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Comment Re:Need to Drop the Term "Ultra-Processed" (Score 0) 299

The fact that people have not learned the term (yet) is irrelevant. People can learn all kinds of new terms like "AI slop", "riz", etc.

But since you clearly are a leading researcher in the field of nutrition, perhaps you can point us to the papers that support your view of what the problem is? It is not my field, but from what I have read it is not so simplistic as you make it.

As I understand it, the issue "with just a salt", fat, sugar, etc. Is not in the individual components themselves, but in how they are used to make hyper-palatable foods that hijack you're brain's perceptions of nutritional value and satiation. Similarly, ultra-processed foods (which goes far beyond traditional bread or chopped meat) are the constructions of "food products" from industrial ingredients e.g; soylent, huel, Magic Spoon, "Wonderbread"... These foods seem to have little substance to them e.g; fiber or other difficult-to-digest/indigestible components; making them too easy/rapid to digest. This in turn seems to make them less filling, while also altering our microbiome (which do much of our digestion, moderates our appetite and makes vital nutrients).

Comment Re: won't be able to count genders (Score 1) 259

You're not three quarters as clever as you think you are being. While some sex chromosome anomalies leave the individual sterile, others do not. Moreover, even if individuals are in reproduction this does not mean that the individuals are polar opposites. Many plants are fertile hermaphrodites, while others are single sex, and there's an argument that other species have more than two sexes. Indeed, I recall a lesson in a population genetics class in college about a plant with many many sexes, any two of which can reproduce... I thought it was clover or lavender, but unfortunately cannot find a citation to substantiate that. Of course humans aren't plants, but they simply serve as an example of how complex seemingly simple systems really are.

Comment Re:Sigh... fine. (Score 1) 317

This ignores the "right"'s extensive efforts to suppress voter rights, not to mention the inherit voter suppression of much of the population in our fucking electoral college that effectively lets land vote. This is only further exacerbated by distortion by several layers of first-past-the-post in most cases: whomever wins the most votes in a district wins the district. Whomever wins the most districts in the state gets all the marbles; except for Maine and Nebraska, there it's proportional. Whomever wins the most marbles is awarded the presidency. Even without gerrymandering, such repeated rounding errors stack up.

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