Hard to take your comment seriously when you immediately use a phrase like "virtue signal" and infer that everyone stating this desire is disingenuous.
Fair in that I doubt it is everyone. But, at large, people are rather happy with their phone. If a touch embarrassed that they use it so much. Though, really only if you confront them with a scenario that begs the question, as it were.
"The most important thing to remember about drunks is that drunks are far more intelligent than non-drunks. They spend a lot of time talking in pubs, unlike workaholics who concentrate on their careers and ambitions, who never develop their higher spiritual values, who never explore the insides of their head like a drunk does." - Shane MacGowan, Melody Maker interview 1991
I love Shane, I love the Pogues, but I think it's well overdue for us as a culture to stop romanticizing chronic alcoholism. It destroys people, it destroys families.
I agree but would caveat by saying that there are a lot of things in the world that destroy people and families. A lack of romance and escape being another of them.
I think there is stark difference between being the victim of an alcoholic abusive relationship one cannot escape and, "a lack of romance and escape" Mr. Contrarian.
yeah for sure, I understand the hurt. I guess that I feel bad because I like a drink or four and I don't think I hurt anyone else but feel like I should be guilty all the time.. so I stop boozing and then I really miss it.
In simpler times I'd live in the pub I think, I might be happier for it!
He claimed alcohol was a mystic sacrament, in an interview I read long ago. That's an awfully destructive spirituality, but it was very much his choice, whether rationalized addiction or not. Personally, I've seen that destruction too closely to find it anything but tragic, but I'm grateful for his poetry.
At the risk of sounding pedantic but also not being a meat eater, is there a difference between steak and ground beef? Because steak is mentioned twice in this article (in the headline and once in the body), but the actual chart shows ground beef. This is in no way a defense of Lucky Charms (although they are magically delicious), but I was always of the perhaps false belief that steak is healthier than ground beef?
I checked the supplementary material (https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-021-00381-y#MOESM1). The scores have been revised post-publication. Lucky charms is 56, steak is 33 to 26 depending on how it is cooked and whether the fat is eaten, ground beef is 26. Still around the same.
Ground beef is simply steak ground into smaller pieces, so there's no difference.
Go to a nice burger restaurant (Red Cow in Minneapolis: I'm dreaming of you) and the ground beef could be ribeye or another really nice cut. Supermarket ground beef is usually a cheaper cut though.
The downside is that it makes it easier to consume beef fat that you might normally trim off a steak. Also the grinding process makes it easier to eat, which reduces chewing time which allows you to consume more calories before your brain gets the "full" signal.
Love both btw, but processing the meat in this fashion does make it easier to have too much saturated fat in a meal. I won't argue if beef saturated fat is good/bad, but it does contain more calories. Excess calories is what most people usually have problems with.
Also yes, I know if you cut the carbs out that you eat along with a burger it's easier to reduce the amount of carbohydrate intake/total calories. Don't want this to turn into a carnivore/low-carb diet argument. Just pointing out meat processing in this single specific case.
> Ground beef is essentially an average of the beef across the cow
Usually across many cows, which can be problematic wrt pathogens. Similarly, ground beef is not like steak in that more of it might have been exposed to pathogens during processing. That's why it's important to cook ground beef all the way through whereas steak can be very rare as long as the outside is properly seared. Nutritionally, however, they're much closer.
Just picked up a copy earlier in the week, so I will have to get back to you on this particular text, but I am an avid Graeber reader. If you enjoyed "Bullshit Jobs" and the beginning of "The Dawn of Everything," I would suggest putting "Debt: The First 5000 Years" and "The Utopia of Rules" on your future reading list. The Anarchist Library also has a great collection of his writings here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/david-graebe...
Unfortunately, unjust settlements like this are common place in our country, and after the outrage cycle dies down, this will be forgotten like the others. Nothing changes. What can we possibly do?
Start by reforming the justice system. It is badly broken at all levels. It's slow speed, incredibly expensive interactions, and hard-to-understand system of laws need a big time upgrade. We need relatively simple laws that ordinary folks can understand, and a much faster time-to-judgement. It is really the complexity and cost of the system that leads to so many of these unjust outcomes, because hardly any actors in the system actually want to present their case and hear a verdict out of a judges mouth, because to get there takes years and millions of dollars.
Justice cannot happen without input from the those who are on the other side, the indicted.
You quickly realize justice TRIES to be a really bad cop. And then the indicted /convicted have to make deals for something that is terribly unfair. Just imagine negotiating with a person like Kamala.
When I see light weight no benefit deals like this, I think that it looks like both prosecutor and defendant got away with murder with little effort.
Further, let's stop the rhetoric that severe punishments will stop bad crimes. Not true. Even the lightest of punishments can stop crimes simply with shame. If more people get caught and are able to reconcile for their crimes, that would be sufficient to prevent 95 percent of future crimes.
This is all true, but I think its a symptom of a more fundamental problem, which is the complexity of the system, and the attendant speed and cost problems that drive agents to these outcomes. If the system worked transparently and quickly, then a lot of the other problems would go away. Plea deals should be the exception, not the rule.
I agreed with this take until 2020 and subsequent shutdowns of varying levels occurred in my U.S. state (Oregon) due to Covid-19. There are several eateries in my city utilizing them to great effect for menus and ordering as they have pivoted to outdoor and no-touch dining. And now that I have finally embraced them on this level, I notice and use them more: flyers around town, links to video tutorials on products I have purchased, local printed media, etc.
I think there is a parallel here with the old saying, "you have your whole life to write your first record and then six months to write your second.” Similar to the Showtime shows you mentioned, I would apply this to the first season of HBO's "True Detective." Spectacular first season in which I got the sense the writer put in everything he had collected in his head his whole life, and then a rushed second season due to its success.
