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Engineers are just big cats. "Hey admiral, I caught this for you."
They do appear to be regular bootlicking enthusiasts, not actual collaborators. There's a fair amount of scrutiny on them.
Ah, namecalling instead of addressing the criticism of your meme.
How is it possible you do not glow green and shit silver colored liquids after digesting this?
Food labeling in the US uses industrial or chemical names because... actually I'm not sure why we do that. I'm guessing it was some well-meaning but misguided regulatory idea. Anyways it makes our food labels sound absurd when they're, as with this example, pretty straightforwardly just food.
The two big questionable things are the margarine and the TVP - both (imho) pretty gross for textural reasons, but both also staples of vegan diets and have been around for 50+ years. I'm gonna gloss over those because there's tons of documentation on what goes into them online, it would take ages to break everything down (and I'm lazy), and honestly they're just pretty inoffensive. Beyond that:
- Modified Corn Starch: This is a fancy name for anything from malted or low-boiled (boiled in a mild acid) starch. Humans have been doing this for millennia (it took me forever to spell that), there are a million variations based on the malting process or type of acid or etc.
- Corn Syrup Solid: dehydrated glucose (ground sugar, but derived from corn starch (which is itself just complex sugar) instead of things like sugar cane/beets)
- Natural Mesquite Smoke Flavor: Also called "liquid smoke", it's shockingly close to literally being smoke in liquid form. It's the condensed vapors you get from heating wood
- Disodium Dihydrogen Pyrophosphate - A truly ridiculous name for baking powder
- Mono-And Diglycerides: Naturally occurring, found in food oils
- BHT: this one is really contentious. It's a naturally occurring antioxident found in a ton of fruits and nuts in low concentrations, but it's been recently (2022) banned in the EU, though it's still present in plenty of EU foods in small amounts. There's been pressure to get it banned in the US too, so hopefully that happens soon
- Sodium Bisulfite: salt
- Monosodium Glutamate: MSG, the flavor enhancer
- Xanthan gum: a complex extra-sticky sugar
- Guar gum: Guar-bean juice. As with Xanthan gum it's just a complex extra sticky sugar, but this one has been used for centuries to thicken foods
- Soy Protein Concentrate: Cooked, mashed soybeans
- Dextrose: sugar (chemically identical to glucose, again not sure why we feel the need to obfuscate this one)
- Sodium Phosphate: salt
- Mechanically Separated Chicken: Ground chicken
I'll freely admit it's not good food (I mean who adds sugar to corn) but it's all food. Just food with dumb names.
Man I can't keep the narrative straight, are western countries supposed to be responsible for most of the rebellions in the world or are they supposed to be opposed to rebellions?
Fir the uninformed (me), who was the alternative people might lose their shit over?
Big of you to assume they'd let a girl join...
IDK about the admins, but community mods in the lemmyverse can ban other users for whatever reason they want and that happens all the time ("serial downvoting" is the most common excuse I've seen, the pro-AI communities do it all the time to shore up the walls of their echo chambers...). At the admin level, .world notoriously rarely bans at the instance level, whereas .ml .... does tend to do that, yeah.
Is there a list of the companies involved? It's a pretty important piece of reporting, and it's really weird such a fundemental piece of information isn't included in the article.
They even include a line at the end that they asked "all roundtable companies" to respond to the article, why the heck aren't they telling us who those companies are??
That you misunderstood when I was quoting you should really be a sign here: I meant what is a text alternative; as in, can you give a more complete example of a text alternative. Just linking back to the source, especially ones that may not still exist like older screengrabs of twitter, is not a complete solution.
Also you seem to think OCR is for some reason a bad solution when afaik its never even been tried broadly on lemmy, and you dismiss both OCR and manual transcription as "bullshit" when both solutions enable all of the accessibility features you're (I think?) requesting (and they're also extremely commonly used by members of several-if-not-all of the groups you're speaking for). The assumption that everyone here is posting OC is also demonstrably just not the case, there's hundreds of hits for this screenshot alone that have the exact same size, ratio and cropping going back years.
Seriously your heart seems to be in the right place, but maybe you're a bit blind to the idea that some of the realities you're basing this on don't entirely reflect the one we all live in?
Again, the rendering issues were not my problem; I can read markdown well enough that it's not a true barrier to communication. The issue is that it is by no means clear what your point is. Even knowing that's what your message was, it's difficult to gain that information from the text of what you said. It's poorly structured and lacks a clear thesis. There's grammatical errors that make it almost impossible to parse. Some of the points seem totally random to include. Etc.
It's also just... not how a realistic idea of how a meme community works. Seldom do people have the original post to link back to, and posting purely in text is somewhat antithetical to the whole concept (if that was your suggestion, I'm still uncertain about that. What is "text alternative"?).
I really think that if this is important to you, you should go back and heavily rework your template so that it's clear to the reader what you mean.
Yea but I already clarified that my confusion was with the contents, not the format. I don't understand what your goal in sending it is because the message is unclear (though I do also appreciate that you've edited it).
Are you... serious? It's not, it's just a reporting of it, If you would prefer this version of the same information, here you go. Go nuts, it's all the same thing. Why are you so hung up on this? Was your whole message really so meaningless to you that you're willing to abandon it in favor of being sidetracked about this formal grammar bs?
(rewriting
::: spoilerdoes make a difference to those of us with less user-proof clients, thank you for that!)You can just go look up the spec, what you're posting doesn't adhere to that. That the web pages correct for it isn't the issue here, that's just someone correcting for user behavior with the parser, it's fairly common to do that. I don't actually care that much about it though, because mainly I'm trying to figure out how to batter and deep fry your word salad into something to do with "accessibility" and the irony is just painful.
Are you trying to say that... this should've been OCR'd automatically then linked to? That seems like serious overhead when we have such an awesome community of transcribers ( ❤️ u guys)
and weep
My choice of client not fixing your off-spec markdown has nothing to do with... whatever the heck is going on there. Could you try maybe rewriting your copypasta to be slightly more intelligible?
Losses due to image of text lacking alternative such as link:
Maybe try something a little bit less "All your text is belong to us"? Because this just doesn't make sense. I genuinely do not understand what you are trying to say.
Nor does it address why you're spamming posts with it.
The heck does that have to do with web connectivity?
... what.
Edit: Wait, why are you spamming the same broken markdown? Is it seriously just because you think you're trolling people by pretending to be AI? That's... really dumb.
To top it off: The evil feds have set up a twisted profit incentive. These AI companies will be “compensated based on a share of averted expenditures.” In other words, they’ll get a cut. The more claims the companies deny, the more money they get.
just sickening.
We've seen SMCF's dreams.They need to stay dreams.
People are a whole lot better about firearm safety than they are pretty much anything else here (driving laws, workplace safety, building codes...). The US has a whole fuckload of problems because of guns, but their ubiquity has given rise to a culture of gun safety that's pretty universal here. It's why we have so few accidental firearm deaths (... relative to the absurd number of guns in the country, that is)