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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • Not to put too fine a point on it, but the phrase “made with no artificial colors” being printed on something has never influenced my purchasing decision.

    But maybe I’m an outlier in that regard.

    But this seems like a bit of a nothing-burger to me. From what I can tell, it’s not that Titanium Dioxide was banned and now he’s allowing it. It’s that it’s always been allowed, but now he’s letting products that contain it to put “no artificial coloring” on the package.

    Naturally derived dyes obviously aren’t definitionally healthier than artificial ones, and some natural ones can in fact be bad for you. But the label doesn’t say “no bad for you dyes,” it says “no artificial dyes.” It’s something of a useless lable in the first place, no?



  • I mean, in addition to what everyone else said, disabilities can in fact disqualify you from being a good president.

    If someone is non-verbally autistic with an ID diagnosis, it’s not ableist to say they aren’t a good candidate to be president.

    Obviously this is a spectrum, and ADHD shouldn’t be, on its face, disqualifying. But if it’s so bad you’re literally illiterate, then it’s no ableist to say that makes you a bad candidate to be president.













  • Hooking a whole desktop to a TV is intrusive with most desktop form factors.

    Most people who want a console don’t care about upgradability or repairability, and that’s certainly not the main thing that “makes PCs so great.”

    Most people gaming on PC are equally “trapped in an ecosystem.” This has a desktop mode if need be, but hardly anyone does games outside of Steam.

    “It has Linux but most users won’t notice or care” is a double positive.

    “It won’t push the player base, only the devs” is a double positive.

    The point of a console isn’t to make people into more technical proponents of open source projects. It’s to play games.

    And if it’s competing in the console market, especially for people who aren’t terribly interested in the “Call of Duty” type AAA titles of today, it seems like a perfect fit.