benefits the greater good? In this framework, suffering of the individual is expected, even welcome, as long as the system remains strong. Predators eat, prey are eaten, and interference is a fool’s errand.

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I’m binging White Collar at the moment, so I expected to read about some smooth-talking cryptobro and a weird little guy with glasses that happened to be there.