That’s not what this is, this is just taking more money from poor people. People aren’t going to change their entire lifestyle and get healthier because one of the cheapest things gets more expensive. They’ll either pay more and continue to get fat or switch to something else that’s cheap but equally unhealthy and continue to get fat.

Cheap sugar isn’t the problem, expensive healthier food is. Changing things so the sugar is also expensive is fucking stupid if the aim is to make people get healthier, even ignoring the fact that “making” people do anything is shitty anyway.

And I don’t think the government should be deciding it for us, punishing people who dare to eat or drink sugar with higher prices, nor have yet another avenue of tax to funnel into their pockets.

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You’re not wrong, I’d forgotten the first comment said fired, stupid of me.

So some of them broke the law and just resigned or were fired, only a few were jailed?

Sure, it’s split into smaller bits because it’s on a site designed for short posts, it’s not hard to follow though.

It’s formatted how you’d expect if you’ve a timeline on anything, most recent at the top though, right?

I don’t understand the difficulty, the series of tweets are all replies to the previous tweet in the chain. Where’s the difficulty?

Do you really think the people in charge and responsible for that decision are the ones who got fired? Do you really think that’s how accountability works in giant mega corporations?

You’ve just ascribed malicious intent to me, further demonstrating your own hypocrisy.

If you believe you second paragraph, why do you keep contradicting yourself?

The second paragraph also sounds like manipulative bullshit coming from someone who’s misrepresenting facts. The spirit of collaboration and communal discourse that you’re paying lip service to is smothered by lies and mistruths. You need to rethink how you do things, you’re a walking anachronism.

Did you even bother to read the headline? Good lord.

Perhaps one of the stupidest fucking ideas ever. “Let’s add more and more and more distractions for drivers. A touch screen so they have to stop looking at the road! An AI to distract them with inane rambling, because we think that’s an enriching conversation since we are also robots. Add that to the ads on radio fucking with you by being different volumes and having car beeping noises and shit in them and WE WILL FINALLY ERADICATE THE DRIVERS”

It is astonishing to me that, in explaining why “baselessly ascribing malicious intent” is bad you have, in fact, baselessly ascribed the malicious intent of sowing distrust and killing of discussion to the person you are responding to. Incredibly quick hypocrisy turn around there.

Arguably it doesn’t matter if its maliciousness or incompetence, the result is the same.

Comedy Bang Bang - improv comedy where Scott Aukerman interviews interesting people, and by interesting people i mean comedians playing absurd characters. It’s been going for fifteen years, Paul F Tompkins, Jason Mantzoukas, and Ben Schwarz are all regulars, and it’s the only podcast I listen to almost every week.

Get Played - a gaming podcast featuring Heather Anne Campbell, Matt Wiger and Nick Apodaca (I’ve almost definitely misspelled or misremembered at least one of these names). They talk about games whilst being very funny - Heather is a comedy writer, Matt is occasionally on Comedy Bang Bang. It’s the only gaming podcast I listen to despite much of their coverage being games I am not interested in.

The world is invaded by day walker vampires somehow. Most of the human population is dead or turned, those remaining live under a cloud of distrust and paranoia - anyone could be a vampire. even the people you know could’ve been turned since you last saw them.

I don’t notice. Because of social anxiety, I stayed indoors.

I don’t think I’ve ever owned a smartphone without one.

Judging by the content of your replies, it’s probably because you’re stupider.

Residents may soon be asking if this is the way out of Amarillo.

Amazon failed with Alexa because they couldn’t monetize it enough to make it profitable. If you’re using it to spy and sell data, there’s your profit.

Oooooh, I missed that too. I love that film.