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the US is a fractal scam. At every level, everything is an attempt to extract money from ill-informed “suckers”, from the running of the government, to the prices of supermarket groceries, to the tipping culture at restaurants, to even finding a place to put your car [1]. Every single thing is someone’s grift. In order to function in America, you need to be willing to be suckered to some extent. There’s no way around it. Unfairness is baked into every transaction, and increasingly more social interactions.

What a quote. I will add that “we” also like to believe we have the most fair system. And in many ways, the “gotchas” are much more hidden and systemic than other countries. For example, you might be scammed haggling with someone in Southeast Asia, but we get scammed everyday by credit card companies making bank on every single transactions.

So now it’s not only dead internet, but dead society as well?

AI scammers scamming AI victims.

Weird person giving me something incredibly sweet. (Later found out that was a polio vaccination via sugar cube). The memory was very partially formed, but it should have been around 18 months old.

Other fully formed memory starts around 2 and half.

after all this piracy, isn’t it ironic that it’s the mega corps that that ultimately breaks our current copyright model.

Amazing. Thank you so much for the deep research and citations.

In other words, psychedelics seems to have a pro social effect on the mice? That’s very interesting. Especially in the world when we are increasingly trained to be anti-social.

I’m not quite sure I understand what “social reward learning period” means exactly after reading through that paper. Can anyone help explain that in more concrete terms?

How does one even plan for contingencies? 96-hour life support, but can specialized rescue subs get there in time?

This is outrageous, it’s unfair! How can you have one of the most upvoted posts and not grant me the rank of grand Reddit master?

Again, all of that is really testable. You can even blind test yourself at home.

Any salted meats will naturally form MSG when the glutamic acid binds to sodium. Pretty much all processed foods contain msg even if it was not an additive because it naturally forms on the foods themselves when free glutamate binds to salts. If you had any form of Japanese food cooked with kombu or seaweed, it also had high msg content.

None of this is even unique to Asian foods. Most cheeses are extremely high in msg, especially aged cheeses like Parmesan. Pretty much all savory foods contain some glutamate and glutamic acids.

Nah that’s a new unreleased swift model. Can’t have the shape leaked before launch.

I don’t think this is actually as bad as people say.

It’s not that we won’t have drinking water. Municipal water use is tiny! And provided with enough incentives (higher costs) people will use less water. And this can be done in very reasonable ways by issuing water tiered rates.

Agricultural water use, is a whole different topic. However, until we can incentives better water management on our massive agricultural lands, it’s only going to get worse.

Exactly!

It's absolutely insane, I remember needing it in a pinch to make some soups, and had to buy one for 8+ dollars at my local store, and it was like 4 leaves.... I went to the plant nursery the next weekend and bought a small bay laurel for 20 bucks, and never looked back. Zero maintenance, it seems to be pretty pest tolerant, and I just put it in my backyard in a pot close enough to catch some residual water from my sprinkler, and it has been thriving ever since.