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Nah, wasn’t me. Read.

fat for eating too much

Wait, is anyone in the medical community contesting that? Besides, that’s a tangent to the comment that triggered you, I think.

asserting with no evident rationale that this must be directly connected to businesses… having food left over

Yes, I think the comment that irked you is assuming that the reader accepts the premises that the USA is overconsumptive, that this is due to an ideology of endless surplus, that the cancerlike imperative that line must go up is laying waste to everything, and that these thought patterns lead to bad decisions like OP is calling out.

Not evident to you, I suppose… fair enough.

Yes it is.

See? Easy when you don’t have to justify a position. Shall I make an appeal to authority to seal the toxicity?

Food sovereignty and food security are much more detailed and nuanced than this, but yeah this illusion of shameless abundance has been the operating principle for many decades, justified by industrial production methods at grand scale.

We now know, or rather have remembered, that diversity in production is the secret. The andean civilizations cultivated thousands of varieties of potato before colonization, so that microclimates and disease resistance and ripening and a variance of growing conditions could be addressed, for ensuring a ready supply across all possible disasters. Much of that legacy has been lost.

Industrial production squashes this kind of resilience in favour of ‘illusions of shameless abundance’, tied to scaled up methods. For instance, the Cariboo potato is a yummy garden variety but proscribed by AgCan because it messes up tractor attachments.

He’s what it takes to keep doing it for years. Relentlessly. The good kind of a nut. Might be hard to work with, I would not be surprised.

Cobol mavens burned both ends of the candle and made bank, while making banks work.

Many were old enough to retire after that.

Did you mean Media Access Controllers, or macOS?

Nah, a lot of us around the world just use The Four Ingredients, and prefer bread that is simpler yet tastier. Your numbers might be very regional.

You are a hominid. We are a troupe species. We are susceptible to social manipulation which can overwhelm our reasoning, because we survived based on trust.

Some of us have overstimulated amygdalas because of biology and various kinds of anxiety. This enhances the vulnerability to manipulation by another minority, the sociopaths.

For the species to continue to survive, we must keep the sociopaths from manipulating and the amygdaloids from falling into cults.

If you accept it, this is your mission.

Hm, I guess an encyclopedia article is more relevant than a dictionary definition, so sure. I was using the looser secondary definition… in this case an elision that references a dialect in order to call up regional relevance to the opinion expressed.

I dunno, cf. 1.b definition of idiom in the OED: dialect usage, and 2.a is dialect usage for effect. Maybe the definition is changing with the ages, or your usage is overly strict.

Well we can argue over the niceties of the word idiom, but as it’s referring to the way the word is pronounced in specific regions of North America, it qualifies as meeting one of the definitions of idiom.

Elision refers more to the absence of an understood word, such as saying ‘my bad’.

My bad, elision can also refer to slurring syllables together, so it’s both.

That speling gave me eye twitches.

In the English language, specifically North American dialects, this is a form of idiom.

Nah, the commenter calls out Israel in other threads.

I thought it was just a troll account but madlian has posted 200+ comments on a 1 week account and is not agitating or a contrarian, is not even wrong most of the time, just contemptuous and enjoys being an asshole.

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Yes, we call that “structural racism”.

That’s… a very russian attitude!

Yeah way to advertise that you’re a mouth-breather, right?

Yes but you need to give in and set persistent cookies.

noai.duckduckgo.com is what should be default, not the reverse.

Yeah hang onto that, someday you and I and OP will be contributing to a federated repairWiki of some kind.