As someone who currently lives in Texas, I care a little about Texas.

I saw it in IMAX, and I honestly don’t think it would have mattered to me if I’d seen it in a regular theater. It still feels like an event that would be missing something if I’d seen it at home first, but it was lacking any real visual spectacle. It’s a well-made film, but there were no blockbuster holy shit eyecandy moments.

That’s one of two major gripes I have with the movie.

My second gripe is entirely to do with a pretty egregious diversion from the source material, specifically with Athena. Zendaya is great, but Athena is supposed to wear a helmet. That’s her whole look. Having a helmetless Athena is like if they’d given the cyclops two eyes.

So your lack of knowledge about the source material won’t work against you, and seeing it on a small screen should be fine if that’s what you’re into.

He can also type comments on internet forums, can’t you??

Why would we take the cops at their word? That’s just silly. Either they have the bodycam footage to back it up, or they’re lying.

You gotta try better white chocolate. The good stuff has more cocoa butter, so of course it’s getting harder to find.

I’ve had my LG for like six years, no problem. I even connected it to the internet.

since the start of the war between the countries

What a complicit way to phrase that.

and its not like every day was a horror for them anymore than it is for ours

This is just not accurate.

Infant mortality rate before the industrial revolution was like 30%. Something like 50% of children didn’t survive to their fifth birthday. But you think life was about as good then as it is today? I mean people still have to work for a living, so I guess it’s all a wash?

I’m not suggesting that we can’t still improve. I’m just pointing out that you don’t seem to have the proper context for this stance you’ve taken.

That’s such a pessimistic way of looking at it. All the efforts of humanity up until this point have gone towards sparing us from the horrors of what used to be the human condition. Generations and generations of toil and sacrifice so we could be bored at work instead of dying from the plague.

I struggle with ADHD because I am one of the luckiest human beings born so far.

It’s the other way around. ADHD gives people an evolutionary advantage in crisis situations. Surviving through war, famine, and all the worst situations that humanity has survived through.

ADHD isn’t incompatible with modern life because it got too hard. It’s incompatible with modern life because it got too easy.

On the other hand, appealing to the center hasn’t been working for Democrats lately. If Crockett energized the base, the numbers could be there.

Plus a lot of us aren’t comfortable perpetuating the racism/sexism by caving to it.

I’ll vote for either candidate, but this idea that it’s obvious Crockett could never win doesn’t sit right with me.

My wife and I just had our third kid. We don’t make nearly that much, but we’re quite comfortable.

There’s also Houston, the largest city in the state. Houston is alright, mostly.

I read about a study years ago that said yes, the benefit keeps going up the more caffeine you consume. Not sure I could find it again though.

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I think we just need to revise the laws to say that a cop’s testimony doesn’t have any more weight than anyone else’s testimony unless it’s backed up by their bodycam.

Taking cops at their word made sense when we didn’t have this technology. It doesn’t make sense anymore.

When Cheerios says it’s heart healthy, it’s because it has some kind of fiber that helps lower cholesterol. That’s according to scientific studies and the pre-Trump FDA.

Almost all of the foods marketed towards infants and toddlers are UPF.

Except it’s actually not a problem, because UPF does not mean unhealthy.

As it happens the product you’re seeing babies eat isn’t generally Cheerios, it’s something made of rice that dissolves faster to prevent choking.

Yeah, no, it’s definitely Cheerios.

I’ve got three kids. We gave them actual Cheerios. Every parent I know used actual Cheerios. Their daycare has Cheerios on hand for when a kid needs an extra snack. They’re healthy, easy to chew, and have a hole in the middle. They are not a choking hazard.

There are other cereal products specifically made for infants to snack on, but Cheerios are cheaper, more available, and just as good.

For my first two kids we did baby-led weaning (the third one is only five days old), so I know all about teaching children how to chew. And for what it’s worth, my kids eat healthy as fuck. They eat more than a serving of plain vegetables with every dinner, and they enjoy it. Which is why it’s not a big deal if I want to treat them to a donut for breakfast every once in a while.

There are places that don’t have easy access to fresh food. You want people to die of preventable causes? Let’s ban the bread they make their fucking sandwiches with, because other people are shortsighted and privileged enough to think that the only reason anyone doesn’t choose whole-grain, small-batch, artisinal bread is because white bread is “ultra-processed”, so it must be addictive.

By the same token, banning Cheerios would be a great way to make sure a bunch of kids are malnourished.

Apply a little reading comprehension to this extremely scientific article and see how they’re dancing around the fact that “ultra-processed” isn’t synonymous with “unhealthy”. Phrases like “includes soft drinks and packaged snacks such as crisps and biscuits” are clearly manipulative language meant to gloss over the fact that the category includes those things but is not limited to them.

Anyway, here are some better ideas: a four day work week and expanding work-from-home so that people actually have time to make healthy choices. Or how about better funding for school lunches, with an emphasis on variety so that kids can be exposed to more foods, giving them the tools to make healthier choices later in life.

There are so many ways we could try to improve this situation, and blanket bans is by a wide margin the most idiotic.

and try to say there’s nothing wrong with encouraging people to over-consume to the point of morbid obesity just to pump the shareholders’ stocks a few cents higher.

Yeah, and no one is saying that either.

We all agree people need to eat healthier. Targeting “ultra-processed foods” is a stupid way to accomplish that. It would backfire completely, and cause more problems than it would solve.