punkybr3wster's comments

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-...

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.

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

Or, you know, read things instead of appealing to the stone.

https://www.aclu.org/documents/drug-war-new-jim-crow

https://www.nacdl.org/Content/Race-and-the-War-on-Drugs

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/race...

https://lawrepository.ualr.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2...

Sure. I covered it here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39112591

That… is exactly who I mean.

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

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.

Didn’t Casey Neistat do this already?

Quite the opposite. Getting rid of small truck classifications ballooned the size of suvs and pickup trucks which is partially why we are in the mess we are in. There just aren’t small trucks anymore because of the changes.

Few people need the monster suvs and pickup trucks that are on the roads these days.

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.

This is the one time I always pull out my “Thanks Obama!” without being ironic.

Unrelated but I’m kind of terrified what the mig is going to do to the market. Crazy piece of tech but the signed carts getting cloned are going to get real interesting real fast.

They’re exactly why I switched away from GM this year. I get wanting your own UI but not at least allowing CarPlay and android auto is very telling in the current market and I like getting updates and seamless handoff and/or continuity between the phone and the car.

The last thing I want is my car, with how I use it, stuck on multi year old tech that the car company won’t update and because it’s proprietary you can’t update it either. “Oh sorry the Spotify app we pre installed can’t use any of the new features they released last year. No we don’t plan to update it.”

Car companies are notoriously terrible with software.

They aren’t necessarily. In the US they just choose to manufacture them that way. If you look at other countries they are developing electric cars en masse that are SUPER simple and basic and are much more affordable.

What amazing to me is that the cheapest electric cars currently are ironically hybrids which are at least twice as complex as a gas or an electric car and a bill of materials to match. It makes no sense.

Don’t get me wrong I think plugin hybrids are the gateway to getting people on board with electric especially the septics, but at the same time it makes no sense that they are less than their electric equivalents.

This is about as stupid as “Diesel drivers discover fundamental flaw in diesel tech as -30F temps hit the US”.

Ironically the solution is essentially the same — keeping your car plugged in to keep warm.

It’s pinterest for me. It’s infected so much image search space and never takes you to the actual source images. It’s infuriating.