Thatd be so cool if they went on the 4th like jefferson and adams

The first person on the panel, wearing two monocols and a rainbow progress lapel pin, “well you see, obviously we all want universal healthcare, but the reality is, we just cant afford it” as they say this, they sign another pledge to send billions of bombs to lebanon via isreal and just after an intern crawls in and delivers a bar of gold right in front of everyone as the camera pans to the next democrat who then rags about how progressives are just self defeating losers while he unawarely stands on the neck of a protestor and vocally wonders why they always complain so much as he twists his heel into the protesters larynx, the third democrat on the panel has fallen asleep - once a civil rights champion in the 1830’s, their age has crept up on them, but their district still seems to keep voting their coffin in regardless

Yeah the downvotes on yours make no sense to me, i was just adding to your point not even countering it, but the ratio is silly

Got curious, nyc has a population of 8.5m and a city budget of 116b$

If nyc was a state seperate from ny, then it would be the 12th largest state by population - just over washington state, and itd be the 5th highest budget in the nation - just under washington state

It feels way more rational after making that comparison - especially when coupled with how culturally and economically center stage nyc is to america and the world

Dont be a troll, this is pathetic.

Come back to this tomorrow and reread it if you have to.

I’m done, heres your three paragraphs though, i still love you.

This is so frustrating

The commenter was building on top of your argument

You said prohibition wasnt healthy

They said total absence of control wasnt healthy

They implicitly agreed with you that prohibition wasnt healthy

I then spell it out for you that the message being built, that almost certainly you also agree with, is that moderation is the answer.

A counterpoint turns a random point into a line, a line into a polygon, a polygon into a solid, etc.

That counterpoint gave your message an extra and important dimmension. They thought your message was correct but lacking neccisary nuance.

For some reason you got peeved with that, and i think that looks poorly on you, not anyone else.

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Dosent to me at all

They didnt even really counter your point, they gave another perspective to form a stronger argument of what your message was already saying

Parents should teach and guide their children moderation, especially for such common and addictive substances like sugar, especially when without moderation serious health and quality of life damages can apply

If a parents goal is to raise healthy humans with a high quality of life - they should be teaching and guiding children into moderation, not prohibition and the shame that goes with it, not hedonism and the shamelessness that goes with that

Its not that sugar is some fearful substance that should be prohobited outright, but its also not a substance without issue and should be moderated and controlled if modersation is not yet possible for such a still-developing human

There are many such substances that need this parental guidance, sugar is just the most obvious one to younh parents - a toddler probably/hopefully isnt hitting a 40 or a roach

Fully agreed, i love brussle sprouts when cooked well

Improved uv protection and longevity are the major points, so youll age more gently long term and you wont have to strictly reapply every 2 hours - since im mostly in doors minus a 20m daily walk, i only apply once in the morning

But also the new sunscreens rub in and blend in better and dont feel as greasy so it not gross to put on and wear everyday

I dont wear makeup, so if the sunscreen is super shiny or pilly my face looks wierd, i dont like how i look, not so with the new filters

With my current sunscreen, its just part of the routine and its barely a thought for me - dosent smell bad, dosent feel bad, dosent make me feel sticky or tacky or greasy or shiny, i just put on 3 pumps (or finger lengths) to appropriatly protect my face, ears, and neck and its easy, and i use a cheaper american sunscreen on my arms to keep cost down

Hard to describe, but i tried a bunch of fda-approved sunscreens once i understood how damaging the sun is and how it affects aging and skin cancer and never found one that i really liked, so i imported some from abroad at the suggestion of a friend and finally found my sunscreen, and now i feel naked without it, wheras it was a chore like eating boiled brussle sprouts before

Finally! Ive been waiting and importing sunscreens for years

This is a big deal

If youre not wearing sunscreen daily, especially so if in the southern half of the us, you ought to be. The worlds sunscreens outside of the us are much more enjoyable and protective to wear than whats previously been approved in the us.

Theres still many great filters not yet approved, ill probably still be importing, i personally settled on the Reimann P20 sensitive skin - but ill definitely be checking out the new bemt filters as they come on US shelves to both save the environmental impact of shipping from europe and cost

I am forced to use claude daily at work, it smells like claude

Death is the end

Do you judge a book on it last page, paragraph, or its sentence, or its last word, or its last punctuation, or the last page number at the very bottom right?

I certainly dont, i judge the book for the book it was, in totality (or as much of it as i remember).

Life is the journey, not the end. The end isnt the point, nor the goal, nor even the destination - its just a point no different than any of the others.

Release yourself from worrying about one moment, and allow yourself to see the beauty and capability of the entire life

Do make sure to retry freecad if you havent in a while - they finally merged their big update that made faces not break - its still got a learning curve but its far less frustrating now

In a 2025 letter to QTS, the county said the company owed $147,474 for more than 29 million gallons of water.

Only 150k for 29 million gallons? Charged 0.005$/gallon for good drinking water while were in a significant drought?

One day, sooner than later, the consequences will come due.

I was having this exact conversation with one of the archetects in my company - top down orders were to start integrating llm’s into our engineering workflows - so be it, they sign my paychecks and selfishly i want those to keep flowing - but beyond the quality and slop concerns i had already raised and were disregarded, i was realizing that i was losing my intuition about the code i was releasing under my name - it takes me longer to answer questions and i cant just wing my answers based on the intuition built during development because i didnt build intuition during development when development was outsourced to the llm - thats a liability im trying to highlight to managment and their risk analysis and also to myself for risk reduction

Intuition isnt made in documentation (nor the slopdocs llms makes that no sane person will ever actually read) - its built by the effort of comprehension and theyll be no shortcut to that

Ai cannot experience reality, therefor the source of all its information and all that it can generate is derivitive.

Humans can experience reality, and thus they can generate novel things inspired by reality.

Humans like novel things inspired by reality, and generally are not entertained by derivations.

Take them to a playground instead - theyre an 11 year old ffs.

The one that finally pushed me over the edge was, while i could (barely) tolerate the ads, some time after his last update, something in the code broke or wasnt updated, and the ads would play an audible blip, as if the first 5ms of audio played before it was then caught and automatically muted - and that was just a bridge too far. There were smaller things and features unimplemnted - but having to hear blips catching me off guard and at times when scrolling is appropriate but audio wasnt was too frustrating for me and so i switched. Was using sync forever, was a true fan, was frustrated how he changed and milked the pay structure for sync for lemmy as conpared to how he did it for reddit, and then he had the gal to just dip entirely, such a shame for such a good ux.

After much complaining about sync’s descent into mediocre abandonware, i finally switched to Summit - i still miss sync’s ui/ux - but its nice being able to use a non buggy product