jak

@jak@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Apple Lie at the grocery store⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The scientists are from Nigeria, one of the largest producers of palm oil, so it could be in their nationalistic interest to dismiss palm oil health concerns to promote their international exports.

  That’s a valid point, but it could be that they’re looking at the global reaction to something they’ve consumed locally for generations with consternation and wanted to investigate it.

  I’ll stick with doing what the mainstream tells me until and unless the mainstream changes.

  That feels like it might have sounded different in your head or I’m not understanding what you mean. There have been many examples of an incredibly unhealthy thing being very mainstream (lead, more than once, but also arsenic, uranium, and mercury, for some of the most egregious examples, but pharmaceutical history is also full of this), so I don’t know why you would want to default to the mainstream on this if that’s what you did mean.

  whether palm olein is a better substitute for soybean oil is a separate question from whether the solid palm oil is a better substitute for butter, which the Nigerian paper just lumps all in the same category

  This is also a fair criticism, and I wish there were more research.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rare insults dropped⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  He does look very snouty

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what if the shop is empty?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what we used to call working from 6-23 at the my first job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Weary Trump Appears to Doze Off in Courtroom Ahead of Criminal Trial⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  I honestly don’t know what the law is, is “pussy” printable in newspapers?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CNN blocks Firefox with uBo⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you in a GDPR protected area?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why did we give up on insulation?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspect it’s more that the requirements are lower and the buildings are on average older than in Yakutsk, which contribute to less effective insulation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon swims⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re right, obesity might play a larger role in making that difficult than I was factoring in. I think a significant hurdle is also wearing wet bathing clothes in public/finding public appropriate clothes. I do also think that increasing public pools can do a lot to prevent obesity, but in extant cases, it might not be that helpful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon swims⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on your situation (the availability). I have one in my neighborhood, so it’s literally 8 minutes from my house to being showered off and in the pool. I’ve been to some people’s houses where it takes almost that long to navigate the backyard.

  I don’t think my situation is just some happenstance, either. I think it’s not a huge investment for an incredible health and social return anywhere (desert climates possibly excepted? I’m not sure what the environmental impact is, especially compared with a potential reduction in personal pools built/maintained). Every neighborhood should have a pool reachable within 15 minutes and residents should petition for it if there isn’t one, imo. Petitioning obviously isn’t easy, but it’s easier than you’d think

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon swims⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s unbelievably cheap. What the actual fuck? It was updated this year, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon swims⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Or the wherewithal for and availability of a public one