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- Comment on Pornhub prepares to block five more states rather than check IDs 1 week ago:
Wet wipes are helpful if you’d rather not.
- Comment on Anyone know what 'natural flavours' means on label packaging? 3 weeks ago:
So, in the US, there are two categories of flavorings. There is “natural” and “artificial” and the ancient war between them is quite a story.
All this started when people started to learn about what made things taste and smell like other things. All of this made growers of difficult foods very nervous. Why buy these strawberries that are weather sensitive and expensive to harvest when you can just synthesize the chemicals that make things taste like strawberry! So the lobbyists weighed in.
The compromise was that foods flavored with actual organic compounds were called “natural” while those that just used the chemicals would be called “artificial.” This led to some interesting issues. Some natural flavors are actually dangerous to use. Apple seeds have heavy metals in them. It’s tough to make sure when processing apples that you don’t crush the seeds, or you might end up with arsenic (I think?) in your output, and at industrial scale you’d be concentrating it. So you have some flavors that are very expensive and hard to get safely, that it’s easier to get with a safe chemical synthesis.
In short, there’s not and functional difference between natural and artificial flavors. They’re largely identical except in how they’ve been acquired to add to your food. And as a bonus, “natural” was chosen intentionally as the name to cause a panic when looking at labeling because “good heavens what is artificial flavoring! I can’t feed that to my child! It must be unnatural and dangerous!”
- Comment on You can't see him!!!! 1 month ago:
Two words: group shot.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
For limited values of decent…
- Comment on We don't really work 9 to 5 but still call our job 9-to-5 2 months ago:
I mean, I’m at work from 8 to 5, but the hours where I actually do work are closer to 9 to 5…
- Comment on acceptable screws 2 months ago:
Mostly in construction. Robertson was a Canadian, and you see them a lot in Canada. In the US largely they use Phillips or something that looks like Phillips and a six-lobed star shape.
I like Robertson because the bits are much less fragile, and very inexpensive. They’re also much less likely to strip out a screw with a square hole than something that needs little pieces of metal sticking into the bit hole.
- Comment on acceptable screws 2 months ago:
I came here to show love for Robertson, but it looks like I didn’t need to. You guys are the best. 😁
- Comment on Controversial benchmarking website goes behind paywall — Userbenchmark now requires a $10 monthly subscription 4 months ago:
And nothing of value was lost…
- Comment on More believable for a Linux OS 4 months ago:
And much like Windows, everything dangerous is done better elsewhere.
- Comment on More believable for a Linux OS 4 months ago:
You can
quitcontrol-c at any point. Sometimes, the game plays you. - Comment on Are there any games like Diablo but not Diablo because Diablo? 4 months ago:
That’s almost like saying that if you want to try meth, steal some instead.
- Comment on If you were to suddenly come into possession of 12+ enterprise-grade SAS hard drives, how would you go about incorporating them into your homelab? 4 months ago:
By selling them and buying something more useful.
- Comment on Fuck Ubisoft. 5 months ago:
They count that. You have to not even steal it for them to realize they fucked up.
- Comment on Elizabeth Holmes barred from federal health programs for 90 years 5 months ago:
I dunno, it worked once it could work again…
- Comment on Especially on Lemmy 5 months ago:
It’s me. I look at my posts like that. I should probably post sober more often.
- Comment on Would you fuck an entire man? 5 months ago:
If he fits…
- Comment on A literal child taking orders in a fast food restaurant in the US 5 months ago:
Don’t worry, there’s plenty of legitimate outrage to be had without manufacturing it…
- Comment on FINAL FANTASY XIV: DAWNTRAIL Full Trailer 5 months ago:
Excited for Hrothgirls.
- Comment on Apple Shuts Down Flipper Zero’s Ability to Shut Down iPhones 6 months ago:
It’s Bluetooth here, and possibly. Apple was handling a class of pairing attempts poorly. Android could do the same thing. It currently seems like that’s not the case, and there are a lot of eyes looking at what’s open source.
- Comment on Yes, I'm a rancher 6 months ago:
I prefer the term “ranchist.”
- Comment on Someone in props in getting fired for that 6 months ago:
I think that’s actually one of the Planet of the Apes movies
- Comment on Unity cuts 265 jobs as part of a company 'reset' 6 months ago:
That CEO was brought in to take the heart for that decision. I’m not sure that really counts…
- Comment on What happens if flat Earthers go to space? 7 months ago:
- Comment on Tim Cook tells Dua Lipa he wants the next CEO of Apple to be an internal hire 7 months ago:
Yeah, calling her dual ipa from now on.
- Comment on USB worm unleashed by Russian state hackers spreads worldwide 7 months ago:
But what about the bears?!?
- Comment on Let's confuse Americans! 7 months ago:
Wait … what?
- Comment on Choose wisely! 7 months ago:
some door will trim it for you.
Hang on, let’s hear him out…
- Comment on If civilization continues to the year 9999, is the idea to go to year 10.000, or...? 7 months ago:
A000 is next
- Comment on Interior design 7 months ago:
In a word, “sploosh”
- Comment on I'll never not want to 7 months ago:
Image Grissom, the Terrorist