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- Comment on This Avocado Oil that claims to be “0 Calories” 🙄 4 days ago:
Well at least we agree on the foundational point then I guess. While agree that spray oil alone isn’t making or breaking anyone’s diet (and yes I have used it before) that again is beside the point. The fact that companies are even allowed to do, at all, is the entire point. It’s almost farcical that a company would, with a straight face, try to claim an oil product is 0 cal. Especially given the impractical serving sizes they’ve had to use to get that number. .25 second spraying would be enough to cover the baking paper area for one cookie at best.
- Comment on This Avocado Oil that claims to be “0 Calories” 🙄 4 days ago:
People wouldn’t use spray oil for frying? So you think half a second (which is double the vague 1/4 second serving size suggestion for this btw) is all you use every time, because I seriously doubt that.
800 is more reasonable? That’s almost halving the amount of servings in the bottle off the jump. I’m confused what your point is here. No one is using only .25g of this stuff or spraying it .25 of a second. You wouldn’t even be able to cover both sides of a waffle iron with .5 second spraying. This, again, obviously a way to misrepresent the nutritional information of the product.
Do you seriously look at 0g of fat for an oil product and think “oh yeah, this seems legit”? Regardless of its use it still end up on your food (especially for waffles…), more than 0.25g is going to be used in a given meal and 0cal is obviously bs. Wild to see people advocating for companies using deceptive nutritional information because “um well actually 0.25g is a really small amount” which is almost entirely beside the point.
- Comment on This Avocado Oil that claims to be “0 Calories” 🙄 4 days ago:
What doesn’t make sense is anyone pulling out a scale, accurate to that degree, to measure out 0.25g of oil. No one is realistically going to get 1532 serves out of that bottle. The serving suggestion may as well say “rubbing this on your face is 0 calories”, ok but if it’s used for salad or frying?
Most people are just going to see 0 cal, think it’s healthy and layer it into their food. As others have said, most countries having realistic servings and an easier to interpret per 100g/ml/whatever to prevent this sort of deliberate misrepresentation. Which stops company dividing the product size by whatever number is needed to make it round to zero.
- Comment on This Avocado Oil that claims to be “0 Calories” 🙄 4 days ago:
A statement perfectly crafted to send professors of undergrad courses into a fit of violent rage.
- Comment on 'Locking a gameplay trailer behind a Netflix subscription is a new level of greed' — GTA 6 callout Rockstar for 'paywalling' the game's extended look 1 week ago:
Hate to be the bearer of bad news but I’m pretty sure they made $1.2 billion already from dummies preordering. We deserve the gaming industry we have because people never learn.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
“I’m not racist, I just repost racist memes” isn’t really a compelling argument. More so when, as breadsmasher says, you come here to complain about semantics and try to paint the mods as “psychotic” over it.
- Comment on When you can’t upload an image to Lemmy, is it… 3 weeks ago:
Is this packet tracer? Why have you done this? I’m very likely going to curse some people at work with this and it’s all your doing.
- Comment on Do you consider GTA VI overpriced? 3 weeks ago:
Look as someone who’s partial to playing the devils avocado myself, I get where you’re coming from.
That said, this is just horse armour dlc tier. I’ll never understand people defending companies doing this shit. R* is already going to milk 6, probably to the tune of a billion plus dollars, again. Do they seriously have to nickel and dime like this? In an ideal fantasy land, they wouldn’t even charge a cent for SP DLC because they know they’ll sell currency and content for the MP and make an absolute killing.
Let’s not forget, how much DLC content was released for SP on GTA 5?
Like “thanks for buying our C suite several mansions and yachts each and our earning our investors a fortune last game. Want some tattoos and cars, that could be modded into any other game? Pay up. Anyway gotta go bust up another employee union, cya.”
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To answer your question, yes, if they had it ready to go on release and withheld it. Your question is also semi paradoxical. Cutting content from the game for day 0 dlc is done for profiteering. Why wait months in a vain attempt at hiding it? Also it’d be pretty obvious because they can’t sprout the locations up out of nowhere, so they’d have to block these areas off. Nerds also always datamine files for nearly every game. It’d discovered immediately so they’d still cop shit for it but now lose the FOMO incentive to purchase it that they’re angling for.
- Comment on Got fired over a peproncini today so expect a lot of bullshit for the next couple days. 3 weeks ago:
Man wtaf. Why would you even want to commemorate that and then fire people for talking about it. “Enjoy your burger, it’s a memento for the most traumatic day of my daughter’s life. Why no she doesn’t ever eat here, why do you ask?”
- Comment on Got fired over a peproncini today so expect a lot of bullshit for the next couple days. 3 weeks ago:
I’m either misreading this or confused. You asked the coworker or you were the one explaining it to the coworker? And got fired for explaining it?
- Comment on Nice try… 4 weeks ago:
That’s also a possible, but as I and any other person with an illness, mental or otherwise, can tell you. An illness isn’t you, it doesn’t define you. That doesn’t make it easier (or mean “gee thanks, I’m cured”). However, it’s worth noting the distinction and thinking about imo. I’m just same random internet arsehole so who gaf what I think but I think the past few comments are correct. You have value regardless. If you got to one place, even if it’s bad and made easier due to illness, there are ways to the other places. Even if incredibly difficult. Either way, I’m hoping you find that way, for whatever that’s worth.
- Comment on Nice try… 4 weeks ago:
Said people have usually gotten to that state of mind via their circumstances. Can it not stand to reason there exist circumstances to bring them to another state? One where they may realise that their circumstances (be it family or otherwise) aren’t necessarily a reflection of what they are or could be?
- Comment on Nice try… 4 weeks ago:
They don’t need to know you to know those facts. You were pretty close, it’s laissez-faire. Now you’ve learnt you have inherent value and the correct spelling. Onwards and upwards one little bit at a time, if you so desire.
- Comment on Nice try… 4 weeks ago:
Careful mate, he’s got a Pinterest. Clearly he means business.
- Comment on Nice try… 4 weeks ago:
Nooooo. Not the Pinterest!!! Lmao fucking dweeb
- Comment on Is it even possible to drop 20 lbs in a month? Are there any diets for people who want to go to the extreme? Kind of like celebs do for roles? 5 weeks ago:
I mean it’s close to doable but you’d be pushing what’s healthy in terms of weight loss. The problem with rapid weight loss is mainly yo-yo dieting. You usually use a fad/crash diet that isn’t sustainable long term and then gain it back. Lifting + some cardio is the best bang for buck in terms of calories burnt for most in terms of time/effort.
The boozing is a problem for a couple reasons (beyond the obvious reasons, but I’ll spare you the sermon there). One beer is ~112cal. Maintenance for me was -2200cal back in the day. Drinking ten beers, which back when I was boozing was enough to get a buzz going. That’s 1120cal, eating at a loss for me was 1600-1700cal if I recall. So one night’s buzz undoes 2 days dieting, at least.
If you then eat to account for it, you run the risk of getting most your calories from booze, which can be incredibly harmful for you long term, I.e. deadly I’m pretty sure.
- Comment on How come cops who are trained in guns shoot to kill all the time? Even people who have no gun. Why not go in with your hand on the taser, and ready just in case to shoot someone in the leg? 1 month ago:
In most countries, if you’re in a situation that needs you to shoot a gun, you generally need to have grounds to use lethal force. If you are, where you shoot doesn’t make a lot of difference. There are arteries in your leg, that if hit, does not bode well for you.
Also, if you are in a lethal force situation (e.g. someone coming at you with a weapon) you want to aim centre mass to increase your likelihood of hitting. Shooting down at that angle (towards to the leg) also means the round could ricochet and hit someone other than the target. The “just shoot them in the leg” is very much movie/gaming logic.
All situations that don’t risk imminent loss of life should be dealt with via taser where applicable though, so agreed on that.
- Comment on Why do Brits think being pushed into waist-deep, stagnant water is some sort of death sentence? 1 month ago:
Quick, ditch the canals.
- Comment on Why do Brits think being pushed into waist-deep, stagnant water is some sort of death sentence? 1 month ago:
Yeah my questions are three-fold.
- Why is this weirdo obsessed with canals?
- What is even the point, just because a body is retrieved from canals doesn’t mean they died in there?
- Even if they (or some of them) died in the canal, is that outside the realm of possibility? People who can’t swim can drown in surprisingly shallow water, being pushed from even a couple of metres could stun some people leading them to drown. I.e. not outside the realm of possibility.
Like what’s the point here? Of all the convoluted of conspiracies.
- Comment on Windows 11 has a new Start menu — here's how to unlock it 6 months ago:
The sentiment in this thread and the votes on the OP are why this is happening I suspect. Windows knows their consumer sentiment is so low it’s below the dumps. Honestly Im here for it, it’s nowhere near enough but focusing on UX for fucking once is a step in the right direction. Whether they don’t full M$$ it and shit the bed, yet again, remains to be seen.
- Comment on Windows 11 has a new Start menu — here's how to unlock it 6 months ago:
The third party tool activates Microsoft’s new start menu since they’re doing incremental rollouts.
- Comment on Signs that your platform (Nextdoor) has turned to trash 7 months ago:
Yeah I deactivated my account and only then they offered unsub me to all notifications. Mentioned it in my reason for deactivating.
- Comment on 7 months ago:
I really should get matching coats for myself and my dog. And a dog.
- Comment on excellent 7 months ago:
Increased font size maybe or more likely the classic “fake text meme for internet points”.
- Comment on Feynman rules 8 months ago:
Yeah no, “you think they’re hostile because of an accent”? Please. The interviewer themselves says something to the effect of “I must say I think it’s a perfectly reasonable question to ask” which then gets him to ease up about it and explain himself. Either way, not hallmarks of a great educator, at least in that interview specifically. I think someone Neil deGrasse Tyson would have handled the question in a better manner. Either way, not worth having an internet debate over; especially not when you’re going to get downvoted for disagreeing.
- Comment on Feynman rules 8 months ago:
I don’t really assume since Im basing it off what I watched of the interview and come to that opinion. He just seemed unnecessarily hostile/antagonistic to the interviewer when it came to that question. Being a “great mind” doesn’t really excuse it and detracts being a good educator imo.
- Comment on Feynman rules 9 months ago:
Great video. I mentioned it in a discussion about the strangulation porn ban in the UK; specifically the “women strangled by a partner are 750% more likely to be murdered by said partner” statistic. Someone chimes in with “that sounds like a completely fabricated stat”. I have to assume due to the name that came after Dr. That magnet interview wasn’t particularly flattering either.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Yup, it would be much better if it just blocked all users from the instance as well.
- Comment on When the nice guy 9 months ago:
This user came into a post about a doordasher posting that they had gotten punished by the company after complaining of sexual assault. Bennyboy posted to the effect of “everything is assault these days” and went on to assert that the woman in question was “probably shit her job and made it all up”. They are quite literally a “nice guy” if their flipping out didn’t make that apparent already.