I like drone shows but I think we should still do fireworks shows to scare veterans.

Generally speaking when it comes to any supplement (drinks included) you can look at two things:

1. The concentration of the ingredient
2. Which way they get the ingredient in

The first one is easier if you’re anywhere that’s not the US, since brands need to detail the ingredients list. Basically there’s doses wehre these ingredients start to work. You can look them up online generally. Many of these brands, especially in the energy drinks boom, underdose the active ingredients just so they can put the name front and center.

The second thing can be trickier but you can also generally look it up. Notice it says lion’s mane extract for the Trip can, but only Ashwagandha. This is a particularly easy example to look at. The extract is good, it’s what you want. It’s essentially the concentrated active component without the not-interesting bulk - that is, every other molecule that forms fungi, such as the cells.

But they don’t say that for the Ashwagandha, which implies they use the whole root, including the cellulose or whatever

This logically lowers the concentration of the chemical that you want from Ashwagandha for this purpose. Whether the chemical actually works is another question, but this should be sufficient to say that it’s not going to be present in high enough concentrations if they don’t specify extract or the particular molecule.

On the flip side you also have different binding agents. Magnesium is a big one. you can get magnesium oxide which is the cheapest form, but is also almost entirely rejected by the body. This means out of say 100mg of magnesium oxide, you will only process and absorb 10mg. Magnesium glycinate, bound to the glycine amino acid, is much more readily bioavailable to our body and the one you should take as a supplement because we digest glycine, but not oxide.

Energy drink companies love the oxide form though because it’s cheap af since you can barely do anything with it, but they can still say there’s magnesium in their formulation, and sell you that can at a premium. They make huge margins on sales that’s why there’s an energy drink boom right now.

I don’t know if there’s anybody who hasn’t come to the same conclusion lol but ultimately, after (re-)reading and retyping my thoughts over and over, I come to two conclusions:

This is a problem of capitalism but it’s also not saying much. The crux of the matter is copyright law and competition.

On the one hand copyright law is so backwards and outdated (thank Disney) that the only way they could do this was to discard the books after scanning them. Cutting books, known as destructive scanning, used to be for a long time the only viable way to digitized books. With new methods however you can certainly do it without destroying the book, but many of these methods are patented.

The other side of the coin is that these AI companies “need” to put out better, faster models all the time to stay in competition. It’s a fast-evolving industry with similarly cut-throat competition. If you fall behind, people stop using you and you don’t find funding.

In higher-stage socialism, all of this would have basically been prevented. The SOE(s) responsible for AI research would have been told to preserve books even if it takes longer, or even find more efficient ways to train their models. There also wouldn’t be such a rush to put out marginally better models just to stay at the cutting edge. deepseek showed it’s possible to get a good model based on an original “cutting edge” model. Which means you only need the cutting edge model once, then you can decline it differently.

They started doing that??

Ubisoft always comes out hard with the anti-consumer takes and their games aren’t even good. They weren’t particularly good in the 2000s either, they got some hype in the 2010s with Assassin’s Creed and Rainbow Six, but now they’re back to making mediocre games and… nobody takes you seriously Ubi.

I like some of the stuff AI does, and I think we need to start having specialized AI, not chatgpt stuff that does literally everything. In China for example they started using AIs to plan the electrical cabling on ship designs and what took a handful of engineers 1 year to do is done in hours with AI.

I also don’t trust capitalists to make good AI. The free version of chatGPT has gotten noticeably worse IMO some time back. Around the time it started replying in lists. They change things without telling you and assume it’s gonna be in your best interest, but all it does is sanitize the AI further.

Can you name any?

True but at the same time you don´t read particularly much about corrupt communist party bigwigs in socialist media, do you?

That’s because they don’t exist.

I don’t necessarily want to talk about the USSR tbh. It’s a historical entity now, I’m more focused on the present and future.

However, when you start to get people into communism, that’s the first thing they ask. The USSR is scaring libs to this day so much that whenever you start talking Marxism, the first question is: “What about X in the USSR?”

And so against my will I am forced to talk about the USSR. If you wanna go there, I’ll go.

I’m not asking to see the comments for myself, I’m asking if you can point to evidence of this happening; it’s not the same question.

Marx was the third ever sociologist, the first being Weber and the second I always forget his name. But this is historically attested to, it’s not something I just pulled out of my ass lol

Fun fact: did you know the ICC has only ever prosecuted African nationals since its inception in 2002?

The point is that you are unwilling to even engage with the idea that Russia seeks to eliminate Ukrainian identity

Is that like a litmus test? Next time I’m ordering pizza I’ll ask the restaurant if they are willing to engage with the idea that Russia seeks to eliminate Ukrainian identity.

Literally no idea why you brought that up again lol

Okay so no evidence Hexbear or Lemmygrad have denied genocides?

A correction: Lemmygrad and Hexbear are two different instances, and it’s an oversimplification to lump them in together. Lemmygrad does not defederate from any real instance, we have possibly one of the smallest block lists of any bigger instances.

Written by Timofei Sergeitsev in RIA Novosti, the rhetoric in the editorial…

Oh so it’s not a “Kremlin paper”, it’s just what some guy thinks. If there are “no more Nazis in Ukraine than anywhere else” then there are no more nazis in Russia than anywhere else 🙃

Can you point to genocide denial before you make sweeping accusations?

Yikes. Where are they so I can give them a medal?

Prolewiki is editing a whole book coming out soon on this topic, stay tuned 😉

Honest question, I’m not an expert on the situation, just trying to make sense of the facts.

Please. You and I both know that’s a lie. Don’t take me for an idiot in your first interaction with me.

You don’t deserve a response, but maybe this will educate other people.

I thought their charter was pretty vocal about not accepting Judaism

Maybe get up to date lmao. Bro is citing something from 1988 as if the world hasn’t changed. Look at their 2017 charter instead.

why are there no Jewish families in Gaza?

Gaza was started as a refugee camp for Palestinians after the Nakba in 1948. Eventually they built a city there to try and get some semblance of normal life back. You’re not gonna bait me into saying there were Zionists living in Gaza until 2005 when Hamas drove the IOF out lmao. Too young, too naive.