For sale: Baby shoes, still worn

Would you sit in a chair in an empty, featureless room and not move out of it for a year? I'd give you a million dollars.

If you had to think about that, now consider multiplying that by a billion, for the same reward.

Probably? Now?

You live!

That's pretty much how everything on the Internet works, FYI. Lemmy is just upfront about it

You call it disperse the fumes, I call it maximising the victims.

Looking it up - Kaushambi to Bareilly, the route the bus was on, is a 5 hour drive. We're not talking about city buses with 2 minutes between each stop. Long distance routes like that generally give the driver the discretion to decide where and when to stop for toilet breaks, etc. Nobody is going to object to a break of a few minutes.

In other words, this would have been a perfectly normal rest break if not for the religious aspect. So no, the editors are not wrong.

From the article, the crime is not that they are selling cat meat, but that they're mislabelling it as pork and beef

Huh. I thought the name sounded familiar, went back and checked my history. Yep, he was trolling a sync thread and getting into arguments over ads a month ago. Some stupid take about better to have no free software than ad supported. Can't say I'm too surprised to hear this happened.

Funnily, I understood that. There's been a theory that our current obesity epidemic is caused by an environmental factor influencing our brains into targeting a higher ideal weight than it otherwise should. This is the 'switch' the title is referring to, and they've presumably discovered its existence and a way to influence it. Of course, there might be more than one...

I agreed with you before reading the article, but it turns out it's on private property. So no transport infrastructure, and the property owners would have had to shell out a while bunch from their own pockets to do anything.

They also tried putting up signs and hoping visitors would self regulate, but that obviously didn't work out. Hard to blame anybody except selfish assholes in this case.

hundreds of millions lost a trusted, dependable direct link to governments, public figures, and other notable people.

It should not have been trusted and pervasive to such an extent. If anything, better to cut the dependency now than later.