Are you arguing for China-level surveillance? It sure the fuck looks like it.

As with anything, moderation is key. Too much will harm you, too little will harm you. All of life is a balance.

I'd argue it's both. Too much of anything is bad, even if the thing is good quality.

I agree. However, people who think it's a good idea to use BNPL to buy a pizza, probably are making other foolish financial choices too, making their already difficult situation worse than it has to be.

On the other hand, if you are so financially clueless that you think it's a good idea to use BNPL for a pizza, you're probably making a lot of other dumb financial decisions too, leading to your being in a position where you can't afford a pizza with cash.

Between Bill Gates and Elon Musk.

I'd guess that Denver and Colorado Springs, two cities on the Front Range, are plenty big enough markets to make this attractive to Amazon.

You're a fucking idiot. Compare the poor people of 50 years ago with the poor people of today, asshole.

It's not even close. Nobody starves in this country anymore (outside of neglect / drug use / mental problems)

This is a study of people born in a set time period at a set location.

There were LOTS of things happening at that time. Yes sugar was rationed, but there were also a lot less chemicals being made, some new chemicals started up, jet travel became common, the men had come home, but some did not. New medicines appeared. New foods became common besides sugar.

The writers of this study picked one of thousands of potential explanations and ascribed it as the cure. They have NO EVIDENCE at all that reduced sugar was the cause.

This is the WORST possible example bad studies. It's like I looked at one of the cancer maps people make, pick a school in the center and blamed the Principal of the school for intentionally giving cancer to his students.

This study indicates Britain's of a certain age have health benefits. It does NOT indicate sugar had anything to do with it.

To be clear, Antifaschistische Aktion was obviously not the direct institutional predecessor of the Stasi, but it was a significant indirect predecessor - sharing philosophy, tactics, Stalin’s influence, symbolism, and even some of the same personnel.

It’s notable that every major socialist revolution with durable long term control has shared the same evolutionary pattern - revolutionary tactics evolving into a highly centralized secretive large scale security apparatus. For example, Mao’s Red Guard is highly analogous to Antifaschistische Aktion. No exceptions to this pattern have been found among the top most cited socialist revolutions in history across Mao, Lenin, Stalin, Vietnam, N Korea, Cuba, Eastern Europe, etc.

Hmm, my main reason to replace a phone is usually a worn out usb-c port. I am not sure how one goes about replacing that on a regular phone without some serious soldering kung-fu.
Not saying Fairphone is the solution (6+ apparently does not support USB-C video output or DisplayPort Alt Mode so it is useless junk to me, personally) but being able to easily replace a usb port would be a nice feature.

Extortion? That's where you went? I realize a shareholder revolt and forced new management is unlikely since CALPERS and NEA are major stockholders; but what about actually stripping a broadcaster of its (government owned) spectrum? This would tank Disney shares, and hurt CALPERS and the NEA by extension. Don't forget, CALPERS and NEA are major donors to the Democrats.

Thus getting back the money Trump extorted for his librabry.

Ha! Reminds me of a pedagogy study - it turned out that the most “hated” math teachers were also objectively the most effective.