<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: protonbob</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=protonbob</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:06:50 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=protonbob" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by protonbob in "How the Tobacco Industry Drove the Rise of Ultra-Processed Foods (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Sure but the vast majority of what people use and consume is a replacement for what "evolution has come up with". That doesn't inherently make it "bad".<p>This is not true at all. What are you talking about? In general most people eat regular foods that come from the ground not ultraprocessed foods.<p>I don't know why you are nitpicking so much about the smoking example. I said it was an extreme example of something that is relatively worse but some people are comfortable calling categorically bad.</p>
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<p>Smoking does have a physical upside. It's a wonderful nootropic. Sparkling water has the exact same chemical makeup as regular water. Formula is trying to replace something that evolution has come up with that is purpose made to feed and develop the brains of infants and young children. That is not a good comparison at all.</p>
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<p>But playing chess is a game already.</p>
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<p>The nutritional content is absolutely worse. I am sure that long term, many children can recover from it at least physically and cognitively.<p>As far as making an absolute claim, colloquially, people say something is bad when they mean worse than the alternative. To make an extreme example, smoking is much worse for you than caffeine but they are similar in many aspects. I do not feel the need to say that smoking is relatively worse. I say "Smoking is bad".</p>
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<p>Ironically, the story of the Bible is that caring about others can cost you an excruciating death.</p>
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<p>It’s also just worse for the baby in pretty much every metric. And yes it does make it bad. That means they have to get more liquids than they normally would and get gas. Why would you put bad in quotes? Do you know understand how a food can be good or bad?</p>
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<p>Sorry density of nutrients.</p>
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<p>Yes and pretty much all baby formula is bad. Vegetable oil is often the #1 ingredient and is not even close to having the same density as breast milk. It can be life saving, but it’s not an example of UPF being generally good.<p>Also supermarket whole wheat bread is very different than real bread if you look at the ingredients. It’s more like bread adjacent.</p>
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<p>I think many don’t so why not just say the numbers.</p>
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<p>Why does it need to change?</p>
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<p>The majority of shareholders (not retail 401k) are not as hostile at all.</p>
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<p>Instead of saying words to one of the many tens of thousands of religious comments that would presumably annoy you, you could also help research on this topic instead of dumping on someone trying to be encouraging who already hedged that not everyone agrees with them.</p>
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<p>Businesses are incentivized to say it’s because of AI because it makes them look better. So not saying that when actually asked by a government entity is meaningful.</p>
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<p>Wow I’m so glad that didn’t happen.</p>
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<p>Unless the thermal paste goes bad and the fans get clogged and you get thermally throttled.</p>
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<p>Why not?</p>
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<p>You could trust them by letting them show you a blood test that showed antigens.</p>
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<p>A measles vaccine is actually effective at containing the spread. People with natural immunity should not have been required to get a vaccine for something they were already  inoculated for and had immunity that was greater than what you could get from the vaccines</p>
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<p>Yes exactly. They are great for immunocompromised people. Much less so for healthy people. Which is why it should have been an option and not mandatory.</p>
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<p>We already know that the CDC literally lied about masks not being helpful in the early pandemic in order to protect mask supplies for healthcare workers. We also know that Fauci lied about Gain-of-Function research.<p>"The NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology"
-- Fauci, under oath to Congress, May 2021.<p>NIH's Principal Deputy Director Lawrence Tabak contradicted this in writing five months later, confirming funded experiments had produced findings that met the gain-of-function threshold.<p>-- <a href="https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/nih-eco-health-alliance-letter/512f5ee70ce9c67c/full.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/nih-eco-health-allian...</a><p>If we know that there were deliberate lies were said about certain aspects of the covid pandemic, why should we assume good intent otherwise, especially from a U.S government that is jhighly influenced by well funded lobbyists?</p>
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