Then the problem surely is media literacy?

I have not forgotten and do have an enameled cast iron bathtub. It is fantastic.

Perhaps the lesser of the two evils, considering Google’s dominance. But yes, far from ideal.

Maybe at some point we can all stop watching and hence supporting YouTube, that’d be nice.

Elegant!

Could you show us the frequency response for the Bose vs the LCD-5s and tell us why you prefer the Bose?

I look at the length of my shadow, if it’s not taller than I am I use an umbrella.

If the government owns every company, maybe you have communism, but most likely what you have is autocracy. If the government owns a 10% stake of one company, that’s some nationalisation. There are good reasons for it in capitalism, such as for regulating natural monopolies. I’m not sure Intel falls into "good reasons,’ since it appears to me to be some kind of corruption.

The vast majority of the content on there is a conservative echo chamber.

TIL. It’s always rather amusing as someone outside of America that posts containing factual information get downvotes purely based on the perceived alignment of the subject on the zero-nuance American Political Spectrum. I block ads, so I wouldn’t know.

What about Rumble? GN is on there and directly supportable.

Still up on Rumble: https://rumble.com/v6xro9o--the-nvidia-ai-gpu-black-market-smuggling-corruption-and-global-scandal-.html

Word of mouth existed long before advertising, and as for algorithmic discoverability retailers do a fine job of that already.

“It’s my ccomputer” has already been mentioned, but it’s my bandwidth and my home network too. Ads can stay off it.

Fundamentally, the concept that your computer can actually look at your screen and is context aware is going to become an important modality for us going forward.”

Since I don’t feel the need for ambience nor multi-modal experiences in my OS, considering the implementation of that “modality” I’m afraid that even as a long-time Windows user I’m going to have to switch to another OS that closer aligns to my needs.

If there’s a game that ever needed stringent anticheat, it’s Battlefield.

I’ll add my voice to this too. You should eat no UPF whatsoever.

Every major health organisation in the world says they’re linked to cardiovascular disease and should be limited in diets

The reasons for this make for interesting reading, when you have the time.

You may misinterpreting the terms used. The “foods” within quotation marks are a specific industrially processed product:

From Taraz Foods:

After extraction, the juice is taken through an evaporation process where much of the water is extracted. Most times, this is performed under low heat to make sure the flavor and all other nutritious components within are preserved. What results from the process is a thick, concentrated liquid, usually then pasteurized to eliminate unwanted bacteria. Finally, it’s packaged and shipped off to be used in various products.

This isn’t fruit juice that has been reduced using kitchenware.

Mechanically separated meat:

Mechanically separated meat (MSM), mechanically recovered/reclaimed meat (MRM), or mechanically deboned meat (MDM) is a paste-like meat product produced by forcing pureed or ground beef, pork, mutton, turkey or chicken under high pressure through a sieve or similar device to separate the bone from the edible meat tissue. When poultry is used, it is sometimes called white slime as an analog to meat-additive pink slime and to meat extracted by advanced meat recovery systems, both of which are different processes. The process entails pureeing or grinding the carcass left after the manual removal of meat from the bones and then forcing the slurry through a sieve under pressure.

The resulting product is a blend primarily consisting of tissues not generally considered meat, along with a much smaller amount of actual meat (muscle tissue). In some countries such as the United States, these non-meat materials are processed separately for human and non-human uses and consumption.[1] The process is controversial; Forbes, for example, called it a “not-so-appetizing meat production process”.[2]

Mechanically separated meat has been used in certain meat and meat products, such as hot dogs and bologna sausage,[2] since the late 1960s. However, not all such meat products are manufactured using an MSM process.

This isn’t meat that has been cut up or even ground up using tools in the kitchen.

foods that are not heavily processed and are benign for your health to be labeled as unhealthy

With respect, which foods, according to whom, on the basis of what?

more evidence of how atrocious the whole field of nutrition is

I agree. Even studies that account for socioeconomic status and relative fitness levels are still not science, but that’s epidemiological studies for you. To quote @[email protected], “Epidemiology is not science, it’s the start of science, but it cannot establish causation.” And yes, they are epidemiological studies, but Nova class 4 is is the class associated with all the chronic metabolic diseases, and yet not Nova class 1 through 3.

The Nova classification is far better than any current mainstream “dietary recommendation” or guidelines. It’s a large step in the right direction, so I wouldn’t brush it off as “arbitrary” just because it’s not perfect. At the very least, it’s useful as a tool to flag a class of products that are designed and marketed to promote overconsumption and that displace whole foods, and it needn’t be the only tool we use.

It’s not arbitrary. The definition is very clear. Group 4, classified as ultraprocessed. I’ve broken it up to make it easier to read:

Industrially manufactured food products made up of several ingredients (formulations) including sugar, oils, fats and salt (generally in combination and in higher amounts than in processed foods) and food substances of no or rare culinary use (such as high-fructose corn syrup, hydrogenated oils, modified starches and protein isolates). Group 1 foods are absent or represent a small proportion of the ingredients in the formulation.

Processes enabling the manufacture of ultra-processed foods include industrial techniques such as extrusion, moulding and pre-frying; application of additives including those whose function is to make the final product palatable or hyperpalatable such as flavours, colourants, non-sugar sweeteners and emulsifiers; and sophisticated packaging, usually with synthetic materials.

Processes and ingredients here are designed to create highly profitable (low-cost ingredients, long shelf-life, emphatic branding), convenient (ready-to-(h)eat or to drink), tasteful alternatives to all other Nova food groups and to freshly prepared dishes and meals.

Ultra-processed foods are operationally distinguishable from processed foods by the presence of food substances of no culinary use (varieties of sugars such as fructose, high-fructose corn syrup, ‘fruit juice concentrates’, invert sugar, maltodextrin, dextrose and lactose; modified starches; modified oils such as hydrogenated or interesterified oils; and protein sources such as hydrolysed proteins, soya protein isolate, gluten, casein, whey protein and ‘mechanically separated meat’) or of additives with cosmetic functions (flavours, flavour enhancers, colours, emulsifiers, emulsifying salts, sweeteners, thickeners and anti-foaming, bulking, carbonating, foaming, gelling and glazing agents) in their list of ingredients.