Microsoft when Bing first came out was literally like “it is highly recommended that everyone here use Bing Search”.

Depends on when you count, but for the Iraq war specifically that’s about right for the official foreign coalition forces.

However, the Iraq war was just one front of the nearly dozen wars that were being fought as part of the “Global War on Terrorism” which NATO perpetrated, the short list of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen, but arguably also including Camaroon, Philippines, Libya, Kashmir, etc.

Sure, of Europe only UK and Poland were officially deployed to Iraq, but they were actively collaborating with the rest of NATO in a much broader conflict and don’t ask about where the mercenaries and security consultants that were used heavily during those conflicts came from.

It’s not a misconception, it’s misdirection.

Also the issue of you need to be a deranged psychopath to get wealthy in the first place.

There’s multiple ways, but as an example in a similar way as nutritional yeast is made by growing a microorganism such as Saccharomyces Cerevisiae and then extracting the products. B12 is made by growing an organism like Propionibacterium Freudenreichii and extracting and seperating those products.

You then mix the B12 from the Freudenreichii with the inactivated[dead] Cerevisiae.

Most people here are, correctly, pointing out that going fully vegan easily gets all your required nutrients except for B12. However, this is a mostly solved problem because while “naturally” humans would get it through consumption of animal products it’s synthesized via bacteria and it’s currently produced at scale via genetically modified strains, such as Propionibacterium Freudenreichii, and used to fortify things like plant based milks and nutritional yeast.

It is something to be aware of, but it’s also not the problem many on this thread are trying to paint it as.

I don’t know why homeless people don’t break into every unused house and squat in it, especially in the winter.

Because cops kill people who do. There will be no “Robin Hood economy” without extreme violence.

Potassium Metabisulfite

If you have it, it sounds like it’s a better option than whatever easy ethanol source you’ve got. But the trick to proper sterilization is that certain microbes are resistant to different things. The Potassium Metabisulfite sounds like it’s about as nasty, but less toxic, than bleach. However even that alone isn’t enough for sterility.

Glassware is usually fine so long as you allow pressure to build and release slowly.

For what you’re doing there are additional microorganisms which can outcompete anything you don’t kill and so “sterile enough” is probably fine, but putting this here as something to keep in mind in case things go wrong.

Boiling water isn’t enough to kill a lot of hardier bacteria and fungal spores and so it’s certainly not “sterilized”, though it may be ‘sterile enough’ for your purposes. Water just can’t get hot enough and the “shells” are well insulated enough to survive for hours in those conditions.

However, they also become tougher once dehydrated and so simply placing them in a really hot stove has the same issue.

You simultaneously need more heat, pressure, time, and possibly some form of chemical attack to truly “sterilize” something.

Using a pressure cooker and a tiny amount of alcohol, ethanol, is usually enough to do the trick.

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It’s right there in the description, it doesn’t say “fight for the issue of human rights”.

It sounds to me like you’re already living in a bit of a prison, and that sucks.

I can’t say whether that’s one imposed by your parents somehow, exists largely within your own head ^possibly due to hyoglycemia or other various health knock-on effects^, or if you’re especially vulnerable to the police state you live in for some undisclosed reason.

What I can say is that homelessness, prison, or getting shot isn’t necessarily “the end”. Before you opt for suicide I would encourage you see if there’s other ways out of your current prison.

• Go “waste money” on depression.
• ‘Run away from home’, this time with additional maturity and planning.
• Be homeless, find a tent city and make some friends.
• I would strongly suggest you avoid most drugs as you seem like you may have an addictive personality. But, if it’s the only way to get through this; find some way to self-medicate.
• Steal some orange juice and to get your blood sugar up.

You are in a desperate situation, you are allowed to act like it.

ICE NOW HAS A BUDGET LARGER THAN THE MARINES, IS COMPLETELY EXEMPT FROM ANY LEGAL ACTION BECAUSE TRUMP HAS THROWN OUT THE CONSTITUTION, RAMPIDLY BUILT CONCENTRATION CAMPS AT A RECORD PASTETHAT ARE MORE RESTRICTED TO THE PUBLIC THAN EVER, AND NOW ARE MASS ARRESTING LEGAL IMMIGRANTS AND CITIZENS ALIKE.

The same can be said between Trump’s first term and Biden’ presidency. The level of funding and militancy isn’t a function of R vs D, but a function of time as they because increasingly less cost effective and require increasing force to attempt to maintain/increase the level of eliminations.

All while the rule of law has been entirely abandoned.

You’re delusional if you believe in the “rule of law”, that’s never been how the justice system has worked in the US.

It was bad for immigrants before, it’s actual Hell for everyone now.

Sorry you can no longer sleep through brunch and now have to face the realities that immigrants and others have been facing for decades.

Not to mention it’s gotten so much worse that you can actually observe it on national economic data.

… What? Can you clarify what you mean by this and what data? This feels like Facebook level finger pointing and not based on any actual data or proper analysis, but I’m happy to be proven wrong there.

I think any marginalized community would prefer having the wiggle room of being able to exist and organize under hollow virtue signals than ACTIVE AND RAPIDLY EXPANDING GENOCIDE.

Your “group” being spared genocide as a tool to influct genocide on others is not the “easy moral dilemma” you make it out to be.

REPUBLICANS BANNED ABORTION

The bipartisan nominated supreme court banned abortion during a democratic party trifecta.

Blaming the Republicans primarily for that is as asinine as blaming the Democrats primarily for the current government shutdown.

Dems, believe it or not, fucking didn’t.

No? So they’re just completely powerless and their votes were forced even though they really, really didn’t want to?

The only people you are helping by spreading this “both sides” BULLSHIT is the fascists.

The difference is who we say are fascists. Yes, the Republicans are fascist, but so are the Democrats.

Take Trump’s tiny cock out of your mouth and smell the shit around you.

If there’s one thing we can agree on it’s that the elephant in the room is absolutely covered in shit. However, I’m busy trying to take the fucking animals outside and am currently begging for you to please, please stop sucking donkey cock, realize the problems, and help.

The difference is method, not end result.

The main purposes of DACA was to get immigrants to “come out of the shadows” and have individuals self-report and turn themselves in, in exchange for temporary benifits to, primarily, their children. As stated at the time:

“Deferred action is not a pathway to citizenship. It is not legal status. It simply says that for three years, you are not a law enforcement priority and are not going to go after you, It is temporary and it is revocable.”

It was part of a series of incredibly smart, effective and efficient moves which resulted in record high deportations without needing a bunch of jackbooted thugs cracking skulls in the street.

For a while. Now we’re in the “jackbooted thugs” phase which is less efficient, but plays better with the base it’s trying to appease. It’s less efficient and less people are getting deported overall, which is good. But the majority of those are switching from self-deportations to direct expulsions which are getting increasingly violent, a process that started back in 2021.

I submit that the Democrats are at least 1% better than the Republicans, and that this proves the meme is fake news.

You can’t just state something as fact and not show your work. You are making a claim it’s up to you to support it. You can’t just go around saying “I’m right unless you prove the negative”.

You have not placed any goalposts to begin with, what is your definition of “better”? By what metric are you using? What do you mean by “under the Democrats”?

How about we define “better” as “death rate per capita within immigration detention centers”? And “under the Democrats/Republicans” as “who holds the executive branch”? We should see an increase during the Bush years, when ICE was first created, a decrease during the Obama years, followed by an increase during Trump’s first term, decrease during Biden, and increase under Trump’s second term right?

Is that what happened?

If you don’t like my attempt at making your claim falsifiable, which I suspect you won’t; especially when you see the results, feel free to redefine your lose language into something else rigid and falsifiable. Set those goalposts.

wanna go ahead and go to any neighborhood that’s been raided by ICE and tell them how the Dems are exactly just as bad as the GOP?

Those neighborhoors will tell you that ICE had been around since 2002 and while happy you’re finally getting with the program, despite the current administration’s best attempts, 2012 was the worst year so far right after the democrats had their governmental trifecta and with the dreamers bait and switch.

So yes, while different flavors, they have been equally bad.

go tell a bunch of drag queens and trans people.

Republicans despise them, Democrats love to use them. That isn’t necessarily better.

go find some under aged girls who’ve been impregnated by adult men and tell them the Dems are just as bad as the GOP.

Fucking yes, the big Epstein reveal is that it’s all of them. The Trumps and the Clinton’s.

No, the problem is greedy corporations.

There is an active need for many developers, think of every time you’ve used terrible software, every time a program crashed or you found yourself manually doing something and thought “there should be a tool for this”, every bad search and broken social media site.

Hell, we’re supposed to be in the middle of an “AI boom” and someone has to actually implement all those pie in the sky “automate away everyone’s jobs”. While AI can, debatably, write the code for that, it still takes a person to design, architect, implement, test and validate those systems.

No. The entire technical foundation on which “computer science” is built is crumbling due to lack of maintenance and funding and desperately needs people to fix it, however corporations are doing their what they do best; devaluing, destroying, and parasitizing their surroundings.

I would encourage you to re-read because I did cover exactly what you’re mentioning here and it seems like you might have stopped reading after the second paragraph.

the “healthy” variant

This is what was meant by the “mythical neurotypical”

Yes and no.

Using blindness as a simplified example, “blind” describes a person with visual accuity of less than 20/500 and/or a visual field less than 10°. The term “blind” describes a binary classification for individuals according to where they fall within those 2 different spectrums.

By definition there is no such thing as more blind or less blind, a person is either blind or not. This is true for the lesser “visually impaired” classification as well, however the flaws of this sort of classification are more apparent there as the treatments for low visual accuity and low visual field are vastly different and so acknowledging and understanding those spectrums are critical for treatment.

However, in acknowledging those spectrums it allows for the phrase “person A is more blind than person B” and it makes perfect sense because for both those spectrums lower scores are directly related to that “blind” classifier and higher scores to “sighted”. So it works perfectly well to describe the relationship between two individuals on those spectrums even if neither is definitionally blind.

This gets extra confusing when it’s unclear which spectrum axis is being compared.

Every human is blind compared to a spy satellite. ~according to visual accuity~

Every spy satellite is blind compared to the average human. ~according to visual field~

Often the way around this is to take those 2 spectrums and combine them into one score to create a “blindness spectrum”. Depending on how one reduces the 2 dimensions down to a single 1 dramatically changes how “impaired” one individual is compared to another, re-introduces the issues faced with the binary classification and additionally can result in many who meet the technical definition above having the same “blindness score” as a sighted person.

In many ways this is worse than the binary classifier because it introduced addition biases, errors and distortions between the root symptoms, in this case visual accuity and field, which prevents actually understanding and helping an individual.

These issues get significantly magnified when one is taking about a disorder like autism which is defined as an individual with “differences or difficulties in social communication and interaction, a need or strong preference for predictability and routine, sensory processing differences, focused interests, and repetitive behaviors.” With each item consisting of multiple different measurements and criteria each defining their own spectrum. It’s no longer just describing an axis direction within a 2d space with fairly precise, impartial measurements, but a very specific cluster of individuals within a 6+ dimensional space using highly subjective measurements.

This imprecise and high dimensional space is the actual “autistic spectrum” and yes everyone is somewhere on this spectrum. “Autistic” is just the name of what appears to be a very specific cluster of individuals, however when dealing with high dimensional spaces what counts as a cluster starts to get real weird and illusions start popping up everywhere, like the mythical neurotypical.

Wait until you hear the true story of the Irish Potato Famine and realize that not only did nobody learn from it, but most of the anglosphere seems to be towards a direct repeat of it at an even wider scale.

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