It does now, yes. Early days of yeet did not have a definition - “that’s one Yeety Boi” as an example phrase. It was just a word you’d substitute in place of any other word for meme reasons. Eventually society settled on Yeet/Yote as meaning “to throw emphatically”, which is nice (and was possibly the original meaning? There was this whole cyclical aspect to it that was very interesting).

It’s a meaningless meme - if you remember the early days of “yeet” it’s lot like that. People started sticking the number around as an in-joke, but it’s gone super mainstream and now it’s just a goofy thing to do.

Most BNPL services don’t make classically hard inquiries, though - as I understand it that’s actually a big part of the problem, because they are able to skirt a great deal of the credit regulations put in place to prevent predatory lending (yeah those exist - fucking terrifying, isn’t it?) by not engaging directly with the credit agencies, instead relying on 3rd party consumer information data brokers of dubious reliability.

That was pretty much located solely in mesoamerica - the more regionally accurate game would be what we now call Lacrosse, and is still quite popular. Also the most based sporting organization:

The modern sport is governed by World Lacrosse and is the only international sport organization to recognize First Nations bands and Native American tribes as sovereign nations.

(via wikipedia)

I do think that presenting your critics as cartoon caricatures of thought police is bait, yes. But I don’t particularly care that you’re doing it - I’m just pointing out that a culture of antagonism isn’t the same thing as a culture of persecution, and that you engage in extremely similar behavior to the people you yourself are demonizing. You’re characterizing me as mad about this and I’m truly not (nor have I indicated I even feel particularly strongly about it), but you’re still basing your responses in this interaction as though I am. Why assume that?

Sure, and you’re just as complicit in the culture of antagonism as they are. I’m not advocating for your tolerant interaction in the face of hostility, I’m just pointing out that you’re posting blatant ragebait then claiming that the people who take that bait are somehow behaving worse than you are or that they’re not engaging in good faith.

You admit you dont engage with them - which is a perfectly reasonable choice you can make, to be clear - but without an ability to criticize the source, it’s natural for them to form a community to voice their objections to your ideas, and for that community to include context. The antagonism between .ml and non-.ml users enthusiastically goes both ways (the memes you’ve posted here are example enough of that, as is my use of .ml as shorthand for “people that are tankies”). If you don’t want to continue it, it’s probably best to take the classic advice and not feed the trolls.

Reddit pays the hosting fee for the image instead of the lemmyverse? IDK beyond that.

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Duplicity! Scoundrel!

They do appear to be regular bootlicking enthusiasts, not actual collaborators. There’s a fair amount of scrutiny on them.

How is it possible you do not glow green and shit silver colored liquids after digesting this?

Food labeling in the US uses industrial or chemical names because… actually I’m not sure why we do that. I’m guessing it was some well-meaning but misguided regulatory idea. Anyways it makes our food labels sound absurd when they’re, as with this example, pretty straightforwardly just food.

The two big questionable things are the margarine and the TVP - both (imho) pretty gross for textural reasons, but both also staples of vegan diets and have been around for 50+ years. I’m gonna gloss over those because there’s tons of documentation on what goes into them online, it would take ages to break everything down (and I’m lazy), and honestly they’re just pretty inoffensive. Beyond that:

• Modified Corn Starch: This is a fancy name for anything from malted or low-boiled (boiled in a mild acid) starch. Humans have been doing this for millennia (it took me forever to spell that), there are a million variations based on the malting process or type of acid or etc.
• Corn Syrup Solid: dehydrated glucose (ground sugar, but derived from corn starch (which is itself just complex sugar) instead of things like sugar cane/beets)
• Natural Mesquite Smoke Flavor: Also called “liquid smoke”, it’s shockingly close to literally being smoke in liquid form. It’s the condensed vapors you get from heating wood
• Disodium Dihydrogen Pyrophosphate - A truly ridiculous name for baking powder
• Mono-And Diglycerides: Naturally occurring, found in food oils
• BHT: this one is really contentious. It’s a naturally occurring antioxident found in a ton of fruits and nuts in low concentrations, but it’s been recently (2022) banned in the EU, though it’s still present in plenty of EU foods in small amounts. There’s been pressure to get it banned in the US too, so hopefully that happens soon
• Sodium Bisulfite: salt
• Monosodium Glutamate: MSG, the flavor enhancer
• Xanthan gum: a complex extra-sticky sugar
• Guar gum: Guar-bean juice. As with Xanthan gum it’s just a complex extra sticky sugar, but this one has been used for centuries to thicken foods
• Soy Protein Concentrate: Cooked, mashed soybeans
• Dextrose: sugar (chemically identical to glucose, again not sure why we feel the need to obfuscate this one)
• Sodium Phosphate: salt
• Mechanically Separated Chicken: Ground chicken

I’ll freely admit it’s not good food (I mean who adds sugar to corn) but it’s all food. Just food with dumb names.

IDK about the admins, but community mods in the lemmyverse can ban other users for whatever reason they want and that happens all the time (“serial downvoting” is the most common excuse I’ve seen, the pro-AI communities do it all the time to shore up the walls of their echo chambers…). At the admin level, .world notoriously rarely bans at the instance level, whereas .ml … does tend to do that, yeah.

We’ve seen SMCF’s dreams.
They need to stay dreams.

jjgod is the only one I remember, jjcoin and jjfly might have been ones too? Man I played the -heck- out of that game as a kid…

It’s a meme sure, but it’s a dismissive meme about an issue that when poorly handled, kills people. That people have a heated reaction isn’t entirely unexpected, nor strictly unreasonable.

How do you suppose that glass was made, Watson?

Lies and deception - one on the right was clearly made in a mold and never had a proper skin in the first place.

“IVE GOUT IT” also fits

Death toll in the jail article is ~1029 yearly, if its explicitly stated I didn’t see it. That was calculated from the figures given (total pop 735k * death rate of 1.4/1000) (That number is wrong, as stated in the article the actual rate is likely to be slightly higher because they had to exclude a great many sources from their sample due to bad or questionable data).

It should be noted that those deaths aren’t divided by cause: police muders, inmate violence, deaths from pre-existing conditions, lightning strikes, deaths from conditions exacerbated by the quality of care available in the prision, dying from old age, fatal infections from rusty stairs, deaths from food poisoning, fatal allergic reactions to bee-stings, suicides etc. are all lumped together because they’re all relevant to the conclusions of the study, but aren’t necessarily relevant here.

Those… look it’s NOT hard to find data to show the death toll for the US, so why did you go with such horrible examples?

There is no widely agreed on figure for the number of people that have been killed so far in the war on terror as the Bush Administration has defined it to include the war in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq, and operations elsewhere. According to Joshua Goldstein, an international relations professor at the American University, the global war on terror has seen fewer war deaths than any other decade in the past century.

Like beyond how rough the numbers are: the wiki pages all include the total death counts, but those are both coalition wars and the total deaths are not broken down at all. This data exists, you can find it, but you can’t find it there so why use it?

Similarly, the paper on jail deaths very much does not answer the question, as it is an analytical study on the impact of jail conditions on mortality and explicitly does not address the causal conditions of those deaths:

[…] health and mortality data for people who are incarcerated or in police custody have been shown to be “incomplete…incorrect… [and] anachronistic,”42 and jail data may underestimate deaths or contain inaccuracies related to causes of death. Finally, the associations found in the study do not suggest causality.

It is not hard to show what you want to show. By instead providing such poor quality sources, you undermine the credibility of your point to a spectacular degree. Like. Just use real numbers? Hell, it’s not hard to find very reasonable estimates on death tolls from imperialism itself. But notoriously vague values from sources that explicitly clarify their own imprecision is just a terrible way to approach this.