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emushack
·hace 11 meses·discuss
https://public.nrao.edu/ask/can-radio-telescopes-be-used-in-...
emushack
·hace 11 meses·discuss
I think I have a different idea of "valuable". Rural communities need connectivity for sure - but we also need reliable radio astronomy for a whole host of reasons - space weather forcasting, terrestrial weather forecasting, scientific advancement.... without radio astronomy, there wouldn't even be satellites to put cat videos on!
emushack
·hace 11 meses·discuss
Because "POOR PEOPLE" have so much stuff! Why do they have so much stuff if they're poor!

https://youtu.be/Al5E3KbIfeo?t=24

I mean they should really be more frugal. Having a refrigerator is clearly a ridiculous luxury.
emushack
·hace 11 meses·discuss
I'm saying it's blaming the victim to assume the problem is that they aren't frugal enough.
emushack
·hace 11 meses·discuss
So if I don't eat the bones too, I'm leaving nearly a whole dollar on the table? Damn. I can't believe it! I could be saving even more!!! I'm such an idiot.
emushack
·hace 11 meses·discuss
And yet, the very study you linked to concluded that despite 5 years of research on the topic, it still isn't clear what the actual causes are. But you know, I definitely think your arm-chair reasoning probably contains the one true reason.

Research has mostly focused on explaining the paradox at a household level. Farrell and colleagues reviewed the literature pertaining to low- and middle-income countries and focused on the bigger picture, that is, analyzing the issue at an individual, household, community, and country level. They proposed 5 context-mechanisms factors that could modify the association between an individual’s food insecurity and obesity risk: affordability of energy dense, processed foods, quantity & diversity of food consumed, spatial temporal access to nutritious food, interpersonal distribution of food and non- dietary behavior. Nevertheless, affordability of energy dense foods was identified as the main mechanism since the authors had limited evidence to support the other mechanisms (26). Other authors have proposed that social support can also play a role since they found that food insecure women who reported lower levels of social support were more likely to be obese (28)
emushack
·hace 11 meses·discuss
You know, you make such a good point here. The easiest solve for this is for the fat poor people to simply eat rice & beans. That will surely fix both problems.
emushack
·hace 11 meses·discuss
It's still victim blaming.
emushack
·hace 11 meses·discuss
Did you really just compare human beings to wild animals who hibernate?
emushack
·hace 11 meses·discuss
LoL! https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU0000FF1101 Current price/lb for chicken is $4.23. But of course that's from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, soooo.... can't trust that can we!
emushack
·hace 11 meses·discuss
My childcare + healthcare is nearly 3x my house payment.
emushack
·hace 11 meses·discuss
Wow. I'm at a loss for words with this comment.

So, in case you aren't from America, you might not know this: the food that is the cheapest also happens to be the food that is the least nutritious. Americans who are poor cannot afford fresh vegetables, fruit, meats and gym memberships. They can afford cheetos.

It is quite the spurious correlation to say that obesity causes hunger. Just wow.
emushack
·hace 11 meses·discuss
Well clearly the solution here is to eliminate the USDA entirely. 1 in 7 is an outrageous statistic and it will not be tolerated.
emushack
·hace 11 meses·discuss
Yeah! And they could sell their refrigerators too! They use way too much electricity. <eye roll>
emushack
·hace 11 meses·discuss
Yeah that's right! If you simply say that this syncs to all my devices, it papers over, or abstracts if you will, the complexity of: secure enclaves/TPMs, symmetric sync keys wrapping asymmetrically encrypted passkeys, resident keys that support backup, keys that do NOT support backup, how biometrics are used, etc. etc.

With a password, I can write it down on a piece of paper and put it in my safe.

One of these systems is not like the other.
emushack
·hace 11 meses·discuss
And then we can compress all of that into a single piece of plastic and call it the Ident-i-eeze.
emushack
·hace 11 meses·discuss
"You lost me the moment you mentioned iCloud". At least that's the way the majority of people I know react to this line of thinking. The "cloud" is still mysterious and complicated to a good number of people. Passwords are easy to understand.
emushack
·hace 11 meses·discuss
Good luck convincing commission-based sales people of this.
emushack
·hace 12 meses·discuss
I'm going to just leave this here for those of you who use Macs.

https://kagi.com/orion/
emushack
·el año pasado·discuss
I was once told by "the architect", and I quote, "put blinders on. I will tell you when to take them off.". The context was I was asking about the why.

Looking back on it, yeah it absolutely felt like I was being told to stop thinking.