This is making fun of performative wokeness, not white people.

Come to think about it, mass buying food vouchers wherever possible during times of extreme currency instability is probably not a novel idea.

Semi relatedly, there’s some new blocks in my city that are both ugly and expensive to live in. It’s this soulless, almost corporate feeling type of architecture. Doesn’t fit into how the city looks at all. They had the opportunity to decide whether to build affordable housing or something pretty that aesthetically fits into the city and picked neither. No doubt the shareholders shed a tear of joy.

I mean if you just talk about your profession and never link anything, surely it won’t look like an ad? And it’s a fascinating profession that I’m sure people like to learn about.

If it’s not ai or Photoshop, they did them for the shitpost and removed them soon after, in pretty sure.

Idk how old OOP is, but I’m almost 30 and I never got a polio vaccine. My mum was very diligent getting me vaccinated too, I got all the whoopng cough, measles etc. shots. Even got tuberculosis for some reason, but polio was considered so near extinct that it wasn’t on the list.

(thanks for making me check my vaccination passport to confirm this btw, found out this way that I need to get something refreshed)

Tangential, for ambulance cost only.

Once a year, I get a sort of info letter that lists every bill my healthcare has paid for me that year. So, I know what medical costs actually are in my country where healthcare prices aren’t being artifically inflated by healthcare being privatised.

I had a short ambulance ride in 2020. It was billed for about 90€. That’s what it would actually cost if they couldn’t charge whatever tf they want due to privatised healthcare.

Love my job. Still wouldn’t spend a second doing it for zero pay.

Half of these are still in use simply because some people think they’re cool, or when someone prefers to not have to rely on technology (e.g. paper maps don’t run out of electricity while you’re on a long hike).

Not live under capitalism where food needs to be min-maxed like that because the goal is profit over sustainable nutritious production (and yeah I know we can’t just decide that as individuals). There’s plenty of peoples around the world and throughout history who have done and continue to do that.

That’s true but not at all what you said in the post. But thanks for clarifying here!

I could also go on about what I think is harder or easier to read, but that’s neither here nor there. The post claims there is/are a font or fonts that were specifically created with the intention to be harder to read for the disabled, and I want to know whether that’s true.

Quite interesting, but doesn’t speak to the creation of fonts specifically to make reading harder for the disabled. It even says evidence that Calibri is easier isn’t conclusive. Doesn’t say anything about whether any font was created to make reading easier or harder for anyone.

Ya got a source on that? Sounds interesting

Oh absolutely, I’m glad we’re not doing that. I don’t get why there’s so few statistical studies, like ‘people who have been using (e.g.) chewing tobacco have x health stat compared to y in the general population’. It’s frustrating, especially with how many young people are using snus and vapes in recent years. It’s tough to make informed health decisions when the information is hard to come by.

Btw for the capsaicin thing. It’s one of the going theories for why warmer places all around earth tend to traditionally eat much spicier foods than colder places. Food spoils faster in the heat, and the spice both masks the spoilt taste and can help, or is thought to help, cleanse you of parasites.

(I know spicy plants don’t grow in colder places, too, but the tendency holds for colder regions that would have had access to hot plants)

Just curious, is this true for smokeless tobacco too? I mean not the tar bit obviously, just the paralysing.

Understanding something eventually isn’t the same as understanding it immediately. The latter is necessary for effective communication. I don’t have the brain power or neurotype to decipher a text like I would if it were latin.

I’m not saying that you should shut up if you genuinely can’t help it. That’s ok. I’ll figure it out. We can both communicate with each other to the best of our abilities and I won’t mind at all.

But if you can, you should try to be considerate. If you think you spending slightly less time on it is worth me having to spend much more time on understanding it, I find that to be a dick move and I won’t give you the time of day forever.

Yeah I’m so fascinated by the apparent 3d printing of some sort of construction product that I’m barely noticing the Shrek. I want to learn what that is

You know, I keep wondering this, because it genuinely is a similar amount of work. It’s just putting two dry and one wet thing in a pot. It takes me maybe 3 minutes. You don’t even have to do the ‘bring to a boil, then turn the heat down’ bit the other person described. Just turn on medium heat and leave it be. I’d probably take longer reading the package instructions and following them correctly on something ready made.

That said, I’ve gotten ready made meals for lunch when my work only had a microwave and no real kitchen.