The guy who invented the term TDS turned out to be a pedo who tried to rape a child. Are you using it because of your well-known love for child rape?

This is the first time I can remember being modded down on behalf of the processed foods industry.

Yes, allowing people to post worthless comments as AC really shits up Slashdot.

The logic is that you don't persecute people by placing restrictions on them. You want a parent to have to get a waiver to make their kid a birthday cake? Because that's what lies at the end of the "no sugary foods with SNAP" road. WIC has different restrictions because it has different purpose and eligibility. SNAP is first and foremost a farm subsidy program, which is why it's administered by the USDA. The primary goal of the program is to subsidize food production. The program wasn't even intended to fulfill 100% of anyone's food needs, that's why the "S" stands for supplemental.

WIC is available to pregnant, post-partum, and nursing mothers and has very broad eligibility including noncitizens (some of whom have recently been kicked off of SNAP, specifically PRUCOLs.) A number of WIC recipients are not eligible to SNAP, which does for example count child support as income. This is why WIC has these additional restrictions — it is first and foremost a food aid program.

Families will get SNAP automatically if they get welfare, but that was limited to 60 months when Clinton signed PRWORA, and that program will sometimes literally take your child support income as part of making you eligible. So they aren't eating high on the hog, either.

Finally, if you shop sales it can be cheaper to feed your family processed crap, and cooking takes time. A lot of the families who get all their food needs provided by SNAP (whether that was ever the program intent or not) don't have that kind of time. There's usually one parent and multiple kids, and the parent is commonly working full time. They also probably don't even know how to cook worth a damn, most people don't. Most people never did frankly, have you seen 50s cookbooks? Egads!

Potentially $1217/mo, if she's getting the maximum benefit for 5 people.

Yes, processed foods often replace fats with HFCS which has similar texture but is more shelf stable, then kill the sweetness with citric acid, which also increases shelf stability. In normal amounts, citric acid is good for you in a variety of ways, but in those quantities they're harmful to your intestinal bacteria, which can itself have profound effects on digestion and health. So this is harmful in at least two major ways.

We enshittified the planet. There's nothing we haven't crapped up.

If you think users get more freedom from MIT-licensed software than GPL-licensed, you're not thinking at all. If you only care about the rights of creators of software, then you're not thinking about the vast majority of people involved with computing who matter, by many orders of magnitude, and no one should care what you think because you're willfully ignoring the bulk of humanity.

Thanks for your input, NPC.

Got any more canned dialogue to spew?

JIC you were wondering, I installed current Lutris from the tarball, got everything updated, and it still works. I launched The Outer Limits successfully.

Yeah. Not just that, it's Devuan. Anyhoo I haven't actually run an Epic game in who knows how long now so I'm not sure if they still work or not. Actually, now I'm wondering if it's possible to just install the Epic games store as a Steam game... hmm, reportedly possible but uneven. Sounds true.

I'm not as mad at Epic as you are, but sure, they can eat several bags of dicks, whatever. However, factually, whether they are or aren't all in on Linux remains to be seen. I won't make a prediction but I will say that I think it makes sense for them to embrace it now for all the same reasons it makes sense for Valve to continue to do so. Valve paved the way and did the hard work, and Epic would like to come from behind and be a solid #2.

To that I say, bring it on. Even if they are only interested in selling me shit, the more big money-slinging companies back Linux, the better. All the games I ever got from Epic were part of a Humble Bundle or free as in beer, and so far all of them will run fine on Linux. But then, IDGAF about Fortnite. The game I want to have working DRM on Linux is Rust, but I wouldn't accept kernel DRM to get that.

The real question, not for me or you but among populations which matter, is going to be how odious the DRM requirement for Fortnite is.

As for Epic being dependent on Proton, Proton is dependent on Wine, it's all a big dependency party and it's how things are supposed to work. Who knows, maybe they will become significant contributors.

Accurate if he's serious.

You can run the current epic games launcher and most epic games on Linux without trouble. I use lutris.

And I'm going to keep going it, too, because it makes you mad.

That's also why American evangelicals would do it, though.