The main risk of sugar isn’t the calories themselves, but rather their effect on our fullness perception. That is, the more sugar we eat, the harder it is to feel full after eating something. This in return cases a vicious cycle, one that can easily lead into obesity. I don’t know if that same issue can happen with sweeteners but I don’t generally trust anything that tricks our senses to such a degree. I don’t consider coffee the holy grail either, it’s just that its negative health effects have been tested for ages and are acceptable for its overall benefits. But that’s my own risk assessment, with only my health in the line.

It’s hard to get a good grip on the health neutrality of diet soda when the companies who make them have lied to us about sugar for decades. Maybe sweeteners are just their next lie, who knows. Much of the research done on sweeteners is funded by the ones who profit from it. The food industry have far more power than anyone should be comfortable with them having.

I don’t think hands are good at peeling potatoes. Maybe if you sharpen your nails?

I think the implication here is to take the knife and stab the scissors person.

Are we talking about both big and small vendors here? I find it difficult to treat them the same. If we are only talking about the big ones then I wanna say that I agree but to a limited degree. Because their overall profits are still looked at, even if not much is done about it.

And especially now that we have a food crisis, an extra 1% or 2% (relative to revenue) could make them look really bad when their profits are already very high. Granted, my mind wandered off here and went into supermarkets. Personally don’t care too much about clothing, etc. prices as that industry is another whole can of worms.

It fell off a window.

You just have to look at the EU. CC rewards aren’t really much of a thing here. Because as I understand it, those companies are capped on how much they can charge vendors. In return, customers get cheaper products upfront rather than in some roundabout dodgy way.

Just get an ass infection.

A bad guy.

I have thought about it for a while but the US is basically in a cold civil war, with a significant chance of it becoming hot. And it looks very similar to their previous one. Neither side seem to have a charismatic enough leader.

It’s easy to look over the pond and think it’s none of our problem. But if the US falls to chaos a lot of other countries will follow suit. We can already see this influence in the UK and I’d argue many other EU countries. Russia probably saw this weakness, bet on it worsening much quicker than it did, but lost that bet (so far).

With that said, addressing the US as a whole no longer makes sense. I’m sure plenty, plenty of Americans see what is happening.

It’s unfortunate that one of the wealthiest people on this planet has taken the anti-democratic side, but it’s not the first or the last time in history a powerful man, rich beyond measure has done so.

Guess he has read 1984?

Not that it matters since this is such a different scenario.

Though there’s no such thing as reverse discrimination. It’s just good, old discrimination.

No surprise there. Most social programs are very productive with good returns.

It’s just much more efficient to teach and reward than let it get bad and punish. Jails, for example, are super expensive. An inmate not only produces nothing, but also costs 10s of thousands of dollars. Over here, that averaged £50k a year per inmate when the average income was close to half that.

Which is why I laugh at the recent migrant boat bs where the government is spending a similar amount of money instead of putting people through skillup programs and such.

Who’d guess misusing things can be harmful? Next, we chop off a finger to prove a kitchen knife can be dangerous.

Does that extend to employer review websites like GlassDoor?

And probably because if they do use it and someone else does the same to their work they won’t be able to harass them with a team of lawyers.

I’m just glad this case wasn’t handed to the Ministry of Silly Frauds.

At the end of the day, humans don’t need weapons to display cruelty. We have popped many eyes with our thumbs over the eons.

So to be clear, she is throwing a tantrum because the Ukrainian contestant didn’t want to shake hands with a citizen of the country that has been killing her people?

“Smirnova staged a 45-minute protest and refused to leave the competition strip.”

The Russian fencer is basically a toddler.

Such a good show. Excellent acting.

And yep. People now want to get triggered so they go looking for it. British television comedy has been poking fun at religion for decades.