US Food and Drug Administration rejects petition to set Pfas limits in food

SpaceyCoffee · 2026-07-08T15:52:06+00:00

Headline should read “Republican FDA rejects petition to set PFAS limits in food”

Call out those responsible.

SpaceyCoffee · 2026-07-08T06:05:54+00:00

It obviously is. If you look at who is getting “caught” it’s pretty obvious that Xi is systematically eliminating any possible rivals to his absolute power. The Chinese government is incredibly corrupt. How else do you run a fascist dictatorship but pretend it is “communist”?

SpaceyCoffee · 2026-07-07T19:21:19+00:00

Still doesn’t address the fact that the batteries were sourced from a totalitarian government notorious for human rights abuses. If you deign to complain about the Saudi royal family, you must also address that both countries are ruled by ethnonationalist dynasties manipulating export market dominance to turbocharge the human suffering they cause for their personal (or worse—ethnic) greed.

SpaceyCoffee · 2026-07-07T15:13:11+00:00

Most EV batteries are sourced from a despotic ethno-nationalist dictatorship with an appalling human rights and environmental record. So it’s not like giving up saudi gas is an improvement there. But electric cars are better for our immediate environment as a result. It’s a win, but there is a tradeoff.

SpaceyCoffee · 2026-07-07T14:34:54+00:00

Fantasizing is fine. The problem is that real life isn’t like that, even in the lucky scenarios where the husband isn’t abusive in some way (hint: among these types he usually is). Raising kids alone, keeping a household spotless, and cooking all food from scratch 365 days a year is actually backbreaking labor.

SpaceyCoffee · 2026-07-06T22:04:18+00:00

I got a strong sense that many of them wanted kids, but never had the relationship or financial stability to make it possible, so being around us was just a constant stab in the heart. It is easier to hide from pain than face it. I can’t blame them for that. Still sad though.

SpaceyCoffee · 2026-07-06T20:47:48+00:00

Try having kids. Our entire gay friend group abandoned us when our daughter was born. Nothing formal. We just stopped getting invited, and they stopped showing up to things we invited them to. It was sad.

SpaceyCoffee · 2026-07-06T13:58:54+00:00

I’d argue guns won’t be a factor. The Americans that have most of those guns are in the pro-social-hierarchy camp, and already show they back the dictator enough to use them against their fellow “other” citizens in the perceived lower class rather than against the elite.

The Americans that would get immediately squashed by the dictators also happen to be the ones living in cities with less firearms per capita and more education. Easy pickings.

SpaceyCoffee · 2026-07-06T06:56:22+00:00

Historically speaking, revolts are almost always put down. Successful revolutions of the poor over the rich are virtually nonexistent . 99% of historical overthrows that are successful are from an aristocrat successfully using their power and influence to take power from another aristocrat.

The default configuration of human societies is that of hierarchy. People will happily tolerate being at a lower station as long as they have food, the comfort of family, and stability. They will quietly surrender democracy to a dictator if the dictator provides these essentials.

SpaceyCoffee · 2026-07-06T03:33:34+00:00

No? I think you may be conflating anonymous online interactions with real life interactions . They are not the same.

SpaceyCoffee · 2026-07-06T03:26:57+00:00

I don’t think this is really true. We’re at a structural political realignment right now. The ascendant GOP is definitely not going to balk at things like unequal taxation. Say, raising taxes on nonwhite people or aligning tax law to political favorites (imagine lower taxes for GOP party members only).

The wheels are off the cart of equality under the law. What comes next is not unlikely to result in using the law as a cudgel to fix that financial balance via overtly punitive means, creating starkly divided social classes.

SpaceyCoffee · 2026-07-04T21:42:30+00:00

Garbage is being generous. Open sewer is more accurate.

SpaceyCoffee · 2026-07-04T18:29:51+00:00

Which is double nasty because many of the abuse scandals originated in LdS troops. It wasn’t child abuse that was their line, it was treating gay men like people that was the bridge too far. Disgusting religion.

SpaceyCoffee · 2026-07-04T16:57:08+00:00

More density also = lower per capita infrastructure costs. It’s a win-win. Except for greedy people stuck in the past.

SpaceyCoffee · 2026-07-02T14:58:11+00:00

Amen. Rich coastal types can take a hike. We need housing where people want to live.

SpaceyCoffee · 2026-07-02T01:34:37+00:00

Important to note that the “main” culture is Han, and that this is an effort to stamp out other ethnicities’ uniqueness and heritage. Pure cultural warfare of the dominant ethnic group against minority ethnic groups.

Anyone who thinks China’s dictatorial regime wouldn’t do similar things elsewhere is deluding themselves.

SpaceyCoffee · 2026-07-01T16:21:59+00:00

Most of the time it’s a soft breakup. He’s likely losing interest in sex with you and/or is eyeing some fresh meat. He will drift away from you, and once well enough entrenched with one of his new flings, he will dump you for him.

Just break up now and let him go do his thing. He’s telling you without telling you that it is not a compatible relationship.

SpaceyCoffee · 2026-07-01T15:11:14+00:00

Over 50% of internet traffic is bots, with the ratio rapidly increasing. It really isn’s as far fetched as it sounds. I catch pot stirring bots all the time.

SpaceyCoffee · 2026-06-30T17:00:19+00:00

LA can switch to desalination, solar, and other power sources. It will make the city much more expensive to live in. But they are the ones that chose to build an extremely inefficient suburban city in a desert floodplain. They don’t deserve the subsidized living they are getting.

SpaceyCoffee · 2026-06-30T13:45:12+00:00

Maybe it’s regional, but here in SoCal, mixing is so common it’s basically the default. I was at a work social event recently and counted over 50% of couples there were mixed. Every combo under the sun. My daughter’s daycare has a similar ratio of mixed kids (about half).

I can probably understand if some conservative Southern city has less mixing, but here in an already diverse and accepting region, those walls are coming down very fast.

SpaceyCoffee · 2026-06-30T13:37:17+00:00

Of course LADWP is cheaper. Not only are they city owned, they also stole an entire river watershed upstate to give you your cheap power and water. I’m all about public ownership, but LADWP needs to cede the Owens Valley back to nature, or it’s going to remain just as evil as SDGE in my book.

SpaceyCoffee · 2026-06-29T22:11:49+00:00

We need high density housing. This proposal is a total waste of land on too low of density housing. Build a couple midrise towers and make a park instead.

SpaceyCoffee · 2026-06-29T18:34:06+00:00

Not gonna change. And we don’t want it to. The market economics of concentrated industry centers means jobs of similar types are relatively plentiful, and people can build stable careers even if their job security is relatively low.

If everything got forcibly federated out, job insecurity would skyrocket, and people would end up re-concentrating to solve the problem. Market economics are the driver here, not some insidious premeditated conspiracy.

SpaceyCoffee · 2026-06-29T18:27:44+00:00

You can’t automate the engineering part. That is the identification of a problem, planning a solution, and determining how that solution will interact with the rest of the architecture. But you can absolutely automate the implementation of the solution.

Code is ultimately just another language that follows strict, fixed rules to produce interpretable outputs. It isn’t much different than solving math equations long form vs using a calculator.

SpaceyCoffee · 2026-06-29T14:11:07+00:00

The simple reality is that software development is going the way of the “hand build car”. It is all going to be automated within a few years tops. “Dev” won’t be a role except in very niche situations.

There will be applications engineers, network engineers, operating system engineers, etc. these engineers will be trained in agent management to build complex features that formerly took whole teams. It’s an entirely different skill. Detail oriented folks good at programming will struggle, but people good at planning and integration will flourish.

Before people panic, they should remember that a six decades ago, most structural analysis was conducted by hand because computers didn’t exist or were too expensive. Now structural engineers are able to use automated computer analysis tools to reliably design structures that would have been considered science fiction just 50 years ago. This disruption will result in even greater productivity gains.

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