They outright state this. The first directly says that their higher sugar substitute group had a higher BMI, lower activity, less fibre, and so on.

"To address your point: Potential for reverse causality cannot be eliminated; however, many sensitivity analyses were computed to limit this and other potential biases"

I've actually read the study (given that certain sorts cite it constantly), and do you know what "limited" that bias? Nothing. Literally nothing.

It is a correlation study. People with weight problems are more likely to utilize sugar substitutes. Reversing the causation is the root of an enormous amount of idiot science, though.

And just to be clear, researcher who post this bunk know exactly what they're doing, and usually it is to yield a "more research should be done" conclusion. It's when laymen start building their little notepad.exe listing of everything that supports their nonsense that it becomes a problem.

Ah, a "seed oil" guy. This is the indication to everyone what level of discourse and scientific fact you're bringing to the table.

In fact, I'll just cite one single bit in your claim-

>Contrary to their purpose, some studies show artificial sweeteners may raise type 2 diabetes risk by up to 38%

This suffers from the same "aha!" nonsense as the garbage submission (and it is garbage). The "study" you are citing was an observational, epidemiological study. And wow, crazy and hard to believe, but it turns out that people with weight problems (and all that comes with that) are more likely to have partaken of "at least one" sugar substitute drink. This is similar to studying people who chew nicotine gum and for obvious reasons finding a higher rate of lung cancer, so then declare that nicotine gum causes lung cancer. It is so staggeringly stupid it belies belief, but it makes for a headline to fool some rubes.

And by stealing those electrons from other molecules it sets off other chemical reactions, which in things like DNA is highly suboptimal. This all generally happens at the birth of the He atom, presuming it isn't in deep space or something with no electrons to cleave from neighbours, and is only an instantaneous state.

When you hear about alpha decay of radioactive materials, that is the matter spitting off a highly ionized helium nucleus, freshly birthed into this world. That He nucleus rapidly steals electrons from matter, which is how it can be dangerous to human cells if ingested.

All of that helium underground is the result of alpha decay, and a single uranium-238 element will birth 8 helium atoms as it transitions through a series of metals and one gas (radon), then finally finding stability as Pb206. U235 will birth 7, becoming Pb207.

Anyways, found that fascinating. It's just happenstance that helium often gets blocked exiting the crust by the same sort of structures that block natural gas from escaping, and they are an odd-couple sharing little in common.

One other fun fact -- radon only has a half life of 3.8 days. Uranium becomes thorium becomes radium, then radon where it has an average 3.8 days to seep out of the Earth and into our basements, where it then becomes radioactive metals that attach to dust, get breathed in (or eaten) and present dangers. In the scale of things, crazy. Chemistry is fascinating.

Right now the US should get kicked out of NATO. Every American base in Europe should be shuttered. Europe can nuke up -- precisely what America tried to avoid -- and we can enjoy the new nuclear powers of Germany, Poland, Canada, etc. Japan and South Korea might want to build some warheads too.

And hey look, the grifter halfwit wants to increase the military budget $500B and pull out of NATO. Almost like the trillion dollar budget isn't the grand act of benevolence very ill-informed, uneducated, foolish Americans delude themselves into believing.

People become absolutely psychopathic about these sorts of discussions, and become heartless, soulless goblins. Even people at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder will desperately line up to show how good of little corporate bootlicking subjugates they are.

Apple, just like Microsoft, has a driver signing process because drivers have basically system-wide access to a system. There is no evidence that nvidia has tried to get eGPU drivers signed for years, but now someone did and Apple signed it. So?

And you could always, precisely as the article states in the very first paragraph, disable System Integrity Protection if you want to run drivers that aren't signed.

The API is there. It's straightforward and easy to use. But these users want to piss in the well, tragedy of the commons style.

It's pretty clear that they do continually adjust the amount of tokens in a subscription, per se (and at best they offer sort-of estimates of quotas). The same activity exhausts my session quota on one day, yet it's a minor contributor on another. They make this very explicit with the "2x" event for the past two weeks, but anyone who uses it knows this is basically an ongoing reality: If you stick to using it off hours, you generally enjoy a more liberal usage grant.

But if they just "adjust the amount of tokens in a subscription", they would be punishing everyone for the outliers. The average normal user has spurts of usage where occasionally they need more and then there are gaps where they use little.

Subscription services rely upon this behaviour, and the economics only work if they "oversell". That's why OpenClaw users want to sneak in under a subscription, because the tokens come at a discounted rate over using the API based upon that assumption, but they are breaking the model because those users aren't conforming to expectations. It's basically the tragedy of the commons and a small number of users want to piss in the well.

Trump could literally end humanity tonight. You understand that, right? This proud-he-passed-a-dementia-test serial liar, felonious rapist was given absolutely, unquestioned control over the world's largest nuclear arsenal by the US public. Utter insanity.

Trump and FoxNews Hegseth could send the enormous US military -- screw good healthcare or education, you've got invisible planes! -- to invade Greenland or Canada or Spain. Tonight. With zero opposition.

There are zero checks or restraints on this criminal empire, and the world is seeing the results. It started internally, and that was a spectacular disaster (lol $2T deficit and spiralling economy) so now it's on to the next distraction after the other. Iran didn't give the boost he hoped for, so wonder what the next target will be. Panama? Cuba? Oh I hear they have the "Shield of the Americas" now and think they have Manifest Destiny over the entire Western Hemisphere.

I directly described the United States of America as it is today. This is just fact, and to the entire rest of the world, America is a busted idiocracy that represents by far the greatest threat to world peace.

EDIT: Oh forgot to mention that the US is directly and openly involved in political interference in many of its allies. Alberta in Canada is a target of a massive US operation right now. Just about every European country. Which is pretty ironic given that the US is basically a fractured pseudo-country where one half of the country hates the other half, and that by all rights should be split up.

Boy, with friends like these, we'll all hope that China's nukes hit their marks with good accuracy.

Massive military that has bombed ten or so countries in the past year, overthrown a couple more, threatened close allies such that they're getting blood supplies ready and bombs to remove runways. Enormous nuclear arsenal, all in the hands of self-dealing criminal halfwit pathological liar with malignant narcissism as the country flushes down the toilet. A "Department of War" leader who is a simpleton alcoholic clown who rails off "give me tough guy speeches" that he got from ChatGPT, gloating about blatantly illegal -- both in international and US laws -- war crimes, including murdering people in boats just by rebranding them "narco terrorists". A governing party that increasingly is stocked with INSANE fundy nuts who declare that global warming isn't real because the bible didn't mention it, and who salivate about unleashing armageddon. The country is basically lawless at this point -- a busted plutocracy -- and the securities industry has become farcical it is filled with such grift and absolute lawless fraud.

No one holds a candle to that dangerous nuthouse. North Korea, China, Russia...no one is an iota of a danger that the rogue, war-criming United States of America is.

And the "best" part is that we're entering the era of the worst nuclear proliferation in history because of the utter insanity we've seen in the US. I suspect many "own the libs" Americans aren't going to like what inevitably comes next.

Thiel is another incredibly bizarre creep, and he sits as the chairman of the board. Both are very tightly associated with the Trump crime syndicate and the US government, which increasingly is the world's #1 threat, and should be treated as equally dangerous.

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Seems like trying to make a need from the tools. My security system front page shows me every event that happened at my house, and I don't have to interrogate it on every happenstance, and I don't see what the value of that is.

The NYT makes about $2B per year from subscriber revenue. They make about $450M from digital ads over all properties. Obviously not all news orgs are the same, but the lead example of a shitty experience is the NYT, so weird that all of the rationalizations work so hard to diverge.

>tailoring their pages for the few subscribers is hardly worth it

"Tailoring" a digital page to not include ads for subscribers is so laughably trivial that this is a farcical claim. They aren't hand-laying out the content and removing ad upsets it or something. But they don't remove the ads because, gollum style, why shouldn't they force ads on me?

What we're talking about is classic enshittification, and every justification people make up is just cope. Indeed, the fact that I'm a subscriber makes me even more lucrative to advertisers, in a classic catch-22 that completely undoes all of the "just pay and you don't get ads in my invented scenario".