“We’ve just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela - a large tanker, very large, the largest one ever seized actually. And other things are happening so you will be seeing that later and you will be talking about that later with other people.”

He speaks like a child, a pernicious little child

Even back in the 90s, her plan was a private sector plan. “Third Way Democrats” wouldn’t do anything unless it shoveled money to corporations.

I don’t understand. The internet is just a series of tubes. Why don’t they just transport the shit directly?

They really are the worst people

The agency has said it is conducting a major investigation and coordinating with Oxfordshire County Council, Thames Valley Police, and National Highways.

And they was usin’ up all kinds of cop equipment that they had hangin’ Around the Police Officer Station. They was takin’ plaster tire tracks, Footprints, dog-smellin’ prints and they took twenty-seven 8 x 10 colored Glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of Each one explainin’ what each one was, to be used as evidence against us Took pictures of the approach, the getaway, the northwest corner, the Southwest corner And that’s not to mention the aerial photography!

That’s a beer that’s harder on the kidneys than the liver.

I think you should go read it again. It isn’t really clear when she died.

“worth”

And it was not creepy at all:

Anonymous, if you’re listening…

According to whom? The Heraean Games were held in conjunction with the ancient Greek Olympics. Are you saying that they were designed to spare men’s feelings, or are you saying that the tradition of sparing men’s feelings was already in place in the ancient world?

Trump will waive the fees for compliant companies (Amazon, etc.) while enforcing it everywhere else. Small companies will lose, and it’ll be just that much more leverage that Trump has over corporations in general.

Ihre Papiere, bitte

What AI wouldn’t know about tribbles?

A San Jacinto man who authorities believe masqueraded as an employee at three Southern California hospitals and used insider knowledge to enter secure areas stole $300,000 worth of surgical equipment and skin grafts, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department said.

When asked for a statement, the man replied “We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.”

Well, you know what they say. Someone could shoot him on 5th Avenue and no one would care.

Perhaps you should start buying your meat from somewhere else.

Sure, the person eating it can probably tell. But often that information isn’t collected in the survey being used in a study. Standardized questionnaires don’t necessarily capture this information. Some of these studies are built on old datasets because they are looking for long term affects. Sometimes all you have is ‘burger’, or ‘chicken soup’. Sometimes you have even less than that. Sometimes all you have are the answers to questions like, “In the past six months, how many times per week did you eat red or processed meat?”.

Now, sure, some studies are based on surveys that collect information about the level of processing, but these have issues too, ranging from moving the interpretation of what processed is over to the subjects of the study, to protocols that include verbose food diaries that no participant could be expected to adhere to for long.

These are simple words used to broadly define categories of foods with the assumption that people understand they’re not going to list out every fast food and restaurant burger in the United States sorted by calories and ultra processed ingredients.

Yes, and these are the words that most likely appear in the retrospective survey results on which these studies are undoubtedly based. My point was that equating a set of words that describe end products (like ‘burgers’, or ‘chicken soup’) with a set of words that describe preparation (‘ultra processed’, or ‘minimally processed’) is not at all straightforward. Any word (or at least many) in one set could be mapped to almost any in the second set. I just chose ‘burger’ out of convenience. If you told me you had chicken soup for lunch, could I automatically know if it was ultra processed or not? Would a researcher know?

Again, though, burgers vary. Yesterday, mine included sliced red onion, arugula, and a slice of swiss. No ketchup, no mustard, etc. I did put dab of olive oil based herb sauce (that I had made prior to this) on it. Yes, I’d say that the bread was by far the most processed part of the meal. I’m just not convinced that this burger was worlds away from a steak and a side salad.

I know not all burgers are the same, but that is the point isn’t it? I found my meal hyperpalatable, but should it be considered ultra processed? If it should, then how should we distinguish it in discussion from even more processed versions? I don’t have an easy answer for this.