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- Comment on ngl it gets you pretty buzzed 2 days ago:
Basically, the fact that they allowed people consuming 2 mg and 182.2 mg into the same study group is insane.
Also considering 1 can (12 fl oz) diet coke contains about the 184 mg of aspartame, they didn’t even both to study an interesting group. I’m sure you could find 100 people that consume at least 2 cans worth a day.
Honestly I’m curious how someone consumes only 2mg of aspartame a day. That’s about 1 ml of diet coke
- Comment on This one has pom poms! 2 days ago:
Yes use a significant portion of your meager income to get you that dog hat from a private seller 2 states over.
I’m generally against our overconsumption culture and have been critically evaluating what I need.
That being said the corporations have us by the balls. They priced out the competition and lobbied to keep our wages low. So we have to evaluate between having less of whatever you buy from the “little guy” of buying from the corporations. For the majority it’s a matter of surviving. If if you buy from a small seller their supply chain or the product they produce is in some way coming from a mega corporation. We are truly fucked
And no you don’t need a dog hat, but I acknowledge sometimes you just want to buy a dumb little thing to make this shit time feel a little bit better.
- Comment on ngl it gets you pretty buzzed 3 days ago:
There seem to be problems with their study
Here’s the first glaring one:
the mean consumption of LNCSs was 92.1 ± 90.1 mg/d.
What an absolutely ridiculous range of consumption for a study population.
Also the years they were collecting this data unfortunately had a whole pandemic occur. Covid is very well documented at causing long term mental decline. I’d like to see how many of their study group had confirmed covid infectious.
Overall I’m not saying it’s not worth further investigation, but there are far too many unknown variables that the study did not control for. Rate and frequency of consumption are huge.
- Comment on Idk just feels like tempting fate unnecessarily 1 week ago:
We never chose our birthplace but many of us choose our death place one way or another
- Comment on Buzz off 1 week ago:
Bees have never chased me down to sting me. Wasps however…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Ya’ll are the same idiots that vote for Trump or skip voting
Wrong on both accounts, neat
If you want actual constructive criticism you could have stated your point and added a suggestion like “consider pirating”.
Instead you came of as accusatory and totally unproductive. Main point is we shouldn’t fight each other for trying to survive the week. We should support each other instead
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Wow you understand the most basic principles of consumption under capitalism. You must have made it through the first few chapters of Das Kapital.
Too bad you seem to not understand class solidarity and instead use your knowledge to sow discontent and animosity amongst the working class
- Comment on No good deed goes unpunished 2 weeks ago:
Condoms people condoms
- Comment on Alpha AF 2 weeks ago:
You make an excellent point. We have never buried Tate underground to test this. Maybe he can do the same as the potato.
Let’s at least give him reasonable doubt and bury him. Then after 3 or 4 months we’ll have our answer
- Comment on DOGE cut 20% of APHIS the agency that protects U.S. agriculture and now the screwworm parasite that wipes out livestock has returned to the U.S 2 weeks ago:
It’s pretty rare for it to infect people. It does happen, but humans are not a proffered host
- Comment on DOGE cut 20% of APHIS the agency that protects U.S. agriculture and now the screwworm parasite that wipes out livestock has returned to the U.S 2 weeks ago:
As we know Mexico being endemic to the parasite has cattle
- Comment on DOGE cut 20% of APHIS the agency that protects U.S. agriculture and now the screwworm parasite that wipes out livestock has returned to the U.S 2 weeks ago:
Yeah none of this is a surprise. Trump has done what he promised. I told many conservatives this, and they just refused to believe it. Or some even dismissed some of the things Trump said “as just politics” claiming he had no intent to keep his crazier campaign promises.
- Comment on Im pretty sure Charlie Kirk would have called for your execution 2 weeks ago:
Yep math is not my strong suit. But even still that’s a ridiculous number. If you factor down you ration by 3 then you get 11/84.3 people are heavy drug users.
If you went into a room of 85 random people do you really think 11 of them are deeply addicted to drugs?
- Comment on Im pretty sure Charlie Kirk would have called for your execution 2 weeks ago:
This guy would have to be counting caffeine intake to get those numbers
- Comment on Im pretty sure Charlie Kirk would have called for your execution 2 weeks ago:
Let’s do some math. Let’s say we have a sample of 100 households. The average occupancy in the US is 2.53 people per household. So 253 total people.
You assume that out of those 253 people 83 of them are heavy drug users?
The statement 1 out of every 3 people are heavy drug users is certainly an interesting take.
It’s wrong, but interesting
- Comment on Music just isn't good anymore 2 weeks ago:
Absolutely, Netflix is the worst at this. They rate their in house series based on how many people binge it in the first week or two. No slowly enjoying a show. That’s what so many of their good originals have been canceled. Apparently they weren’t addicting enough for Netflix’s tastes
- Comment on Music just isn't good anymore 2 weeks ago:
Other explanations could just come down to the structure of our current society.
I can see a clear and quantifiable decrease in my family support structure between childhood and now. Of course that’s mostly due death and moving away from home. But my answer would be entirely different if I lived in a multi-generational home or kinship group. Which was the default for about 99.9% of human existence.
Music, fashion, and tastes are a lot more subjective though.
- Comment on Hello 911, it's me again 2 weeks ago:
So if it’s stuck best get it deeper before it breaks. I’m taking note of this
- Comment on Hello 911, it's me again 2 weeks ago:
That’s kinda wild they weren’t able to salvage more function. The bottle is like what 8 inches tall? My initial thought is that should be fairly localized, major but manageable (surgically).
But as I got to thinking each involuntary movement of those muscles is just going to cause the glass to move and cut even deeper. Plus it’s totally possible the guy got that bottle inserted deeply.
I kinda wish I didn’t think through this as much as I did
- Comment on Hail power! 2 weeks ago:
I’d argue it never truly ended and was the birth of the modern “culture war”.
Honestly if you look at the 90s through 2000s people were claiming the same stuff about pokemon and Harry Potter.
- Comment on Where are we heading? 2 weeks ago:
Your right that makes way more sense then what I was thinking
- Comment on Where are we heading? 2 weeks ago:
Man I know this is shitposting, but that doesn’t make sense. I’m pretty sure contemporary People could tell the difference between low quality and high quality art back in their time too
- Comment on The timeline after the Harambe Incident 3 weeks ago:
And now we know how many people a gorilla can fight off
- Comment on Anon is a paramedic 3 weeks ago:
Go ahead and water yourself while you’re at it
- Comment on Anon reads horror 4 weeks ago:
Pretty sure this is case law from like 50 years ago, but okay
- Comment on Anon reads horror 4 weeks ago:
At least in the US, I’m not sure if purely textual would ever be illegal. You could likely get away with a visual detection of the scence with current law.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I did not see a black person in real life until i was 16 in 2010 and traveled to Florida. And by then i had already traveled around Germany and France. I do not imagine the probability of bumping into one was higher in the 50’s
I’m sorry, but I doubt this. I live in Germany myself and see several black people a day. Not usually something I track, but this conversation got me thinking so I paid extra attention during my normal commute. Germany does not collect racial demographics for obvious reasons, but France does. They’ve expirenced roughly a 3% increase in their black population from 2010 to today. Going from 3 to 6%.
If we assume at least a similar increase I find never real hard to believe. Like I don’t really want to just call you a liar, but it’s just statistically unlikely unless you avoided urban areas all that time.
Also this is an interesting read and touches on the exact solider relations I was talking about at least for Germany.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Vacationing lol okay, I suppose all of the civilians left when any military was around so they never saw each other, oh wait that’s ridiculous.
I said the most populous countries in Europe. Germany, France, Italy and the UK all had very heavy military presence during and after the war. After is kinda key since soldiers were allowed to leave base and go to the towns.
Of course there are other European nations they were in too. Of the most populous nations they met the Soviets in Germany, but did not obviously make it to Russia. Not a majority of the Russian population but not insignificant. These troops would interact a bit during the occupation of Germany but that was limited as the cold war intensified.
In colonies you seem to forget people did travel both ways. Obviously more European based nationals traveled there, but people flowed both ways.
Btw troops were desgregated in 1948 during a period where the US was expanding military presence across most of western Europe. And even during the war do you think the battlefield was segregated? That’s crazy talk
Certainly some very interesting and interpretive takes though
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Idk maybe all the black Americans actively fighting in some of Europe’s most populous countries and the following American presence after the war.
And that’s ignoring the interactions between European nations and their African colonies. I’ll ignore the human zoos as well
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
What the fuck are you talking about?
My whole point was by 1950 most white people had seen a black person and that their only idea wasn’t a minstrel show