Yup, but the chemical they replaced it with is almost exactly the same, and there’s not much of a reason to believe it’s any safer. Also, it could be safer if they just didn’t dump the chemicals, but we all know how that goes.

I think attributing that to the use of color is a dramatic over simplification. The capitalization of human psychology stems from one thing and one thing only, our current form of capitalism which prioritizes maximizing short term shareholder return above all else, with long term shareholder return coming in second.

Also, if you’re not going to let me pull the Hitler card in this situation, I can just pull the slavery card. What’s worse, a population with a high rate of depression, or a population with a high rate of literally a slave? (We have that too in the US because forced prison labor is a thing and is considered constitutional at the moment)

Or what about when entire ancient civilizations had their history erased when conquered?

Or what North Korea is right now?

Like, seriously, you’re telling me the use of bright colors is the worst crime ever committed against humanity? We’ve been using colors for thousands of years, you could at least pick something like Sugar that’s actually addictive and causes disease and depression. Or cigarettes which also do that while also fostering poverty cycles. I could come up with so many things worse than using colors.

PTFE is the product, Teflon, not the chemicals they use to make it. PFOA was replaced with another chemical that is basically almost as bad, potentially exactly as bad

I mean, I think Hitler committed worse crimes, just saying. And DuPont. And a lot of other companies/people.

Artificial sweeteners. Everyone is so obsessed with whether or not they cause cancer that their other potential effects get much less attention. There’s a major industry push to keep them on the shelves, and we still have only recently discovered the gut microbiome.

Lol good point

Worth noting US corn is quite different than corn of the past due to selective breeding and such

I also use Arch btw

Isn’t that just carbon?

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4043030-hard-liquor-consumption-is-up-60-percent-since-the-1990s/

I know, it’s the hill, but I’m on mobile and don’t feel like getting a better source. We’re not drinking more than ever, but we are drinking more, and it is becoming more normalized again. Also doing it for thousands of years isn’t much of an argument since we only recently even discovered cancer

Worth noting companies usually know it’s dangerous way before the public does.

The chemicals used in Teflon manufacturing

You don’t think your guy who literally tried to fire anyone investigating him and has plans to increase the power of the president if he gets re elected wants to be a dictator? Propaganda is indeed working, the shit is straight from his mouth you dumbass

“Fascism: a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition”

That seems pretty on point to Trump, most things he says follow those lines. He likes Putin, he wanted to have all the power/authority not just over the exec branch, clearly is racist, says racist things, and does racist things. Loves wealth inequality and supporting policies that increase the wage/income gap and reduce law enforcement against the wealthy/increase it on the poor, chose supreme court justices that would force social norms onto people against their will. If he had his way, he’d absolutely love to be the head of an autocracy.

Maybe some of my points are stretching it, but that last one is pretty much all that’s needed. The term Fascist isn’t automatically Hitler, just like conservative isn’t automatically Hitler.

Except most people don’t use adblock. I don’t even know how they live

Arch has been my go to for almost 10 years now, and it was one of my favorites for 5 years prior. These days I rarely have any issues from updating. I have to use Ubuntu for work and I dread every distribution upgrade. I got lucky and the last one worked on my work laptop, but usually something stupid breaks.

I run arch on my laptop, my previous laptop, and my server. The install on my server is 7 years old now, and started life with an entirely different CPU brand. I won’t say I’ve never had to do any manual intervention, but the answer has been a Google search away pretty much every time.

I use Arch BTW

My problem is that if I click on a text post thumbnail expecting it to expand the preview like with image posts, it opens the post instead

Trauma