Suppliers have learned that things aren’t being tested as much as they should and are cutting corners. The stuff that is being found is mostly the stuff that immediately results in a bunch of people getting sick. It’s not being found by inspectors, but by clinics.
The stuff that takes a long time to impact health, or has cognitive effects instead of nausea and diarrhea, is gonna take a long time to discover. We’re ALL being poisoned, we just don’t know it.
What’s shocking is that they’ve cut back on so many inspectors but are still having so many recalls.
How much is slipping through unnoticed? If it doesn’t immediately make people sick, contaminated food and drugs may go years without being noticed without testing.
I was pretty happy with our senior song.
My sister graduated in 1998, when every high school in the country did “My heart will go on.” The next uear, everyone did “Party like it’s 1999.” I don’t even remember what the next 2 classes did other than they were some kind of flash in the pan pop song from the time.
In 2002, my class voted for “At Last” by Ella Fitzgerald. That’s some classy, timeless shit.
There’s been great stuff since the 80s. Even some of the stuff that became popular outside of the typical anime fandoms, you have things like Cowboy Bebop, which oozes style, and the 2 FMA series that have solid storytelling and complex characters with great music and animation.
99.9% of law enforcement doesn’t require the kind of police forces we have. Why are armed goons used to hand out traffic tickets? In decades of issuing building code citations, I’ve never needed to carry a gun. And my fees are WAY higher. If I can walk up to an unidentified guy with a running chainsaw and give him a $200,000 fee for clear-cutting a lot without being in danger, you should be fine writing a speeding ticket.
But the problem is you have an institutional attitude of cowardice. You’re like chihuahas who pretend not to be scared by being super aggressive, which makes people afraid of you, which makes them hate you, which makes everyone less safe.
Why should anybody respect institutions made of violent, scared little bitches?
People at the office, people at the school I teach nights at, people at the church I attend. They all have different groups that they talk bad about, and people talk bad about all of them.
The difference is every single place I go that isn’t a police station people talk shit about cops.
You’re hated, and it’s not the unjustified hate of racism, intolerance, or ignorance. You’re hated because you actively choose to drain society’s resources while stimping on people’s rights. You should be hated.
Yeah - you may occasionally do something useful, but you’re a net drain on society and you should be ashamed of yourself and your entire profession for what you’ve become.
I never see shorts or AI videos, but I get that others aren’t so lucky.
My Dad’s is all AI slop, shorts, and right-wing talking heads.
I’ve actual stopped sobbing to channels I want to follow, because I’ve noticed my feed doesn’t really show many of my my subscriptions, but the channels I watch regularly without subbing always have 100% of their new videos at the to0 of my feed.
I work in for a municipal government, and our City Hall and police station share a building. We’re polite to the police just like we are with anyone else, but ALL of us that work on the admin side of the building talk shit about the police behind their backs and think they’re a bunch of overpaid thugs who are a net negative to the community.
It’s no different for you. People who hate you will still smile and say hello.
It’s not even necessarily the end of support and updates for old products. If I have a Black and Decker drill from 1920, it’s not reasonable to expect them to still service it.
But what is unreasonable is allowing Black and Decker to break my drill. And that’s what Amazon is doing when they restrict access to content that was previously viewable on the older models.
Rural town near me has 3 gas stations, and they all have them.
They’re also all owned by the same guy and the prices are like 60-70 cents higher than any of the neighboring cities, but since it’s 20 miles to a station he doesn’t own he gets away with it.
A lot of homes in the North still use it.
All the pumps near me disabled the mute button years ago.
So only 4000 miles of grade-separated high-speed rail (and all the infrastructure and private property easements, divisions, etc required for the construction) just to connect just these 2 cities? No problem.
Also high-speed rail doesn’t run at top speed the whole time. You might have a few flat spots here and there, but most of the time it’s running much slower.
Also, if there’s a problem with a train, the whole rail goes down. If there’s a problem with an airplane, the other planes have a whole lot of sky they can still use.
I’m definitely not always correct, and will happily go on an unrelated tangent about map map projections or Star Trek (pre-streaming era plus Lower Decks).
Base 12 is nice. It feels managably small (while remaining a super highly composite number. The next super highly composite number (which I also like) is 60.
2520 is the first number divisible by 1-10, but that’s a bit much.
We’re having an influx of professioal right-wing operations on Lemmy. The biggest example is all the people claiming to be leftists trying to convince American leftists that the Dems are 100% as bad as the Republicans and that we shouldn’t vote for them.
The Trump admin may he popular on the far-right, but the historic swing voters are voting Dem this round, so in addition to voter suppression and all their other bullshit, the right is trying to convince leftists to either stay home or burn their vote on a third party that can’t win.
Police firearms are used far more often as a threat to force compliance thannthey are to defend life. By disarming most on-duty officers like a civilized country we’d have a more peaceful society because the police wouldn’t feel as empowered to escalate conflicts.
Being a police officer isn’t a particularly dangerous job. Police have, on average, about the same odds as any random citizen of being killed feloniously. Yet they’re armed to the teeth and are given less-strict rules of engagement than soldiers sent into actual combat zones against enemy soldiers who are explicitly trying to kill them. I’ve seen my share of police encounters, and police make the situation worse 90% of the time. That last 10% doesn’t justify what they do.
I understand that police are individuals. Being a cop doesn’t make you a bad person. There are lots of bad people in this world, and most of them aren’t cops. But anybody who looks at the state of policing in this country and decides they want to be a cop cannot be a good person. It’s like saying someone’s a good Nazi or Klansman. Being a bad person is a prerequisite to becoming a police officer in the US.
I have several cops in my family. I know them as individuals. And they’re all bad people for whom I have no respect. But they think I like them because I’m polite to them. I’ll even laugh and tell jokes around them, because part of living in a society is not starting fights. But they’re still scum.
I’m sure there are people in your life who joke and laugh around you, too. How many do you think quietly hate you? I guarantee it’s an uncomfortably high number.