Incredibly small compared to the amount of gun violence. Where you are sitting has a pretty accurate view

While I agree there isn’t a ton of discussion in a lot of communities here, I have had pretty good success just posting the questions myself in communities where relevant even if the community currently has almost no activity. Sure you don’t get 100s of responses but I do feel the response quality is higher here and ultimately that’s the only way to help lemmy grow to be more active in those communities

Right??? All those signatures could have been on forms to unionize

Thank you, as always, for the thorough response. I’ll start with these links you sent for reading

Hi Cowbee, I see your posts on here often and appreciate your patience and thoroughly explained takes. I am curious your take on another issue tangentially related to this.

I understand a lot of the appeal of China from a leftist perspective, but one of the things I struggle most with is their imperial ambitions with regard to Taiwan. This is less based on us propaganda and more based on a few trips I have made there and friends who live there, who frequently express concern over a Chinese functional takeover. When I last talked with them, as far as that got was China functionally sponsoring political campaigns for Taiwanese candidates who agreed to campaign on unification with China. Even with the financial backing, these candidates are still consistently voted down by the Taiwanese people, a clear statement to me about their lack of desire to be part of China. As it is, I would view any effort to make Taiwan part of China as against the will of the Taiwanese people and view China as dabbling with imperialism here, which is obviously not aligned with leftist values.

Bonus second question, the most common refrain I hear from liberals about China is regarding the Uyghur genocide. I don’t know very much about this so struggle to make any effective counterpoint beyond pointing out US genocides over the years. Is your opinion that this is all propaganda and doesn’t happen? Or just overblown? Or what?

When I first switched to Linux 18 months ago everyone raved that mint is the easiest most user friendly windows like operating system and I would be best of using that one.

I hated mint, and having now done 12ish total Linux installs I have enjoyed everything else I have used significantly more. Anything running kde plasma seems to actually be the most windows like for new users, best I can tell.

The real honest answer is it depends. Almost nothing in terms of food is universally better or worse. Calorically, Palm tends to be higher, with some exceptions (due to higher water content in butter). Palm can be made with a ton of different levels of saturation, which is why it’s popular in manufacturing (also cost), but how saturated makes a huge difference to how bad it is for you and doesn’t need to be labeled. Then there is consideration for natural occurrence of positive vitamins and minerals in some fat sources, or the perceived negative impacts of relatively more processed or less processed fats. Then peoples individual biology’s make some choices better than others for them personally.

The most general advice I can give is pay less attention to the source of the fat and more to the nutrition facts call-out for saturated fat (more=bad), from a purely health perspective. From a purely taste perspective, for pies butter and lard are more premium fats and all other sat fats are worse

It could be argued that is, but that company is small enough they can get away with it. The larger the food company is the more conservative they tend to be with callouts like that on pack. Lawyers would typically only pursue claims against mega food companies, and even then it would be a class action where everyone gets $5 or some shit

They only way to get good actual butter pies of any kind these days is to make it yourself, for better or worse.

Palm oil is also bad for farmers, the environment, and the economy

Also this company is owned by the dickhead maga mayor in my state that we struggle against constantly. So, fascist pies.

Sorry, genuinely. This is a shitty thing to learn post purchase

I think the biggest issue I have with this is the framing. For 99% of workers, your company is exploiting you by making waaaaay more money from your work than they pay you in wages. Employees aren’t “lucky enough” to work from home. Capitalists are lucky we work for them. Additional erosion of privacy is not ok. This is a thinly veiled effort from companies to control workers more so they can be exploited harder. That’s it.

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I’m not picky, most any body part will be fine for my oral fixation. Tits certainly a favorite tho

Maybe the characters you picked were just weak? Use stronger characters next time /s

Ok follow up question here. Is there cause to be concerned that releasing tons and tons of steam into the environment that was not there before will cause other environmental impact beyond just the reduced water supply? Like… If the ambient air is cooling all that water back into rain or something will that tangibly impact temperatures, or will average humidity change? Or is that part at least too small of an impact to be particularly material?

While I do generally agree, there are a LOT of companies that have their own special kind of evil, and ultimately if people are choosing between being employed and working for one, they will work for one. There simply aren’t enough ethical jobs for the number of people who would prefer to work for ethical companies

It’s really just this one guy making a ton of posts today

I would be totally fine with that. I suppose you are right and that’s a fair call out. I think I just don’t personally know anyone who would volunteer to receive AI content on their algorithms if they had a choice.

Avoiding ai content isn’t exactly a choice I can make currently. On virtually every streaming app, if I use any kind of recommendation or auto play function, ai comes up. Because AI music creators tend to release literally thousands of songs vs human creators who release a handful, even if the algorithms are randomized between available options, it skews heavily towards ai content.

So, yes, I want the owners of those platforms to remove the AI content altogether rather than just put a small icon in the corner of the song name or whatever.

Letting users choose for themselves isn’t exactly what is happening. Forced feeding of garbage would be more accurate.

I only care about this if they also have the functionality to block them from being recommended in any algorithms, or better yet prevent anyone from listening to it at all