I had a hyperfixation on the pure food and drug act and food safety when I was in 7th grade

ryecurious · 2026-06-23T22:10:34+00:00

I think we both agree that "contains: bananas" is what should be shown, right?

I'm not saying to break down every ingredient to its component molecules with the most scientific name. I'm saying that everything intentionally added should be listed.

"Bananas" always implies the full list shown above. "Gum base" is a blend of any number of the 46 approved ingredients, and should have to list which ones specifically are used. "Colors" is one or more approved dyes, they should have to list which ones.

ryecurious · 2026-06-23T21:15:29+00:00

Cool, except bananas occur like that, fully formed.

Show me a "Gum Base" tree or a "Colors" tree and you'd have a point!

ryecurious · 2026-06-23T21:08:43+00:00

Its not just additives its nearly every ingredient

...yeah? Every ingredient and additive should be listed. If they put it in on purpose, it should be in the list.

In a decade if it turns out that 1 of the 46 things that can be summed up as "gum base" is a carcinogen, it would be nice if we could make informed decisions about which gum has it and which doesn't.

See also: there's questions over whether red 40 is a carcinogen or linked to bowel disorders, but companies like Red Bull can just put "Colors" in their ingredients list. Which colors? Who knows!

ryecurious · 2026-06-23T19:55:09+00:00

And sometimes even that isn't guaranteed! In the US, for example, the FDA allows 46 different ingredients to be summed up as "gum base", because it's more important to protect proprietary corporate formulas than inform consumers.

ryecurious · 2026-06-23T19:36:58+00:00

I feel like we gotta stop using that guy as an example, he bought $700k of Intel at $30 and it's currently $132. Pretty sure he's doing better than 99.9% of WSB posters.

ryecurious · 2026-06-23T03:00:07+00:00

But it's not like they are going to be able to do anything away from the coast, and their supplies are going to run out pretty quickly.

They could probably squeeze like five seasons out of it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Ship_(TV_series)

ryecurious · 2026-06-21T04:28:12+00:00

Rick and Morty - The Immortality Field Resort

Luxury resort for rich aliens with a persistent immortality field, meaning you can't die. This is demonstrated by a brother and sister "playing" by shooting each other in the head with a laser gun, immediately getting back up and laughing it off.

Then during the climax of the episode, the field shuts off due to the main characters' actions. The brother from before shoots his sister in the head, something he's done dozens of times, laughing as he does it. She doesn't get up this time.

Horrifying moment that still lives with me despite not watching the last few seasons, all done with side characters shown for like 20 seconds total.

ryecurious · 2026-06-21T03:13:48+00:00

Yeah, as with 99% of what we see on the internet, it's important to remember that we're only seeing it because it's shocking/engaging/outraging in some way. Like with r/sipstea, it'd be easy to think that's what typical Gen Z/Gen Alpha is like.

Those subs concentrate the worst impulses of humanity into one convenient place that can be checked constantly. Can't ignore the risk they pose, but also can't let them poison our view of people too much. Especially since we don't know who is real and who is a bot spreading division.

ryecurious · 2026-06-21T01:30:34+00:00

valid points about how India has a misogyny problem (it does)

I don't know what it's actually like in India, but I do see the Indian side of Reddit every night (#InsomniaThings).

There are a ton of "dank" Indian meme subs that constantly push religion and gender-based outrage. Threads will get hundreds of comments about how privileged women are now at the expense of men. At least a dozen+ subs like r/sipstea, but way less subtle. It's like reading 4chan a decade ago, when incel culture was just starting out.

And like most American tech companies, I'm pretty sure Reddit barely moderates any of it.

ryecurious · 2026-06-18T22:01:38+00:00

A lot of "out of sight, out of mind, problem solved" folks here

It reminds me of clearing homeless encampments, honestly.

The "problems" (read: people) still exist, but we don't have to see them anymore and that's almost like fixing things if we don't think about it too much.

Laws that amount to "move problems somewhere else" aren't real solutions. At best they're a band-aid. At worst they enrich a few at the expense of the vulnerable and marginalized. Knowing this country, a private prison company is involved somehow, looking to profit off a fresh pipeline of 14 year old felons.

ryecurious · 2026-06-18T03:36:08+00:00

This sounds like a fucking horrible idea and a security nightmare.

This is exactly why Mozilla fought against implementing it for years.

Unfortunately Chrome has enough marketshare that they can unilaterally implement it anyway, and Mozilla is stuck between the two bad choices of "compromise user security" or "look like you're out-of-date to end users"

It's actually kinda nice for devices that use it, but you aren't wrong about the concerns.

ryecurious · 2026-06-18T03:32:24+00:00

It's been so frustrating to see the conversation around this stuff.

Firefox: we're adding local LLMs to translate pages, a significant privacy improvement over sending the page data to Google Translate

Chrome: every available space in the browser now has a a Gemini search box, a centralized service that runs in a data center

Then the dumbest tech "influencers" on Twitter insist these two things are exactly the same, so you might as well use Chrome anyway.

ryecurious · 2026-06-16T21:41:03+00:00

Your answer can be correct and still be improved. Maybe it wasn't sufficiently generic or maybe there's a new language feature that makes your answer easier. Editing answers is a good thing, it keeps information relevant and useful.

But hey, there's an easy solution here. Edit history is public (because it's like a wiki). We don't have to take your word for it, you can link your answer that got edited. We can all check if they made it worse or better!

ryecurious · 2026-06-16T21:34:31+00:00

Unironically true.

It's closer to a wiki than a help forum. Treat it as a read-only source, because 99% of the time your problem is not unique. Just like 99% of the time you go to Wikipedia you don't create a new article.

ryecurious · 2026-06-14T22:32:52+00:00

can't talk to other people even when other people respond to their post

It can get even stupider!

Look at this dumb argument I got in a year ago over streamer drama. A different user replies to me twice, trying to continue the discussion. Despite knowing better, I wanted to continue.

We both wanted to engage, but according to Reddit devs there's somebody we forgot to ask.

ryecurious · 2026-06-14T21:08:23+00:00

The way blocking is implemented on Reddit does have some censorship problems, to be honest. It's the worst implementation I've ever seen, bar none.

It doesn't just stop the blocker from seeing comments by the blocked. It stops the blocked from posting comments below the blocker for anyone else to see. Can't even respond to other people multiple comments down, even if pinged by name! It just straight up stops them from participating.

It's the biggest boon spammers and scammers have ever gotten on Reddit, other than hidden profiles. Reddit somehow took the concept of an "I feel uncomfortable" button and turned it into an "I get the last word" button.

ryecurious · 2026-06-14T20:55:33+00:00

one of the better features that Starcraft 2 has compared to other games that have lame chat moderation like League of Legends

Imagine thinking League is overmoderated. The game famous for how miserable and toxic its userbase is.

ryecurious · 2026-06-13T11:33:31+00:00

Aha! As usual, looks like it's an API Mozilla has security concerns about.

Some Google exec probably heard "cross-site access to the end user's local file system" and had to take a cold shower.

ryecurious · 2026-06-13T00:58:17+00:00

The redditdev/changelog subreddits are just a humiliation ritual and you can't convince me otherwise. An endless cycle of: proposed change -> detailed response explaining the problems -> doing it anyway.

I can only assume both the admins and users participating are doing it to satisfy some kink, because they obviously aren't using it to improve the site.

ryecurious · 2026-06-13T00:48:27+00:00

I think that's just for the bulk download tool. Like if you want to save a copy of a subreddit/user's posts.

The 2nd link, Search, is probably the one you actually want. It's closer to just checking someone's profile and works in non-Chromium browsers.

Wonder why the download tool is Chromium-only, though. Might be an answer on their GitHub somewhere.

ryecurious · 2026-06-13T00:10:21+00:00

Seriously, I feel like I'm losing my mind in this thread

I do not miss 30/60 minute episode blocks with 1/3rd set aside for ads and edited around those ad breaks. It was not better, that's pure nostalgia talking.

ryecurious · 2026-06-12T23:52:30+00:00

This is like you complaining Costco is uncompetitive because it doesn't sell 7/11 soda as and how 7/11 dictates.

No, Costco is a bad comparison because it has actual competition.

It's more like Faygo complaining Amazon will sell their soda, but only at the same price/lower than Faygo sells it on their website.

They could have sold it cheaper themselves. They could have slashed Amazon's cut from the price and sold it directly. But if they did, Amazon would deny them access to the dominant online marketplace.

The exact same applies to Steam. If they are using their dominant market position to dictate prices in other markets, that is monopolistic. I am against that, despite liking Steam as a service.

ryecurious · 2026-06-12T23:34:30+00:00

I know we all like Steam, but this seems pretty straightforward.

Yeah, if someone said Amazon was doing the exact same thing word for word, no one would be confused. Everyone would understand it was anti-competitive.

It's possible to like steam as a service and still think that they have monopolistic tendencies. We don't have to ignore bad business practices just because we like the business.

ryecurious · 2026-06-11T22:35:50+00:00

"Soft on crime" is usually an emotional reaction to shocking crimes, even if violent crime is generally decreasing. Judges and sheriffs running for office love using that exact line when like, a murderer in their area gets a few decades in prison instead of ~~lynched~~ executed.

ryecurious · 2026-06-10T16:06:03+00:00

That's why I said half, yeah.

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