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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Feels like a spin to me to be honest.
    They used to say the same things about lead before transitioning to the current “unsafe at any dosage” view.
    Labeling everyday products as carcinogenic would work to muddy the waters after a few damaging papers on industry important products. I remember the ‘red meat is cancer’ craze breaking out suspiciously close to the first studies linking glyphosate to cancer.

    My euristic will be to take popular belief into account. I see it as emergent intelligence by trial and error, not merely nonsense.
    You do you of course.

    In my mind, the main reason to avoid edulcorants (including stevia and acesulfame), is that they taste like shit.



  • I use it from time to time. The tech is getting better.
    But it’s very hard to find anything interesting on it.
    They REALLY need to focus on implementing content filter and discovery tools.
    Right now it’s a lot noise and reposted videos. The search function doesn’t work at all.

    I think the platform could be viable with a decent, verbatim search function; a tag-based browsing system, and the ability to visualize the federated instances and browse any of them as local.

    It’s still possible to find interesting videos by browsing an instance focused on a specific interested as local.