I don’t notice normal LEDs generally.

But anything moving in front of Christmas lights gives me a giant headache. It’s incredibly obvious.

It’s the same for the wallpaper; just not visible really. But it bounces between a variety of my other pictures, too.

The fact that 99% of LED Christmas lights are mini strobe lights.

Yeah, I never really have anything I want for gifts because it’s either way over the top and not something I’m going to have someone buy for me, or it’s reasonably cheap and I just buy it way before anything anyone would give me a gift for.

But I’ve been buying myself a bunch of books lately, including some of the nice versions of Brandon Sanderson books. They’re expensive enough that I can’t just buy them all. I got a signed leatherbound copy of Elantris for Christmas.

IDK. Goodreads said I’m in their top 1% for the year lol, and I only track the books I haven’t read before.

Not a game, but I don’t look at game high scores and other people are doing random stuff too.

lol flour is the only thing I care enough to weigh. Volume is just so insanely inconsistent.

It doesn’t really matter, though. The only cause of companies pulling their content is Netflix’s success. There was no way Netflix could have prevented it.

Well, they let me order my lists (and actually display the order). That’s good.

No way to bulk add books to a list? Not so good.

Worth keeping an eye on, though.

Astro’s playroom comes with it, but there’s also a full game.

The plucky squire is a really cool concept of a game that I enjoyed as an adult, but is written and presented like a story book (you literally jump out of the book and manipulate pages for some stuff), and it’s definitely appropriate for kids both in terms of complexity and the writing.

Privacy, apparently.

That sounds awful.

If nothing else, because corporations use it incredibly effectively to tailor behavior manipulation to you personally.

I won’t debate this point either way. There are definitely ranges to quality, and I haven’t see bona fide research on the impact of factory farming and limited strains vs whatever else.

Also, processed doesn’t automatically mean unhealthy. It more just enables incredibly unhealthy things to be done either as preservatives or to cut costs.

But the biggest impact on health is from the ready, cheap availability of low quality, high calorie food that is actively optimized for overconsumption, and the fact that frozen prepared foods (and fast food) that are affordable are generally not very healthy because of cost cutting. So that’s the best point of emphasis to be healthier.

Yeah, that’s basically what I’m saying.

I didn’t make the argument about the value of subsidies because the actual details of how they encourage domestic farming is above my pay grade, but subsidizing then taxing the specific use that’s damaging is way more “removing the active incentive to do harmful stuff” than it is [whatever his argument is?].

I didn’t propose anything.

But your summary makes absolutely no sense. A tax on manufactured corn syrup after subsidizing corn is functionally the same thing as removing the subsidy for just corn used to make corn syrup.

Get a bigger cat.

I’m sure you could ride a lion.

I’m not saying anything about sales tax.

I’m saying that if you tax foods high in corn syrup, you’re just making it cost what it’s supposed to cost. You’re literally subsidizing the least healthy food at the moment.

Half of them are only cheap because of heavily subsidized corn being heavily processed into an inordinately cheap sugar substitute.

Taxes aren’t really raising prices so much as undoing the subsidies distorting the market.

Not really.

If you cook from ingredients, you’ll usually be reasonably healthy. It’s not impossible to make healthy prepared foods, but it’s (comparatively) expensive enough that that, not awareness, is the main limitation.

Pick between the good place season 1, 3, 4 finales.

But I don’t really look at shows as by episode generally.

Because they’re P2P. Just watching is also distribution.

So yes, in reality, they’re sending legal threats asking for viewers to voluntarily pay fines to avoid being dragged to court.