Hey bud, FTC, not FCC. Both woulf be bad but this might be worse.

FTC website (current 20250319)

The Commission is headed by five Commissioners, nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate, each serving a seven-year term. No more than three Commissioners can be of the same political party. The President chooses one Commissioner to act as Chair.

FTC website (current 20250319)

The FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection stops unfair, deceptive and fraudulent business practices by collecting reports from consumers and conducting investigations, suing companies and people that break the law, developing rules to maintain a fair marketplace, and educating consumers and businesses about their rights and responsibilities.

They do have a ruling. 1935. May not without cause. Specific language is inefficiency, neglect of duty or malfeasance in office. So your point is…?

If you mean the slider, fair enough.

If you were like me and didn’t know about the double slider; if you drag the comment left, the first symbol is to collapse to parent, if you keep dragging a bit further, it goes to reply. Hope that helps!

Don’t stress, the plastic’s got 'em. Thanks for taking the time to share your explanations though.

I beleive the Ukrainian government said something along the lines of “we’re willing to negotiate as long as there are assurances of support should Russia resume invading” and were told they would get no auch assurance from the US…

So is your positon

a) european countries should put boots on the ground

b) a country should stop their defence with no 3rd party guarantees of protection should promises get broken

c) something else?

Land of the free, patriots of the eagle, when my side does anything, it’s totally leagle

Said Canada to the US…

Wonder if they will ask certain athletes to remove necklaces etc.

https://www.yardbarker.com/tennis/articles/unapologetic_novak_djokovic_proudly_flaunts_his_serbian_orthodox_cross_once_again_after_frances_blasphemous_opening_ceremony_antics/s1_17325_40674459

For sure, good call out, I think they just mean only 21% of people feel sure about wanting kids, and if we remove the age bias it goes to 26%. Honestly it would be more interesting to compare the categories to answers from 10, 20 or 30 years ago to have a better benchmark for how we could interperet this.

Thanks for this, so I redid the math using the two youngest categories (up to 34 years old) and the % goes from 21% to 26% 🤷‍♂️

Just because people can consume pure lard, and gain a tonne of weight, it doesnt mean theyre not malnutritioned. It also doesnt mean they dont experience hunger.

If you take a step back and consider the primary question that needs to be answered is it

a) What weight is a measure of hunger/poverty - people must be over x weight irrespective if health and were good. b) What food availability us a measure of hunger/poverty - people must have reasonable acess to a basic set of nutritional inputs and were good.

You seem to be following a - people are fat, so hunger doesnt exist

When it would be equally truthful, with a different conclusion to say - people are feeling hunger and experiencing malnutrition. When they can eat, what they can afford causes increased body mass without fulfilling their nutritional requirements. They also continue to feel hungry.

Treat food similar to medicine, the good benefit is the target, but there are also side effects. Cheaper food has a worse profile - fewer (not none) benefits, and higher side-effects.

Theres also more complexity to this - poverty isnt just $. Education, transportation, time, exhaustion, health. Many intersections and impacts that paint a persons life.

If only there was some way to confirm, short of only reading the headline, if theres more to this.

Oh, apparently theres further text in the article, for example 29% said their financial situation is precarious. 11% say they regularly dont eat enough, so they have enough food for their kids, 24% say theyre very concerned with coping with the increase in food prices. Oh and 12%, within the past 6 months, have skipped meals while hungry.

So the article sources survey data, you’re basing your claims on better primary data I take it? Or maybe secondary public health database datasets? Something else?

LOL, America did what now? Invented English? Met an English fella the other day, born and raised in New York.

Except that you now depend on the physical nature of the universe in which you reside, when it fails, the universe fails. And this universe also does not in any way guarantee your survival outside of a physical body.

Yeah, think they interpreted it as sunak warned others, rather than sunak was warned.

Let me know how it goes, even if its months from now. Happy reading!

Robert Jordan, Terry Goodkind, david eddings are all good too, and unfortunately all have passed away so dont expect more books!

Solid Snake in the Witcher

Can you explain how government enforced monopolies intersects with the discussion here?

I guess olive with it ;)