Understood and appreciated
Understood and appreciated
Do you even remember what you were saying? Because that’s not it
The very fact that you think you, as an individual, have the capacity to determine what the general public’s opinions are based on your experience, means you either have super powers or you’re completely unaware of the fact that you don’t even have the capacity to remember enough people to get a reasonable sample of how people feel, you’re unaware of cognitive biases, and you don’t understand numbers. If you managed to actually talk to every single one of the 1.382 million people in San Diego and get their opinion on this random subject most of them probably haven’t even thought about, you would be sampling 0.4% of the population of the country.
I know a lot of people just use TikTok and Instagram and don’t care to find an alternative, but I don’t know what that number scales to outside of my personal circles
Are we sure about that? Many people exclusively used third party apps and wouldn’t use it otherwise
I don’t consider it stoopping to their level, it’s pointing out how stupid they sound so others reading might actually think about it before blindly agreeing and parroting. These people don’t deserve our tolerance any more, they’ve had plenty of time to have an actual original thought by now.
Why are you so dumb that you think regular people agree with you, when most regular people actually don’t give a shit about whether or not other people want to wear a mask? Do you get your dick in a blender over whether or not people you don’t even know wear a helmet on a bike? Or do you live in some shitty town with population 2000 and think that somehow your experience reflects the other 350,000,000 people in this country?
Most regular people think you’re a pathetic dumbass who doesn’t even think for yourself.
So wait, are you telling me when the government made you wear a mask in public spaces that was infringing on your freedoms and it was okay for you to get your dick in a blender, but when in and out tells people they can’t wear masks, it’s childish fugazin anger directed at pointless bullshit? Why don’t you mushroom heads ever stop to think how stupid you sound crying about your freedoms and crying about other people having normal discussions about their freedoms. Go free yourself.
I stand corrected on screens not being bad for eye health, although I would still argue “ruining our eyes” is a bit of an exaggeration.
Well said. It surprised me that we didn’t already know this given the rigorous amount of prior studies
But wouldn’t it be cool if lasers could un-decay those compounds into less simple compounds?
Haven’t we known for decades that it doesn’t cause cancer??
(I typed a long response and it got rekd by lemmy instability :C ) Short version: I intentionally stopped short of saying artificial sweeteners affect the gut microbiome. I have read studies that show that they do, but I’ve also read studies that show they don’t. A lot of studies on sweeteners either study a few at once, and often seem to study them interchangeably, which is unfortunate and makes finding the truth difficult. It’s hard to keep up with, and hard to draw conclusions from reading studies. I’m capable of reading studies and meta-studies critically, but when it comes to artificial sweeteners I feel like I’m in a vast sea of studies that contradict each other and have conflicts of interest, and I am not an expert by any means. I’ve read enough to feel cautious about them, especially with the recent potential linking of Erythritol and stroke (and many Stevia sweeteners being cut with Erythritol), and the recent linking of cancer with Aspartame. And before you think I’m crazy for mentioning the Aspartame, I know the study didn’t prove anything. What was surprising about it to me was that after decades of heavy studies finding Aspartame isn’t carcinogenic, suddenly out of the blue one comes up and says “Hey, maybe?” I’ve pretty much never thought fake sugars were carcinogenic, but given some can still influence blood sugar (that one seems definitive), some may affect our gut microbiome (less definitive), and we have taste receptors in our stomachs that bind with sweeteners the same way the ones on our tongue do, I avoid them. Plus some of them legit upset my stomach, which is also a thing for some people.
Anywho, I ended up retyping most of it in different words I guess. Tl;dr, in the spirit of this post I think artifical sweeteners could be the next thing that we find out is bad for us but didn’t know. However, I don’t actually think there’s any hard evidence for it, just strong evidence that we don’t know the whole story yet. Whether or not they end up being bad for us, there’s definitely a lot left to learn
Other people are saying 2, is that close to 100m?
I don’t think we know it’s ruining our eyes, and screen usage probably doesn’t affect circadian rhythms unless it’s near bed time. But we do know sitting around all day increases your mortality quite a bit.
Also, blue light filter glasses are a total scam.
You’re probably the only one
Yup, but the chemical they replaced it with is almost exactly the same, and there’s not much of a reason to believe it’s any safer. Also, it could be safer if they just didn’t dump the chemicals, but we all know how that goes.
Lol true. But it has been studied enough that I believe it, plus fiberglass wasn’t invented to replace asbestos, it was already in use
Well yes, and cigarettes are worse than vaping. But I hope you wouldn’t encourage children to vape just because it’s better than cigarettes, given there’s a good deal we don’t know and many mixed regulations/enforcements.
If I had kids I’d avoid giving them artificial sweeteners and excessive sugar. I don’t judge parents who don’t though.
If I’m being honest, it’s no where near as bad as Twitter. But still a dumpster fire