I like cola soda though I don’t drink it that often.

But I recently noticed the quality is very bad now. Regardless of brands or if diet or not.

I tried a few after noticing how bad a diet coke tasted from my local gas station. So I bought some 2 liters. Generic. Pepsi. Diet pepsi. And a regular coke.

I’m pretty sure it’s all shit now. I think I can tell easier because I don’t drink it that often.

Like it’s not just watered down. Which it is. But the signature cola flavor is barely there.

Cola uses coca beans. And that’s been a big import tarriff thing. Plus greedy companies. And I’m pretty sure they reduced flavoring by at least 30% since this time 2 years ago.

Barely drinkable.

If you drink it all the time, you might not have noticed the gradual change. But I assure you. It’s really lost it’s flavor.

I’ve not noticed any change for fruit flavored white sodas. Just cola soda.

Yep

Okay I learned like 2 days ago that sugar gliders are a type of possum.

Isn’t that crazy ?

They are possums!

There are two sides to your point.

If you remove it, someone just will likely see it somewhere else.

If you don’t remove it, people get a chance to challenge it in the comments.

Absolutely.

The thing a lot of people don’t understand about unethical science is that it’s almost always shit science to boot.

For example I hear people say that “sure, what the Nazis scientist did to Jews was awful but we learned so much”.

No we didn’t.

The only thing that research was good for was determining how long it took for a starved stressed person to die from a specific infliction like hypothermia. Or having limbs cut off. Or having poisons injected into them.

That’s literally the only thing gained and because the test subjects themselves were already in poor condition, we can’t even use that information to determine, for instance, how long a healthy person could survive with said inflictions.

Their shit ethics is also shit science.

It’s worthless.

All those Nazi scientist who got a free get-out-of-jail card and set up in the U.S were shit scientist. They never gave the world anything useful.

Much like the research musk’s neurolink does.

They dont get published papers because it’s unethical and shit science.

Nothing useful comes from mass maiming and torturing of animals. Neurolink… I don’t even want to get into why it has so many methodology flaws. But it’s not being done properly.

Shit ethics is always shit science too.

People think letting these tech bros cross ethical restrictions will result in faster tech advances, they are sorely mistaken.

No, we are not capable of manufacturing all the hormones or even most of them.

There are literally already a hundred that have been identified. But we haven’t discovered all of them. New ones are being discovered all the time

Many therapeutic drugs that are hormones are made in animals because we can’t synthetically manufacture them.

I’m not a brain surgeon. I’m not even in medicine.
Cog neuro.

But my point was I know a lot about a complex system. And even compared to it, the endocrine system looks insanely more complex.

But also that clip was pretty funny. I’ll save it back for the next time I sound pretentious.

Agree. And also. Scientists have been using and running statistical software analysis since like the late 70s. Everyone acts like we don’t have tried and true methods already.

Some machine learning might be useful though in research but idk if it’s fair to call it “ai”. Idk it depends on your definition.

Actually in the research I do, I was looking into papers that measured a lot more variables than what is commonly done. (Usually two things are compared) And the authors used a formula to determine interactive effects based on which factors aligned or didn’t align and by how much.

This type of statistics is close to how ai works as it gives “weights” to different inputs.

But this was a method the authors came up with and they fully disclosed how it worked and acknowledged it was only one of many approaches to determining these interactive effects.

The research I’m referring to was about vision. Accommodation and vergence. Which function together. And you can manipulate them so they don’t match and see which one has a stronger influence on the perception of depth. However, many other factors effect depth perception. But it’s nearly impossible to study how these each contribute when multiples other factors are present. Some matching the true depth. Some giving an incorrect cue. Which cue, when wrong, overrides the correct one? If two matching cure are present, is there one cue that’s wrong, but has a stronger impact on the perception ?

These things are difficult to determine without literally thousands of studies.

You can deposit checks at some ATMs.

I don’t claim to be an expert on the endocrine system. But I know enough to know it’s the most complicated system in the body. Possibly more complicated than the brain (my area of expertise).

And only recently did scientists figure out how to high jack the endocrine system for weight loss and not without plenty of side effects.

So in order for a baby to come to term, it must be exposed to different hormones , at different levels, at different times that come from the mother.

We can’t produce all of those hormones. We can’t even currently determine all of hormone needs of a fetus. So there is no way to meet these needs. Not to mention the protein needs. Again, many of which are made by the mother. And can’t be synthetic.

We can grow an embryo in a container for quite a while. weeks. Maybe even a few months.

Sure, you can attach it to a roomba with temperature control.

But that’s not the same as being able to grow a baby to term.

Destroys furniture. Maybe. Not really the environment at a whole.

except maybe in Australia

He did the voice of the the oil monster in Fern Gully. And played the devil demon in Legend.

Had a wonderful unique voice

There is no such thing as a free game made by a studio. Full of micro transactions.

People will pay multiple times over what a one time purchase game costs.

There was a game made to actually show you how the manipulation tactics work. By someone who used to work for a studio that employed these tactics.

This video is a humorous review of the game that I recommend for those looking to be informed more on how it all works.

https://youtu.be/QtxY9J3AM_s?is=x03q105QVi3m-6PD

Otherwise the reviews on steam are also very informative.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/416760/Pay2Win_The_Tricks_Exposed/

They used to deal a lot in used books. Bought a lot of my textbooks there.

Idk if that’s still a thing

Whenever I see the 5-o I still instinctively want to do this.

So I just have the back of my PC tower facing out.

I got tired of always having to blindly try to get a cord in or out and functionally it makes more sense to just have the back facing out so you can access it.

Does it look less aesthetic. Yes

But it’s so much easier to deal with.

I’m 40. I dream of missing the school bus.

Some times I dream of getting on the school bus but having forgotten to put on shoes.

I dream of being late for a cubicle data processing job I haven’t worked at for 7 years. (I worked for them for 11 years though). I then go on to do the work in the dream.

Like my brain torturing me.

That episode of arrested development… .

Ohhhhh. I misread that 👍

What do you think “seven -ty” is. Seven ten