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  • Berries like raspberries blackberries blueberries and even strawberries don't have lots of sugar, maybe 5g per 100g. That's one level teaspoon.

    The lactose in milk is almost all consumed in the fermentation process, so maybe a few more grams per 100.

    The rest of the sugar in those glasses is just sugar manufacturers include to make their product more appealing.

    One of the problems with sugar is that it represents empty calories.

    Given my age, weight, and activity levels maybe I need x calories per day, any more and I'll gain weight. I also need protein and fibre and micronutrients. As you get older (like me) you get less good at extracting nutrients.

    The challenge is, getting enough nutrients in few enough calories to avoid gaining weight.

    In this context sugar is just dead weight.

  • I was going to say there's a lot of variation within brands.

    Most yoghurts have a "greek" variant with about 5g per 100g carbohydrates.

    Honey is more or less flavoured sugar IMO.

    Berries are a great combo with yoghurt, also chopped nuts.

  • This is more about me and my skewed perspective than it is about Americans... but it's easy to get the impression that amongst every group of 10 seppos there are 5 hipsters and 5 MAGA-cap-wearing idiots. Logically I know that this is false but it's hard to supplant this image.

    A while back I started watching a youtube channel about 4wd recovery or something in texas. They just seem like cool normal people, I'd be stoked to meet them while "wheeling" or what have you. The thing is, I'm pretty sure they would be Trump voters just because of where they are.

    Would it be more accurate to suppose that maybe 2 thirds of people every where are just kind of normal people who aren't as obsessed with politics as I am, but they do tend to line up behind whatever party their friends, family, and forebears have?

  • That's kind of what I mean. They don't have their own formal coverage, but they can manipulate the prevalence of different narratives.

    If officials refuse to certify whatever states, having the perceived support of the public can make all the difference.

  • I've been thinking about this too.

    I've heard a lot of commentary about how polling has addressed the shortcomings of recent election cycles and that its more or less all fixed now. I do wonder though, there seems to be a heap of things that are very difficult to account for.

    For example, who's actually going to vote vs just intending to vote. For example the garbage thing has motivated a lot of people to get it done.

    Another is the late break. I think for a lot of people that just don't pay attention to politics, if you ask them 2 weeks ago they just haven't really thought about it - their answers are precooked from last cycle. As the big day comes around and people think about candidates, lots of traditional republicans voters will make a different choice.

    Also just generally with polls is the type of person that actually completes polls. Most people ain't got time for that.

    Of course I understand pollsters try to control for these things but as these problems stack up its easy to see how there can be some surprises.

  • ... but I found a blog post saying the earth is flat, and it had very thorough citations.

    Bold claims require irrefutable evidence.

    The weight of evidence in support of fluoridation is overwhelming. It's the greatest public health intervention in the history of human kind.

    If you want to say it makes people docile then you need large double blinded peer reviewed longitudinal studies supporting that claim. If you don't have that then you're going to get downvotes because you're just parroting nonsense.

  • In Australia I often think of conservatives as "temporarily embarrassed millionaires".

    Our conservative party obviously favours wealthy people. My parents who are poor will always vote conservative because they "identify as" wealthy.

    Is it maybe similar, like some kind of class war?

  • Sorry but this is just batshit crazy.

    Make a list of the world's 500 most greenhouse gas producing companies. Ask the board of each of them who Greta should endorse and they would unanimously say that she should make a statement refusing to endorse either.

    It doesn't take much intelligence to realise that the least worst option is the best option, particularly when the people voting for the worst option will not be dissuaded.

    I realise that most lemmy users revere Greta like the morning sun, but I'm supremely confident that if Trump wins a lot of "message voters" and their influencers will feel pretty silly in a year or so.