Astroturfed @ Astroturfed @lemmy.world

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Basically every government planned for what has been the norm over the entirety of human history. Which seemed logical up until recently. That means for decades policy and economic decisions were based on the idea that every generation would be equal to or greater in size than the previous one.

The knock on effects of these assumptions are the reason government pension programs like social security are a concern world wide. People are living longer and less people are paying into the systems. This is an issue with nearly all government programs. There are less people paying taxes, paying into social programs. Costs are not going down anytime soon. It's a recipe for instability.

You mean it has a several well developed left wing voting cities between the huge stretches of backwater redneck hellscapes? I'd love to know what makes Texas not southern....

I avoid saying y'all so people won't assume I'm a right wing southerner. If we could just push this it'd be hilarious and amazing.

Unfortunately almost all these studies are financed by some lobbying group or food industry group. There's a disturbing amount of misinformation and studies out there. What's "healthy" seems to change every 5-10 years. Low fat foods just had more sugar, which all the studies show is bad for you.

The obvious answer is always that anything you know isn't healthy, fat, sugar, simple starches, dairy should all be consumed in moderation as part of a balanced diet and people need to eat an appropriate amount of calories. Eat more vegetables and healthy fruits. Less processed food. Ignore anything that's weird trendy bullshit.

I did a keto diet for about a year. Every meal was about 2/3 veggies. The problem with low carb diets is most people don't do them healthy. They see that certain things are listed as ok to eat and they just eat that and don't follow a balanced regimented diet.

I wish I liked eating a ton of raw veggies.

Yup, they just keep making the same game with a new map and skins. Everyone had such insane hopes for this game, but I always assumed it'd be at best like fallout 3, better graphics in space.

How dare you upset the established norm of any group with a joke that is even a tiny bit offensive.

I quit looking at Facebook so, so long ago and stopped posting anything myself well before I stopped visiting. In my experience the only people still posting are people I didn't want to see anything from or just sponsored content, ads and people pushing their businesses. Everything's so monetized, curated and awful.

Elon looks and acts a whole lot like the evil cunt business man villain in 5th element Zorg.....

Hey, you gotta change the lead actor to make sure it's not as good. Otherwise you might have to keep the show going.

The second season is a real let down. It's passable, and expands the universe reasonably well. Just don't expect it to live up to the first at all.

They did, at least the first seasons were on back to back. Both had amazing first seasons and fell off rarher badly. Great concepts that seemed like they were under funded and could of been something special if handled properly.

I remember being pumped thinking it was the revival of the sci-fi channel. Then it just all went to shit.

Maybe I can try that. I just can't get into it the couple times I tried to start because it grinddddssss.

It's almost like a terribly under funded government system with horrible pay that can be soul crushing doesn't attract the best possible employees. I'm sure they know that woman is a horrible zealot who they'd love to replace. There's no one that wants that job though.

Social services in America are embarrassing. Like it's strait up shameful how bad our systems that are required for a functional society are ran. Reagan successfully demonized government spending as "wasteful" on anything a perfect American nuclear family wouldn't need. Now everything is shit and the answer to needing government assistance for anything is good luck.

Hyperbolic bullshit, cool. You making me read this makes.you worse than Hitler.

All solid points, all still not putting people in death camps and stealing everything from them. The hyperbolic bullshit of calling everyone Hitler in American politics is just childish.

Elon has to much Ego to just let it die. He'll prop it up and keep it running. It'll just be like Myspace, slowly becoming forgotten.

Austerity is never advised in a situation where ANYTHING is going to work. It's the equivalent of trying to tighten your budget when you lose your job. It could possibly help a little but it's not going to fix it.