ChicoSuave

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ChicoSuave ,

There will be a day when a robot crushes it's digit in a machine and learns that we gave it the ability to feel pain.

ChicoSuave ,

It's to differentiate the fascism.

ChicoSuave ,

The picture is of John Wick, a character known for fighting an entire criminal underground because someone killed his puppy.

Kristi Noem is the governor of South Dakota. She wrote a book detailing how she went hunting with a puppy, the puppy scared birds she was hunting, so she put a bullet into it's head. She admitted it was an untrained puppy so the conclusion many draw is that she needlessly murdered a dog that she could have otherwise trained.

The punchline is that John Wick is coming after her because she killed a puppy.

ChicoSuave ,

Perfect is the enemy of good and you did really good!

ChicoSuave ,

So the cool part about this ad is that it's a riff on a talk given on transistors in 1954. The guy who pioneered and perfected silicon transistors was named Gordon Teal and he was the first person to grow a Germanium junction transistor in 1948, so he was kind of a big deal. At a conference where he was supposed to speak, the speaker before him talked about the limits of Germanium and how Silicon was impossible to use so the advances of the future are doping Germanium.

In his pocket Gordon Teal had some silicon transistors, fresh from the lab, and his talk was about how he made transistors from silicon. Texas instruments was the first to use silicon and this ad was TI taking the piss out of the industry by saying "Hey, you know that impossible thing? We have it ready for you."

ChicoSuave ,

Someone wants to enthusiastically join in, expanding on your post by adding context to an ad from 1954 and you take the piss? Instead you end up being a jerk.

ChicoSuave ,

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbead

ChicoSuave ,

Traditional marketing is dead. No one likes ads. But the amount of people watching game streams? Enormous. Slay the Spire is the typical tale of how streaming sparked a deck building gold rush and it started when a streamer played a few hours and got some word of mouth going.

Marketing is still a very viable approach to figuring out how to sell a product. But ads themselves are actually poorly regarded and when folks are given the option of how to receive retail information, they don't want unstoppable messages for things that don't appeal and will never be purchased. And it sours the brand to viewers who have to watch.

But getting some charismatic people to have fun with your product? Guaranteed to get some eyeballs who are willing to be there. That's what ads will start to look like: appeals to friendship.

Marketing is still working but unskippable billboards on the gates of our entertainment are dying off.

ChicoSuave ,

Wait until generative AI tells a customer to touch electricity.

ChicoSuave ,

Google internal politics ousted the last of the OG Google guys and replaced him with the same person who killed Yahoo, Prabhakar Raghavan.

The general consensus is that all of the changes to Google since 2019 were driven by profit instead of trying to find things, like a search engine should. And those decisions were spearheaded by Prabhakar Raghavan, who used the training of a data scientist to run Google into the ground for short term financial gain. Sundae Prichai hired Prabhakar Raghavan directly and then promoted him from Head of Ads to Head of Search after firing the guy who had been helping guide Google Search since 1999.

Is there any evidence of a difference in healthfulness between having fruit vs having added sugar along with fibre foods?

All of the info about why added sugar is unhealthy compared to fruits seems to be that the sugar in fruit comes with fibre and nutrients that offset the negative health impacts of sugar to a degree by delaying its absorption and preventing a blood sugar spike....

ChicoSuave ,

As someone who was very into Keto dieting for a while I have some experience with this research - however I am just a nerd who likes details and not a professional dietician or nutritionist so this is only using internet articles available via Google for my statements.

Sucrose is the freely available white sugar that is called "sugar" for cooking/baking. It is 99% carbohydrate energy and has been cleaned through processing to remove all but the sucrose. It has no added benefits other than being freely available energy.

Fructose is a sugar formed naturally in fruits. Fructose is unprocessed sugar (not Raw but completely untouched and still requiring extraction from the fruit flesh. Raw is just a marketing term for cheap processed sugar). Since it is only available by eating fruit, there is the associated idea that it must be better. It isn't as bad as sugar but it isn't healthy.

Sucrose is made of fructose and glucose, so the argument that it is easier to break down fructose might be made. Fructose can only be broken down in the liver while sucrose is absorbed by the liver, gallbladder, spleen, and intestines. Given this narrow window of fructose availability, it is likely healthier than sugar because of the short exposure time to fructose.

So to answer your question, sucrose infused with fiber and nutrients is not the same as fructose available from plants. Separating the components is more intensive for fruit and fructose than trying to separate the easily mixed sugar and additives.

ChicoSuave ,

Jokes on them. That's anxiety and the "just wish this would happen so we can get over it" is the start of a long depression about how nothing changes and nothing we do actually matters.

ChicoSuave ,

He was a darling because he was a literally unknown person who introduced themselves with a controlled media profile who sold a way to approach the fossil fuel problem. The nice thing about the left is their views evolve rapidly to current events and Elon has been inescapable in media, so naturally he reveals his true neocon form.

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