It is concerning - because Firefox barely has enough users to sustain it.

Er… if you think Mozilla is sustained by its users then I have some bad news for you. Or am I misunderstanding you?

that it’s an artificially engineered “crisis” by the medical industrial complex to justify modern day discrimination and refuse to provide healthcare to fat people, Black people, etc
podcast episode on this

Thanks! I’m slightly confused by the sources linked in the podcast description though. While it’s pretty US-centric they universally seem to confirm that yes, obesity rates are rising and that yes, medical consensus is that obesity is a bad thing. Does the podcast then come to some kind of different conclusion?
I don’t have a hard time believing that American companies are profiteering off of sick people, but I feel like there might be some accidental shuffling of cause and effect here. You can fleece and discriminate against a fat person, but in order for that to happen you first need a fat person, don’t you?

I mean, I get where you’re going with this, but as much as we’d like adequate public transit in the US, it’s simply not going to happen fast enough for people to not buy cars any more. Prices will keep going up as long as people keep buying, and I don’t see that stopping any time soon.

I feel like I might be too cynical in this, but demand is a strange thing, especially in a heavily corporatized country like the States. A less mobile workforce due to more and more folks not being able to afford individual transportation anymore will at some point result in more lobbying from businesses for alternative transport solutions.
But you’re right, that might just be wishful trickle-down thinking and from my understanding the States’ problem lies more with inherently car-centry city planning anyway and not with just a lack of busses or trains. That is hard to fix.

there’s no obesity epidemic. it’s all eugenics to the core

I’m almost afraid to ask, but what do you mean by that?

These are the people who then say that if you gain weight it is because you are lazy or weak willed.

Whether someone perceives it as hard to lose or not gain weight doesn’t really factor into it, does it? For adults the ultimate decision to eat more than one needs lies with exactly one person.

Really it is 99% hormones and only 1% strength of character.

I’m not sure I understand correctly, are you suggesting that obesity epidemics have some kind of shared underlying physiological reason?

Die Verantwortung des ÖRR sollte man sicherlich diskutieren und am besten wie HaiZhung@feddit.org schreibt richtig viel Feedback geben, aber der hier verlinkte Artikel wird nach ein paar informativen Absätzen irgendwie etwas wirr. Wenn man den ÖRR derart pauschal als “verloren” abschreibt anstatt aktiv reformieren zu wollen, kann man sich ja gleich bis zur nächsten Bundestagswahl hinsetzen und Däumchen drehen. Denn der ÖRR wird als allererstes von der übernächsten Regierung ausgeweidet 😐

cars are getting more expensive

Good! 😜