yeah having the bread be mold-resistant is obviously kinda important. i wonder why it doesn’t spoil immediately when it’s laying around when it’s moist. idk i’m only guessing here but might it have to do with the baking process adding a kind of “coating” layer of dust around the bread? Like, we smoke meat to make it durable for a year, might be the baking doing something similar to the bread?

No, on the contrary,

how so?

it might be, but it still fits into the context. especially considering how peasants unintentionally might have been healthier simply due to their poverty, which might seem paradoxical.

a friend of mine brought me some self-made bread yesterday, and it was indeed moist, and i instantly loved it. i wish there’s more bread like that one. idk why industrial bread tastes differently.

might be that they intentionally dessicate it for hygienic reasons? i.e. i imagine a higher water content might make it spoil faster.

The tone of the ads this year felt almost like lampshading. Like if we acknowledge the problem, we’re wise to what the audience is feeling, but we’re not going to do a damn thing to address it.

like, i heavily disagree with you there. i tend to think today that the only thing to actually improve the world is to spread information and with it awareness about the situation.

action doesn’t even matter. once the information is obvious enough, the action will carry through with itself.

During the Super Bowl, Anthropic ran a dystopian AI ad about dystopian AI ads featuring an AI android physical trainer hawking insoles to a user who only asked for an ab workout. Not to be outdone, Amazon ran a commercial for its AI assistant Alexa+ in which Chris Hemsworth fretted over all the different ways AI might kill him, including severing his head and drowning him in his pool. Equally bleak, the telehealth company Hims & Hers ran an ad titled “RICH PEOPLE LIVE LONGER” in which oligarchs access such healthcare luxuries as facelifts, bespoke IVs, and “preventative care” to live longer than the rest of us. It was an anti-billionaire ad by a multibillion-dollar healthcare company.

Turn on the TV today, and you will drown in a sea of ads in which capitalists denounce capitalism. Think of the PNC Bank ads where parents sell their children’s naming rights a la sports stadiums for the money to raise them

oida wos

has anybody footage of these videos? i’d be very curious

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Anywho, a proper bread with no industrial processing is moist. :)

how so?

fun fact: whole-grain bread is probably healthier than soft white bread anyways due to an increased content in fiber, so there’s that …

could use some vegetables. 8/10 because lack of said vegetables.

interesting! :P

Blade Runner - the beloved classic sci-fi has Harrison Ford pinning a woman who says no to a wall and sexing her up as the romantic climax of the film.

I’ve never seen a Blade Runner movie but America does have a consent problem.

what about Margaret Thatcher?

turns out if you make rules, people comply with them. that, however, does not change anything about the underlying reality of the human nature.

i mean it would be better if we had a community where you can just write the sentences yourself. unfortunately that doesn’t seem to be very widespread today?

would be good to just have sth like /c/postmyopinion or sth

the news are so bad at reporting epstein files because literally everyone who could report about them is either in bed with trump or has some other interest in not talking about it.

it’s like, you know, people who run companies would like to keep their power so they just nod along and say “trump is a saint, nothing to see here, go away”.

GUIs are nice. we are made for visual perception. don’t feel bad about it.

often, when one sees things presented visually, such as all the files in a directory, it makes much more sense much faster than if one has to read the filenames on a console.

GUIs are actually superior for human-friendlyness in many cases, but their functionality is limited and also they can’t be scripted. also it’s much faster to write a CLI program than a GUI program (at least for me).

it’s one thing to convince you to buy something and it’s an entirely different thing to condition to you accept that genocides are necessary sometimes; vote against your own interests or else the other team will win; propagandize you against foreign political enemies; distract you from global rings of oligarchical pedofiles who torture, rape, kill and eat children for funsies; and many other things.

like, i see what you mean but i’m afraid that modern society doesn’t see it that way. “moral relativism” (a.k.a. post-structuralism) states that there is no absolute truth, neither is there an absolute set of ethics; and as a consequence, it must be possible to negotiate these ethics on the “free market of ideas”, a.k.a the internet where big influencer institutions pay to sway your opinion. It’s all just a market game: Buy and sell opinions, and see which ones perform best as a consequence.

astroturfing

i mean that’s what it’s there for? always has been

like, how else do you think companies on the internet make money? by manipulating public opinion

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