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So what I'm hearing is we just need to return to tradition and start curing our own meats in our backyard smokehouses?

Looks unpleasant but generally not dangerous.

I think that's the point he was trying to make.

Damn it.

Could we perhaps grow a whale in the vacuum of space?

You're right, its a suboptimal example.

But I can conclude that its not so dangerous as to lead to imminent death / disability within 30 years. So how "unsafe" is eating processed meat anyway?

The article makes like you're doomed to develop colon cancer if you mom ever fed you a single bite of hamburger helper as a kid. Obviously, that's a ridiculous conclusion.

Hmmm, could we perhaps make a large enough one from a whale stomach?

Also what definition of "safe".

My grandpa eats at least one burger per week and he's turning 90 next year. So obviously "safe" isn't a measure of imminent and near term death?

Yeah, def dread the day Gabe leaves the company.

Probably an unpopular opinion, but I'd rather have a wells regulated (whether externally or internally regulated) monopoly than a farcical competitive environment.

Looking at power companies, I grew up in a market that had a regulated monopoly. The power company had strictly enforced (by state government) regulations on how much it could charge for services, cost per kWh delivered, reserve components for maintenance, etc. They owned and ran the infrastructure so they served as a single point of contact to install solar. Life was simple.

I now live in a deregulated area. At least once per month, I have someone coming knocking on my door trying to get me to swap to their provider, my bill is an arcane mess (I still don't know how much I pay per kWh), and its be autocratic mess trying to get the solar/home batteries spun up for my house.

I think steam is doing great for an internally regulated company. I have my druthers (see everyone else's comments about not owning your games), but its way better than the streaming wars with Netflix and Disney Plus and such. We see how bad it could be, but it isn't. That's what I see "breaking up" Steams "monopoly" would become.

Exactly

Was not expecting an actually educational response to my meme of a comment, but boy is it delightful to receive.

Really appreciate the information!

that they used to consist of only the leg bits

Now I'm more confused. Are you saying they used to be, like, leg sleeves? Oh, and that's what you would need to tie them to your shirt.....man that's weird.....but I guess it'd be easier to weave 2 cylinders without the crotch bits.

Edited comment weird. My original comment just had the quote from the article where Trump said he didn't know that was a slur. I replaced that quote with the full original Trump quote, with the edit (but left the original middle piece from my original comment)