Not to blindly defend erthyritol, we should definitely look at it closer. But "less bad" doesn't mean good. Sugar is still very unhealthy.

As far as history: let me give you an extremely quick rundown. Diabetes was known to the ancients, but was extremely rare until the 18th century, when British sugar plantations made it affordable. (The slave labor involved wasn't very healthy, either). That's when diabetes, obesity, and extreme amounts of tooth decay reached the British working class.

Sugar was a very popular trading commodity for native populations. And they were even less equipped to deal with it: tooth loss, diabetes, obesity and cancer skyrocketed in these populations soon after Western diets were introduced (British Empire medical records are a great source for this).

Maybe we are back to that 'over processed foods' problem. None of the sugar replacements can be made in your kitchen because they need to be 'refined' way more than cane sugar.

Sugar is a massively processed food, and it's subsidized to make it artificially cheaper. It's really easy to spot new threats, but we it's hard to recognize the dangerous things we do every day.

I'm sorry, but that's a complete non sequitir. Look at housing prices, inflation or anything else that's gone up in the last 60 years. The amount of change is completely orthogonal to personal choices.

The obesity crisis is the flip side of smoking cessation. People didn't just decide to stop smoking: doctors/government agencies/NGOs ran a decades-long pressure campaign designed to highlight the risks.

Starting in the 70's, many of the same well-meaning people started demonizing fat and protein. The USDA, doctors (who are really good at medicine and surgery, but not at dietary advice) started recommending less and less fat and protein. Bad pop science associated dietary cholesterol with heart problems.

Something had to fill that dietary gap: cheap (and government-subsidized) carbs from corn and wheat. That's just about all poor people eat, because it's all they can afford. And guess who suffers the most from diabetes, obesity, heart attacks etc? The poor. Are you still so sure it's a choice?

Portraying obesity/metabolic diseases as a personal failure instead of a health crisis that affects the MAJORITY of Americans is a very Republican move. Are you sure you're not voting for Trump?

> “The amount in sugar substitutes is thousands of folds higher than what is made in our bodies, so to call it ‘natural,’ it’s not,” he [study author Dr. Stanley Hazen] said.

And what is the amount of sugar in the diet of a typical American? If we compare that to the amount of sugar in the human diet since the beginning of time, would we consider that "natural"? What about those "natural" fruits? Most are giant sugar globes, deliberately engineered to increase sweetness and reduce fiber.

Based on the article description, this study does nothing but implicitly back the Standard American Diet. You know, the one packed with modern strains of corn, sugar, and wheat? Before we freak out about some new sweetener, maybe we should start asking ourselves why the MAJORITY of Americans have metabolic diseases. It ain't from eating a few grams of sugar alcohols.

As it is, this article is like freaking out about a purse snatcher when your entire government is run by the mob.

Char coal, yes. Mined coal isn't that ancient.

I just checked and a single model plan is $10k per month. Even if AI were my business, no thanks...

It is not a coincidence that Musk lit the biggest rocket ever built on 4/20. Then, when they were scheduled to flip for stage separation, it just kept flipping until they blew it up. Thinking like Musk, that could have always been the plan. The primary purpose of this launch was to collect data on flight performance, etc, etc. But I wouldn't put it past Musk to have an almost bigger mission to just launch and explode the biggest rocket in history on 4/20 as a pure stunt. The man acts like a kid sometimes.

The real myth is that you believe that solar actually produces more power than goes into its production. You're ignoring the mining of rare-earth elements for the PV sensors, the materials for the metal and glass that go into its frame, and the electronics that regulate power production and enable power delivery to a battery or directly to an inverter. The production of all of those things needs to be considered in the manufacturing process of making solar panels. It's ludicrously energy expensive, toxic to the environment from the get-go, and will never replace nuclear (or even natural gas) in terms of sheer output.

Or, it could be:

> Binance said BUSD is issued and owned by Paxos, and it only licenses its brand. "We will continue to monitor the situation," it said in a statement.

For me, it's either music I like on an ad-free service (like Amazon Music) or stuff I've downloaded or podcasts through an app of my choice. I have maybe 6 podcasts I care about, and a dozen others I can listen to or not. Most are long format (an hour or more) which is perfect for the drive to/from work.

As for those bemoaning most podcasters elucidating on things that they aren't "experts" on...well, that's public discourse at large. Whether or not I'm listening to an "expert", I'm listening to someone discuss something that is a passion for them. Most likely if they are worth listening to they'll have put in the effort to educate themselves on a topic. Those who don't are very easy to spot and just ignore.

Because they are unsuitable and unsustainable. It costs more energy to produce solar panels (not to mention the often harmful mining of rare earth minerals for the PV sensors) and wind turbines (which are impractical to service or repair, so once damaged they are simply replaced, using up more resources). Wind and solar are a boondoggle.

Tomatoes are mostly self-pollinating, especially those grown for the commercial market. And farmers buy from seed producers, who grow their seed-as-the-end-goal strains away from usual places of food production (so last year's food strain doesn't interfere with this year's seed strain).

It looks like they are hoping others will take the modification and put it into their already patented (non-GMO/non-modified) strains, so it's not really a strain that is being released. But that was from a quick look at the article. Safe for human consumption, yes.