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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I fall for it every year. Every. Year.⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
How is it possible you do not glow green and shit silver colored liquids after digesting this?

Food labeling in the US uses chemical names for… actually I’m not sure why we do that, I’m guessing it was some well-meaning but misguided regulatory guidelines. Anyways it makes our food labels sound absurd when they’re, as with this example, pretty straightforwardly just food.

The two big questionable things are the margarine and the TVP - both (imho) pretty gross for textural reasons, but both also staples of vegan diets and have been around for 50+ years. I’m gonna gloss over those because there’s tons of documentation on what goes into them online (and it would take ages to break everything down, and I’m lazy). Beyond that:
- Modified Corn Starch: This is a fancy name for anything from malted or low-boiled (boiled in a mild acid) starch. Humans have been doing this for millennia (fuck it took me forever to spell that), there are a million variations based on the malting process or type of acid or etc.
- Corn Syrup Solid: dehydrated glucose (ground sugar, but derived from starch instead of things like sugar cane/beets)
- Natural Mesquite Smoke Flavor: Also called “liquid smoke”, it’s shockingly close to literally being smoke in liquid form. It’s the condensed vapors you get from heating wood, concentrated by freezing.
- Disodium Dihydrogen Pyrophosphate - Baking powder.
- Mono-And Diglycerides: Naturally occurring, found in food oils.
- BHT: this one is really contentious. It’s a naturally occurring antioxident found in a ton of fruits and nuts in low concentrations, but it’s been recently (2022) banned in the EU, though it’s still present in plenty of foods at low concentrations. There’s been pressure to get it banned in the US too, so hopefully that happens soon
- Sodium Bisulfite: salt
- Monosodium Glutamate: MSG, the flavor enhancer
- Xanthan gum: a complex extra-sticky sugar.
- Guar gum: Guar-bean juice. As with Xanthan gum it’s just a complex extra sticky sugar, but this one has been used for centuries to thicken foods.
- Soy Protein Concentrate: Cooked, mashed soybeans
- Dextrose: sugar (chemically identical to glucose, again not sure why we feel the need to obfuscate this one)
- Sodium Phosphate: salt
- Mechanically Separated Chicken: Ground chicken
I’ll freely admit it’s not good food (I mean who adds sugar to corn) but it’s all just food. Just food with dumb names.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you cheat in video games?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
jjgod is the only one I remember, jjcoin and jjfly might have been ones too? Man I played the -heck- out of that game as a kid…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨same shit every day, on god⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

Given that the radiation of nuclear waste has frequency way higher than UV, why can’t it be used to feed a photoelectric generator?

You’re probably using one of these right now (albeit indirectly)! They’re called Photovoltaic nuclear batteries and they’re critical to modern encryption. They ensure that encryption keys, which are stored in highly volatile memory where if power is ever lost the keys are immediately erased, never lose power unless the memory modules are physically disconnected.

The reason they’re not used more extensively is that they just don’t produce very much power - the high-energy electromagnetic radiations are very difficult to harness constructively (things like gamma and X-rays) and as a result we have to do some weird physics stuff to convert them. PVN batteries convert particle radiation, beta radiation from tritium decay specifically, into usable photons via a thin coating of phosphorus on the glass, instead of them being captured directly.

(this is a wild oversimplification just to be clear)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Potentially life-changing if you're eligible⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
“IVE GOUT IT” also fits
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I split the tabs into multiple windows by category, personally (tho firefox’s tab grouping is pretty great too). And it’s more about it being present - bookmarks are fine, but if I am not actively reminded of something I likely will just forget about it entirely.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insulin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Ah yes - subjecting ideological refugeess to arbitrary purity tests, a liberal classic.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It improves the morale of the future worker.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t have the details of your sisters insurance plan (I dont think, at lwast) so I can’t say what specifically happened. I can say that that is remarkably rapid, far faster than is required under the Newborns act, so I suspect there were either some complciating factors or an abnormal degree of urgency on the part of the hospital billing department that I cannot address. Unfortunately anecdotes that rely on PHI are difficult to diagnose wile maintaining privacy of the person in question.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insulin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Perhaps strain would be a better word than drain - it would still be a short-mid term financial burden to take even a tiny fraction of the sane population from the US, it’s a big country.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It improves the morale of the future worker.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah it gets a little bit… psychotically dystopian at that point. Most likely the child will be enrolled in medicaid (or CHIP or similar state programs, assuming we still have any of those I haven’t checked today…), and they will receive necessary care until they’re discharged. But hey, it’s the US, that’s not guaranteed.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It improves the morale of the future worker.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
At least in the US, the mother’s health insurance policy (assuming she has one) will automatically extend to cover children born while the mother is under coverage.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
“Black box” usually refers to both the Flight Data Recorder and the Cockpit Voice Recorder - some (all?) FDRs are also configured to record pilot mics as well.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
A sarcastic thought experiment, then?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I work long hour and make little money⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
(The image of the modern $20 is counterfeit. Real US currency does not have “MONEY” written on it in cartoon fonts, either, though that was photoshopped (also why it lacks the eurion constellation))
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
That person has gone on to repeatedly double down on the position elsewhere in the comments, I’m afraid to say the hivemind was right on this one and they sure appear to be a whackdoodle that actually believes what they said there.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Did you mean Poe’s Law here? That would imply you only made the claim about divine selection bias sarcastically, and we all just thought you were being serious.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I work long hour and make little money⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
This was more a comment on how the american aesthetic is so prolific that you still think of US currency being green despite it being long past the point where that was true, rather than a comment on what the colors actually are.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I work long hour and make little money⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Modern bills are really more of a white-blue with bruise yellow tones (except for the $1s)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OnLy tWo eLemEnTs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Incredible, thank you for that.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OnLy tWo eLemEnTs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Alchemy was just a way to disguise a piss-drinking fetish that got way way out of hand.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the future, there will be a sad scene of widow watching AI porn of their dead spouse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Er… no, reddit still very much has porn. And it’s not deepfakes specifically but the premise of specifically deepfaking deceased people.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the future, there will be a sad scene of widow watching AI porn of their dead spouse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Show them Tusk.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the future, there will be a sad scene of widow watching AI porn of their dead spouse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Public figures (oversimplification) already forgo copyright on their name and image, that’s why you can buy things like halloween costumes of trump & fat vance. Not extending copyright protections for things like “recording criminal activity” (i.e. security cameras or similar) in the context of reporting that activity is not an unreasonable clause to include.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I’m sorry, I’m not sure what your point is - yes it was a broadly impractical thing to do, that’s not in dispute.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I’m not entirely sure on the difference here, valve is selling them directly and by all the reporting we’ve seen, there aren’t going to be hardware restrictions on any of the models.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
That’s a tradition with gaming systems, see the Navy’s playstation supercomputer.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the future, there will be a sad scene of widow watching AI porn of their dead spouse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I’ve been swayed towards advocating for people to automatically hold the copyright over images of their own appearance - by no means a great solution, but it would work to combat the vast majority of extreme creep behavior.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the future, there will be a sad scene of widow watching AI porn of their dead spouse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
From what I remember it was mostly a control-over-their-body thing. “Ha, I can make porn of you and you can’t stop me” sorta deal. Deeply horrible, though I did just check and it looks like it’s either been taken down or I can’t find it, so there’s that…!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the future, there will be a sad scene of widow watching AI porn of their dead spouse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
You should probably take solace from the fact that there’s still depths of depravity of which you are unaware!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the future, there will be a sad scene of widow watching AI porn of their dead spouse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah the future is now: there’s an entire subreddit devoted to deepfaking porn videos of dead women (and it has been around for years! What a great website!)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Racism restaurant ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Both examples are of disparaging comments directed at, you know, people. Veiled comments, sure, but pretty clearly directed at them nontheless.

Hot take, but: AI aren’t people. As a result, comments directed at them aren’t directed at people. Dogwhistles work because they’re comments directed at a group of people, couched in language so as to imply they are directed at something else. Do you see the difference, they’re still directed at people? And clankers are, you know, not people?

Nobody’s defending dogwhistling, but you’re trying to imply that all negative comments that use “clanker” are dogwhistling, and you know darn well that that’s disingenuous.