I tried to find out what you were referring to - was it the rude person in the vegan thread? If you look, they were pretty heavily rebutted and downvoted by the other users.

The mods uphold the community guidelines, ideally without overreach. If someone’s out of line, but not technically breaking any rules, the other users are usually good at putting people straight.

This. Dirt cheap material cost, no additional machining costs.

You’ve basically said much of what I was going to!

We know where memories are stored in the brain, physically. The biggest problem with targeting specific memories is simply a matter of working out which neurons are tied to that memory.

We can already, fairly crudely, see roughly where a memory is stored by looking at brain activity when the patient recalls it. We can also directly trigger memory recollection by applying electrodes to the brain during brain surgery.

There’s still massive engineering challenges to overcome to get this to a practical stage, but engineering challenges are usually surmountable. With that in mind, do I think the technology will be doable, ever?

• Technology to erase specific memories - absolutely.

• Technology to replace specific memories with new ones - I suspect yes, but that’ll need some big leaps in our understanding of how memories actually work.

• Technology to do this with just a flash of light - no, probably not.

TIL George Orwell was a pen name.

Just for the benefit of anyone who doesn’t know, this is not the actual etymology.

It just started as a misspelling of “owned” (with p and o being next to each other on the keyboard).

Here’s an example of a sentence where a missing comma completely changes the meaning.

Those cases are different, and are dealt with through your country’s asylum process.

I suspect the N words in question are very much white.

I focussed on the obesity statistics because that is what you were talking about.

OK, let’s flip this.

According to you, people with no money are not only buying junk food, but buying it in quantities to become overweight and obese.

People with no money are buying large quantities of food.

Is that what you’re claiming? Is that how the world works in your head?

I’m saying that people with no money have no money to buy food. You’re saying that people with no money somehow also have enough money to buy large quantities of unhealthy food.

At this point I can only assume that you’re just arguing bad faith, because there isn’t anything complicated to understand here.

How are you not getting it?

You’re right in claiming there is a link between obesity and poverty. However the difference in obesity rates between the upper quintile and lower quintile is still less than 10%.

Obesity is a problem across every single wealth bracket.

There is a problematically high number of people in America who are both poor and obese. But there are about twice as many people in poverty who are not obese.

Of course, and it’s a common trend around the developed world.

What’s important to realise, though is that there are huge swathes of people who are poorer than that. People who need to choose between eating and heating. People who go without just so their kids can eat.

The obese poor people are not the ones who are starving (obviously). They’re not the ones in abject poverty.

Let them eat cake?

Believe it or not, there are other countries than the US on the internet.

Also (and I suspect an even more difficult concept to grasp) even within the US there are people with barely enough money to eat anything, let alone junk food.

Look at the data - 47 million people in the US face food insecurity. Do you think these people are trapsing down to the food bank only when they fancy a change from McDonald’s?

It’s good to be sceptical when you hear stuff that surprises you, but do a bit of research before dismissing it.

Is your toothbrush enchanted by a penguin’s suitcase?

I remember you from several months ago. I see from this post, you’ve not taken onboard any of the help and advice from last time.

Either that, or this is just a trolling account you turn to every now and again when you’re bored.

You’ve decided to leave Lemmy after being downvoted for posting links to conspiracy videos disguised as a question?

FWIW, I didn’t downvote you, but surely you must see why other people have?

I’ll provide some similar examples, hopefully you can see the problem.

“Is it true that deep down women really want to be treated as slaves? These Andrew Tate videos raise some compelling points. Link. Link”

“Is it true that black people are trying to wipe out the white race by diluting the purity of our bloodline? Here are some convincing videos. Link. Link.”

Obviously these examples are worse than yours, but they’re exactly the same form. Nobody wants that kind of thing in their feed. Nobody wants to be asked to watch tinfoil-hat crackpot garbage before they can properly answer a question.

With the failure rate SpaceX is hitting with their Starships, that problem would likely take care of itself.

100%

“Cooking is art, baking is science”

With very simple recipes, e.g. white bread, you might get away with it.

The more ingredients you add, the more chance something won’t behave quite as it should.

Maybe

I promise I’m not trying to wind you up, but I’m not sure what the first sentence means - sorry!

As for the second, there’re five countries that identify as communist right now - but I’m sure you’re aware of that, otherwise you wouldn’t have put that caveat in the original question.

No it isn’t. There isn’t a difference.

You asked for an example of a “FULL COMMUNIST” country.

I’m saying that no-one can for exactly the reason you can’t name a fully democratic country or a fully capitalistic country.

The truth is people are messy and the world is messier still.