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  • While not balanced, this isn't such a bad meal unless you assume it's all as processed as it looks.

    If it's all homemade it wouldn't be that hard to make any of these "healthy" in comparison to their store bought counterparts.

    As for it being bad because it's a "regular dinner for this imaginary person", I'm guessing you're unfamiliar with ARFID. I know of at least one person who has eaten like this for 40+ years and regular gets healthy results on his annual physical and tests.

  • Exactly! My drives are all sitting at about 40°C but they'll get up to 50°C at the hottest.

    I run a fan because I have it in a wall mounted case but when I had it on a shelf it wasn't actively cooled and never got higher than it does now.

    It is in our basement though and it's only ever gotten to 27°C down there a few times and that was without A/C.

  • Electronic hearing protection. It's earmuff style with a speaker on one ear that you can turn on with volume control. It automatically cuts out if volume exceeds a certain decibel level.

    A key holder/shelf combo. It hangs by the door and I put my keys on a hook and my wallet and spare handkerchiefs in the little shelf part. I tend to unload my pockets right at the door and grab my keys and everything as I leave.

  • Your understanding is incorrect.

    Stainless steel is an alloy composed mainly of iron, with added elements like chromium and nickel. The smooth, inert surface of stainless steel can attract and bind sulfur compounds from your skin. When you rub your hands against stainless steel, the sulfur compounds transfer from your skin to the steel, effectively reducing their concentration on your hands.

    Water plays a crucial role in this process. As you rinse your hands and rub them against stainless steel, the surface acts as a catalyst for redox reactions. Sulfur compounds on your skin are chemically altered, potentially breaking them down into less odorous forms.

  • Useful for people with those things too! We have one and I love it. I hit it with hand soap and use it like a regular bar to both clean my hands and get rid of the smell.

    Since it's for that specific purpose it sits in the soap tray by the sink and is always right where I need it. No hunting for some random steel utensil.

  • Bodily autonomy is the concept that individuals have the right to make their own decisions about their bodies and reproductive health, without coercion or external interference. This includes the freedom to choose whether to have an abortion, use contraception, or consent to medical proceduresIt is considered a fundamental human right and is closely linked to other rights like privacy, equality, and bodily integrity.

    You make the decision when you're still alive.

  • Ok, though it's not bs because I actually sourced my statement and didn't contradict myself.

  • Go ahead and block me. You're clearly twisting my words to fit what you want to think.

    Why crop out the second sentence?

    You have to fix all of the issues. Of course you have to start somewhere but that starting point is subjective.

    Not even remotely

    Definition of not even remotely - Reverso English Dictionary

    adverb

    not in the slightest degree

    The two situations are not even remotely similar. Her explanation was not even remotely believable. The two events are not even remotely connected.

    Say more bullshit about moving goalposts and I'll just go ahead and block.

    If you get so upset over someone calling out your contradictory statements perhaps you should take an internet break.

  • No I didn't. If you fix one the system is still broken, meaning one cannot have a "bigger role" as they all cause a failure in the US justice system. You have to fix all of the issues. Of course you have to start somewhere but that starting point is subjective.

    Nothing i said is contradictory, so you can cut that crap now.

    Contradictory by definition means inconsistent and going from "not remotely" to "not as big a role" is inconsistent. "Not remotely" means not at all and "not as big a role" is inconsistent with "not at all".

  • I didn't say "don't fix anything because so much is broken" so it seems like you do subscribe to it since you brought it up.

    I'm just trying to keep up with you moving the goalposts. First it was "grand juries aren't remotely the problematic part" to "they're not the biggest problem".

    You asked why I commented originally, I explained, then refuted you with a source. Don't get mad at me for your own spurious claim.

  • Grand jury decisions aren't remotely the problematic part.

    This is wrong and it's what I responded to.

    A grand jury refusing to indict might mean the evidence wasn't sufficient or it might mean the prosecutor didn't really want an indictment.

    I'd personally say cops, prosecutors going for the easy win, the structure around plea bargains, judges made by selection, judges elected with no knowledge or experience required, etc, play far bigger roles in the problems with the system of justice, but sure.

    Personally I'd say the issue with the US justice system is that it's a system full of problems and Americans seem to think ranking them is more important than addressing all of them.

    None of these problems has a "bigger role" than the others because if you fix one the system is still broken. This is just one representation of the endemic issues within the US system of government.

  • That's not true at all.

    Opening paragraph:

    Within weeks of each other in 2014, a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, and another in Staten Island, New York, both declined to indict police officers in the deaths of unarmed black men: Ferguson’s eighteen-year-old Michael Brown and New York’s forty-three-year-old Eric Garner.Nationwide protests involving thousands erupted in the wake of the grand juries’ decisions. The protests fostered widespread criticism of the institution of the grand jury, prompting calls for its abolition as part of broader criminal justice reform. But federal and state grand juries have long been the subject of immense criticism from scholars, defense attorneys, and activists.The recent controversies merely drew public attention to flaws in the grand jury system that had been there all along.

  • The grand jury, for the record here, is a bunch of randomly selected people - not the cops, or a prosecutor, or anything like that. Its a jury. And what this jury decides is not guilt, but whether or not there is enough evidence that supports the charges to bring it to a trial.

    No part explicitly but this whole paragraph ignores the fact that the prosecutor presents their case and influences the juries opinion. No defense or alternative argument is made.

    The expression "a grand jury could indict a ham sandwich" is a nod to the fact that, often, a grand jury votes in the direction the prosecutor wants them to.

  • "A grand jury could indict a ham sandwich."

    The prosecutor, very much, can influence a grand jury's decision on whether to indict.

  • The meme literally says "boomers" in it. You paint with a pretty broad brush with those generalizations.

    I'm American and an old millennial and when I think of the Vietnam War all I feel is shame. We for sure "lost" in so many senses but we've "lost" just about every armed conflict we've been involved in since WWII.

    America always seems to make the worst of a bad situation and escalate things. Really we should have only kept our bases in Europe and Asia long enough for them to recover from WWII and then begun transitioning back to local allies.

  • Which country will take America's place when it falls? America is not the first and while history may not repeat, it often echoes and they won't be the last.

  • If you want a religion that isn't a religion you can join me in secular humanism.

    Also, kudos to you for admitting an honest mistake.

  • This is my brother-in-law. He complains about his partner and how she doesn't save like him (he makes more than her) and how they/he can't afford a house but he spent $20,000 on camera equipment last year (it's a hobby, not a job for him), has bought and sold 3 motorcycles since I've known him (progressively more expensive), and puts a lot of money into his other hobbies.

    The housing market (at least in the US) is shit and everything's overpriced right now but at some point your own choices need to be considered.