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I think that you can make most tragedies worse in a fairly-mechanical fashion. Whatever it is, it's probably worse if you're being stung by bees at the same time, for example. So trying to come up with the very worst tragedy seems like it'd be pretty hard. You could list some bad tragedies...

"Net worth", not "wages".

And, amusingly, apparently what our own top Executive Branch officials in the US use instead of the classified material approved stuff that they're supposed to. Like, you have the NSA at your beck and call to secure your communications, and you turn to Moxie Marlinspike:

In fairness to Moxie, I'm sure that he doesn't look like that most of the time, and I use Signal too, but...

I don't watch podcasts much, much less follow Rogan. But I will give him this: of the few podcasts of his that I've skimmed, his bullshit level seemed to be considerably lower than, say, Tucker Carlson.

That doesn't necessarily warrant an "amazing" label, but there is a lot of really appallingly bad media sources on the right, and relative to that, well...shrugs

checks Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Rogan

In January 2020, CNN described Rogan as "libertarian-leaning".[98]

In 2019–20, Rogan described himself as socially liberal, saying he supports same-sex marriage, gay rights, women's rights, recreational drug use, universal health care, universal basic income, gun rights, and the Second Amendment.[99][100] He describes himself as a strong supporter of freedom of speech, and has criticized cancel culture and what he perceives to be suppression of those who hold right-wing views in the television and film industry.[101] He has also criticized what he describes as an American foreign policy of military adventurism.[102]

So if you compare him to the American political spectrum, I guess it's kinda a mix of positions from what one might consider "left" and "right".

I understand that he got initial visibility from being with the UFC, which is popular among guys on the right, which gives him immediate reach.

kagis

https://old.reddit.com/r/MMAPoliticsAndCulture/comments/14ppekm/why_is_mma_so_conservative_and_right_leaning/

Why is MMA so conservative and right leaning

I've noticed most MMA spaces and clicks most people lean very right wing. Most fighters lean right, and of course the people funding these fights lean right to. I've heard people say that it's because the people making up this scenes have a very disciplined "winner" hyper masculine mindse

Not only masculine, but blue-collar/hard-working in general. I grew up wrestling, and that is a sport that also leans very strongly to the right, with the whole blue-collar, crazy work ethic, personal responsibility, etc. mindset. Obviously a lot of wrestlers funnel into MMA as fighters and coaches.

Then you get many of the international fighters that hold similar beliefs and values, like the (Muslim) Dagestani’s.

All of this attracts a huge contingent of rural area, red-leaning white dudes. Top it all off with capitalist Dana as the head of the thing, speaking at the RNC, cozying up to Trump for a mutually beneficial relationship, talking on Fox, and now even getting involved in the dumbass culture war.

Probably a really great illustration as to why we shouldn't permit this to be used domestically with pure Executive Branch discretion.

The Church Committee pulled domestic surveillance out of the CIA baliwick for similar reasons.

Sounds like something to go on the list of things that need some future restrictions to be imposed.

and a 64oz gatorade

Moderation to an extent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Gulp

At 128-US-fluid-ounce (3,800 ml), the Team Gulp remains the largest fountain offering in the world.[5]

Ah, thanks for looking at it. Hmm.

Paprika is mostly for color, so they could maybe drop that. Chili powder...well, for the spiciness, you can just put capsaicin in directly.

Cheddar is actually normally white. The orange color we're used to is itself mostly added coloring, so one could use white cheddar.

goes looking for something on cheddar coloring

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheddar_cheese

Cheddar cheese (or simply cheddar) is a natural cheese that is relatively hard, off-white (or orange if colourings such as annatto are added)...

Dammit, the more I talk about it, the more I really want non-terribly-messy Doritos. If Frito-Lay doesn't want to do it, I wonder if some other corn chip manufacturer could clone it and just dump the coloring.

Thanks. I think, though, that the "organic spice powder" is probably changed for the organic version, to include things that act as natural colors.

So, it looks like (regular) Doritos uses Yellow 5, an artificial color. I don't see any breakdown for Doritos, but for another food that was replacing Yellow 5:

https://www.foodprocessing.com/product-development/color/article/55264494/here-are-replacements-for-banned-color-additives

To replace Yellow 5, GNT uses carrot, pumpkin, algal carotene and turmeric.

So my guess is that turmeric probably would qualify as "organic spices", and you'd use it to color things.

Well, fair enough.

One point that someone does make in that thread where someone also brings up the "where to start with Final Fantasy" is that it doesn't really matter that much, because the series isn't in one universe

it's a bunch of stand-alone games. It's not quite like you're starting on trying to read, say, Hellboy comics many decades into multiple series or something like that. The games did evolve in the technical sense, but you won't ruin a game by playing others "out of order".

Just thought I'd highlight that, since you said almost the same thing in your post.

Probably the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Internet civil liberties.

I think that they've done some really helpful things by throwing resources and legal or technical expertise at the right place where often there isn't another organization that would address the issue. Stuff like privacy or security issues online where no one entity stands to really benefit strongly enough from a fix to get involved, and they have the technical chops to make correct statements. When they make recommendations, I'd call them reputable and objective, someone who I'd generally trust. They've helped shape the Internet as it became a mainstream element of human society in ways that I'd call positive.

They're US-centric (that is, they don't just do the US, but do have a US focus). In the EU, EDRi is a little similar.

It looks like in the UK, the Open Rights Group may be analogous, but I haven't read enough of their material to have an opinion on them.

I think that you're going to likely get more-helpful suggestions if you list some games or genres that you like, something beyond "No Final Fantasy" and "No GTA".

This Reddit post has a list of PS2 games that "still hold up", without genre restrictions. There's nothing there that I glance at and say "oh, I loved that and one needs to go back and play it", but it's probably a reasonable starting point. Like, I enjoyed Max Payne (which I recommend playing on the PC rather than console) when it came out, but I don't know if I'd go back and play it as an FPS in 2025.

Yeah, that's it. That'd make more sense if people were selling stuff on boats. I was just saying that there isn't really, like, industry on the island to be selling anything.