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It is definitive. It doesn't cause any measurable harm.

Nah, it tastes worse.

We don't discuss the dark times when Pepsico switched from aspartame to sucralose in the 2010s.

It tastes worse.

Nope. The amount you need in a drink is so small it wouldn't substantially affect the viscosity at all. Source: me, who mixes soda syrups and did piles of informal experiments on syrup ingredients.

Chemically, it doesn't make sense that there would be any harm in the first place. With properly functioning kidneys, the resultant chemicals get filtered out extremely quickly through the urine. It helps that most diet colas are also diuretic. The resulting methanol and/or formaldehyde don't stick around to cause harm. This is empirically backed up by the lack of adverse effects over massive populations and over decades.

Are you sure this isn't just an option for some channels to decide if they want it? Some channels definitely still have this sort option available.

C:S also has limitations, like the agent limit of 70k, which means even moderately large cities of 100k are not realistically simulated. Not to mention the nonsense of every building having essentially a single family. And the garbage system being gorked.

Still better than Sim City in the long run though. The incredible building flexibility made up for shortfalls in the simulation.

Web version of Homer disappearing into the bushes.

Me too. The design brings back memories of those old jumpscare flash games.

Nowhere near that much.

Also interested to see if there's any proof of this. I know, anecdotally as an obese man, that whether I cut out diet soda or not doesn't seem to make a difference. Maybe I'm not doing it for long enough?

Way to totally miss the point.

Yup, saw that exact reaction in my own parents.

Almost certainly. Maybe not in the meta-analysis but for individual studies, absolutely.

Congratulations. Want a cookie?

(yes, that's a joke)

Because it tastes good.

Why is this on the front page of CNN? Super misleading.

Or worse, Aluminium.

But of course, Alec from Technology Connections has us covered: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCTWyNstpD0

At least it's T-Mobile, not one of the more offensive wireless providers.

Perhaps, but in the right hands, computer notation programs can make equally good engraving results. The only thing it can't really do well is the "authentic" or "organic" feel of a hand-carved plate, where natural human error is introduced. But on the best plate engraving, such an effect is so subtle to be practically impossible to notice.

Glad to be known in the industry :P

Ooo yay, something I can actually talk about on here as a professional music engraver.

These music typewriters are certainly interesting curiosities but never really caught on like the advertisements and curious articles would make you think. Music notation is has far more graphical needs than words as the horizontal and vertical spacing of objects have meaning beyond the objects themselves. So spacing on a typewriter like this can be extremely difficult to do well. This is why metal plate engraving was the dominant form of music engraving for a final published product right up until the 1980s when computers took over. It was far more reliable and you could get any level of complexity of notation. It did the same thing as the typewriter, but the human was the typewriter rather than a mechanical contraption.

While the metal-side of the art is lost, the musical and graphical skill required to make the notation still lives on in "engravers" today who do the work on computers. Practically all music notation today is done on computers with the various softwares and platforms out there. Rendering good music notation is a very difficult problem to solve but most of the good engines have finally gotten to the point where any reasonable notation is possible, and even some unreasonable ones. There is little love lost for the old methods of engraving in my generation, especially given how expensive and time-consuming it was compared to today.

Full disclosure, I'm on the Sibelius dev team and have used it for close to 20 years, so I definitely have a horse in the race of which platform is best. But it's clear that with more competition in this small market, each platform is pushing the others to get better and more flexible.

This was released half an hour ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdD66WGBVHM

That makes no sense.

He also used "Kung Flu." Come on, anyone with a brainstem could see he was promoting anti-Asian sentiment and did nothing to denounce anti-Asian hate crimes at home.

Wasn't this the end of Deep Impact?

Also, piles of middle class people took those stimmie checks and applied them directly to outstanding credit cards. Now people's habits are just coming back.

Well they abolished debtor's prisons a while ago...