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Hey, you should all go follow @jakebe for writing, Buddhism, and cultural commentary.

To my chagrin, I remember watching the Mayo Clinic episode of Good Eats and learning that mayonnaise is named for a military victory in honor of a French victory on the isle of Majorca, and from practical experiments I can attest home-made mayo really does taste better than store-bought because you can use better oil than expeller-pressed soybean.

I've been sitting here for an hour squirming awkwardly because NERDFACTbuni needed to say something but INONTHEJOKEbuni knew better.

@shel I CAN"T help that YOU cant taste the differents between STORE_BRAND and artisanal made-at-home Mayonnaise, and the glass is special crafter to enhance all the senses! It just doesnt LOOK right drinking fancy aoili from a Dixie cup. I use my grandfather's four-snoot Mayo shooters and that makes it TAStE BETTEr!

@Ulfra_Wolfe@witches.town It me.

@Gargron I think telegraf has a Ruby client and uses StatsD.

This is important. ignore the lede; the article is worth reading.

The Atlantic: A Nation of Snowflakes The Atlantic: A Nation of Snowflakes. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwma_2kTY

@aldersprig@tootplanet.space Eep? I thought it was all really neat.

@icefox @Azure @r3df0x @natecull I'm quite happy to be peeved about that, to be sure. Rather, I'm not happy that I am peeved about it, but I'm happy to talk about the fact that I am peeved about it.

@icefox @natecull @r3df0x @Azure I don't think Viet Nam is an adequate comparison, seeing as our role wasn't "peacekeeping" but "Communist containment" (http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/domino-theory).

@Azure @r3df0x @natecull @icefox Also, here's a corrected link for the study: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/09/new-study-finds-45000-deaths-annually-linked-to-lack-of-health-coverage/

@icefox @natecull @r3df0x @Azure I cited my sources in the linked article. If you want to dispute their findings, by all means.

@icefox @natecull @r3df0x @Azure I'm positive the UK has worse numbers than America does, to be sure, but I admit I haven't run them in full. And yes, it's fair to say that internventionist policies are difficult, but I'm talking on the level of "refusing humanitarian assistance or peacekeeping forces to try to prevent an active genocide."

@Azure @r3df0x @natecull @icefox For reference, "direct" means "as a result of intentional policy." Indirect means "knowingly refusing to intervene after having been asked for help."

@icefox @natecull @r3df0x @Azure Here's the master reference: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8199553/#cid:52629625
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade#Human_toll

Short-short:
Nixon: 800k direct, 2.4m indirect
Reagan: 325k direct, unknown indirect
Jackson: 50k direct
Buchanan/Polk/Fillmore: 120k direct
Clinton: 300k indirect
W. Bush: 100k direct
War On Drugs: 45k collectively
Healthcare: 45k/year (est) * 80 years = 3.6m.
Slave trade: Est. between 1.2m and 1.5m dead in transit, 4m died after capture/before transport.

@Azure @r3df0x @natecull I've run the numbers on mass deaths, and if we rightfully count the genocides of Native Americans and blacks alongside the preventable deaths from refusing to embrace national health care since 1935 when the idea was first proposed in the US, Americanism has killed about as many people as most dictators have. Most people are just used to shifting the blame to the victims in the US because there's nobody twirling a mustache.

@theZacAttacks@cybre.space @noelle Really, Voyager just doesn't ever lean into its premise. They blow through their limited torpedo count by season 4. They only mention the Maquis are rebels once after the first episode. There's no sense while watching most episodes that they're actually running out of anything. They undercut most of the available narrative tension by focusing on the trip rather than the emotional toll of the journey, and we know most of those shortcuts have to fail so there's still a show.

@noelle @theZacAttacks@cybre.space Voyager's big challenge as a show is that, because of its narrative superstructure -- "the crew is heading home" -- we know as a metanarrative that any "get home early" gimmick will fail unless it's a mid-season or end-of-season two-parter. That would be fine if they focused more on their limited resources along the way, but they devote considerable episode count to pursuing avenues of rescue we know can't possibly work because of how the narrative is being told.

@Azure @r3df0x @natecull I'm not particularly fond of Marx, mostly because I'm quite fond of poststructuraliam and postmodernism, particularly their more bohemian aspects, and Marx's attitude about bohemians seems to get summed up as "lumpenproletariat." I have little patience for people centering human value on "work" while automation is eliminating both the capacity for and the need to meaningfully employ people.