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foxyv commented on UK infants ill after drinking contaminated baby formula of Nestle and Danone bbc.com/news/articles/c93... · Posted by u/__natty__

rlpb · 3 days ago

> It's the greed at topest level.

You say this as if it's some deviant behaviour that needs correcting.

But greed is normal and expected in a free market economy. Suppliers are expected to seek to reduce their costs and maximise their profits.

foxyv · a day ago

Greed as a concept covers multiple ideas. One is principled self interest like you would see in an objectivist manifesto. The other is un-principled, short sighted, and stupid greed that simply grabs whatever gains they can without thinking about future consequences.

I believe that Nestle epitomizes the latter.

foxyv commented on Pentagon cutting ties w/ "woke" Harvard, ending military training & fellowships cbsnews.com/news/pentagon... · Posted by u/alephnerd

zachYCB · 3 days ago

Is Harvard turning people “woke?”, or do left-leaning people just go to college more?

foxyv · a day ago

You become woke by accepting and learning about reality. Colleges teach people about reality. The right wing is distinctly anti-intellectual because they depend on ignorance to maintain support from the moderate right.

I started out far-right because I was indoctrinated that way. Then I got an education thinking I was already smarter than everyone. Then I started to see through the lies I had been raised with. Lies about non-white people. Lies about gay people. Lies about colonialism. Lies about industrialization. Lies about other countries. Lies about leftists. Then I woke up.

foxyv commented on Fraud investigation is believing your lying eyes bitsaboutmoney.com/archiv... · Posted by u/dangrossman

arduanika · 4 days ago

Hmm, you completely lost me at "little green men". What/who is this referring to? Extraterrestrials?

foxyv · a day ago

> The "little green men"[a] were Russian soldiers who were masked and wore unmarked uniforms upon the outbreak of the Russo-Ukrainian War in 2014. They were active just before and during the Russian annexation of Crimea and carried regular weapons and equipment, but were always masked and wore distinctly unmarked green military fatigues.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_green_men_(Russo-Ukrain...

foxyv commented on Does running wear out the bodies of professionals and amateurs alike? theconversation.com/does-... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

jerlam · 12 days ago

I love walking up stairs and detest stair machines (and treadmills to an extent). You have to tell your brain to not look ahead to where you are stepping and use your peripheral vision and memory, but instead trust that there will always be a step in front of you, or stare at your feet. It's a bit unnatural.

foxyv · 5 days ago

I prefer to exercise outdoors as well. Unfortunately I live in a suburb so there isn't much enjoyable outdoor space. The gym is my goto for when I don't want to drive a half hour out of town and I can watch my shows on my phone while I walk on an incline treadmill.

foxyv commented on Motorola is getting away with zero OS updates thanks to regulatory loophole androidauthority.com/moto... · Posted by u/voxadam

hulitu · 8 days ago

> it was cheaper to spend $600 on a phone that gets updates for 7 years

YMMV. A toy is still a toy.

foxyv · 8 days ago

Phones aren't really toys anymore. I use mine for work and personal accounting on top of navigation, point of sale payments, paying for parking, communication, podcasts, weather, and audiobooks.

foxyv commented on Motorola is getting away with zero OS updates thanks to regulatory loophole androidauthority.com/moto... · Posted by u/voxadam

foxyv · 8 days ago

I used to buy exclusively Motorola phones. Then they stopped updating my phone I bought less than a year prior. Never again. I ended up buying a Pixel 8 because it was cheaper to spend $600 on a phone that gets updates for 7 years than to pay $200-300 on phones that stop being updated after a year or two.

foxyv commented on Does running wear out the bodies of professionals and amateurs alike? theconversation.com/does-... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

xnx · 12 days ago

Agreed. Also much less of a workout per stairs since your center of mass roughly hovers in the same place. Also difficult to resist the temptation of hanging most of bodyweight on hands as I see most people doing.

foxyv · 11 days ago

It is exactly the same workout. A YouTuber made a video about it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAOpkv0fpik

foxyv commented on Does running wear out the bodies of professionals and amateurs alike? theconversation.com/does-... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

xnx · 12 days ago

My favorite is stair climbing, but it's very difficult to find publically accessible space (e.g. 20+ story building) to do this.

foxyv · 12 days ago

I have a Planet Fitness membership which is stupid cheap and they have stair machines. I guess a lot of people like them a lot. Also the treadmills are great if you increase the incline. Lets you get a workout without having to break into a run.

foxyv commented on Does running wear out the bodies of professionals and amateurs alike? theconversation.com/does-... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

xnx · 12 days ago

Running is generally a bad exercise in terms of the injury/body-wear to benefit ratio, especially if you're body isn't light and young. Better to combine walking/hiking with resistance exercises.

foxyv · 12 days ago

A lot of the forums I see recommending rucking as the best cardio exercise. Less likely to be injured by a turned ankle or knee than when you are running. Also it offers a great way to gradually increase difficulty.

foxyv commented on New high of 45% in US identify as political independents news.gallup.com/poll/7004... · Posted by u/teleforce

radicalethics · 13 days ago

lmao, That's like being an independent during Nazism. Like, seriously? You can't figure out the right side here? You just can't count on some people to be on the right side of history quite frankly.

foxyv · 13 days ago

Leaving the Republican party is so close to leaving a cult as to be indistinguishable. They are so dead set on vilifying outsiders that they won't even associate with non-republicans and Democrats in a civil fashion. I once had a family member threaten to punch me in the face for mentioning UBI.

It takes years to shrug off the programming.

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