heyjudy

Upton Sinclair effect right here. Let's keep supporting a major source of climate change, obesity, antibiotic resistance, animal cruelty and heart disease because you want a hamburger... nothing else is good enough for you, focus on the negatives, discard all of the positives.

Wow.

About 30 years ago, my now departed grandmother was at her favorite Italian grocery store comparing sirloin to ground sirloin and noticed a price difference. She asked the butcher about the truth of what was in the ground sirloin. "We couldn't sell it at that price without adding things to it." From then on, she bought only sirloin steaks and ground her own at home.

In the absence of sensible government regulations and enforcement, cut-throat capitalism drives individuals and corporations to cut corners and keep cutting more corners until Bhopal or Mad Cow Disease happen.

Disclaimer: I don't eat animals.

Only one? My official impression of k8s from many sources, bug reports, first-, second- and third-hand experiences is that there's quite a pile of mud with steam rising from it. There may or may not be viable alternatives, but on its own, quality is a qualitative quality that appears to yours truly to be seriously lacking on multiple fronts.

There was a documentary where eating quality small, oily fish were order(s)-of-magnitude more effective than fish oil pills. Furthermore, fish oil pills can often go rancid and instead contain more omega-6 than omega-3.

IIRC it was Frontline's "The Fish on My Plate" but it might've been another doc

Yes. At a meta-level, it's dripping with contempt, judgement, criticism and antagonism to an extreme degree, plus combative use of redundant personal pronouns to drive a wedge of distance further between parties. "Refuse to allow this type of behavior when it happens or avoid such sources of drama, manipulation and abuse sooner" would be my humble recommendation if I had two cents to chip in.

Cannibalistic theft in a business suit. It's always sold as cheaper and then charges citizens as much as possible later because the state-subsidized monopoly is a business first, not a service.

Yes. Let corporations in to cannibalize and strip-mine the public commons (common-wealth) with perverse incentives and gamify things too important the government should be doing.

Btw, do you ever watch TRNN or Economic Update?

You're stuck in an utopian delusion not dealing with reality. When you privatize government, you create perverse incentives for corporations to extort citizens by charging excessive prices and fees, provide shoddy service and tie them to other things they don't want or need.

Netherlands extremely rarely gives anyone an actual life sentence for anything. Plus, it's a property crime, and depends if she had knowledge of their value and intent based on that. Also, you'd need to lock-up half of the European aristocracy and most galleries for taking, and not willingly-returning, works taken from WW2 Holocaust victims and survivors. So in the grand scheme of things, she's, at most, a committer of criminal mischief.

Then we don't need most mainstream human news reporters anymore: same level of research and knowledge on topics.

It's when AI can do hard-hitting investigative journalism that we should be really worried.

True and it's true the title is a clickbait overreach without direct evidence in hand, however it's still true that America's decline has been a mostly gradual one and the rich have captured politics and media to lower their own taxes and make regulations favorable to them. As it gets worse, privatization, including public-private partnerships as just the beginning, comes in and takes the valuable and vital parts of communities and society, and sell them off to semi-corporations to charge people for what their taxes already paid for. With time and worsening conditions, vampiric, cannibalistic strip-mining of parts of civilization needed to function ordinarily are sold off, destroyed or replaced with more expensive, substandard substitutes. Today, you're hard pressed to find a water fountain or apart from a library, find anywhere convenient for a public meeting that doesn't require commercial activity. Parks are fewer and farther (except maybe the mandatory public spaces in NYC, that are often in/on top of sterile buildings).

I don't want to sound like a sky-is-falling doomsdayist, but when/if it gets nearer to such a perceived fall of empire, there will likely be overt theft of public and government resources committed almost exclusively by the ruling class, as happend in the Soviet collapse.

Beware the era when the politicians in countries like Brazil or the US, who listen almost exclusively to their rich supporters, stop listening to average citizens and many people stop voting. The French Revolution was also itself a failure of empire due to extreme inequality, and the Yellow Vests are a modern, more mellow resurgence "relief valve" release of dissatisfaction that is by no means an isolated occurrence: Occupy, Brexit, Trump, etc. And as the world becomes "flatter," there will be more and more similar situations happening across countries, and far-right autocrats, rising nationalism, rising xenophobia and populist revolutions are currently some of the most widespread phenomena. Nationalism is especially concerning because it's a leading indicator of another global war.

It also replaces ssh-agent. I also use monkeysphere to store SSH keys in GPG. It's a far better solution than ssh keys lying around requiring management.