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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It will be a mix of interesting and depressing to watch the healthcare systems around the globe handle an increasingly old population alongside increased weather extremes.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Who'd guess a race for renewables would cause the prices to skyrocket? Supply and demand is just too new for us to understand it to such depths.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A system where a housing tax that primarily targets the poorest is the main source of social care funding. And this system is finally crumbling? No one could have seen this coming.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The main risk of sugar isn't the calories themselves, but rather their effect on our fullness perception. That is, the more sugar we eat, the harder it is to feel full after eating something. This in return cases a vicious cycle, one that can easily lead into obesity. I don't know if that same issue can happen with sweeteners but I don't generally trust anything that tricks our senses to such a degree. I don't consider coffee the holy grail either, it's just that its negative health effects have been tested for ages and are acceptable for its overall benefits. But that's my own risk assessment, with only my health in the line.

It's hard to get a good grip on the health neutrality of diet soda when the companies who make them have lied to us about sugar for decades. Maybe sweeteners are just their next lie, who knows. Much of the research done on sweeteners is funded by the ones who profit from it. The food industry have far more power than anyone should be comfortable with them having.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I often think of the analogy where the Tories are the CIA and the UK is a Latin America country.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My bet is on the cloudy sky. The crane is bound to run out of energy before doing any real damage.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

No seat belt. Figures.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

These numbers are very low, considering how much of the global population live in political shitholes, if not war zones.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Doesn't really matter if the economy got bigger if it just means more money to corporations. The average person has certainly not seen growth. A mortage increase of 5% coupled with low wage increases, high food and fuel inflation left most people much worse off.

Then again, this unit of measure has always been a very poor one in countries with huge wealth gaps.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd be amazed if they don't block commenting.

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