Good point. Good old commercial determinants of health again.

Now I'm wondering if it's genetic or lifestyle / diet related.

Sus as the name is, this person does seem to exist.

Guest writing on huffpost in 2017

Hippocampus magazine, 2018

Nailed Magazine, 2015 (scroll about halfway down)

Role/Reboot, 2014

Profile at Antioch University

Photos match up and don't seem to be stock or AI. If it's a con, it's an incredibly long one.

In my (limited) experience, I've found them to be incredibly variable. I have one and it deals with oven-fry slop much quicker and with better outcomes than any actual oven I've used in my life. OTOH my partner's one takes at least twice as long for a worse result. So based on a sample size of two, you have a 50% chance of getting a good one.

Regarding air fryer recipes, it feels to me a bit like the consumer microwaves in the '80s. When they first gained widespread adoption here, there was suddenly an explosion of microwave cook books and stupid uni-tasking microwave gadgets like steamers, rice cookers and omelette makers (microwaving eggs is exactly as bad as you think, but we didn't know better at the time), all of which was only really designed to cash in on the trend. It wasn't for a good few years they settled into their niche of defrosting or reheating leftovers or frozen foods specifically designed for them.

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Jay Rukas? Toronto based.

Website
Amerikkka

No idea, just did a quick web search and he hits most of your points, I'm not going thru the whole back catalog to confirm samples and lyrics tho.

Cirrus Logic GD5428.

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Sounds like Elon took over her account.

I don't have enough theory or analysis under my belt to make any broad kind of comment, but I can speak to personal experience as someone who is still trying to purge myself of this particular brainworm (thanks hexbears). The propaganda is insidious, they get you young, and a lot of the time, it fucking works. I grew up on the tail end of the cold war, so I might have copped it a bit worse than some of the younger folks here, but I got shown my first piece of explicitly anticommunist propaganda about age five. Obvs I'd picked up bits and pieces coincidentally from other media, but primary school was the first time we got herded into a room and subjected to an "educational" video, which probably deserves its own post tbh. Despite being vaguely dissatisfied with capitalism and getting into punk in my teens, watching the Soviet Union fail collapse under the concerted effort of western hegemony (see? Fucking insidious.) kinda cemented me into the "but human nature / only works in theory" mindset for a long time, without actually understanding the theory at all.

All that to say, my gut reaction a lot of the time is still "China bad, communists want to steal your stuff" until the rational part of my brain kicks in and goes "Hang on a second!" - Most of that is due to reading the discourse here. But that rational bit takes effort. Consciously overriding the gut reaction is -hard-. Reading and internalising theory takes time and energy. And when you come home exhausted from a 40 hour week generating revenue for someone else, you don't necessarily have the mental resources to do that. Of course that's by design and I absolutely fucking hate it, but I get it because I'm still living it, and I don't think this kind of experience is particularly unique.

I have been known to enjoy a pie floater so probably. Heavily depends on the brand of peas though.

I tried out Bazzite on my Legion Go and was so impressed I immediately stopped distro hopping and installed it on my daily as well. Hardware wise everything works out of the box. It's based on Fedora Kinoite so it's quite well documented if you run into trouble or want to start doing weird shit. The few times I've had issues (mostly with flatpak sandboxing) they've been solvable with a quick web search.

Been a while since I watched Continuum, but I think they didn't overshoot. Most of them -thought- they did because only one person was aware of the actual goal.

Not 100% sure tho, should probably give it a rewatch.

Mostly I feel angry on their behalf. Individual responsibility is a myth, and they're victims of capitalism too. Food decisions aren't just based on money. Cooking requires time, effort and skills that are fading from society as a whole, mostly due to people being tied up in generating revenue for someone else. There's the education angle, whereby people may not be actively aware what they're eating is slop; industry is constantly trying to dilute labelling laws and advertising regulations to enable this. There's also the issue of availability outside of financial circumstances; food deserts and food swamps. Then there's shelf life; hyper-optimised "just in time" supply chains have fresh fruit and veg hitting the shelf at peak ripeness, and keep it under misting sprays (that actively reduce shelf life) so it looks great and sells fast, but doesn't last more than a day or two in the fridge at home. Why would you buy a lettuce that'll be dead in two days when a microwave meal lasts functionally forever.

There's also psychosocial modelling aspects that are both leveraged and molded by marketing to make it seem "normal" and "acceptable". There's habits, which are again molded by marketing, especially to children. This also ties into the comfort factor via nostalgia. I'm sure most people have a favourite garbage food from childhood. It's probably not just one of the above factors, but it's definitely not as simple as "get money, eat better" -- the entire food system is basically aligned to make sure people eat as much slop as possible. It takes a disproportionate amount of time, energy and know-how to circumvent that as an individual.

If you still have or can get hold of one, there's a community project to keep them running. Much easier on Android than iOS.

There are also a fair few repair and workaround guides for common hardware faults.

Is it just me, or does that second comment read like an LLM? Maybe I'm just paranoid but something about it feels off. Too formal, maybe?

This is Foka Wolf if you want to support the artist.

I suspect so. I remember getting a free trial from CompuServe when it eventually made it to Australia so I wouldn't be surprised if AOL did too.

When I used to do this, there was usually some kind of manufacturer code under one of the cardboard flaps in the top of the pack, usually a letter and a number. Superstition was that it corresponded to the row and column of the lucky smoke so you'd flip that one. No idea if that's still a thing.

They are. T&F recently cut a deal with Microsoft. Without author's consent, of course.

I'm fairly sure a few others have too, but that's the only article I could find quickly.