My kids used to shout “Swiper No Swiping” at the tv.

Fair point, but kale is delicious if you drizzle with olive oil and a bit of garlic, and then bake it at low heat for like 30 minutes.

No of course not.

As hard as this will hit several industries, it’s also not a terrible thing for climate change if we stop importing seasonal vegetables from warmer climates. If tomatoes aren’t ripe in your region, maybe you just don’t get to have tomatoes for a while. The idea that you can have anything anytime requires a fuckton of transportation pollution and waste, and the tomatoes taste worse because they are designed to look pretty

The trade war is stupid and we’re all going to get fucked by conservative dipshits, but there might be a few silver linings.

It didn’t work for me. Why not?

They’re not even good at detecting lies. They detect nervousness. Truth can make people nervous.

I’m going to pronounce it “agilé” at the next stand up and see who corrects me.

Bigotry. Use the most accurate word. It’s called “bigotry.”

It’s one thing to know it happens, and it’s an entirely different thing to hear it happening live and in real time.

I moved into an apartment with my girlfriend (and her roommate) after being together only a year, and we’re married now. We weren’t much older than you are now (22 and 21). The concerning part is the rest of the family.

You’ve answered a lot of questions, so don’t feel the need to respond to these, but you should know the answers for yourself.

Would you share a bed? Will you be able to hear her parents getting frisky? Because then they will be able to hear you. What if you have to take an epic shit, but her mom has just called everyone down to dinner? What if you go to take a shower and her father has clogged the drain with hair?

What is your alternative plan if you don’t move in with them?

Sharing a roof means intimacy with everyone in the building. There’s very little privacy, and escape is complicated. If you see her as a forever partner, and don’t mind making yourself vulnerable to her family, then actually I probably still wouldn’t do it even under those circumstances.

Because there is no law in Arizona.

… Zepbound sticker price of more than $1,086.37 a month. For comparison, compounded tirzepatide sells for as little as $99 a month.

Screen glass tech has gotten better over time, so it could be availability heuristics because the last screen I remember replacing was for a Note 4. So that’s how long it’s been since I broke an actual screen. The protector on my phone is broken right now, and I don’t know if the actual screen would have broken or not. But for like $10, why risk it?

I’ve replaced the screen protector at least twice on every phone I’ve owned in the last 15 years. They get scratched or chipped or cracked. Right now, I have a crack in the screen protector that happened when I dropped my phone, and it probably would have broken the screen if not for the protector.

Get the glass or rigid plastic protectors. They are easier to align and do a better job protecting the screen.

Hyperactivity is one of those nebulous pop-health terms that boomers fell for back in the 80s and 90s. It was used to market Ritalin and Adderall, both of which treat actual diseases, but became trendy drugs to “normalize” your unruly children. Sugar, artificial dyes, satan, skateboarding, Bart Simpson, and Nintendo were all blamed for disobedient crotch goblins acting out. They couldn’t use the same violence their parents relied upon, because a bunch of bleeding heart (now known as “woke”) scientists determined that abusing children is bad for them.

RFK never stopped believing the bullshit, even after is was thoroughly debunked.

This is not healthy husband/wife behavior. If you don’t feel comfortable talking with him about your own freedom, then you don’t have a husband, you have a captor. If you live in the US or EU, there are resources to help you escape with your son you mentioned in another comment.

The iPhone does not have a way to override this restriction.

I have many doubts about his guilt, but the rule of law is more important than any one crime. It is better for a guilty man to get a fair trial and go free than for an innocent man to be railroaded and unjustly punished. To me, it is obvious he has not received fair or just treatment under the law. It doesn’t matter to me if he is guilty or not, he should go free because the prosecution has poisoned the well.

I want to be clear that I’m not arguing in favor of food dyes. I don’t think food should be dyed at all. And I agree we need to thoroughly research everything going into our food. The FDA needs to be stronger and more proactive.

But it also needs to be science-based in its methodology. It needs to be transparent and consistent. Nowhere in that link does it talk about hyperactivity in children, which is the justification that RFK cites in announcing the ban. He doesn’t mention cancer risks or hypersensitivity, probably because he doesn’t want to be pressured to ban every carcinogenic substance in the food supply. And that’s exactly the problem I have with all of this. He’s picking and choosing what to ban and using fiction to justify how selective he’s being. That’s precisely how you corrupt a process. And the best way to introduce corruption is to do it to get a palatable result.

I agree with everything you said, but my point is that if they use a lie to justify the regulation, they can modify the lie to justify anything. Maybe Goya uses a specific dye that is important to their profits, so they make a donation and they get a special exception.

Remember the scene in A Knight’s Tale where the Prince is like “I looked it up and this guy is legally a knight because I’m the prince and I said so.” Ok, we’re all cool with that because we want William to be a knight, and we think chivalry and honor should matter more than lineage. That squares with our moral code, but it violates the legal system they had established for the movie. It’s a problem, because next the prince could be like “And also in my research, I found an old law that requires I sleep with all your wives.”

If RFK can ban dyes because blue makes kids hyper, next he can ban msg because chinese food makes him feel bloated, or he can ban vaccines because thiomersal causes autism. When the “because” is bullshit, it’s bad whether we like the outcome or not.

Dyes are not responsible for hyperactivity in children. “Artificial” does not necessarily mean unsafe, nor does replacing them with “natural” versions make the food any safer. You might applaud this because you think artificial dyes shouldn’t be in food, and maybe you’re right. But it’s still unscientific horseshit which will accomplish very little and undermine the FDA by wasting time. The reasoning is unsound, which just makes it easier for the corrupt to alter the outcome to serve their own agenda.