The four groups used by this Nova classification system are:

• Unprocessed or minimally processed foods, which can include whole foods, fruits and vegetables, fresh meat, eggs and milk.
• Processed culinary ingredients, which can include certain condiments, oils, salts and sugars.
• Processed foods, which can include preserved and tinned fruits and vegetables, preserved meat products, breads, fresh cheese and
• Ultraprocessed foods are those that undergo industrial processing and modification using food derived substances such as fats, starches and proteins, and may include coloring, flavor enhancing chemicals and preservatives. These include chocolates, soda and energy drinks, pre-packaged meals, baked products and pastries, certain breakfast cereals, sweetened yogurts and juices.

Ultraprocessed foods — sometimes abbreviated to UPFs — are often referred to as "junk foods,"which should be consumed sparingly.

Okay, but these are largely just foods with high salt and sugar content. And high levels of salt/sugar are used for the two-fold benefit of increasing consumption and longer shelf-life.

Nothing in the article, but I’d be willing to bet the same people who eat heavily preserved foods are the ones living in food deserts and other areas that lack affordable fresh produce, adequate kitchen amenities for home cooking, and clean drinking water.

In short - poor people.

For the proprietary software, a lot of it is front-doors. Literally just pay-to-prey. Government agencies pay the big data companies to access their warehouses of scrapped data that come directly off their clients’ machines through explicit information harvesting protocols.

That said, it is technically harder to have a covert backdoor in an open source system. But it isn’t impossible, or even particularly impractical, so long as the vulnerability remains reasonably obscure. It would be naive to assume your standard array of linux oses are unassailable.

Less dumping ground and more release valve. The people Reddit is jettisoning are many of their more active and prodigious content creators and contributors. The site admins simply don’t want new human content anymore. They want passive observers who will consume advertisement content without creating drama.

Reddit simply doesn’t want an active user base. They want passive viewers ingesting AI generated content. Much better for advertising revenue that way.

Sure. Although that’s just a matter of unplugging your computer from the Internet. Also, at least in theory, Linux isn’t actively leaking all your data into various Cloud services. Microsoft OneDrive and Google Drive are just invitations for the NSA to paw through your file system.

I just can’t imagine how Linux protects you from posting on Facebook.

Another option and a more long term solution would be to go back to the roots and relearn the basics of living !

That requires large plots of arable land.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Clara_Valley

The valley, named after the Spanish Mission Santa Clara, was for a time known as the Valley of Heart’s Delight for its high concentration of orchards, flowering trees, and plants. Until the 1960s it was the largest fruit-producing and packing region in the world, with 39 canneries. The growing high-tech industry in the 1960s transformed the area from farmland to densely populated cities, and it became referred to as the Silicon Valley.

But we paved over paradise and put up a parking lot.

There’s no unfucking that chicken. We are living in a world that is substantially less arable than it was a century ago. We do not have an Eden to go back to.

Less criticism and more pity.

Sheryl Sandberg seems like a Grade A asshole to work for - possibly the only woman CEO I’ve ever heard of getting #MeToo’d. Zuckerberg is an absolute baby-brain completely up his own asshole with delusions of grandeur, outright comparing himself to Roman Emperors.

But if you get into the tell-all released by Sarah Wynn-Williams, all you really take away from it is that this company is as corrosive to the body public as it is ravenous for economic expansion. There’s no “keeping close” that’s going to be good for you in the long run. Might as well try to keep a rabid dog on a short leash.

I am very much a left-winger, but I still read right-wing papers and articles, I like to know what the other side is thinking.

I’m not above peaking in on Citations Needed or QAnon Anonymous to see how the other side lives. But the actual right-wing material itself is really ugly stuff, particularly in the modern moment. When it isn’t nakedly xenophobic or Mean Girls callously cruel, its just pumping your eyeballs and ear holes full of the dumbest fucking advertisements imaginable.

Not good to ingest that stuff.

They just need to throw some bread and games at us and we go one living as nothing ever happend.

I mean, there’s not a whole lot of alternative. It seems like the only two “valid” avenues of resistance are retreating from society into a hermetically sealed bubble and starting a podcast.

And Facebook as an integrated part of the international surveillance state has been firmly established since Snowden leaked the PRISM program.

Like, there are a lot of reasons to switch to linux and plenty of them are compelling. But its an absolute fantasy to believe you’re somehow immune to surveillance because you’re using the same software as Amazon’s EC2. Does anyone really believe the NSA hasn’t cracked Linux Mint yet?

Or, for that matter, that using a linux desktop is going to insulate you from being spied on via a public facing 3rd party social media forum?

You think its bad now? Wait until all those Chinese cargo ships don’t arrive with the retail resupply in another week or two.

The 8 hour workday was implemented days after the Bolshevik revolution. And the 6 hour workday was reserved for utopian fiction outside of Communist states.

You’re being deliberately obtuse.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the USA is making “Japan into a war-fighting headquarters”.

Imagine being Japanese right now and finding out your beautiful country is being transformed into a punching bag.

SWAT Teams were not a Neighborhood Watch. The MOVE Bombing was not conducted by a neighborhood watch. Iran-Contra wasn’t committed by a neighborhood watch. The invasion of Grenada wasn’t done by a neighborhood watch. The Wedtech scandal wasn’t a neighborhood watch affair.

I know I’m missing like, several dozen other horrendous things that makes Reagan’s presidency comparatively cute.

You’re neglecting a litany of crimes and scandals and dystopian expansions of the security committed under the Reagan administration.

Reagan was happy enough to wrap himself in the Southern Cross. Why apologize for him like this?

https://www.marxists.org/history/ussr/events/revolution/documents/1917/10/29.htm

In the Soviet Union, the eight-hour day was introduced four days after the October Revolution, by a Decree of the Soviet government in 1917

https://www.marxists.org/history/ussr/government/1928/sufds/ch17.htm#%3A~%3Atext=On+the+other+hand+the%2Cworking+day+averaged+7.5+hours.

The labor efficiency has risen through better industrial processes and better machinery. Output per worker in the Soviet Union is still low by Western European standards, but it has been showing a healthy rate of advance. The advance has been aided by a campaign against absenteeism. In 1913 the days of actual work per worker in industry were 257. In the fiscal year 1921-22 they had fallen to 219.5. In 1926-27 they were 262.1.

On the other hand the length of the normal working day, which was 10 hours before the war, was reduced to 8 hours at the beginning of the Soviet régime, and for dangerous occupations to 6 hours. During 1926-27 the working day averaged 7.5 hours.

The Council of People’s Commissars, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Soviet State, in November, 1927, decreed the gradual introduction of the 7-hour day in industry. This is being put in force first in the textile industry.

From the 1928 release of Soviet Union Information Bureau report on labor.

GEE WHIZ WHO WOULDN’T WANT THAT

The promise of Copilot is this fanciful idea of automating every job that involves a computer.

So employers love this, because it is supposed to usher in a drastically smaller office fully of middle management prompt engineers who can simulate a new worker with a few button clicks.

That’s the dream. That’s who it is for in theory. In practice, the technology doesn’t work.

I see absolutely nothing wrong with hyperventilating at each and every one of them, though.

Treating each President as uniquely bad leads to people losing sight of the structural problems with the state because of their fixation on the ideosynchrosis of individual office holders.

Trump isn’t merely using the presidency incorrectly. The presidency is designed as a vehicle for inflicting brutality and he’s just aiming it at people we sympathize with.

Bush had Liberty University graduates flushing out the Clintonites from the FBI to the SEC to the EPA. He very famously purged the DOJ in order to influence prosecutions, then groomed a new generation of governors and house reps with the replacements. Bush also oversaw the DHS and the militarization of immigration through ICE.

Reagan had the Heritage Foundation hires who oversaw dismantling public sector unions (the FAA most famously). He tried (and ultimately failed) to eliminate the Dep of Energy. His administration also heavily privatized the US military, which cleared the way for companies like Raytheon and Halliburton to assume critical roles in manufacturing and logistics - a role Elon’s Starlink is currently usurping.

Just in Time shipping strikes again

Can’t wait until Christmas

I mean, these numbers are still crazy low relatively speaking.

You really got to wonder what that 2 in 10 thinks about the history of presidents of this country.

It’s honestly weird to see people hyperventilating over Trump when I’ve lived through the Bush post-9/11 War on Terror and the Reagan Era War on Crime.

Both had wildly unconstitutional surveillance and arrests, extra-judicial black sites and torture prisons, partisan purges of agencies, corporate multinationals capturing government agencies, and all sorts of naked corruption.

Trumpism isn’t new, it’s just poorly marketed. The biggest difference between Trump and his predecessors is that the media clapped like seals when prior admins were committing these atrocities.