It's none of the things you listed but a ton of other things that are mainly found in manufactured food products. Here's a non-exhaustive list:

Natural/artificial flavors - Tricks your body into thinking that food has nutrients it doesn't have, so when your body is low in that nutrient it causes you to crave and overeat that food and you still end up nutrient deficient.

High fructose corn syrup - Fructose causes you to crave more food.

Seed oils - These are less stable than saturated fats. Meaning they're more likely to be oxidized, which is horrible for your health, and they don't act exactly the same as saturated fats. Fats make up your cell walls. Ones built from non-animal fats tend to be less stable and more 'leaky' than animal fat based ones.

Carbs - Eat too many and they spike your blood glucose levels which is bad in multiple ways. Keep it up long term and you end up with diabetes or other cardiovascular issues. Your blood is only supposed to have 4g of glucose in it. Too much or two little is deadly. Your body does a good job of regulating this, because it has to, but when you're constantly snacking and constantly overworking these systems they become less effective and eventually fail.

Fiber - Despite popular media articles, the only good use of fiber is slowing down the digestion of things like carbs. Other than that it's bad for you. It blocks the digestion of what you're eating. You specifically eat things to digest them, so reducing that effectiveness is only good if you're eating things that you shouldn't eat. Fiber can scratch your intestinal walls and it wears out those muscles. Long term, higher fiber intake leads to intestinal issues like diverticulitis. And please, please don't take more fiber if you have constipation. Eat more fat instead if you have to eat something. Fat softens your stool. Fiber tries to hold onto water at the same time as your intestines are trying to absorb that water. Overtime, your intestines win that battle. Fiber also ensures undigested food makes it to your intestines, meaning those food bits haven't be sanitized by your stomach acid. Thus they bring all kinds of bacteria into your gut and start rotting if they move too slowly through it. That's not a good thing. Yes fermentation can make some useful things for you, but you can also simply eat those things instead.

Salt - Only a small portion of the population needs to care about salt. That's probably not you. Interestingly, a lot of headaches can be cured by adding some salt.

Coloring - I don't know much about this topic.

Sweeteners - These cause a variety of issues. Mainly gut issues but they have other effects too. One effect is when your body tastes something sweet it expects to be eating something sugary. Overtime your body learns that and preps the related hormones based on what you're smelling/tasting. Give it zero calorie sweeteners and it gets confused and starts responding incorrectly to sweetness. Sometimes releasing too much or too little hormones. Similar to added flavoring, you'll crave these items more because your body thinks it's getting more energy than it actually is. It notices the imbalance and says 'something's wrong, I should have more energy. Give me more' and you grab the sweetened item which makes the imbalance even worse.

Plants - This is a very wide category. There's two main problems with plants. First, nearly all plants are toxic to humans. There's only a small fraction of them we can safely eat. But even then, most of the ones we can eat simply doesn't kill us quickly. Instead they have compounds that poison us slowly. Our bodies can deal with some levels of that, but go over that amount and it'll cause long term health issues like achy joints. Achy joints aren't a natural aspect of aging. They're a result of slowly building damage your body isn't able to repair (we can include auto-immune issues in this). Part of this poisoning is how we prepare them. Tomatoes are a bit toxic until they ripen. When they're ripening, those toxins are reabsorbed by the rest of the plant. Modern tomatoes are picked before they're ripe and are artificially ripened. This means those toxins are still in the tomatoes you buy in your grocery store and likely in most things made with tomatoes. The extra annoying thing about this is you can have studies showing tomatoes are awesome for you, but the tomato you're eating might not be the same as the tomato in that study. Life is complex. Those complexities matter. Ever see those 'healthy' fruit bars that are basically ground up apples as the base with another fruit for flavoring? You need to digest 150-1000 apple seeds to directly get cyanide posioning. Normally it doesn't matter because seeds go through you. Those fruit bars crush the seeds (and stems) so you're now digesting them. You're not eating 150 seeds, but your body will have to deal with the lower cyanide levels. If that's the only bad thing you ate and you were otherwise perfectly healthy then fine. But that won't be the only bad thing you ate and you're not perfectly healthy. These small things add up over time. Those healthy fruit bars only exist to profit off of waste food products. Those apples and other fruit were too damaged to be displayed in stores or are made from bits cut off from other fruit products. Heat/Preservatives kills anything that would make you sick. Extra rotten food gets pushed into pet food, animal feed, or made into fertilizer. Those fruit bars are ultra-processed foods. If you made them at home you wouldn't grind up the seeds, you wouldn't use near rotten fruit, and you wouldn't need preservatives to keep them safe. The less processed, home made version would be healthier.

Second, different plants have different compounds that reduce the absorption of other nutrients. Eat the wrong things together and you're not getting anywhere close to the nutrition you thought you were getting. Unless you already knew about this, you're probably eating them wrong. As a bonus they're high in fiber and that fiber also reduces the amount of the plant you're digesting thus keeping more of those nutrients from you. That's great if it's sugar, those ant-nutrient components, or the toxins, but bad when it's the nutrients themselves. You don't get to choose, it's all of those things and that's why a ton of studies make fiber look good. The people in those studies have bad diets thus the fiber helps reduce the harms of those bad diets. A better option is to eat a better diet and then you won't need the fiber. You want your digestion to be as efficient as possible.

Preservatives - I don't know a lot about these.

Random stuff - Industrial cleaners, micro plastic, BPAs, BPA replacements, pesticides, etc.. Those things are all bad for you. Most are hormone disruptors, some cause physical damage, others are just toxic. The more a food item gets handled, the more likely it'll pick up some of those things. Animal food has the least of those since animals mainly protect themselves and meat processing is highly regulated (yes curing salts increase risk of cancer by a relative 2-3%). We add those things to protect plants from insects or simply to increase shelf-life. Whole foods need to look perfect in the store, they have to be protected, thus higher levels of those toxic things. The butcher removes any bad meat parts before you see them, thus animals don't need to be perfect. Granted if the animal's feed has higher levels of bad stuff in it then the animal might as well, but it's body filters some out that stuff out just like ours does.

It doesn't help that most people don't understand how the body burns energy. Mainly, you can't out run a bad diet. That's for two reasons. One, running doesn't magically give nutrients you didn't eat (excluding Vit D). Two, your body has a set amount of energy it tries to use each day. When it notices your muscles are constantly using more energy, it reduces the amount of energy from other systems in your body (most noticeable with reproductive and immune systems). Your body is energy greedy. You eat less and it spends less. You eat more and it holds onto more (except when energy intake from protein is less than 9% total energy intake. That causes hormone chances which result in weight loss). CICO holds as it's a law of thermodynamics, but you have far less control over calories out than you realize.

No need to donate, just install Windows XP.

Replacing shit with different colored shit, well, you still end up with shit. You don't have to replace something with shit.

Not everyone pays the same tax. Sometimes nonprofit organizations, charities, and churches are tax-exempt. I'm sure there's other cases too.

You can have a waterproof phone with a removable battery. CAT sells waterproof phones that you can take scuba-diving. They have all the normal ports (audio, USB, normal buttons, SIM card, micro SD card, speakers, mic, multiple cameras). To be fair they don't have removable batteries... but it's got everything else and is still waterproof. Though I don't recommend those phones because CAT doesn't provide software updates for long enough, at least they weren't the last time I looked at them. Using it underwater and during the rain was nice, but not that nice.

Granted we could/should have better external batteries that also act as cases. Companies are finally making those, but the quality generally isn't there yet.

False, it only counts people who have been looking for work for the past 4 weeks (https://www.bls.gov/lau/stait.htm). I've been unemployed for a year an a half. My unemployment benefits ended after 9 months. At 10 months, I dropped off that 4.3% number as there's now no database tracking my work efforts. There is no where to report my job search. The U-6 number is 7.8% which includes people stuck in part-time work who can't find full-time work and discouraged works who looked for a job within the past year. I should be included in that stat. Keep in mind college graduates don't get unemployment so if someone can't find a job right out of college they aren't being tracked in these stats. Another thing to keep in mind is this is the average across all jobs. Specific fields can be drastically different. Those stats are also from July. A lot has changed since then.

In regards to me, I've been a software developer for 12 years. 9 years at my previous job before a layoff. I mistakenly let myself get binned as the tools guy, I wrote software to automate tasks for other teams so they could be more efficient. HR saw that I wasn't directly bringing in any money from external contracts so included me in the layoff. Apparently there was an internal metric that if you're not on an external contract after X amount of time you're let go. Wish I had know that prior to losing my job. The problem with being a tools guy is I have 1-2 years of experience in tons of different tech stacks but as a 12 year dev with a MS degree, every company expects you to have more years of experience in their specific tech stack. I'm over qualified for the jr/mid level jobs (there's not many of them unless you're a recent grad) and under qualified for the senior jobs. I was applying daily to jobs around the country paying 60K or more (laid off at 99K) and only had a couple interviews. Now I'm about to shift towards a couple semi-passive income streams and once that's good enough to pay the bills, I'll start my own software company. Though I'm still unemployed at the moment and living out of my 401K.

I do have a sleep disorder which makes working at places like grocery stories extremely difficult, but as my 12 years of work show, it's not a problem with software development. None of the companies that passed me by knew about that, so it wasn't impacting my job search. It only prevents me from working at a lot of the lower wage jobs that people fall back on due to their strict schedule requirements.

The criminals effectively just did a smash-and-grab (plus guard threatening) while pretending to be construction workers. None of that poor IT security mattered. In other words, it doesn't matter that their new password was changed to "LOUVRE!".

It's trivial to go on Google Scholar and look up articles about how different diets impact those conditions. The clinical data and experts have already weighed in. Just because you don't see it in a random news article doesn't mean progress isn't being made.

It's Amazon page doesn't advertise that it requires an internet connection to function. It says you can control it from your phone. It doesn't say that's required nor that it'll stop working when your wide area network is down. Many phone controllable devices work fine when limited to your local network.

Oddly they promote their use of the SLAM algorithm, something almost every customer has no clue what that is. They need better marketers.

Yes it has a camera, it makes 3D maps of the house. LIDAR might not technically be the type of camera you're talking about, but it's still used to create images of things. Just because those images aren't in color doesn't mean you can't call it a camera. For LIDAR, and thus this vacuum, if it looks at you with it's lens it can trivially gather enough info to fake a 3D model of your face for facial id security systems. Chances are low that the company or hacker will do that to break into one of your accounts.

However, chances are much higher that their model of your face, body, and walking gait gets sold to data brokers who then match that up with random other tracking systems. These are used to see how well targeting advertising is working, build profiles of what types of stores you visit and when, etc... Most of that is used to harass you and sell ads, but nowadays more and more of that data is being used for phishing explorations to try to find people breaking laws or morally objectionable things (aka blackmail material). There's a recent news story about a cop going through tracking data claiming he was looking for a 'missing person' when in reality he was stalking a women to see if she had gone to get an abortion. The 'missing person' was the fetus and he was performing a 'wellness check' on it. Another recent news story is some lady's car was tracked entering a neighborhood a bunch of times (as she was driving through), and because her hair color matched the same color of a doorbell camera of a mail thief, the cops came to her door and tried to threaten a confession out of her. Using a vacuum like this means your gait and 3D model is now in the data pool cops use to lazily compare against possible criminals.

Bonus if the vacuum sees the outline of a couple dildos and you're in one of the states were it's illegal to own a few of them. The company would get rewarded for calling the cops on you. We're running straight towards that future. You're secure in your house from the federal government, not from the state government. It's already happening with phone apps (period trackers reporting when someone loses their period for a few weeks then gets it back. That's a possible sign of an abortion. Though also of miscarriage, stress, sickness, etc... The apps make it the police's problem to figure out which.), it'll start happening with smart hardware devices soon. The tech and data pipe lines are already there, it just didn't make finical sense until recently (the newer laws which reward the person who reports the issue).

For those of you confused about how a thin coating of paint could possible damage shingles, it wasn't standard paint. It was a stretchy elastometric paint that's specifically banned by the state's building codes for use on asphalt roofs. It damages them in multiple ways. First when the paint shrinks it's apparently strong enough to cup/curl the shingles. Second, when water gets under the paint it becomes trapped and rusts away the roofing nails far, far faster than normal.

Tons of software, including well designed web pages, change their title to indicate you have unsaved changes.

It's a disease in the sense that it gives you lepton resistance which makes it so the food you eat isn't as fulfilling and that results in you over eating. It's a "personal responsibility condition" because you can absolutely use willpower to overcome that and fix your obesity. However doing so requires knowledge about how hunger signals and nutrition works and that knowledge is sorely lacking. As an example, you can run away from anyone promoting the Mediterranean Diet. It is better than the SAD diet, but it won't result in the weight loss you're looking for. That's why everyone fails. Not that they have poor willpower, but because that willpower is used to follow bad advice. In addition, anyone who thinks or says you can out exercise a bad diet is hopeless. Exercise doesn't increase your nutrition.

It will end very badly. The weight a lot of these people are first losing is from muscle loss due to poor nutrition because they're simply eating less of their poor diets. Anyone taking these meds are supposed to be on special, strict diets and a lot of people ignore those. For those of you who can follow such diets, you can loose the weight without the meds.

As for all those "protective effects", those are all side effects from not having such horrible diets. You can get all those benefits from shifting your diet, no meds needed.

I'd strongly encourage anyone considering these meds to instead look at water-only fasting and try that for 2-3 days at a time. That's how long you can go before you need to start supplementing electrolytes. Once you start supplementing you can go a few more weeks. After that you can add in a multi-vitamin and can continue fasting until you're down to around 6% body fat. It's perfectly healthy to do that and you don't even lose muscle mass after the first couple days (your body releases a growth hormone to prevent the muscle loss when you fully stop eating, just cutting some calories won't trigger it). You lose around half a pound of fat per day plus around 10lbs of water weight when you start. The longest water-only fast was over 2 years long. That is all you need to do to lose weight and around day 3 you stop feeling hungry as your body is satisfied with the energy it's extracting from your fat stores.

Switch your news source and the problem instantly goes away.

The chance of any of this actually affecting your life is very small. Small enough that you can ignore it completely.