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I respect the grift

They managed to treat black people like a monolith while also calling those who disagree with them white chauvinusts Lmao.

It sounds useful, though don’t forget that you’re basically doing free marketing for private businesses! This is very similar to “union made” marketing. It will also be a lot of work, as you will either need to fight hard to research a critical mass of worker-controlled businesses and/or once you do have a critical number you will have to critique them. The legal aspect is just one part! What do you do about co-ops that are really just run by one or two jerks despite what is on paper?

These aren’t reasons not to do it, just some ways to take a critical lens to aspects of the idea so that you can prepare for the effort and make it better.

In my opinion, the key things to focus on are who is going to do this with you, how will it be sustainable if you eventually leave the project, and are there any angles by which to turn this into more than a consumer tool.

For example, co-ops are unfortunately rare, so this would not be very useful for someone wanting to see all the new co-ops to see in the town they live in. There are probably 2-3 tops. Checking the site even weekly would be fruitless for them 9 times out of 10. So really, this would only be for people to check rarely, like when visiting a new town, or because they haven’t thought about this before. If you want people to hear about new co-ops, you would want a mailing list of some kind.

So, my logic is that this would make the most sense as part of a wider effort. Maybe part of a local lefty paper rather than a totally separate thing. Local papers already try to do this with “traditional” businesses, particularly restaurants, curating databases and announcements that pepper their issues. Maybe it ties into a specific organizing druve to get more co-ops to form. When businesses may close, some cities have a tradition of offering the business for sale to the workers. Can your site help with that? If so, the ways it can help may assist you with figuring out where this project really lives and how it could have impact and engagement. IMO the ideal outcome is less about consumer choices and more about using the impression of a consumer choice platform to do organizing.

He thinks of himself as a comedian BTW. Just recycling the Boomer “lazy basement dwelling kids” griping unironically. If he weren’t such a fan of killing Palestinian kids it would be pitiable.

trump’s domestic fascism will become more real if he wins again.

Comrade this kind of thing had already been here, it is not unique to Trump.

In the American tradition, rate cuts are meant to be an anti-recession tool, making a softer landing from the high interest rate regime that actually precipitates the recession. Rate cuts can also be a way to attempt to delay recession, though obviously this doesn’t always work. They’re meant to keep nearly-failing businesses afloat a bit longer and make it so that more new businesses are created (lol).

Basically this is more of a symptom than a cause.

MY POTATO OLES!? WHERE ELSE WILL I GET AUTHENTIC MEXICAN CUISINE

Peak performance

Lmao just throwing away all branding so now everyone will think the payment facilitator button for their treats is a scam.

Probably, though DOTs are all governed in the exact opposite way. They are always looking for ways to have zero in-house staff for anything remotely technical. They just want to contract everything out to the private sector.

They love to give Uber, Lyft, and Google money for traffic data, for example. They can’t imagine doing GPS data aggregation themselves even when they are surrounded by 20 companies that can all do it. Hiring technical staff is somehow unfeasible even though they are still paying a company that employees technical staff and charges overhead. Part of it is that some of the companies do have little monopolies (e.g. Google Maps. Buy most of it is simply neoliberalism. Departments were gutted to cut costs with a promise that contracting to private industry would save money. Now that it is obviously not doing so, they can’t reverse course because the people controlling the purse strings need to be buddy-buddy with hr contractors to get that sweet Chamber of Commerce campaign support.

Like most big tech it is just a financial scam attempting to get monopoly marketshare and then jack up prices. Their technology is, itself, pedestrian.

If you are supplying thousands of devices to an org the first thing you should do is verify the supply chain / your infosec around the ordering process and then disassemble some when they arrive. All it requires is a screwdriver and a spudger at most. Personally, I would have been looking out for recording devices or GPS devices, but you would also discover the bomb material if you did this.

You need oxidants to live. Issues stemming from oxidants are about levels of free radicals getting too high in the wrong places for too long.

Getting good sleep, eating a balanced diet, reducing stress, and getting enough exercise are the best ways to reduce the chances of such a scenario. Realistically, these things are also just a way to maximize wellness and health overall and it is probably not very useful for most people to think of this in terms of oxidation.

Oxidative stress happens every time you exercise. People need exercise to have better health. Oxidative stress is actually a necessary part of a healthy life.

If aliens exist they would probably have many things just as strange. They would also need a way to harvest energy via some cycle. It is possible they would require even more reactive substances to live.

When we and other known organisms take energy from food we are actually taking molecules with higher-energy electrons, converting them into the high-energy molecules our cellular processes can use to do make cell things happen, and producing very similar molecules with lower-energy electrons. Rather than infinitely accumulating these molecules, our cells dump low-energy electrons onto another molecule that is amenable and thereby convert into a molecule ready to accept high-energy molecules from food (with a bunch of steps in between).

For us, as aerobes, the electron acceptor at the end of respiration is oxygen.

Oxygen as an electron receptor is newer than several others. Anaerobes came first. It was only after photosynthesis had produced a ton of atmospheric oxygen that it became a viable option, really. But it O2 is a comparatively good electron acceptor because the process in which it accepts those electrons allows cells to grab quite a bit of energy from that last step. It is fairly “electron needy” compared to earlier electron acceptors.

So, basically, aerobes get more energy per food unit (sugar molecule) than the vast majority of other creatures. You need it to live because it is an essential part of how your cells get food, namely, how it can recycle molecules at the last step of the respiration cycle.

The dietary antioxidant fad is mostly BS. They’re supposedly meant to counteract oxidative stress and specifically free radicals. Both of those things are part of a healthy life and you would die without them. So any real impact is not so simple as “just counteract those bad things”. Dietary antioxidants don’t always lead to higher intracellular antioxidant levels, either.

Some dietary antioxidants so lead to higher intracellular levels and may help buffer oxidative stress (like from exercise) but there isn’t much evidence that it doesn’t just boil down to “eating your vegetables is good for you”.

The pagers were Gold Apollo pagers, not Motorola. And Gold Apollo claims they were made in Budapest and distributed under their name as brand only (private company, who knows if that part is true).

Nice! Maybe just something to keep in your back pocket if the CPU keeps maxing out for long periods then.

Forget trans medicalization, it is time for trans parrotization.