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It’s only a theory; if you don’t have wake-on-lan enabled, it’d probably not be even a consideration.

Huh.

puts Ruffles Extra Thick cheddar chips on the shopping list

Oh. OK.

Still, pemican is pretty tasty. Now I want some pemican.

I’ve lived long enough to have spend years on diets, some of which eliminated simple sugars, including all alcohol. The South Beach diet is almost entirely hand-made meals, many of which are some variation salad.

I can bear anything for a couple of months, so the first couple weren’t bad, but the ism of “nothing tastes as good as thin feels” kept me with it for two years. After the first couple of months, I started to hate food. I hated every one of those damned meals. They took a lot of time to prepare, and it was some of the worst food. Like I said, I kept with it for 24 months, but one day I decided that it wasn’t worth it; that I’d literally rather die than continue to consume Food Units.

In time, I’ve found other ways to manage my weight, which is the only reason I worry about this stuff. The men (and some women) in my family die from strokes. That’s what’s going to get me, not diabetes, heart attack, or any other diet-related morbidity. As long as I can stay comfortable with my weight - which I can - enjoying food is far more important than consuming raw vegetables or whatever horrid suggestion people are making.

Doritos taste fucking awesome. It’s why they’re popular. Swiss Rolls taste like god-damned ambrosia. They’re why there are so many diabetics in the US. Nobody is holding people down and stuffing fried chicken in their mouths; people eat because it tastes fantastic.

“Addicted” my ass. The food tastes great.

You eating only carrots your whole life isn’t going to stop you getting Alzheimer’s or dementia, or from having an aneurism. And statistically, if your diet doesn’t lead to obesity, your diet isn’t going to measurably impact your quality of life, except that you’re going to spend most of your life eating food that tastes like crap.

Cannibalism is the only ethical meat eating.

Did Taylor Swift die in a plane crash? I feel like that would have bumped all other news.

This is a joke I’ve heard before - at least, I hope it’s a joke, but what if it’s true? What if adrenaline tastes fantastic? Does it? We should know.

I’m increasingly starting to believe that the real difference between sentient, self-aware creatures like humans and other animals is that we have the ability to decide something is bad and then not do it, even though our biological drive is to do so.

One pig didn’t build a house, but a wide, shallow, encompassing tremch which he kept filled with nitrogen gas.

He never had any problem with wolves.

No. Unless you hate life. The extra 5 years this will expand your life will be at the end, when you’re feeling your worst and ready to die anyway.

Or: you could enjoy your life while you’re young enough to, and in your prime, and much off maybe a couple of years earlier thereby avoiding those extra years you’d spend wishing you were dead.

Anyway, except in extreme cases, like obesity or diabetes, genetics play a larger role in your lifestyle and quality of life at the end than any lifestyle choices. Your job is mainly to avoid being a complete fat, unfit lard-ass; do that, and if you’ll likely live as long as the average male in your family tree did.

OMG, so many things would improve!

OK, healthcare is an issue. But if only humans disappeared? There’s so much canned and freeze dried food; I could probably live off a single REI for a couple of years. Pharmacies to be raided, although I’d have to find an old-school reference for drugs, uses, and dosages. Hell, I’d spend a couple of years just outfitting a survivalist cabin near Yosemite or Frank Church Wilderness, and then a couple more backpacking out of the cabin, returning only for provisions.

I’ve lived without prior before; it’s not that hard. I know there would be psychological challenges, but the physical ones really do compensate quite a bit.

Do you have wake-on-lan enabled? Any setting that would wake on network activity? Could be you’re interrupting or amplifying a signal - Ethernet or WiFi - that is causing the OS to think it’s getting traffic.

O’Grady’s Au Gratin potato chips. It was when they stopped being sold that the world really started going to shit.

Pemican isn’t hard to make, if you get desperate.

True, but I think they were referring to the broader topic of the OP post, “Americans.” Not just the ones on Lemmy.

Yeah, I think it’s just physics. You’d need the equivalent of a bathroom hand dryer on the toilet to improve the drying. Or, god forbid, a Dyson. I shudder at the thought.

They make bar shampoo, too.

I think the pet industry rivals human products for profit; not so much for livestock, but for pets it’s still profit-driven.

The Insurance industry has realized how hard it is to prove collusion.

At least Ukraine had been able to fight back. Russia’s genocide of Ukraine is a mere glimmer in their eye, a vanishingly remote hope.

The Israelis, on the other hand, may succeed in finally clearing all that land for settlement.

Occam’s Razor, for sure, but I like mine.