axioms_End (u/axioms_End)

axioms_End commented on Olive oil soars, and thieves go after century-old trees in the Mediterranean latimes.com/world-nation/... · Posted by u/aa_is_op

Spivak · 2 years ago

Is there some cultural reason this won't drive people to alternatives and they'll just eat the cost? Food has got to be one of the most elastic things in all of human history with diets shifting wildly over short periods of time depending on what's available and affordable.

axioms_End · 2 years ago

I think olive oil is not that easy to replace as it's often used as a condiment due to it's unique taste.

axioms_End commented on The Polish Election Bazaar dragonscave.space/@miki/1... · Posted by u/miki123211

jruohonen · 2 years ago

"Poland has a law called “election silence”. It makes it illegal for anyone currently residing within Poland to do any kind of political campaigning on Election Day or the day before. This includes making speeches, putting up posters, airing political commercials, even public posts on social media, though not private conversations or messages in non-public groups. If there's also a referendum that is only valid when a big enough quorum of voters is present, you're not even allowed to encourage people to vote, as that can impact the referendum results. This law supposedly exists to give voters a chance to make their decisions in peace, without constantly being bombarded with propaganda from all sides. Many people (often from opposing political factions) claim that the law is outdated and should be repealed, but it doesn't seem to favor one particular side over any other, so nothing has been done about it so far."

Many countries (such as, say, France) have similar laws. Sounds okay to me. So what's the issue here?

axioms_End · 2 years ago

I think it's mostly "Look at this weird Polish thing". It's funny, it's local and it pops out during last few election, so probably someone decided to share this cultural phenomena, because of the timing.

axioms_End commented on Most of Us Are Blissfully Ignorant About How Much Rancid Olive Oil We Use (2016) fivethirtyeight.com/featu... · Posted by u/throw0101b

torstenvl · 2 years ago

> More likely is that the average person doesn't know what rancid actually means.

That's tautologically impossible. A word means exactly what most native speakers of the language believe it means.

And "rancid" means "smelling or tasting unpleasant as a result of being old and stale" or "rank in taste or smell" or "having an unpleasant smell or taste usually from chemical change or decomposition."

https://www.google.com/search?q=define+rancid

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/rancid

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rancid

If "Americans actually prefer the taste," then it isn't "rancid" in American Standard English.

axioms_End · 2 years ago

But most English speakers (IFAIK, I'm not native) use rancid as "spoiled" only for a group of produce, like oil or butter that went through rancidification process. So it's more like word rancid has more common meaning (being unpleasant) and more scientific and less commonly used one (went through rancidification).

axioms_End commented on Labelling soya foods as ultra-processed is unhelpful alprofoundation.org/scien... · Posted by u/edward

axioms_End · 2 years ago

They mention that "nearly all" alternatives are marked as ultraprocessed, which is kinda meaningful. Tofu and tempeh can be easily made in home environment, basic soy milk (water + soy) also, so alternatives that stay ultraprocessed are either modified in other ways (added sweeteners, etc) or are ready meals (like burgers and breaded cutlets). And difference in nutritional values between those categories is rather stark.

axioms_End commented on Historians have an increasingly strong incentive to tell dramatic stories ian-leslie.com/p/stories-... · Posted by u/jseliger

hef19898 · 2 years ago

The Nazis goal of the war was to eradicate all the jews. It was since, at least, Hitler wrote Mein Kampf. It shows in their actions, in how they organized, who got which resources. It was their goal, murdering all jews, and went about it with murderous and frighting efficiency. They only stopped outright murder in has chamber to enslave a portion of people ending up concentrations camps, the vast majority being jews, when Nazi Germany ran into work force issues. It was Speer who convinced Himmler that was necessary, so the Nazis settled for murder through work.

No idea what you mean that the Nazis behaviour regarding slaws, not just Russians, isn't talked about in the West. I am in the West, and I defenitely didn't learn about from Russian books. Also, claiming the West sees Russians as sub-human is a strong claim, to put it mildly...

axioms_End · 2 years ago

One issue : Wansee takes place in 1942, that is in the middle of the war. Until now, most camps are "just" concentration (death by labour) camps, and Jews are mostly in the ghettos. Only after Wansee you have start of mass transports to death camps - most people who died in Auschwitz were never inmates there - they were brought from other countries, sorted on ramp and send to death. Not to mention - at that moment camps were already full of people (Auschwitz was started for Poles and Soviet POV). So no, they didn't "stop" with gas chambers - they have inmates in camps and Jews in ghettos (all having to work in one way or the other), and the idea of Final Solution wasn't complete until 1942 (and took place until 1944).

axioms_End commented on Shell abandons its plan to offset CO2 emissions bloomberg.com/news/featur... · Posted by u/jatorre

trashtester · 2 years ago

> Feels like the oil companies are going to face a big tobacco moment in the next 20 years

I think a lot of people feel that.

Personally, I think we may more or less have forgotten about "Global Warming" in 20 years, just like we forgot about the "Ozone Layer" or "Acid Rain".

If AI continues at anything resembling the current pace for another decade or two , there may be so much disruption, that Global Warming seems quite insignificant to most people.

axioms_End · 2 years ago

Small difference: we banned chemicals responsible for ozon layer disruption, similar situation with acid rain (talking about 1st world with rain). So it's not like we forgotten, more like it's a non-issue now. Global warming is only going to get worse.

axioms_End commented on Therapy as a way of aligning with your subconscious ava.substack.com/p/therap... · Posted by u/nickwritesit

axioms_End · 2 years ago

Maybe, but having a friend and a bad therapist may end in dumping therapist and looking for another one, having friend as therapist for serious issues may end up in having no friend and being lonely.

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vasco · 2 years ago

It's just inviting downvotes but I also agree with you.

Therapy is a scam and no doctor can explain how or why anti-depressants work (also why they have people "try" many before finding the "right one for you").

But people are too cool for friends and family now and hearing hard truths so they pay someone to be told they matter and how to run their lives.

I have seen different approaches to therapy being done to different friends and only one friend got better - this tells me it can work for some, but the odds are you're getting a grifter. In this case their therapist told them they didn't need anti-depressants (shocker) and after ~15 sessions said they were fine and didn't need help anymore. Everyone else is medicated and still going every month, presumably til they die.

axioms_End · 2 years ago

1) Length of therapy is strongly correlated to school. CBT and it's forks are relatively short and ability-oriented, where psychodynamic is very long with hazy endpoint. And generally CBT should be pushed much more, as it's faster, more goal-oriented, and less prone to, let's say, therapist biases.

2) Although I get the idea that people need friends and family, it's easy to forget that people with severe issues do not look like they have them. And taking care of eating disorder/personality disorder/*PTSD/whatever else treated through therapy, not medication patient is a lot of work to which most people are not equipped, and which drains a lot, to the point of resentment (if they can't run away) or just ghosting. Also, it's not that people do not hear "harsh truths" - it's more about not being able to comprehend them, due to broken thought patterns.