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  • Streeting is fucking awful. He’s super Christian, and consistently makes terrible faith based decisions - he’s anti trans and anti right to die - while pretending he’s making them for non religious reasons.

    He’s even talked about how he was brought up to be a self-hating gay person because of his faith. Apparently he did just enough therapy to realize his church was wrong about gay people, but he can’t extend the same awareness to trans issues.



  • so I confuse the number of ounces in a pound quite often, amongst other things

    When do you need to use either of these?

    I know the number of pounds in a kilo so I can understand the Americans when they talk about weightlifting and how much people weigh. I don’t think I’ve ever used an ounce in my life.



  • Yeah as someone that lives in a city with mass transit, you change your habits.

    You shop two or three times week at somewhere in walking distance. You walk to the vet, and you order lumber online with next day delivery.

    If I genuinely need a car, there’s one parked in the next street I can rent with an app.

    On top of that parking here is a pain in the arse, and the average traffic speed is something like 7mph.





  • OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.mltoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldlazy ass
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    27 days ago

    I guess it might work if HR don’t know how an LLM works. There’s not many that can edit a word file so it includes whited-out footnotes.

    You’re better off getting a friend to lie for you. They can say they added it while helping you with formatting and you know nothing about it.





  • I don’t mean that the people selling UPFs are part of a grift, but the people that talk about it are.

    It’s targeting middle class people and says you should feel bad about eating cheap and easy to cook food. As such, it feeds into product differentiation and empowers capitalism, by telling people with more money that they have a moral necessity to eat more expensive food.

    Alienating and bullying poor people is just a side effect of the grift.

    The reason I say it is a grift, is because the whole thing is run entirely on vibes. The people selling the idea of UPFs struggle to say if particular foods are UPFs or not, and they can’t identify harms that make it meaningful to talk about them.

    Are there foods that are bad for you? Yes.

    Are they all UPFs? No.

    Are all UPFs bad for you? Also no.

    Is it true that most UPFs have almost zero nutritional value? Absolutely not.

    So instead of engaging in a meaningful debate about specific harms and what can be done about them, UPFs just tell you to spend more time and money on food or feel guilty.

    The environmental harms are the same. The article made no attempt to actually say what the harm is e.g. per packet of m&ms, but because of economies of scale and their long shelf life means they can be shipped slowly, we should be very suspicious of any claim that they are particularly bad vs. more gourmet alternatives.


  • Ultra-processed food has a pretty standard definition. Briefly, it’s food that has been highly processed by some industrial methods.

    It’s worth looking into the history of the term some time. Basically, it’s always been intended to target poor people’s food, but they kept screwing up the definition, and catching e.g. slow cooked stew or pasta sauce in their definition.

    The addition of “industrial” to the definition is the latest attempt to exclude socially acceptable/ higher status complex foods.

    If you look at the current definition from the byline.

    Industrially made foods involve several ingredients and processes to put together,

    This is now completely redundant. It could just read “industrially made food”. All industrially made food has a process to make it, and maybe only ice doesn’t have multiple ingredients.