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It was an adblock-spcific paywall

What browser/adblocker(s) are you running? (For everyone else, simply blocking JavaScript on their main domain seems to do the trick)

The color of ones skin does not preclude someone from being bigoted or hateful. It just determines which news network picks up the story.

To be clear, an operating system in an enterprise environment should have mechanisms to access and modify core system functions. Guard-railing anything that could cause an outage like this would make Microsoft a monopoly provider in any service category that requires this kind of access to work (antivirus, auditing, etc). That is arguably worse than incompetent IT departments hiring incompetent vendors to install malware across their fleets resulting in mass-downtime.

The key takeaway here isn’t that Microsoft should change windows to prevent this, it’s that Delta could have spent any number smaller than $500,000,000 on competent IT staffing and prevented this at a lower cost than letting it happen.

Never change

Yeah, turns out when the monopolies are eliminated, people get more competition and a better deal on the consumer end. It’s why I’ll never understand people who say streaming services became as bad as cable.

I’d argue that streaming is in such a bad place right now because each streaming service has a monopoly on their own content. Sure, you could argue that studios “compete” with each other on the content they produce, but I’d argue that cable companies were a different layer of the stack entirely. Cable companies all offered the same channels and the same content, and in areas where they did overlap, competition to offer the best delivery of those channels was great. What made cable bad was that there was little incentive for companies to geographically compete. In the era of streaming, companies have little incentive to allow their content to compete across platforms.

If you ask me, every streaming platform should be broken up from their production parents, so that streaming companies can compete on what they offer, and how they deliver it. There is no incentive for the platforms themselves to compete with each other. It’s all about how hard the services can enshittify before people stop watching the content they have a monopoly on.

See, and I think more people could benefit from those. Our DEI training is like a 15 minute video and then a 7 question quiz. “Karen called Sharon the N word in an email, was that bad??!? (Y/N)”. It really is no wonder that a large swath of people think dei is a joke. In a lot of places it IS a joke.

I would hope that the difference is a trans person wasn’t manipulated by a deranged cult during their formative years. If that isn’t the difference, then the repubes were right all along.

This is how it was explained to me; I’ll do the best I can to write it out in a way that makes sense.

You know how most left-leaning see MAGA as a cult of idiocy? Really Really dumb people easily motivated by propaganda, that if it weren’t for trump and other republican bad actors, they would just otherwise be innocent idiots ready to be manipulated by someone else? There exists a subset of conservatives that believe idiocy and gullibility applies to both sides. Just like a simple farmer can get turned storm-the-capitol-terrorist by a few tweets and youtube videos, the theory is that an innocent dumb gay kid can be turned trans by a few tiktoks. They don’t look at it like a rights issue; they don’t believe that most trans people actually exist. They look at it like catering to a dangerous cult who manipulates their followers into self-mutilation and a terribly unhappy life.

The thing about making an argument in good faith, is that logic and reason generally always apply to produce the same conclusions if given the same set of facts. There are plenty of people out there perfectly content to make a bad faith argument for personal gain, and I’m not really talking about those people. The issue with trans rights is that it’s very easy to make a good faith argument with only a minor dispute in facts that leads down a path of “treat the disease” rather than “give them rights” when solving in good faith for “protect the vulnerable”.

Think about it this way, You probably wouldn’t argue that law should cater towards the reality MAGA repubes believe the world to exist in, right?

Do you have a plan for not rebounding? The thing about weight is it’s simple, not easy. Simple as in calories in <= calories out. Not easy as in willpower to maintain the net equation. If you get down to a weight and immediately go back to what you were doing, you’ll just gain the weight right back. Your lifestyle shift doesn’t need to be bottles of goup for 2 meals a day but you do need to find a sustainable way to have <= 400kcal breakfasts and lunches forever.

My solution was to just keep drinking the goup lol

We’re all in this world together dude/dudette/dudelse, I truly wish you the best and hope you get whatever you’ve got figured out. I’m glad we found some common ground; that’s what this place (is? should be?) all about!

I would support programs that weaned people out of unhealthy eating habits, and ones that accommodate for special dietary needs (fiber, insulin, etc). That seems totally reasonable.

I cannot “eat whatever I want”. Eating whatever I wanted lead me to be 375lbs. Since I cannot eat whatever I want, I choose to eat something convenient, easy to count, and inexpensive to obtain. I live a life closer to yours than you think, constantly wishing I could eat whatever I desired and remain healthy. I brag about it because for me it’s hard to choose to do the right thing, and I make the right choice every day, multiple times a day.

An alcoholic should be proud to brag about being 8 years sober, shouldn’t they?

I upset you because… I found a sustainable way to eat better without breaking the bank, and I’m now healthy for it? I’m sorry that you have to deal with whatever you’re dealing with; nobody deserves to live in a universe where their body rejects common foods. I’m not a doctor don’t worry; I have no medical advice for you. I do have some philosophical advice though. You should look within to figure out why you’re mad at me; I’m not your enemy.

The only cheap food I buy is soylent. I buy so little other food comparatively that it’s not difficult to afford some nice ingredients to cook a weekend dinner with, or to go out for a treat. I would not wish a life of mcdoubles and canned meat on anyone.

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Only people who try to help themselves deserve help from others. Why should the government support someone’s bad eating habit when they don’t support someone’s alcohol habit, or cocaine habit? My argument is not that people don’t deserve subsidized help; my argument is that as a society, we should look at a mcdouble and see cocaine, not an apple. All I’m proposing is consistency.

Optional if self-sufficient, sure. I don’t believe that the taxpayer should subsidize the unhealthy eating choices of a family of four that are all each 50-150lbs overweight. A working family should be able to afford healthy foods in reasonable portions on their own. “Government cheese” should probably be gruel. We’d have a much healthier population, and the economic benefits of the taxpayer not also subsidizing the healthcare of the obese later on would be substantial. Heart disease is our #1 population killer by miles, and it feels like we’re all taking crazy pills about it.

And I say this as a guy who was once simultaneously 375lbs and poor. I made bad choices, and the healthy choices were a lot cheaper than the bad choices I was making by the virtue of sheer volume. Society should not have been responsible for me should I have needed assistance to maintain that lifestyle.

As a guy who almost exclusively “eats” Soylent, I feel targeted lol. I know your post is supposed to be dystopian satire, but… Unironically though, I’m the healthiest I’ve ever been (375lbs -> 225lbs), and my monthly food expenses are less than a quarter of what it used to be. Been doing this almost 8 years now and while I recognize it’s not for everyone, some people could use a little gruel.