commandar

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[–] commandar@kbin.social 2 points 6 months ago

or if they are, they get their house firebombed.

For those unfamiliar, this isn't hyperbole:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendlyjordies#Firebombing_incidents

[–] commandar@kbin.social 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

There’s literally someone in this thread right now saying you can eat raw pork in America without worry…

The correct response to that is to provide the actual guidelines based on actual data, not to fearmonger while quoting lines referencing wild game.

A huge part of why commercial pork is safe -- that you're consistently leaving out -- were major changes to how livestock are raised. Trichinosis transmission in pigs is primarily caused by the consumption of infected meat; US standards were changed to more strictly control what's fed to pigs, which led to the decreased risk. The risk remains in wild boar because they're omnivores that will scavenge whatever they can find.

145 is still a limit people need to follow, lots of people don’t.

145 isn't a hard limit. It's the recommended holding temperature for one minute.

[–] commandar@kbin.social 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

The USDA and FDA, which both lean conservative in their recommendations, consider whole cuts of pork safe down to 145F (roughly equivalent to cooked to medium):

https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2011/05/25/cooking-meat-check-new-recommended-temperatures
https://www.fda.gov/media/107000/download

This has been the case for over a decade. Pork should be cooked but the old 160F recommendations have been gone for a long time now because commercial pork is relatively safe.

Also note that this is the one-minute pasteurization temp; meat can be held at a lower temperature for longer to render it safe.

[–] commandar@kbin.social 2 points 6 months ago

Nevermind abroad. A lot of them would do well just to get some actual exposure to larger cities in their own states.

Part of the urban/rural divide is fueled by the pervasive belief that cities are lawless hellholes because they've never had real exposure to it.

[–] commandar@kbin.social 15 points 6 months ago

Worth noting that ATC is unusual in that there is both a maximum age that you can start (30) as well as a mandatory retirement age (56).

[–] commandar@kbin.social 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Sustainability is a large part of Framework's mission as well. The CEO has explicitly said that one of their goals is that none of their laptops should end up in a landfill.

[–] commandar@kbin.social 13 points 7 months ago (3 children)

The transmission in those things is an amazing level of suck, too. It's this bizarre automatic manual thing that's just awful to drive.

[–] commandar@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Stakeholders are people with any kind of interest in the company doing well

Corporate social responsibility as a concept is even broader than that -- it's not just anyone who has interest in the company doing well, but broad consideration of anyone impacted by the decisions of the company.

A company might be able to save operational costs by dumping toxic sludge in a river, but within a CSR framework, people living downstream would be considered stakeholders and the potential negative impact of the decision on those people is supposed to be taken into account when decisions are made. The corporation is supposed to have a responsibility to do right by anyone impacted by their actions wherever possible.

At least that's the theory. It shouldn't be surprising that the language of CSR gets pretty commonly coopted by companies looking to whitewash what they're actually doing.

[–] commandar@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

“Canceled” is a term assholes came up with to rebrand “consequences” to make it seem like something that isn’t their own fault.

Not sure I agree with this particular take. My recollection is that this usage of cancelled started in progressive internet spaces and was absolutely used to describe consequences for being an asshole.

It's the exact same trajectory woke took -- it was language used by left-leaning people that got co-opted and intentionally diluted by conservatives.

[–] commandar@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

The reality is that they already have all the excuse they need.

Personally, I'm not a fan of the side that's perfectly happy with pursuing genocide having the perception that they have a monopoly of violence.

[–] commandar@kbin.social 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

Easiest way to kickstart it is arming at-risk minorities.

California's strict gun laws have their roots in white conservatives' reaction to the Black Panthers marching with rifles while St. Reagan was governor of the state.

The upside of this strategy is that if the gun laws don't change, then at least those minorities will have some means of protecting themselves.

[–] commandar@kbin.social 53 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Refusing to cooperate with Democrats is what sank him.

He needed support from Democrats to keep the Speakership. He's spent the entire year giving them no reason to trust him -- including going on the Sunday shows this week knowing this vote was coming and trying to blame Democrats for the near shutdown.

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