Canning of food began as early as 1812
The can opener was not invented until 1855
In between, cans were opened with hammer & chisel (!) pic.twitter.com/kteOTA3g6o
— Jason Crawford (@jasoncrawford) December 26, 2019
Well, that’s not very canny.
Day: December 26, 2019, 10:50 PM
Used Books
It’s sad that you can buy less than $100 of used books and know more about interface and interaction design than the entire staff of Mozilla and Google put together.
Hard Truth
If the FA types cared, a legitimate criticism of so-called “diet culture” is that you do not need all this that Kumail Nanjiani claims you need to get fit and strong.
Here’s what you need: as I’ve said before, about an hour a day 4-5 times a week of hard workout while eating fairly well will do it.
That’s it. That’s all. It’s part of “diet culture” to tell people they need personal trainers, thousands and thousands in equipment, special supplements and the like. That’s all bunk. You just need to put in the work. If you do that, you’ll get results. It, as Alexander Cortes sometimes says, is not “the science of rockets.” Just do the damn work and you’ll get there.
Wonderment
I wonder how much of the obesity increase in the US can be explained by the sheer fact that the narrative has become that it’s impossible to lose weight or to be different than you are, that it’s all fate and genes?
Though that’s not (mostly) directly propaganda, it is propaganda-like and therefore very effective at altering mental states permanently of those persistently exposed to it. This must have some effect. I don’t know that it’d be at all possible to tease out this effect with unbiased studies, but I’d guess it’s a pretty large one.
As an estimate, especially in the latter stages, I’d posit that 30% to maybe as much as 50% of the change in obesity levels can be explained by the near-propaganda of the “it’s impossible to change anything” narrative.
Pressed Out
🌹A beautiful public performance today by the Paris Opera's striking ballet dancers & orchestra.
France's strike vs. austerity is bringing art back into the streets.🌹pic.twitter.com/lRuw6faCRN
— Eric Blanc (@_ericblanc) December 24, 2019
Extensive strikes in France never get much coverage. I wonder why. Could it be…neoliberalism?
Security Is Always the Excuse
Mozilla Firefox claims to be about protecting the user and security, but the main thing they want to protect is their ability to track you while locking others out from doing the same.
That explains nearly all of their user-hostile moves and the asinine claim that security and customizability are at odds. These goals are only at cross-purposes if one chooses to make them so; it’s not some natural state.
Fucking idiot rat bastard transparent liars.
Temp
Quantum mechanics is easy compared to understanding how temperature works and why (though to really understand it, you have to get some quantum in there, too).
Narrative Crawn
Cancel Culture Is Chaotic Good.
Disagree, but it’s interesting how the narrative is that if only people you dislike have been cancelled, cancel culture does not exist.
But oh how the tune changes when someone liked gets cancelled….