News orgs, and frankly many public institutions, seem to be lliability averse to a fault. My guess is journalists have generally been instructed to use passive language to avoid libel lawsuits due to the expense of settlement or counsel fees.

Passive language has become so common in journalism these days, and the far right terrorist cohort realizes the vocal minority bad faith pearl clutching schtick works well enough that they continue to threaten litigation against objective truth regularly. It’s Trump’s MO, and I assume it works because those being sued are terrified his base will be out for blood if he doesn’t get his way.

The more the news orgs settle and normalize this shit, the more inertia there is to get back to reality. It’s maddening, tbh.

Sure, but couldn’t your example be called a (huge/round) calzone with extra toppings?

I use this too on android. Works great for streaming, but you can’t download tracks to listen offline afaik.

I’m a bit further north, but I noticed that egg prices at the local health foods co-ops that source eggs from smaller farms stayed pretty consistent while prices at bigger chain stores that source from mega farms doubled for a while. I assumed the difference was due to increased animal density requiring culling for the mega farms, price gouging, or both.

I’m in agreement with you, though I still think it’s a fair suggestion for people putting the world before themselves to find another line of work too. I’m not saying that’s the only reasonable suggestion. I’m all for trying to mitigate the risk of abuse and trauma in the first place. I took Optional’s comment as an intended show of support to folks that might be struggling with similar abuse in their life.

If your job is causing you enough mental anguish to go through with suicide, it’s reasonable to suggest you find another. That goes for any job.

Yeah, I’m with you. I tend to agree with the idea that fuel economy and emissions regulations incentivize auto makers to manufacture the ridiculously huge trucks we have today. I’m super curious to see if smaller body styles become a thing again once this incentive starts to evaporate.

That rings a bell now that you mention it. A shock title is so much more fitting!

Have you seen pics of it? It looks about the size of an old Toyota pickup.

I get the sentiment, but the braindead coal rollers are a pretty small minority. I don’t doubt there’s a demand for ev trucks, in fact the increased torque is pretty appealing, but one of the common concerns I’ve read is how towing anything substantial kills their range. This evaluation showed all trucks tested attaining less than half their non-towing range. Probably still enough for folks towing to the next town over and back, but it’d give me pause if I was hauling equipment to a worksite an hour or so away.

For real, immersive sim fans that haven’t played it are missing out. It probably should’ve had a different name though.

Hi-Fi Rush has a kinda indie vibe. Tango Gameworks studio isn’t huge, but they’ve made fairly well known AAA survival horror games. HiFi is more narrowly focused but still published by Bethesda/Microsoft.

$6 at the station closest to me today

We are on the exact same wavelength

I doubt it. They probably just hang with the neo Nazis.

I don’t disagree. But I gotta say, I didn’t realize how much I needed to feel the slight glimmer of hope after seeing the turnout at my local protest in person. I live in a pretty small rural town, granted it’s on the northern California coast, and we have a pretty even spread of old school hippies, conservative ranchers, and libertarian cannabis farmers. Today, it felt like the crowd size exceeded everyone’s expectations by far, not to mention almost all folks passing by were supportive. It felt emboldening, like there could truly be some power building here.

I don’t really have high hopes things can be resolved peacefully, tbh. In fact, I watched some MAGAt today stop his truck in the middle of the protest, get out to assault some good folks, and proceed to get his ass kicked to a reasonable extent before driving away. I’m a usually pessimist, sometimes a doomer, and often not wrong. But I think now’s the time to shelve the cynicism and encourage as many people as possible to turn out. The maga horde, the excruciatingly loud minority, need the dose of reality that their opposition is real, gaining momentum, and pissed.

That’s awesome! Glad to hear that silver lining.

After reading the article, I’m left wondering how US food waste breaks down between originating from individual households vs grocery retailers, commercial retail food/restaurants and ag suppliers.

It’s been a while, but I remember reading about how there’s little incentive (maybe it’s even prohibited?) for retailers to send reject and expiring food to food banks instead of throwing it out. I feel like this should be more of a concern considering the demand to food banks is probably going to increase rapidly while funding and donations will likely decrease with the current economic turmoil.

I suspect we could curb a significant amount of food waste by creating a pathway to divert food waste instead of disposing it outright. Of course, such pathway would need to meet food safety standards while providing a clear regulatory framework to address liability and logistical aspects to make it more profitable to divert vs dispose.

Anyone from outside of the shithole have any input on how this works in your country?

Does it really matter if he’s deliberately advancing a fascist agenda?

I’m pretty sure that’s Thunder. I haven’t tried it myself though.