Kinglink @ Kinglink @lemmy.world

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I didn't dive deep on MSG just to not sound like I'm ranting about that specifically but you nailed it. It was more about Chinese restaurants (at least that's how I heard it) and I remember my parents saying we don't go to Chinese restaurants during the hysteria.

Sucks because I love Chinese food, and Thai, Korean, Japanese and more.

Don't forget TV shows, more documentaries and more.

Morgan Spurlock did VERY well for himself based on that completely bias "Study". Sadly that became the style of documentary for a while (and potentially still is). Fuck the facts, let's make entertainment!

The problem is most people aren't doing that, and even those who do get second hand/rumors/stories from other people and eventually succumb to misinformation.

I've heard many times that X is cancer causings. I wish it was one wave that you could ignore but this shit gets repeated entirely too often, and even if it's not, the misinformations operates outside of the individual, because downstream products (diet coke) moved away from this because of bad PR.

All of those could be explanations. Here's another one.

Big macs are 583 calories... two big macs are about 1100 calories... aka perfectly reasonable in a healthy diet. I forget if he ate two a day or two in some meals, but a nutritionist would ok that Calorie count.

Morgan Spurlock pushed "no one can eat here and be healthy" but he constantly pushed for combo meals ate in one sitting, and supersized every time they asked. That's like someone going into a bar and saying yes every time the bartender goes "Want another one" and then going "OMG I'm so wasted and got alcohol poisoning" he set the rules up to make sure he failed, because no one is saying eat a combo meal at Mcdonalds for three meals a day.

The thing is it WOULD be interesting if he looked into why he can maintain a reasonable weight while eating it.... but of course they didn't because that would prove Mcdonalds isn't the worst thing ever. Morgan had two goals. Prove Mcdonalds is unhealthy (And ignore contrary evidence) and make an entertaining documentary. He did the later, but I feel like he never even came close to the former because his methodology was shit.

To be fair they're attempting to rehost reddit.net's content, right?

Yeah, I'd limit them too.

Not saying everything reddit is doing is great, but at least that one makes sense.

If you disagree with reddit, the best thing to do is cut the cord, not to continue using them in other formats. The only reason to use reddit is to tell people about alternatives.

Not a shock.

Food scares are almost always over blown (except obviously tide pods).

People thought MSG was going to kill everyone. People thought Cholesterol was the key to good health. Even fat in moderation is perfectly fine.

But Fish will kill you with mercury, uncooked pork will kill you with everything (which is unlikely to happen in the first place, but also most pork you get is already cooked, at least sausage and hams). Salmonella is definitely going to kill you. Your kitchen is going to burn down, Fried food will end your life, and all processed food is bad.

Remember Supersize me? Remember the guy who ate two big macs a day for multiple years. That SINGLE guy should have been the end of the entire documentary, because he basically showed "Yes you can eat McDonalds in moderation and have a healthy life." But instead "McDonalds is going to kill you with super sized food."

The fact is you're probably more likely to get Ebola than most of these things actually contributing to your death.. though speaking of disease myths...

These things rush in, kill a business or a company, and then are forgotten, and then 10 years later new science comes out and goes "Btw it wasn't as bad as people thought... try it out"

AI won't get the resolution of stuff wrong or not know how to do X. AI will be able to do almost every task faster and shouldn't leave people on hold while they go check stuff or such.

AI will be consistent, and thus we'll see exactly how these companies want to handle it.

My assumption is AI is a tier instead of a full replacement, instead of 100 customer service, have 10 who handle the hard problems AI didn't solve, and AI triages/fixes the generic problems.

Half the time I call my cable company they reboot my modem and it fixes something... That should be just an automatic option. Hell the "I can't see your modem, we are opening a ticket to find out if there's an outage in your are" again could be done by AI, and likely faster.

Really I see AI as a tool, and yeah, companies aren't going to use it well, and will continue to be shitty, but ultimately the problem is we need to stop doing business with shitty companies.

But following that up, we need more options, I have ONE fucking cable provider in my home, so I'm stuck with (Bag of )Cox

Plus I have a HUGE exhibition kink!

I'll be honest, if AI works as promised, I'd rather deal with AI than most support staff.

I mean how many times have people flat out told me they'd do something and didn't, lied to me, didn't know their policy (or claimed they didn't know) ignored the language on the website, or refused to do something, which is over turned once you get a manager or a different rep.

Add long wait times on phones, and support staff that seem to disappear on calls... I mean damn.

Yes part of this is training, support, and policies, but a big part of this is support is made to be intentionally unhelpful because they know the more support people have to go through the more likely they will just accept it and move on.

The problem is the entire post is intentionally argumentative. Unpopular opinions aren't calling other people assholes to get some rage bait.

"Fuck you for trying to buy a car that you might enjoy, now get back to the shitty car companies who have a monopoly on the automotive business."

Like seriously, Hate Elon all you want, but no we haven't known "for years" and you claims on "safety items" seems dubious at best. But more importantly people wanted a specific car. If you buy it specifically because of Elon, ok, but most people just want the best car, and pretending the automotive industry isn't filled with the absolute worst of humanity (Far worse than Elon, just not public facing enough)... like you're kidding yourself bud.

If you’ve bought a Tesla in the last five or so years, you’re a damn goober in my eyes. That’s my hot take, prepared for being called poor and other sodium, tear filled comments from fools whose opinions don’t matter.

Here's my hot take, I really don't give a shit what you think, and I'm saying this as a non-Tesla owner. It's not about you being poor, or any other salty, you're a pure asshole (let me guess BMW driver). You belittle others who "opinions don't matter" but I'm really struggling why does anyone care what you think at that rate?

And no this being "Unpopular" isn't good enough this is just a shitty argument. This is OP just being argumentative and insulting.

Hell the "Elaine" joke should offend those who propose to care about gendered insults, but I suppose that will be accepted because "Bad man deserved it" or something. Do the same to Elliot Page, and you'd be crucified though.

Theres no used to be when it comes to these rants. It's just a ticking clock to the next one

Wait Sudo?

You guys don't log in with root, and remove the password to make it easier to log on faster? It's a little configuration but definitely worth it for time.

Downloading and watching is a crime. One night be able to say they didn't know what they were downloading but likely the file name and site or torrent is a good clue that's bullshit.

Your probably discussing chance of getting caught. You likely will see a DMCA complaint or something like that to your ISP at worse for downloading but enough of these might get your service terminated (some ISP don't care.)

Sharing the files and usually sharing a lot of files publicly or semi publicly will get you more attention and that will get the media companies more likely to take you down as a distributor.

VPN and smart browsing habits will reduce a lot of this risk though.

Think of downloading is one star in GTA. They will chase you if they are you. Uploading is two stars when they start shooting at you. Profiting of it is like three stars and that's when they get more aggressive. You can get busted at one star but it's just very unlikely.

I don't think that would matter People will rush in with the promise of "free big titted people"... they'll jump through so many hoops, the hot big titted girl on the screen would egg them on through 45 different steps. Then you sign up and find out it's guys with gynecomastia and now you gotta do 45 steps to get out.

I mean... they're not wrong.

But it is the right way to do business.

"This will not be abused" - only fools.

I hope you're right.... I hope it's true, I hope this hurts them, because this is what they deserve.

But I also know share holders care about the money, so if they can show their decisions have made them more profitable, fuck the outrage, full steam ahead.

And eventually the protests will stop somehow.

The problem is if you leave, someone else comes in, takes it over and can't do anything to annoy the admins.

At this point the mods are just tanking, and finding new ways to become problematic. Which hopefully people will see. The admins had an easy way to make this work and instead they are just struggling to keep up with this bullshit.

Let me get this straight. They do the work for free, and are upset you took their tools. You then tell them open the subreddits or we open them for you. So they do that, and change some rules, now you're upset and telling them how to moderate their subreddits. Like seriously Reddit. Why not just moderate the subreddits yourself?

You have people who have given you FREE WORK for decades, they have increased the value of your site, and they're justifiably angry, and all you're doing is shitting on them more.

What a fucking joke. I know this won't directly affect the IPO but I hope some companies are looking at this and realizing that Reddit admins have made all of this so much worse.