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New comment by Obscurity4340 in "Scam American companies are using to manipulate ingredient lists"

Obscurity4340 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:12:12 +0000

You have to admit, its kind of rich for them to link kratom to liver damage as a nexus/reasoning for why it should be banned while the two most liver-damaging substances (alcohol and acetaminophen (Tylenol)) remain in the clear

New comment by Obscurity4340 in "Scam American companies are using to manipulate ingredient lists"

Obscurity4340 — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 13:26:58 +0000

This was my impression. I also find most juices can be diluted at least 25 % and its still incredibly drinkable, you just get more bang for the buck

New comment by Obscurity4340 in "Scam American companies are using to manipulate ingredient lists"

Obscurity4340 — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 13:00:10 +0000

This would be rather interesting, I've noticed whenever a product is "with ___" [insert hot substance or ingredient], its almost always near the very end of the ingredients list, meaning its among the lowest in amounts of ingredients used in the product

New comment by Obscurity4340 in "Scam American companies are using to manipulate ingredient lists"

Obscurity4340 — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:51:32 +0000

Yes but your "i dont mind" shouldnt constitute consent from everyone else, not everyone has the time or discerning to do that, it should already be taken care of at a higher level as a cost of doing business and hopefully enough to disincentivize bad deaing

New comment by Obscurity4340 in "Scam American companies are using to manipulate ingredient lists"

Obscurity4340 — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:17:41 +0000

whats jif

New comment by Obscurity4340 in "Scam American companies are using to manipulate ingredient lists"

Obscurity4340 — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:15:14 +0000

Its too hard! We just dont have the technology [flips desk]

New comment by Obscurity4340 in "Scam American companies are using to manipulate ingredient lists"

Obscurity4340 — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:12:38 +0000

> eating full spoonfuls of it

I dont buy or keep jam stocked but I'll admit i go a little nuts whenever im in reaching distance of those little Smuckers packets. Yumbo!

New comment by Obscurity4340 in "Scam American companies are using to manipulate ingredient lists"

Obscurity4340 — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:09:50 +0000

> kratom products are taken by millions of Americans, despite FDA warnings linking them to liver toxicity, dependence, and in some cases, death.

Never heard of liver connection, wonder if thats actually true of standard powder kratom. With extracts obviously anything goes.

Same difference as coca > cocaine

New comment by Obscurity4340 in "Computers Cannot Make Decisions"

Obscurity4340 — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:00:51 +0000

I wonder if theres an approach to getting an arbitrary grocery store or even like an arbitrary pizza chain to offer your favorite dressing/dip, id love to see my fave become more popular/normalized

New comment by Obscurity4340 in "YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops"

Obscurity4340 — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 11:55:46 +0000

Is hockeysticked a graph shape reference? Like K shaped recovery?

New comment by Obscurity4340 in "“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically"

Obscurity4340 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 20:37:28 +0000

They're very Declarative that way

New comment by Obscurity4340 in "Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS"

Obscurity4340 — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 14:04:36 +0000

I think its crazier that every app installed by default gets Cellular Data and on WiFi, its even worse because theres not even an option to granularly decide which apps should or shouldnt have that.

Things that have no conceivable need to phone home just get it for the hell of it. Its basically Full Disk Access but for Network Access which is arguably equally problematic

New comment by Obscurity4340 in "Amazon introduces a redesigned Kindle family"

Obscurity4340 — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 04:07:19 +0000

Keep us posted, sounds cool

New comment by Obscurity4340 in "Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes"

Obscurity4340 — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 01:19:20 +0000

Did anyone actually end up forced off Daraprim? Not that Shkreli's a saint or anything but my understanding was that it was just a stick up to the insurance companies and that any patient ostensibly affected by the increases could reach out and they would be covered under the company's patient support program or something to that effect

New comment by Obscurity4340 in "Suits Are Better Tech Than Modern Clothes"

Obscurity4340 — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 06:38:00 +0000

I wonder how much of that is subsidized by the proprietors pursuing the custom-tshirt business lyfe

New comment by Obscurity4340 in "When did Google get so weird?"

Obscurity4340 — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 06:30:44 +0000

Is Elmo on Adderall too?

New comment by Obscurity4340 in "When did Google get so weird?"

Obscurity4340 — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 06:30:24 +0000

Its what allthe Deep State plants crave...

New comment by Obscurity4340 in "When did Google get so weird?"

Obscurity4340 — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 06:26:39 +0000

Mine definitely were

New comment by Obscurity4340 in "When did Google get so weird?"

Obscurity4340 — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:40:10 +0000

Everyone's on meth

New comment by Obscurity4340 in "Thinking fast and slow in AI: The role of metacognition (2021)"

Obscurity4340 — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:31:49 +0000

How can things be compressed without losing information or structure?

Like for text, what would that involve? How do you compress a string or multi-line string without losing information and hopefully structure (paragraphs, would it be like replacing periods and the following space with just sticking the starting capitalized letter of the following word to the previous sentence's last letter and when it decompresses theres some kind of note that converts that back into the. First letter of the next sentence