• whoisearth@lemmy.ca
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      There’s a reckoning coming with social media mark my words. I don’t know when or how but it’s going to reach a tipping point when the destruction is enough.

      It is destroying families and communities not government, or science, or policies. People like Elon and Zuckerberg are sowing the seeds that are actively destroying the fabric of society.

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        It’s already happened, we elected Donald fucking Trump to be president TWICE

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          Yeah. This guy seems to think “the reckoning” will be some sort of revolution, where in the real world we’re steamrolling into fascist dystopia.

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      Lately he cought me in the office eating sweets and started to educate me how bad sugar is.

      I mean, people do tend to eat more sugar than they probably should, but the main artificial sweetener that I see used in candies is xylitol, which is, unfortunately, also a laxative. Eat more than a few xylitol-sweetened candies at one sitting, and one’s in for diarrhea.

      I assume that we don’t have an artificial sweetener in 2024 that both avoids having a laxative effect and has the appropriate properties to subsititute for sugar in candies. I’d be delighted if someone would manage to develop one, though.

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        Xylitol also have interesting properties for preventing tooth decay. Not the worst sugar alternative imo

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          IIRC it doesn’t do anything prevent tooth decay, it just doesn’t cause it, unlike sugar and many other sugar substitutes.

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            A quick google search, xylitol and tooth decay, should convince you otherwise. Plenty of scientific papers to dive in

  • cymbal_king@lemmy.world
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    You shouldn’t be able to smoke outside an ER anyway… People come through there with life threatening problems and need all the oxygen they can get

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    Once someone stops thinking that they should do what the scientific and medical communities advise, it’s not a large step for them to start thinking they should do specifically what they advise against.

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    Am I an asshole if my first thought was “vaccinate the child while the mother is outside”?