irelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.ee to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-28 hours ago"Regulations are NOT the solution to low-quality food. Bitcoin is." - this guy.lemm.eeimagemessage-square39linkfedilinkarrow-up1265arrow-down10
arrow-up1265arrow-down1image"Regulations are NOT the solution to low-quality food. Bitcoin is." - this guy.lemm.eeirelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.ee to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-28 hours agomessage-square39linkfedilink
minus-squareSoyweiser@awful.systemslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-23 hours agoIt prob is a “some culture warrior/bodybuilder misread a piece of research and it turned into a culture war conspiracy” thing. Like soy. (My silly nickname predates the culture war stuff by several decades, it comes from Shadowrun). E: yes looked it up, comes via RFK of course and is anti seed oils thing. https://www.diningandcooking.com/1742624/america-stopped-cooking-with-tallow-for-a-reason/ and the anti seeds oil thing is an idea that has been spreading through the (far) right blogosphere for a decade or more (that is when I heard of it, so prob existed before that). Our friends of the pod at lw also joined in https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DHkkL2GxhxoceLzua/thoughts-on-seed-oil (but it concludes the seed oil theory is full of shit, points for LW there, well done (dont read the comments, there is roundup in the seed oils)).
minus-squareblakestacey@awful.systemslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·37 minutes agoWell, LW is only being no more wrong than Andrew Tate there, so they don’t deserve too many points. And Yud himself went full-blown anti-seed-oil.
It prob is a “some culture warrior/bodybuilder misread a piece of research and it turned into a culture war conspiracy” thing. Like soy. (My silly nickname predates the culture war stuff by several decades, it comes from Shadowrun).
E: yes looked it up, comes via RFK of course and is anti seed oils thing. https://www.diningandcooking.com/1742624/america-stopped-cooking-with-tallow-for-a-reason/ and the anti seeds oil thing is an idea that has been spreading through the (far) right blogosphere for a decade or more (that is when I heard of it, so prob existed before that).
Our friends of the pod at lw also joined in https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DHkkL2GxhxoceLzua/thoughts-on-seed-oil (but it concludes the seed oil theory is full of shit, points for LW there, well done (dont read the comments, there is roundup in the seed oils)).
Well, LW is only being no more wrong than Andrew Tate there, so they don’t deserve too many points.
And Yud himself went full-blown anti-seed-oil.