While coca cola has a full fridge of plastic bottles in the shop. Not just in California, on the whole planet.
Pepsi. And all other products basically come packaged in plastic. They are allowed to continue doing so, but you puny nobody, has to constantly purchase new reusable bags because reality is people forget that kind of stuff. I don't go around making sure i have a reusable bag in my car at all times, in case I need it in 3 days.

If you do, you must have a very comfortable and boring life, to actually think about how many, if any, reusable bags you have in your car...and man do I envy you if this is your life, or maybe not.

Thailand tried to do this in 7/11s. I just stopped buying anything more than what I could carry in my hands, and even then, I almost dropped it all crossing a busy road with no zebra crossing and got myself killed and/or caused damage to the cars with the beer bottles that almost fell out of my hands onto the road.

I get the desire to pollute less, but you people are so indoctrinated by the companies to think it's all your fault, while pepsico and cola are free to do whatever the fuck they want. If a politician is going to try to make me not use plastic, fine, but make your bosses not use plastic either, and then it's fair.

Trouble is. You can't make your boss do anything, so coca cola is getting a pass here. It's all your fault you dirty consumer human.

> First off, broccoli has a higher ratio of protein to calories than ground beef. Plants as a general rule are not low protein, they're just low dry-mass density.

I'm not sure what you just said here...but it sounds incorrect. I might have misunderstood this sentence, but I don't think so, so let's analyze and compare brocolli and beef, generally.

To get 50 grams of protein from beef, you would need to eat 192grams of beef, which is about 500 calories depending on how fatty or lean the beef is.
To get 50 grams of protein from brocolli, you would need to eat 1.8 KILOGRAMS of brocolli, which is 625 calories total.
This is because 100grams of beef contains 25grams of protein, while 100 grams of brocolli contains 3grams of protein.

This is generally true for all plants, the numbers differ slightly. Let's talk more general, and not just about brocolli now.

Second problem is, the protein in plants is NOT the same as protein in meat. That is why meat contains all 9 essential amino acids, while plants miss certain ones such as methionine, lysine, and others, depending on the plant. The only way to get a full profile, you have to combine plants and grains that supplement each other, and this is not easy thing to do and most people have no clue or interest to go that deep into nutrition, and even if they are willing, combination of these foods is not possible because the foods may not be available at certain times, or overly expensive. Let's look into that next.

The third problem is, most of the planet has seasons. Things do not grow in winter time, which is why certain foods are pickled in autumn in preparation for winter, and even then, you are barely scraping the surface of vegetables available to you. Yes, we live in 2024 where you can just pop down to your supermarket and get pineapple from Indonesia in a can, but humans did not evolve to eat like that because supermarkets did not exist up until, what, 70 years ago? And those vegetables and fruits in a can are not good for you at all, they contain way too much sugars, and preservatives so they can withstand the transport, and then sit on a shelf for months. Completely unnatural, and are considered as processed foods.

Then you have a problem with plants that it's missing micro nutrients necessary for proper function of human body. These are:
Creatine, Vitamin B12, Iron, Carnosine, omega-3 fatty acids, Taurine, zinc, iron, etc.

Plants are completely devoid of this, and ALL of these are required for a human body to function in optimal capacity. Again, you can supplement... but at this point, you need 2 phd professors of nutrition to design a meal plan for you, and then loads of money to procure all these rare plants, grains and other that often cost a lot depending on where you are located, since it must be imported.

You do not have to function optimally. Humans are adaptable and you can function without Creatine, but not very well. If you decide to starve yourself of micro nutrients, and over a course of 20 years create unexpected health problems that is fine, but this cannot be forced upon a population. Forcing population to starve themselves is done in times of famine and war.

You may say, beef lacks vitamin c for example, or vitamin a. Let's look at that argument.
100 grams of liver provides 40% of RDA, I don't know how much vitamin A is in it, but it's A LOT. It's more than you should have, and actually you can get vitamin A toxicity if you eat too much liver. Look up the correct number for Vitamin A.

Carbohydrates, glyconeogenesis. Body converts proteins into glucose if it needs it. There is no essential carbohydrates. Overloading on them is fine in circumstances when you need it, such as high intensity sports. Overloading on carbohydrates when you don't need them is what leads to diabetes. Meat does not cause diabetes, sugar does, and carbohydrates are sugars and slowly over time insulin resistance develops and then diabetes in effort to control blood sugar levels by pancreas.

Problem with what people eat today is not meat, it's highly processed garbage meat devoid of nutrition or foods that have high levels of certain nutrients such as inflamatory omega 6 acids, such as linoleic acid. Mcdonalds cheeseburger would be a problem, and these are literally in every corner of the developed world.
Foods high in omega 6 fatty acids are:
Rapeseed oil (canola oil)
Flaxseed oil
Soybean oil
and other seed oils.

Mcdonalds cheeseburgers are high in all the wrong nutrients and devoid of all the good nutrients. These "foods" where used to demonize the meat industry for decades, but lately people are catching up to that.

One more thing about climate... we de-forested half the planet, and then blamed the cows and now want to dictate how healthy people should be, based on how much money they have. I can promise you that the same politicians that want to limit your access to meat, will not limit their own access to meat. I will have to eat lesser food, they will not. That also goes for rich people. You think that Mark Zuckerberg going to eat crickets to save the planet? No. You and me will, and they will eat oysters and fly in their private jets to preach about how humans should eat less meat to save the planet.

A lot more can be said about this...but there's not enough time. Eat natural food and well balanced meals depending on your energy expenditure requirements.

> The overarching (or underlying) question is whether Google/Android (and Apple) are aware of the vulnerabilities being exploited by Cellebrite and whether they intend to fix them.

Or do they have some sort of arrangement with manufacturers to leave the door for them in a direct or indirect way?

Guess answer to that question we will never know.

> saw the timeline entry 10 years later and was able to go back to the place.

10 years later... maybe try something new?

I for one definitely will not enable this horrible privacy invasion thing, just so i can drink coffee at the same spot i drank it 10 years ago, but I can't remember the name of the shop.

> It's creepy, but has legit value

Everything has "legit value", but not much of it. On a scale 0 to 1, it has value of 0.0001. Guess you can find a coffee shop from 10 years ago, that's the value.
On a creepy scale however, it ranks way up. Corporation knowing and tracking my every move and every place i visit at any time of the night and day. Even THEY think it's bad idea.

> maybe add filters to only retain info for businesses and tourist destinations

Social networks, or some of them have a similar feature, it's called "checking in". I think you can find the list of places you checked in, but I don't use this either, so not sure.

> It's rediculous to run "global warming planet dying" articles in a newspaper right next to "OMG we need more humans on the planet" ones.

Both narratives are stupid, and not true, as most things are that you read in the news nowdays. But that's fine, because it doesn't matter. People are stupid too and too comfortable, so they obsess over such bullshit things because they have it too good, and have nothing better to do. Nature has a way of self correcting.

Watched it yesterday because I was bored. I got more bored as this movie went along. Jesus what a predictable movie and annoying main character.

There are cult movies that are timeless, that can be rewatched even 20, 30 years later... like Terminator (the only issue with that movie for me is that i already watched it 30 times)...this... this is just mass produced stuff that's alright to have in the background while you scroll on your phone and ocasionally look up to see how long until its done. Maybe I feel that way because I grew up watching movies like Casino, Terminator, BTF, and countless others since the 80s, movies that actually relied on good storyline, acting, and people who made them were proud to make them and not just dish out something because there's nothing else,and to make some money on the new social concern. AI.

Lazy.

At least they didn't preach about fucking social justice like many others do. So get's 2 points just because of that. Now it's at 5/10.

Obesity, and general poor health leads to lower reproduction capabilities. Many want to have children, or.... "wouldn't mind", but they can't. Either they have no desire for sex, or they just can't do it, and when you look around in a western society, it's not surprising.

Nature is rough, it has no feelings. People that choose to destroy their bodies willingly (seemingly majority of the population) will become sick and non functioning, and even if they manage to get an offspring, that offspring may end up sick and non functioning, either by nurture, or if there are genetic changes due to generations of bad diet. Nature will take them out of the gene pool, eventually. It does not care.

It's extremely hard to eat healthy nowdays,and it's not just about makros (fat, protein, carbs) and the ratio of each, it's all the chemical compounds in many food store bought that prevent food from breaking down properly. Metabolic diseases are rampant in western society, nobody gives a fuck. Probably waiting for a vaccine for it.

I'm not quoting any science on this, and there's a lot of science on this. It's also common sense that do not require one to quote 40 peer reviewed scientific papers.

1. Exercise, resistance training and aerobic training at least every 2nd day, the older you get, this gets more important
2. Forget that following food exists:
  - Canned food
  - Frozen food
  - Heavily processed food, such as salamis, pepperoni, certain types of cheese, sausages, etc. Most stuff that comes in a packet and has a long shelf life
  - Sodas, fruit juices, or stimulants such as coffee or energy drinks
  - Pizzas, burgers, sandwiches (unless made at home with quality ingredients...burgers can be "healthy" if you use real cheese, home made buns, clean vegetables, grass fed high quality lean beef) and fuckn forget about french fries and coca cola. French fries are disgusting.

Most will not do this. They will become fat, then obese, and they will normalize this behavior with their children, if any, and eventually they will take themselves out of the gene pool.

The declining birth rate is just ^ that...in effect. It already started. The nature is self correcting. Check out natality graph for any modern country, or actually for most countries... modern or not. It's going down. We reached the peak, and now are in correcting phase.

The strong survive, the weak die off.

Joke comments aside, there has been significant decline in male testosterone levels (look it up, it's easy to find and I mentioned this before and quoted the relevant papers) in the past 30 years, and phtalates seem to be one of the reasons why this is as they are endocrine disruptors.

Decline in testosterone in males lead to infertility, muscular atrophy, easier to gain fat / obesity... and plethora of other issues.

But yeah... let's joke how it's all good since nobody turned into a plastic man yet.

It is possible to do something about this (finding better sources of water).

> But hey, nothing like a little casual racism mixed in with extreme ignorance to make yourself look ridiculous.

The post you replied to was not racist at all. He said "even in Japan" ... actually putting Japan above the US / EU, as Japanese are known for politeness and efficiency. Why do "YOU LOT", whoever you are, have to call people racist even when the only thing they mentioned is another etnicity, and not even in derogatory way? What is actually wrong with you?
I don't know what's wrong with you, but this is what's wrong with a lot of westerners. Everything is polarized and anybody saying ANYTHING is just labeled as racist immediately... what a rotten way to live life. I pity you.

As for trains in Japan, I only been on the underground in Sapporo, it was crowded...but polite and not too bad. Still, I would rather drive my own car than chase underground stations on -7c and wait for trains, and walk on ice and snow 5 months a year. In Sapporo, it snows heavily during winter months, and daily temperatures are ~ -6c (40 f) with extremely strong Siberian winds blowing.

Anybody that says otherwise is just lying, and quite possibly virtue signalling, which is another....first world disgusting trait.

And it is going that way, and people are willing to let go of their freedom for a bit of convenience.

Combine CBDCs with a full on Chinese social credit system, or whatever west will have if/when the rulling class manage to fool people into accepting such a system, and that's it. Game over.

There's another thing about CBDCs, and that's programmable CBDCs. Here's a quote from that site:

"Programmable money is money with in-built rules and that comes with constraints for the user. With these rules, money could also be programmed to have an expiration date or be restricted for certain goods, for example. A CBDC with these restrictions would affect currency performance – and come with palpable legal implications. This would certainly influence the acceptance of CBDC."

What about rate limiting?
  - Sorry, sir, you drank a beer an hour ago... you can have one more in 5 hours 11 minutes. FOR YOUR SAFETY CITIZEN!

Or ...
  - Sorry sir, we do not approve of you using money to buy thing X because we don't like it. Your attempt to do so has been logged, and the inspection police will be on your doorstep in 5 to 10 minutes.

Yes, pretty far fetched, dystopian, but POSSIBLE if the right circumstances occur (and judging from utterly stupid reaction to covid, those circumstances do not need to be extraordinary)... and be sure that the power will abuse it. So fight any way you can for cash to be king...not that it is anymore, but at least it's around.

This is why cryptocurrencies are important, or better say maybe.. "decentralized" currency. Yes, scammers, blabla... sure, that exists... but also totalitarian fascists exist, and this cbdc shit in the wrong hands is going to be bad for everybody.

It's probably all of those. What you put in your body influence your endocrine system among other things, testosterone levels are also tanking which increases risk of obesity, and decreases fertility. There are studies showing that phtalates are one of the causes, and "birth control" would definitely count as another.

It does not have to be only one thing. We're removing ourselves so far from nature, it could be accumulation of a dozen different things we replaced nature with.

Phtalates and testosterone impact study:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Facademic.oup.com%2Fhumre...

Liberals stand for freedom of speech and expression, whatever that may be. Thats how it was when i was growing up. The classical liberals.

Todays liberals are book burners and censors. Any idea that they do not agree with they want to burn it to the ground and lynch whoever came up with it, or in modern times...cancel them. Fuck that. Thats how China operates, well close to it.

Now go to chatgpt and ask it to give you a joke in style of ricky gervais.

We just call them liberals, they are fascists in disguise.

And this site is full of them, rationalizing their bullshit any which way they can. Im not american nor have i ever been there so no, im not a republican or conservatist.

At the bottom of the summary:

"The researchers note that it's possible some of the crocodiles were acting out of parental concern, rather than blood lust. "Nile crocodile mothers respond to distress calls from their own young, and their attempts to bite the loudspeaker might not be as bad as they look"

"and their attempts to bite the loudspeaker might not be as bad as they look"

LOL what in the f... now even the crocs have a chance in this world of "equality". Is that what "woke" is?

I started playing games somewhere around 1993 on a 386, and continued playing on PCs that I owned, up until I got my first child. After that, I just don't have time ...and I choose to do other activities instead when I do have free time. I'm talking about rich story games that take days and even months to fully finish. RPGs, FPS, Strategies, Simulations, Management games. All of it. I found that lately if I start playing such games, I just can't concentrate and immerse myself into it the way I could when I was younger.

Now, I recently bought a second hand PS4. I'm "casually" enjoying it often. Games like Crash Bandicoot or Crash Bandicoot team racing... are brilliant.
Just turn the PS4 on, game starts in about 1 minute... no problems with drivers, performance issues, OS issues, compatibilities with gamepads...nothing. Just press X on the game I want, and off it goes.

If I was asked this question 10 years ago, would've voted PC. Now, it's PS4.

PC gaming is far superior in every regard except convenience, and with all the life's worries, I find more convenience to be more important to me than better graphics.

Learned that people are pretty much sheep (not learned, confirmed... happened again sometimes around 2021).

The people know it, the gov know it, the 3/4 letter agencies know it. They can do whatever the f they want, and you won't do anything. You will go to your elections and vote for them again, and again, because what else you gonna do? huh?

They are doing it right now, dunno what... but they are doing something that sheep will be outraged about in 10 years time when they find out. Same thing going to happen, probably even less simple outrage considering how pussified everyone is getting, and how used to surveilance and control everybody's getting.

I look at the young people today, and holy fuck... there's no hope until the system itself falls apart just because it reached it's lifespan.

Bad times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, weak men create bad times.