That’s the reason protein has always been popular.

It’s even more popular today beause GLPs, the weight loss drug that actually works, cut our caloric intakes so severely we might not get enough protein.

What you’re seeing with all these high-protein foods is a society adjusting to spending their food budget on pharmaceuticals.

Honestly, I see UFO stories as just the same imaginative human instinct that brought us saints & demons. They are definitely linked.

Tip: Some stores, realiizing you can return a product and re-buy it at the current discounted price, will retroactively price match themselves within the return window.

Each slice will come with a disposable cryptowrapper that will be used by the toaster to validates the authenticity of the bread within.

Given the high risk of deaths from house fires caused by toasting unregulated slices of black market bread–maybe inserted by unsuperivsed children–this is the most socially responsible path forward.

Why does everyone in the world think they can’t be racists simply by virtue of not being American?

I wasn’t calling you racist, but do you find that a lot of people do?

Anyway, this linguistic tendency goes way beyond race; think of how the BBC accent was posh London for the longest time, or how Quebecois are ashamed of their accents, or how Argentines envy continental castellano… it’s a race thing only in so much as it’s a class thing.

404Media is the one outlet I don’t regret giving my e-mail address to.

Depression is not an medical issue and autism is not an illness.

Like a house that has been hollowed out by termites over the years will collapse without visible warning…

One scenario is a speeding car is coming up behind the car trailing. You can’t see it and it can’t see you. You merge into the lane just as the speeder enters it to pass and you get rear-ended.

I’m saying they could corner the market on components they can manufacture by banning export of the raw resources they control. Threatening rare earth metal exports was how they got Trump to heel.

If you want an American to believe something, tell them the government says it is a hoax.

It’s a process. Eventually, you’ll figure out what you like and you’ll have a reliably stocked pantry to whip up a meal you’ll enjoy on short notice.

Right now, I’m going pretty basic: rice + beans + veg + cheese + olive oil + spice–most. everything made ahead of time, before I get hungry.

I’m a slow driver, at or slightly below the speed limit. My tips for not pissing people off:

1. Use your cruise control/maintain speed. People can get used to whatever speed you’re at, but if you keep changing your speed, they’ll keep accelerating into it and slamming on the brakes.

2. When the road opens up nice and straight with clear visibility, for fucks sake, DO NOT SPEED UP (see: 1), even though it feels natural to do so. There’s a line of cars behind you that have been waiting for the dotted yellow line to pass you–and where you feel like it’s safe to go faster is usually where they put those dotted lines.

You just eliminated a traffic hazard

… by creating a traffic hazard.

I’ve been taking the bus to work some days and the emotional difference between riding bumpers for 30 minutes and being on the bus listening to tunes and reading for 50 is noticeable. I miss the bus on days when I take the car in.

Insurance actuaries agree: men are worse drivers.

Dang, Trump is speed running the end of American Empire. Avast, ye swabs, the US dollar is about to go belly up.

What if they decide to just keep their rare earth metals for themselves and control the entire market?

I was a terminal redditors for over a decade and that last year or two I was getting site-wide bans at an accelerating rate. I’m off there to avoid a permaban and I’ll only post there if I need a question answered no other way.

I’ve been on Lemmy for 19 days so far and feel like it scratches whatever pseudo-social itch Reddit scratched before; even though the communities aren’t as niche, the community and moderation isn’t so consistently obnoxious.

You know, god bless the bots because they’re probably soaking up at least some watts of surveillance.