Popular Thug Drink posted:

Why on Earth would anyone who gives a poo poo about things like artificial flavors drink at Starbucks in the first place? "My god, my processed foodstuff... is processed!"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vani_Hari posted:

Hari has argued against the use of microwave ovens, for reasons that include the claim that they cause water molecules to form crystals that resemble crystals that have been exposed to "negative thoughts or beliefs," including the names of Hitler and Satan. She cites the work of Dr. Masaru Emoto in support of this claim. Dr. Novella calls Emoto's claims "pure pseudoscience" and states that "Hari's conclusions about microwaves are all demonstrably incorrect and at odds with the scientific evidence."

thathonkey posted:

This was on my Facebook today. A pumpkin latte or whatever is no doubt a lovely drink but prob not for those reasons.

monsanto milk

snorch posted:

Isn't nutmeg like super toxic?

Discendo Vox posted:

I am not a doctor.

First and foremost, nutmeg is an abortifacient- you should monitor your consumption if you're pregnant, although it'd take a heavy dose. Otherwise, consuming significant amounts of it (we're talking grams of the stuff) is toxic- organ damage, and potential death, can result (the same is true of cinnamon and a bunch of other spices, actually- one reason to never do the "cinnamon challenge", or any equivalents). Nutmeg has also been the source of rumors about a "legal high" since at least the 60s- there were a few hospitalizations and a death or so each year from people trying to smoke it. The practice has thankfully almost completely disappeared, since the psychogenic effects are nigh-universally incredibly unpleasant, and the dose required is toxic.

Discendo Vox posted:

I am not a doctor.

First and foremost, nutmeg is an abortifacient- you should monitor your consumption if you're pregnant, although it'd take a heavy dose. Otherwise, consuming significant amounts of it (we're talking grams of the stuff) is toxic- organ damage, and potential death, can result (the same is true of cinnamon and a bunch of other spices, actually- one reason to never do the "cinnamon challenge", or any equivalents). Nutmeg has also been the source of rumors about a "legal high" since at least the 60s- there were a few hospitalizations and a death or so each year from people trying to smoke it. The practice has thankfully almost completely disappeared, since the psychogenic effects are nigh-universally incredibly unpleasant, and the dose required is toxic.

Discendo Vox posted:

No better sign of evil than the approval of Dr. Oz

snorch posted:

Isn't nutmeg like super toxic?

SedanChair posted:

You can get crunk on it, read The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Though I understand it to be a very unwelcome form of crunk which is only slightly preferable to severe drug withdrawal.

thathonkey posted:

A pumpkin latte or whatever is no doubt a lovely drink but prob not for those reasons.

Discendo Vox posted:

Discendo Vox posted:

The practice has thankfully almost completely disappeared, since the psychogenic effects are nigh-universally incredibly unpleasant, and the dose required is toxic.

Brawnfire posted:

Did this absolute fuckup underline "vanillin" ?

Sgt. McKill posted:

I got this e-mail from my dad the other day, I think it's a popular one.

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before,
but had once failed an entire class.

That class had insisted that Obama's socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.

The professor then said, "OK,
we will have an experiment in this class on Obama's plan".

All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A.

After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B.
The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy.

As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.
The second test average was a D!
No one was happy.

When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.

The scores never increased as bickering,
blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.

All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.

Neruz posted:

Guys it contains a toxic dose of sugar! That means that 50% of the people who drink it suffer toxicity!


One of these days someone is going to make one of these images that has actual legit data and facts behind it and nobody will notice because of all of the lying bullshit that preceded it.

Neruz posted:

I wonder if any of the people screaming "If we don't force people to be productive members of society they won't be!" will ever realize that in fact the vast majority of human beings want to be a productive member of society and contribute something of worth to other human beings. This isn't even something that is up for debate; it's been shown time and time again that given the opportunity most people would rather do something productive than sit around all day being fat.

Do these people just not understand that boredom is a thing?

Dr. Arbitrary posted:

VideoTapir posted:

Don't you get it? It's ARTIFICIAL vanillin, it could be made from ANYTHING.

VideoTapir posted:

At heart, they are the lazy ones. They're also the ones who want to marry dogs.

poop device posted:

most likely petroleum.

sentientcarbon posted:

Someone posted a great response to this a while back, where instead of the grades being distributed under 'socialism', they were distributed the way money is actually distributed in america under capitalism. Something like "1% of the class has a GPA of 10000.0 because their fathers went to that university and forced all the black students to do their work for them and took their GPA's, the bottom 50% of the class has a GPA of 0.1 even though they study for far more hours." Anyone know the response I'm talking about?

quote:

An economics professor at Texas Tech said he had never failed a single student before but had, once, failed an entire class. That class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer. The professor then said ok, we will have an experiment in this class on socialism.

All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A. After the first test the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. But, as the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too; so they studied little.. The second test average was a D! No one was happy. When the 3rd test rolled around the average was an F.

The scores never increased as bickering, blame, name calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else. All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great; but when government takes all the reward away; no one will try or want to succeed.

Gooth posted:

Isn't that the ooze that created the ninja turtles?

Luigi Thirty posted:

I got another libertarian post, this time a Mises.org article comparing outlawing those 900% APR Native American payday loans, an ingenious method of going around stifling anti-business regulation, to anti-Japanese land laws in California from the 1920s.

letthereberock posted:

I'm sure Monsanto legitimately does a lot of lovely things - but thanks to crazy email forwards I just instantly check out any time I see that name used and assume I am reading something written by a crackpot. It's similar to "toxins" or "sheeple", words that automatically make me think, "this was written by someone who has no idea what the gently caress they're talking about."

Dirk the Average posted:

We actually did do something similar to that e-mail about grades in one of my social studies classes in college - the idea was that everyone could donate a percentage of their grade into a pot (up to 10%). Those grades were then doubled and redistributed to everyone in the class. So if the entire class put in ten points, then everyone would get twenty points back and gain a net ten points. Of course, if everyone but you put in ten points, then you'd end up with twenty additional points. Most of the people in the class lived in the same dorm, so there were people who were campaigning hard to get everyone to donate ten points.

In the end, I put in zero, and a few friends I knew put in zero, but that's primarily because we didn't want to risk losing points from our grades. I don't remember what the return was, but I think the class got back around seven or eight points. Some people campaigned for us to repeat the experiment, which we did, and the return that time was something like three points. I feel bad for one unfortunate person who put in ten points both times, however.

I'm not going to claim that this means anything with respect to politics, it's just an interesting example of these sorts of things happening. I even flirted with the idea of joining the people who coerced others into giving up ten points in order to boost my grade when I put in zero. After all, the amount we put in was completely anonymous with respect to the rest of the class and grades were private, so who would know?