Hmmm, I wonder which friend of mine has a waffle maker...
Something I once heard that I assume to be true is that, most seed oils aren't overtly bad for you (which doesn't mean that there aren't better options) so much as that they're often found in lots of high calorie, low nutrition foods that, when eating with any frequency, are pretty bad for you.
But believing this will make you fail group purity tests, and get you othered so it can't/mustn't be true 🙂
Personally, I'm feeling pretty good about myself after talking to a friend who seemingly doesn't understand the concept of unintended consequences, or that sometimes the best thing you can do is leave things alone.
Makes me curious what suicide rate vs time and chances in the prevalence of various technologies have been.
I've long thought of personal narratives as powerful drugs, debilitating some, and granting others apparent superpowers.
Not to imply that it would be better, but life sure would be easier sometimes if you could pick your family the way you can pick your friends.
Seems like, compared to vegetables, bacon and friends have the same forms of nitrates but at lower doses, which isn't what I expected, but which implies that such meats would be good for you if paired with the right foods, it's not actually the nitrates that are bad for you, or the studies saying bacon/nitrates are bad are fundamentally flawed. Makes me curious...
That said, I'm curious how my tune will change when AI starts effectively solving honest mechanical engineering tasks. I suspect that we'll be one of the harder white collar jobs to displace, at least for those of us who are really at the intersection of creative and technical, but we'll see 😂
To me, most of this discussion seems to be luddites, artists who's work is profoundly derivative, where they have little value to add other than their ability to use graphic design software, or people who don't even have that but simply wish that they were artistic and don't like that their dreams are now even more unrealistic. So I feel for them, but how bad should I have felt for scribes when the printing press was invented?
I think I've written 2 bits of fiction since elementary school, both this summer.
One was a backstory for a level 1 D&D character for whom things went so well the whole party got to write backgrounds for level 6 characters 🙂
My DM said the first was "perhaps the best and most useless background [I]'d ever seen", and something similar about the second 😁
For weeks? now I haven't been able to post on it, this is from amethyst, where, as a rule of thumb, I don't get notifications.
I'm presently a bit stuck on the final boss of Final Fantasy 1
Sometimes it feels like it, other times it's just lonely hiding my light under a bushel so as to avoid blinding my loved ones.
I get the impression you find the combination of lack of rigor and unanswered questions to be uncompelling, but for reasons I can't relate to, some consider that to be a feature rather than a bug.
One person's flaw is another's feature.
And those are the most important considerations for some, but for others, saying that comparably nutritious and vastly cheaper foods that the free market and economies of scale have bestowed upon is are a psy-op, is itself a psy-op. I know people who are literal commies in part because they think foods too expensive because they think that anything that benefits from economies of scale is poison, and it's fucking stupid. And fuck regulations meant to protect us from ourselves.
Arguing that supermarket milk is not milk, but is instead a psy-op certainly isn't arguing that all choices are equally valid, but perhaps we primarily simply draw different lines in the sand between enjoying some group camaraderie, and groups flexing soft power by, among other things, congratulating each other in how right they are.
While I get and respect the huge difference between coercion and choice, I become skeptical the moment there's a clearly "correct" choice or answer regardless of who's setting the expectation of what "correct" is. And perhaps in your mind this is a proxy argument against government mandates, but to me it doesn't sound like that, to me it sounds like the bullshit that I hear spewed by some of the hippie commies that I know.