I always find it amusing that people have been like “well it doesn’t cause weight loss!”
It doesn’t.
Is it water better than diet soda? Absolutely. But no one is replacing water with diet soda. They’re replacing coke with Diet Coke. Or whatever.
Which means fewer calories which means potential weight loss (or for lower weight gain. CICO.) the problem is that most people who drink doet sodas tend to have a lot of other dietary habits that are equally awful as slamming back a 12 pack of Mountain Dew everyday…(eew.)
As for aspartame causing cancer… I dunno. But I’m guessing it’s lower than the threat being obese makes. S
not really. there are plenty of people that don’t drink water. at all… if they’re just not asking for kidney stones, then they’re replacing it with other things. sugar’d up soda being the most likely.
I explicitly know of at least two people, whom I’ve met, who claimed that they refused to drink “just water”. It was always either soft drinks, juice, or water with flavoring, which often uses either aspartame or sucralose.
Actually this dude I worked with replaced water with diet Pepsi. He said the tap water was filled government nanobots or something. Hasn’t drank water in 20 years. But he’s not sane so…
PFAS are widely used, long lasting chemicals, components of which break down very slowly over time.
Because of their widespread use and their persistence in the environment, many PFAS are found in the blood of people and animals all over the world and are present at low levels in a variety of food products and in the environment.
PFAS are found in water, air, fish, and soil at locations across the nation and the globe.
Scientific studies have shown that exposure to some PFAS in the environment may be linked to harmful health effects in humans and animals.
There are thousands of PFAS chemicals, and they are found in many different consumer, commercial, and industrial products. This makes it challenging to study and assess the potential human health and environmental risks.
Tap water from Mexico. Still has nanobots, also comes with worms. And because it lacks the alchohol in tequila… the worms survive and that’s why you don’t notice.
Artificial sweeteners may play another trick, too. Research suggests that they may prevent us from associating sweetness with caloric intake. As a result, we may crave more sweets, tend to choose sweet food over nutritious food, and gain weight.
It doesn’t cause weight loss, but empty calories in your diet will cause weight gain. If they hadn’t switched, they’d probably be even heavier than they already are.
If it’s the report I think they’re referring to, it basically said Aspartame is possibly carcinogenic but safe at normal consumption levels.
It raised a lot of doubt around Aspartame being carcinogenic without going so far as to deem it non carcinogenic, concluding that more studies are needed.
I wouldn’t call it overwhelmingly positive for Coke but it’s not hurting them.
If the truth is that it's a carcinogen, a WHO report saying it's fine in small amounts would be overwhelmingly positive for Coke, I'd say. Just like tobacco companies being behind the studies showing the "healthiness" of vaping as an alternative, even though it might decrease cigarette sales a bit.
There have been dozens of studies over multiple decades looking into aspartame and have found it isn't carcinogenic. One Coke-funded study one way or the other doesn't change the massive body of research.
I swear to god, you can’t scroll all in lemmy these days… Every other post is about Twitter or elon musk… I don’t understand why people stay there, talk about it and giving this man child the attention
Yeah! Why would people be interested in talking about some of the biggest names in tech making idiotic decisions motivated by greed, hubris, and vanity? That’s totally boring! We should all be talking about switching to Linux, beans, and flashlights!!!
They came over here and contributed to our housing crisis. They are part of why no one can afford rent or property. Fuck them. No protection should be granted.
Unfortunately the way these things work and why these protections exist is that these bad actors will have greatly involved arguably clean handed third parties. As noted in the article, loss of their equipment assets will render them unable to complete contracts of average citizens and leave incomplete, so possibly unsafe long term, buildings behind. Thats obviously not the best outcome, it just sucks that often the guys forcing these bad outcomes will hold everybody hostage unless they get saved too.
I wonder why the remaining 5% of residents haven’t evacuated yet. Are they senior citizens that need extra assistance or poor people that can’t afford to go anywhere? Or are they people that think the wildfires aren’t that bad or dislike the big government telling them what to do?
Apparently the government has been quite organised in airlifting folks out but demand was obviously high so the queues were long. They’re not leaving people over money though. My sister lives there and got out by plane about 10 hours ago.
I’d imagine the process is still ongoing though and the support staff on the ground coordinating things will be the last to go.
She didn’t mention anyone deliberately trying to stay behind but I can ask if you’re really curious. She’s currently asleep.
There’s a difference between securing a border and intentionally making it lethally dangerous.
When people are being denied life-saving water or drowning because of concertina wire placed there specifically to make it difficult to get out of the water it’s no longer “securing the border.”
I can lock my house’s door. I can put in an alarm system and place a barbed wire or electric fence. I can even shoot a trespasser actively breaking into my house.
What I cannot do is set a trap.
People who are denied water when turned away at the border cannot safely make it back. People who swim up on razor wire at the shore cannot rest before turning around to swim back.
If people have no supplies when told to turn around, we need to give them enough to make it back across. If we’re going to build a razor wire fence, it needs to be far enough inland that swimmers can get out of the water long enough to rest so they don’t drown. Even better - we can ferry them back.
And even better than any of these: we need to actually give fair hearings for asylum seekers.
If more humane border is feasible for preventing illegal crossing then that’s of course good. I wonder what would need to happen in the US to make the border effective, if it is even possible.
And even better than any of these: we need to actually give fair hearings for asylum seekers.
I think that’s often brought up in Europe how illegal crossers circumvent the system and “skip the line” for asylum seekers, also hardening the attitudes towards them. Better border control and more proper asylum seekers would be good.
I think the best course of action is helping Mexico with the cartel problem so people stop wanting or even needing to cross the border. Grain of salt though, the leaders of Mexico are in the pockets of the cartels.
Tackling the problem at the source is of course best overall, but it is also a lot slower and harder than tougher border control. But of course it’s not just one or the another
Let me put it this way: I don’t like kids running into my lawn to get their baseball. I ask them to stop, and I put up a fence. These are both fine.
What I cannot do is place landmines behind that fence and sit on my porch with a shotgun to kill survivors.
That’s actively what DeSantis and Abbott want to do : turn the entire border into a deathtrap where even attempting to cross is absolutely going to kill you, one way or another. I believe at least one of the candidates last cycle DID bring up mining the entirety of the border. They want to make the US border look more like No-Man’s-Land in the Somme rather than the Berlin Wall or the Korean DMZ.
Yeah it’s the arse end of the world. It gets quite warm there in the summer though and there are a lot of trees surrounding it so fires aren’t that uncommon. The scale of this one is bad however. My sister’s living there about 15 years and this is her first time being evacuated.
There are no more safe places. Here in Germany, we’re also starting to get major wildfires and we’re completely unprepared. We have a total of zero firefighting planes, mostly using police and military helicopters. Our firefighters are doing training in countries like Greece or Portugal because we have no experience here. And still, most people think it’s just a bad year or bad decade and it will all magically go away very soon.
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