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1. No, aspartame does not give you a headache. It's probably the caffeine that's present in many sodas, such as coke. There is no known biological mechanism for aspartame to give you a headache. It's just confirmation bias.
2. The main harm of sugary drinks are the incredibly harmful effects from huge insulin spikes and damaging your liver. Teeth is pretty low on the list.
3. Diet soda drinks are still harmful to your teeth because of their high acidity. Not as harmful as sugary drinks, but still. It's the only proven major health concern of diet sodas.

You don't trust the FDA after you've read that they conclude that aspartame is safe, which is in line with over 100 other countries' regulatory agencies?

Wait until you read what the FDA has to say about water.

The difference between "possibly cancerous" and "fully cancerous" is that the former is not confirmed to have the property of causing cancer.

Radiation on the other hand is known to be carcinogenic.

To use your analogy, we know that there are bacteria that cause infections and bacteria that are harmless to humans. Let's say we have bacteria A that is known to cause infection but not always in everyone. Then we have a bacteria B, which is potentially able to cause infection. We don't know for certain that it can, but we also don't know that it can't.

And yes, it's a pretty fucking useless designation, and WHO is wasting everyone's time and causing undue panic. Let's not forget how they completely fucked the world with their atrocious handing of Covid in the early stages of the outbreak.

Unsweetened is a subclass of "zero/no sugar". No sugar added is a completely separate thing.

No sugar added does not mean the product doesn't contain sugar or that it's not sweet. It only means there was no extra sugar added during the preparation. A "no sugar added" fruit juice, jam or even ketchup is still going to be sweet.

Something like pure maple suryp qualifies as no sugar added despite being 99% sugar.

Not cancerous whatsoever. It's approved for use worldwide and it's one of the most studied additives on the planet.

It has been massively consumed worldwide for many decades, without causing any statistically noticeable increase in cancer rates.

Considering the incredibly negative health impact of sugary drinks, artificial sweeteners probably prevented millions of deaths over the decades they have been used.

Like the other "scary" "it causes cancer" studies, they probably stuffed a rat with its body weight of aspartame and when it developed cancer they figured it's carcinogenic.

Completely disregarding that a can of artificially sweetened coke will have less than 1g of aspartame, which is 0.0002% of average human's bodyweight.

So then buy unsweetened tea. We already have a term for things that aren't sweet.

https://www.amazon.com/Pure-Leaf-Unsweetened-Brewed-Calories/dp/B015Z6WJDY/

I seriously don't understand why you want the "no sugar added" label to have factually incorrect requirements.

No sugar added usually just means it's full of sugar originally found in the product. A "no sugar added" apple juice will still have an insanely unhealthy amount of sugar.

I don't know why you think it should mean no sweeteners. (most) sweeteners are categorically not sugar. If you want something not sweet, the label you're looking for is "unsweetened".

Besides, sugar is much worse for you than any artificial sweetener.

I am all for "gig apps" being required to pay minimum wage.

But the minimum wage in New York is $15 as far as I can tell. Why are delivery apps seemingly being required to pay a different minimum wage? I am not aware of any other case where the minimum wage depends on the profession.

I find this kind of policy very troubling. Would anyone be ok with accountants having a $25 minimum wage and teachers having $17 minimum wage?

He hasnt fallen. He's always been an arrogant asshole of average intelligence at best.

Reddit/Twitter were just ignorant of it because "cool electric car space man!" He just kept the crazy mostly under wraps. But the arrogant and stupid was always on display if you bothered to look.

When it's tech execs, they are "stressed out". If this about regular people the title would say they are alcoholics and drug addicts.

And that wouldn't even be inaccurate. You don't take pain killers for stress. If they wanted to manage stress, they would be taking benzos. They are just drug addicts.

I disagree entirely.

Gatekeeping has a negative connotation to it, and it can be used negatively. But gatekeeping is also necessary if you want to maintain a good community.

The increase of ease of use of social media and internet at large, and making it available to the very general public is what caused social media to become a toxic waste dump of misinformation, low effort content and lack of critical thought.

The difference of quality of reddit between 10 years ago and today is absolutely staggering. Reddit is practically unusable outside of small communities.

The relative difficulty of using the internet acted as a natural gatekeeping mechanism to keep your racist uncle Bob and your antivax aunt Karen away. Now they can join by clicking a few buttons on their phone.

Since that no longer works, the communities need to take gatekeeping into their own hands. Otherwise, it can be overrun by people people who are just stupid, to be frank.

That doesnt do anything anyway. You alwere kinda wasting your own time.

A $100 brother laser printer (2280dw but it has been discontinued). It's like a printer from an alternative universe where printers aren't evil.

Had it for about 6 years now. Printed thousands of pages and only needed to replace the ink cartridge a few times. Had no issues with 3-rd party cartridges. Surprisingly never required any maintenance.

Other laser printer brands that can probably perform similarly, but I can only vouch for this one.

A $100 brother laser printer (2280dw but it has been discontinued). It's like a printer from an alternative universe where printers aren't evil.

Had it for about 6 years now. Printed thousands of pages and only needed to replace the ink cartridge a few times. Had no issues with 3-rd party cartridges. Surprisingly never required any maintenance.

Other laser printer brands that can probably perform similarly, but I can only vouch for this one.

A $100 brother laser printer (2280dw but it has been discontinued). It's like a printer from an alternative universe where printers aren't evil.

Had it for about 6 years now. Printed thousands of pages and only needed to replace the ink cartridge a few times. Had no issues with 3-rd party cartridges. Surprisingly never required any maintenance.

Other laser printer brands that can probably perform similarly, but I can only vouch for this one.

Using twitter for any kind of emergency communication is a very bad idea in the first place.

Twitter is doing everyone a favor by demonstrating exactly why that is.

Musk is a manchild who can't handle being told "no", so that's a given.

But it's smart of her to put that out in advance. It informs Musk that she will stay out of his way, and she doesn't have to take the blame for idiotic decisions made by him.

I would agree if Onlyfans creators put even a shred of effort into their content. Most of all it is just them sitting in front of a camera for a few minutes.

They aren't making money by making porn, they are making money by fostering parasocial relationships with people desperate for intimacy.

Most of them anyway. And no, I never subscribed to any, I pirate it. And the noise to content ratio is like 99 to 1.