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That’s a bit of a straw man. While the benefits of antibiotics are certainly untold millions of lives saved, we’re only now understanding their long term impacts on our gut biome. Let alone their overuse in factory farms.

There are considerable numbers of people who have severe complications with antibiotics, and their overuse over time has left us in a position where the functional pools of antibiotics keeps getting smaller and smaller and the pool of superbugs gets more and more virulent.

Who knows the long term ramifications of this new class of weight loss drugs. This smells to me like the Prozac craze in the 90s when everyone was on it or giving it to their kids. Or the olestra boom until everyone was literally crapping their pants.

Or tangentially, the over proscribing of novel opioids. Look what that has wrought in our society.

Could this new class of drugs be helpful, absolutely. Do we know the long term issues, nope. I think there are people who can use this therapeutically and there are others who use it as a quick fix because they have no self control. In a lot of ways it also feels a little ironic to look at fiction like the food indulgent scenes of “Hunger Games” and South Park and see that happening for real.


Why companies put factories in states that actively go against the products they build is mind boggling.


> In yet another case study, Vice President of San Miguel’s Board of Directors, Anthony Kalvans did some digging. He worked to construct a value per acre calculation for the township. Kalvans found that Jazzytown, a denser area, was producing almost $3.8 million per acre across five acres, while the suburban area produces less than 5% of that and takes up nearly 70 acres. Both places pay the same for water, but the wealthier suburbs are absorbing millions of dollars in benefits that never come back to the poor areas. If the wealthy want to live expensively, that’s fine, but they should never make us pick up their bill.

Source: https://medium.com/candide-group/suburbs-the-great-american-...


I like how you conveniently left out greed. But I’m sure that’s someone else’s fault too.


It's greedy to try and maintain a constant, razor thin profit margin?


You have zero notion to what the current profit the landlord is making or if it’s anywhere close to “razor thin”.

Yet you pontificated on all the things the increase could be and took the time to get in a jab by asserting it is most likely the op’s fault because they “voted for those policies” yet you conveniently left out the easiest of them all - greed. It’s not beyond the pale for a landlord, especially a private one, to arbitrarily raise prices just because they can.

But, oh no, it must be taxes and crime and everything else under the sun but couldn’t possibly be simple greed. Must be those razor thin profit margins jumping out to scare that most honorable capitalists like the boogeyman under the bed.


No, but the ways landlords go about trying to maintain that margin are.

This isn't hard to understand, are you a landlord or something?



Is pocket actually spyware / telemetry or is this just conjecture?


Either way you wouldn't know. Anything that phones home could be spyware, the difference is on the far side. So it could start out as not spyware and then become spyware. Or it may sometimes be spyware and at other times it is not.

Browsers should only do what their users tell them to do. In fact: that goes for computers as a whole.


It’s likely a big part of what helped win the war. A whole swath of science was discounted or thrown out by the Germans because of the race component.


And seemingly the few that are willing are somewhat insane. I know it takes a special type but wowzers.


Shout-out to that one guy who has figured out Denuvo but only appears once a year to crack the latest Football Manager game, refuses to elaborate, and leaves until the next Football Manager game comes out. They know what they like, and it's Football Manager, exclusively.


Unfortunately MKDEV announced their retirement last year. FIFA 23 was their last release.


I was going to play around with Denuvo years ago, like in 2015 or 2016, but I quickly lost interest. There were no games I wanted to play. And this is still true today.


If you're referring to EMPRESS, I still don't know if they are just being edgy or truly insane.


That… is exactly who I mean.


Didn’t Casey Neistat do this already?


In the F150 Lightning the batteries even on a standard range weigh as much as a Volkswagen. The standard range batteries weigh something like 1800lbs. The ER model has about 25% more battery and the Platinum weight is like 7150lbs! So maybe around 2100lbs of that is battery?

So you’re still over 5000lbs on that monster without the batteries.


I feel confident in wagering that GP didn't intend to allow driving an F150 with a regular license.


> In the F150 Lightning the batteries even on a standard range weigh as much as a Volkswagen.

Even a Smart Fortwo is minimally 1800 lbs curb weight. How old is this Volkswagen? :)


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