halcyoncmdr
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- Comment on Just try it 1 week ago:
Sort of, but not really. You’re almost certainly referencing E471, mono- and diglycerides that are used as emulsifiers.
The Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) has set an “acceptable daily intake” (ADI) as “not limited” due to the safety of these ingredients.
In 2017, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) re-evaluated the safety of mono- and diglycerides and concluded that there is no need to establish a numerical ADI and there is no safety concern for the reported food uses.
A diet high in saturated fats, trans fats, and cholesterol in general increases your risk of Cardiovascular issues. So does alcohol, and tobacco use.
Looking up a few of the big brands nutritional labels really quick, their products aren’t particularly high in saturated fats, and most have no trans fats listed. Meaning the amounts are small enough they don’t even need to be listed. Jif creamy peanut butter for instance in a 2 Tbsp (33g) serving… has a total of 16g of Total Fat, which breaks down to 3.5g Saturated fat, 0g Trans fat, and 0mg cholesterol. It also only has 2g of added sugar, 6g net carbs, and 7g of protein in that same serving.
11 spoonfuls like the meme is excessive, but some peanut butter sandwiches aren’t where your cardiovascular risks are going to be coming from.
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls 6: Sentinel... is the title of the highly-anticipated follow-up to Bethesda's Skyrim... 1 week ago:
SF into a bland void with loading screens
A reminder that No Man’s Sky came out in 2016, and Cyberpunk 2077 came out in 2020, while Starfield released in 2023.
Yet Starfield feels like it’s a dramatically older game. Does Starfield seem like it’s a 3 year old game? Hell no, it feels like it’s over a decade old, and it felt like that the day it released.
Bethesda’s development team is larger and arguably more experienced than both CDPR and Hello Games combined, yet they have essentially abandoned Starfield while the other two completely salvaged games that had terrible launches.
Bethesda has absolutely no credibility anymore. Expect ES6 to be terrible, and require community mods to be made playable to modern standards.
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls 6: Sentinel... is the title of the highly-anticipated follow-up to Bethesda's Skyrim... 1 week ago:
My hopes for this are low simply because Bethesda is still gonna use Creation Engine despite it being inadequate for nearly two decades now, and Starfield clearly showing it was no longer nearly good enough for a modern open world game.
- Comment on Craving a Crimson Skies with modern planes or in space 1 week ago:
The new Ace Combat that just came out is pretty phenomenal. Not sure it would scratch the Crimson Skies itch, but it’s worth a play anyway.
- Comment on name too hard? brain go ouch! Vote red. 2 weeks ago:
I’m willing to bet he’s fine with just being called Abdul as well.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
yall need jeezus
Does this Jeezus have the BBC?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
100%
My expectation is that when these opportunities arise, it is the responsibility of the writer to use that headline.
- Comment on Meta ordered to pay $25 billion to New Mexico after jury finds company misled consumers about data privacy 2 weeks ago:
I merely wanted to put it in perspective. It’s not small amount relative to the number people it represents.
More than 43 million violations of the New Mexico consumer protection law… $25 Billion fine. That’s only about about $500 per violation. Out of a $5,000 maximum, per violation. There are roughly 2.1 Million people in New Mexico… so at most that’s $12k per person.
Do we really think that $12k is a deterrent for a company like Meta?
It’s not small amount relative to the number people it represents.
It only looks like it’s not a small amount simply because the numbers at the scale companies like Meta operate at are outrageous.
- Comment on Meta ordered to pay $25 billion to New Mexico after jury finds company misled consumers about data privacy 2 weeks ago:
This is just New Mexico
Sorry to break it to you, but only Florida can still fine them for this Cambridge Analytica issue.
The other 48 States were part of a single lawsuit that already settled for $17 Billion. Total, not per-State, for all 48 of them as a group.
So it’s up to Floridaman lawyers to actually get a real punishment. Unlikely.
- Comment on Do jobs still do "shadowing" to learn the skills before you apply like welding or carpentry or computers? Or is it too much of a hassle for the person you are "shadowing" along with the company? 3 weeks ago:
Every job I’ve ever had did some sort of shadowing period. From retail, to call center work, to on premise IT.
- Comment on I have to give a presentation in 15 minutes 3 weeks ago:
It literally has a link in the notification box telling you it needs to restart, to help you schedule a time and adjust active hours, and explains what that means without having to go to an online help page.
Not sure what else you want.
- Comment on I have to give a presentation in 15 minutes 3 weeks ago:
Don’t leave security updates hanging for over a week then. That’s when the system starts trying to actively fix your inability to utilize ANY of the update delay and scheduling options included in the OS.
Microsoft and many other companies release updates literally the second Tuesday of each month. The update cycle is so common and decades old that there is literally a name for it, Patch Tuesday.
- Comment on I have to give a presentation in 15 minutes 3 weeks ago:
There’s nothing “random” about it.
Microsoft releases their updates (except really time critical security updates) during Patch Tuesday, the second Tuesday of each month.
You can delay restarting after updates do the initial install, which it does in the background after downloading by default, for 7 days before it starts pushing you. The restart is needed when files that are currently in use need updating, not all updates require that.
At any point you can also schedule an update time for it to finish the install. And you can set active hours for it to not update during times when you usually use your system.
If you continue to ignore finishing the update process, it will eventually consider it critical (after like a month of delayed updates) and will force an update on its own because you’ve been delaying it for so long, you are not attempting to schedule it, and you are not telling the system to pause updates. So you’re literally ignoring every option given to you to manage updates.
Your system “randomly” updating means you are not utilizing the options to schedule and plan times the system can regularly update, AND are not keeping your system anywhere near up to date manually.
- Comment on No one talks about the REAL victims 3 weeks ago:
It’s far from zero. But it’s nowhere near the likes of places like reddit or twitter that allow Russian bot traffic at will because that pumps up the fraudulent numbers they then report to shareholders.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
You’ve clearly never played a Kojima game, long cutscenes are just Kojima’s style.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I don’t know if I will have the patience to watch 50 hours of cutscenes even in second monitor mode.
I see you’re not familiar with the Hideo Kojima method of storytelling. He’s still got the Guinness Record for it.
- Comment on Don't fear the Unknown; the Known is probably worse. 4 weeks ago:
Not just us, up to 90% of the flora and fauna might be taken with us along the way. Depending on how bad we get it before we are wiped out and stop making it worse.
The Chicxulun asteroid wiped out only 75% of flora and fauna… And the planet is pretty damned different than it was before that event.
- Comment on Spookie 5 weeks ago:
This gives off Apple Pie with a slice of cheese.
Apparently that’s actually good, but on the surface those people look insane.
- Comment on Paul Wesley Admits He Still Wonders If He’s ‘Doing Enough’ to Honor William Shatner’s Captain Kirk 1 month ago:
If he tried too hard it might fall into cringe parody.
That might then match Shatner’s terrible acting.
Paul Wesley has done an amazing job at a portrayal of Kirk without the baggage actors often have with portraying existing characters. In fact pretty much all of the SNW cast have done a wonderful job with that.
- Comment on Wiki Documents at Least 44 Instances in Which Sony Says You Own Your Games 1 month ago:
Forced arbitration provisions have been thrown out before. So have contract clauses that ban class actions.
A company can put whatever they want in their agreements, whether it is enforceable is a completely different story, and things are tossed out by courts all the time.
- Comment on Forever relics 2 months ago:
You don’t have a screwdriver? M.2 screws don’t use any sort of special screw head. They’re almost always a regular phillips screw, maybe even being cut for a flathead to work as well.
- Comment on Mmmm tasty 2 months ago:
The name is a reference to bootlegging alcohol. And their original packaging literally had a dude with a moonshine jug on it, same with the modern Throwback label.
- Comment on DuckDuckGo's "hide ai images" option still shows AI images that are clearly tagged on the site 2 months ago:
Isn’t this one of the things that embedding C2PA in generated images is supposed to help with? Even though it predates the current AI bubble, it is a provenance system. With a quick search, it seems like many of the big players are on board already.
- Comment on Waiting and getting treated is better than waiting and going bankrupt 2 months ago:
You can tell these people have never visited an ER in the US when they post shit you could tell was a lie just by accidentally glancing into any hospital window.
- Comment on Elons not a gamer. 2 months ago:
I REALLY hope it was Grok that generated it.
- Comment on This camouflaged speed bump 2 months ago:
I’ve always seen signs posted next to speed humps and bumps for additional notice they are there, in addition to the paint on them.
It looks like there should be a sign on the right next to the bump, but it’s missing.
- Comment on I too enjoy drinking water 2 months ago:
Yup and they come in a few different shapes and sizes depending on your area and flora.
They also cost like 5x as much to build, and limit the types of radio hardware that can be used, usually meaning less effective coverage. All for a handful of vocal NIMBYs complaining about how regular towers look (and almost always also complaining about having poor signal).
- Comment on 64% of lobbyists are former government officials, report shows - Deepcut 2 months ago:
That number seems low. What’s their definition for “government official”?
- Comment on Corporate media, owned by billionaires, refuse to recognize the wave of democratic socialism 2 months ago:
About 35% of the unfavorable are the lost ones that vote R because that’s what they’ve always done, what their church tells them, and what their one or two propaganda channels tell them. And the other 10% of those are probably Wall Street and adjacent. The ones that actually do have things to lose, since they’re the ones stealing it from the rest.
- Comment on You Used To Be Cool. Pfft, Sell Out 2 months ago:
Google has been an advertising company for over two decades. Everything else that they do is to feed AdSense.
