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Is it the type of added sugar that matters more, because I think they use the cheapest sugars to maximize their profits. But it is not that simple. 'Naturally occurring sugars in fruits and vegetables come with fiber, vitamins, and minerals, which can mitigate some of the negative effects3 Added sugars, whether from table sugar or other sources, provide empty calories without nutritional benefits Sweeteners like fruit juice, honey, molasses and maple syrup contain natural sugar and have some nutritional benefits. Fruit has fiber, vitamins and antioxidants. Even raw honey and maple syrup can contain antioxidants and minerals like iron, zinc, calcium and potassium. https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-preventi...

Yes, it seems bad, 'Sleeping too much puts you at greater risk of coronary heart disease, stroke and diabetes than sleeping too little. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8727775/

There is also a more recent one in Syria :"How Seeds from War-Torn Syria Could Help Save American Wheat - May 14, 2018 https://e360.yale.edu/features/how-seeds-from-war-torn-syria... And another take on it here: How Syrians Saved an Ancient Seedbank From Civil War When civil war broke out in Syria, Ahmed Amri immediately thought about seeds. Specifically, 141,000 packets of them sitting in cold storage 19 miles south of Aleppo. https://www.wired.com/2015/04/syrians-saved-ancient-seedbank...

I think I got help from studding the experience of the 'anatomy of fear' in 'The Emperor Jones', a 1920 play by American dramatist Eugene O'Neill. It helped me understand how irrational fear would gradually get into me. I was stranded in desert area known for hyenas. Walking with a heavy backpack for 7 hours in complete darkness to reach the camp, I started 'seeing' things in the dark. I started singing first, then praying, couldn't find stones to throw at dark spot I though were water ponds formed during the heavy rain, I had a break down. Then I saw the lights of the camp that showed me how I deviated from the path to it by a far margin. But something pleasant happened afterwards, I felt I conquered fear and my tolerance for unpleasant things got a big boost.

'A fake account on Strava systematically exploited the popular fitness app to collect information about sensitive bases and secret sites, including a U.S. military base.'

'Researchers from Harvard Chan School found that three types of flame retardants, called TDCIPP, TPHP, and mono-ITP, can have a major impact on pregnancies. The study followed 211 women undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF), and found that 80% of them showed evidence of the chemicals in their urine. Women with the highest levels of exposure fared the worst, with a wide range of effects:10% lower chance of a successful fertilization31% lower chance of the embryo implanting in the uterus41% fewer clinical pregnancies (where fetal heartbeat is confirmed by ultrasound)38% fewer live births https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/c-change/subtopics/flame-retard...

The black part in plastics is due to the addition of cheap carbon black to recycled plastic which is usually pale and unappealing grey, it is a form of 'soot produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, petroleum or vegetable matter. It is added to plastics as a reinforcing substance, the same reason for which it finds widespread use in tires' .https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/environment-did-you-know/d...

It is about the money:" The “black” in plastics is due to the addition of carbon black, which is basically a form of soot produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, petroleum or vegetable matter. It is added to plastics as a reinforcing substance, the same reason for which it finds widespread use in tires. Another benefit is that carbon black absorbs ultraviolet radiation that can cause plastics to degrade. Now for the problems. Carbon black contains numerous compounds, some of which, like the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), have carcinogenic properties and have led the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) to categorize carbon black as “possibly carcinogenic to humans.” Whether this is an issue in the containers used for many prepared foods, including those that are to be microwaved, is not clear, since the carbon black is locked within the matrix of the plastic and may not leach out in any significant amounts. Prepared food marketers like the black containers because they are cheap and are visually more appealing than their clear counterparts. https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/environment-did-you-know/d...

It is strange that when Arabic and Hebrew languages are written from left to write, that is not the case with numbers, a common saying in Arabic is 'zero on the left', that means worthless. Arabs in old times hated zero because it signified no gains in trade and wars, and was called a vacuum sign because any number multiplied by it ended up with nothing, the Arabic zero word ‘cepher ‘ was a translation of Sanskrit word śūnya that meant empty. The first English use of zero was in 1598. Al-Khwarizmi or Algorismus made common in use in 773 in Baghdad.

'The answer appears to be yes. Both Arabic qanāt and Greek kánna are related to the Akkadian qanû, meaning "reed". The Greek word became latin canna for cane, then canalis for pipe or channel. See this entry in the Etymological Dictionary of Arabic for more: https://www2.hf.uio.no/polyglotta/index.php?page=record&view... on May 18, 2016 | parent | prev | next [–]It's the exact same thing.For example, Suez Canal is called "Qanat al-Suez" in Arabic.' https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11719441

I have queried gemini about a specific issue and when it failed to give a decent answer I narrowed down the issue with hints about the answer, it responded with details from an old post by me on reddit.

One dude recounted how psilocybin helped him have the best experience with the happy ending , as being out of this world, but the timing was perfect, not sure if it was 'How to Change Your Mind | | Netflix, or another one there.

They are citing an Arabic report from IDF sources https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90kkHdIFfzg So the idea is locating him before going underground, his last 'visible' location before the signal disapeared.

A handshake from a stranger made Nasrallah, traceable to Israelis; the man smeared him with the substance and then disappeared allowing Israel to track him

They are already here with outfits such as Synthesia and heygen.

I think it is about the idiotic old mentality of control, sense of 'ownership' and distrust.

In the 1930s, in Lebanon, they would not abide by any standards, laws or ceilings. They poisoned wells, rigged cars (including ambulances), packages and even animals (during the civil war, they sent donkeys loaded with explosives into crowded areas in West Beirut and rigged them in the name of the “Front for the Liberation of Lebanon from Foreigners”).

'To Catch Up in EVs, Detroit Needs to Invite China In There’s lots Ford and GM could learn from the likes of BYD about building affordable electric cars.For a century, America’s car plants, dealer lots and highways have been the world’s preeminent automotive battlefield. No longer. China has grown to be simultaneously the biggest vehicle market, the biggest vehicle exporter and, with an eye to the future, the global center for electric vehicles. If the US auto industry, wedded as it is to gas-guzzling trucks and SUVs, is to remain relevant, it should ditch the siege mentality and consider inviting its chief adversary inside.'

‘Your strategy shouldn’t be walling yourself off from superior technology in the hope you'll catch up - protected by your insulation – it never works. China's Qing dynasty tried it with the results we all know about: they lost out even faster.’

And with EV the problem would be bigger as the frequency of replacing EV tires is higher due to heavier weights of EVs.'Emissions Analytics found that a single car sheds almost nine pounds of tire weight per year, on average. Globally, that amounts to 6 million metric tons of tire pollution annually, with most of it coming from wealthier countries where personal car use is more prevalent.

The amount of tire pollution emitted per vehicle is increasing as more electric cars hit the road around the world — some 14 million of them this year, according to the International Energy Agency. EVs tend to be significantly heavier than gas-powered or hybrid cars due to their larger, heftier batteries. The average battery for an EV on the market today is roughly 1,000 pounds, with some outliers approaching 3,000 pounds — as much as an entire gasoline-powered compact car.'

'The private conversations about having her replaced have intensified since public calls for her ouster in July from Barry Diller, chairman of IAC Inc., and LinkedIn Corp. co-founder Reid Hoffman, who said Khan was “waging war on American business.”Democratic donors on Wall Street will likely keep lobbying in private for Khan to be replaced, some of the people said. However, it’s unlikely any of them are withholding contributions based on her fate at the FTC, and no clear communication has been given to donors about Harris’ position on Khan, they stressed.'

Perhaps a look at Japanese software development will give an interesting look into the subject, not sure how accurate this one is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky1nGQhHTso Then there is politics and a controversial one is mentioned here. ''US spy agencies began recruiting former fascists and Nazi collaborators. US officials freed Class A Japanese war criminals from prison, some of whom went on to lead the government in Tokyo.Many of these figures were involved in founding the right-wing Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which has essentially run Japan as a one-party state since 1955 (excluding a mere five years of opposition rule).A textbook example of this was Nobusuke Kishi, a notorious war criminal who ran the Japanese empire’s Manchukuo puppet regime and oversaw genocidal atrocities in collaboration with the Nazis. He was briefly imprisoned, but later pardoned by US authorities and, with Washington’s support, rose to become prime minister of Japan in the 1950s.Kishi’s fascist-linked family still commands significant control over Japanese politics. His grandson, Shinzo Abe, was the longest-serving prime minister in the East Asian nation’s history. https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/08/07/atomic-bombing-ja...

Back in the 80s, having their typewriters allowing you to delete the last 4 characters was cutting-edge material. Then a tiny screen was a 'wow moment'.

Or this one:"Foutanga Babani Sissoko, known as Baba Sora (died March 2021)[1] was a Malian entrepreneur and politician. Sissoko was a member of the National Assembly between 2002 and 2014.

He was born in the village of Dabia, to the west of Mali's capital, Bamako. Little is known of Sissoko's early life.[2]

He was said to have swindled the Dubai Islamic Bank for US$242 million using claims he could perform black magic, a claim he denied saying he only went into the bank to receive a car loan'

Eric Schmidt is scary, Julian Assange spoke of him :' in June 2011 when Assange was living under house arrest at Ellingham Hall in Norfolk, Schmidt and "an entourage of US State Department alumni including a top former adviser to Hillary Clinton" visited for several hours and "locked horns" with the Wikileaks founder. For Schmidt, emancipation is at one with US foreign policy objectives and is driven by connecting non-western countries to American companies and markets'. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/03/julian-assange...

They are denying it : Central Bank: No bank has been hacked According to Mashreq, the Central Bank Media's Twitter account wrote: Rumors of the enemy media to prevent the fall of the dollar / no system has been hacked. https://www.mashreghnews.ir/news/1633345/بانک-مرکزی-هیچ-بانک...

It means also that "Do not go gentle into that good night" is not realistic most of the time. We have a saying in Arabic that I only understood after my father died, it to the effect that something is so difficult that:'' it is harder than the spirit leaving the body'. I think it is time that hospice care evolve to make it easier.

Great, I could see that now. Thank you.

How is it different from or better than builtwith.com ?

There has been several startups for the past decades who have tried this an disappeared afterwards.The real and legitimate research, development and improvement of wind turbines have been plagued by fad wind turbines. Fad wind turbines fly around Amazon selling big claims at breakneck speeds.

As an Arabic speaker I notice higher standards in the English version of Al Jazeera, I remember a Qatari cameraman was killed in a shooting attack in Benghazi-March 12, 2011, Ali Hassan Al-Jaber, unlike the English Al Jazeera team, was not wearing any protective gear nor had he undergone any media training for covering war zones. Some interesting take on this goes like this: 'Qatar is not only a historical part of the American security and energy system, as is the case with many other countries. The issue is that, thirty years ago, Qatar went through a difficult period - a crisis of legitimacy, a coup, and a real external threat - that shaped Qatari foreign policy and made the regime understand that, in order to become useful and necessary for Washington, it needed to do “more,” to excel. From the rest of the allies in the region, and for it to have a special role that no one else can play.All Qatari policies since then, from the Al-Udeid base to relations with Israel to hosting Hamas and rapprochement with Syria, then waging war against it, all come within this framework. If you do not interpret Qatari policies within their actual historical and functional context, then you are be misled on the real purpose of Al Jazeera channel. What is interesting here is that the Qatari officials themselves do not hide these matters at all, and they publicize them at every turn and external criticism that comes their way, the latest of which is an official statement from the Qatari embassy in Washington: “We do not act on our heads. We did not host the leadership of Hamas except in response to an American request, and not only with their approval, and the same goes for relations with the Taliban, the Syrian war, and the transfer of money to Gaza was taking place with Israeli approval and under their eyes - we perform the tasks for you.” They say this to the American and Western public exclusively, and as an Arab, when you question Qatari policy and its role, you may not find a single Qatari citizen in the discussion before you. Why do you think, and within any theory of the world, might America ask Qatar to host Hamas or establish relations with Hezbollah?'