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RFK Jr. Says Doctors Found a Dead Worm in His Brain: Report
  • There’s literally someone in this thread right now saying you can eat raw pork in America without worry…

    The correct response to that is to provide the actual guidelines based on actual data, not to fearmonger while quoting lines referencing wild game.

    A huge part of why commercial pork is safe -- that you're consistently leaving out -- were major changes to how livestock are raised. Trichinosis transmission in pigs is primarily caused by the consumption of infected meat; US standards were changed to more strictly control what's fed to pigs, which led to the decreased risk. The risk remains in wild boar because they're omnivores that will scavenge whatever they can find.

    145 is still a limit people need to follow, lots of people don’t.

    145 isn't a hard limit. It's the recommended holding temperature for one minute.

  • RFK Jr. Says Doctors Found a Dead Worm in His Brain: Report
  • The USDA and FDA, which both lean conservative in their recommendations, consider whole cuts of pork safe down to 145F (roughly equivalent to cooked to medium):

    https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2011/05/25/cooking-meat-check-new-recommended-temperatures
    https://www.fda.gov/media/107000/download

    This has been the case for over a decade. Pork should be cooked but the old 160F recommendations have been gone for a long time now because commercial pork is relatively safe.

    Also note that this is the one-minute pasteurization temp; meat can be held at a lower temperature for longer to render it safe.

  • California man charged with threatening to kill Fani Willis
  • Nevermind abroad. A lot of them would do well just to get some actual exposure to larger cities in their own states.

    Part of the urban/rural divide is fueled by the pervasive belief that cities are lawless hellholes because they've never had real exposure to it.

  • Trump gave top US firms staggering tax cuts, with some paying $0 or less – report
  • Stakeholders are people with any kind of interest in the company doing well

    Corporate social responsibility as a concept is even broader than that -- it's not just anyone who has interest in the company doing well, but broad consideration of anyone impacted by the decisions of the company.

    A company might be able to save operational costs by dumping toxic sludge in a river, but within a CSR framework, people living downstream would be considered stakeholders and the potential negative impact of the decision on those people is supposed to be taken into account when decisions are made. The corporation is supposed to have a responsibility to do right by anyone impacted by their actions wherever possible.

    At least that's the theory. It shouldn't be surprising that the language of CSR gets pretty commonly coopted by companies looking to whitewash what they're actually doing.

  • After blocking hundreds of promotions, Tuberville said the US has 'the weakest military than we've probably had in my lifetime'
  • The US has 11 out of 22.

    This is only a partial picture.

    The US has 11 supercarrier groups that individually rival the power of most nation's entire airforces. These are unrivaled by anything else in the world.

    The US additionally has 9 America and Wasp class amphibious assault ships that have an airwing capability that rivals most other nations' carrier groups. The Navy plans for this force to eventually be made up of 11 America class ships.

    So the reality is that the US' secondary aircraft carrier capability rivals that of the rest of the world combined. The total power disparity of the combined supercarrier and amphibious assault fleet is mind boggling.

  • Gen Z is forcing a workplace reckoning that should have happened years ago
  • it took me way too long to realize that i can tell my boss to eat shit.

    I think the difference in upbringing you're describing is a huge part of it.

    Millennials went through spending our entire early adult lives being gaslit about how all the ways we were being abused were ultimately somehow our fault because our parents refused to recognize the systemic issues we were facing.

    We may have come to the realization late, but we can certainly make sure younger generations know that they can and should call bullshit when they see it.

  • Chamberlain shuts off access to MyQ’s APIs, breaking smart home integrations
  • Most security systems these days are just whitelabeled zwave etc sensors with a proprietary hub and a monthly charge.

    The nice thing about HA is that you can pull almost everything into it and then add whatever automations you want. Recent example was my SO complaining about how dark it was going to the car when they leave in the morning. Super easy to set up an automation that turns on the floodlight switches when the front door opens between dusk and dawn. All kinds of stuff like that that's really useful.

  • The Problem with Jon Stewart cancellation highlights a problem for Apple’s content
  • “Canceled” is a term assholes came up with to rebrand “consequences” to make it seem like something that isn’t their own fault.

    Not sure I agree with this particular take. My recollection is that this usage of cancelled started in progressive internet spaces and was absolutely used to describe consequences for being an asshole.

    It's the exact same trajectory woke took -- it was language used by left-leaning people that got co-opted and intentionally diluted by conservatives.

  • Man with handgun seeking governor arrested in Wisconsin Capitol, returns with assault rifle
  • Easiest way to kickstart it is arming at-risk minorities.

    California's strict gun laws have their roots in white conservatives' reaction to the Black Panthers marching with rifles while St. Reagan was governor of the state.

    The upside of this strategy is that if the gun laws don't change, then at least those minorities will have some means of protecting themselves.

  • Kevin McCarthy is ousted as House speaker in a historic vote pushed by conservatives
  • Refusing to cooperate with Democrats is what sank him.

    He needed support from Democrats to keep the Speakership. He's spent the entire year giving them no reason to trust him -- including going on the Sunday shows this week knowing this vote was coming and trying to blame Democrats for the near shutdown.

  • Google won’t repair cracked Pixel Watch screens
  • That's a really great point and another reason I've really enjoyed the Garmin experience -- Garmin doesn't try to sell your own data back to you.

    Getting anything more than the absolute most basic of real time data out of a Fitbit requires an annual subscription. With Garmin, it's just there.

  • Google won’t repair cracked Pixel Watch screens
  • Fitbit is owned by Google and has the same policy of not repairing cracked screens.

    I owned a Sense 2 and was in a bicycle crash. Screen hit the pavement and shattered. Absolutely no options from Fitibit/Google to get it repaired.

    I switched to Garmin and couldn't be happier.

  • Hunter Biden, the son of the President, is indicted on federal gun charges
  • The NRA is pretty low on the list of organizations that would have tried to push the issue if this involved someone not named Hunter Biden. They're very much a culture war outlet that won't go to bat for anyone they consider an undesirable.

    There are other advocacy groups that have been talking about this issue for a number of years, though. And there have been lower court rulings this year that make whether that provision of Form 4473 is going to be able to withstand scrutiny questionable.

    Like I said, where these gun rights groups land on this case is going to be pretty telling about where they stand generally. The culture warriors will come up with excuses. It should be an interesting barometer for whether these groups actually believe in universal application of what they consider rights.

  • Hunter Biden, the son of the President, is indicted on federal gun charges
  • A lot of gun rights groups have been champing at the bit for a good chance to challenge that section of Form 4473 for a while now. A common point of contention is that e.g., holding a medical marijuana card would be a disqualifier if truthfully filling out a 4473. It's so rarely actually prosecuted that finding a test case isn't particularly easy, though.

    It will be interesting -- and telling -- to see how they react to this case.