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Say No to AI — But Yes to My Smart Fridge! (100% human-approved)

#ai #irony #technology #smarttech #convenience #digitalart #future #society #satire #humor #innovation #modernlife #paradox #techtrends #design #visualart #perspective #automation #consumerism #reflection

Say No to AI — But Yes to My Smart Fridge! (100% human-approved)

#ai #irony #technology #smarttech #convenience #digitalart #future #society #satire #humor #innovation #modernlife #paradox #techtrends #design #visualart #perspective #automation #consumerism #reflection

品質低下
現代社会では効率化やコスト削減ばかりを求める構図、いやっ、悪文化が形成されている。「とにかく早く出せ」、「奴らより先に出せ」、そうして圧力を掛け品質の低下を招いてるのが実態。

https://note.com/poison_raika/n/n309bc11a8fba

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#modern #society #culture #efficiency #pressure #decline #quality #result #control #burner #disaster #deadline #arisen #excessive #overtime #unreasonable #specification #convenience #superior #people #low_quality #longer #cockroaches #parasites #money #market #distribution

Declining quality
In modern society, a bad culture has been formed that demands efficiency and cost reduction. "Just hurry up," "Get it out before them," and this pressure has led to a decline in quality.

https://note.com/poison_raika/n/ne03b0a6ed5b5

#modern #society #culture #efficiency #pressure #decline #quality #result #control #burner #disaster #deadline #arisen #excessive #overtime #unreasonable #specification #convenience #superior #people #low_quality #longer #cockroaches #parasites

Деградація якості
У сучасному суспільстві сформувалася структура, а точніше погана культура, яка прагне лише ефективності та зниження витрат.

https://note.com/poison_raika/n/nec8202d8333d

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#modern #society #culture #efficiency #pressure #decline #quality #result #control #burner #disaster #deadline #arisen #excessive #overtime #unreasonable #specification #convenience #superior #people #low_quality #longer #cockroaches #parasites

Hi @tante @Katika,
those devices promise, you can make do without skill. #Convivial tools, however, require and train skill and thus foster #emancipation.
The skill lives in you, not in the tool. Convivial tools make you smart and don't pretend to be smart themselves. This doesn't go well with #convenience. https://archive.org/details/illich-conviviality

Hi @tante @Katika,
those devices promise, you can make do without skill. #Convivial tools, however, require and train skill and thus foster #emancipation.
The skill lives in you, not in the tool. Convivial tools make you smart and don't pretend to be smart themselves. This doesn't go well with #convenience. https://archive.org/details/illich-conviviality

品質低下
現代社会では効率化やコスト削減ばかりを求める構図、いやっ、悪文化が形成されている。「とにかく早く出せ」、「奴らより先に出せ」、そうして圧力を掛け品質の低下を招いてるのが実態。

https://www.pixiv.net/novel/show.php?id=24045407

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#modern #society #culture #efficiency #pressure #decline #quality #result #control #burner #disaster #deadline #arisen #excessive #overtime #unreasonable #specification #convenience #superior #people #low_quality #longer #cockroaches #parasites #money #market #distribution

Declining quality
In modern society, a bad culture has been formed that demands efficiency and cost reduction. "Just hurry up," "Get it out before them," and this pressure has led to a decline in quality.

https://www.pixiv.net/novel/show.php?id=24045416

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#modern #society #culture #efficiency #pressure #decline #quality #result #control #burner #disaster #deadline #arisen #excessive #overtime #unreasonable #specification #convenience #superior #people #low_quality #longer #cockroaches #parasites #money #market

Деградація якості
У сучасному суспільстві сформувалася структура, а точніше погана культура, яка прагне лише ефективності та зниження витрат.

https://www.pixiv.net/novel/show.php?id=24045426

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#modern #society #culture #efficiency #pressure #decline #quality #result #control #burner #disaster #deadline #arisen #excessive #overtime #unreasonable #specification #convenience #superior #people #low_quality #longer #cockroaches #parasites #money #market #distribution

品質低下
現代社会では効率化やコスト削減ばかりを求める構図、いやっ、悪文化が形成されている。「とにかく早く出せ」、「奴らより先に出せ」、そうして圧力を掛け品質の低下を招いてるのが実態。

https://note.com/poison_raika/n/n309bc11a8fba

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#modern #society #culture #efficiency #pressure #decline #quality #result #control #burner #disaster #deadline #arisen #excessive #overtime #unreasonable #specification #convenience #superior #people #low_quality #longer #cockroaches #parasites #money #market #distribution

Declining quality
In modern society, a bad culture has been formed that demands efficiency and cost reduction. "Just hurry up," "Get it out before them," and this pressure has led to a decline in quality.

https://note.com/poison_raika/n/ne03b0a6ed5b5

#modern #society #culture #efficiency #pressure #decline #quality #result #control #burner #disaster #deadline #arisen #excessive #overtime #unreasonable #specification #convenience #superior #people #low_quality #longer #cockroaches #parasites

Деградація якості
У сучасному суспільстві сформувалася структура, а точніше погана культура, яка прагне лише ефективності та зниження витрат.

https://note.com/poison_raika/n/nec8202d8333d

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#modern #society #culture #efficiency #pressure #decline #quality #result #control #burner #disaster #deadline #arisen #excessive #overtime #unreasonable #specification #convenience #superior #people #low_quality #longer #cockroaches #parasites

品質低下
現代社会では効率化やコスト削減ばかりを求める構図、いやっ、悪文化が形成されている。「とにかく早く出せ」、「奴らより先に出せ」、そうして圧力を掛け品質の低下を招いてるのが実態。

https://www.pixiv.net/novel/show.php?id=24045407

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#modern #society #culture #efficiency #pressure #decline #quality #result #control #burner #disaster #deadline #arisen #excessive #overtime #unreasonable #specification #convenience #superior #people #low_quality #longer #cockroaches #parasites #money #market #distribution

Declining quality
In modern society, a bad culture has been formed that demands efficiency and cost reduction. "Just hurry up," "Get it out before them," and this pressure has led to a decline in quality.

https://www.pixiv.net/novel/show.php?id=24045416

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#modern #society #culture #efficiency #pressure #decline #quality #result #control #burner #disaster #deadline #arisen #excessive #overtime #unreasonable #specification #convenience #superior #people #low_quality #longer #cockroaches #parasites #money #market

Деградація якості
У сучасному суспільстві сформувалася структура, а точніше погана культура, яка прагне лише ефективності та зниження витрат.

https://www.pixiv.net/novel/show.php?id=24045426

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#modern #society #culture #efficiency #pressure #decline #quality #result #control #burner #disaster #deadline #arisen #excessive #overtime #unreasonable #specification #convenience #superior #people #low_quality #longer #cockroaches #parasites #money #market #distribution

品質低下
現代社会では効率化やコスト削減ばかりを求める構図、いやっ、悪文化が形成されている。「とにかく早く出せ」、「奴らより先に出せ」、そうして圧力を掛け品質の低下を招いてるのが実態。

https://note.com/poison_raika/n/n309bc11a8fba

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#modern #society #culture #efficiency #pressure #decline #quality #result #control #burner #disaster #deadline #arisen #excessive #overtime #unreasonable #specification #convenience #superior #people #low_quality #longer #cockroaches #parasites #money #market #distribution

Declining quality
In modern society, a bad culture has been formed that demands efficiency and cost reduction. "Just hurry up," "Get it out before them," and this pressure has led to a decline in quality.

https://note.com/poison_raika/n/ne03b0a6ed5b5

#modern #society #culture #efficiency #pressure #decline #quality #result #control #burner #disaster #deadline #arisen #excessive #overtime #unreasonable #specification #convenience #superior #people #low_quality #longer #cockroaches #parasites

Деградація якості
У сучасному суспільстві сформувалася структура, а точніше погана культура, яка прагне лише ефективності та зниження витрат.

https://note.com/poison_raika/n/nec8202d8333d

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#modern #society #culture #efficiency #pressure #decline #quality #result #control #burner #disaster #deadline #arisen #excessive #overtime #unreasonable #specification #convenience #superior #people #low_quality #longer #cockroaches #parasites

品質低下
現代社会では効率化やコスト削減ばかりを求める構図、いやっ、悪文化が形成されている。「とにかく早く出せ」、「奴らより先に出せ」、そうして圧力を掛け品質の低下を招いてるのが実態。

https://www.pixiv.net/novel/show.php?id=24045407

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#modern #society #culture #efficiency #pressure #decline #quality #result #control #burner #disaster #deadline #arisen #excessive #overtime #unreasonable #specification #convenience #superior #people #low_quality #longer #cockroaches #parasites #money #market #distribution

Declining quality
In modern society, a bad culture has been formed that demands efficiency and cost reduction. "Just hurry up," "Get it out before them," and this pressure has led to a decline in quality.

https://www.pixiv.net/novel/show.php?id=24045416

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#modern #society #culture #efficiency #pressure #decline #quality #result #control #burner #disaster #deadline #arisen #excessive #overtime #unreasonable #specification #convenience #superior #people #low_quality #longer #cockroaches #parasites #money #market

Деградація якості
У сучасному суспільстві сформувалася структура, а точніше погана культура, яка прагне лише ефективності та зниження витрат.

https://www.pixiv.net/novel/show.php?id=24045426

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#modern #society #culture #efficiency #pressure #decline #quality #result #control #burner #disaster #deadline #arisen #excessive #overtime #unreasonable #specification #convenience #superior #people #low_quality #longer #cockroaches #parasites #money #market #distribution

“They are alone together”*…

Andrew Trousdale and Erik J. Langer bridge the years between Robert Putnam‘s Bowling Alone and Jonathan Haidt‘s The Anxious Generation with a brief history of the trade-off between convenience and connection in America. From Zach Rauch’s introduction…

The Anxious Generation is best understood as a three-act tragedy. Act I begins in the mid-20th century, when new social and entertainment technologies (e.g., air conditioning and television) set in motion a long, gradual collapse of local community. Act II begins in the 1980s, as the loss of local community weakened social trust and helped erode the play-based childhood. Act III begins in the early 2010s, with the arrival of the phone-based childhood that filled the vacuum left behind.

This post, written by Andrew Trousdale and Erik Larson, goes deep into Act I. Andrew is a psychology researcher and human-computer interaction designer who is co-running a project on the psychological tradeoffs of progress. Erik is the author of The Myth of Artificial Intelligence, writes the Substack Colligo, and is completing the MIT Press book Augmented Human Intelligence: Being Human in an Age of AI, due in 2026. Together, they show how the isolation we experience today did not begin with smartphones but began decades earlier, as Americans, often for good and understandable reasons, traded connection for convenience, and place-based relationships for privacy and control.

Tracing these trade-offs across the twentieth century, Andrew and Erik help explain the problem of loneliness we face today, and offer some guidance for how we can turn it around and reconnect with our neighbors. Robert Putnam, who read a recent draft, described it as “easily the best, most comprehensive, and most persuasive piece on the contemporary social capital conundrum I’ve yet read.”…

Trousdale and Langer trace the social, cultural, economic, political, and technological forces that have played out from the the late 1940s to today. It is, at once, familiar and shocking. They conclude…

When we asked Robert Putnam what gives him hope, he pointed to history. In The Upswing, he reminds us that Americans faced a similar crisis before. The Gilded Age brought economic inequality, industrialization, and the rise of anonymous urban life. Small-town bonds gave way to tenements and factory floors. Trust collapsed. By the 1890s, social capital had reached historic lows — roughly where it stands today.

The Progressive reformers found this new world unacceptable, but they didn’t try to turn back the clock. Cities and factories were here to stay. Instead, they adapted, creating new forms of connection suited to their changed reality, from settlement houses for anonymous neighborhoods to women’s clubs that built networks of mutual aid. They didn’t reject modernity; they metabolized it, showing up day after day to create new institutions and communities suited to the industrialized world.

Decades ago Neil Postman observed in Amusing Ourselves to Death that we haven’t been conquered by technology — we’ve surrendered to it because we like the stimulation and cheap amusement. More recently, Nicholas Carr concludes in Superbloom that we’re complicit in our loneliness because we embrace these superficial, mediated forms of connection. Like Postman and Carr, the Progressive Era reformers understood where they had agency when technology upended their world. It isn’t in demanding that others fix systems we willingly participate in, nor is it in outright rejecting technologies that deliver real benefits — it’s in changing how we ourselves live with and make use of the tools that surround us.

There are already signs that people are willing to do this. In a small, three-day survey, Talker Research found that 63% of Gen Z now intentionally unplug — the highest rate of any generation — and that half of Americans are spending less time on screens for their well-being, and their top alternative activity is time with friends and family. And they found that two-thirds of Americans are embracing “slow living,” with 84% adopting analog lifestyle choices like wristwatches and paper notebooks that help them unplug. Meanwhile in Eventbrite’s “Reset to Real” survey, 74% of young adults say in-person experiences matter more than digital ones. New devices like the Light Phone, Brick, Meadow, and Daylight Computer signal a growing demand for utility without distraction.

Unplugging isn’t enough on its own. The time and energy we reclaim has to go toward building social connections: hosting the dinner party despite the hassle, staying for coffee after church when you’d rather go home, sitting through the awkward silence, offering or asking for help.

Ultimately, we can’t expect deep social connection in a culture that prioritizes individual ease and convenience. Nor is community something technology can deliver for us. What’s required is a change of culture, grounded in a basic fact of human nature: that authentic connection requires action and effort, and that this action and effort is part of what makes connection fulfilling in the first place.

We can form new rituals and institutions that allow us to adapt to technology, ultimately changing it to our liking. But it starts with the tools we use and the choices we make each day. If we all prioritize the individual comforts and conveniences we’ve grown accustomed to, no one else will restore the community we say we miss. No one else can. If we want deeper relationships and better communities than we have, we’re going to have to put more of our time, effort, and attention into the people around us.

History shows that we can adapt, building communities suited to changing times. The question is: Will we stay in and scroll? Or will we go out and choose one another?…

Eminently worth reading in full: “Scrolling Alone.”

In the spirit of the call for forward-looking determination, pair with “The Displacement of Purpose” from Peter Adam Boeckel (“If AI automates production, then humanity must automate compassion. Only then will progress remember what it was for.”)

[Image above: source]

* Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone (in which he also observed: “People divorced from community, occupation, and association are first and foremost among the supporters of extremism.”)

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As we get together, we might spare a thought for Aldus Manutius; he died on this date in 1515. A printer and humanist, he founded the Aldine Press. In the books he published, he introduced a standardized system of punctuation and use of the semicolon. He designed many fonts, and created italic type (which he named for Italy).

source

And apropos the piece featured above, we might note that on this date in 1965 “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling,” the first major hit for the Righteous Brothers, simultaneously reached #1 on both the Billboard and Cash Box charts in the US as well as the UK singles chart. The song was produced by Phil Spector (who had discovered the duo at a San Francisco show) for his own label, Philles Records. All the songs previously produced by Spector for Philles featured African-American singers; the Righteous Brothers were his first white vocal act– they had a vocal style, blue-eyed soul, that suited Spector.

https://youtu.be/03iSUjHaUxY?si=OkkrUiId1p3KkMHY

“They are alone together”*…

Andrew Trousdale and Erik J. Langer bridge the years between Robert Putnam‘s Bowling Alone and Jonathan Haidt‘s The Anxious Generation with a brief history of the trade-off between convenience and connection in America. From Zach Rauch’s introduction…

The Anxious Generation is best understood as a three-act tragedy. Act I begins in the mid-20th century, when new social and entertainment technologies (e.g., air conditioning and television) set in motion a long, gradual collapse of local community. Act II begins in the 1980s, as the loss of local community weakened social trust and helped erode the play-based childhood. Act III begins in the early 2010s, with the arrival of the phone-based childhood that filled the vacuum left behind.

This post, written by Andrew Trousdale and Erik Larson, goes deep into Act I. Andrew is a psychology researcher and human-computer interaction designer who is co-running a project on the psychological tradeoffs of progress. Erik is the author of The Myth of Artificial Intelligence, writes the Substack Colligo, and is completing the MIT Press book Augmented Human Intelligence: Being Human in an Age of AI, due in 2026. Together, they show how the isolation we experience today did not begin with smartphones but began decades earlier, as Americans, often for good and understandable reasons, traded connection for convenience, and place-based relationships for privacy and control.

Tracing these trade-offs across the twentieth century, Andrew and Erik help explain the problem of loneliness we face today, and offer some guidance for how we can turn it around and reconnect with our neighbors. Robert Putnam, who read a recent draft, described it as “easily the best, most comprehensive, and most persuasive piece on the contemporary social capital conundrum I’ve yet read.”…

Trousdale and Langer trace the social, cultural, economic, political, and technological forces that have played out from the the late 1940s to today. It is, at once, familiar and shocking. They conclude…

When we asked Robert Putnam what gives him hope, he pointed to history. In The Upswing, he reminds us that Americans faced a similar crisis before. The Gilded Age brought economic inequality, industrialization, and the rise of anonymous urban life. Small-town bonds gave way to tenements and factory floors. Trust collapsed. By the 1890s, social capital had reached historic lows — roughly where it stands today.

The Progressive reformers found this new world unacceptable, but they didn’t try to turn back the clock. Cities and factories were here to stay. Instead, they adapted, creating new forms of connection suited to their changed reality, from settlement houses for anonymous neighborhoods to women’s clubs that built networks of mutual aid. They didn’t reject modernity; they metabolized it, showing up day after day to create new institutions and communities suited to the industrialized world.

Decades ago Neil Postman observed in Amusing Ourselves to Death that we haven’t been conquered by technology — we’ve surrendered to it because we like the stimulation and cheap amusement. More recently, Nicholas Carr concludes in Superbloom that we’re complicit in our loneliness because we embrace these superficial, mediated forms of connection. Like Postman and Carr, the Progressive Era reformers understood where they had agency when technology upended their world. It isn’t in demanding that others fix systems we willingly participate in, nor is it in outright rejecting technologies that deliver real benefits — it’s in changing how we ourselves live with and make use of the tools that surround us.

There are already signs that people are willing to do this. In a small, three-day survey, Talker Research found that 63% of Gen Z now intentionally unplug — the highest rate of any generation — and that half of Americans are spending less time on screens for their well-being, and their top alternative activity is time with friends and family. And they found that two-thirds of Americans are embracing “slow living,” with 84% adopting analog lifestyle choices like wristwatches and paper notebooks that help them unplug. Meanwhile in Eventbrite’s “Reset to Real” survey, 74% of young adults say in-person experiences matter more than digital ones. New devices like the Light Phone, Brick, Meadow, and Daylight Computer signal a growing demand for utility without distraction.

Unplugging isn’t enough on its own. The time and energy we reclaim has to go toward building social connections: hosting the dinner party despite the hassle, staying for coffee after church when you’d rather go home, sitting through the awkward silence, offering or asking for help.

Ultimately, we can’t expect deep social connection in a culture that prioritizes individual ease and convenience. Nor is community something technology can deliver for us. What’s required is a change of culture, grounded in a basic fact of human nature: that authentic connection requires action and effort, and that this action and effort is part of what makes connection fulfilling in the first place.

We can form new rituals and institutions that allow us to adapt to technology, ultimately changing it to our liking. But it starts with the tools we use and the choices we make each day. If we all prioritize the individual comforts and conveniences we’ve grown accustomed to, no one else will restore the community we say we miss. No one else can. If we want deeper relationships and better communities than we have, we’re going to have to put more of our time, effort, and attention into the people around us.

History shows that we can adapt, building communities suited to changing times. The question is: Will we stay in and scroll? Or will we go out and choose one another?…

Eminently worth reading in full: “Scrolling Alone.”

In the spirit of the call for forward-looking determination, pair with “The Displacement of Purpose” from Peter Adam Boeckel (“If AI automates production, then humanity must automate compassion. Only then will progress remember what it was for.”)

[Image above: source]

* Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone (in which he also observed: “People divorced from community, occupation, and association are first and foremost among the supporters of extremism.”)

###

As we get together, we might spare a thought for Aldus Manutius; he died on this date in 1515. A printer and humanist, he founded the Aldine Press. In the books he published, he introduced a standardized system of punctuation and use of the semicolon. He designed many fonts, and created italic type (which he named for Italy).

source

And apropos the piece featured above, we might note that on this date in 1965 “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling,” the first major hit for the Righteous Brothers, simultaneously reached #1 on both the Billboard and Cash Box charts in the US as well as the UK singles chart. The song was produced by Phil Spector (who had discovered the duo at a San Francisco show) for his own label, Philles Records. All the songs previously produced by Spector for Philles featured African-American singers; the Righteous Brothers were his first white vocal act– they had a vocal style, blue-eyed soul, that suited Spector.

https://youtu.be/03iSUjHaUxY?si=OkkrUiId1p3KkMHY

UNICEF finds more obese children malnourished

"Ultra-processed food is increasingly replacing fruits, vegetables and protein at a time when nutrition plays a critical role in children's growth, cognitive development and mental health...About two-thirds of all Australians are obese or overweight."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2025-09-30/obese-kids-undernourished-as-ultra-processed-junk-food-blamed/105810274
#food #Australia #culture #convenience #cars #AmericanWayOfLife #UPF #FastFood #DriveIn #TakeawayCulture #FoodIndustry #mobility #walking #infrastructure #health

UNICEF finds more obese children malnourished

"Ultra-processed food is increasingly replacing fruits, vegetables and protein at a time when nutrition plays a critical role in children's growth, cognitive development and mental health...About two-thirds of all Australians are obese or overweight."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2025-09-30/obese-kids-undernourished-as-ultra-processed-junk-food-blamed/105810274
#food #Australia #culture #convenience #cars #AmericanWayOfLife #UPF #FastFood #DriveIn #TakeawayCulture #FoodIndustry #mobility #walking #infrastructure #health

"natural #empathy or whatever you wanna call that is basically #worthless, #people just turn that on and off at their #convenience

its all #ingroup #outgroup dynamics frankly. one has to try to understand other people #deliberately and #consistently for it to be any good"

https://www.tumblr.com/nando161mando/790134403770810368

"natural #empathy or whatever you wanna call that is basically #worthless, #people just turn that on and off at their #convenience

its all #ingroup #outgroup dynamics frankly. one has to try to understand other people #deliberately and #consistently for it to be any good"

https://www.tumblr.com/nando161mando/790134403770810368

*US vs Geisinger*

7. How would patients be hurt by the transaction?
Hospitals compete to attract patients to their facilities by offering high quality care, a broad #scope of #services, #amenities, #convenience, customer service, and attention to patient satisfaction. This competition improves access to #healthcare, reduces wait times, and improves the quality of care for all patients, including commercially insured, #Medicare, #Medicaid, and #uninsured #patients. #Hospitals also compete to be included in health insurers’ networks and this #competition enables insurers to #negotiate lower #reimbursement rates and other terms that reduce healthcare costs, all for the benefit of patients. This transaction permanently and fundamentally alters the competitive relationship between #Geisinger and #Evangelical by linking them together in a number of ways that, taken together, raise the likelihood of coordination and reduce #Geisinger
#incentivetocompete #aggressive against each other... The transaction is likely to lead to #highprices, #lowquality, and #reducedaccess to high-quality #inpatient hospital services for patients in central Pennsylvania. In addition, the transaction creates incentives for Geisinger to raise prices to commercial insurers and other #purchasers inpatient acute care...

https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1301586/dl

*US vs Geisinger*

7. How would patients be hurt by the transaction?
Hospitals compete to attract patients to their facilities by offering high quality care, a broad #scope of #services, #amenities, #convenience, customer service, and attention to patient satisfaction. This competition improves access to #healthcare, reduces wait times, and improves the quality of care for all patients, including commercially insured, #Medicare, #Medicaid, and #uninsured #patients. #Hospitals also compete to be included in health insurers’ networks and this #competition enables insurers to #negotiate lower #reimbursement rates and other terms that reduce healthcare costs, all for the benefit of patients. This transaction permanently and fundamentally alters the competitive relationship between #Geisinger and #Evangelical by linking them together in a number of ways that, taken together, raise the likelihood of coordination and reduce #Geisinger
#incentivetocompete #aggressive against each other... The transaction is likely to lead to #highprices, #lowquality, and #reducedaccess to high-quality #inpatient hospital services for patients in central Pennsylvania. In addition, the transaction creates incentives for Geisinger to raise prices to commercial insurers and other #purchasers inpatient acute care...

https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1301586/dl

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ESM

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Dear Friends,
This is was taken in #Reno #Nevada

ESM

#Convenience Store #FillingStation #GasStation #night, #snow #winter
#Photography #PhotoResearcher #USA

Dear Friends,
This is was taken in #Reno #Nevada

ESM

#Convenience Store #FillingStation #GasStation #night, #snow #winter
#Photography #PhotoResearcher #USA

Dear Friends,
This is was taken in #Reno #Nevada

ESM

#Convenience Store #FillingStation #GasStation #night, #snow #winter
#Photography #PhotoResearcher #USA

> "We've got to build a city the size of #Canberra every year. Totally insane."

RETHINKING SUSTAINABILITY: A #podcast recorded in #Adelaide, South Australia by #RodTaylor tackling some off the #taboo subjects related to #sustainability and our #society; a "wholly owned subsidiary of our #environment".

https://sustainablecivilisation.com/rethinking-sustainability/

#australia #degrowth #corporateState #convenience #rethinkingSustainability #renewableEnergy #renewables #MarkDiesendorf #civilisation #immigration #growth #overshoot

"big fan of #marriages of #convenience. #marry your best #friend for #tax #benefits. marry your #roommate for #college #tuition breaks. "marry" your #love interest for plot-contrived #reasons at a #fake #wedding, then accidentally fall in love & get married for real in the #epilogue. so many #possibilities!"

https://www.tumblr.com/anarchistmemecollective/720840564237631488?source=share

Palm Oil Free Cooking Oil, Margarine and Spreads

Are you an avid lover of #Nutella and other spreadable butters and #margarines? Consider that many popular brands come tarnished with dirty #palmoil. Why is palm oil dirty? It has destroyed millions of hectares of rainforests all over the world. Firstly in SE Asia and increasingly now in Africa, South and Central America as well as India. Wild animals and indigenous peoples suffer the most. Here’s a helpful guide so that you can AVOID the major supermarket brands and still enjoy your hit of nut butter and chocolate spread WITHOUT Nutella.

By choosing locally produced cooking oils such as olive, sesame or peanut oil and by making your own foods instead of buying convenience foods you’re doing your health and the animals a favour. If you are ever in doubt look for the prefixes: LAUR, STEAR, GYLC and PALM in the ingredients list on packaging – this is most likely palm oil. Take action and buy #PalmOilFree #Vegan and #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife

https://youtu.be/bXvXNuKkVsk

DYK that #Nutella by #Ferrero contains forest-destroying #palmoil? Help #animals and #indigenous peoples by going #palmoilfree with your nut butters and cooking oil. Resist and #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife 🌴🔥🫢⛔️ learn more palmoildetect ➡️ https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/02/11/palm-oil-free-cooking-oil-margarine-and-spreads/

Here’s some nut #butter 🥜 #margarine and #cooking – free from #palmoil. Always buy #palmoilfree! As consuming palm oil is linked to human #health problems like #stroke and #heartattack. Please #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife 🌴🔥🛢️⛔ learn more https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/02/11/palm-oil-free-cooking-oil-margarine-and-spreads/

Palm oil is one of the world’s most destructive crops, as it can only be harvested in tropical rainforest and peatland landscapes where the highest concentration of endangered species live. The majority of palm oil and soy is fed to farm animals that people eat. This is why palm oil is an animal rights issue. And it is for these reasons that palm oil is NOT considered vegan by animal activists. It may be a plant-based substance, but it is NOT VEGAN. Convenience food mega-brands that make spreads and margarines like Mondelez, Nestle, Danone, CocaCola, Pepsi, Hersheys and Ferrero claim that the palm oil they use is vegan. Yet all palm oil is linked to greenwashing, extinction and ecocide!

Companies should give the people what they want – palm oil free!

Research finds that palm oil free labelling encourages more people to purchase these products

“The perceived effects of palm oil on health have the strongest influence on consumption intent, followed by environmental damage caused by palm oil production…Our research suggests that companies developing palm oil-free products could benefit from a label on the product stating their palm oil-free nature.”

Plasek B, Lakner Z, Badak-Kerti K, Kovács A, Temesi Á. Perceived Consequences: General or Specific? The Case of Palm Oil-Free Products. Sustainability. 2021; 13(6):3550. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13063550

“Results revealed that consumer exposed to the ‘palm oil free’ products showed a lower risk perception compared to those exposed to the ‘with sustainable palm oil’ products and to products without claim. Moreover, the product evaluation was better in the ‘palm oil free’ condition compared to the “with sustainable palm oil” condition”

Vergura, Donata Tania & Zerbini, Cristina & Luceri, Beatrice. (2019). “Palm oil free” vs “sustainable palm oil”: the impact of claims on consumer perception. British Food Journal. DOI:10.1108/BFJ-01-2019-0020

“Products with a free-from label were considered healthier than products without such a label, with the strongest effects occurring for labels indicating that products were free of GMOs and free of palm oil.”

Hartmann C, Hieke S, Taper C, Siegrist M. European consumer healthiness evaluation of ‘Free-from’ labelled food products. Food Qual Prefer. 2018;68:377-388. doi:10.1016/j.foodqual.2017.12.009.

Palm Oil Free Cooking Oils, Margarine, Nut Butters and Spreads

Biona: UK company. Sauces, nut butters and snacks. Available in UK stores and ships worldwide.

99th Monkey: Made in Australia and ships worldwide. Nut butters and spreads.

Carly’s nut butters: Made in the UK. Ships to the UK, EU and worldwide.

Coppola Foods: Made in Italy. Pasta sauces, pasta, tapenades and cooking oils. Available worldwide.

Clear Spring: UK company specialising in plant-based Japanese foods. Available in-store in the UK. Ships worldwide.

Fabalous: Made in the UK. Nut butters and spreads. Available in stores in the UK, USA, EU, Australia and ships worldwide.

Fix & Fogg: Made in New Zealand. USA, Australia, New Zealand, Asia, speciality shops throughout the world.

Flower Farm NL Made in the Netherlands. Available in the UK, The Netherlands, Belgium, France.

Ground Up Nut Butters: Made in the USA. Available in the USA only

HealthyCo Sweden: Made in Sweden. 30 countries worldwide including Japan, Europe, UK, USA.

Hellenic Farms: Made in Greece. Nut butters and teas. In-store in EU and the UK. Ships worldwide.

Hillfield Foods

Hodmedods: Made in the UK. Plant-based cake mixes, sauces, cooking oils, canned vegetables. Ships to the UK.

Infinity Foods Cooperative

JEM: Made in the USA. Nut butters and snacks. Ships to the UK, EU, USA and Canada.

Liberation Foods: chocolate, spreads, nuts.

Olivado: Made in NZ and Australia. Olive oil and avocado oil. Available in stores in Australia, New Zealand and throughout Asia.

Organico: Spanish olive oil. Ships worldwide

Our Paula’s vegan butter

Papa Outang: Made in France. Ships throughout the world.

Pip & Nut: UK company. Nut butters, spreads and snacks. Available in UK shops and ships around the world.

Meridian: Made in the UK. Nut butters and snacks. Available in UK, EU, CA, AU and USA shops and online shops worldwide.

Miyokos Vegan Dairy: Made in the USA. Available in UK, EU, CA and USA stores and online shops worldwide. Vegan dairy products including vegan butter.

Mr Organic: Spreads, sauces, biscuits and snacks. Available in UK and EU shops and ships throughout the world.

Naturli: Danish company with production in Australia and the UK. Vegan butters, snacks and Available throughout the world.

Naturya: UK company. Cereal toppers, nut butters and snacks. Available in UK stores and ships worldwide.

Nutlers Nut Butter: Made in Greece. Available in Europe, USA, Canada but ships worldwide.

Nocciolata: Made in Italy, available in shops and online worldwide.

Plamil Foods: Made in the UK, available in supermarkets in the UK and online shops worldwide.

Raw Gorilla: Made in the UK. Cereals, snacks, chocolate. Ships worldwide.

Sun and Seed: Made in the UK. Nut butters and cooking oils. Available in the UK and ships to the EU.

Supernature: Made in the UK. Infused olive oils. UK only.

TBH (To Be Honest): Noah Schnapp from Stranger Things’ Nutella alternative: Made in the USA. Shipping in the USA only.

The Greek Kitchen: Olive oil, olive tapenades and spreads. Available in stores in the UK and ships within the UK.

Vego: snacks, nut butters, chocolate. Available in stores worldwide.

Wild Friends Nut Butters and Sauces: Made in the USA. Ships to USA only.

Find Palm Oil Free Products

Big Green Smile: Palm Oil Free Products

Biome

Ethical Consumer UK

Natural Collection UK

Replenish Refill Australia: Palm Oil Free

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