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I don't get it. Why are people knee-jerk adverse to this idea? We're not arguing with flat earthers or moon landing skeptics. It's entirely plausible. With people putting their reputation on it, too. Dany Shoham (Israeli biological warfare expert) put his name on the line point this out before a lot of people.

It's not out of the realm of possibility and shouldn't be disregarded out of hand like it has been. Could be from there or maybe not. We really need more information from China to settle some of these discussions.

Given the fact that many Europeans drank beer, ale and what have you as a main source of water (the other primary source being food). I'm not surprised if it turns out that it's not too big of a deal. As long as the drinks are as low alcohol content as the ales and beers of the past, then it's all good. Hell even children drank small light beer in the past.

Not saying it isn't poison, just that the body can deal with it in small amounts.

I doubt you or most people can even agree what fascist means let alone what it would be like.

Just so you know, there are plenty of books, films and music with ads. The harder you try to run away from ads, the more you pay to escape them, the harder they'll try to get you to see them and the more they'll pay for it.

That's why I think it's inevitable for Netflix to get ads. Even if it's not a pre-roll ad, it could be just tons of in-content advertisements. Like they do with a lot of movies. Such as Sony movies, plenty of Sony phones, laptop, TVs, speakers, etc.

The only way to get rid of ads from your life, is to become a billionaire that owns a personal city where you can outlaw them yourself. Otherwise, you're screwed.

Was this a LG C9 OLED tv? Just curious in how much better and in what way is the Apple TV to the native app. I haven't had any issues afaik. But I haven't used the Apple TV 4k before either, so I guess I wouldn't know if I'm experiencing subpar quality.

Thanks for pointing this out. Don’t think I would have figured that out.

I'm starting to come around to the idea of rejecting Chinese investment. They clearly have a negative influence. See Hollywood, political coverage, historical programming, video games, current affairs... If nothing is done, in a few decades they'll have manipulated the entire social political landscape of the West. All of us will be using the Social Credit system. Worse, we'll defend it, too.

Future is bleak if we do nothing.

Thanks for helping me think differently about megathreads. political containment and pruning is the result.

YouTube denies creators of flourishing through favouritism. I don’t think Rights is the correct way to talk about it. It might even hamstring the dialogue. Discussing opportunity and flourishing is more precise.

I think deleting your account is similar to removing your ability to vote or protest WITHIN the company’s scope. If they lose your sunk cost into their system, you’re no longer as important as the people teetering on the edge. Changing your name and talking to people in the community about this has a greater effect thuan if you basically disappeared.

I believe even Blizzard understand the immediate bottom line isn’t quite as important as their brand image. Which is why they banned that guy to begin with. One who stops paying for blizzard products is one thing. One person who convinces others that blizzard is not worth supporting is way more significant than the money of one man.

No company owns all the internet. But States do.

It's more like a publicly traded company owning a really popular street or city. And these aren't just any cities, more like capital cities (or close to it). But this company still answers to the state. In reality this company owns and operates streets/cities in every country. Hence answers to every State and each of their laws.

Facebook and Twitter don't actually have free speech themselves. We pretend they do, but if they actually tried to enact a strong opinion into their business, banning some large arbitrary group, not just small disruptive minorities. States would just reverse that and say it's unlawful to deny, let's say, all X or Y countries citizens. Or all of Washington.

They are functionally a State apparatus. There's a reason why Facebook and Twitter are blocked whenever a country is in upheaval. But is kept around even in quite oppressive countries. I'm just saying we need to be honest about these State company hybrids.

I find damper hard to digest compared to normal bread.

Cocaine would be a better choice than chronic sleep deprivation to achieve that. Just saying.

The market can only handle so many competitors. Only two, sometimes three (if you're lucky?) ever amount to anything. Videogame genres are insanely easy to over saturate. Even streaming services like Netflix and what not aren't actually going to become some subscription hellscape like everyone thinks. Everyone's time limited, so there's only so many competitors that will succeed. And from history, it's usually whoever gets to market first, and does it just well enough for it to work at all.

In the end, in the worst case scenario, you might be paying for one, maybe two subscription services for games. But you'll still have the option to buy games just like now, because not everyone gets to be king.

Stadia is no different than a PS4 or an Xbox. It's just that you're renting a Stadia, but still buying game licenses (just like Steam). Stadia isn't Netflix for games, it's streaming console for hire.

Pulling out of the EU market is impossible. Tens of millions of Europeans have invested billions into Steam. What does pull out of the market even mean? Stop selling games? They cannot because many games would become broken, as they need steam selling functionality for those games to work. It would leave them non-functional and broken. Micro transactions, subscriptions and DLC, etc. Stop selling would cause many millions in damages and many new lawsuits.

Not to mention none of this is in Valves best interest. Even a used game license market would be preferable to pulling out of Europe...

They cannot "pull" out of the French market. The lawsuit from doing that would be insane. What are they gonna do? Take everyone's Steam games away from them? Refund them hundreds of millions of dollars? Billions?

If they lose the appeal, I doubt they'll win at the EU court. They have to either fight and win the appeal or change.

You won't cut yourself if you keep your razor sharp and use good technique. Short, confident strokes with your other hand adding tension to your skin. Really I rarely cut myself with a straight razor now. And it's usually because the blade starts getting dull, which happens after like 6 months.

You only need to sharpen straight razors once every 3 to 6 months. You don't necessarily need your own stone. I pay a friend to do it for a few bucks. Takes him 5-10mins. The money he invest on his wetstones has been paid back at this point.

To me straight razors represent community, whereas cartridge/disposables represent isolation, loneliness and obviously disposability. The people who are too afraid to use a straight razor, have to go to a barber to experience it. That's fantastic as it creates more social elements to this routine aspect of life.

You're probably drying out your skin with hot water and soap. Not cleaning it well enough can do that too. I used to get that problem until I realized two important things.

1. Regular hot water on your hair and beard dries out your skin terribly. Especially during winter. You need to use luke warm showers and probably avoid washing your head every time you shower. Use cold water on your face afterwards and gently dry it off. Which leads into the other point.

2. Stop touching your face so much. Routinely or obsessively touching your face or beard irritates it a lot. That can inflame the skin, causing it to over produce skin, oil, etc.

Also using too much beard oil as well can cause irritation. Your skin doesn't need too much oil. Only what it produces naturally (when you don't wash it away with soap or hot water).

I can confidently say I cannot get the same shave, with less razor burn, with cartridge razors versus straight razors/DE safety razor. They just don't seem to get through thick longer facial hair without trouble. With a straight razor, doesn't matter how long the hair is, I'll get through it quickly whether it's 24 hours old or six months old hair.

If you use hot water to shave, Gillette blades dull very quickly. If you use cold water, they last longer than DE blades. It mostly has to do with the plastic coating on the cartridge blades. However, if you're skilled at shaving with a DE, technique actually prolongs your blades life into many shaves with the same razor.

I don't know why you're getting downvoted so much. People should be more concerned of sensationalism than VOCs for now. Stress kills far more people than this potentially broad category of compounds which could include harmless and vital smells. Is the media now going to try to sterilize our sense of smell as well as our sense of taste.

Ban salt, fat, (but not sugar, just tax it even more), flavour and smells! The hysteria over how to eat and what to eat has killed potentially hundreds of millions of people at this point. Sensationalism motivates culture and is absolutely to be feared.

Of course we shouldn't live in sealed up caves with no vents. We shouldn't live in moldy apartments either. Tell us something we don't know.

I'm not knocking ketosis itself. Just the absurd hoops people jump through to pretend their doing keto... how about just stop eating for a bit and you'll get a more robust ketosis. No need for hundreds of recipe books about keto desserts, keto friendly cakes and breads.

Just want people to keep things simple. That's why I was saying that stuff about cyclical dieting. In summer, there's a lot more carbs. In winter you'd change to eating more meat and fat. Since animals fatten themselves up for surviving winter. Eats what's currently in your environment. Prepare it properly. Move regularly throughout the day. Take time to relax and rest.

In an ideal world, a "balanced diet" would mean eating only locally, in season and have none of this fad diet nonsense (vegetarian, vegan, carnivore, keto, etc). This would produce a universal diet that adapts to environment, wild life and the success and failures of local agriculture. It would be a cyclical diet, ever changing.

Maybe balanced diet is a poor choice of words... Local diet? Seasonal diet? Cyclical diet? IDK.

"So just take a bunch of probiotics with your steak n shake, and call it good?"

Are you taking the piss?

"And, you meant to say salad that hasn't ever been washed in chlorinated water is good for you."

You're the one putting words into my mouth. I never said that because I don't believe that. Salad that's fresh from a traditional farm using healthy soil, practices and cultivar is good for you.

If you're satisfied with nutritionally bankrupt, sterile food, fine. Good for you.

"if you think the only thing that makes salad healthy are it's probiotics then you also don't know enough about food."

Learn about the gut micro-biome. The main reason salad is good for you it's effect on gut.

We eat to feed the gut, not ourselves. To imply that prebiotics/probiotics aren't the main reason vegetables have a positive health effect on us is beyond ignorant. That's the reason why diabetes, cancer and heart disease is now worse than all the wars of history combined.

Downvoting me for this was stupid. You know know enough about food if you think bleaching is healthy. Apart of what makes salad healthy is the bacterial culture that's naturally on it. Think probiotics that are essential to maintaining proper digestion of the food you're eating. Seriously, get downvoted for anything.

That's what I was thinking. Talk about taking away any benefits of eating salad... more bleach please?

"So many male calves are shot and discarded instead of becoming food."

Now that is disgusting. Good job finger-waggers, you've just caused more waste and inefficiency in the world because of poor ethics.