PolygonSheep

> denying the Russians - particularly the urban Russians - their veneer of civilization, affluence, westernization.

Yeah I feel very civilized, affluent, and Western when I walk into a McDonalds.

I get that formula is better, and should be the #1 choice but in a formula shortage/emergency situation would most babies be seriously harmed by using goat milk instead?

> UL is not a consumer protection agency

I feel the most protected as a consumer when I don't get shocked plugging something in.

That was a terrible thing for Trump to do but now we have a different POTUS who is (supposedly) not beholden to the dairy industry, yet it's not been changed.

I'm no expert on infant nutrition but why wouldn't cow milk and/or goat milk be an acceptable substitute? They're both safe for humans to consume, they're widely available at fairly low cost. They provide enough nutrition to get large animals growing.

It may not be scientifically 100% "perfect" but why wouldn't it be "close enough"?

It's good for engagement. Get everyone talking about the latest Netflix controversy. Release Cuties and piss off all the stupid uptight conservatives who don't understand it's just a coming-of-age story, then release a Chappelle comedy special and upset all the right-thinking leftists who don't understand it's actually pro-trans.

Then no matter whether you go to get your daily Two Minutes Hate in, all you see is NETFLIX NETFLIX NETFLIX NETFLIX NETFLIX everywhere.

> The Fed has published very recent stats in the US that people with a 4 year degree on average earn 2x the income of people without a degree.

I'd really like to see a breakdown by major and institution. I don't think going and getting just any 4 year degree is going to make you a success.

Why not just put a window A/C or dual-hose portable in your bedroom, and leave the rest of the house at 80? You can then keep the bedroom as cold as you like while using relatively little electricity.

What's the difference between "personally guaranteeing" a loan and being "personally liable" for a loan? To me they mean the exact same thing: if Better.com (the company) can't pay off the loan then Mr. Garg (the individual) is responsible for coming up with the money.

> Again, the only 'accommodation' that is asked is to just let them live. Seems like not a hard thing to do, and not something one would have to go out of their way of to 'push back against'.

But OP is letting them live. Unless you are alleging OP is running around killing trans people??

Any relation to Corn Pop?

> The key difference is that Canada's commission members are all nonpartisan — they're mostly judges, political scientists, or retired civil servants.

Judges don't strike me as particularly nonpartisan these days...

> Except the side who are "free speech absolutists" are worried about those gay characters kissing in "She-Ra" remake or various Disney+ cartoons where men kiss,

Does holding freedom of speech as an ideal mean you must never dislike anything or tell anyone else that you dislike it? Is Elon giving orders to Disney+ about what they can and can't show? Is he going to ban Disney from using Twitter now because two guys kissed in a cartoon?

> and want that stuff censored off the airs.

There is indeed censorship of broadcast media but it long predates Elon or Twitter and it's done by the FCC.

> And then want to ban the book "Maus", etc. etc.

Removing a book from the curriculum and replacing it with another book that teaches pretty much the same thing is hardly "banning" it. Did students face disciplinary action or criminal charges for possessing a copy of Maus on school grounds? Did parents who bought a copy for their kids get a visit from the sheriff? Was Amazon ordered to stop selling it?

It's ridiculous. If you think about it almost all books are similarly "banned" as there are countless possible books you could have kids read and very limited time and space on the curriculum. We had the Pearson algebra textbook in high school so I guess that means the McGraw-Hill one was "banned".

> American white southerners were scared out of their minds about the possibility of a rebellion comparable to the Haitian Revolution, which was contemporaneous with the Bill of Rights. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_Revolution

Wasn't a war for independence in which widespread civilian firearm ownership played a part in winning also kind of contemporaneous with the Bill of Rights?

Just because a company provides genuinely useful and important products doesn't mean it's not overvalued.

> They are like the water supply, to the restaurant.

Even actual water companies get overvalued. Just look at American Water Works or Essential Utilities Inc stock.

> The only explanation for getting rid of dislike count that makes sense to me is to make big brands happy as their videos can't be made to look bad with a high dislike count and they can't be "dislike bombed"

It was already possible before November 2021 to turn off the publicly visible like/dislike count on any video (getting essentially what we have now) and many big brands did exactly that.

Frankly if I ever get to the "I own a beach house and my daughters need their horses hauled around" level of success I'll just hire a couple of sturdy proles to carry me to and from the beach house on a sedan chair and leave the butler to worry about getting the horses from place to place.

This runs into two problems:

1) It's a private company, they can refuse service to anyone for any reason - this is spelled out in the TOS:

> If we believe you are abusing eBay and/or our Services in any way, we may, in our sole discretion and without limiting other remedies, limit, suspend, or terminate your user account(s) and access to our Services, delay or remove hosted content, remove any special status associated with your account(s), remove, not display, and/or demote listings, reduce or eliminate any discounts, and take technical and/or legal steps to prevent you from using our Services.

> Additionally, we reserve the right to refuse, modify, or terminate all or part of our Services to anyone for any reason at our discretion.

2) There is a mandatory arbitration clause in the TOS so you can't take them to court.

> You and eBay each agree that any and all disputes or claims that have arisen, or may arise, between you and eBay (or any related third parties) that relate in any way to or arise out of this or previous versions of the User Agreement, your use of or access to our Services, the actions of eBay or its agents, or any products or services sold, offered, or purchased through our Services shall be resolved exclusively through final and binding arbitration, rather than in court.

I don't like it but that's how it is. For some reason no one - right, left or center - seems interested in regulating these things.

> I thought that the reason why they aren't made much any more was due to milage standards, but that wouldn't be an issue for electric trucks.

I'm guessing we will see something like CAFE standards for EVs when they become a majority of the market. Maybe they'll call it CAKE (Corporate Average Kilowatt-hour Economy). The same people now complaining about carbon emissions from ICE trucks will in the future complain about the appalling electricity consumption of electric trucks.

I really don't see the climate activist people saying "our work here is done, let's pack up and go home!" when the last ICE vehicle rolls off the assembly line. The battle lines will just shift and the Cybertruck/F150 Lightning/Hummer EV/Rivian R1T will become as reviled as their internal combustion counterparts are today.

It seems to me it would be more economical to rent a truck to haul things if you only need to do so occasionally. If you're a tradesman or a contractor yeah you will need to own a truck. If you're a white collar desk jockey? Come on now.

I'd much rather spend half as much on gas, make much smaller payments and then just pay U-Haul $100 or so for the one or two days a year I might need one (plus you can rent a much larger truck than a Silverado/F-150). So I drive a subcompact hatchback and rent a truck if/when I need one.

It's not even for the environment either. I just don't like sitting up high and I find large vehicles difficult to park and maneuver.

How much Brazilian beef is in a US Big Mac/Whopper?

> Seems to me anti-slavery is an amendment to the constitution. So it is a right not a law.

Amendments themselves can be struck down by later amendments (see 18th vs 21st amendment).

> Conservatives vetoed the legislation because they think taxes should be painful

It's a shame that Republicans have totally dominated California politics since ReadyReturn got vetoed. It's like Texas on the west coast.

> Ironically, BTC has been very successful at scaring some government officials into thinking that people may abandon their fiat money if fiat printing doesn't get under control.

Weren't much the same things said about gold pre-Bitcoin?

Is burnout a major problem in Asian countries which are famous for their long working hours? I'm thinking China's 9-9-6 system, Japanese salarymen, and South Korean gwarosa.

Well yeah, it's not meant to be radical it's meant to make money. The actual "art" part is of secondary importance.

> A law clerk would be risking their entire career for this

I see two likely outcomes here:

1) The leaker is not publicly identified and their career goes along as well as it would have had they not leaked.

2) The leaker is identified. They lose their clerkship but the leak will end up pleasing about half the country and they get a really nice job with some ideologically aligned law firm/NGO, a book deal, and a lucrative speaking career as the one who bravely risked their job to save the right to abortion.

I think we already had (past tense) the solution in federalism. If the federal government only did what the constitution says it does, most of the red state/blue state stuff wouldn't even be an issue at the federal level. Who won the presidential election or which party controls congress would be much less significant. The average person would have little reason to care much one way or the other.

Sadly we broke that a long time ago and Humpty Dumpty isn't going back together again.

> In that way, there isn't anybody continuously using the mouse without removing the cable, making the product look like is wired instead of wired, and breaking that minimalism design they want to.

Is this a common problem? I only use wired trackballs but I notice other major brands of rechargeable wireless mice don't seem to care whether you use them plugged in or not.

What I think would have been better would be to put the charging port on the back instead of the bottom so you can still use it if you absolutely need to while charging but it's just awkward and uncomfortable enough to discourage doing so on a regular basis.

> The Europeans were psychotic bastards who murdered and tortured and enslaved people, and who had absolute masters and abject servants, and all kinds of psychotic baggage. The native cultures were (and still are in many many places) not quite so messed up.

The natives never fought amongst themselves for resources or territory? No victorious tribes ever enslaved or murdered their defeated foes?

This whole idea of conflicts between ethnicity and tribes and nations, master-and-slave and hierarchical societies is just some weird European pathology that, like smallpox, was unknown in the Americas pre-1492?