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@fraxinas@chaos.social (Aside, it observes that plant-based alternatives were not 'associated with risk' - even though these are typically processed in very similar ways to the 'risk groups' mentioned there. This alone should call into question their conclusion of "higher consumption of UPFs increases the risk [...]", because it strongly suggests a confounding factor.)

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@fraxinas@chaos.social This unfortunately seems to be yet another 'correlation study' that just observes that two things appear together, and makes no attempt to explain their relation (or provide any evidence that there's a *causal* link), if the abstract is any indication. Likewise makes no mention of poverty.

The data isn't entirely *useless*, but it also doesn't support "highly-processed foods are bad for you" either. Most nutrition studies are like this, and it's a big part of why I'm suspicious of the claims.

My Wayland implementation is in JS; it doesn't use libwayland, so I've had to figure out a lot of things from scratch because there's quite a lot about the protocol that just isn't documented. But once you can send and mmap file descriptors (two things Node.js does not do natively), it's very much viable!

The protocol is honestly not that complicated to implement. The problem really is just the documentation.

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food (vegan) 

Bread experiment progress: dough is completed and will proof overnight at room temperature. Significantly less yeast than normal, likewise much less salt (about a quarter of supermarket bread). Very curious if this works; if it does, I will have tasty and very low-salt bread!

Implementing-Wayland-from-scratch implementation progress: I now have an (incorrectly sized) rectangle rendering on my screen!

pretending to be vampires to scare a village into hating communism (real thing)

US politics, subtooting a political campaign (2) 

Like, the claim is that this campaign does more than just election campaigning, and if so, that would be good.

But the framing everywhere as "we can gain political power by getting poor people to vote, and we can organize them" (as opposed to "we will support them in organizing themselves") is not exactly confidence-inspiring. Smells of saviour politics.

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US politics, subtooting a political campaign 

If you want to get poor people to vote, have you considered showing solidarity with them by materially supporting them and acknowledging the source of their misery, rather than pretending that poverty is a bipartisan issue and all you need to do is convince people to go vote?

@zkat @xgranade@wandering.shop I feel like it's really only possible when you have direct agency over the operational side of "the company" - whether as a freelancer or as part of eg. a cooperative.

US politics 

Am I imagining things or does the Harris campaign actually recognize that there's a voter demographic under 50?

(And like all capitalist equivalents of other things, it has all the problems of the original thing, plus extra problems)

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Scottish trans and maybetrans folks, get on a GIC waiting list NOW! 

if you even have the slightest inkling that maybe you're trans, you have less than a week to self refer to a GIC.

Don't worry, you'll have a solid fucking decade to think it through anyway.

Apple. Apple please. You can't use the same short flag for two different things. Apple *please*

: Does anyone have a good article on how window positioning, sizing, bounds etc. are supposed to be handled in ? Something that goes into the different cases like the compositor telling you to resize your buffers, not just the standard initialization.

(Yes, I have read the XML already, so unless I overlooked something, what I'm looking for is probably not in there)

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@mvgorcum@chaos.social Yep, it does, thanks!

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@mvgorcum@chaos.social Podcasts are not really accessible to me, unfortunately.

@emily I am suddenly reminded of the *actually* reversible A and micro-B cable I had at one point, which certainly was a creative way to try and solve this issue

you can make connectors that look reversible from the outside (A, arguably mini), or you can make a fancy reversible connector that a nontrivial number of engineers will half-ass and get wrong (C), or you can use the one that has an obvious orientation so nobody has this problem at all

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