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“Registered Nazi party member here. I’m not really on board with this whole Hitler thing, though.”

Oh, I thought it was a Linux phone for some reason.

Is it a good daily driver for normies? Can you run banking apps, for example?

We need to hoard books.

Goddamn

Literally all of my neighbors.

Uh, like, a ton of them. Especially developers. Ever heard of homebrew, dude?

The problem is my job, and my country going Fascist, not lack of therapy.

Don’t worry, Amazon killed most of our good local book stores.

So, the library it is! (So long as they survive at least.)

I hate the internet now

Added bonus of not having to talk to anybody.

Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes by Daniel Everett.

It’s about a guy who travels to the deep Amazon to live with the Pirahã as a Christian missionary. His experiences with these people and their unique culture and language leads to his deconversion, and eventually his study of their odd language and unique culture leads him to challenge Noam Chomsky’s theory of Universal Grammar (which shakes up the world of linguistics through controversy).

CoD WWII is the only one I want to play. :-(

Like, don’t tell them your lemmy username?

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This is a case of:

1. Corporate greed (“we could profit 18 billion and pay our workers a fair wage, or profit 30 billion and give them peanuts and lobby govt. to keep it that way”).

2. Tipping culture run amok (“let’s guilt the consumer into paying their wages via tips on top of what we already charge them for the service, rather than simply paying them a wage or salary for their labor to begin with, and adjusting what we charge and what we profit accordingly”).

They say you grow more conservative as you age. That’s not happening to me. We need more labor unions. And Zohran must win NYC.

Yes, exactly. And forget about restaurants (unless they specifically cater to gluten-free [and even then, you’re playing roulette]).

And yes, 100%, unprocessed fruits, veggies, eggs, dairy, and meat products from the perimeter of the grocery store are the safest. Cooking most things from scratch is the best strategy.

Even then, again, sometimes meats are pre-seasoned or brined. Ya gotta be careful and diligent.

Look, eating a mostly from-scratch “Paleo” or “Weston A. Price” diet is objectively the best way to go for everybody, Celiac or not, vegan or carnivore. Nobody disagrees that unprocessed farm foods are better than factory food snacks. Alas, cooking every damned meal every day when you have a career and other obligations is tough. Processed foods do find their way in.

You do the best you can, and diligently read every label, building a list of the “good guy” brands. (For what it’s worth, Siete and Primal Kitchen are fucking godsends. Goddamn we love Siete).

Again, been burned before. Adding “gluten free” isn’t as stupid as it sounds.

Been burned by the adhesive on paper straws. Been burned by instant coffee (flavorings, apparently). Been burned by “plain” hashed brown potatoes (spoiler alert - they weren’t so plain, because of cross-contamination in the packaging facility - they didn’t clean their conveyor belts between product runs. That took some legwork to figure out). Been burned by fucking apple sauce (malt; and also, why?!).

Imagine living in a world wherein all food products might have at least a little bit of rat poison in it. You’d start really appreciating anything intentionally labeled “rat poison free,” even if it’s something that “shouldn’t” need it (like “plain” bacon).

It sounds ridiculous, but you’d be surprised how often wheat makes its way into vague ingredients such as “spices” (or less vague but seemingly benign ones like tamari, for example, or malt, or yeast), often unlabeled as containing wheat, barley, or rye.

If you have Celiac disease, you figure this stuff out over time. I’m glad to see bacon labeled as “gluten free” - it means I can trust it. Packaged bacon might have a seasoning or glaze applied to it. It’s so easy to get burned by stupid labeling (e.g., “ingredients: pork, salt, spices”).

If a terrifyingly minuscule amount of something could give you violent shits and debilitating migraines (an amount the size of a grain of sand will do it), you’d be cautious and suspicious of labelling as well.

Me too. But I don’t have any other marketable skills, so I don’t know.