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Roughly 70% of factors that have contributed to climate change can't be mitigated in less than 300-500+ years. And all major metrics indicate we are doing worse at mitigating the damage on that last 30% each year. 2023 was a record year for greenhouse gas emissions. 2024 is shaping up to be similar if not worse.

Ignoring most of the article, bringing up the fact that "Trump gained support from every racial group except white people, where he lost one percentage point when compared to 2020," is a real and damning statistic for the Democrats. I've been saying for some time that I continue to be amazed as democrats turn themselves into the party of suburban and urban white privilege.

In the case of Dr. Hooven -- the person being referenced here -- her usage of binary biological sex categories was why she eventually needed/was bureaucratically forced to retire from Harvard. She never had issue with using people's preferred pronouns or names. She taught a well-regarded course, "Hormones and Behavior," and was attacked, in my opinion, for going on Fox News to defend the usage of "female" and "male" as categories of biological sex in medical classes.

While she's a life-long Democrat, I suspect if she hadn't gone on Fox & Friends to defend the position, the blowback would have been less targeted and vicious.

That being said, Harris's piece is exponentially more troubling and offensive than anything Hooven ever did. In my estimation, it's misguided, short-sighted, and poorly conceived. Worse, it's largely wrong.

What are you even talking about? They're curating the communities and instances they engage with. That's literally one of the core functionalities of the fediverse.

"YOU'RE NOT ENGAGING WITH LITERALLY WHATEVER IS PUT IN FRONT OF YOU. MAYBE YOU SHOULD STOP USING THE INTERNET!"

Omg I'm dying lol 🤣

Hey OP, I have a suggestion for someone to block... I'm going to block him as well.

Yeah, usually that really thick, bleach-white chowder is frowned at. Really traditional chowder only uses the starch from the potatoes and cream to thicken it, and it's more soup-like than the kind that's basically the consistency of soft-serve ice cream. Really traditional chowder would someotimes used crushed ship biscuits (hard tack) as a thickener, which is why some people use flour/roux these days. Hard tack is basically the progenitor of modern crackers, including the often served oyster crackers. I like a crusty sourdough myself. Better for the mop up work!

Rhode Island, a suburb of Boston (😁) has an interesting chowder that has a clear broth that is pretty good too. It's basically identical minus the heavy cream. Great for people that don't get along with lactose.

Also, pro tip, if you don't have fresh clams, get a bottle of clam juice to add to taste. Usually you steam the clams open and then take out the meat and chop them up for the chowder, and you use the steaming juice leftover to add more clam flavor, as desired. Bottle of clam juice does the same basic thing (without needing to strain out the grit).

Usually the best chowders aren't brilliant white. They're a little darker like yours and almost look a little "dirty," for lack of a better word. If someone served me a bowl of what you made, I would expect it probably will taste great just from the eye test.

You're a world-class moron.

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New England chowder comes in about 15 "main" ways to make it. It's pretty different from region to region in New England and even house to house. Just eyeballing this, it looks pretty legit. Some in the mighty northeast might accuse you of "being fancy with it," but it looks great to me.

Bacon is kind of a west coast addition because their clams are wicked shitty, kid. Salt pork is used, but crispy bacon less so. And traditional chowder isn't thick. Finally, some might quibble with carrots, but that's definitely one that you'll see regularly with and without. This doesn't look overly thick to me, and I've done bacon add at the end and it's hard to say it's not great!

What are you even talking about? The per capita death rates differ from what you're posting (making up?) here. ​According to data from the World Health Organization (WHO), the death rate from alcohol use disorders in Germany is 9.2 per 100,000 population, whereas in the United States, it is 14.3 per 100,000 population.​​ That's a substantial difference. Are you a recovering alcoholic or lose someone to alcohol or something? It's fine that you are against alcohol, but you're making false comparisons and citing false data to do so.

Your own Wikipedia link puts alcohol dramatically lower than cocaine and heroin in terms of dependence and harm. Were you raised by alcoholics or something? If so, sorry, that sucks.

You're unironically putting alcohol on par with cocaine and heroin? You really missed your calling as a roller-pin-wielding prohibitionist by 100 years.

My god, it's incredible you made it out alive.

To make it even more complicated, counties, of which states are composed, can also set the terms of alcohol use in their jurisdiction. There's "dry" counties all around the US where alcohol cannot be legally purchased.

And then there are counties where public consumption is fine and prostitution is legal. So... idk. It's a big country. Montana, just one of the states, is larger than Germany, and it's only the 4th largest state. The largest state is over four times bigger than Montana.

No one is saying kids require you to drink. The idea that having a glass of wine while playing games with kids and other adults is very puritanical of you. Do you come from a family of alcoholics or something? You'll be shocked to know many people also have an alcoholic beverage at dinner and their kids are there! 🤯

No...kid-ding. See what I did there?

Why not

"Trump tells Putin not to escalate Ukraine war. Putin says 'no problem' and shares a knowing wink with Trump."

The Mayans and Aztecs were imperialist prior to contact. They regularly practiced oppressive, military expansion and colonialism. True story.

Not particularly, no. Coyote isn't a mono-divinity like they are being characterized here. It's ok to simply recognize a lack of knowledge about Indigenous cultures. But the fact that the characterizations that are used here clearly come from a western conceptualization of divinity while posturing like it's criticism of western divinity is fairly ironic.