I won’t put this in the food thread, because it’s frankly off-putting and sad. But, it’s on brand for 
It would be funny if it wasn’t miles deep corruption that will destroy our country.
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This was something clear to me from the beginning. If you want to really fix these things you have to do things like subsidize healthier foods and require that they be available to underserved communities. You have to increase regulations and enforcement around the practices used in modern farming. You have to increase oversight and regulation of huge factory farms. Most of all, you have to be willing to fight against powerful lobbies like those of Big Corn, Big Ag, and Big Chem. We all know this will never happen under a Republican administration as this would ruffle the feathers of an important and lucrative donor class. It’s all just meaningless mouth noises that will never lead to anything.
With all of this as a backdrop, I realize that I am not too young to remember how Michelle Obama was crucified by the right for having the nerve to suggest that just maybe kids should be given healthier food options in school. How dare she! That’s Marxism!
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Let’s just start calling him Bobby O’bama.
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I would rather have Froot Loops.
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Well, she was a Black woman daring to tell white folk how to feed their kids! It’s an outrage, I tellya!
But yeah, so long as “Piss on the poor, feed the rich” is the official stance of the administration, none of that shit will change.
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Pet peeve. Would you pay for your VAT taxes with money you got from an ATM machine using your PIN number at UMB Bank?
Math has entered the chat.
Slightly related, but I just got my first tariff bill($160) the other day, from FexEx, on a package from the Czech Republic, which had been delivered almost two weeks prior. Don’t assume that since you already received the package that you are clear.
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Not all students are well-served by vouchers, including many students with disabilities. Unlike public schools, private schools can generally choose who they admit.
“A private school can absolutely say you’re not a good fit for this school. Bottom line, period,” says Jacqueline Rodriguez, CEO of the National Center for Learning Disabilities.
Private schools are not bound by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), which requires public schools to provide students with disabilities a free, appropriate public education.
This is the whole game. Take the kids who can afford it out of the public schools, along with their tax dollars, leave the most expensive students to rot in substandard hellholes. But these are the ones who “will never pay taxes, play baseball, write a poem” or whatever. So who cares, hopefully they will hurry up and die, right? 
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Sounds like eugenics.
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The FDA redesigned the food pyramid a few years ago to have a pretty nonsensical wedge-based design, so that version is basically a pie chart in a bad shape. One of the consequences of this is that literally every food in it touches the top, so in that sense I guess he’s technically correct?
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Yeah, like his attitude is like ‘people should make better choices so if they didn’t buy this shit the manufacturers wouldn’t make so much’ - i.e. it’s all the consumer’s fault and nothing to do with the billions of dollars spent on ‘marketing’ by Big Food.
At least the UK is occasionally making a few small steps in the right direction, but Big Food is fighting it, of course.
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Wow. I probably saw that at some point and blocked it from my memory. Can you imagine what sitting on that committee was like? It looks like everyone gave up and went on leave from the trauma, then someone had to paste something together from meeting notes that had been chewed on, burned, and flushed down the toilet.
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But what leverage does FedEx have to get money from you after they already delivered the package? Does it become their problem, not yours?
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Honestly I like it. These abbreviations can be hard to parse without context – ATMs are common enough that you probably don’t mean the missile or modulation, but spoken PIN is just a sharp object, and VAT is hardly something common enough that everyone should know it. So people started repeating the last element of the abbreviation to make it easier to understand, using pleonasm as disambiguation, just like hieroglyphics would write the sound symbols and then an extra meaning symbol to make sure you got it. It’s helpful. Why do people hate it so much?
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That new triangle is utterly useless. Whoever approved that at the FDA was no scientist and illiterate in graphic design and communications. Needs more Tufte - LOTS more Tufte.
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Very much this kind of energy:
And that’s leaving aside that they just can’t do it at all - there simply aren’t the requisite number of tool and die engineers in the US, for instance. Of course that’s impossible to explain to Trump, and what Trump really wants is a symbolic victory, so I wonder if it would work for Apple to agree to absolutely, definitely relocate. But… only once certain conditions in the US happen to be true, such as that there will be X tool and die engineers available to work on it, etc. i.e. conditions which won’t come true in the foreseeable future. That way Trump can declare victory - “Tim Apple has agreed to move production of iPhone’s to US!” and Apple won’t have to do anything.
The sad part is that actually puts him ahead of other Trump appointees who have been in their positions for months and still don’t know what the job is.
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Or at the very least you don’t, for example, cut the lead poisoning prevention team. To distract by entirely blaming toxins in food and water for health issues is one thing, to then cut the federal teams responsible for detecting and reducing such things is a another thing entirely…
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Yeah, maybe in the US but not in the UK (or Europe). We’d never say ‘Vat Taxes’. And it’s not, as Trump wrote it, ‘Vat’ , it is always VAT, so nobody is going to think it may be about taxing barrels or whatever.
(I am feeling a bit pernickity today, sorry.)
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But in the UK there are still VAT (taxes) and VAT (veterans), and I don’t see why it’s awful to say which.
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