So car-centrism is even more ✨ terrible ✨ now? Golly, who could’ve predicted that relying on and enforcing a single industry for most of our transportation might result in rampant enshittification?

That’s the funny part: fucking do it, and make the world a better place.

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It’s hard to have faith that a US-based company will actually protect your privacy.

You don’t have to, though? 1) The E2EE Signal protocol is well-audited to be robust. 2) The app itself is FOSS, and there are a lot of eyes on it. 3) The server code is FOSS. Even if they’re lying about what code they use, it doesn’t matter because it’s E2EE. 4) If you think Signal might be bait-and-switching by building from different source code, you’d be provably wrong. They have reproducible builds, so were they to actually try this, it would be like sending up a flare to the entire security community. 5) Literally every single time OWS has been subpoenaed, the only information they’ve been able to provide is extremely basic metadata like server connection times.

You have no idea what you’re talking about, I’m sorry. There’s functionally less “trust” here than any messaging application on the planet. The network effect remark is at least valid and can be debated (although I personally have zero friends who use Telegram and at least several who use Signal). This one is just so, so wrong that it’s not even up for debate.

A platform that values my privacy? Or stickers? Tough choice, I guess, except Signal has both.

Wouldn’t this be “autosexual”?

Monarchy is a cancer.

If something like this happens, I’m setting up a Matrix room as something on the side for if people who work on the same project I do want out of this garbage.

Not true. This is part of a scheme.

The sugar is honestly probably the biggest factor here. Plaque is just bacteria poop, and giving them a bunch of sugar is basically speedrunning their growth and telling them to produce as much poop as they possibly can.

I mean it also shows a 6–11% reduction in gingivitis, so it’s at least getting some of those weird little angles better. Gingivitis most commonly occurs because plaque stays too long around the lining of the gums, and thus electric brushes should at least be more effectively getting this off the bases of the crown – which to me were always way more difficult and awkward to effectively treat with a manual brush.

Meanwhile, there’s really no such thing as using your toothbrush as a substitute for proper interdental cleaning, and that’s why your dentist really will notice if you haven’t been flossing properly. A water flosser is best for something like that.

That’s what effectiveness means, since removing dental plaque isn’t a binary thing. If you’re trying to remove plaque, then a percentage reduction is a corresponding increase in effectiveness. If a vaccine has a 20% reduction in disease compared to another vaccine, it’s 20% more effective at preventing the incidence of disease. I’m pretty sure this comment isn’t just splitting hairs; it’s actually wrong in its pedantry.

Not just 8. At minimum, they found 12. I agree: what the hell took so long? I know there was that suicide attempt by a cabinet member who was arrested recently; maybe that was it?

If nothing else, though, it seems like people might actually be posting OC now. When I first got there, it was like a single account blatantly reposting from TikTok, Instagram, etc. Like the 9gag of short-video content. Seems potentially better going back into it now.

Technically red meat is Class 2A, meaning it’s “probably carcinogenic” to humans. Thus, you can’t quite yet (especially with animal agriculture being such a powerful lobby) place a label saying it definitely is. However, basically all the evidence at this point shows that eating red meat and especially processed red meat increases your risk of e.g. colorectal cancer.

However, processed meat is a Class 1 carcinogen and thus definitely should have a label, but good fucking luck getting any group of politicians to sign off on that in the face of – again – the animal ag lobby. Unlike big oil, even the most tepid stances against animal ag often aren’t broadly publicly accepted.

Not supporting ISIS

Ah yes, I forgot that Syria outside of the SDF’s control is just Assad and ISIS and nobody else. Totally slipped my mind that it’s not pockets of ISIS control in the southeast opening up in the power vacuum created by Assad tripping over his own dick to rush troops back to Damascus; it’s that actually, all the miscellaneous rebel groups that are routing the wildly incompetent SAA are just ISIS acting as American proxies. That sure clears things up. Damn, I understand why tankies are coping so hard now; too bad Mr. Sarin Gas himself is going to be executed or (unlikely best case for him) in exile within a couple weeks then. :(

Is a tankie upset that Assad’s either going to be strung up or smuggled into exile by year’s end? The right panel being wrong doesn’t mean that Assad’s dictatorship doesn’t deserve to collapse.

I would honestly go so far as to suggest that in the long term, not having this monster raise them (given they’ll still have plenty of money) probably leaves them better off.

Voyager isn’t uploading anything for me, saying it failed external validation. I wonder if that’s just some sort of bug, since surely an image of Superman isn’t illegal. Meanwhile, on the site front-end, trying to upload an image is extremely slow and just cuts it off halfway.

Edit: it’s working now. Strange.

“I couldn’t find a single vacant public toilet, so I did what any sensible person would do and took a shit in the middle of the sidewalk.” —OP, analogously