Olivia Palmer argues 'obesity' is a word that gets in the way of public health policy:

'The real barriers [to good health] are a food system engineered for overconsumption, a built environment designed for sedentary living, a commercial ecosystem that profits from both the problem & the proposed solution, and a political economy that makes structural reform expensive and individual blame cheap'.

Rather 'obesity' policy still focusses on blaming individuals!

#health
https://oliviapalmerhealth.substack.com/p/obesity-prevention-isnt-failing-its

We need to do something with George’s Dock, and the council were looking to the public for ideas on it late last year, with a lido getting the most support, but no, there won’t be a giant 37 million euro statue built in George’s Dock.

#Dublin #GiantStatue #DublinCentral #Ireland

I buy peppermint tea from Aldi. It's not very convenient because every single individual tea bag is wrapped in paper for some reason but I can at least just go and buy them from a shop with cash normally. At least until 2024, when they started wrapping each? individual?? teabag???? in plastic??????? so of course I stopped buying my teabags there because, well, OBVIOUSLY I stopped, wew lad yikes. I sent Aldi an email saying hey yo I'm not buying your weird plastic-wrapped teabags, email me when you come to your senses, they emailed back almost immediately saying they were a very sustainable company actually and you can put the plastic in the recycling and do not reply to this email.

So I started getting Celestial Seasonings tea bags which just come in a cardboard box lined with wax paper. I bought a bunch of boxes off the evil monster bastard empire amazon. Then I went grumble grumble well I suppose I should stop buying shit from amazon as well, they're so convenient why can't they just be good, so I would occasionally grab a box out of Giant Eagle, which is a real American grocery chain that actually exists and has that name and this is your daily reminder that it's impossible to satirize Americans.

Anyway spouse has a sore throat and needs much pep T so yesterday I was gonna go to the whiskey shop for whiskey and Aldi for milk and also heck we're out of mintyhot so I went up to Giant Eagle and as I was walking up to the door a guy walked in with a handgun and one of those belts with all bullets around it straight past the bouncer bold as brass and I turned right around and went nah fuck that I'll go to Aldi.

Defeated at amazon by their evil-capitalism shittiness and defeated at giant eagle by their guns-yay shittiness I returned to Aldi to embrace their that's-a-lot-of-plastic-even-for-americans shittiness and I shamefully bought a box of peppermint-plastic tea.

And when I opened it this morning the teabags were still individually wrapped, but in paper like they were before. So like, still a pain in the arse and a pointless waste, but apparently while I wasn't buying their plastic-wrapped teabags they stopped wrapping them in plastic. And never bothered to email me back and say hey Dan we did what you asked, come back and give us money.

You don't expect buying teabags to have fucking three acts and a betrayal and a twist and a redemption arc but here we are I suppose

We think that the reason you write something is just as important as the content itself.

Human #writing implicitly has that motivation, #AI writing does not.

Would you prefer human #work over AI generated text even if the content is the same?

We're building a space where humans can write for other humans. Safe from AI, bots, and slop. We call it OurWork.

Instead of trying to analyze text for markers of #AI, we look at *how* a text was written to ensure it was written by a human.

We'd love to get some feedback on what we're building.

#AISlop #NoAi #Writing #community

If you are a #webdev type person and lately the web has felt kinda dry and not fun anymore, consider building a static site from scratch with no build steps, node, or vite.

Instead sit down in front of a code editor and hand code some HTML, CSS, and JS on your own. Fire up the @MDN web docs in a window, turn off all the builders and makers and pre processors and winds of tail and frameworks, and just try to build something cool, quirky, half-broken half-made, animated, and wholly your own. It will really help you get back in touch with why you wanted to be a web developer in the first place.

🚨 New App Store terms for the E.U.

• 10% (or 17%) App Store fee (down from 15%/30%)
• +3% if you use Apple IAP
• You can use alt payment providers in-app and/or provide external links, for zero fee to Apple
• Apps distributed inside/outside App Store will have a flat 50c Core Technology Fee per [user] over 1M in a calendar year

Whatever you might want to say about the E.U., it looks like they've legitimately negotiated a better deal for devs. That’s what a working political system looks like 😄