the US is a fractal scam. At every level, everything is an attempt to extract money from ill-informed “suckers”, from the running of the government, to the prices of supermarket groceries, to the tipping culture at restaurants, to even finding a place to put your car [1]. Every single thing is someone’s grift. In order to function in America, you need to be willing to be suckered to some extent. There’s no way around it. Unfairness is baked into every transaction, and increasingly more social interactions.

What a quote. I will add that “we” also like to believe we have the most fair system. And in many ways, the “gotchas” are much more hidden and systemic than other countries. For example, you might be scammed haggling with someone in Southeast Asia, but we get scammed everyday by credit card companies making bank on every single transactions.

So now it’s not only dead internet, but dead society as well?

AI scammers scamming AI victims.

Weird person giving me something incredibly sweet. (Later found out that was a polio vaccination via sugar cube). The memory was very partially formed, but it should have been around 18 months old.

Other fully formed memory starts around 2 and half.

after all this piracy, isn’t it ironic that it’s the mega corps that that ultimately breaks our current copyright model.

Amazing. Thank you so much for the deep research and citations.

In other words, psychedelics seems to have a pro social effect on the mice? That’s very interesting. Especially in the world when we are increasingly trained to be anti-social.

I’m not quite sure I understand what “social reward learning period” means exactly after reading through that paper. Can anyone help explain that in more concrete terms?

How does one even plan for contingencies? 96-hour life support, but can specialized rescue subs get there in time?

This is outrageous, it’s unfair! How can you have one of the most upvoted posts and not grant me the rank of grand Reddit master?

Again, all of that is really testable. You can even blind test yourself at home.

Any salted meats will naturally form MSG when the glutamic acid binds to sodium. Pretty much all processed foods contain msg even if it was not an additive because it naturally forms on the foods themselves when free glutamate binds to salts. If you had any form of Japanese food cooked with kombu or seaweed, it also had high msg content.

None of this is even unique to Asian foods. Most cheeses are extremely high in msg, especially aged cheeses like Parmesan. Pretty much all savory foods contain some glutamate and glutamic acids.

Nah that’s a new unreleased swift model. Can’t have the shape leaked before launch.

I don’t think this is actually as bad as people say.

It’s not that we won’t have drinking water. Municipal water use is tiny! And provided with enough incentives (higher costs) people will use less water. And this can be done in very reasonable ways by issuing water tiered rates.

Agricultural water use, is a whole different topic. However, until we can incentives better water management on our massive agricultural lands, it’s only going to get worse.

Exactly!

It's absolutely insane, I remember needing it in a pinch to make some soups, and had to buy one for 8+ dollars at my local store, and it was like 4 leaves.... I went to the plant nursery the next weekend and bought a small bay laurel for 20 bucks, and never looked back. Zero maintenance, it seems to be pretty pest tolerant, and I just put it in my backyard in a pot close enough to catch some residual water from my sprinkler, and it has been thriving ever since.

I got them at a local nursery!

But I was also told by a plant geek friend that folks grow them on the side of the road, and there are quite a few "semi-public" (true) bay laurel trees in most places in California if you know where to find them. They grow exceptionally well here since they are a Mediterranean plant. We also have a native California bay laurel variety that grows quite well in southern California without much care at all. They taste pretty similar and it's EXTREMELY easy to forage. https://www.foragesf.com/blog/2019/10/5/california-bay-dont-buy-bay-forage-it

Do you have such reactions to glutamine rich foods? (Tomatoes, fish, eggs) Msg is also in most processed foods.

If you only have such reaction at restaurants, it’s probably something else.

The initial craze about msg was pure racism and very bad science.

https://www.jandonline.org/article/S2212-2672(21)00068-X/fulltext

Rosemary and bay leaf. They grow so well here in Ca, it’s criminal that they sell the leaves at 8 dollars a pop at most stores.

Consequence of insulting the business that employs you is that you’ll get fired. To limit the consequences here is to restrict the property rights of the business to hire and fire the individuals they hire.

More realistic scenario, if you’re an insufferable person spewing nonsense all day, people in your social circle (and those near you physically) will distance themselves from you. That’s the natural consequence of anti-social behavior.

There is no speech without consequence. To have speech without consequence is to expect cause without effect.

I can share the perspective of why I joined beehaw instead of the other services.

I used to be on the side of free-speech maximalists, but after seeing communities crumble because of toxicity driving out people, I also came to see the same problems with social media that the beehaw folks see.

On anon/pseudo anon places, the social structure to correct anti-social behavior does not exist like in real life. So to create an environment that’s tolerable to the majority of people, you have to isolate and punish the bad actors.

I’m past the age where i want to be spending time on things and places where people are hateful and mean all the time.

I think it was just impossible to follow up THE single best season of a show ever created.

I would recommend checking out EU4 again. It’s an amazing game if you like history.

CK series is much more of a family simulator than country simulator, so that takes a bit of getting used to

Genshin OST, especially Sumeru, Absolutely slaps