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Ultra-processed foods need tobacco-style warnings, says scientist
  • They're processed, yes. The corn is milled, pressed into triangles, coated with preservative-heavy flavor powder and cooked in one order or another, possibly repeatedly.

    What makes it ULTRA processed?

    Frickin... most raw potatoes are "processed" because they're typically not covered in topsoil when they get put in 5lb plastic bags.

    A grass-fed organic, antibiotic free, roaming free-range massaged poterhouse steak is "processed" because it's not still attached to the cow.

    I'm trying to understand the definition, here. Almost everything is processed to some degree or another.

    Is white flour ultra processed because they bleach and de-hull the wheat berries? Or only when it's made into cake flour? Or do both of those count as "processed" and only "cake MIX" counts as "ultra processed"?

    Am I making sense?

  • Ultra-processed foods need tobacco-style warnings, says scientist
  • Do they?

    I don't even know what an "ultra processed food" •IS•.

    How is it different than the "processed cheese product" that passes for most individually wrapped "American cheese" cheese slices? Or is that ultra processed?

    Are Doritos ultra processed or just the regular kind of processed?

    Which kind of ground beef qualifies for "ultra"? Only the pink slime or anything that's been chemically treated?

    I'm not being a pedantic contrary asshat, I legitimately do not know what qualifies something to be in this category and why it's worse than normal processing.

    Bpa from plastic tubing used in the processing of Annie's organic leeched into the food. Is that considered contamination or a side effect of processing?

  • If throwing up means to puke, then throwing down must mean to have the shits.
  • I heard Jack O'Neill and Teal'c in my head on this one.

    J: Well, tell him unless he cools it, I'm going to throw down!

    T: Have you eaten something that does not agree with you, O'Neill?

    J: What?

    T: Is your digestive system experiencing discomfort?

    Daniel Jackson: Yeeeah, this is probably my fault, I explained the euphemism "throwing up" to Teal'c last night after Sam's bout in the infirmary and I'm guessing he thinks the reverse means

    J: No!

    J: I'm perfectly... Continent.

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  • I personally felt like it was a reference to the complete lack of corporate loyalty to it's employees.

    It's hard to have a "career" in the classical sense the way my 90 year old grandparents did.

    You can still choose a field of work and if you're lucky you'll get to stay in it for most of your adult life, but between outsourcing in IT, fields being made redundant as technology advances/changes (from cashiers and retail to journalism and marketing, accounting, and phone work) and whole fields of manufacturing work getting shipped overseas, the number of lifelong fields of work available is rapidly shrinking, facing fierce competition for jobs, and becoming a moving playing field faster than most people can retrain for.

    "HR" jobs could get halved or more with chatbots providing benefits and payroll adjustment information. "Big data" is doing most of the "market research" that advertisers handled manually 30 years ago.

    Big money is still trying to sell us the "career" dream because it leads to the school loan debt they feed off of and temporarily gluts fields with workers to reduce salaries, but only a few handfuls of fields of work really have "career" style options anymore.

    I took it not as an insult to the people trying to have one, but as disdain and disgust at how the word gets bandied about like so much bait on a hook when the reality is fastly becoming far different for the 20- and 30- somethings of today.

    That might be just me being both charitable and jaded, though.

  • Supreme Court Upholds Law That Bans Domestic Abusers From Owning Guns
  • Seriously. ^That's the important bit.

    I would be shocked if that was on any of the judge's minds, but it's the primary concern in cases of domestic abuse.

    Domestic abuser plus gun owner is the "my boyfriend choked me during sex without my consent" red flag for upcoming potential future death.

    it's not a guarantee, but it' statistically waaaaaay more likely to end that way.

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  • And what kills me is that continually trotting out "for the children" as an automatic "gotcha" watchword lessens the public concern for actual children and muddies the proverbial pond with regards to the actual effective/productive methods for actually protecting children.

    There should be a rule about using "think of the children"/"support our troops" where you have to actually be doing something that directly and proportionally affects the group you're referencing in a positive manner commensurate with the amount of money that's being funnelled into the effort.

    That and no shilling for cancer research donations just to spend it on yachts and advertising or whatever.

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