The National Science Foundation, the federal agency that oversees the U.S. Antarctic Program, published a report in 2022 in which 59% of women said they’d experienced harassment or assault while on the ice, and 72% of women said such behavior was a problem in Antarctica....
like, it’s caffeine and water and brown, who cares. i drink diet soda so it’s no calories, no sugar. versus the stereotype starbucks order, why is soda so demonized...
The main risk of sugar isn’t the calories themselves, but rather their effect on our fullness perception. That is, the more sugar we eat, the harder it is to feel full after eating something. This in return cases a vicious cycle, one that can easily lead into obesity. I don’t know if that same issue can happen with sweeteners but I don’t generally trust anything that tricks our senses to such a degree. I don’t consider coffee the holy grail either, it’s just that its negative health effects have been tested for ages and are acceptable for its overall benefits. But that’s my own risk assessment, with only my health in the line.
It’s hard to get a good grip on the health neutrality of diet soda when the companies who make them have lied to us about sugar for decades. Maybe sweeteners are just their next lie, who knows. Much of the research done on sweeteners is funded by the ones who profit from it. The food industry have far more power than anyone should be comfortable with them having.
A system where a housing tax that primarily targets the poorest is the main source of social care funding. And this system is finally crumbling? No one could have seen this coming.
Britain’s offshore wind industry suffered a blow after ministers failed to heed warnings from some of the world’s biggest renewable energy developers that the annual auction was set too low to reflect their soaring costs. No energy companies submitted bids for offshore wind projects, the government confirmed on Friday...
whataboutism /ˌwɒtəˈbaʊtɪz(ə)m/ noun the technique or practice of responding to an accusation or difficult question by making a counter-accusation or raising a different issue.
Credit is definitely due and this is an amazing feat by India.
I haven’t bothered to discuss the other topic. Is there even any point when US issues are always on the front page here? I probably know more about US politics than my own country at this point.
Though of course you could also go there and take a jab at Americans. Let me know when you do so I can give you some support.
Healthcare costs will continue to rise next year, Health Minister Alain Berset has warned. Health insurers estimate that costs in 2024 will be higher than in the past, he added....
It will be a mix of interesting and depressing to watch the healthcare systems around the globe handle an increasingly old population alongside increased weather extremes.
Like, I get comments from people telling me it’s weird I always try to peel potatoes like I am trying to make the worlds longest 1-piece potato peel. To me it feels way for efficient and fun to continu down a potato in 1 peel, while circling around it, instead of randomly scraping a hundred different pieces of peel off and...
Some specific legislations then? Would be worth pointing them out. I’m no expert in the topic and I doubt most people here are. Your statement makes you seem against legislating it at all.
Official statistics on Friday added almost 2 per cent to the size of the UK economy, in a surprise move that showed the country recovered much faster from the pandemic than previously reported. The Office for National Statistics revisions, which also mean that Britain is no longer the worst performing economy in the G7, will...
Doesn’t really matter if the economy got bigger if it just means more money to corporations. The average person has certainly not seen growth. A mortage increase of 5% coupled with low wage increases, high food and fuel inflation left most people much worse off.
Then again, this unit of measure has always been a very poor one in countries with huge wealth gaps.
Remote is something I’d only enable while using it. Once found my ubuntu (I use arch btw) with the setting on for some reason. Might be worth checking even if you never turned it on.
Tests of seawater near Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant have not detected any radioactivity, the environment ministry said on Sunday (Aug 27), days after authorities began discharging into the sea treated water used to cool damaged reactors....
Women working in Antarctica say they were left to fend for themselves against sexual harassers (apnews.com)
The National Science Foundation, the federal agency that oversees the U.S. Antarctic Program, published a report in 2022 in which 59% of women said they’d experienced harassment or assault while on the ice, and 72% of women said such behavior was a problem in Antarctica....
Baldur's Gate 3 players continue to find little surprises: Astarion has rare voice lines if you nuke him with a sun ray (www.pcgamer.com)
We're gonna be finding this stuff for years, aren't we?
Annual hours worked per engaged person in Europe and in Asia. (Sorry for different color scales.) (images2.imgbox.com)
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just sayin' (lemmy.nz)
Why do people act like coffee in the morning is such a sacred routine but soda in the morning [basically the same drink] is lowbrow and unhealthy?
like, it’s caffeine and water and brown, who cares. i drink diet soda so it’s no calories, no sugar. versus the stereotype starbucks order, why is soda so demonized...
Birmingham, UK’s second biggest city, declares financial distress (www.aljazeera.com)
‘Biggest clean energy disaster in years’: UK auction secures no offshore windfarms (www.theguardian.com)
Britain’s offshore wind industry suffered a blow after ministers failed to heed warnings from some of the world’s biggest renewable energy developers that the annual auction was set too low to reflect their soaring costs. No energy companies submitted bids for offshore wind projects, the government confirmed on Friday...
India launches space mission to the sun a week after moon landing (www.theguardian.com)
Swiss healthcare costs will continue to rise next year, warns Health Minister (www.swissinfo.ch)
Healthcare costs will continue to rise next year, Health Minister Alain Berset has warned. Health insurers estimate that costs in 2024 will be higher than in the past, he added....
Gillian Keegan tells schools to ‘get off their backsides’ to help fix concrete crisis (www.independent.co.uk)
What's the most efficient way for peeling potatoes by hand? (sh.itjust.works)
Like, I get comments from people telling me it’s weird I always try to peel potatoes like I am trying to make the worlds longest 1-piece potato peel. To me it feels way for efficient and fun to continu down a potato in 1 peel, while circling around it, instead of randomly scraping a hundred different pieces of peel off and...
Construction crane against a cloudy sky (feddit.nu)
Donald Trump’s trial in Georgia will be livestreamed on YouTube (www.theverge.com)
Trump’s trial may appear on the Georgia court’s YouTube channel.
Police pull over car with huge bull in passenger seat (www.bbc.com)
Covid: UK has ‘let our guard down’ as concern over new ‘Pirola’ variant grows (www.independent.co.uk)
B.C. woman who deliberately damaged neighbour's trees ordered to pay $150K in compensation (bc.ctvnews.ca)
Canada shut its land border to asylum seekers. More refugees came anyway (www.reuters.com)
Over half of Americans are now more concerned than excited about AI's expanding role in daily life, according to the results of a Pew Research survey. (www.pewresearch.org)
UK economy bounced back from Covid, ONS revisions reveal (www.ft.com)
Official statistics on Friday added almost 2 per cent to the size of the UK economy, in a surprise move that showed the country recovered much faster from the pandemic than previously reported. The Office for National Statistics revisions, which also mean that Britain is no longer the worst performing economy in the G7, will...
You can never really trust someone to turn off the remote desktop connection (lemmy.world)
This is from 1982 TV show “Police Squad!”, if anyone wonders.
Japan says seawater radioactivity below limits near Fukushima (www.channelnewsasia.com)
Tests of seawater near Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant have not detected any radioactivity, the environment ministry said on Sunday (Aug 27), days after authorities began discharging into the sea treated water used to cool damaged reactors....
Supermarkets are being asked to cut plastic waste. What would that look like? (www.cbc.ca)
The industry’s trade association, the Retail Council of Canada, said the new policy “unfortunately” targets large grocers exclusively....