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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • One reason is the more you’re forced to work, the less energy, and, more importantly, time you have for preparing healthy meals. Therefore you’re more likely to go with preprocessed, prepackaged meals or straight fast food which will make you fat fast.

    I’ve got a relatively cushy job and cook my own, relatively healthy meals but even I find myself going for that store-bought pizza when I have a particularly busy week.

    Moreover, unhealthy, preprocessed meals are basically drugs in terms of the dopamine hit, so you’re more likely to go for them if your life sucks and you’re sad about it.

    Add to that the lack of education on healthy eating, which I’d bet is easier to come by when you’re at least middle class and bam, you’re a fat poor person.



















  • For anyone “willing to give Meta a chance”, ask yourself:

    Q: Why is Meta doing this?
    A: To make money.

    Q: How is Meta going to make money out of this?
    A: By having as many users on their instance as they can, so they can sell their data and advertise to them (that is Meta’s modus operandi, after all).

    This is already antithetical to the entire fediverse concept, where you want users to be as spread out over instances as possible.

    Having most of the users on one instance means the “community cost” of defederating from that instance is enormous to the point of being inadvisable for an instance admin. This brings us to a scenario where the ‘federation’ is essentially useless, as everyone is producing/consuming content on the one instance.

    Therefore, the idea of a commercial entity using the fediverse, by itself, mutilates what the fediverse is all about.