Avatar

lasagna

lasagna@programming.dev
Joined
0 posts • 423 comments

He / him

Direct message

It will be a mix of interesting and depressing to watch the healthcare systems around the globe handle an increasingly old population alongside increased weather extremes.

permalink
report
reply

Who’d guess a race for renewables would cause the prices to skyrocket? Supply and demand is just too new for us to understand it to such depths.

permalink
report
reply

A system where a housing tax that primarily targets the poorest is the main source of social care funding. And this system is finally crumbling? No one could have seen this coming.

permalink
report
reply

The main risk of sugar isn’t the calories themselves, but rather their effect on our fullness perception. That is, the more sugar we eat, the harder it is to feel full after eating something. This in return cases a vicious cycle, one that can easily lead into obesity. I don’t know if that same issue can happen with sweeteners but I don’t generally trust anything that tricks our senses to such a degree. I don’t consider coffee the holy grail either, it’s just that its negative health effects have been tested for ages and are acceptable for its overall benefits. But that’s my own risk assessment, with only my health in the line.

It’s hard to get a good grip on the health neutrality of diet soda when the companies who make them have lied to us about sugar for decades. Maybe sweeteners are just their next lie, who knows. Much of the research done on sweeteners is funded by the ones who profit from it. The food industry have far more power than anyone should be comfortable with them having.

permalink
report
reply

I often think of the analogy where the Tories are the CIA and the UK is a Latin America country.

permalink
report
reply

My bet is on the cloudy sky. The crane is bound to run out of energy before doing any real damage.

permalink
report
reply

Whatever your reasons, that was whataboutism.

Expecting others to know what goes on in NASA discussions is moronic at best. That’s not the topic we are in. You didn’t even link it or reference it.

The Indian caste system is a humanitarian crisis. Would you rather westerners ignore it? There’s just no winning then, is there?

permalink
report
parent
reply

No seat belt. Figures.

permalink
report
reply

Credit is definitely due and this is an amazing feat by India.

I haven’t bothered to discuss the other topic. Is there even any point when US issues are always on the front page here? I probably know more about US politics than my own country at this point.

Though of course you could also go there and take a jab at Americans. Let me know when you do so I can give you some support.

permalink
report
parent
reply

These numbers are very low, considering how much of the global population live in political shitholes, if not war zones.

permalink
report
parent
reply