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Comment Re:Republicans have same complaint about food stam (Score 5, Informative) 240

Obesity in the poor is not necessarily due to "poor life choices". Ther are other factors contributing to it.

1) Being in a food desert. If there are no grocery stores nearby, you are stuck with a long trip that you can ill afford or buying from the local convenience store, which doesn't have healthy foods (and is more expensive to boot!).

2) Lack of energy/time. At the end of a long day, you don't have the energy to cook up a meal from scratch, so microwave/easy cook meals are the goto. These quick meals tend to not be healthy.

3) Eating healthy is expensive in both time and money. Cheaper foods tend to be less healthy.

4) Lack of free time to exercise.

5) Lack access to medical care.

Comment Re:Because of course the best era to simulate is n (Score 0) 185

Hell, this probably futile, but I'll say it anyway...

For those mentally healthy people that aren't plugged into the right-wing grievance machine, the parent post references two of the latest complaints:

1) President Biden intentionally "cheapened" Easter by also making a proclamation about Transgender Day of Visibility. The reason he marked TDV on Easter was because for the first time since it started in 2009 it fell on Easter. Biden has been marking TDV since he came into office in 2021. So no, he was not somehow "diminishing Easter".

As for the eggroll... God, are we really to the point in the national discourse that we are debating the nuances of a freaking eggroll??? Anyway, since sometime in the 50s you haven't been able to submit posters or decorated eggs with religious themes... Personally, considering the holiday I think that might be a bit odd, but I can see the argument for it. This rule was also in place during the four years of the Trump administration. So, if it is so bad then why didn't anyone complain when Trump ran the eggroll? Don't bother to answer, it's a rhetorical question...

Comment Re:Who trusts these VPN companies? (Score 1) 39

Perhaps you are correct, but having one did prove convenient a few years ago. I worked at a Wal-Mart, and net connections were spotty inside the store. The store did provide a wireless network, but they blocked some political websites I liked to visit. A VPN let me go to them.

Necessary or lifesaving? No. Convenient, yes. ::shrug::

Oh yeah, it also helped me access some Japanese porn sites that didn't allow logins from the US.

Comment I bet Meta is really behind this legislation... (Score 1) 49

They want to shut down Chinese data collection in order to force China to buy data on US citizens directly from Meta (or X, etc...).
(I'm only half kidding).

Still no concern on the part of congress about federal investigative agencies (as well as local law enforcement) that get information on US citizens by buying it from social media companies. This lets them get reams of data on people without bothering to get a search warrant.

Comment Re:If you can get banks to lend you $billions... (Score 2) 196

He should stop playing with terms on this stuff. Asset and liability already have clear meanings. There's no value in his alternate definitions.

Oh, there definitely is value... It lets him appear smart and savvy so he can sell books and seminars to the rubes.

He really lost me when he mocked the US dollar for being a fiat currency, which is true. Then he sings the praises of crypto currency... which is also a fiat currency.

Hell, at least you could still plant the tulip bulbs when that craze went bust.

Comment Re:That's nice now go away (Score 1) 71

It devours housing resources

Obvious solution: Construct more housing.

We have zoning regulations for a reason.

That reason is mostly to keep low-income people out of "nice" neighborhoods by separating jobs from housing. If you have to drive everywhere, then you can't live there if you can't afford a car.

Constructing more housing is -not- the solution. In the US, there are already more houses than homeless people. https://checkyourfact.com/2019... Reading elsewhere, it seems that the issue is that the empty houses are not in the places people want/need to live... I know I don't want to live in the outlying areas of east Austin, but that's where the sweetish spot of affordability/distance to the factory I work at is. No telecommute for me! Not sure what the ultimate solution would be. A nationwide plan to move families to empty houses across the country and get them jobs? That's not even taking into consideration of those homeless by choice. I don't know how high that number is, but that demographic exists.

Comment Re:Why would anyone outside of China want to use t (Score 1) 10

> Why would a person living in Australia have WeChat on their phone in the first place Australia has a fair few people living in it at any given time (college students, among others), who have immediate-family members (parents, etc.) living in mainland China. It's difficult to communicate with people who reside in mainland China _without_ using WeChat or something equally under the CCP's thumb, because most of the alternatives are blocked by the Great Firewall. So a lot of Chinese nationals living abroad, continue to use WeChat in order to communicate with friends and family back home. Which, yes, does make it easier than it would otherwise be, for the CCP to monitor their citizens abroad.

Very good point, I hadn't considered that. Thank you for expanding my knowledge.

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