“Secretly”

Comfortably-off customers casting aspersions on “minimum wage workers” are the absolute pits.

There is lots to say here but you are too clueless to say any of it. FFS

There’s only so much time in the day. And far too easy to waste it arguing pointless things with random strangers on the internet.

In this case, their motive does not matter. They did you a favour shutting it down before you wasted any more time thinking about something that does not matter at all.

For those who boycott, Sodastream are an Israeli company. I believe Drinkmate has its origins in wanting an alternative to that. Just so everyone can choose their side.

If you’re going to drink that much sparkling water (as I do), invest in a Drinkmate or similar. It’s about as cheap as the very cheapest sparkling water but you end up with much, much less plastic to pretend to recycle.

Every right-wing accusation is a confession.

many years now

This appears to be an escalating fraud, affecting newer models more than old. So I’d guess that’s ^^ the answer.

It’s not just a Reuters investigation, they’ve been fined by a few jurisdictions and they absolutely do have the ability to pay lawyers to defend those charges if they’re false.

Yes. It’s happened to me and it is a head fuck. The email was from a business with a perfectly legit email address.

So, you think when bad laws go away, the attitudes behind them disappear as if by magic?

The article gives up-to-date statistics as well as the dates of various laws. If you think those statistics are wrong, or don’t demonstrate what the authors say they do, you can explain. Or admit that your opinion is rooted in abject ignorance of the world you live in. Either will do.

Bullshit.

You probably missed my edit. You didn’t give evidence for your position so I’ve asked you to refute evidence for mine, just to make it nice and simple for you.

The story is about Italy?

You didn’t give your evidence so perhaps you’d prefer to refute this? Patriarchy in disguise — the myth of gender equality in the Netherlands

So, you think you live in a society where discrimination based on sex does not exist.

Where is that, and what is your evidence for your claim?

So you do think there is a patriarchy? And you think it is based on fact, not the social construction of gender?

Something being a social construct does not mean it has no real world effects. That’s kind of the point of identifying it as a social construct. HTH

They don’t seem to list the instances they trawled (just the top 25 on a random day with a link to the site they got the ranking from but no list of the instances, that I can see).

We performed a two day time-boxed ingest of the local public timelines of the top 25 accessible Mastodon instances as determined by total user count reported by the Fediverse Observer…

That said, most of this seems to come from the Japanese instances which most instances defederate from precisely because of CSAM? From the report:

Since the release of Stable Diffusion 1.5, there has been a steady increase in the prevalence of Computer-Generated CSAM (CG-CSAM) in online forums, with increasing levels of realism.17 This content is highly prevalent on the Fediverse, primarily on servers within Japanese jurisdiction.18 While CSAM is illegal in Japan, its laws exclude computer-generated content as well as manga and anime. The difference in laws and server policies between Japan and much of the rest of the world means that communities dedicated to CG-CSAM—along with other illustrations of child sexual abuse—flourish on some Japanese servers, fostering an environment that also brings with it other forms of harm to children. These same primarily Japanese servers were the source of most detected known instances of non-computer-generated CSAM. We found that on one of the largest Mastodon instances in the Fediverse (based in Japan), 11 of the top 20 most commonly used hashtags were related to pedophilia (both in English and Japanese).

Some history for those who don’t already know: Mastodon is big in Japan. The reason why is… uncomfortable

I haven’t read the report in full yet but it seems to be a perfectly reasonable set of recommendations to improve the ability of moderators to prevent this stuff being posted (beyond defederating from dodgy instances, which most if not all non-dodgy instances already do).

It doesn’t seem to address the issue of some instances existing largely so that this sort of stuff can be posted.

There are loads of examples, that’s a very good one (fibre burns in calorimeters so can throw calorie counts off a lot).

Raw food delivers fewer (usable) calories than cooked food, whether it’s vegetables or steak.

Highly processed foods, especially carbohydrates, deliver their calories fast, spiking blood sugar and stimulating insulin production to lay the excess energy down as fat. If you’re hibernating for winter, you want the fat. But if you’re running a marathon you want slow (protein and fat) and slower (complex carbohydrates) release foods.

Chill your potatoes/rice/pasta for 24 hours and it will have more complex carbohydrates than it did when freshly cooked. Reheat them and they’ll have even more. Jury still out on whether this means frozen chips (fries) are a healthy food…

Even the amount you chew affects the number of calories available (analogous to the amount of pre-processing being important).

International tables of glycemic index and glycemic load values 2021: a systematic review

How reheating pasta and other carbs can make them healthier

I suppose it depends on whether you’re interested in the amount of energy contained in a food or the amount of energy a human being can obtain from the food. We’re typically only interested in the latter.

Calories are not interchangeable if you’re interested in nutrition (as opposed to burning things).

There are exceptions to the rule, and this is one of them.

The rule works so well because journalists who can make a statement of fact, make a statement of fact. When they can’t stand the idea up, they use a question mark for cover. eg China is in default on a trillion dollars in debt to US bondholders. Will the US force repayment? .

This is an opinion piece which is asking a philosophical question. The rule does not apply.

tbf this is not very much different from how many flesh’n’blood journalists have been finding content for years. The legendary crack squirrels of Brixton was nearly two decades ago now (yikes!). Fox was a little late to the party with U.K. Squirrels Are Nuts About Crack in 2015.

Obviously, I want flesh’n’blood writers getting paid for their plagiarism-lite, not the cheapskates who automate it. But this kind of embarrassing error is a feature of the genre. And it has been gamed on social media for some time now (eg Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson forced to deny shooting stones at squirrels after spoof story goes viral)

I don’t know what it is about squirrels…

The paper isn’t paywalled:

Purported direct mechanisms to explain the association between new-onset diabetes and prior SARS-CoV-2 infection include evidence that the SARS-CoV-2 entry receptor ACE2 is expressed on insulin-producing β cells, SARS-CoV-2 infection contributes to dysregulation of glucose metabolism, and individuals who have an increased susceptibility to diabetes are especially vulnerable following SARS-CoV-2 infection because dysregulated glucose metabolism and direct viral damage to β cells impairs their compensatory mechanisms, leading to β-cell exhaustion. 7 However, there is no clear underlying mechanism explaining the association between SARS-CoV-2 infection and subsequent increased risk of incident diabetes. 7,8 While there are reports of an association between SARS-CoV-2 infection and subsequent increased risk of incident type 1 diabetes in children using routinely collected health record data, 5,6,67 there are concerns about the validity of such studies because the data sets used did not capture asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections in children. Population-based studies that reported an increased incidence rate of type 1 diabetes in children and adolescents during the pandemic did not find an increase in the frequency of autoantibody-negative type 1 diabetes 12,23,68 ; this suggests that the increase in incidence may be due to an immune-mediated mechanism.

Proposed indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and containment measures that may be associated with diabetes incidence include changes in lifestyle, change in the pattern of pediatric non–COVID-19 infections, and increased stress and social isolation. 12,69-71 It has been proposed that frequent respiratory or enteric infections in children are potential triggers for islet autoimmunity, promote progression to overt type 1 diabetes, or are precipitating stressors. 72 Pandemic containment measures were associated with a decrease in viral respiratory and gastrointestinal tract infections among children. 69 Given this finding, the observed increased incidence rate of type 1 diabetes during the pandemic is contrary to what would be expected based on the decrease in viral infections among children during the pandemic.

There may have initially been a catch-up effect caused by lower incidence rates of pediatric diabetes early in the pandemic, possibly due to delays in diagnoses associated with hesitancy to seek care or barriers to access care.12-14 However, the reported incidence of diabetes remained increased in studies that included data from beyond the first year of the pandemic. 23,32,49,52,53,58-60,63 Furthermore, there appears to have been a disruption to the historic seasonal pattern of autoantibody-positive diabetes incidence in children. 23,24 The reasons for this remain uncertain but may be related to the effects of COVID-19 containment strategies, such as lockdowns, both at the beginning of the pandemic and at subsequent times in different countries. 73