Tar_Alcaran @ Tar_alcaran @sh.itjust.works

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So, funny thing.

In the EU, we have a system where we label certain ingredients with e-numbers. The EU did that because nobody knows the difference between, say, perfectly safe calciumferrocyanide (to prevent spices from clumping) and calciumcyanamide (a fertilizer that will release poisonous gas when wet).

So they said "Lets give all those safe chemical a unique number, so that people know the difference between what we vetted, and what we didn't!" and Calciumferrocyanide became E-538 and we all lived happily every after!

Hahah, no of course not. Moronic crunchy parents and immoral liars jumped on that system and decided that e-numbers were the source of all evil, the cause of ADD and hyperactive kids and they poisoned the well and rustled the cattle too. Dozens of allergies were literally invented without any medical cause or evidence, because it became really easy to identify, say, E-133 instead of erioglaucine disodium salts. In the 2000's, you'd frequently hear "My kid is allergic to food colouring" by people who had not a single clue that maybe their kid would get super active because the food colouring is mixed with 99% sugar in that candy you're feeding them.

That has mostly passed now, as the grifters moved to other things, but there are still a ton of people who would never think of eating E-300, who would panic over anything that contains scary-sounding ascorbic acid, but who happily buy pills containing 10000% of the recommended levels of vitamin C, blissfully unaware that those are all the same thing.

Technically, everything is toxic. Sugar has an LD50 of about 30 grams per kilo of bodyweight (and I promise you'll be throwing up long before you get there).

But sugar really is pretty bad for you, especially in the amounts some people eat it. It's not "Toxic" though.

Acid Reflux (GERD) is isn't really caused by acidic foods, but by irritation of the esophagus and a weakened esophagal sphincter. Food that irritates your throat, or fatty food that leaves the sphincter open longer cause GERD, it has nothing to do with acid reaching your stomach.

And that makes a lot of sense really: your stomach has a PH of around 1.5 to 2 before eating, and 3-ish after a meal. Unless you're straight up drinking a glass of lemon juice, you're not going to make it any more acidic than it naturally is.

That's different from something like Judaism or Christianity whose views weren't created by people with the intent of creating a fait h.

Maybe not "create" but Christianity was absolutely shaped and molded with purpose and intent.

A LOT of mentalism is stage magic, and has nothing to do with psychology. That's part of the set dressing they're trying to sell you, they're just magicians as with a 21st century coat of paint on top.

What I am saying is JREF and James Randi were not scientists they were showmen and that's very important to keep in mind.

Indeed. Randi said that a lot himself. He wasn't a scientist, but a magician. Magicians figure out how something seems to work, scientists work out how somehow works. He explained numerous times that those are very much not the same.

Sharing The idea that you can debunk a phenomenon by yelling "FAKE!" And doing a smug dance is something that offers more harm than good imho.

He didn't do that. He said "show me. Ok, now show me under controlled conditions".

It was a dream from a time of optimism that never came to pass. The current day meme isn’t about literal flying cars, it’s about a hopeful world full of potential that didn’t happen.

But that's my point. It could have never come to pass.

It's the sort of thinking you'll find among comicbook writers and kids running around going "zooom zooooooom". It's the same kind of "optimism" that makes people think you can take a rocket from New York to Paris for a quick croissant. The sort of optism that has cities on the moon simply just to be there for no purpose. It's wishful thinking that can't and won't ever happen, and anyone trying to seriously sell that is either lying or an idiot.

It's on a level of "What if I find a magic rock one day? I could end world hunger!" You can call that optistic, or you can call it delusional.

They meant flying cars that are efficient, quiet and affordable.

But that will always be dumb. Basic physics is against you there, and flying will always cost more energy than driving. Spending more energy will always more expensive than spending less energy. Spending more energy will mean more energy "leaks" in the form of noise.

The laws of physics dictate that flying will be expensive and noisy, compared to rolling. And that's completely ignoring things like the very simple fact that a rolling car that breaks down will roll to stop, a flying car will stop flying (and crash).

That’s what “flying cars” alludes to, and it’s a long way from a society where people have to be warned not to eat a sandwich wrapper.

A fictional thing that stupid if you think about it for more than 30 seconds?

This looks a LOT like a 1930s radio, combined with a microfilm viewer, which was very much available at libraries everywhere in the 1930s (and can still be found in archives today).

It actually finds LOTS of things, except what you're actually want

Outlook always forces me to categorize like it's 2005. I've got two dozens folders because shit is unfindable.

They weren't kidding when they said "different from Pathfinder and Rogue trader". This is VERY different.

That’s not really what the book says.

Yes, it literally is.

Chapter 9.29 and 30
When the soldiers stand leaning on their spears, they are faint from want of food
If those who are sent to draw water begin by drinking themselves, the army is suffering from thirst

logistics are really hard and must not be overlooked

Chapter 2.9
Bring war material with you from home, but forage on the enemy. Thus the army will have food enough for its needs

The entire Art of War can be printed on 4 pages of A4 paper if you remove all the fancy layout that usually goes into the book to pad it to something over 50.

Oh yeah, AI can easily replace all the jobs I don't understand too!

If you don’t want to gamble just invest in ETFs every month and you will be fine.

I mean, that's still gambling. If you invest in a world-wide, well-spread, low-cost ETF, you're essentially betting that the worldwide economy will grow faster than inflation+costs.

That's a pretty safe bet, but still a bet.

Well, if it went up an infinite amount, then yes. In reality, that's pretty unlikely

Sprites are a lightning phenomenon in the mesosphere of earth. They're red because of nitrogen. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_(lightning)

And standing up too straight

And down the Conservative memory hole this friendship goes.

Does this just clip around the upper ear, or does it require a pierced hole?