For sure. But the problem isn’t palm oil itself, which seems like something of a miracle plant when compared to other sources of vegetable oil. It’s that the supply chain for it is rife with abuse. Similar to coffee, or honestly, most things that are harvested predominantly in poorer countries with less oversight.

But, like coffee, it seems there are organizations that certify certain palm oil suppliers as “cruelty free,” so it’s probably better to try and hunt those out in favor of foregoing palm oil entirely, which seems like a pretty incredible product otherwise.

That article you linked seems to be saying that palm oil is actually really good?

It says that it is a major driver of deforestation because people are tearing down trees to grow more of it because it’s a very useful and versatile oil.

It later says that switching away from palm oil isn’t a solution because palm oil is actually such an efficient crop that if you used something else the amount of land needed to produce enough oil would drive far more deforestation.

The article is a call for more regulation on deforestation, not a call to not use palm oil. It in fact almost argues the opposite.

Oscar Shindler: pure cope.

Ah, fair. I only watched the non-short one. Didn’t even notice the shorts.

Has he released another video? I only see one on his YouTube page.

If read all together it sounds like something a Bond villain would say in some low rent, meat themed James Bond film.

Meat is murder, Mr Ribs…

I wish the video actually had him using it to hit a drone or something. As is, it only shows one actual launch, and it didn’t look all that impressive. His motors didn’t seem to have enough umph to let the missile stabilize properly.

Ah damn, you right. Should have Googled it. Too many Brian’s in the news, lol. Got the wires crossed.

Editing to fix.

Yeah, kinda like that time Brian Thompson got shot, and the next day United Healthcare ceased to exist.

Not saying that the general point of corporations doing more harm than people is wrong. Just that if you think that the corporation is just one person, I’ve got a bridge to sell you.

If non-human animals cannot consent, isn’t all sex between any two non-human animals rape?

If that’s the case, isn’t this preferable to just letting the animals just rape each other indiscriminately?

That’s the prevailing opinion certainly, but there’s a pretty diehard contingent who love it. That it just gets a bad rep because it gets compared to the masterpiece that was Twilight Princess.

Can’t say myself, as I’ve never played it, but I’ve got a few friends who are huge proponents of it and would say it’s underrated.

And, to be fair, something doesn’t have to be good to be underrated. People hate Skyward Sword, and I assume it’s not actually terrible. Just on the low end of Zelda games.

Tour de Pharmacy

It’s a mockumentary about the Tour de France, but everyone’s been kicked out for doping.

There are only 5 competitors left, Andy Sandberg, John Cena, Daveed Diggs, Orlando Bloom, and Freddie Highmore.

They’ve got the actual Lance Armstrong doing a “hidden informant” bit.

Each of the racers has a wacky backstory. Hijinks ensue. It’s a great time.

Not the best movie ever, but I had an absolute blast with it.

Skyward Sword?

As opposed to the US which has a famously inland capital. :P

No, YouTube does track that internally. I meant that I don’t wan to have to sit down, open up YouTube and search for the thing I was watching again.

This is particularly egregious if you were watching something in a playlist, as YouTube won’t suggest a playlist on the front page, just the video you were watching (and that only if you stopped in the middle of an episode, which is rare), so you have to search the channel, click into it, go into playlists, and potentially scroll down a bunch to load them all if there are a lot, just to find the playlist you were watching.

There’s also streaming platforms like Dropout that make getting back to where you left off similarly onerous. Because you have to search the show, swap the search to “series”, find it in the search results, switch from season 1 to whatever season you’re actually on (if you remember), then scroll down to find the episode.

And sure, this is probably only around a minute’s worth of work every time, but when it’s a daily or more occurrence it becomes frustrating. Especially when the alternative is just having the history page pop up as your launch page and clicking something in the first few options.

I can’t use Firefox unfortunately, as my main use case hinges on the history menu being remotely usable.

But yeah, that was kind of my point. When evaluating trade offs, at the time I switched, Brave was the only real browser that checked all the boxes, which is why I use it.

I don’t actually care about tab sync. I mostly care about this for machines I use as browser based media players, which means I need my history synced.

Main use case is using machine 1 to watch YouTube, then resuming where I left off, via the history menu, on a separate machine.

The Firefox history menu is absolute trash, and there are no extensions to make it behave in a way that’s remotely usable.

But my whole use case is not “keeping my content disjointed,” which kind of is my point. If my use case was your use case, then sure, your setup is reasonable. But it’s not.

And I don’t maintain a personal NAS anymore. I realized I just wasn’t getting utility out of it, and it was one more thing to get set up again after a move (it wasn’t an off the shelf NAS, but a Pi set up with an external storage array.)

Sure, notionally. I could also write my own browser from scratch and make it to my exact specifications.

I’ve lived in “cobble together everything I want using a combination of half a dozen browser extensions and bash scripts” land before, and I’m old enough now to realize that maintaining systems like that is almost never worth the time or effort.

It’s worth it if that’s your hobby, but I have more interesting projects to work on than getting a baseline Chromium or whatever up to a usable state.

So when there’s a 95% answer for my use case, it’s a hard sell to get me to switch to an 80% solution where I need to jury rig the last 15% to just break even with the out-of-the-box option.

Last time I looked, any other Chromium alternative had me making negative feature tradeoffs.

I may circle back and look again, as it’s been a bit since I cut over to Brave.

Have you used those and can vouch for them having inter-device history sync? Cause not having that is a hard blocker for me.

Looks pretty good. I may give it a shot.

Being in beta worries me, and I’ll have to investigate if it has cross browser sync, though I assume it does through Google accounts or something.

Doesn’t hurt to give it a spin though. Thanks for the rec.

It looks like the first pipelined release was in August, so I’m not surprised I hadn’t heard of it, lol.