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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • Interesting article and I agree nutrition education can help. I wanted to drop an additional point as someone that grew up in a home that got food assistance and used food banks. There is often an assumption that people with food insecurity lack access to healthy foods. I disagree, they might lack access to a variety of healthy foods, but buying soda and snacks with food assistance is a choice. Of course, the choice is made for a variety of reasons, but the one I saw was desperation. When you are living depressed, you’ll look for any source of happiness and sometimes yummy snack food is all you’ve got. Also, healthy food usually takes additional prep time, and when you’re working multiple minimum wage jobs, you don’t always have a lot of free time, especially if you have kids, so queue the prepared processed foods. This isn’t the case for everyone, but I wanted to point out the people needing this help aren’t stupid, they are living day to day. We can help them by raising minimum wage, providing child care assistance, and maybe a universal income, but not throwing more food at the problem, that’s a band-aid.


  • The bloom was off the rose pretty early with people that know about cars. I remember seeing a video of an engineering team disassembling one a few years after they launched and finding all sorts of crazy assembly problems that you’d think would have been worked out by then. I’m talking about bad welds, some not in the correct place, and random bolts rattling around in door panels, that kind of stuff. I give them credit for capturing the collective imagination on what an electric car could be and championing them as cool. But they still have a lot of work to do to catch up in the quality and reliability realm compared to established car companies. The fact that they have significantly less moving parts yet still haven’t been shown to be more reliable than a lot of ICE vehicles says something.