Raccoons, possums or corvids.

Raccoons are just great, little treasure pandas. I would to live to know what they see, what their internal worlds are like.

Possums because they’re an ancient linage of marsupial, an isolate and they would sure have some ancient lore and deep oral tradional.

Corvids because I wish to understand the inner machinations of their devious bird brains.

Quantum computers are a thing, and they’re very useful for certain things…

But business idiots in the tech world do be slapping the word “quantum” on stuff. It’s not a huge thing at the moment, but it’s probably gonna be the next insufferable hype cycle after they get tired of branding random shit as “AI enabled” because they stapled a chat bot on to it.

Like, give it a few years, someone will be trying to tell you that a quantum computer will somehow make a vacuum robot able to do your laundry because “something something better path finding”

Most of the people here talk about it as a false flag tend to come from the really wacky side of things, like “it was actually a space laser and a hologram!”

So most people just outright discount any discussion of it as skitzo posting.

The ford was supposed to be in dock for maintenance and swapping out crew right now.

It’s having a lot of minor issues right now, and I wonder how much of that is that systems not getting the maintenance they need, and how much of that is due to crew ignoring routine tasks, or actively causing problems because they’re pissed they’re being forced to stay out longer.

I would say It depends a lot of the type of apple and the final texture you want. Something like a granny smith or a honey crisp will hold their texture better. Something like a red delicious or mcIntosh will break down quickly. If you want the apples to hold texture add them towards the end and preference the former, if you want them to totally break down the later will be better.

I don’t think them breaking down would be very good though as they will not create a smooth sauce that I at least associate with a Japanese curry.

Yah, they’re supposed to go in at the very end, if not off the heat outright, there are a lot of ingredients in them that are heat sensitive and will break down or cook off with long exposure to heat.

We’ve known for a while that the current government in Tehran has been willing to do awful things, but that it’s constantly being brought up now makes me think that this is an attempt to manufacture consent to start another war. This is, obviously, a very bad idea.

LDP, which has governed Japan almost uninterrupted for decades.

I think this actually undersells how unprecedented the LDP not being in power is. The LDP has been the ruling party in Japan since the end of US occupation in 1954, over half a century. The only interruptions being between 1994 and 1995 and between 2009 and 2011.

Japan’s modern poltical history is super interesting and less monolithic than that would make it sound, but it’s a big deal when the LDP isn’t in charge.

Let’s see if it flops just as hard as Blair’s attempt.

Nah this goes way back, this is home grown New Labor security state ideas. Blair tried doing it 15 years ago and has been banging on about it from the side lines since then.

Sounds like Putin wants to have his Baltic desert before he’s even finished his Ukraine.

I worry that if they do Gerrymander it won’t just be for the sake of beating republicans, but preventing primary wins by progressive candidates.

A lot of supermarkets like Kroger are particularly bad about pricing. They will stock stuff that barely anyone buys, lose money because the case goes bad long before it sells out, and waste space on super obscure goods, necessitating a larger floor plan. Then they take the cost of that and spread it over all the items that move regularly, pushing up prices for everyone.

Why do they do this? Because it helps kill competition. If they didn’t have the obscure item, the one customer in a 1000 who wants it might go to a second store, and they might buy some of the quickly moving items there as well. By incentivizing shoppers to buy everything at one store, they are able to kill off smaller competitors that can’t afford to take losses or are unwilling to stock superfluous items.

Aldi’s is a fairly good example of a store that doesn’t do this. They tend to avoid stocking products that won’t move quickly. Keeping the inventory, and thus floor plan, small saves them money and prevents them from having to spread costs over staple goods. This model is much more common in Europe, but in the US, particularly in suburbs where the density is super low, it easier for them to absorb all the local demand and thus push out smaller more affordable stores.

It’s a sales tax, effectively, a nationwide sales tax.

An attempt to implement a sort of regressive tax to offset the tax cuts. Shifting the burden of government on to working class people who are disproportionately impacted by price hikes on everyday goods.

It was never about on-shoring manufacturing. Always about stealing from the poor to give to the rich.

Even if the stores them selves end up having issues, or if most people choose to continue to go to private stores, the presence of a public option with competitive pricing will anchor prices at other stores.

Specifically, I could see it undermining any attempt to implement software based price fixing among the private grocery stores, where they all use a common piece of software to “recommend prices”, with the software set up to increase prices at an even rate among all the clients so that none of them are undercutting each other. It should be illegal, but since technically no one at the companies are communicating about it, it falls in to a legal grey area. I haven’t heard about grocery stores doing this yet, but it’s been well documented in everything from real estate and renting to frozen potatoes.

Disillusioning his base will likely hurt turn out of voters for all right wing candidates. I imagine he wants to siphon some away, but I doubt they’ll vote for him ether.

A lot of these people will just go back to not voting.

If you want a serious answer ask a serious question. Not an absurd and ghoulish hypothetical.

We don’t need to. We just need to stop letting business interests direct economic priority.

“ Get ready everybody, he’s about to do something stupid “

I wonder how much of him coming out now is him personally taking revenge on Adam’s in an attempt to torpedo his reelection campaign, and in turn crow bar the influence of NYPD people still standing by him.

Like, not doubting what he’s saying is true, but I wonder if he held his tongue till now because he feels personally burned by the system.