Ah, I was more referring to how the documentary was very critical of marketing to children, and how people campaigned against that in the years surrounding that.

I didn’t know about his alcoholism, thanks for bringing that to my attention. That said, eating waaay too much fast food and not exercising was pretty much the whole point - he wanted to show how bad that lifestyle was. IMO the only problem there is that he failed to disclose that he was also heavily drinking.

Exactly. Nobody in this thread remembers Super Size Me?

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I can’t count the number of times I start talking about executive dysfunction and someone immediately chirps in with “make a list, chunk it down, say you’re going to do this for 20 minutes and then take a break.” I eventually started asking in response, "Do you suggest to your depression patients simply not being sad? Do you tell your anxiety patients not to worry about stuff? Because that’s what I’m hearing, and it tells me you don’t

I find the practice of making daily to-do lists still helps, not because I’ll be able to necessarily do the thing for 20 minutes on the first try, but after those 20 minutes i might look down at my little note and be able to remember what it was I was supposed to be doing… and then I can have another attempt at maybe doing it in the next 20 minutes.

It may interest you to know that the switch still exists. https://github.com/PDP-10/its/issues/1232

Very true, the sword would have to pick a line to cut through the gender triangle.

Was going to suggest the sword might discern sex rather than gender, but we’d have a similar question of how the sword would classify intersex people.

Safety regulations are written in blood. Electrical fires were indeed a problem. It’s why there are rules on how many outlets need to be in a room, how spaced out they need to be (to curtail extension cord usage even when the builders are trying to be cheap and stingy with outlets). It’s the reason why we have breakers and GCFIs and RCBs and AFCIs. It’s the reason why we have electrical certification bodies like UL which won’t certify your cable or appliance if the cords are too thin.

There’s a lot of smart stuff we do behind the scenes to make dumb cords safe because even smart people make dumb mistakes.

Here I go once again with the email
Every week I hope that it’s from a female

Oh :( Not from a female

just cuz you graphics drivers ain’t installed doesn’t mean it’s not running

I remember the vitriol of old reddit. I believe you are contributing to that more than helping.

Reddit was never pure in terms of discussion or kindness; I think you’ve got some heavily tinted rose glasses on. But reddit succeeded and brought you the deep, insightful discussion you crave because the enthusiasts were there. And enthusiasts are human, they are not all heartless cogs there to infodump and complain. The most knowledgeable, well-read, and well-spoken people I know are also ones to crack jokes and make their passions accessible and interesting.

If you want healthy discussion, I strongly believe you should allow at least a bit of levity and let people speak a little more freely. Chastising people for not being insightful enough will turn away plenty of the people you want to keep.

Let neckbeards and normies mingle. It’s okay to have fun.

Also worth mentioning: this is Microblog Memes. It’s in the name.

marry me

https://sprocketfox.io/xssfox/2021/12/02/xrandr/

That’s why I only buy ant-created technology.

–sent from my antPhone

Art is by _yapsharlene

i disagree

sudo !!

had

Plex lays off 20% of its workforce amid advertising slowdown

whos gonna tell 'em

there’s something inherently disturbing in people setting their pfp to a pre-teen then horny posting

Arkansaw.

IF KANSAS IS PRONOUNCED “KANSAS”
THEN WHY ISN’T ARKANSAS PRONOUNCED “ARKANSAS”