Trainguyrom

For positive change to occur in a specialized industry you need industry knowledge. Yes that introduces conflicts of interest that have to be managed, but to regulate an industry you have limited knowledge of will just lead to chaos and garbage legislation.

For me, I'm just the computer janitor. I keep the servers and computers running and get poked to create a lot of reports from the databases. I'm also at the corporate level where I get to hear a lot of tea regarding what goes on in the field and I'm occasionally invited on site visits so that I can know that I'm giving the folks I support the right tools to do their jobs. So I've got a decent idea of what goes on in the ground and in the field, but I'm also not beholden to the industry

I've had some workplaces where they instituted overly heavy-handed crackdowns through IT Policy then rolled them back after a couple of weeks because someone in upper-manglement needed to see the impacts in the real world that they already were already warned of before they could be convinced that their genius new policy wasn't such a good idea

I have some podcasts I'll listen to at 1.2x speed but it's usually because I'm trying to get it to properly fit a given drive. I have one relatively frequent drive that I can nicely fit 3 episodes of a daily podcast at 1.2x speed, but otherwise is too long for 2 episodes or too short for a third at 1x speed. For audiobooks though I stick with 1x so I can fully take in the content.

For reading I really only read in bed now, so it takes me about 2-4 weeks to finish a book usually

Funnily enough I actually work in the industry. I work at the corporate office of a national company that works in several hundred food processing facilities. I also married into a farming family. So I'm just close enough to the food industry to get a really good idea of just what goes down. The most damning thing I've learned is some facilities are terrible but most are pretty good.

One of my duties is managing the company's incident and claims database and while there's plenty of facilities which haven't had an accident in over a decade, there's some facilities that have a reportable accident daily. Every day there's someone who doesn't leave work in the same shape they arrived in. And the people working in these facilities are the most vulnerable people, the formerly encarcerated, immigrants and undereducated minorities. The people who work in these facilities often have no better options available to them.

This is why we need stronger regulatory bodies. Some facilities are dangerous and should not be open (this is across all food producing and processing facilities, not just meat processing plants. There's RTE (ready to eat, meaning you can literally pick up the food off the conveyor and safely eat it) facilities for example that need to be shut down due to terrible safety practices. There's farms that need to be shut down due to dangerous contamination on their crops. This isn't a problem of "meat bad" but a problem of some businesses not upholding basic food safety/safety/animal wellfare standards

Personally I found it entertaining but mostly in a junk media kinda way, much like candy where you enjoy it while you eat it but afterwards just feel a little sick because you shouldn't have indulged so much.

There were some interesting sci-fi ideas mixed in that hopefully some future person will tease out into a better and more fleshed out story

So basically, if the show looks interesting give it a go, but don't expect any highbrow grand scifi epic because it just burps in such media's face while directly pulling inspiration from the same media. Oh and the fans tend to suck.

I switched from the Sam's Club 30 minutes away because I was tired of getting Walmart grade crap to a Costco 50 minutes away. Prices are a little higher, quality seems not quite as much higher and when we do the math, the savings over just going to Target or whatever aren't always there

So just to give some hope, when I was in high school, my highschool had a really cool setup for the history classes clearly designed to address this problem of history books aging poorly and not enough time in a school year to reasonably cover history. They instead broke history class into 4 separate classes that you take one each year of highschool. First year covered conflict of the first settlers and native people through to the year 1900, second year covered 1900-1950 third year covered 1950-1980 and the final year covered 1980-present, so not only did I get to learn about events like the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire and Watergate but also we talked about the War on Terror (because I was also born in the 90s) and many of Bush Jr's policies

Obviously being in public school, they took a relatively safe approach to covering some of the stickier topics (I specifically remember being royally confused when learning about the Red Scare and kinda going "wait, but what is so bad about communism?" Or the talk about Desert Storm, Desert Shield, and later the Iraq war wasn't as clear about just how pointless those wars were than they could have been. Or the talk about Reagan didn't cover so much of his devastating policies, or the Watergate scandal was basically framed as "Nixon was kinda quirky and didn't trust people!" etc.) but it at least gave an incredible baseline of historical background to understand most US policies from and a baseline to fill in with my own research later on in life (which I absolutely have! Learning more about practices of Mercantilism in the 16th-18th centuries really brings all of the colonialism and enslavement of "lesser" peoples into clarity, or learning in more depth about Nixon's and later Reagan's policies and how they influenced the modern era. How Roger Ailes worked with the Nixon and Reagan administrations and from that experience turned Fox News into the Republican party trumpet that it is today, etc. etc.)

There's a difference between the slaughter of animals for food, where it's a heavily regulated process by the USDA to ensure it's as safe, sanitary and humane as possible, and done for a reasonable purpose (feeding people) vs just killing chickens in your home because you think it'll enable you to perform magic

I think you've hit the nail in the head, she's self-reporting what her life was like as a teenager but it hasn't yet clicked just how fucked up it all was

~~If there isn't actual evidence that someone used sexual favors to get where they are, that's honestly a pretty sexist assumption to make about a person, since it's an assumption only ever made of those who were AFAB~~

Edit: I'm too tired. She admitted it in the OOP

That's wild! I got 2 of them at least

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Idk I always feel like the OP when we stay in a hotel with a king size bed. Honestly it's too big, if I wanted to never touch my partner we'd have separate beds